BrightCandle

I would say buy something you actually like the look of and get to work on making the internals work. Its what I did with my Tar 21, not a single original piece in the airseal system and the hop unit issue has been eliminated with R hopping. A decent gun to start (Krytac are getting famous for their internals) might be an idea but honestly the big range improvements come from finding and fixing the issues in the gun itself and recognising which part isn't performing and how to modify it to make it perform better (or replace it if its badly made).

I know about the following milsim events, anyone know of others: - Stirling - Airbourne airsoft - Okto What else is out there? Especially interested in anything running in July.

One of the reasons Krytac has become popular fast is because of two types of reviews that appeared for their guns: - The external basic reviews that said its an excellent finish and solid gun. - The internal reviews from airsoft techs showing how the components are the best seen in any stock gun, tests of compression, angle of engagement and shimming all showing how well the gun is built to begin with. Fact is they only produce 3 different M4's so its about as standard and boring as they can be. But the reason for their success is quite clear, they aren't doing anything special in the guns, these aren't recoils/blowbacks/Computerised etc etc they are just good components in a completely standard compatible system and they then put it together properly. They might be a young company but understanding whether this produces a great gun compared to the competition isn't hard to assess even without buying one. I haven't had mine long, long enough to confirm the externals and internals are as reviewed. In 6 months maybe I'll actually review any problems that develop but its a standard M4 every piece is easy to repair and replace.

The Krytac, its the much better made gun. As far as I know that particular VFC gun has a flawed design in its custom trigger and it has a tendency to break frequently and be hard to replace. A friend of mine at a site near me had a lot of problems with his 417 from VFC.

Most fans rated for 12V wont start on anything less than 6V. I doubt 3V would be sufficient.

Definitely should not ever be vaseline in your gun. Silicon sure, thin oils maybe but other than that nothing else needs to be in there. No idea what harm it will do, but its not the right material for a GBB pistol for greasing anything.

So far haven't had too much takeup for the okto game, don't think a lot of the team has a suitable PCs. But I have an Arma friend from Germany and another from Denmark attending the okto game so the three of us have played a lot together. Myself and the German played last game together and our movement and fire as a pair was really very good, just procedurally we read each others mind just like we do in game or we execute procedures on command exactly as taught and it just cuts the time of response down dramatically. I know the virtual definitely translates into the physical airsoft game we saw the impact. Having played that one game our team wants us in charge for the next game and our experience comes from playing Arma for 4 years (and my friends for more like 6). Its actually a shame there aren't that many milsim groups out there. You can find lots of "milsim" Arma groups but they mainly model the structure and the gear and ranks but not the tactics. My group does the opposite, we don't follow any one unit, we loosely base our gear on appropriate weapons (m4s, scar H etc) but instead focus out effort on training and practising the tactics, everyone has to go through and master our infantry courses. We were very lucky to have spent multiple years getting training from an Israeli special forces trainer and so now we have a really good base of the primary real world squad level stuff. I love doing that sort of thing, its also what I find fun in airsoft. I find myself trying to cram in as many battlesim/filmsim style milsim airsoft games this summer as possible and my primary source of finding them is this forum. But I have to attribute my desire to play that and my experience that helps me in it to what I do in Arma every week.

Or strip it down to its components and clean each one individually and resilicon and put it back together again. Everyone with a gas pistol needs to get down to the inner barrel, hop unit outer barrel and slide off stage for cleaning after each game anyway.

Krytac has put together an amazing well made gun, inside and out. From what I have seen you wont be disappointed but its still too early for me to be reviewing it or really praising it too much. Once I have pumped 10k rounds at least through it I will have a better idea of if they really did make the ideal gun for £300 or not.

My G&G top tech comes in around 14 rps with a 7.4V lipo. The trigger response however is no better than a combat machine (which gets 13 rps). The trigger at least on my gun is quite a long pull and anything but snappy. The G&P M4 my friend uses has a much faster trigger without being much higher RPS. My Krytac SPR has amazing trigger response out of the box, great airseal and more than one reviewer has said its the best gun stock out there right now, at 22rps its quite nippy but the trigger response is fantastic.

The law is inconsistent really, you can walk into a gun shop today and buy yourself an air rifle or air pistol that can seriously hurt someone and do so with a basic age declaration and a fake name/address. Yet to buy a considerably less harmful toy gun you need to prove you use it for the right things and wait two months.They both look like real guns but only one of them is actually dangerous and yet its the safe one that is covered by the requirements. I do think that is inconsistent, especially the fact that we associate more harm to the look of the item than to its actual capabilities and danger level. That is all based on histeria of the public, they do not like guns despite the banning of them hasn't actually reduce gun crime as a percentage of crime, its just reduced the legal uses of them. Personally I am for basic handguns and shotguns for personal protection and I would like to have available sport shooting with automatic weapons at gun ranges. But I am a gun nut and I love shooting. For now I limit myself to bolt action 22 and 7.62 like the rest of the sport shooters in the UK. That aside beyond the basic distortion of the sales market caused by the UKARA requirements I don't actually think they are overly cumbersome. I would like to see a change to allowing people to validate across multiple sites for their first games and that would solve most of the issue I have with the current set-up that overly promotes bad behaviour by the retailers associated with airsoft sites (like wolf armouries and bunker 51 and their hire purchase schemes).

I just hear it. Some guns do some with a lock to stop it firing like the TM Recoil series but you can also buy a hop unit and mosfet from ASCU that does this as well, it detects the presence of a BB and if there isn't one then it will stop firing and you will have to replace the magazine and hit the mag release to get it firing again. Its a bit of work to add for obvious reasons (mag release button, mosfet installation and the hop unit). No idea if its any good of course but seen it on sale around the usual places. G&G also has its MARs update coming soon and that will include these features as well. For now I just hear the difference, in the future I expect all this will be electronically driven.

You really need to find yourself a good community for it as well, so you can really immerse yourself in it. Its actually an amazing resource and we are hoping to use it to help train a milsim team pre event.

Seconding don't bother with Bunker 51, its rubbish. Absolute Airsoft is in that area as well, is woodland but is also terrible.

I think the main influence of COD is that a lot of new players want to get sniper rifles. But ultimately I can't complain because much of what I know for milsim comes from playing with my peeps in Arma 2 and Arma 3. I would have never met the ex servicemen I did without that game and they wouldn't have taught me all the things I know now. The influence of the less realistic games (COD, BF etc) perhaps generates a small issue but the more realistic ones is likely training milsimmers that attend the OPs events. Other than the few airsoft training places like airbourne airsoft there isn't a whole lot of places to get that training and practice it. Its kind of essential to milsim's survival.

I bought a Krytac SPR. Will be DMRing it. Had nothing but trouble with battery space in the stock, its a small crane stock and frankly its poorly designed. Shoots like a dream out of the box however, puts everything else I have used to shame, the trigger response is just amazing. But I haven't skirmished it yet, trying to get details of what batteries other than tiny 1300mah crane batteries fit in it.

I am not clear on why airsoft RIFs aren't classified as firearms, I can't be certain but I think they are. They seem to match the description and rules for airguns because there is no minimum power requirement in the law that I know of. So while airsoft IFs/RIFs seem to have additional rules that real weapons don't I think from what I can tell they are still firearms. Which does make you think about other crimes you might be committing with radios and such, because anything you do would be "armed" and that ramps up the minimum sentencing severely. PS Recently going through the radio licencing myself, minimum cost of £75 from Ofcom.

Warmth is generated by resistance. If the temperature across all the parts is the same then I would start to suspect the wiring. If the motor is hotter and as you go further way the wiring cools a little bit then its the motor getting hot and translating that heat through the wiring (metal carries heat really well). So the first test is to fire it rapidly and get one of the parts warm and see which it is. If its everywhere straight away then its your wire resistance, if its in the motor and then it spreads then you know the motor is getting hot. Unlikely to be the battery, its likely just soaking up heat from the other parts.

You will have a much better idea of what you want in 6 months time. Besides once you start messing with the gun you'll appreciate having a backup in the cupboard.

Before Christmas I was looking for a shortdot for my rifle, ie 1-4x. I looked through a lot of scopes and my conclusion was unless I spent £100 or so I was going to have a lot of parallax, colouration and other problems, not least of which was often they were more like 1.5 or even 2x at the lowest magnification. So I ended up buying a real steel Bushnell which was about £120 IIRC. Its very clear, about 1.1x on the low end and has good turrets you can get to and move with your hands for adjusting zero. I know why people don't want to spend that sort of money, I wanted to spend £40 as well I just couldn't find anything I was really happy with at that price point. I view this the same as laptops, you need to take yourself down to Pc World and actually use a £400 laptop, just open up notepad and start typing and compare that to the £1000 one next to it and you'll see the difference immediately. Go look at some scopes in a gun shop and an airsoft shop and you'll determine if you can live with the problems of the cheap ones or not. A great example for me was before the shortdot I was looking at the 3x flip to the side in pro airsoft. Turned out the eye relief was really small, to the point where I thought it was likely my goggles would interfere! That put an end to that possible purchase in an instant. Wouldn't have realised how bad it was unless I tried it. I think its the way to go because without experience of a decent scope its hard to evaluate the airsoft one other than "works".

The Mall is one of those places where team work doesn't. The CQB in there is pretty chaotic and the end result is its hard to stay with your team mates or work together in any reasonable way. You list line up at the fatal funnel and try to fight through it and that is about all you can do there. There are teams in the woodland games where we have medic rules so staying together and fighting tactically are worth it.

In terms of performance from back of the gun to the front: - Spring - get closer to the power limit on your site for added range - Piston and piston head- airseal - Cylinder - volumed correctly - Cylinder head - airseal - Nozzle - airseal - Bucking - flat hop it and choose for airseal - Hop bucking - R hop, for more consistent hop effect - Barrel - polished and straight will be more accurate. That is the equation for accuracy and range. But then some people want Rate of fire and that is more gears and motor. Depends what you want.

Transparent I think is the least luminous and obvious of the possibilities. Gives you less choice in guns but its 3 games, its about saving some cash.

I sometimes wear a patch with my firstname on it. But honestly no one notices and uses it in my experience so far. I think it is a good idea, but until its more widespread you aren't going to see all that much use out of it.

I like my mechanix gloves but being fingerless I do occasionally get some impressive welts on the finger tips. Ultimately I suspect I want a set of fingerless gloves for just the trigger finger and then the rest covered but I honestly don't care about it enough to worry. The fingerless gloves are a lot better for the gun manipulation and so I just take the occasional painful hit.