Airsoft

After using my aug for the first game I think I am ready to give my opinion on it for the sake of anyone interested.

Gun Performance

Performance wise we have mandatory chrono at the start of each game. My brand new 8fields 1600mah battery had literally 3 shots in it to complete the chrono and each shot it shot completely bang on 1 joule. Range wise it did struggle a bit as the area had heavy bushes and undergrowth. While leaves are not in season yet, I did feel like a lot of the hits were not called as the subject of my agression did not notice the hits or thought them as ricochets. There were a few instances where I did have to reach out to 55m where the fella called a hit upon receiving my burst. This is with .28 gram ammo.

The stock battery lasted me the whole day. A chintzy 1100 nimh battery lasted me 5 hours. I'm madly impressed but this was propably one off. My 1600mah 8fields battery sold on taiwagun to fit aug did not get beyond 3 shots. I think it has an issue with its plug and is being RMAd.

I used fuxing midcaps. They were extremely hard to load but seemed to be reliable. The few feeding issues I had were due to user error.

Problems wise the outer barrel is of extremely poor quality and came completely off my gun upon picking it up from the barrel.

Ergonomics

I ran the gun with a chubby vertical foregrip, LVPO on top rail, elsatic rifle sling and rails removed. The gun did not feel that heavy while playing as compared to handling it normally. My left shoulder did hurt from holding the gun the next day tho. The foregrip was useful as a bipod and aug offers myriad of positions to hold the gun in any stance. It is a very comfortable gun.

The trigger I had no problems with. It is a very good trigger and fire selector. I never accidently had a semi when I meant to go full hard. The safety switch did get partially engaged a few times though. The magazine release is pretty terribly positioned and can be hard to use.

The 69 Eur Chinese LVPO From Famous Brand Bestsight

This was the MVP for me. The sight was cheap as peanuts and had classic chinese name, but it offered incredible utility. In the heavily wooded area it was very easy to quickly up the magnification and check if that dark shape is a treestump or a person. And if that person is friendly or not.

The scope had extremely good eye relief - I was never in a position where I could not see completely out of the sight. Wether I was prone, standing or upside down in a ditch. The scope had extremely good clarity, compared to one other sight at the field I had no chromatic abberation or fish eye effect, my glass was crystal clear (even despite two pieces of scratched plexi class on each end) and I was able to fire as accurately as a bb gun can. Only issue I have are the controls are extremely heavy to operate.

Overall:

I'm pretty happy. I have replaced the vertical foregrip with an AFG which is incredebly comfortable. I will also look into replacing the barrel quick release button as the cheap pot metal has broken off. I will most likely drill and tap a hole and screw in a hex head bolt. I will also be mounting the outer barrel on more securely.

I can recommend jg a3 to anyone who is interested in it. It is a solid enough shooting gun to leave alone with its only real downside being poor metal quality.

I ordered this carbine a while ago and it finally showed up. I was in rush today but managed to get a basic camo paintjob on it and throw on my LPVO. I replaced the M4 style buttstock with a CAR style I had for some reason. It will be slingless tomorrow, but I will fix that soon.

I'd held off on getting an airsoft AR derivative for a long time, but it was just too tempting to finally pick one up.

I know the LPVO is a little far back. Tomorrow I'll be zeroing and finding a good feel for where to sit it on the rails.

Or do the pellets(?) not hurt too much?

I havent played since I was like 15 and now my friend invited me to a game. Since the players were really chill and it's and small upstart group I went and got me a shooty.

It's a jg aug where I stabilized the barrel a bit and got a cheap front grip, sling and a bestscope lvpo from ali that I painted. Other than insane weight it shoots pretty nice compared to the old ca g36c I had. I don't mind the trigger at all, but then again I haven't tried it in game.

I am planning to just make its accuracy consistent and just enjoy the game for now. Thankfully i found my old chest rig so getting back into the hobby has been cheap. Whole thing plus mags cost me like 250.

Cool pic by Ashran Airsoft of Woodland Viper doing a "Protect the VIP" gamemode. Thought it was cool how they gave the VIP a little balloon head. XP

(hope I'm doing this right, first post)

I finally got back out, and now should be able to play more regularly for a while. I played in the woods, and the field had a pretty good sized crowd on Saturday.

I felt that I personally did well, and am particularly pleased with getting more use out of the pistol. I got a number of kills with it, including a few times where I dropped my MP5 entirely to run in for pistol kills to finish off enemies in 1-life team death matches.

The pictured loadout is a CYMA MP5SD, which I've had for a few years now. Overall a good airsoft gun, although I have been looking at some replacement solutions for its spongy trigger. There is a pretty cheap Monstrum 3x Prism on top, with an off bran ACOG kill flash taped to the front as a lens protector. The Surefire light was quickly ziptied on the night before as I had originally planned to go to a CQB arena rather than the woods field. I think I'll just leave it in place though, it is surprisingly snug on the gun.

The pistol is a CO2 Umarex Glock. No moving slide and only a 15 BB magazine. Still useful for niche situations. The holster is new (to me) and I am happy to finally have a crisp thumbs map to replace the large and bulky USGI universal holster. Bad on me for not noticing until Saturday that the drop panel was missing a buckle, forcing me to tape up the top strap out of the way. This lead to the holster being a little wobbly on my leg. I will likely replace that with a USGI leg extender I already own.

DYE i5 mask, which has always worked great. It is painted the same as the MP5, and also is obscured under a sniper veil which I have attached to the top brim; the veil can be pushed back and under the mask's backstrap to get it out of the way, or it can be draped over the mask and tucked into the collar if I am really feeling like I want to kill the glint and shape of the lens.

USGI FLC with a pair of cheap triple mag shingles for the mags. The mag shingles are sized for AR mags but I've found that I like them for MP5 mags better than purpose made pouches. This also gives easy versatility if I get an airsoft AR.

Camo-wise I hadn't updated out of the summer time bias towards green. I still had great success creeping up on it around the enemy team, but I also feel more comfortable when I've updated colors for the season. There is another hat with more fall time browns I will switch to, and all of the painted camo will soon go to browns and tans to match the winter time woods.