Welcome to the circus, matey! 
Great bunch in here, you’ll enjoy it!
Welcome mate, good to have you on board.
It’s a good idea to grab whatever you can afford at the moment, as things are gonna get pretty scarce as the new laws prevent any new arrivals of any Automatic type Rifles.
As for accuracy… Gelbasters certainly aint known for that feature!
If cans are your enemy, you can’t go wrong with the Double Bell Kar98, using just standard green gas, not sniper gas or co2 (lower fps, around 350, will have amazing accuracy)
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Welcome mate Few good family friendly fields out there if you get the itch to point it at someone.
Think Rok posted this elsewhere but I’ll second the suggestion to get a CYMA with a metal gearbox
I’ve got a couple of cyma builds coming up over the next few weeks. Also got one of mine to do (scored another one lol).
There’s a few metal cymas on my YouTube channel, but there will be more soon iN about 2 weeks depending on my time to get work and videos done, work takes priority but I try to have a video every week too.
Thanks for the warm welcome - a few mentions on CYMA - is that a brand name or a type of blaster? I had my eyes on the Golden Eagle HK416 (metal/polymer) but after talking to someone in store (wont mention where for privacy) they dont rate Golden Eagle. I’m more partial to the modern HK416 style.
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I don’t rate Golden Eagle AEGs much either. Just an opinion. 
CYMA is the name of a manufacturer who started out in the airsoft arena and branched out into gel blasters. They have a great reputation for reliability and solid builds. Not necessarily top tier, but mid to bottom tier gear.
Their metal V2 gearboxes in particular are very highly regarded… like tanks. Even their orange nylon V2s are up there for quality and toughness… for what they are.
If you’re set on a HK416 there’s not much in the way of choice… Golden Eagle or Double Bell. If you can stretch to an M4 you can’t go wrong with a full metal CYMA M416… not an H&K clone, but a damn good blaster and should just keep on choochin’.
If you are set on a HK, save your pennies and get an E&C. They only other options really that are metal are golden eagle or double bell. Both are at the price point where you might as well spend that little extra and get one that is much kinder for the out of box experience and also easy enough to repair or upgrade, compatible with many parts.
Cyma have never done one that made it to Australia, which is a big shame…
They did release a nice one with metal box etc recently but we may never see it. 
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iHobby have a good range of metal CYMA blaster’s. I’d highly recommend finding one that floats your boat
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Welcome.
If you shoot in semi it will be a bit more accurate than full auto.
Plus good quality hard gels that wont splat in the blaster helps.
I use distilled water and get very good sizings and weights.
Also weigh and size the gel balls if you want to get some sort of semi decent accuracy.
I do all the above with pistols (I don’t have a gel rifle yet) and have made some very surprising and tight groups when I use good balls and go thru the weigh/size routine.
Have some fun and let us know what you go with.
Cheers.
Thanks for tip - havnt settled on anything yet, and the more I look the more Im uncertain now about anything!
Also not 100% set on HK, but similar style. I saw that E&C have a similar design called the Daniel Defense? It looks similar to a HK. Its got a long 14" barrel - unsure if that translates to better accuracy or just extra friction?
It’s an absolute minefield of options. Definitely recommend heading to the shop for a fondle first.
As a future mental patient, I went through this very deep rabbit hole recently. If I could go back I would have gotten blasters that all had metal CYMA boxes but do not discount what ROK has to say about the E&C’s, as he is the Yoda and I’m Luke getting knocked over the head in the desert.
Na your not, just live and learn. Trial by mistake so to speak.
You would likely not like to hear the day I had. There was some very choice words.
I actually work near TEH, and visited few time recently and held some of their rifles - so i have some idea. Love the metal feel of the receivers, but the plastic barrel cover kind of moves in your hands. I think my indecisiveness stems more from being a super picky and wanting to get best bang for buck. I can always afford more, but the question I keep asking is am I willing to pay that much?
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Daniel Defence is cool for some, That is an M4, which the HK416 is sort of based on… aesthetically the only notable difference in the blaster is slightly raised top rail on the HK416.
As @Jug said, if you can head to a store and fondle some to see what you like. I am no Yoda, just a gel fanatic of many years who has failed more times than most have tried!
I may have learnt some things, but I often think I might have forgotten more about gel blasters than others know! You can’t possibly know everything- trust me I try!
I should have another CYMA metal review in the next week or two… I can’t say for sure as I am trying to get work done and some personal things sorted too. It will depend on whatever video appears easier to get done in time for next Friday!
Just make sure it’s a consensual fondle 
Don’t let wobbly nylon handguards stop you… that’s an easy fix, trust me… 
It’s pretty much something all M4 style blasters with removable handguards and delta rings do. So if you find something of really good quality everywhere else and you really like it but something’s a little wobbly, buy it and sort out the wobble.
Simples!
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I ve got gloves for that 
Somehow I have no doubt you do