Rogerborg

The hand guard looks A1. A ruler-on-the-screen says that the stock looks more A2 length than A1 and the butt stock looks like it's fully textured like A2, but I could be wrong on those. Can't see if the flash hider has a hole on the bottom (A1) or no hole (A2). The receiver is A2: the rear sight has an elevation adjuster, the forward assist is round rather than teardrop, there's a shell deflector behind the ejection post, and the slip ring is tapered rather than parallel. I can't see if there's a finger groove on the grip, but I'm guessing that there is. [UPDATE] Oh, this one? https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/golden-eagle-m16a1-super-enhanced-aeg Yup, butt, stock, grip and flash hider are all A2. The only A1 thing that I can see on there is the hand guard. "A1 style receiver. Perfect for re-enactment [and] mil-sim", the cheeky buggers. Now, I'm sure someone will out-nerd me (front sight post profile?).

I have to admire the resolve to keep the listing up though. Has that price been dropped?

"Frag out!"

I'm deliberately bumping this topic as it's still one of the top Google hits for "airsoft MP5K trigger pull" / "V3 trigger pull" and similar. Well, I put a bit of time into this. The 2-piece trigger is always going to be a problem, as there's loads of slack in it before the 2nd part even starts to move forwards. Then it has to move quite a long way back in order to reset the cut-off level. It was easy enough to pre-tension by gluing a strip of plastic to the top front of the main trigger to stop it moving fully forwards / upwards against the gearbox, but this then stopped the semi-auto reset. So eventually I hit on this pragmatic bodge: just stick pieces of cut up pencil eraser onto the trigger, which can be done with the gun fully assembled. A piece on the front pre-tensions it, and you can also put a piece on the back to limit rearward travel and give a shorter total pull. In both cases, hold the pieces in place while you work the trigger, and start with pieces that are too thick to allow triggering or resetting, then slowly pare them down until you get consisting fire-and-reset, and superglue in place. It's still not what you'd call a short pull, but you can improve the stock pull a fair bit with very little time and effort. If it starts acting up on game day, just rip the rubber out and you're back to stock. The pieces of white rubber are still unpainted here to make it clear what I've done - a dab of black will hide the bodge.

A thousand times this. What we've got works, and we can have fun with it. If someone's crept a little bit over, or they spooge a short burst of full auto within 10m or whatever the site limit is, it's no real biggie in the grand scheme of things.

See https://desertfoxevents.com/Desert-Fox-Events-Manual.pdf Rather filmsim, LARPy and over complicated, but as near as I can make out: AEG, pistol, shotgun and GBBR, 1.5J and semi-auto only. LMG/MMG, 2J, 50 foot / 15m MED and max 30rps(!) DMR/Boltie, 2.8J, 100'/30m MED (and as though it's not bad enough having the same energy limits, DMRs can carry a carbine, snipers can only carry a pistol secondary. WTF?) But this is where is gets a bit interesting: SMG or auto-shotgun, 1J but full auto, unlike 1.5J AEGs It'd never take off here because everyone tunes for 350fps - heck, my MP5K with a 247mm barrel inside a suppressor is shooting at 340fps now. But I do quite like the general principle of different energy limits for full auto, semi-auto with no MED, and semi-auto with MED.

Urgh, yes. The number of times I've whanged multiple tracers off of some geardo's double-stacked ammo on top of a plate carrier, only to have them (I accept genuinely) just not feel it. Why they can't hear it is another question. When I started wearing my EVA-foam Imperial Guard armour, I was very concerned about not being able to feel hits, and was calling myself out from ricochets or even when folk were just pointing barrels in my general direction. It turns out that I can still feel them fine, just damped down, and I can certainly hear them, so I'm not much minded to buy the pleas of ignorance from Captain Crye. Those magic headsets that folk wear, do they cut out the sound of BBs pinging off of Crye?

Well, you need upgraded grips to deal with the recoil and barrel climb. ? I reckon he'd be better of selling the grips and the gun separately - by which I mean selling the gun, and trying to sell the grips.

Given that I play almost entirely CQB and regularly get point-blanked with that energy (and a maximum mass of 0.25g) then no, not at all. I think that's about the right limit. If you go down the Septic route of 2J AEGs then you get into MEDs and those rather silly "BANG! BRO! I BANGED YOU!" videos that you can see on the YouTubes when they get up close. UK law allowing, which it doesn't, then in woodland I think you could make an argument for raising bolt power to 3J or even more to allow for longer ranges in conjunction with 30m MEDs. However, I wouldn't make that argument because you should consider the worst case, and the realistic case, rather than the best case. With airsoft inability to judge distances, the push towards denser and denser BBs, and the risk of someone popping out of cover and getting point blanked in the face, I think 500fps is about right too. Actually, if you want to make distinctions between AEG, DMR and boltie ranges, one way to do that would be to limit BB weights. In the nightmare scenario that we went full NI / Italian with a flat 1J limit, you could limit AEGs to (for the sake of argument) 0.2g, DMR to 0.28g and bolties to... well, let's get to that... and you'd get extra range even for the same energy. On weight, I'd like us to have a think about BB weights, and what they're actually composed of. The natural weight of an ABS or PLA not really bio 5.95mm BB is about 0.12g. Anything above 0.2g is adulterated, and above 0.4g you start losing the argument that you're actually slinging plastic. Remember, a steel BB is 0.86g. I use exclusively 0.2g in CQB. On the occasions I play outdoors I have 0.43g in the boltie, and I'm rather thinking that if I put my range where my maths is that I shouldn't. But then... everybody else is, so I wouldn't be competitive. It's an issue for sites and the hobby in general.

Those are actually the improved versions, the originals were even worse.

But he only used it once! Plus all those other times. I'm sure the seals aren't all dried out to buggery now. Still, it's a full £25 less than a new one , comes with a 100% guarantee that it "shoots like a dream", plus it seems to have at least three different colours of rattle can on it rather than just boring black. Bargain!

Shhhhh.

I re-iterate: Louche and lush, will forgive the technical unlegality of the listing.

It was a one-day listing. Pretty smart, up and gone before eBay even review it.

The cheek of it, needs to be ban- -ged.

Aaaaaaaaany day now.

Proper chortle. So, after posting my pic (above) to Facebook's Airsoft Heretics group (worth a join), this chap was inspired to make his own Astra Militarum gear in one 40-hour week constructing frenzy. Have I started something? After all this blows over, I'm half seriously wondering if it might be possible to put together a squad of the Emperor's faithful at some national event or milsim-lite. I mean, it is milsim, just from 38,000 years in the future.

Now, now, that's not a fair comparison. You've have to pay another £10 to get it in two tone first, then strip it off.

The issue isn't them generating one tracking number in a just-in-time fashion, it's repeated generation of them, no correction when the item didn't ship, and "the dog ate my jigs" story. One lie is happenstance, twice is co-incidence, third time is enemy action.

Repeated fictional tracking numbers? I call fraud by false representation on that. That reminds me, I never heard back from Trading Standards about SWAT Training devices, who to this day are still marketing VTGs as being available from stock.

Do iiiiiiiiit.

Wow, lovely stuff. Props, or with shootable internals? I guess I'll re-shill my Imperial Guard kit since @Musica bumped the Load Out page 30 seconds after I posted it there. The helmet is just a MICH that needs some work. The armour and gun shell (around a G36 with an M4 magwell and short VN style mag) are EVA foam which turns out to be great for LARP airsoft use. Cheap, easy to work with, light, and takes all the sting out of hits while still giving a distinctive noise and feel that has allayed my initial concerns about accidental God Mode. What's interesting is just how much of the initial pattern I had to remove in order to make it usable. Big sections around the arms and neck, and that large side gap isn't accidental, it's to give sufficient movement between the front and back to stop the thing riding up when I bend and twist and shout. You'll see cosplayers with more complete armour including solid side plates, but they're mostly just posing in it, not moving and aiming.