Rogerborg

Ahoy and welcome. Wait... are you telling each other the truth about how much the guns and gear costs? That's not how it's done! 🤯

As above, and if there's any sign of mould, dilute white vinegar spray.

Re-re-emphasised, unless your gun is already wired for a mosfet, you'll have to do a bit of soldering. Without a mosftet, the circuit is very simple, with the trigger just acting as a switch. With a mosfet, the power wires run from the mosfet to the motor, and you'll need to rewire the trigger tabs as signal wires to the mosfet, generally using thinner wiring. It's not complicated, just a few dabs of solder, but there's no avoiding it. And you'll have to open the gearbox to do it, unless you have a V3 where the trigger tabs are accessible from outside.

Well, neither can so many sellers. Who knew the "nurpol" brand was so popular?

Repeated for emphasis. With a V3 gearbox, the trigger tabs protrude outside, so you can just solder the trigger wire onto them. I fitted a Perun AB++ to a G36 V3 without opening it. You will have to do a bit of soldering though. The only zero-effort solution is to pay a tech.

Like an AAP-01? Like, an AAP-01, man. Actually the AAP-01C Shinobi. What does your AAP not do that you'd want it to do? Mine has a Maple Leaf rubber, and a [checks emails] Maple Leaf barrel as well, mostly just because I had an extra 1cm or so to play with after adding an adaptor and tracer unit (indoors) or loudener (outdoors). It's not laser beam consistent, but it rarely produces a wild shot. Given the fixed slide, a DIY TDC mod would be my next port of call: just drill, measure - oops - just measure, measure, drill, tap, and grub screw.

I mean, if they actually stand behind a warranty, and keep parts in stock, and have techs who can fix them, I can see where the markup is. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif.

I mean, that's a good reason to not play at a site. But then I'm surprised that the sites in question are apparently wanting a bolt-gun to come in at under 1.88J ("450fps") to begin with. Wait, unless... are these CQB sites? 🤔

I believe we're talking about the Ares DSR-1, which is a bolt-and-gas gun. That's a peculiar one, it'd be very much down to individual sites how they'd class that, whether it's bolt (as it has one) or DMR (because the bolt pull will be super-light - I've seen gas "bolt" guns where the bolt pull is a one-finger operation). Either way, I'd be thinking in Joules, not (0.2g) FPS, given that I have no idea how much a long barrelled gas gun would Joule creep when running heavier BBs. What gas are you running it with? Have you tried lower pressure gas?

This is simultaneously hilarious and infuriating and tragic.

Mine always seem to be a work in progress.

Flecktarn and DPM? 🤔

Don't pull the trigger lightly.

I wonder how practical it would be to do a coat of plasti-dip first, then accents on top of that. In principle, it could be peeled off, although it might be a sod to get it all off.

Future airsoft games are going to be fought from the safe zone, aren't they?

Frikkin lasers. They've been promised for decades, but have yet to appear as robust, man-portable units. Cold comfort to combatants in the field now. Shotguns are a known quantity, can be churned out cheaply in big numbers, and work in trenches and buildings too. It's what both Ukrainian and Russian troops are crying out for, and I think we should be listening to them, rather than gambling on a wunderwaffe countermeasure becoming available, let alone the decade or so it would likely take us to get it into the field.

It may turn out to be a great gun to win the last war, or three or five wars ago. But combatants in Ukraine today are crying out for shotguns, or anything shotgun-like, right down to hand-made ersatz shot rounds for 5.45mm rifled barrels. One USMC Colonel is pushing for urgent shotgun training against UAVs. We're currently procuring an L85 replacement, and the thinking seems to be like-for-like. I wonder if we should be having a radical re-evaluation of that, given the targets and threats that exist now, let alone in the next conflict.

£450, in stock, with 3 magazines. Doesn't come with the carry handle or magic Luke Juice though.

You might get lucky, I took a year off but found one of my site memberships (which is all "UKARA" is) was still accepted. If you're planning to play at the same site that issued your membership, I'd ask them if they can renew it. They might be more minded to do it if you ask on-site while playing. If the answer is no, you can still ask retailers if they'll sell to you anyway. They're in the business of selling, not of not selling. Some are sticklers, some don't really care, some even run their own completely bogus schemes. You'll find a way.

How's the trigger? My cheap Jing Gong G36C is light, sturdy and has great ergonomics. The only thing I don't like is the loooong 2-stage V3 trigger. If Novritsch has sorted that, it'll strengthen the argument for it. Dress-up wise, I switched to a STANAG magwell and run M4 mags, and often just attach a MOLLE 3 x mag-pouch to the stock, making it a grab-and-go gun. It's a shame he's not doing them in beige, because they make you invisible in a typical CQB environment.

Why would I pay for a gun to have been "repaired" - and it will doubtless need it again soon if it's actually shooting 48rps. No wonder half the mags are unused, it's probably never worked for long enough to get through them. If you have that money to spend, buy one for £450 new (or less for used but stock) and send it off to Luke at Negative to be turned into a usable wankergun, with known components.

Mmm, we've covered this a few times here. Early "bio" BBs (before my time) did seem prone to swelling and shattering, and I had some 0.43g "bio" that experienced some slight surface crazing after years in the garage. But now we're onto PLA, which under woodland conditions might degrade in centuries rather than millennia for ABS. "Bio" is mostly marketing - but at least the prices are nearer parity now, so I use PLA anyway outdoors as it works as well as ABS, and requires less adulteration with Mystery Mass as you go above 0.2g.

"Permitted activities", of which only airsoft skirmishing is listed. And we could lose that at the stroke of a pen, as it's not even regulatory, let alone statutory. Uh... so, they can't sell to you under any circumstances other than by adding £5 to the price? 🤨

Trust me, bro.