Post by 2nd Bat on Mar 18, 2008 15:42:06 GMT -5
The Kar 98 from D Boys is a recent new offering for WW2 airsofters. It's shell ejecting feature although clever and kinda cool does greatly rswtrict it's capacity for use in skirmish play but I have seen it done and it does present adequate performance for someone anxious to strive for uber realism.
I have always felt that with the downsides it needed some more dramatic upsides to encourage it's use more often. Out of the box it typically shoots on par with an AEG. (Albeit somewhat inconsistently) It seemed to me if the FPS could be enhanced without increasing the bolt effort I player might really have something. In most cases the two ideas are at odds with one another.
A friend owns a tight bore barrel company (DB Custom) and he fiddled with one a bit and discovered quite to his surprise that the existing barrel is two parts. The close in barrel is fairly lose with regard to tolerance but most shockingly is only about 9 and 1/2 inches long. The extension of the barrel beyond that is nearly 8mm! Hence a great deal of potential efficiency is lost. He is experimenting with both a tightbore barrel at the original 9 1/2 inches long and a more appropriately lengthened barrel in a tightbore spec. Either way he is confident the performance will be greatly enhnaced. To the point that the gun should be tunable to a top performer at the edges of acceptability for bolt action rifles. (500 plus FPS) The bolt effort should remain the same.
If the gun could be customized to shoot performance BBs in a heavier weight it could be quite skirmishable and a force to be reconned with. I keep you posted on the results of his efforts. Sadly it is a somewhat challenging rifle to switch barrel on. Once he's figured it out someone should offer an upgrade package for this weapon. I'd love to see more of them fielded in WW2 games especially now that the all wood version is available. This would of course put it close to the price range of the Tanaka but offer comparable performance without the use of gas which is quite limiting. (Especially in the cold weather) One will still have to deal with the ejecting shells but there are folks approaching methods to reduce those costs as well.
I have always felt that with the downsides it needed some more dramatic upsides to encourage it's use more often. Out of the box it typically shoots on par with an AEG. (Albeit somewhat inconsistently) It seemed to me if the FPS could be enhanced without increasing the bolt effort I player might really have something. In most cases the two ideas are at odds with one another.
A friend owns a tight bore barrel company (DB Custom) and he fiddled with one a bit and discovered quite to his surprise that the existing barrel is two parts. The close in barrel is fairly lose with regard to tolerance but most shockingly is only about 9 and 1/2 inches long. The extension of the barrel beyond that is nearly 8mm! Hence a great deal of potential efficiency is lost. He is experimenting with both a tightbore barrel at the original 9 1/2 inches long and a more appropriately lengthened barrel in a tightbore spec. Either way he is confident the performance will be greatly enhnaced. To the point that the gun should be tunable to a top performer at the edges of acceptability for bolt action rifles. (500 plus FPS) The bolt effort should remain the same.
If the gun could be customized to shoot performance BBs in a heavier weight it could be quite skirmishable and a force to be reconned with. I keep you posted on the results of his efforts. Sadly it is a somewhat challenging rifle to switch barrel on. Once he's figured it out someone should offer an upgrade package for this weapon. I'd love to see more of them fielded in WW2 games especially now that the all wood version is available. This would of course put it close to the price range of the Tanaka but offer comparable performance without the use of gas which is quite limiting. (Especially in the cold weather) One will still have to deal with the ejecting shells but there are folks approaching methods to reduce those costs as well.
