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Thu Nov 14, 2013 12:10 pm

velocity3x wrote:I've watched the video many times...
With at least some sarcasm :tongue3:, unless the water jug...
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... spontaneously sprung a leak on both sides violently enough to take a chunk out of the backstop, I think the hypothesis that the core of the projectile might... might... have continued through the brick has some basis.. :roll:

More seriously, what you're seeing on the video... presumably this...
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...is one of the fins of the dart breaking away on impact (as it's designed to do) and does not have the penetrator attached.

I'll give it to you that we're used to water jugs disintegrating with some vigour when hit, but given the penetrator bears a passing resemblance to the ammunition for the APS underwater rifle, penetrating water quietly and efficiently is no great surprise.

The major difference with the second shot was that the penetrator did not hit straight on. It had been bent by its impact with the concrete beneath the target and had deflected sideways into the jug, so the result that time was major cavitation.
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:59 pm

wyz2285 wrote:I know the price are good, sounds too good to me actually and they seem generally low in fps (350?) and how is the recoil compared to WE open bolt? I can burst the fps with higher pressure but may put too much stress on the bolt?
Ours do at least 366 fps because that's the minimum velocity to be Canada legal ;)

Never seen a WE M4 so I can't compare, from the WE we do have they are not the best brand in my view. I recently had to mill out some SMG-8 ("MP7") magazines because they weren't correctly milled and not clicking into the mag well.

The G&G GBBRs have plastic bodies and rails, definitely no comparison to the KJ Works one but at less than half the price, you get what you pay for. Mechanically though we don't really have issues with them and the recoil is quite satisfying.
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:07 pm

Yeah, just read some reviews about it... Plastic rails hum...
WE GBBR open bolt are great, everyone I have handled (M4, scar and ak) are simple to dissemble and solid metal parts.
I'm getting a G&G M4 then, any particular model you recommend? This is what I'd choose, says 350 fps, kind weak for my taste...
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:24 pm

Take your pick, they're all the same inside :roll: remember that the "raider" models have plastic rails, decent plastic mind you but still plastic.

Edit: the one you linked to might be metal, we don't have that particular one in stock.
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:51 pm

Googled the description, metal rails.
But says it's for low/medium range duo to the 350 fps... I'm looking for one for SPR... Damn.
Only found the AEG version of this gun on YouTube donno why :s
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 5:56 pm

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Brian the brain wrote:I'm not a fan of goldplated weaponry...but this Tommy almost gets away with it..
I claimed on the shop's facebook page <- (omg! Image us :D) that the whole range was available, for soldiers, gangsters and P.I.M.P.s hehe
Nice :D
Is there an option to have two languages on a fanpage ?? I am asking because it seems that having just one in French might not be very attractive for customers other than those who actually speak French. You pretty much limit yourself to Canada, France and some former French colonies (just realised that Canada is technically also a former French colony lol). Though on the other hand, some of those former colonies have warlords and dictators - so yeah now the goldplated tommy gun makes perfect sense

The next logical step is to set up a YT channel for some show off vids of your merchanidise 8)
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:32 pm

Anyway, I said I'd make more darts, so here's an early stage of manufacture, fins still very unfinished.
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These are ultimately a very heavily dumbed-down version of the long range darts I was engineering years ago. They haven't the same sophistication or precision, but the crudest principles regarding how the fins are designed to work are the same.

Still, they suffice for getting something very pointy to go very fast, so I can't complain too much.
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:44 pm

wyz2285 wrote:But says it's for low/medium range duo to the 350 fps... I'm looking for one for SPR...
You have a lathe, upgrayedd! spelled thusly with two d's for a double dose of this pimping

I smoke meth.

You pretty much limit yourself to Canada
We don't sell online so it's limited to Quebec anyway.
The next logical step is to set up a YT channel for some show off vids of your merchanidise
Prototype of our first project in the works, soon, soon :) it involves a part which we have christened the "hamster wheel" :D
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:21 pm

johnsssuburbanradio wrote: it involves a part which we have christened the "hamster wheel" :D
It's you in one of these, isn't it?

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:D
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Thu Nov 14, 2013 8:05 pm

Similar to that, but much, much smaller :D

Also, re your sig:

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Thu Nov 14, 2013 10:39 pm

jamessmallraptor wrote:Similar to that, but much, much smaller :D
But how will you fit in it if it's much, much smaller? :?

... actually, no, you being a Lilliputian would explain the size of a lot of your creations.
Also, re your sig
To be honest, I haven't updated most of my signatures in years.

Except the one on a given tabletop wargaming forum, which I changed to a link to a picture of one of the game's mercenary characters in his Y-fronts. I think I was making a statement about a particularly impractically dressed female miniature they had recently brought out, but even I'm not sure what I'm thinking half the time.
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Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:11 pm

Well, I actually hit the target all three times today (not too bad when it's only about 6cm square), although all were glancing hits and no decent target penetration occurred.

Still, got some reasonable impact sparks for my troubles (particularly on the second test):

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Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:23 pm

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That made me laugh!
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Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:39 pm

jrrdw wrote:jamessmallraptor
At least I'm the bigger person and didn't retort by calling him Vagnacock :D

Seriously though, sparks in slo-mo are cool!

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Fri Nov 15, 2013 4:23 pm

No you didn't call him Vagnacock L0L, and yes sparks are cool in slomo...I wonder what really fast repeated sparks in slomo look like??? hmmmm
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