Speedbird_666

No way this is a metal bodied gun. You can tell the ICS plastic bodies by the rear receiver area, there's extra reinforcement around the take down pin.

Well that sounds like a complete Clusterfuck on UPS's part. I hope you get your order at some point. It could be worse - around 20 years ago (around the dawn of internet shopping) my team mate and I ordered ~$500usd of Paintball gear from the states. Never showed. No tracking number. Couldn't get a refund (no buyers protection back in those days). Seller (a major manufacturer that still exists) couldn't give a shit. We had to write off the money and forget about it. 2 years (yes, years!) later, a big box shows up at my mates house with 'Christchurch England NOT Christchurch New Zealand!' scrawled across it. Turns out it had been stuck in New Zealand customs for years because some dumb fuck in the US Paintball company warehouse forgot to write the country on the box. We've come a long way in terms of shopping since then.

Thanks @Lozart, if you do find one I’ll gladly buy it from you.

Interesting - not an issue I've noticed with mine, but the gun is '104/105 based so the front sight is on the gas block? The finish of the body is too good IMO. I though most modern AKs are painted rather than blued from the many factories since the '70s. I want to paint it to make it more tacticool, but it's just too pretty to Krylon. Now, if anyone can tell me where I can lay my hands on a compatible (will LCT fit?) enhanced selector switch (with the extra finger ledge) I would be eternally grateful.

I've just got an E&L which came with a wobbly railed hand guard. I had to use washers to shim it out. The rest of the gun is lovely though.

So...did you buy it? ?

New ICS tubular hand guard for my ICS Peleador. I think I'm going with a civilian 3-gun-esque look with this one - need to add either a T1 style red dot on a riser or a short dot scope.

Had this arrive today - E&L Rifle Dynamics RD710 Clone:

You're probably right - most likely made of cheese for that price. Where's the best place to pick up WE extended mags these days?

Ok, follow-up question. Not being a GBB man (it's been nearly 6-7 years since I last owned one), I don't know what's decent or not. Are these mags (a tenner cheaper than Action Army) any good?: https://www.airsoftworld.net/a-w-e-glk-18-and-nuprol-raven-spare-magazine.html I assume it's AirsoftWorld's rebrand of another manufacturer.

Probably because they are a bit shit as sniper rifles go.

Quick question: What is the hop rubber of choice for these? I know ML is pretty popular, but has anyone tried the Sniper Mechanic Flamingo?

Wow! There's not much left of the original gun by the looks of it. It should be an impressive build. Only four more days 'til payday...

Now that's a gun that punches above it's weight. I should have picked one up last year when trade was free and easy with Poland, but bought a CYMA Ak instead. Still, for £140 notes from UK vendors, it's still a bargain.

Yeh, you're probably right. Luckily PayPal offers 'over and above' buyer protection. It boils my piss that there are sellers out there that will do such a thing though. If I sell something, I'm 100% honest about what I'm selling, warts'n'all listing all potential issues. The buyer can at least then make an informed decision about buying.

But does it though? The seller (rightly) listed other flaws with the gun (i.e. cracked magazine shrouds) - but neglected to mention a big show-stopper for a lot of people. That, IMO, is misrepresentation. Hopefully the buyer will raise a dispute (assuming they used PayPal). I would apoplectic with rage if this had happened to me. This x1000. Absolutely spot on. It should be a rule for using the classifieds.

It should have absolutely been mentioned in the Advert. £800 isn't chump change, I would be livid if I was the buyer. What a dick thing for the seller to say. In fact I'd send the whole lot back and raise a PayPal dispute.

£175 for a £130 gun. Two tone to boot.

But does fitting a Titan/Perun/whatever to a V3 gearbox sort out the horrible trigger pull (at least compared to a V2)? My AK and G36 have fairly long trigger pulls, I know MP5K's are worse - so what's the point of a fancy pants ETU without a nice, short (sub-5mm) trigger pull? (Yeh yeh yeh, I get it - you'll have the fancy programming bollocks n'all that as well, but so does a Warfet)

As Sterling Archer would say: ?

The most boring thing to arrive in the post ever - packs of shims: I found a place that sells 0.1mm shims in packs of 50 - I'm fed up with dicking around with different thicknesses (like the airsoft packs you get) - I much prefer just using 0.1s exclusively when shimming my guns.

I thought only Speedsofters and IPSC airsoft shooters need to short-stroke their guns? ? Personally, I'd prefer to keep the slide lock.

Is that the technical term for it? ?

Shortens the cycle time by restricting the rearward slide movement, allows the trigger to reset faster in semi and ups the ROF overall. A lot SS kits preclude the use of the slide lock as the slide cannot cycle far enough back to engage it.

Only one week 'til payday. I think I need one of these in my gear bag.