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Couldn't see it in the loft, but here is and old picture of it from a year or two ago.

So you can't buy the bipod / scope mounts individually? To be honest you could probably find the same bipod and rings and they'd be cheaper than on AirsoftWorld
 
Should be 25 or 30mm to fit around the tube (but you can measure your scope to see) and Picatinny of course rather than Dovetail mounts
I know Military1st should sell a pair for a tenner, but looking on eBay etc might be able to get em cheaper because airsoft retailers are gonna be more expensive than other places
 
Could always get a Picatinny-Dovetail adaptor too and use existing mounts? I guess that'd be another option.
 
If it were me I'd order the rifle itself from somewhere like TaiwanGun or Gunfire as they be around 100 euros / 70-80 quid or so, or at least they were last time I checked.
I know it's ordering from Poland and takes a week but personally would do it for the saving
Unfortunately TaiwanGun is charging ~ £10-£15 shipping now whereas postage used to be free once you'd spent around 60
GunFire should be free IIRC.

A standard M4 mag will fit most MK43's. Try one and if it works fine then you know the issue is the box mag.
Check the feed tube for any kinks, if the tube is kinked it will stop bb's from feeding. If it looks fine, try cleaning it with some alcohol/meths and some rag on your cleaning rod.
Useful video of how to take the mag apart:

My recommendation would be to have a look at the Airsoft Sniper Forum, the guys on there have upgraded everything imaginable and tested most of it to within an inch of its life! You will find the guys there can advise on everything from Gun choice, upgrades (not all are expensive! some are free just take a little work on your part) to ghillies and tactics.
 
Its damn good fun if you can get around the fact that you will take far fewer shots than anyone on the field, but enjoy the learning curve.

I'd say the first thing to realise is that sniping is a different way to play entirely; so much so that it's not far off the truth to say that although you are part of a team on the field, unless you have radio comms what you are doing is disconnected from everyone else. You say you scored 7 hits which beats your previous record... there have been days when i have had only 2 or 3 hits with my SVD and still considered it a good day. I'll not bother to list the upgrades because, at this stage, they will mean nothing to you, but suffice to say there are only a couple of insignificant parts which aren't upgraded - the range from it is fucking ridiculous compared to an AEG and accuracy wise I can hit a head sized target at 80m no problem. I've been sniping for a year now, although i haven't been able to skirmish for a few months due to ill health: I consider myself a novice, but I do know what I'm doing - I could bore the arse off you with the tales of my favourite shots... nonetheless I get bored, I'm still mainly a 'hit oriented' player, so i take an AEG with me so that I can get forward for a couple of games and shoot the shit out of people!
 
The problem is wind. It doesn't matter how much you spend. You could have a barrel made from titanium polished by CERN and a hop up designed by NASA and the wind would still affect your BB's trajectory more than all of your upgrades put together. Basically if you're in it for the number of hits, forget it. Airsoft sniping is about enjoying getting difficult shots, or making pivotal shots, and having your camouflage work well; more than half the time your best shots will be ignored by the target - they feel or hear the hit, glance around, can't see you, can't believe they could have been hit from the direction from which the shot came and just carry on - who knows whether they believe it must have been a ricochet from friendly fire, or not even a hit, like a twig or something fell on them from above, or whether they simply cheat, but that's the way it is. I've had a couple of almost unbelievable hits where I've also managed to put a second shot on target, at extreme range 95-100m-ish with adverse terrain and wind conditions and still the fuckers just carried on! And when you tell people about such hits, it's like the classic fishing story, "I'm telling yer it was this big!" People don't believe you, or assume you're exaggerating... but I know I made those shots and that's all that counts
 
But if that doesn't sound like something you can learn to love, considering how much money you need to spend to get a bolt action sniper rifle (BASR) to the minimum standard necessary to have a range and accuracy advantage* over even good quality well set up AEG's, then you're better off not bothering. The forums and FB pages are constantly stocked with a never ending supply of BASR's noobs have bought and given up on - it usually takes a few months for them to realise that supply and demand economics really does apply to the gun they bought for £160 and then spent another £100 on / there are plenty of them so they're worth 5/8ths of fuck all... but that is the place to look for a base gun to begin upgrading.
 
Also bear in mind, when negotiating a buy or when it comes to giving up and selling, for people who are really into it, upgrade parts have no more value than stock parts in a 2nd hand gun, because unless the provenance can be verified so the degree of wear'n'tear known for sure, ie they are buying a mate's gun, the serious sniper will expect to swap those parts for new or known used bits anyway.
 
 
*And if you cannot field a BASR which has a range and accuracy advantage then what is the point? Unless you prefer to make the game much more difficult for yourself of course. But if not you're better off with an AEG, which at least has volume of fire on its side and which you can fire while running with a reasonable chance that 1 out of your 10 shots will be on target and the rest may very well suppress the enemy allowing you to reach cover closer to a target whose very good AEG outranges yours by a few meters...

Generally what constitutes a good sniper rifle is based not upon how good the rifle is out of the box, but whether it is possible to upgrade them. The Well rifles have lots of after market parts available.

Thanks chaps. I'll keep everyone posted I really do need a dum-dums guide to airsoft issues/upgrades lol

Prepare to spend a lot on upgrades. Lol.
 
The best sniper platform you can go for is the Marui VSR, or any clone VSR.
 
If you don't like the look of them then the Well L96 is also a very good platform.

Try looking at the A&K Dragunov svd springer, this one uses AEG barrels and springs and once you replace the hop up and barrel... It really is very accurate and a really good buy and you get 60rnd mags which are metal.
 
I did those upgrades to my svd and I'm getting around 500fps with .20gr bb's.
 
You say money is no object.... Get a real sword svd or a g&g m14 veteran.

A VSR clone and then parts, lots and lots of parts! Expect to spend the next year tweaking that puppy until its airseal would serve good duty on the international space station and shoots so consistently you could shoot down a mig with it. OK honestly its not that serious, while the guns as they come are underpowered and a not quite as accurate as ideal they are a decent place to start. The TM VSR is still a competitor and washing your heavy BBs and fixing basic airseal around the hop will work surprisingly well to get started. There are whole forums dedicated to sniper gun teching if you want to go that way or it might be worth ringing your favourite retailer and asking what they can build in terms of a custom sniper rifle.

As above, a TM VSR-10 or JG BAR-10 would be a good start. The Well L96s are brilliant as you only need to upgrade a few things and the performance will be really good.
I've seen a lot of praise for the A&K Dragunov (once you've upgraded just the barrel and hop unit it performs brilliantly from what I've heard)
 
Finally the A&K M24 (I have one) comes with a lot of good internals OOTB. I still need to do a review / overview of it since a couple people asked and I'm the only one who has one on here AFAIK. Needs upgrading still and there are a few proprietary parts that aren't compatible with VSR bits. Also I can't get the cylinder heard off mine to upgrade or clean it but I think I just need to buy some different, proper needlenose pliers.

Depending how you play, you might be better off with a very accurate AEG. A good M14 will be cheaper than a fully upgraded snipers and can get some great results. It will not be as good at range as a fully upgraded VSR but you should be able to get it to outperform most M4's.
 
I get very good results out of a £100 Sten gun. I have learned that it (for some unknown reason that defies the laws of physics) will outshoot most AEG's so I started hanging back and picking people off before they can hit me. Last weekend I was in a game where we had a small team attacking everyone else in a house (anyone who dies joins the attackers) and as we started, the guy in front of me said 'If only we had someone with a long gun, I bet we could shoot the guys by the doorway from here.' So I shot a 3 round burst into the doorway and 3 guys walked out
 
I am not going to suggest a Sten as a sniper, you can't mount a scope for a start. A good consistent AEG however can be used in a DMR role with great effect if you don't want to go fully into the money pit that sniping entails. In my experience of being shot by them, M14's tend to be the way to go for this (the Sten incidentally is internally similar to an M14). You just want an FPS just below 350 and a good hop up, possibly a tight bore barrel.

A&K M60 MK43. Rather chuffed as well

Hi. I just want to point out that its WE not Well. I believe Well make a G36 lpeg (aeg) that is cheap rubbish, so make sure you are searching for a WE G36 and not a Well one
 
As for a review, here is one: ( http://airsoftodyssey.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/we-g999c-review.html )
It applies to the compact model however the internals should be exactly the same, bar the barrel length and cylinder port.
 
Drum mags are available from a few places though they are not always in stock. This site has a few at the moment: ( http://www.justbbguns.co.uk/product/70/Magazines/149/Rifle-Magazines/758/2300-ROUND-SR36 )
It will almost certainly fit, as long as the WE model takes regular G36 aeg mags (which it likely does).
 
As for a scope, look around, there are tons of options. Personally I suggest something relatively cheap as it could get damaged on the field!
 
Hope this helps!
 
Andrew

Beret for drinking Tea when you have a break.

essentially, as long as you don't end up looking like this tool you'll be fine:

I point you in the direction of this thread http://www.airsoft-forums.co.uk/index.php/topic/19527-prescription-ess-ice-eye-shields/?hl=tacticaloptician

Cheers mate, very helpful. Not a lot of choice left, it may have to be pink lol

I got the ESS v12 Advancers and bought the VICE Rx inserts. I'll be picking up the lenses tomorrow. Specsavers will do the lenses for you for £39.
Specsavers also do free contact lens trials, so I'm giving that a go to see how I get on with contacts, never used them before so figured I'd try for free.

Just man up and go for pink.lol

Just use a Navy Blue beret. This is a generic colour used by units that don't have 'special colour'
 
After that Khaki is the next most widely worn Beret. It used to be a standard infantry regiment colour.

Nope, pretty sure that's reserved for GoldenEye henchmen

Any colour that's not brown, sand, blue, light blue, black, green, red, maroon pretty much covers most of the Armed Forces