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Trasher

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  1. Congrats for the SVU! Looks like a *relatively* simple conversion.
  2. 30-40 meter range combined with .40s take most of the wind out of the equation...
  3. You can capture great/dramatic/etc moments with cheap gear, but you'll also miss a lot of them (noise, AF problems, dynamic range, aperture range, overall IQ). Photography is a technical "sport" and every time I tried to go cheap, quality suffered. Every time I tried to replace a fixed focal tele with a telezoom, or a dedicated macro with a "macro-capable" zoom lens, the number of "keepers" suffered. I'm too poor to afford cheap.
  4. All the WE M14 chrono videos show huge fps variation, so flyers, inconsistent groups are not that surprising....
  5. 2nd that. But 150 feet accuracy will be enough.
  6. General rules: the wider the zoom range (and 18-270mm is laughably wide) the cr*ppier the lens. I'd also avoid anything but Nikon, Canon, and maybe some Sigma lens. Renting is a good idea.
  7. Image stabilizers generally have a "sweet spot" (a recommended shutter speed range, check the manual) where they are useful. If you are shooting at faster shutter speeds (outside the range), just turn it off - since they can decrease image quality (fine blur). Some stabilizers also have a "panning mode" which you've turn on manually.
  8. Well, there is always a first time. Pratice panning shots before the air show (on moving vehicles, people, etc)...
  9. Iso 400 (or 800) noise is hardly visible in daytime even on the cheaper DSLRs unless you are pixel peeping. And it's real easy to noise filter the sky - like you did it on your pics. Low aperture will not work if he has AF/lens issues. .
  10. High iso and low aperture for shutter speed. Continous shooting mode, tracking focus (if your camera can handle it). Panning shots. For rotor/propeller driven aircraft: low shutter speeds and panning (like 1/250 to keep the blades blurry).
  11. I cut the spring the get the rifle under 600fps (with the stock barrel) which is the limit here. The gearbox would handle the uncut spring without effort...
  12. You can "highly doubt it" all day long, I fired hundreds of rounds without any kind of problem, the rifle cycled effortlessly and quickly at 580fps (Systema M160 cut by 1" + Lipo 20c 11v 1600mah)...
  13. The stock rifle can easily handle 600 fps springs so I'm not sure why you "reworked" the gears, unless you want to push stupidly high muzzle energies...
  14. Oh boy, and how I love the empty whining. I pretty sure that Marui thinks japanese airsoft snipers are just noobs and unimportant since, - They're about 2 years late to the party (like usual) - They produced a basic/budget L96 model to a marked flooded with L96 replicas (How ignorant was that, when even Well made a better looking replica? ) - They still use the same cheap, shiny plastics (even CA do it better now) - They rendered everything under the new loading system (Which has ZERO positive effect on performance, but negative on BBs and reliability. And thi
  15. Well, the loading lever is giving each BB two slaps (scratches) from different directions, and with each shot all the BBs in the mag move back and forth a little. Then they fall upon the ramp and roll about 10cm up to the hopup chamber. If the mag jams, get blocked the loading lever can break easily at the weakest point (at base of nozzle). Since this rifle loads with the bolt pulled to the rear it's easy to make double-triple feeds, if the sear locking is not 100%. It's definitley WORSE than the VSR system (where the BBs are not rocked back and forth each shot, not scracthed by the loadin
  16. There is no problem except it's overcomplicated, useless, collects dirt, and it puts excessive strain on the BBs. The loading lever on the nozzle can break easily (mine did) and there is no reinforced replacement. The idiotic mags (which can jam on precision BBs, and require tool for unloading (or loading unless you mod them)) are also the product of the "no problem" loading system.
  17. I hand load my L96 mags... But after slightly enlarging the feeding port you can use regular BB loaders. PDI will relase their trigger box very soon, I'm gonna go for that. . .
  18. Last weekend on the snowfields (not my pics):
  19. Sleeping outside in temperatures well below -12 Celsius is fun.
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