This. To use your used car analogy, I used to know someone who was into the car moding scene. He wasn't the max power reading wanker doing donuts in Tesco car park type and despite spending a pretty penny on project cars would always return them to normal spec when it came time to sell them on...
Tbh that sounds (no pun intended) like more of an ear pro issue. Also please tell me you're not yeeting BFGs, having taken a quake grenade to the face it's not something I'd want to experience again or see it happen to someone else
I'd take that with a huge pinch of salt, I don't think I've...
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The first question is do you have your site membership yet? If not then I'd hold off buying anything till you do so you're not stuck with a gopping two tone. Yes you can paint it later but with use it'll get scratched up making the bright colour visible.
If you do have site membership...
Is it a copy of the ASG storm grenade? If so I'd send it back for a refund. The design is notoriously unreliable and even when they do work often people don't even realise they've been hit as they're so low powered.
Spend a bit more and get a proper BFG
Your experience must be different to mine, from both personal experience and talking to other 870 owners most of what I've heard is positive.
I agree with you that when people call TM guns crap it's because they've done something silly