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Given the trend for carry handles that's floating around atm it's something I've put some thinking time in to and it is the case that if you're not mounting a light/laser or only a light and no laser then you really don't need a freefloat handguard or indeed even a non-freefloat with pic, keymod or M-LOK.  Especially with a high optics mount where the fixed front iron isn't getting in the way; though you do have 2 sets of irons now ofc lol.  Freefloat is always nice on a firearm for shooting smaller things at farther distances but still not the end of the world and obviously makes no difference in airsoft.. maybe slightly to accuracy if you absolutely crank in to a wall/barricade but not to precision.

Would have to say that sort of config is pretty close to being about as practical and efficient as I'd ever want for airsoft indoors while still looking like something that would actually work in any sense of 'reasonable' as a firearm.
Aye, as I imagine said trend is largely down to folks around my age (30-40) having hankerings for RIFs (or firearms depending on where you’re based/what’s available to you) that closer match those which most took their fancy in various media growing up.

That pondering aside, alongside liking the look of carry handles I’ve been really enjoying the height of the Unity mount… only downside being I’m not wild on how the Unity mount looks. At least not on with the various bits thrown on this. Looks far less out of place with your typical modern rails, at least IMO. And FWIW I’ve actually removed the irons from the Unity mount (front and rear) because despite the fact I don’t use them much… ohh boy was that headache inducing on the odd occasion I got to line them up.

But yeah, purely from aesthetics I want a carry handle on there at some point… but I’ll certainly enjoy it as is until I can be arsed to source parts.

 
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I was thinking with this bit of a resurgence in ‘old school’ carrying handles and plastic forends you can’t help but wonder how long it’ll be before you start to see the classic ‘SWAT’ AR’s reappearing on the scene ? Not that I’d object as it is my all time favorite set up for an M4 .

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That mount reminds me of a fucking giraffe.

But anyway, iron sights are the best thing ever for Airsoft. Can't stress that enough. Carryhandles especially as they also give something to....well....carry the gun and they look good 

 
That mount reminds me of a fucking giraffe.

But anyway, iron sights are the best thing ever for Airsoft. Can't stress that enough. Carryhandles especially as they also give something to....well....carry the gun and they look good 


I’ll take a mount that looks like a giraffe if it means a more comfortable shooting position any day of the week.

I very much tend to land on function over fashion these days when it comes to attachments (and gear tbf) especially stuff that can take some of the burden off my neck, wrist and shoulders… those specifically because of previous injuries which still niggle at the tail end of game days. The main aches largely coming from hunching over to get a decent sight picture I suspect, it was definitely weird to adjust to at first but I’m not sure I could comfortably go back to absolute or lower 1/3 (the latter being my preference) at this point in time.

My current all-time comfy height being a T1 repro on a Zenitco B-18 on an AKSU, just seems to match my proportions perfectly… but I say all this while aware that optics/optic height is very much a personal preference (and weirdly something I don’t think folks play around with enough to even realise how much more comfortable it could be).

Speaking of which, finally got around to throwing a butt pad on the CAR stock… definitely an improvement in my case.

 
But anyway, iron sights are the best thing ever for Airsoft. Can't stress that enough. Carryhandles especially as they also give something to....well....carry the gun and they look good 
Think most of my guns I run with some kind of optic except my really ‘old school’ AK’s/L1A1/MP5 but to be honest unless I’m taking a VERY carful aimed shot near all my shots are take either with my irons or by instinct ! ?‍♂️

 
I was thinking with this bit of a resurgence in ‘old school’ carrying handles and plastic forends you can’t help but wonder how long it’ll be before you start to see the classic ‘SWAT’ AR’s reappearing on the scene ? Not that I’d object as it is my all time favorite set up for an M4 .

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Could definitely live with that.  Been wanting to do a Blood Diamond build for a while. Old school. Is definitely cool

Few finishing touches I want to make, but got myself a genuine surplus HK MP5 sling

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Could definitely live with that.  Been wanting to do a Blood Diamond build for a while. Old school. Is definitely cool

Few finishing touches I want to make, but got myself a genuine surplus HK MP5 sling

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Once you get your head around how it works the real MP5 slings are really nice to use , ive got one on my A5 .?

 
Hilarious DMR for hilarious games.

Far from its final form, I'm still missing a TTI trigger (red), TTI charging handle with external fire selector (red), Hadron "bouncer" short stroke kit and a CowCow G18 hammer set.

And maybe a Stalker TDC because the Mamba's window is narrower than the stock one, which makes adjusting the hop a bit of a pain.

As of now the only internal modification I've done is a 60° Maple Leaf Decepticon rubber and I-Key.

Performance wise it's stupid, 60m range on 0.3s at just about 1J of energy, great consistency (say 5" groupings) and despite the optic being 1kg alone, it's still super lightweight.

(also one of the screws on the grip is missing, it actually stripped itself to all fuck for no reason)

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Trigger/war crime warning.

External:

Tm g18c

Detonator cobra slide

Detonator tti sights

Ready fight sti trigger

Bomber TTI style magwell 

Gaurder extended mag release

Gaurder extended slide release

Bomber TTI striker plate

1x floyds extended mag

1x bomber tti extended mag

Internal:

Gaurder lightweight bbu

Crazyjet hop and barrel assembly

guns modify barrel stabiliser

guns modify hammer spring

Not going to lie the magwell is huge and looks rediculous, i thought it was going to be tti carry spec but it turned out to be lightning which is frankly just silly.

If you need one of these to reload properly then you really need to sort out your hand eye coordination....

Overall happy with the build, it performs great and handles excellently i just wish i had of skipped the tti mags and got more floys ones as they look and feel alot better and are easier to manipulate and i will be on the lookout for a tti carry style magwell to replace this one with.

The bomber mag bases take the mick abit as they dont include longer or tougher spring unlike the floyds one.

The Detonator slide was absolute hell to fit and required modification to the slide to take the Detonator sights and modification to the bbu to get the ejector to stay in place.

The aim of this build was to have a backup primary for when i use my dmr and in that it succeeded, it out ranges my cyma and my mates ngrs 416s and is very easy to manipulate and use in the field.

Im also very happy with how it looks as a modern take on the cobra g18 even if i do dislike the magwell....

Oh i missed in the list of parts:

My techs's blood
My tech's sweat
My techs's tears
Wrath of satan
Every swear word in the english language

And all of that was just from getting the slide installed and behaving.

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