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Rogerborg

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  1. There is something very satisfying about a hard-mode kill when you've put the energy in yourself. It makes it much more personal, like kick starting a motorcycle.
  2. Ahoy, you're doing something very silly. Playing pretend soldiers at your age, who'd be daft enough to spend money on that? It's ace, and I don't even have the excuse of dragging my son along. Ask away, we might even give straight answers rather than joke advice like "The Double Eagle M83A2 can be skirmishable," or "Not all P90 owners looks like sweaty neckbeard struggle-cuddlers.".
  3. It surely doesn't. The defence is specific to things that "need" a RIF, i.e. museum, theatrics, or playing pretend soldiers. However, as above, it's entirely up to sellers what they'll accept. I doubt it will ever be an issue for them. Of course, it's all an utter farce, as "Want that one" suffices (in England and Waleshire) for purchasing much more dangerous airgun firearms that look absolutely identical to the airsoft version. It's just a game with very flexible rules that aren't really enforced. Much like airsoft.
  4. Truth to tell, I've got a magwell grip myself, because I found that I kept gripping the magwell. Now that I've fitted it, I find myself never gripping the magwell. Fickle-fingers syndrome, the airsoft curse.
  5. Woodland? I wouldn't. Even with my CYMA tri-shot with fixed hops that sort-of work with 0.28g, I wouldn't. The FABARM doesn't claim to have a hop. CQB, maybe. It's very site and play dependent, and getting harder all the time as even the most basic of AEGs and pistols are more effective now.
  6. It's supposed to expire after a year. As always, it's entirely up to the seller to decide what they'll accept. You're fine to try and buy and see if a seller is willing to sell - you're not committing any offence. Importation is a lot riskier. One cheeky chappy here reckons he managed to get something through on an expired UKARA this year, but I wouldn't gamble on it personally.
  7. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100047239314030&sk=friends ??? [UPDATE] No, it's not that profile.
  8. Let he who is without excess grips cast the first meme.
  9. Funny as it was, some fresh meat might have fallen for it.
  10. Indeed, the cheeky sod. I see he has a tiny twinge of conscience at least.
  11. My CYMA CM.123 (essentially the same internals) is fine in the cold. A bit weak with the stock battery, much better even with a tiny 300mAh 35/70C (i.e. 10.5A - 21A) 7.4V lipo and no mosfet. Sounds like your battery is quite tired. It might benefit from a gearbox lube, although they're pretty fiddly to take apart, or more specifically, put back together. Some silicon lube down the "nozzle" so that it gets to the piston rings might help.
  12. Like, a collective? We like collectives. I agree with the suggestion to ask more. A lot more, and on as many fora as you can find. It's more of a case of holding out for the right buyers rather than giving them away to the first oik gagging for a proper bargain.
  13. You understand correctly. I had the paint off my two-tones straight out of the boxen, since I'd played once and had two more sessions booked, which I personally believe satisfies the "for the purposes off" future-tense intent of the VCRA more than past performance. Since you're obviously a cultured sort, I have no qualms about commending this course of action if you don't want to wait for your loicence. Stable genius, that.
  14. Then you absolutely should not duct tape a piece of beer[*] can over the cylinder cut-out because it will 100% cause your gun to explode and kill you. I've died twice from doing it. [*] You must only use Stella cans in a TM. It's still a fatal error, but at least you won't die like a poor.
  15. Actually, on reviewing some reviews, I'm now hot for the TAC-41, because: 1. It's got 41 volumes rather than 33.5 or so. This means softer springs and an easier pull for the same puff, it seems. 2. Apart from the feed ramp - which might be sorted in more recent examples - it doesn't seem to need anything doing other than a spring change. Even SRS owners seem to think it's an improvement. 3. The bolt / cylinder removal procedure for a spring change is amazingly simple, it doesn't require any disassembly at all (other than getting a tool out of the stock). 4. I can actually get it in stock, plus magazines and springs at reasonable prices. 5. Comes in beige, the best colour (although the grey might be even bester). A little more weight than I'd like, but I can just beefcake up. Any strong objections?
  16. Although I'm always a bit way of the progression from "honouring my Keltoí ancestors" -> "neo-paganist symbology" -> "a rather selective interest in mid-20th century history".
  17. That, really, you need more blow than your balls can handle. My Galaxy MP5K is pretty cracky to begin with, and a Sound Hog branded loudener directs it better, but does nothing on my properly volumed M4 or G36C.
  18. Am I right in saying that the smooth bolt pull is down to the larger cylinder volume meaning it doesn't have to be as highly sprung as VSR equivalents?
  19. I suspect most of them do to some extent, or at least the ones that get any sort of popular attention. Bold statements of fact, no matter how crazy, are always more appealing than the truth, which is usually "We don't know, this is at best a semi-informed guess" See also "my fU11y uPgR4d3d gun can shoot like a laser at 100m" versus "all airsoft guns are basically the same". An historian chum did once let slip that radio carbon dating works like this: you decide what date you want something to be, and you keep sending your sample to be dated (at different, or even the same lab) until you either get the number that you want, or you run out of budget.
  20. Heh, this takes me back to my historic reenactment stitch-counting days. That appears to be from Diodorus Siculus, a 1st century BC Greek historian writing, or rather anthologist. One of his citations was Ctesias of Cnidus, of the monopodal claims above, so that's the level of veracity we can expect. The citations I can find for that refer to Gauls, rather than Britons. All Celts though, right? This purports to be a Roman Republic coin depicting a Celt. How do we know it's a Celt? Well, it looks like a Celt. How do we know what Celts looked like? Here's a coin that looks like one (and around we go). Likewise, this is cited as a Roman copy of a Greek statue and has been dubbed "The Dying Gaul", by much the same circular reasoning. This is more interesting, it's apparently a British Iceni coin, cited as "Bury F". That's the only context I can find for it. You can read into it what you like, and those who want to wear crusty dreads doubtless will. You can find similar looking images on other coins here, which do seem superficially compelling, until you look at the other side and often see horses with their manes depicted in the same fashion. It would be curious to take such pride in an animal that you'd depict it on your coinage, but with its mane all skanky and tangled. People are going to see what they want to see though. The "hair like snakes" quote is widely attributed to Julius Caesar, but when challenged, nobody seem able to cite a source. It doesn't appear in this English translation of The Gallic Wars. The closest is this passage:
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