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I salute you for your patience. I guess one thing I can take from this is that some beginners (and regulars) think that the fun from airsoft only comes when you hit someone. And when they fail to hit anyone, they aren't having the fun they wanted, and so they would do anything to hit someone. For me, the fun comes from learning new things and being able to practice it, so I don't mind much when I get hit.

Hi all... I'm trying to get my hands on a decent dmr base. But I can't abide an M4 variant, and nothing else really takes my fancy. So what I'd really like is a SL9... Thing is... Not only are they rare, but the design is a bit lacking. All that stock, but no place for a battery, based on a G36, terribly awkward disassembly... It just doesn't sit right. So what would be better... Would be to make a body based in a M4 hop, V2 box, rear wired hollow stock for a much bigger battery... Etc. Realistically out of carbon fibre... Has anyone had any experience of doing anything similar? Any pitfalls you found?

Actually- You can get AEGs with Trigger response equal to a Planetary gearbox with the right parts and tuning,and without having them as 50RPS Dual sector gear monsters.Here is one- SHS 13:1 gears and a Chaoli 32 TPA high torque motor. 30 RPS on an 11.1v lipo.Mind you,this is not some uber expensive build. Mainly SHS parts,chinese high torque motor,and some lonex parts. Of course,the planetary gearbox has it's advantages and disadvantages over the traditional AEG,mainly being able to fit it into RS spec receivers properly. However,those things are expensive to machine and hard to test for QC hence another reason of PTW inflation. I personally find PTWs very nice to hold but nowhere near as fun to use and shoot as a recoil shock. Don;t get me wrong,externally they feel very real and reek of quality,especially those with some real steel parts jammed on but they have a small fun factor and performance isn;t anything to rave about. I'd rather have a Marui recoil M4 that may be overly thick and disproportional compared to a PTW but it's much more fun to shoot.

if that were the case though, we'd all be using G&G combat machines.... there's no argument that a properly modded systema PTW is BETTER than pretty much anything else going. Sure you can pour money into an AEG and getting it performing nearly as well as a PTW, but you'll never achieve the instant trigger response that a PTW has, certainly not without creating a 50RPS monster which is pretty pointless in itself. That and the improved materials, real-spec grips and receivers... I can see why people buy them. I personally have invested heavily into the TM recoil platform and probably won't move away from it to a PTW unless a really really attractively priced package comes my way. I'm planning to upgrade my TM M4 to get as close as I can to PTW trigger response without outrageous ROF and it's looking like I'm going to need to sink ~£300 into what's already a £600 gun to get there. Another £300 and I could have bought a PTW.

Try these quick pouches. The mag literally just slides in and out and holds tight! I've never had a mag fall out. Plus they are much quieter then pulling Velcro open! They look great on a belt if your looking for a lightweight type of loadout. At £12 a pair you will struggle to find anything cheaper. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400615118432 I run these for my scar h (6 pouches/3 pairs £36 is cheap as chips)

So got my VFC scar H 2 weeks ago. I knew that pouches would become a problem. I just couln't resist the looks of the gun Anyway, there is no scar h pouches right? Does any other gun pouch fit? I heard some talk about m14 mag pouches working. What do you say? Or how about a vest? Anything is good.

Look down the barrel. Are there any small bits in it when you hold it up to the light? If there are, a popular method of cleaning is using Methylated spirit on a cloth pulled through the barrel. If there's still bits in it or grey coming off onto the cloth, remove the barrel completely, and wash it in warm soapy water. Make sure you dry it completely before re installing. Another test you could do is pin a piece of white card or paper to a surface and dry fire the gearbox on it's own at the card. If anything comes out, open it up and take a peek.

...and weight. cant attach white to a parrot drone apparently. and hd slowmo? interesting about low light performance. never heard that. had my action cam attached to bike helmet with my 700 lum light cycling the forest in the night. bright and clear, but can hardly see anything on the footage.

I use a pair of motorcycle gloves, can take one off if need to do anything superfiddly

Hi guys, My local site have just started using Motorola MTS2000 walkies, and annoyingly enough there isn't enough to go around. So me being me, just went off and bought one without doing any kind of research (I do this alot, and end up regretting it). I went to ebay earlier to check if it has been dispatched and look at the description and notice it said I needed a licence to use these. After much swearing and belated research, it turns out it was the case. I was speaking to the site manager about the walkies a few weeks back and he never mentioned anything about a licence, and they use them all the time. Anyone else had this trouble? and does anyone know how it all works? Cheers Josh

Yes Baz bunker 39! I spoke to the. About it a while ago and they never said anything about a licence.

Hi, So not to long ago I bought the G&D DTW Max 3 MK18 with the new updated ECU and MOSFET and thought I would do a little review of it, sorry to say I won't be posting any pictures at this time. So here goes for my first ever review of Anything lol. Upon opening the box your presented with a nice looking training weapon, it's not packaged up like your standard AEG's though which seemed careless to me everything was free to move about which thankfully enough the magazine lip was still intact. So moving on to getting the weapon out, feels nice in your hand and to be honest it's not much heavier than an AEG which I was expecting it to be. Has all the nice trade marks on the body and RIS and a functional bolt catch. Opening the weapon up was a task the rear pin is rather solid but that may just be on mine but I must say it's nice and easy to do your upgrades if you want NO messing around like an AEG which I Love..... Pull the charging handle and out comes the cylinder set then you can remove the hop chamber and barrel. Disappointingly from the word go I've had a number a faults which I have to rectify which is annoying, the standard cylinder that it came with has been smashing BBs inside the hop chamber so that was replaced and the Hop cushion was loose so making the BBs curve coming out of the barrel so that has had to be changed but that's for the better. Also the MK18 RIS that came with it was loose so that had to be fixed as well. Moving on to programming the ECU/MOSFET, this is an easy task to set out to do just press down the bolt catch and trigger and the ECU will beep once programming has activated then pull the trigger how many time you would like the burst to fire, so if you wanted 10 pull the trigger 9 times and on the 10th pull hold it down, EASY but no surprise the MOSFET doesn't program or mine doesn't at least. The front body pin had to be replaced as well as was very loose. BUT........ Moving on to actually firing it well I must say fun is not the word despite all the faults that soon made up for it all. great accuracy after upgrades and great power, the top gear sets itself to the same position after ever shot and they are 11.1v LiPo ready as are most. Pros : Easy to upgrade. Brilliant trigger response, floorless actually. PTW compatible from stock. Ideal for first training weapon. Cons : Part replacement a strong possibility. ECU/MOSFET doesn't work properly. Overall ratings out of 10. Value for money : 5/10 Usability : 7/10 Build quality : 4/10 Sorry if this is a poor review it's my first ever one. Thanks

The goggles? Not a mega crazy amount or anything, something around $450 which is about the cost of a mid-range AEG over here once you do the conversion. ASGI was the only place I could find with the LM4c, so I picked up that the magpul grip panels, a sling attachment point and the flute valve. The GBBr was the only thing above 25 bucks.

This is NOT a good choice for a first rifle. http://www.zerooneairsoft.com/product_info.php?cPath=268&products_id=8296&osCsid=bd5296770e1832cdf7068553b3321e6e GBB means gas blockback. Not nearly as reliable, takes a lot more care, more expensive to run, mags will be expensive, rare 2nd hand mags, only lowcaps available etc. etc. My opinion is that you should own at least 2 AEGs (primary and spare) before getting a GBB. At least if you intend to skirmish. GBB are plenty fun thou, but get your AEGs first! and if I started out and wanted reliability (as oppose to m4-tacticoolness), I'd choose CYMA AK, the VFC/LCT clones (such as CM.045 or CM.048). Will be way more reliable than anything else you can get at a beginners budget. Great out the box performance as well.

blowback is just for looks, it doesnt do anything. Unless you plan to do work on the rifle then blowback wont effect the gun in a bad or good way its just for looks, but the G&G guns are really good for starter guns!

So it been out for awhile, apart from the slow ROF and inaccuracy due to no rifling i cant say anything bad about this gun, So anyone seen any upgrades for this yet?.

I use machanix fingerless mpact gloves... But would be happy using anything they make...

Again words fail me...... the hop up Adjustment is extremely awkward to adjust and doesn't seem to do the job of extending range, so either im not following the manual correctly or something is wrong with the gun. ok have i missed anything there or added something that makes me look like a idiot.

Well obviously they're not accurate to acute minutes of angle, but I've hit people at up to 50m with a single shot before, using sights. I don't think that could be achieved by anything other than fluke if anyone did it without using sights of some description. Not every shot will go there, but if you hold on target and keep firing one is eventually going to land where you want it because you can use parts of the sight as reference for the shot path and over time you'll get used to it and see a pattern, so sights help you acquire that hold mark a lot faster than walking the shots on target, and you can also do it without being able to see the shots, if you know the gun well enough. Using the walking shots on target method to work it out also gives your target sufficient time to bog off.

What about when you can't see where your shots are going? Like when it's dark or the light isn't good for it, or whatever? Once you get to know your rifle snap shooting without using sights becomes quite easy, but if you want to be certain you're going to hit your mark, when it really comes down to it and it matters, sights are invaluable. I always use sights unless I'm caught unaware. If you find them pointless then either your gun is terrible, or you don't know how to sight them in/or set your hop correctly. A tip for sighting in that I always use, find a big open area and get your hop set flat. I find under hopping ever so slightly is actually better for range because the BB's drop off is more gradual instead of it just dropping out of the air when it runs out of spin. Set your sights on the point where your shots start to dip. For me it's around the 30/40m mark. Then you know that so long as you're within that range you shots will be climbing up to the reticle, so aim up as appropriate for super close range, but anything beyond that and you'll have to start aiming high. Once you get used to the set up it's a piece of piss to get along with.

When you add on tax, import duty and shipping charge it will usually end up the same price, if not more than getting it in the UK. You're right that the US sites do have a lot more choice and the prices are excellent but especially for anything cheap it isn't worth it because it's like a $30 minimum for international shipping, and ordering a rifle will be £40+ in shipping.

These are the kind of little things that can put people off sites, I don't use a camera or anything but the principle of not allowing it kinda annoys me. It's a bit like fire-supports sites not allowing gbbs other than pistols, it doesn't affect me as I don't use one regularly at the moment but it would stop me going there anyway as it's ridiculous.

So I finally fully charged my battery and broke out the AK74 for some test firing yesterday. I found that the gun was firing well - nice and straight, hop-up was good out of the box... But with the one magazine in it, it refused to feed more than maybe 8 shots maximum, mostly less than that, on either semi-auto or full auto. I had to keep constantly winding the mag up and it didn't seem to be feeding the BBs up the mag properly. On closer inspection of the mag, it seems that whenever it stopped feeding and I removed the mag to look a look at it, the BBs weren't fed right up to the opening, and when I wound it, the BBs came up and then jumped back down a few times, before being properly fed up into position. I'm pretty sure it wasn't to do with jamming, as every time I took the mag back out, wound it and then put it back in, it would, again, fire another few shots before the same thing happened. Plus, the gun seemed to fire without issue when using the other magazine. I intend to get in touch with Firesupport to see if there is anything they can do for me in terms of possibly sending a replacement mag. I don't have a lot of knowledge on how this all works, so I though it best to get a second opinion before I did so, just to make sure that it's not the gun itself.

I think I read it as it was intended, as a spoof on innacurate media reporting on anything gun related. Made me laugh!

evike does two tone?? if they do I assume it's likely aimed at the UK market. personally I never ordered anything airsoft from the states.