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The 'What have you just bought' Thread

 A cheap set of Howard Leights I bought off here. They are better than I thought they would be TBH - I wasn't expecting much after owning (and recently selling) Peltors, but they are good enough for some CQB BBWarz.
I’ve got a couple of pairs and over the yrs I’ve seen some call them “cheap’n’cheerful” but me personally I think that’s an unfair description as for the money compared to a lot of the Chinese ‘knock off’ sets I think there far superior and more than adequate for the job . 

 
I’ve got a couple of pairs and over the yrs I’ve seen some call them “cheap’n’cheerful” but me personally I think that’s an unfair description as for the money compared to a lot of the Chinese ‘knock off’ sets I think there far superior and more than adequate for the job . 


Tried my neighbour's Aliexpress super-cheapos that use an Earmor style casing but cost around £25 a couple of hours ago. The sound quality was awful and they are completely mono-aural.

Not saying that these Howard Leights have the same quality of directional hearing as my Peltor Comtac XPs, but the sound quality is pretty good and I won't be so paranoid about these being nicked in the safezone as my Comtacs either.

Going to order some Gel cups from AliExpress.

 
If you're in the UK and they're shipping via UPS, you're in for a world of pain. I regrettably ordered from Evike a couple weeks back and it took about 8 calls, various firearms declaration forms, import info & multiple emails for them UPS brainlets to understand that the MWS bolt release and bare bolt i had ordered were not firearms & to release them from customs.

If you can, cancel it and order the same barrel from WGCShop in HK. 

The 13.2" barrel is in stock

https://www.wgcshop.com/products/emg-si-outer-barrel-for-marui-mws?variant=39408151625809
Took a while and one form that UPS had me fill in but it arrived last week no problem. Actually surprised as UPS is an absolute shit show usually

 
Just taken a punt on one of these. Looks like the Vortex Venom has been knocked off!

@rocketdogbert the seller has ten left atm

£124.77  18% Off | V.E.N.O.M Red Dot Sight Reticle 3 MOA including  Picatinny  Rail Mount
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mK4KOdk

EDIT - Seller has no stock and he’s just trying to swap sell me onto other optics. 

 
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The TM MP7 is a cracking gun, accurate, fast and loud… what more could you want ?

Well some would argue size I suppose ?

 
The TM MP7 is a cracking gun, accurate, fast and loud… what more could you want ?

Well some would argue size I suppose ?


Random brainfart which I can't be bothered to Google...are TM MP7s proper 1:1 scale? I know the AEPs were under sized.

 
Yeh TM are undersized, they guesstimated the dims from pics.

It’s so annoying!! Love a full size KWA, but they are crap compared to TM performance.

 
Yeh TM are undersized, they guesstimated the dims from pics.


The 100% accurate interwebs apocrypha says that they scaled the total length of their MP7 with the flash hider to H&K's specified length of an MP7 without the flash hider.

 
Wait wait wait wait hold the fucking phone...you mean to tell me that TM just *eyeball* their replicas from pictures?? 

I can understand the difficulty of getting hold of an MP7 in Japan, but they don't just send a guy out to the US with a pair of calipers and a notepad?

 
I'm kinda surprised they don't do a V2 that is sized correctly.  Would sell well, plus people who already have them but are fussed over the 10% may buy again. 

Be a bugger to have to buy new mags as I guess they would be undersized too.

 
Remember we are talking about the land of the little people.....  they may just make them a little smaller to cope with their teeny hands.

SWMBO couldn't take UK nicotine patches as they were too strong.  She used to get a high off them before nearly throwing up.  Likewise when she was on pain killers.  Her dose from the doc was for two at a time several times a day..... One would spark her out for most of the day.   Cheap date ??

 
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Wait wait wait wait hold the fucking phone...you mean to tell me that TM just *eyeball* their replicas from pictures?? 

I can understand the difficulty of getting hold of an MP7 in Japan, but they don't just send a guy out to the US with a pair of calipers and a notepad?


That's how a good proportion of airsoft stuff is done; guns, lasers etc.  MP7s are one of the rarest HK mass-production guns in the US as well.  Far as I can gather from looking around and shooting one once, unless you've got a super good long-term relationship with a very rich and well connected firearms dealer that's well established they're not easy to find, I'd be tentative on whether the handful of rental ranges that have them would just let some foreigners have at one with measuring devices.  I mean maybe for enough $ but hard to say, that info would be ITAR so I think they'd be taking a very serious legal risk if they allowed it.

 
that info would be ITAR so I think they'd be taking a very serious legal risk if they allowed it.


isn't ITAR about not letting american technology get sent to places like china, how does that apply to a foreign manufactured weapon?

genuine question, it's a law i'm only vaguely familiar with.

 
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