Rogerborg

Not to bag on your balls, but I feel compelled to mention that Luke at Negative has some... strong opinions about Valkyrie ammo. https://www.facebook.com/negativeairsoft/posts/1354545008383971

Yes, I suspect they have our card properly marked. Oh... Cartman has a sniper. Well... of course.

Those... uh.. those aren't defences for selling a RIF. But I repeat myself. Some-to-many retailers just don't care.

Well, we brought this on ourselves. And I'm already triggered!

To expand on what @Tommikkasaid, what I think[*] sites should be doing is explaining: 1) What to expect. We often see this in the form of "physical exertion" or similar. 2) What duties of care they think the players owe to ourselves and to each other, like wearing eye protection, calling hits and raising a hand, removing mags/clearing guns, and responding to "Man down / cease fire" calls. 3) Setting out the duties of care they think that the site owes to the player. I've yet to see a site really do the 3rd one, and far too many sites seem to think that they can use a waiver to avoid any responsibility with a clause about agreeing not to sue them, for anything, under any circumstances, even when they are negligent with respect to a duty of care. That's specifically prohibited in law, as referenced above and quoted below. Absolutely in the case of death or personal injury, and with a reasonableness test for loss or damage - for example, if a marshal rageflips and smashes your gun against a tree, they can't then say "Cry harder, you agreed you can't sue us for anything." We explicitly cannot waive those rights. [*] Disclaimer/waiver! This is based on a couple of days of H&S liability avoidance training several decades ago, this advice comes without warranty, including fitness for any purpose.

Er, maybe they don't know the significance. I honestly wasn't aware of it. I'm playing Glennie's Advocate a bit here, and I certainly don't think you were wrong to ask and flag it up.

Truth to tell, I've not put anything heavier than 0.32g through my 1.8J DMR because I fear that I won't be able to go back.

Male Pattern Mohawk cares not for your normie conformity to "rules".

Hmm, that's a tough one, as disclosing it punishes them for being honest. I bet they won't be the next time a potential purchaser asks.

First I lolled, then I sad. Absolute truth, and if the value for money proposition of a tracer unit is problematic, I'd question why you'd even think about night vision until you're sure that you're going to do enough night games to warrant it.

Indeed, Ukraine's corruption index of 33 puts it square among such titans of integrity as Nepal, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and Zambia. I'd reckon the chances of any donated goods getting to any "front line" without being stolen, sold, bought, diverted, re-stolen, re-sold, buried in a cache, dug up two years later and flogged in a market stall in East Elbonia are slim to none. In the spirit of total clarity that I'm trying to adopt, what I'm seeing in this initiative is folk planning to have an angry stranglewank while watching the documentary Red Dawn and fantasising that their spare radio pouch will somehow contribute to Ukrainian Ramboski sending truckloads of teen conscripts back to Mother Russia in body bags. Other ways to help are here: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/mar/05/ukraine-crisis-how-you-can-help-donating-cash-supplies Although as always, you might want to check out the accounts of any charity first to see where (they claim) the money actually goes.

Can't, mate, sent all my kit to Ukraine, mate, only Russy bots haven't, mate.

Just dropped by to farm dopamine from virtue signalling about being the respectfulmost supporter of some pretty SSketchy characters, I guess. If you do want to render some Russian conscript too terrified to pull the trigger at the sight of your Viper chest rig, I'd check out the local drop off points carefully. The one nearest to me appears to be just a rando wanting to be given military surplus, but apparently has no plan to get it to Ukraine. Bear in mind that Stephen Glennies exist.

As you prefer plain speaking, I'll be absolutely clear: if you pay someone else that much to build you a toy gun to play pretend soldiers with, you're a complete and utter mental case. Genuinely not right in the head, and probably going to end up as the subject in a page 5 regional news story involving a domestic tragedy. No caveats, no nuance, no exceptions, no apologies.

Stans. Stans everywhere.

I'm sure @andrey is an honourable man.

Seems like typical airsoft thinking of "They must be worth what they're asking, or else they couldn't ask that much." Looks like the prices are just coming down to where they should be, i.e. Raven / Nuprol / AA levels.

Well, quite. I'd have assumed the rest of it was spares-or-repairs junk after seeing that. I notice that he very carefully didn't show the mullered gear or the tappet plate. It's not like he could have been unaware of them, so (as well as the lie about the hop unit) I'd call deliberate villainy on that.

"Fully custom paint job, adds £200 all day long". Or maybe that's just "factory custom" TM hi-capas. 🤔 I would love to hear Luke's "Skylaar" take on that.

There are loads of things that it could be. The first thing that I'd check is that the spring on the front of the hop unit is still there, and pushing the hop back against the geearbox. Then I'd check that the nozzle is secured in the tappet plate, as it's easy to miss this when re-assembling. Ensure that the nozzle isn't either loose, or stuck, i.e. that it can be pushed back under spring tension, and then returns by itself, but that it can't be wiggled back and forth easily. Check that there's a good bit of puff coming out of the nozzle. Either way, unless it's the hop spring, you're going to have to go back inside the gearbox to see what's gone wrong there. Be sure to check that you've got good air seal on the piston, cylinder, cylinder head and nozzle before reassembling, but I'm sure you'll have learned that lesson.

Bump caps look like a decent solution, I might pick one up just for general work purposes anyway.

I'll always pluck this low hanging fruit.

Sure, it's required by the The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer. The lighter and cheaper the better. I don't even go as fancy as MICH 2000s, the M88 / PASTG toys are good enough for the likes of me. US $13.70 / £10.29 delivered from Ali Express on my last one.

Did Tokyo Marui assign him a waifu who flew it over and personally lubed his slide?

This is my point. What matters is what happens on site, on the day. Both in terms of what players do, and what marshals and site owners do in immediate response. I'm sticking with my view that time served, good-at-the-job door security make the best site staff. It's much the same skillset: being friendly and welcoming while spotting potential problems, sounding them out and heading them off early, and ultimately being prepared to say "End of discussion, leave now" and mean it. Back your local bouncers.