Jacob Wright

2025 I’m planning to be there!

That’s made my morning ?

Had a great day at Gunman Tuddenham on Sunday, which will probably be our final outing for the year ? Played a nice mixture of attack and defence skirmish games, through the forest village and concrete hut areas. We felt that the amount of cover available to the attackers had increased since we last played here which was nice to see. I'm not the biggest fan of CQB but forgot how much fun it is creeping about the concrete huts taking advantage of the lines of sight through multiple buildings! We didn't experience any non hit taking, and there were lots of calls of a good nature 'nice shot' etc... , but the marshals did pull everyone in for a moan after one of the village games so maybe there was some in another area. The only downside was having to scrape my car in the morning, and the sole battery for my MP5 dying in the last 10 minutes so not much of a point walking back and grabbing my other rifle - will by another battery before next time!

It's actually quite a visually noticeable difference isn't it! If you're handy with a tool, maybe take a bit of material off the tops of magazines 2 and 3 to match 1 on the Left?

Yeah comes wired to an MR30 as standard - I’m assuming to allow the ECU to monitor the battery level? Gave up making a connector due to my shite soldering, the Eagle 6 one has been spot on.

Ran the MP5 for the first time yesterday at Tuddenham, really happy with it ? The magazines sat really nicely in the Peacekeeper, I did consider sticking an Esstac 9mm Kywi on the rig to hold them more securely but don’t think I’ll need to.

Through the door today were my M81 notch cap courtesy of Tactical Kit, and a Silva expedition 4 compass. Wish the compass had arrived yesterday when we tackled Pen-y-Fan in the fog but oh well ?

Yeah sounds like the magazine isn't seating properly. When you apply pressure to the base of the magazine can you feel it move it all, is there any play in it?

Cheers ?? can’t decide between that or a Surefire style handguard.

That surprises me, I wouldn’t have thought the Knights would have that much room inside it. Where did you source yours from?

Best wishes for your recovery and I hope you can get back up and on your feet soon!

Glad you’re getting on with the slingster ?? really happy with mine.

Lucky that it’s just a connector then! Cheers, made that mistake before and won’t do it again ??

That may be it, I didn’t use any flux and even though I pre-tinned the connectors and wire they would just slide off after I attempted to solder them on. I’ll get some flux and attempt to modify the supplied adapter maybe.

I should add though, it did actually work for a short period and only failed due to my shoddy soldering. Not sure if I quite trust myself to put an MR30 onto a battery yet following this disastrous attempt ?

Never soldering anything again. Made the connector, connected a battery, got a single shot off before nothing and the red LED. Switched batteries, emptied the rest of the magazine (3 round burst is my new favourite thing), then as I've disconnected it the MR30 has come off my connector and got itself stuck inside the one on the MP5. Dug it out with a pair of pliers, ordered one off Eagle 6. Link below. Also burnt myself with the soldering iron and dropped a scalpel onto my leg ? https://eagle6.co.uk/shop/catalog/product/view/id/7874/s/eaglesix-female-mr30-to-male-deans-adaptor-8cm/

Someone I trust to tech my NGRSs has confirmed the above, will post results or delete my forum account later ?

It’s the MR30 side I’m not sure on either, can’t find any wiring diagrams online.

Before I utterly f*ck the ECU in my MP5, does this layout for the connectors look correct? Singled out pin on the MR30 for positive to the vertical pin on the deans? I'm like 99.9% sure but want to check ?

If only I’d waited ? did realise they were getting them in. At least they’ve got a load of magazines and don’t seem to have jacked up the price.

Fire Support have magazines in - £29 each ??

Ran one on my C8 last weekend, and genuinely there was a point where I was kneeling there trying to clip the damn thing back together thinking "why did I not just put the slingster on it.." Slingster ftw ??

I concur, TM build quality is already top quality but I was really impressed with the feel and weight of the MP5. Can’t wait to use it!

Fair point, quality control just isn’t what it used to be ? I’m glad to hear the VFC Surefire grips might fit without too much of an issue, just need to source one now.

What we need .. is a list of what fits from what manufacturer and what doesn’t!