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by Tom GaylordWriting as B.B. Pelletier SigAir ProForce MCX Virtus AEG right side. This report covers: Spring piston Battery basics Avalon gearbox Replacement M110 spring This gun Sights Magazine Velocity Hop Up? At what price? Discussion Summary I did a search in the blog archives and could not find another report I had written about … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 This report covers: • The spring-piston powerplant • How an AEG works • Upgrading an AEG • The problems with upgrading • How to upgrade safely When we last looked at airsoft upgrades, we talked about how the tuner has to look at the gun … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 This report covers: • Learning to work on airsoft guns • Components of airsoft guns • Parts commonality — the airsoft way • Various upgrades to components • Need for a systematic approach to upgrades This report is the beginning of the second installment of a promise … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The Tanfoglio Gold Custom Eric Grauffel pistol is a competition airsoft gun in a box! Today is the day we adjust the BAXS in the Tanfoglio Gold Custom CO2 blowback airsoft kit gun to see how it affects the gun’s ablity to group. Remember, … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 The Tanfoglio Gold Custom Eric Grauffel pistol is a competition airsoft gun in a box! Today is accuracy day for the Tanfoglio Gold Custom CO2 blowback airsoft kit gun, but it’s just the first of many tests. An airsoft gun with adjustable Hop-up, or BAXS … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier I decided to write this for those readers who indicated they were interested in airsoft to some degree. I know this is an airgun blog, and that means pellet and BB guns — not airsoft, but there are some crossovers. For example, many airsoft companies are now entering the … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 The Tanfoglio Gold Custom Eric Grauffel pistol is a competition airsoft gun in a box! Let’s look at the velocity of the Tanfoglio Gold Custom CO2 blowback airsoft kit gun. When I started the test, I discovered something unusual. The CO2 cartridge I’d loaded last week to … Read more
