Holy shit, last time I looked on Milspec the RA Tech M4 CQBR was £420. That's a ridiculous price hike. I think I'll just buy a stock one now instead.
Though actually, it's still a fairly normal price on TQM:
http://www.tacticalquartermaster.co.uk/ratech-customwem4ras-p-1028.html?osCsid=a12f9d8a09cdd5f4852c6b411307fe91
And since Iain blocked me like a child instead of allowing me to talk to him, I won't be dealing with Milspec again anyway.
On a brighter note however, I have gone all gas, yeah. Well, I say all gas, I still have my G&G AK but that's only in case something breaks that I can't fix on site with the L85, or if I just want to have a more casual game and hose the shit out of everything with mid caps lol.
I use Coleman's propane and 2 full canisters of it last me about 3 game days, it starts to run out a bit towards the end of the 3rd, so I'll always take a couple with me to be on the safe side. I buy them from Go Outdoors for about £7 a bottle, I've also been using .28 Bastard BBs from Patrol Base, which are £12 for 2000 and also last me 3 game days, so on average I spend between £8 and £11 on gas and ammo per game day and most of the time the L85 performs without a hitch, used it in 4°C and it was totally fine, planning on getting some CO2 mags for the winter, all the parts seem perfectly in order.
Got some DIY mods on the bolt to stop it from deforming, I've got a spare bolt, spare nozzle, spare trigger mech, even a spare upper receiver and 3 V1 magazines, which were
all in a trade for the many many ICS L85 spares I had, so that was a very good parts swap indeed. I think I ought to be able to run it without issues for a fairly long while. My biggest fear is having to dismantle the trigger mechanism, or my mags developing leaks.
But yah (Y) S'all good in the hood. I'm actually thinking of selling my DMR since it failed so hard, and with the money I'm going to get a WE M4.