Monday 6 May 2013

Sniper rifles. Their part in my downfall.

 I like sniper rifles. I have four. A TM PSG-1, a Tanaka AICS, a absolutely mentally customised and painted PDI/TM-G-Spec - currently without an inner barrel - and a Chinese knockoff of Maruzen's weird SR2; Weird looking but currently my tool of choice.

The PSG-1 was bought as  project to and when last tested managed to double tap 0.29 AGM's out at just over 400fps. The double-tap issue has never been solved. To be fair it's an overly long, creaky piece of kit that'll never see a skirmish site. The scope and bipod are pretty cool though.

The Tanaka is a beast. PDI 6.01 barrel and a new hop chamber with the bolt modified with a DIY power adjuster. Both mags have been uprated with some uprate kit I can't remember the name of. An AI type bipod rounds it of. It's heavy and despite copious amounts of tinkering completely unreliable and inconsitent. Whihc is a shame because I'd dearly like it to work.

The G-Spec now looks nothing like a G-Spec and is an Olive Drap kryloned cannon. Nothing wrong with it though, fires at around 500fps with a 0.2 although it's barrel currenly resides in the Tanaka. I've just, well, never really liked it after I'd finished it. 

The ACM SR2 is a strange looking thing but surprisingly accurate and with a bit of fiddling about with hollowing the piston out to take a bigger spring actually quite powerful. It's lightweight, short and I actually like it.

Of course, what I actually need it a stupidly upgraded TM L96 AWS...