Rogerborg

With the caveat that it'll need a spring to get it up from about 1.8J to your site limit, my tl;dr answer is: This is based on 1 day's play, versus a Well MB-03 with some upgrades that I've been messing around with on and off. Pros: A numbered and indexed clicky TDC hop. All airsoft snipers should come with this. Once you dial it in for a BB weight, take a note of the setting and you can just reset it to there again. I should note that I'm bang on 8 out of 10 for 0.43g, so it should be fine for 0.45g but I can't speak to 0.48g+ "plastic". A short, smooth bolt pull. It feels lighter than it actually is (17-25kg for a 100 Newton spring), but it's a pleasure to pull. I didn't experience any struggling or fatigue all day, even while prone. A decent adjustable and crisp 90 degree trigger. A quick and simple bolt removal / spring change system, with all the tools needed stored in the gun. The bolt comes unfitted, and the box urges you to Read The Fine Manual to figure it out. It's well illustrated and very nearly written in English. Once you've done it, you'll be ranting "Why aren't all snipers like this?" Great consistency. I deliberately didn't even clean the barrel, just tweaked the hop and spring to get 2.3J with properly hopped 0.43g, and played. Once I had my scope adjusted, I was consistently hitting head sized targets (OK, heads) at 50m (airsoft estimate) and airsofter sized targets at beyond AEG range. The limiting factor was wind, and my ability to hold it steady. The bolt is ambidextrous and can be switched to lefty for Satanic sorts. It's got nice indexing on the rotation, being positively up or down, and not wanting to muddle around in the middle. The parts that matter all seem to be steel. Meh and missing: The body is a reasonable polymer, but not superb, and it's neither heavy, nor light. The barrel is floating. This may be significant for bang-guns, but it's largely pointless for airsoft, and the slight flex feels a little peculiar. It doesn't effect consistency, but neither does it isolate the handguard - resting it on an oil drum resulted in a lot of resonance. I'll probably just shim it. The lack of a cocked indicator is a little disappointing. You can just about tell from the trigger. There's apparently a double feed prevention system, but I managed to get one (1) double-feed today. There are no sling mounts as stock. You'll need to buy some QD sling mounts - there are QD holes front and rear on both sides. There's a decent long RIS rail on top, but the front and sides are m-lok, so you'll need a rail section even to add a bipod. As a Scotch, this irks me a little. The magazine well is just in front of the trigger, but feeds to the hop unit via a "feed ramp" with 20 BBs in it. This needs "primed" by inserting a mag to fill the ramp, then removing the magazine and refilling it. A little annoying, and it means the gun is never really "unloaded" unless you empty the ramp (and spill 20 BBs). In practice, you'll likely just keep it filled and it won't be an issue. Cons: The magazines are a decent capacity, holding 48 BBs each. They just fit in a pistol pouch, with a little wiggling. However, they're tricky to fill, needing to push the feed down very slightly while loading the BBs. That's also how you unload it, and it's an overly sensitive mechanism: I emptied a few mags while trying to wiggle them into pouches. The mags have to go in straight, not front-then-back as they want to do. This is explained in the Fine Manual, but you're fighting against the gun slightly. The cocking handle wants to unscrew itself from the bolt. I've seen another reviewer mention this. I've screwed it in securely, and will threadlock it. It's curious given how well everything else seems to be put together. And that's it. I can't find anything else wrong with it. Once the mags are in, it's a joy to use. As seen elsewhere here, this is what I'd hoped airsoft sniping would be like. The number of times I LOLed out loud today as I face-shot folk sticking their head out of cover would do a "OMG CHEETAR PUNISHED" YouTube channel proud. Keep all this in context, it's an airsoft toy, not precision engineering. Aftermarket parts are available, and might make it marginally more consistent or quieter. However, in a world that contains wind, rain, grass, leaves and Plastic Magnetos, I reckon it really is actually good enough for me with just a spring change.

Well, you lasted longer than I did. Buying a pistol while you're renting an AEG is pretty sensible (in airsoft terms). You'll spend far more than that on far less if you stick with airsoft, it'll work fine, and you've got something a bit different from the default Big Black Glock. I'd call that a win. Aside, the first time I played, I was a bit nervous that it would all be serious geardos and Walts playing, but there was one mad lad in a pretty decent Deadpool costume which reassured me that airsoft really is just a fun game for overgrown kids.

Memes are back on the menu, boys. Eh. 20,000 rifles, they're just putting the tip in at the moment. That Vortex optic though, I can't wait for the "need dat 4 airsoft!!!!!".

Nobody called you a scammer. Please feel free to check. I'd go with "geezer" or "chancer". "Puckish rogue", perhaps. Either way, I won't be seeing any further seethe and cope from you.

Ahoy and welcome. Challenge accepted.

Good for them. Of course, if you want to know what a gun is actually producing in game, where it matters, there's only one way to do that.

Foetal alcohol syndrome? Since you're still pretending that your interest is theatrical, I'll pretend to believe you and point you at some Facebook groups which are relevant to your claimed purpose. Student Film Maker and Actors Network UK UK Film Makers

Yup, @sjhirst's image above appears to be a true truth, see https://www.postoffice.co.uk/mail/what-can-i-send - it does warn about delays while they grasp your Glock, but should get through eventually. That's great news, it looks like we have a viable option to PF48. PF48 caps (or capped) compensation for shooty things to £100. To be honest, on the few occasions I've posted (cheap) RIFs I've just sent them by whatever courier was cheapest, marked as sporting goods, on the basis that I doubt Hermes (or "Evri" as they've rebranded) really gives a stuff what they're carrying as long as it's not dripping or ticking.

That, really. I have the typical airsofter B6 V1 and it doesn't even do internal resistance guesstimations. I'd trust your own calculation more. I mean, assuming that is a 1Ω resistor.

To be a bit more helpful (teeth firmly gritted), the quality of answer you get is determined by the information in the question. The more you can tell us about the actual make and model of what you're interested in, the better. Also, what you expect to be using them for, e.g. woodland, CQB, impression kit, sticking up a bank.

Mmm. I'd normally be all caveat emptorish, but his/her/zeir only interactions here appear to be buying and selling. I'd question the value of that, especially if ze's going to be flipping prices to the moon.

Beats me. The ones we've been pointed at appear to be more expensive than ABS or PLA. It's baffling, but... airsofters.

The thing is, despite it being a phenomenally bad idea, it wasn't actually an offence, as they did have a reasonable excuse, and could presumably prove it. Flipped arsey-versey, our budding Quentin Tarantino here is legally just fine to get his hands on a RIF (assuming 18+) but I rather hope that he doesn't.

Why imagine?

Well, shows what I know. Using a cheap and admittedly uncalibrated luggage scale, with a Silverback 100 "Newton" spring with about 4 loops cut off, I'm seeing a 17kg (166N) peak from a slow, careful pull, and nearly 25kg (245N) peak from a more realistic sharp pull. It still doesn't feel anything like that, mind, because it's a short, smooth pull. Makes me want to try a Rapax 2J+ spring which claims a lighter pull for the same boing. Out of stock at Skirmshop, of course. £21 delivered from Serbia... except if I get mugged for VAT, and the mugging to pay for the VAT mugging.

If we're going to be technically correct - the best kind of correct - chronos only measure elapsed time, then calculate fps from that. Joules is just another step down the line. Let the silicon take the strain. It seems obvious, but I've yet to see it up here. Hmm, I might start laminating them and sticking them up at chrono stations, like some sort of efficiency vigilante.

Indeed, I'm all for it. "M" ratings are intended to be helpful, but given the wide range of variables (air seal, cylinder to barrel ratio, BB mass) they're really just a relative scale, and only within a manufacturer's own range. The Silverback springs just give a single Newton value - I'd assume (by which I mean hope) that it's at the compression of a fully cocked and locked SRS or TAC-41. Even at that, with a 100N spring in mine, it doesn't feel like I'm lifting 10.2kg to pull the bolt. Hmm, that would actually be measurable though... 🤔

This is nothing personal, but we have zero self-interest in helping you. This is a forum primarily for people who use airsoft guns for their intended purpose, the one behind the defence that we enjoy, and which could be removed on Ministerial whim at any time if RIFs are abused. The very fact that you asked here rather than on a theatrical forum suggests that your intentions are not what you claim.

The great thing is, you'll then get to see some real guns up close! https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/student-filmmakers-handcuffed-by-armed-police-while-making-movie-on-streets-of-london-a4282551.html

Sadly, I rather suspect that we're going to see it relisted soon enough as "Mint condition, shoots like a laser, barely out of the box."

Or in Joules. And Silverback springs are measured in Newtons. Why can't we just all agree on a sensible value like ergs, or angstroms per femtosecond?

Maybe. But is it quicker to press a button two or three times than to look at a number, than to look at a different number, then do the finger-shuffle on a spreadsheet to find the first number? If I'd ever seen a site that had printed out just the limits for each BB weight and gun type, it would make more sense, but I've yet to see that. It's either a generic chart where they're looking up a Joules number anyway, or worse, the marshal's got something on his phone to work it out which is almost certainly slower than changing the chrono setting. Could be wrong, but it's marginal either way.

Given the currency devaluation / inflation situation, and (literally) half of China being locked in their pods at the moment, I'd only expect that to go up, sharply. They're not going to get any cheaper or more available.

Yes, it should be an M90, with a spare M120 in the box (although it may be in an opened "M90" wrapper). The M90 should be usable, and notionally an M100 should get to close to UK limits. However, it's entirely down to air seal and to some extend the BB weight you're using and whether your local sites chrono sensibly, or with 0.2g. You may be lucky and get close enough as it is, or want a 95, 100, or 105. I'd play with it first and see what it chronos at with the BBs and hop that you'll want to use, then take it from there. A cheap chronograph will save you a wasted day if you come out a bit spicy. It's easy enough to cut a spring down once you know what it's producing.

Snap. Seems fairly decent in garage testing, with a short, smooth pull. I'll also be testing next Saturday - race ya.