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    Couple of TM Pistols

    I'd be aiming for 75-80% of UK retail. The M9A1 retails for about £140 in the UK, so I'd be looking for £105-115. The E2 retails for about £125, so I'd be looking for £95-100.
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    Many and Cheap Vs Few and Expensive

    This is basically it for me. I can't see the point in having 5-10 guns that are all functionally identical (I don't mean "they all shoot 6mm BBs", I mean "they're all bog-standard AEG assault rifles") and also less well-made then they could be, when I could have 2-4 guns that are really...
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    Tokyo Marui's New Models

    I aspire to one day enjoy a job as much as Marui Man enjoys his.
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    Bo Manufacture - Who Are They?

    They're nobody and they don't make anything - they're French rebranders who add extortionate markups to other people's guns. The Rhino is a CO2 revolver, which means it is almost certainly actually made by WinGun, just like just about every other CO2 revolver on the market. BO's involvement in...
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    What do you mean by "manufacturing laws" - things that might be compatible with real firearms?

    What do you mean by "manufacturing laws" - things that might be compatible with real firearms?
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    One reason why you should not wear MESH.

    Likewise. Overpowered pyro adds nothing to the game but tinnitus and scorch marks, and also obliges every other player to spend money on and endure the discomfort of over-ear ear protection. We came to play airsoft, not competitive cumulative hearing loss. Years back at a now-closed indoor site...
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    the great airsoft robbery, or how much would you pay?

    I’ve only recently found out that there’s a second half to Wilde’s comment. It reads in full: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."
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    the great airsoft robbery, or how much would you pay?

    It’s definitely provable that the statement ‘if I can make a clone for ½ the price, you’re charging too much’ is false, but I have enough of the dumb dumb to take credit for my own stupid TBH. Ultimately my point is I wish airsofters would prioritise rewarding the good rather than just the...
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    the great airsoft robbery, or how much would you pay?

    I'm not seeing the distinction you're drawing here. TM spent $1m of their R&D budget to develop NGRS, and recouped that by amortising the development cost over the NGRS it sold. They might not be saying "exactly $67 per rifle" but I assure you with absolute certainty that their budgeting...
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    the great airsoft robbery, or how much would you pay?

    It is my opinion but it is also objective fact. Ask literally any manufacturer you like - Richard at Eagle6 or Robert at LPE might already be on this forum. Want a really obvious example of why you can't say 'if I can copy this for less than half the price you were asking for too much in the...
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    the great airsoft robbery, or how much would you pay?

    This is a profoundly stupid comment. The cost of researching and developing any new product - airsoft or not - needs to be recouped. This is a fact of doing business - any business. You could apply what I am about to say to pharmaceuticals, software, clothes - anything - but let's stick with...
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    Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread

    And all you had to do to save the cash was undercut the actual inventor and stifle innovation. Bargain! Those clones are the reason that we never got factory-supported magazine adaptors and it took 5 years and counting for new models to come to market. If they'll continue to prioritise the...
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    Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread

    Shame. Odin is a one-man band developing awesome, innovative products. He quit airsoft product development for about five years after people took his brilliant design and immediately cloned it so cheapskates could save themselves £20. I have absolutely no doubt that this sort of thing...
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    Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread

    I mean £565 plus £100-160 equals £665-725, and £500 is 75% of £665 and 69% of £725. 70-75% of RRP for a gun with less than one bottle of BBs through it isn't even all that high, although I would probably expect to receive more like 65-70% simply based on how much returns diminish after £400. I...
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    Imports on inactive UKARA

    I'm not so sure about that as a strategy. Of all the guns my friends and I have imported - which must be substantially more than 100, I would have thought, by the time you go through all my various teammates - the only one that has ever been "seized" (I was told it's actually "detained" while...
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    WE Sig P226 magazines

    If the gun's struggling with every magazine, I would say the problem is more likely to be in the gun than the magazines. The magazines barely have any parts and the ones that go usually do so very audibly - if the seals are damaged the magazines leak, loudly. You can pull the exhaust valves and...
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    British Shooting Show - 14/15/16 Feb 2020

    That sounds pretty unlikely: I would have thought they were almost certainly made by WinGun like every other CO2 revolver out there. Isn’t it an ASG licensed product? Did the guy manning the booth confirm Chiappa were making them in-house?
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    DMR suggestions and ideas please

    You don’t have any choice, really. There’s nothing out there performs like people expect a DMR to out of the box. If you want a DMR, you have to do the tuning that the factory didn’t have the time or money to do for you. Even if you buy used you’ll have to learn how to do preventative...
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    Recommendations for automatic pistols or small easy to carry SMG's?

    For all-weather reliability I’d go VFC MP7 as the smallest and lightest battery-operated good gun I can think of that’s also capable of >350FPS. If you want to go bargain basement and don’t care about having a stock, CYMA make plastic MP5Ks that use a full-size V3 gearbox. AEPs are very bad...
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    Please help - locking a DMR to semi-auto

    That's true, and I shouldn't be giving legally sketchy advice. What do you suggest for @sam beach WSW's need to be able to clear jams by reverting to full auto, or cycle completion without the ability to select full-auto? Maybe a German-market FCU with cycle completion but without full-auto...
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