Oh hey, yeah I think I follow you, and one of my friends, 5150, bought one of your guns.
That gun totally sounds doable, and I bet that 2KG or better can be achieved depending on size and all that.
A lot of the weight is in small metal parts like the trigger, mag block, bolt handle, stock hop chamber, bolt cap, bolt end, muzzle end, and scope rail, so if you print those you'll be doing pretty good. Printing the receiver will help a lot unless you start with a TM or Maple Leaf gun, and a carbon outer barrel will also be good unless you have a G-spec.
As for how hard VSRs are, I bet that you probably have the basics down, and by using HPA it really simplifies things.
The main parts are receiver/outer barrel rigidity, a centered hop chamber and cylinder, and correct nozzle seating depth, and a solid cylinder lockup. Other than that, all pretty basic as there's few moving parts when using a BOLT.
As for VSR stocks, I think that the standard one is the lightest, with Maple Leaf S2 maybe beating is or being slightly heavier, but if you did a printed and even more minimal version of that style of stock you'd have something pretty good. As you've probably seen, the Japs like to cut down their stocks a few inches, and cut them at an angle, so I'd mess around with that to see if you like it beforei you go spend a bunch of time designing something.
As for playability, I think that a BOLT is probably better than a DMR if you have a trigger response limit as you can shoot like 3 RPS with a BOLT if you practice, and maybe even more if you're good.
Air efficiency is also stellar, especially at low power, so you may just stick to that.
I haven't quite reached the GBBR point that many middle aged airsofters start on, as I still sling .48g from a DMR and haven't rebuilt my sniper for a long time, but maybe one of these days I'll get around to making a bullpup chassis for my BOLT engine instead of it's current desk drawer chassis.
As for magazines, I suggest that you either use M14 or SR-25 mags as they are in .308 for those dumbass rules some fields have with snipers, and they are common, look cool, and hold lots of ammo.
I think that if you redo the stock and all that it should be rather easy, and you may even be able to do realistic mag placement.
Also, you can cut down your cylinder and push back your hop chamber by a good bit to shorten the setup, which if you're doing carbon barrels shouldn't be a problem.
I've done this with my VSR-SS that I never totally finished, but I worked well and gave me at least another 50mm of inner barrel.
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Feel free to message me here or on IG about this stuff, it's right up my alley.
That gun totally sounds doable, and I bet that 2KG or better can be achieved depending on size and all that.
A lot of the weight is in small metal parts like the trigger, mag block, bolt handle, stock hop chamber, bolt cap, bolt end, muzzle end, and scope rail, so if you print those you'll be doing pretty good. Printing the receiver will help a lot unless you start with a TM or Maple Leaf gun, and a carbon outer barrel will also be good unless you have a G-spec.
As for how hard VSRs are, I bet that you probably have the basics down, and by using HPA it really simplifies things.
The main parts are receiver/outer barrel rigidity, a centered hop chamber and cylinder, and correct nozzle seating depth, and a solid cylinder lockup. Other than that, all pretty basic as there's few moving parts when using a BOLT.
As for VSR stocks, I think that the standard one is the lightest, with Maple Leaf S2 maybe beating is or being slightly heavier, but if you did a printed and even more minimal version of that style of stock you'd have something pretty good. As you've probably seen, the Japs like to cut down their stocks a few inches, and cut them at an angle, so I'd mess around with that to see if you like it beforei you go spend a bunch of time designing something.
As for playability, I think that a BOLT is probably better than a DMR if you have a trigger response limit as you can shoot like 3 RPS with a BOLT if you practice, and maybe even more if you're good.
Air efficiency is also stellar, especially at low power, so you may just stick to that.
I haven't quite reached the GBBR point that many middle aged airsofters start on, as I still sling .48g from a DMR and haven't rebuilt my sniper for a long time, but maybe one of these days I'll get around to making a bullpup chassis for my BOLT engine instead of it's current desk drawer chassis.
As for magazines, I suggest that you either use M14 or SR-25 mags as they are in .308 for those dumbass rules some fields have with snipers, and they are common, look cool, and hold lots of ammo.
I think that if you redo the stock and all that it should be rather easy, and you may even be able to do realistic mag placement.
Also, you can cut down your cylinder and push back your hop chamber by a good bit to shorten the setup, which if you're doing carbon barrels shouldn't be a problem.
I've done this with my VSR-SS that I never totally finished, but I worked well and gave me at least another 50mm of inner barrel.
Feel free to message me here or on IG about this stuff, it's right up my alley.
