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National Airsoft Event 2014 Booking Now Open

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Going 'Others' that way I can wear what I want and play how I want to (Style wise).

 
Others for me too. I'm hoping to be settled on my new meds soon so I can start doing something about cardiovascular fitness, in order to keep up with an AF-UK squad in the field, but even if I end up as a lone wol... er... wallaby, I'd rather snipe at Delta than for them!

 
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Going 'Others' that way I can wear what I want and play how I want to (Style wise).
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You realise you can wear what you want and play how you want (within the rules) on any team, right?

Ian_Gere said:
Others for me too. I'm hoping to be settled on my new meds soon so I can start doing something about cardiovascular fitness, in order to keep up with an AF-UK squad in the field, but even if I end up as a lone wol... er... wallaby, I'd rather snipe at Delta than for them!
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In that case, I may be seeing you in my scope.

How's the sniper shooting now? You done much to it since last year at the NAE?

 
I recently got a PSO-1 replica scope, Liam, but other than that, no she's the same. I'm planning on a reinforced piston soon, because the steel sear is taking shavings of aluminium off stock one. I'll probably get the steel barrel base as well, just because it may prove useful and may as well save the postage from the Czech Republic by buying them together. And an M200 linear spring, which is the most powerful spring which will fit that I can find, to do some experiments on FPS and range.

I got what I quietly felt was a pretty spectacular hit with Svetlana at Humber Airsoft a few weeks ago - under fire from 2 directions, poor bushy cover no higher than 0.5m high, trying to get steady on a difficult bit of rocky slope, bloody uncomfortable and steep enough to fall down; target approx 75m away, on the opposite side of the central valley, moving down and left; wind was gusty around both me and the target, but with an inconsistent prevailing wind right to left and towards me, so from about 2 on a clock, blowing down the valley between us. I overcompensated for his speed of movement and hit him at belt height slightly left of centre => result!

 
What FPS will an M200 give you? Also, what steel barrel?

Nice, sounds like it's shooting really well. Makes me want to fix mine, but I've kinda given up on it. Been sat completely disassembled since before Christmas. Needs a new bolt housing before I can do anything with it at all.

 
At some point I hope to rock my new Bar10 at GZ, have installed a CO2 cylinder which should make it a beast, I may put the short barrel with Rhop back in!

Also going to pick up a few more high caps/flash mags in time for the weekender, realism is definitely not the order of the day.

 
Ahh, gas snipers, how can people do that!? The power output of each shot reduces slightly as you empty the CO2 capsule, giving you the opposite to what you want in a sniper - consistency.

 
The correct setup shouldn't have an issue with pressure dropping, but I'll test it and let you know. This one can use HPA, 88g CO2 or 12g CO2 so very large cylinders are possible which reduces the issue.

 
I think about 710FPS, Liam - just for range experiments. It will also be interesting to see how well the air seal and barrel width guestimates hold up at much higher pressure.

The steel barrel base is an SVD only part - it replaces the aluminium stock part to allow more points of contact with the internal barrel for stability, but also it's stiffer and heavier so it ought to be more difficult for the spring shock to move. TBH, I doubt it can do anything noticeable that LX tape around the inner barrel can't, but for €16 it's worth a punt.

I think I'll be going with a new quad stack 1000rnd AK mag again. My old one died at Skirmish - the lip snapped clean off as it was locking :lol: dboys... what can you say!?! Nobody else makes 'em though.

 
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The correct setup shouldn't have an issue with pressure dropping, but I'll test it and let you know. This one can use HPA, 88g CO2 or 12g CO2 so very large cylinders are possible which reduces the issue.
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Fair enough, the only way I'd get a gas sniper is if it ran on HPA.

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I think about 710FPS, Liam - just for range experiments. It will also be interesting to see how well the air seal and barrel width guestimates hold up at much higher pressure.

The steel barrel base is an SVD only part - it replaces the aluminium stock part to allow more points of contact with the internal barrel for stability, but also it's stiffer and heavier so it ought to be more difficult for the spring shock to move. TBH, I doubt it can do anything noticeable that LX tape around the inner barrel can't, but for €16 it's worth a punt.

I think I'll be going with a new quad stack 1000rnd AK mag again. My old one died at Skirmish - the lip snapped clean off as it was locking :lol: dboys... what can you say!?! Nobody else makes 'em though.
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Wow, if only you could use that at sites in the UK.

Oh, I thought you meant inner barrel. PDI advertise their L96 outer barrels as being more accurate as they're thicker metal than the stock barrels, and therefore less movement/vibrations when you shoot.

I think I may get a new gun before the NAE, stuck between a few options though.

- Old school M4, with the M16A1 receiver, standard handguard, Car-15 stock etc.

- DMR, M14 most likely and upgrading it to the max FPS allowed.

- Lightweight sniper, such as a VSR, upgraded a little but not fully kitted out with PDI.

 
Looking at the current numbers booked, I'm thinking Bravo would be a better team to join, the Others seems much more popular out of the three

 
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Long way to go yet, Tac.

Yeah Liam, I'm really curious to find out how much range I can get from that kind of FPS. Got an email t'other day to inform me that the steel barrel base was back in stock, but I couldn't afford that plus piston & spring so I left it... sold out again already :(

If its hot again, i'm going super-light. Even if i can get settled on my new meds by then I'll still be pretty unfit I suspect, so yeah, minimal kit will have to be the way...

 
im going and going delta with all the other close action players will be a laugh and a half will see you on the battle field

 
So I just booked onto The Others and paid my £25 deposit. Something I didn't know was that you can pay the remaining £60 in instalments, which can be as low as £5. That's got to be helpful to some people, I'd think. Not me mind... I'm going to wait until I get there just in case my health stops me attending.

 
14 year old newbie here, Will have played a fair few games by the time of the event. Would rent.

Not sure if It's for me, I'm not sure If I'd be allowed to go alone xD.

Of course it sounds like a no brainer (That I shouldn't go)

But I have an itching that it'd be a blast.

I have no gun yet, an Zero One has a large 'shop' there, So I'd be tempted to go to try out or possibly look into purchasing a gun.

I'd personally like to try it, Whether I bring a relative along or just slide with you lot, I don't know.

Would It be a good idea? fill me in xD

-Reece

 
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