The SR25 After a Week!

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Sweet mother of the deity of your choice! This last week with the SR25 has been eventful.

Hooked up a battery to see how it was shooting. To start with, it was double feeding, don't know if it's the magazine or the hop unit but it was going dry fire - double feed - dry fire - double feed until I decided to try a few rapid pulls of the trigger, which it didn't like at all! Something in the gearbox locked up, including the trigger, which wouldn't budge at all when pulled.

I was expecting a quiet night shift when this happened so I separated the two receiver halves and took the lower to work to strip down the gearbox. First problem was a troublesome pistol grip screw that didn't want to come out, until I borrowed a fancy screwdriver from a guy at work.

On opening the gearbox whatever had been causing the trigger jam unjammed. Being my first time inside a v2 gearbox I had no idea what I was looking at so put everything back together.

On getting home and trying it out, it jammed again straight away. Disconnected the battery, tried to take the pistol grip off but that troublesome screw decided to just completely strip, then on demonstrating how the trigger had jammed to a friend I managed to force the trigger and think I may have snapped something as the motor doesn't turn when the trigger is pulled.

Given my plan to put in a PolarStar I'm not too concerned, I just need to get saving up!

A New Project Rifle!

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Today I ordered a G&G SR25 Sniper.

By this point I've made no progress with the VSR at all in terms of upgrades, but I've found myself wanting a semi auto rifle, something I can make quick follow-up shots with should I need to! So I'm after a an accuracy focused AEG typically classed as a DMR!

One of the problems with DMRs is that there are sites out there, looking at their websites, that don't acknowledge them. There are bolt actions and there are none bolt actions to them. Sites that do acknowledge DMRs allow them anywhere from 400 to 450 fps, with 425 fps being the average. A PolarStar, that allows for adjustable fps and provides consistent fps sounds like an ideal system for a DMR, except instead of having a big 11.1 volt LiPo in the stock, you've got a high pressure air tank hooked up instead, which you can have fitted onto a specific stock if the idea of an air hose bothers you. I understand there's a lot less tech-work involved with them too, just the occasional internal lubrication, all of which suits me just fine! I am not a tech. I'd love to be able to take the time to learn, but time is something I don't have enough of to start with.

With this in mind, I've gone specifically for the G&G SR25 solely because there is a PolarStar nozzle available for it so that I can drop in a PolarStar, r-hop it, swap out and stabilize the barrel and wind up with a nice "semi-auto sniper" to play with. PolarStar systems aren't cheap though, so it'll take time to get up and running!