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If you want to R-Hop then go with a very wide bore. Best you can get is an ORGA Magnus 6.23 (500mm): http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orga-Magnus-6-23mm-Wide-Bore-Barrel-for-AEG-500mm-OGAINU-PB-1-0021-/271267200104 - I ordered a 500mm for my M249 from this guy and it arrived last week fine. Prometheus/Laylax/First (whatever they want to call themselves), PDI and ORGA make the best barrels you can buy right now. Prometheus are the cheapest, and PDI are excellent quality (and affordable) but don't do a proper wide bore for R-Hopping. There's also the issue of the Prometheus Delta Strike barrels having the plastic hop window, which wasn't their best idea. 'Miracle Barrels' are very silly - they're just high quality 6.06mm with a userbase in America that has very little choice and don't frequently shop abroad. They also have a longer hop window an o-ring. Whilst those are nice to have, they're hardly groundbreaking; longer hop windows have been around for a while - you can buy the extended R-Hop patches for them. Like a lot of stuff for airsoft that starts its life in the US, it's mostly pushy sales and apathetic buyers defending their purchases that give it the name it has today. So yeh, if you want a barrel that isn't going to interfere with a decent amount of backspin, then you need a far wider bore than 6.05 or 6.06 - go for 6.23 (Magnus) or 6.20 (Delta Strike) and make up for the drop in FPS elsewhere. Just make sure that you have the patch installed properly and you'll get 45-50 metres out of it easily.

They're alright. Had one in a pistol once, but obviously didn't R-Hop it. They do only work well at <340-50 FPS though, so there's that.

I just use bottles of isopropyl alcohol as I've found it works out cheaper than wipes and I can use it with a cloth for degreasing things too.

Don't get a GBBR for your first rifle, regardless of previous experience - that would be my advice. Just grab a decent-ish AEG; it'll perform better.

This was said in the other thread, but obviously this is a primarily an English-speaking forum, and whilst I understand that you've gone to the effort of using Google Translate on the site, it outputs very broken English that's quite hard to read (especially with so much technical jargon): Good pictures though. Will certainly help anyone who's looking to buy. Also, put 'http://' infront of your links to make them parse automatically, or click on the 'hyperlink' icon in the editor (looks like a chain).

For the stronger green gasses you may need to upgrade your hammer spring simply so that it knocks the valve hard enough to release the gas. Other than that, you're good - it's TM so won't really require any specific upgrades; it's one of the best right out of the box. Other than that, there's nothing bad about it really. The front frame screw tends to go after a while, but you can prolong it by putting epoxy in the gap where it's been formed in the mould. This is about a 15 minute job, doesn't have any effect on the chassis and requires very little skill: http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh623/e-luder/photocopy-3.jpg This thread is the best read regarding TM Glock parts: http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=140496 If this is you first TM pistol then don't worry about gas escaping when you fill it (try to use a plastic nozzle'd can of gas to refill it to minimise this though) and remember to pull the follower back and fill the magazine with BBs holding it upside down and using a speedloader (this is hard to describe, but basically don't use an adapter and fill it from the top because this is pretty inefficient and will put undue wear on the lip). I can provide you with a picture if you'd like. Edit: Sorry, I should have read that you hadn't picked it up yet. Here's what I'd go through if I were buying it: When you're buying it just check that it cycles correctly (by this I mean that when you pull the slide back and release that it doesn't get caught on anything) and that the magazines hold gas. If they don't hold gas, I'd still buy them but get some money knocked off and use that extra cash to replace the o-rings (not a tough job, and disassembling/lubing the magazines is probably something that you'd want to be doing anyway). If the mags smell like arse then that's because the previous owner has been running propane through them without the applicable silicone oil, and nine times out of ten this means they'll be in awful condition. Other than that, if it works fine then you're good. We could go into taking a look inside to check the internals, but if you don't know what you're looking for in terms of wear then it'd be pointless. You may also wish to make sure that the safety is working (slide the serial tab under the barrel) - if you're into that sort of thing, heh. The only other problem I can think of is a warped/torn hop up bucking/rubber, and this will only reveal itself after a fair bit of usage at ranges of over 10m. It's about a £10 fix though, so not really a worry.

£80-100 sounds right given how available the Maruzen L96 clones are. 'Custom' paint tends to detract from the value anyway unless it's a proper finish like Cerakote. Sorry man.

Frankly I'm unsure. All the stories you hear of customs taking a dremel to airsoft guff is because they're guns with the Glock logos on them. If it's just a part then maybe they won't care; maybe they will. Obviously the culture is very different - the danger of letting a gun part in isn't there like it is in the UK, but its commercial value is and they are rather strict when it comes to letting anything they deem counterfeit being let in or not. Who knows. Hopefully it gets there safely.

Apart from the obvious, customs will actually consider any airsoft Glock trade marks to be counterfeit and will probably have the logo dremeled off. That's why you don't find a huge amount of them being used in the US. Just get someone to machine it in the UK.

Not from my friend's experience, but the break-in is around 5000 BBs, so there's that. I'll be R-Hopping it anyway.

I'm into GBBRs in a bit way. I'm certainly used to the maintenance From what I've heard, they're less temperamental than the WA platform anyway.

At the distances concerned there's going to be so little difference. The barrel length also isn't going to contribute too much to raising the FPS. That said, I like to do it anyway. I've found in some of the super old pistols that the barrels get very grimy and harder to clean when they're not as of such a high grade steel or brass. A TBB certainly wouldn't be the first thing I'd think to upgrade in a pistol though.

The Zeroin forums still get more traffic if you're looking to sell.

Daytona M249 kit. It's happening.

Yep, loads. Shipping is a little high but otherwise brilliant.

If you want the very best .28s then go for BB Bastards. Patrol Base stock them and they're the best ammo I've ever used in my WOC. They're pricey, but if you're not shooting more than 800 in a skirmish then it doesn't matter too much. Also, if it's a feed issue then it could be many things other than the ammo; check that your magazine is seating at the correct height.

Why did you put Vaseline in there? Don't do that again, heh.

As has already been said in this thread: UTG is a rebrand of Well which is, in turn, a clone of the Maruzen L96 (generally the APS-2), not the TM L96 AWS (which has the realistic magazine placement). Why on earth anyone would go as far afield as the US to buy probably the most reproduced airsoft gun ever made (other than perhaps the TM M3 and its clones) is beyond me. Grab a Well L96, or a Mauser/Cybergun. Frankly, they all shoot the same really. Buy a new cylinder, trigger, spring and guide rod from http://www.airsoftpro.cz/ before you think about taking it out. Oh and the obligatory 'don't buy a sniper rifle' is very much true - it's a really silly weapon to take to skirmishes. Even the one I've put a lot of money into isn't anywhere near my favorite thing to use.

Go with some goggles, prescription inserts and a lower-face mesh mask (or whatever you prefer). Here ya go (too lazy to write it all again):

£18 + £6 for shipping - that's about a quarter of the cost of your rifle. That Greek site sill ship to the UK and you'll have them within 5 days. You won't have to pay tax (obviously). Having said that, it's roughly £16 delivered for the ones from that site I posted too. *shrugs*

Little bit pricey, but they best I could find: http://www.greekairsoft.gr/eshop/product.php?id_product=1519 They're for TM, and the JG one is basically a carbon copy of it so you should be good. Also, are those twigs? Man that's ghetto.

TMC is good stuff. They and Flyye use a decent quality nylon and their stitching is good too.

Well, aside from the fact that that's assault, I'd imagine he just fancies himself a master trole.

I'm sure you do son.