Rogerborg

But also: "1. The game is physically and mentally intense and may require extreme exertion to play." But no running. Do they make you do push-ups before respawning? Why do they call it a waiver? Tell me they don't have... "Release: I hereby release, remise and forever discharge from any claims and liabilities whatsoever without limitations that I might have against FREE FIRE ZONE Ltd. and the owners of the property on which the game is being played." It's never not funny that people actually waste their time writing that, or making you read or "agree" to it. 🙄

Fair point, Mrs Borg has fast walking trainers, and slow walking trainers, and several pairs in between. I refrain from questioning that, as she chooses to accept that I only have one black gun, and one beige one.

Not as much as we like de-railing threads about airsoft. 😜 But, yes, that. Camo doesn't do much, and I've used an MP5K as a woodland primary. Pistol-only might be more of a challenge, but folk do it.

What sort of salty water would you flush it with?

SAFETY DATA SHEET DE-IONISED WATER EYE CONTACT Immediately flush with plenty of water for up to 15 minutes. http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/416313.pdf

Yes, you can actually see the foam cells closing up. If you're having trouble mustering up a sufficiently big blast, watching some Kamui Cosplay might help.

Have you hit it with a heat gun to seal the foam? I then cheaped out and used Poundland PVA glue, which works fairly well to create a tough but flexible base.

I really, really hope you're not paying Alphabet money to have Alphabet send you roboclicks in order to persuade you to pay Alphabet more money. One warning sign would be if most of your unpaid engagement is negative or disinterested.

I could see the point of these sort of listings if there was a "make an offer" button, but at this point it feels like they're predators looking for victims.

I'd assume ignorance rather than a higher level of information on the part of insurers. But to be fair, there are a fair number of CO2 pistols that do come in super-spicy, and let's remember that the people discussing this here are very much the exception rather than the rule as far as airsoft players go. How many times have we seen new players ask "What BBs to get under 350fps?" or similar? I like to use the What Would Ex-Workmate Eddy Do? test as my litmus test for a typical player. He's never set his own hops, doesn't know what his G&G CM16 or green gas R17 are shooting at, just that they pass chrono, and has asked me over and over whether his pistol is CO2 or not (it's gas, and CO2 is a gas, right?). He's not dumb (he's actually very smart), or dishonest: he's just completely uninterested in any of these things compared to pulling the trigger. And it's not just players that are the issue. I've heard a marshal at a (defunct) site say quite openly that his job is to get players through chrono, not to stop them. I heard him telling his mates that if they loaded 0.4g then he wouldn't know any different and he could honestly say that he'd seen them come out at under 350fps. Seems like a curious form of integrity, but I doubt that it's unique. Given all that, I can see why some sites or insurers just say no on anything that's likely to run hot.

Winds me up a treat when "Chrono is open" means most of the marshal team sitting in the office bantering while the newest recruit is sent out with one unit and sometimes no real understanding of what he's doing. What I'd like to see is it being done mob handed, including scouring the safe zone to at least try and spot people who are treating it as optional. Less matey-mate-mates, more zero-tolerance, maximum-deterrence. Even at better sites, there's far too little checking at game-on to spot stuff that's been "forgotten", and as @EDcase unpalatably but correctly points out, even blanket bans are only as good as the in-game enforcement. Blanket bans are like dog breed specific legislation. Unfair, overly general, punish the decent majority, it's the owner, not the weapon (dog), and so on. But on the other hand, when a dog rips Little Timmy to bits while its owner says "Bloodslaya wouldn't hurt a fly, soft as butter" and it's a pit bull every time, eventually you spot a pattern.

I may have been a little harsh, but I would definitely echo that organically improving your communication and teamwork with people that you already play with is likely to work out very differently than trying to form or join a team that's based on principles, mottoes, patches or [shudders] winr8. I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions, but I've had some bad experiences playing against Team Teflon Walt. "Stacking" groin-to-bum seems to be the switch that engages God Mode.

We're playing pretend soldiers with toy guns. It's something that little children do, plus a budget. I've never understood the urge to take this hobby remotely seriously.

My understanding of the reasoning applied at the Depot. Q1) How many players are using CO2 pistols, Dan Wesson shell loading revolvers, and Mk23s with silencers? A1) About 1 in 10. Q2) How many players who we catch over the energy limit in-game are using CO2 pistols, Dan Wesson shell loading revolvers, and Mk23s with silencers? A2) About 9 in 10. No, that doesn't mean that 9 out of 10 of those owners are hot, just that if there are 10 boxes, and 1 of them is on fire, and you get in that box, then you're going to get hosed.

Because TMs are designed to run at under 1J for the Japanese market, so then you get into a cycle of replacing all the TM bits until eventually you end up listing your £1200 worth of random parts in the classifieds for £800 as "shoots like a laser, in theory, just can't get it to work, probably an easy fix though". All apocryphally, it's not something that I want to spend £500+ to investigate. Since I'm in a meme-mood...

It's... it's in stock, in the UK, for £300. https://www.ukfob.co.uk/Novritsch-Airsoft/SSG10/Novritsch-SSG10-A1-Airsoft-Sniper-Rifle Does a €79, er, "official" sight add over £100 to the value? Does it only work with the "official" sight? I don't know whether to pity the seller, or anyone daft enough to pay close to that much for a low-powered pre-fiddled example without warranty.

Well, here's one that I memed earlier. I've never owned a TM, so this is a mix of Reddit-level anecdote, generalised observation, and cold, cruel physics. 1) [People say] TMs don't take well to being powered up, and are generally believed by their owners to be the best out of the box guns. 2) [People find] The heaviest BB that you can hop and afford is generally the best choice. It'll pick up more energy and go further than a lighter one. 3) [I opine] Thinking and talking in terms of fps is a 1990s habit that's we should leave there, because (as we've just demonstrated) it requires qualifying with BB weight, then we have to convert to Joules anyway. Always chrono with the BBs that you actually want to use, and you might as well look at the Joules figure. I can tell you that my DMR shoots 0.32g at 1.8J, but I have no idea what fps that is, or what it would shoot 0.2g at. Those numbers simply aren't relevant. 4) [Newton says] Inside the range that your gun can shoot at, it's all about consistency which is where TMs are purported to excel. However, your maximum range is determined by muzzle energy. TMs don't actually conform to a different set of physical laws, and a 1.13J CYMA which can hop 0.3g will shoot further than yours. That doesn't mean that it will get hits, just that it could.

But temperature should play a part, as I'd want to run a softer bucking in cold weather. I run 50 (1J MP5K) and 60 degree (pretty much everything else from 1.1J to a 1.8J DMR), and was sceptical about @Skara's recommendation of 70 given the higher temperatures in Italy. However, it's airsoft and we can often be surprised, so I'll be putting a 70 into my next ak2m4 order.

Ahoy and welcome. You get a huge adrenaline hit from your first day, just stick to basic stuff until you're sure that you're going to enjoy the hobby long term. Pretty much anything that PatrolBase sell will do you OK. I'm not saying buy from there, just check out the range. CYMA, Jing Gong, Specna Arms, Double Eagle, Lancer Tactical should be fine. I'd avoid Nuprol. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/airsoft-assault-rifles-all SMGs also work, as long as they have full sized gearboxes. That means the MP5s and upwards here, not the R-4, V-61 or MAC-10. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/airsoft-electric-submachine-gun Pistols are mostly just for pose value in woodland, you'll rarely use them. I run a cheap Army Armament R17 mock-Glock green gas blowback pistol which is fun in CQB. I've tried a CYMA electric pistol: they do work all year round, but are very low powered. As above, you're limited to what you can get your hands on at the moment. Some sellers care about a defence more than others. Buying a "two tone" isn't the end of the world though.

I've seen them too, and use 50 or 60 degrees with a lot of success. I'm minded to keep an open mind though.

Wiring through the hop unit: horrifying meme or horrifying reality?

@Skara seems wedded to 70 degree. To be honest, I've not tried a 70, so I have no reason to refute it.

With 0.25g? That would be 1.07J which is pretty decent. You could eke a little more out of it. If you mean with 0.2g then that's just 0.85J and I'd try and get more out of it, first by optimising the air seal, then thinking about the spring. Er, if you know about it, why is the site continuing to let it happen, or why still play there?

That. Airsoft magical beliefs aside, maximum range is entirely dependent on muzzle energy + sufficient hop for the BB. That's not the same as effective accurate range, but that's less of an issue for you. You just need to be banging on the site energy limit, with your BBs fully hopped. I like a little lift at the end of my trajectory so that I can be sure that I'm erring on slightly over than slightly under. Also consider the possibility that you're being outranged by DMRs, or hot guns. Shouldn't happen, does happen, one local site caught a marshal hot in game.

Oh hai, I'm from the Tabletop Gamers thread, I'm appropriating this meme for the Imperium of Man.