Tommikka

How about a midget Mars bar?

I might use that as a pulling method to show off my finger skills once I can get outside in public again Lock up your wives, sisters, aunties ..... Tom’s waggling his fingers

There shipping policy states that they require UKARA to ship to the UK https://www.wgcshop.com/pages/ship-to-worldwide Advise them that due to the use of bright pink over more than 50% of the body that under the VCRA it is an IF Imitation Firearm and not a RIF Realistic Imitation Firearm and is therefore exempt from UKARA requirements. (Note that ‘two tone’ can be a misnomer as there is not a two tone in the legislation, only that painting a RIF into an IF usually just needs part of the RIF to be painted this making it two tone, plus there are lots of two tones that aren’t true IFs due to not painting enough or not using one of the designated bright colours) transparent bright red bright orange bright blue bright yellow bright green bright pink bright purple

There is a definate element of what feels right to an individual For anything more than a pistol I need to got for two hands, steadiness beating the natural single hand pointing, and practice ‘knowing’ where it will probably go With a pistol my pointing is more ‘accurate’ if I lift and shoot, if I wait around then I probably lose that initial pointing to waving around or my eyes trying to tell my brain they know where to point Im big handed, so a small gripped gun won’t work for me, and often something too light just won’t point in the right place, I need to get the ‘feel’ of how much lift I’m putting in

Use of the middle finger as a trigger finger, allowing the index finger to ‘point’ along the body might work. But doing that with a two handed gun breaks up natural pointing (Or at least it does for me) I can use my index finger as the trigger finger on a pistol and accurately point the barrel. So I’m maintaining the ‘pointing’ of the hand without literally pointing But shift that a fraction to hold with both hands and I’ve shifted my aim slightly. I might hit first time because I’m shooting at a big enough object, or fire another shot once I’ve seen the miss and adjust Being able to swap hands was something I used to practice, then I got lazy as it’s easy to get away with it in the woods. Just adjust position, expose a little more, don’t bother or swap hands and see the balls sway around in every direction Going up with the tournament guys as a photographer and joining training sessions ironed out bad habits as well as learning new skills and I gained the ability to hit a barn door first time, then be able to hit a traffic cone etc However on one of my few actual tournament appearances I was either last man standing or among the last two. I was highly abused for failing to switch hands, but instead I swayed left and right behind a bunker, flipping my gun upside down to shoot the left side. ”You can’t shoot upside down, hoppers can’t feed upwards” Well clearly they can with a force feed hopper (though only for a handfull Of shots while there is something in the stack) which was just enough for me to get away with it and stop anyone from moving forward at me I didn’t win anything, but didn’t lose, thus holding the point rather than losing or winning

Strictly speaking ‘Bindon aiming concept’ is the trademarked name by an optics company. Open or closed eye aiming has been around for much longer, and the optical illusion has been entertaining people for centuries, the same as the sausage effect when holding your fingers up There is also the other method with a pistol etc where you may be more ‘accurate’ shooting from the hip one handed due to natural pointing abilities

I’ll recommend getting a filter for the stirrup pump Something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303587840945 I’m not endorsing that seller, just an example of the type of filter required

To me it does still look like a copy of a paintball gun rather than normal airsoft as a copy of a real steel gun The only beneficial element rather than a speedsofter limiting down with lighter cut outs etc, is the curved based fibre wrap style cylinder in their shadowy teaser video With the curved base you roll it in your shoulder and with the offset of a ‘stock’ from under the grip frame you can hold the gun in front of your face for line of sight aiming (even in front of your face as your eyes look past each side - keep both eyes open and your brain combines the view from each eye giving a level of X-ray vision ‘through’ the gun and its barrel

Just a bit of a rant It grated with me that Protek are calling the Atom a profession 'marker' for SpeedSoft, @Druid799 can be forgiven for referring to paint markers, but that still grates and people keep posting on the thread waving these blatent 'marker' words in my face. 'Marker' has its origin in forestry and farming when airgun technology was brought in to shoot balls of paint. A collaboration between the Nelson Paint company and Crossman. These genuinely were designed to mark with permanent oil based paint, but were not markers - they were 'paint marking pistols', later there were mostly 'paint guns' and occasionaly 'paint marking guns' Nelsons first paintball pistol wasn't a 'marking pistol' or a 'marker' but the 'Nelspot 707 pellet pistol' and its oil based paintballs were 'marking pellets' (In the example below 'use with 007 gun' referring to another Nelspot 007 model 'gun' not 'marker') http://www.pettypb.com/707/707instructions.pdf The second paintball gun still wasn't a marker but was the 'Daisy SplotchMaker'. (Maker not marker) Only when the game begins to establish itself for franchising do we get the Survival Game company producing the first gun dedicated to the game for 'mass' production do we get the 'Survival Game Splatmaster marking pistol' As time progressed non-oil based paintballs were produced, so that they no longer permanently marked your clothing (or required you to wash stains with petrol) 'Marker' came in the late 80's and 90s as part of a drive away from Rambo southern hicks and to curry favour with TV and advertising (Including televising a tournament at Disney World) It is entirely a Politically Correct term, which only pays lip service to being politically correct with guns ho team names. In airsoft how can the Atom be a marker other than a close up BB Chipping the finish on someones mesh grill? End of rant

With eBay auctions it would mean copying every listing whenever you want to sell something, only ‘buy nows’ would last any time as a valid link whilst unsold As a matter of a seller opting to list on eBay and refer to it on here rather than classifieds the seller would be losing 10% in fess on an eBay sale rather than a fee-less classifieds sale (There are occasionaly fee-less direct links that eBay gives for people to share links) If you highlighted your eBay sale then generated a forum sale you could avoid fees by canceling on eBay, but then you attract attention getting potential strikes against your eBay account Members could post up their seller IDs and then people could look at what they are currently listing - I buy & sell random things, but as I’m not going to auctions at the moment I don’t think too many members would be interested in my suit and corset If there’s a majorly exciting find that someone spots (but don’t fancy for themselves) they can post about it somewhere appropriate

Now there is: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=airsoft&_trksid=p2380057.m4084.l1313

Correct on airguns They are low power air weapons, and therefore are firearms not replicas

There are a few threads on the general subject. New regulations are in place since January for international imports. Not just connected to Brexit and Covid disruption Any foreign seller exporting to the UK needs to register with HMRC and handle UK VAT on sales up to £135 Sales above that will be handled at customs as was normal for non EU A seller will have to deal with an admin headache if they export to the UK from now on Currently they could have to deal with grumpy customers for delayed packages They may or may not want to deal with the UK in the future Its up to you whether to wait and see, or start contacting UK retailers and see if they have what you want or will start bringing the items in via their wholesalers Buy Blitish

Not exactly for your purposes, the following is a list of approved hydro test centres. Many are dive shops, and as they test cylinders may provide fills (There will be other dive shops etc that can handle fills and may handle cylinders for testing but will operate as middle men with test centres) https://www.sita.org.uk/idest/idest_members.php

The first link has a simpler explanation of pre change VAT, duty etc, and also directs to the second has the post change details, but has more spin offs to follow depending on circumstances For the retailer if it’s over £135 then the payments are not their concern. If up to £135 then they should register and handle payments to HMRC. Exactly how they do that can depend on the circumstances of the nature of the goods and their registration with HMRC

They are set by government, it’s not whether or not HMRC want to be bothered with doing it https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-and-overseas-goods-sold-directly-to-customers-in-the-uk (Subject to specifics of whether it’s direct sale to a customer, commercial sales to a VAT registered business etc ....) Up to £135 sales = VAT to be charged at point of sale, no duty due Over £135 sales = Charges raised at the border. VAT applies, duty may apply depending on the item category and point of origin of the product / component parts

Yes - little and often is key Pressure is more important than overall capacity, and as you say ‘portability’ You won’t want to drag around a large scuba cylinder everywhere, but a smaller scuba is practical enough to take to the staging and you will be able to easily top up more often Its going to be suck it and see for a while and take a notebook to record the pressures at each fill. You can then refine your regime to see what works for you A large scuba gives more capacity but a 15 litre cylinder at 100psi is no use, the benefit of a larger capacity is the relative difference between source and destination means the source can cope for longer at maintaining as close as possible to its original capacity for longer

Theres a fill calculator linked here: https://www.scubatoys.com/paintball/scubafills2.asp However the minimum scuba size is an 80. (Which ought to be about 11 litres) So that’s not going to give you your answer But it will illustrate that ‘number of fills’ isn’t an exact science, what matters is preservation of the scuba pressure for as long as possible to enable usable fills In the calculator select ‘aluminium 80 @ 3000psi’ and ‘47ci Then run each of the 4 options of refilling when at 0, 400, 750 and 1000psi Only take the results of column one (the other two columns are to demonstrate using multiple scuba cylinders and cascade filling in stages) Every time you fill the two cylinders attempt to equalise, but you should stop as soon as possible Assuming both your scuba and playing cylinders are 3000psi cylinders, if you have an empty playing cylinder and fill to the maximum then you won’t have a 3000psi fill: You begin with 4 litres at 3000psi plus approx 1/2 litre at 0psi. You then share out that 4litres into 4.5 litres which is a larger capacity and a slightly lower pressure. Therefore you achieve zero fills of 3000psi (but the reduction is negligible and the gauge looks like it’s on 3000psi Let’s pretend it became 100psi less over the extra 1/2 litre (first fill = 2900psi You go al Rambo and suddenly find yourself at 0psi Take the scuba’s 2900, drop by 100psi and your second fill is 2800psi You have had zero 3000psi fills, but manage to get 10 fills in excess of 2000psi The first trick is to never let them equalise, only draw off as little as possible that you could get away with: For example fill the playing cylinder to no more than 2500psi, the scuba remains over 2500 for much longer so you manage to get multiple 2500 fills before the source scuba drops that low The second trick is to always top up as soon as possible. This way you are not taking out 0.5l of 2500psi. What you are ideally doing is topping up a few hundred psi at a time If you can remember mathematics then you might manage to reverse engineer the calculator and make it work for your 4 litre scuba Because it starts with an 11litre scuba there’s more capacity to maintain the pressure as it is drawing to a relatively smaller playing cylinder (22 times) In your case the scuba is about 8 times the capacity of your playing cylinder.Not a big drama as it’s pressure you’re after, but the bigger the difference in capacity the more to go around

A pressure washer lance doesn’t usually look like the Atom. But if you dismantled one then maybe it could The Atom is a stylised gun design, it’s designed to shoot things The definition of a RIF under the VCRA covers what is perceived to be a firearm.

Yes it is a RIF RIF does not mean ‘looks like a real firearm’, but ‘anybody could think it’s a firearm’ Its not in the specified colours to meet IF status In paintball a UK retailer of realistic paintball guns was visited by the Association of Chief Constables as part of a fact finding study. They stated the obvious that the realistic guns would in their opinion be RIFs, and that the retailer ought to consider the implications of the VCRA in case they returned in a formal manner. The retailer introduced a voluntary UKARA style scheme. However, less obvious to many was that they also considered every other ‘non realistic’ paintball gun in stock to be potential RIFs unless they were in the specified IF colours. The company included these in their scheme and offered non scheme alternatives. They received much criticism until they gave the above reasons, other retailers had a sharp intake of breath and twitching backsides. This has been forgotten over the years and the scheme has been lost to history. The UKPSF (recognised representarive body) have since reraised the question to the Home Office and a document sits on the internet stating that paintball either has get out clauses in that paintball guns are ‘low powered air weapons’ and skipped the more recent joules problem due to being designed for ‘frangible projectiles’ (in which case they are legally unlicenced firearms so are neither IFs nor RIFs) or aren’t firearms and fall into the VCRA. It adds that UKPSF membership ‘might’ qualify as a scheme for the VCRA defence. Lots of ‘might be’ which are untested in court. I don’t plan on my potential RIFs and highly likely RIFs to be tested in court The Atom being a speedsofter design has paintball looks and is verging to ‘ergonomic’ design rather than copying the designs based around real gun physics. Its up to a retailer whether they think the VCRA applies to their sales, and as long as people don’t act as dickheads there won’t be a court case to find out for sure You don’t need a RIF to play airsoft. But the industry arguement while the VCRA was being drafted was that players like to dress up and immerse in the game, part of which included having a degree of ‘realism’ As long as their are people dressing up, and particularly that there are sites and events catering to them, it doesn’t matter that there are others playing who don’t

Up to £135 the overseas seller is to register for UK VAT, charge for it at point of sale and pay it to HMRC Over £135 they do nothing extra, on arrival at customs you owe import VAT, import duty depending on item category and extra handling fees. The over £135 element is as per non EU sales in the past. The under £135 requirement for overseas sellers to handle VAT coincides with Brexit but was coming anyway

ParcelForce will do pickup of ParcelForce48 from my uncles cottage, and he lives in an island cottage rebuilt from his North Sea beach coming. This guy is a mentalist, he’s featured on Scottish TV a few times as a ‘pioneer’ of sustainable energy, but in fact he grew up copying the old folks who stripped down starter motors and rigged them up for wind power. It was that or no electricity. When ParcelForce are willing to provide a pickup service to him I find it hard to believe someone else can’t. Pickup costs £1.80 more than drop off at a post office - which doesn’t need a post office. For example my preferred ‘post office’ is the counter at the garage around the corner. (Pre Covid the Post Office counter was open about 22 or 23 hours a day as it’s in a 24 hour garage. They shortened the hours in Covid) Beware when a seller asks you to choose a courier, as it’s then your problem that you pick a courier that voids it’s insurance because RIFs are on their restricted / prohibited list. If the seller picks an inappropriate carrier / method then that’s their problem when it goes wrong, you pick it and that’s your problem

1) for 48ci vs 68ci as an airsofter you (probably) won’t need to exceed the capacity of a 3000psi 48ci in a single game, so rather than upgrading later to a 4500psi 68ci you can still make your money go further by getting an extra 3000psi 48ci You could have three cylinders at £40 each which make just £120 compared to a minimum of £150 for a 68ci That’s 144ci for less money then 68ci (Of course that means you are swapping cylinders at the safe zone, and assumes the site doesn’t have air fills otherwise you would just top up The real advantages of 4500psi fills fibre wrap cylinders are: 50% more air if you get a 4500psi fill (For over 3 times the cost) Modern paintball guns are efficient enough to easily shoot more paintballs then the player carries per game, airsoft bbs should be even more efficient. You only get caught out if you can’t get the fills between games and to last a day Curved base to roll in your shoulder when used fitted on gun as a stock Ergonomics of the variety of shapes and sizes of 4500s. To have it match your arm size etc when used on gun Lighter when like for like. But a standard aluminium 3000psi 48ci weighs about the same as a standard fibre wrapped 4500psi 68ci. Those who claim it is lighter are deceiving themselves. If they want lighter then they need to use a small 4500psi 48ci or an ultralight fibre which costs more like £200 Any weight saving gives a fractional advantage when used on gun, that’s lost when wearing it and being tethered to a remote line 2) moisture isn’t really a problem with HPA (unless your compressor source is unfiltered - then you’re in a world of hurt) The angle of co2 makes a difference, but 12 grams are too small to be an issue if you were using the refillable co2 cylinders (don’t do it) then it would make a difference about what way up the cylinder is. These can go liquid with sustained fire or in cold temperatures. Some early paintball guns were designed for this and worked better with liquid. But most would freeze and damage o rings You could get a ‘syphon hose’ to encourage it and ‘anti syphon’ to avoid it Turn a co2 cylinder upside down and you get liquid co2’ from the bottom, use a syphon hose fitted in the cylinder and whatever way up the cylinder was it drained liquid from the bottom Fit an anti syphon inside and that is a bent pipe. Keep the cylinder horizontal the right way up and it only draws co2 as gas from the top Remote line hoses also act as an expansion chamber and allow liquid co2 to return to gas before it gets to the gun 3) some remote line brands i would recommend off my head are Ninja, Guerilla air, Tipmann, Valken Some of these do microbores which ought to be fine and to a reliable standard, but i would always rather have ‘full bore’ and I’ve seen some Hong Kong microbores that I wouldn’t trust But beware of getting ‘pro connect type’ remote lines by mistake. These have an excellent self sealing quick disconnect valve, but are a totally different fitting to then standard nipple 4) as you’re aware of the need to vent on 12 grams with magazine replacement then that’s a call you can make. They will cost more in the long run, but as you say with bulk buying the price is cheap enough (Currently our 12 grams are sort of free as we bulk bought for an event we ran in 2014, so they have paid for themselves many times) 5) there are a couple of scuba fill adaptors about. DIN type or A clamp Its common that the A clamp is used for cascading fills from scuba to cylinder, but you would just need to confirm what’s right for your system

Fair point and I’m no fan of labour (nor conservatism) Democracy - yes, and the result was to invoke article 50 and leave. I didn’t get the result that I wanted, the majority did The real problem behind the referendum question wasn’t that it was an offer of democracy but it was a gamble by Cameron, and when it backfired he promptly quit A problem with the outcome that the majority voted for is that nobody knew what Brexit they were getting. Individually voters knew what Brexit they were voting for or against, collectively all they voted for was to invoke article 50. The politicians have produced the type of Brexit that has occurred

£135 is the magic number Up to £135 there is only VAT and no duty. So the seller gets the admin grief, the package passes customs clearance and we don’t pay the extra £8 to £20 fee to the carrier who handled the admin Over £135 and the seller doesn’t charge and prepay the VAT. Duty is due so the package gets stopped, we get a bill for 20% import VAT, x%duty and the £8 to £20 handling fee is back https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty