Hopped up on a Friday Night!

I spent last night playing around with the barrel and hop unit of my SR25, I figure while it's still dead I might as well do an autopsy of sorts. It was a good job I did too, I suppose, as that's how I found out the barrel had been rotated from it's proper position in the hop unit, and learned what the inside of a hop unit and barrel looks like with hop applied. I also like how the gearing on the unit is designed to prevent you from over-hopping and could be used to gauge exactly how much hop is being applied.

I'l be honest, I got a little worried when the hop nub fell out, and after a few failed attempts at rolling it back into place with a small screwdriver, I sandwiched it between the barrel window, hop rubber, and the casing of the hop unit itself and slid it all into place. Much easier than I expected, and something I probably would have found out straight away if I had looked on YouTube!

First Post! Wait, What?

This is the first post of my blog, but there will be posts before it - I will be retroactively adding those, but until then, this is the first post of my blog!

I suppose then, I should explain what I'm trying to do with it. I like airsoft, and I like the idea of one shot one kill, I like sniper rifles and DMR's and being stealthy, I like camouflage and ghillie suits. In videogames I like to play it sneaky and at range.

I also have something that doctors tell me is called essential tremor, but what it boils down to is that my hands shake all the time. Probably not the best quality for a sniper or a marksman, but that doesn't stop me trying when I go airsofting. Being 6'2" and over 300lbs it's far from easy, but I like a challenge. I'm big, I'm slow, I'm shaky and I want to be a sniper/marksman - I'm my own worst enemy!

I enjoy blogs, so I've decided to blog about my time as the shaky sniper, that is what this blog is.

I plan on blogging about any game days, airsoft rifles, equipment and anything else I think relevant to the blog. To start with, I plan on building up two rifles, a spring powered Tokyo Marui VSR 10 Pro Sniper and a Wolverine SMP powered G&G SR25 with a long field upper and a short or stubby CQB upper for use at CQB sites or as a side-arm when using the VSR as a primary, something that might not work well, but something I'll find out either way!