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I fired my first GBB since around 2015 today! At a bit of a loose end, I dug out a couple of my GBBs, expecting them to be little more than paperweights these days. It took me a while to track down the magazines (I kept them separately to avoid my kids - Now grown up and left home - finding working guns and maybe shooting themselves in the eye) and some gas, but, despite some leaks at the base of the two magazines I tried limiting the number of shots I got, the guns worked fine, much to my surprise! I might try soaking the magazine seals in power steering fluid to see if I can r

After many years passing over several opportunities to buy an Asahi WA2000, I finally found one in Japan, that was at the right price along with several things like the original box, 3 original magazines and the video cassette. I bought it at a very nice price (under 1.5K USD shipped to me). Because the gun was broken, I decided I was going to go ahead and do a project with it. To make it more correct to the real WA2000. First, I scoured German auction sites and scored a genuine Schmidt & Bender 2.5-10x56mm scope correct to the real WA2000. After that, I contacted a friend in Japan who sp

The only one, as far as I know is Rinkya. Many have stopped to due to shipping being a way harder process than it used to. I've been buying from Japan for well over a decade

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Ok, it took me a while but I finally decided to get a Mk III, and here is what I think of it. All in all, it feels much better than the earlier model with the tangent sight, much snappier to fire and has a much crisper recoil. Much nicer. Most of the stuff that I don’t like about this pistol are the fault of the design that WE copied from Tanaka, as with the earlier model, the absence of adjustable hop is just so beguiling. I know that removing the barrel from the slide is an absolute pain, so the grub screw in the top was never the best hop adjustment to begin with, and unless I hav