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  1. Tabs as in these? Yes, still got those. They're not magical quality, I did have to take one apart (bending and then re-squishing the tabs) to pop another shim under the shaft, there was just too much inny-outy play for my comfort. Decent enough in use for the money though, a big step up from any stock motor I've had. Could be (potentially) worse. I have a Tornado where the screws on either side go into a common collar inside the shell. Metal screws going into a common metal collar. The only thing that stops it shorting out are micron-thin non-conductive washers under the screws, to keep them isolated from the plates. If you lose or damage them and don't realise that they're vital while (for example) adding a diode, it will happily short out. That was a lesson hard learned.
  2. If by wrist you mean throat, agreed. I'm still not sure if that clip is a genuine reaction. It's apparently from a Bad Boys for Life production meeting where they were going over the gnus that were going to be used. There's a cringe Hollywooded-up video version going around where they edited in another later segment to make it seem like he grabbed and cleared it rather than slapping it away. That's the shorter, more plausible version, although even that's obviously been edited between the stare and the slap. Still, kudos for even that much reaction, in a world where Alec Baldwin exist.
  3. Another victim of the airsoft curse of buying everything that you'd need to skirmish with a gnu up front, then as soon as the unboxing hit has worn off, realising that you never will. I'd assume that having test shot it, he's just realised that. Probably bought the "300fps" lie and now thinks he can sell it in to another mug. Although I think my favourite part is disclosing that the retailer has already refused a return, so you can be absolutely guaranteed that you have no possible comeback if it turns out to be a complete lemon.
  4. 200mm is sufficient for airsoft, you really don't need much barrel length to get up to UK power limits. I've seen 0.95J out of a 110mm x 6.01mm and an oops! 1.3J out of a 229mm x 6.02mm, both with M100 springs. Switching from a stock 210/215 to a tighter 200mm shouldn't effect your power much either way. I wouldn't recommend cutting barrels down, just noting that it's an option if you want to get every last mm of length out of it. There's no particular need or benefit though. I'd recommend the Big Dragon M140 from AliExpress, because I chisel every penny. They're really surprisingly decent for the price, with magnets that could pull a satellite out of orbit, although I've never sprung for anything brand-namier to compare them against. You play in 30C heat though. I'll be playing at 3C on Sunday (if I'm lucky), which is why I'd suggest 60 for UK year round use. Although as with most of airsoft, it's really a matter of sinking in more money and finding what works best for your gun at your site at your latitude, depending which direction the wind is blowing.
  5. Bloody ice, it comes over here, it lays around on our roads, contributes nothing, shouldn't ought to be allowed. Royal Enfields have character. I'm not saying that my 2008 with 1950s designed British technology made to Indian QC with ropey Indian steel is a great bike, or even a good one, but it's by far my favourite.
  6. Further complicated by going through several layers of wholesale, first to put together whole containers in the Orient, then split and distribute them in the EU or the UK. From what I've seen, it seems that even the biggest UK sellers - PatrolBase - are getting much of their stock wholesale from the EU, rather than importing directly into the UK. Exceptions may exist, like that lorry carrying a load of Specna Arms toys that got robbed out: I don't know whether it was filled at Dover or Gdańsk. The bit that really amazes me is that retail prices have stayed as low as they have. If I were a UK retailer, with stock, in the current climate, I'd be very tempted to bump prices to the moon.
  7. Omega nubs are shaped to match the curvature of the barrel and BB, so in principle apply pressure in a more helpful way. While I'm a big fan of Maple Leaf rubbers, I'm not personally so convinced about the nubs (although I am currently running some). Contrary opinions are available. All V2 gearboxed M4s use long shaft motors. PatrolBase reckon you've got a 210mm inner barrel, so I agree that you're either looking at 200mm, or a longer barrel hidden inside a suppressor. You can cut barrels down to exact sizes, but it's generally advised to re-crown them (put a conical lip in the end) - whether this actually makes much difference is another of those airsoft tenets of faith.
  8. Joules is the actual energy of the BB. This is the number that matters, for range, and impact on the target. 350fps with 0.2g = 313fps with 0.25g = 295fps with 0.28g = 227fps with 0.32g = 1.14J. And you don't have to calculate it, because any chrono sold for airsoft use that you'll buy now will allow you to select your BB weight, and will tell you the energy in Joules, as well as the fps. I am quite serious that I know the energy of my 0.32g BBs but I didn't even look at the fps number, because I don't have to as my local site chronos in Joules. Not all sites do this, as they may find it quicker to look at the fps reading on the chrono and then cross reference it on a chart or cheat sheet, rather than changing the weight setting on the chrono each time. It's really up to the site, my local sets the chrono and looks at the Joules number, some sites use a chart. But even if they use a chart, the underlying truth is that they're applying the same Joules limit for every gun.
  9. Given the way inflation is heading, even buying airsoft RIFs may be better than having cash in the bank or under the bed. At least that's what I'm intending to tell Mrs Borg.
  10. The problem that I have with playing a DMR game with <1.14J AEGs is that if you like engaging at extreme range, then you'll want to use the heaviest BBs that your budget can manage, and I'm too cheap to auto-spam anything above 0.28g. I do agree that you're really not getting much extra maximum range, let alone effective range, until you get up towards 1.8J or so. Even then you're talking maybe 10m, and if you don't have good consistency then you won't be hitting anything out there anyway.
  11. I figure that anyone who's taken the time to find and join and forum, read the VCRA and ask an honest question isn't going to be a problem for the hobby. If it can read in feet per second, it's easy enough to look up. Yes, all (decent) sites will expect you to chrono your guns before playing, and will generally tag them for the day. I'll spare you the rant on how that doesn't actually stop rogues, it's not relevant to honourable chaps. Target shooting is fun, but skirmishing is a real rush, give us a shout if you intend to go along and we'll doubtless bombard you with a list of things that you absolutely must have. (Spoiler: Decent boots and eye protection that you're prepared to test by shooting it yourself with your hottest gun and heaviest BBs)
  12. The usual technical objection that with sufficient hop up, more energy does mean more maximum range. But I agree that consistency is much more important or else you'll be lobbing BBs 5m further but hitting everything except what you're aiming at.
  13. I appreciate that, and apologise for any appearance of hostility here. Since you care enough to have read the VCRA, that's a pretty good sign that you'll be a responsible owner. So I'll confirm that legally, you are absolutely fine to purchase and possess an airsoft RIF, even in the Democratic People's Republic of Caledonia. You're not committing any offence, it's entirely on the seller, and on their tolerance for risk. Personally, I'd put that risk so low as to be completely negligible. There are airsoft retailers selling RIFs without any real defence, or openly manufacturing non-airsoft firearms then incriminating themselves on YouTube without any repercussions. A private sale of a used RIF to someone responsible with land to use it on is just not going to be an issue. So if you can find someone who wants to sell, go ahead and buy. If you want to stay clearly within the law, especially in Scotland, the other thing to be aware of is energy limits for airsoft guns. For anything capable of automatic fire, it's 1.3J using "any missile", i.e. heavy BBs, not just the light 0.2gs that the airsoft world is still obsessed with. Anything over that is, strictly speaking a Firearms Act Section 5 prohibited firearm, although I'd be astonished if anyone gets prosecuted over it. For semi or bolt, it's 2.5J. Over that you've got an air gun which needs licensing. Again, not likely to be an issue, I mention it only because I put a "500fps" (i.e. 2.32J) upgrade piston and spring into my cheap airsoft bolt action and it came out at 3.3J! Anything that you buy 2nd hand from someone who has been skirmishing with it is almost certain to be well within those legal limits, as airsoft site limits are lower. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/57A The bigger consideration is S19, which requires a reasonable excuse for any public possession of an imitation firearm (realistic or otherwise). It's a low bar, and since the same offence applies to air weapons and shotguns, target shooting on private land should be sufficient. Just be aware that it's an affirmative defence that requires proof. I'm sure you already know this, I mention it just for completeness. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/19
  14. Agreed, it's playable, and I wouldn't change the spring until you've done everything you're going to do outside of the gearbox, and shimmed and re-lubed inside it. Definitely chrono with some hop on, I've also seen slight rises when adding hop (before it reduces again). Oh, and the usual new-gnu advice, put some silicone lube up the nozzle, give it some time to seep into the o-ring while you clean out the barrel and hop rubber, then blow the lube out the nozzle before re-assembling.
  15. Beat me to it. Please, please, don't set out thinking in terms of fps. If your local site is still chronoing with 0.2g and talking in terms of fps, urgh, it's not 1999 any more. My DMR shoots at ~1.8J with 0.32g BBs, I honestly couldn't even tell you what fps that is, as I don't need to know. The first thing I'd buy is a chrono if you don't already have one. Depends on the site. My local just specifies one-in-the-air, and I've been asked once (and only once) to demonstrate that it's locked to semi. On that, you will want to lock yours to semi, as anything capable of auto and over 1.3J is a Section 5 prohibited firearm, not an airsoft gun. One easy way to do that is to file a little bit off of your selector plate so that it can't hold the cut off lever open. The downside to that is that you won't have auto available to try and clear a jam. Some folk put a screw in the receiver to stop the selector going to auto, although it's up to your site whether they'll accept anything that can be undone easily. Mosfet based solutions are available, and a cycle-completion mosfet would help to avoid partial cycle lockups, although I've never had a V2 gearbox lock up on me yet running 7.4v lipo and a decent motors, even at 1.8J. *cough* Mk12 *cough*. I agree though, with your budget and requirements, the Cyma CM.098 is the obvious choice. Robust CYMA internals, QC spring, rotary hop. I wouldn't even change the barrel at first, just the fire selector, rubber (60 or 70 degree) and nub, then change the spring to get up to whatever your site limit is. Run it with the stock 6.03mm barrel (clean it out first!) and see how you get on. If you're still hankering to splash the cash, I'd then go to barrel (ZCI or AOLS, I've never tried Prometheus, Mad Bull or other high end stuff), and maybe motor depending how "high torque" the stock one really is. SHS High / Ultra High Torque, or if you want to scrape every penny, the Big Dragon M160 from AliExpress is working well for me (and the M140s in non-DMR AEGs).
  16. There are also several retailers that will sell anything to anyone, either with a £20 premium, or just in return for a box tick. It's really not a case of whether OP can get his hands on RIFs, more about whether it's a good idea.
  17. I don't. I got too scarified by the MATHS being over 9000 in the "orbital space guns in a vacuum" thread.
  18. I do appreciate PatrolBase's (apparent) honesty about their boneyard stock - they list more details than other retailers tend to. But I agree that they're dreaming about the prices. Unless it's something that's out of stock, that you absolutely must have, I can't see why you'd bother. It's also problematical for them to sell without return, refund or warranty. Consider if you received something described as "minor handling scuffs, otherwise OK" and it turned out to be rekt beyond redemption. What do?
  19. Warranty being the big one, they'll have to eat any returns. If I were a retailer I wouldn't touch individual importation.
  20. And all for the purposes of saving maybe £10 on a £200 order of toy guns.
  21. I didn't say that it wasn't. I said that there's no age limit on the defence, which there isn't. OP has a defence for modification (not manufacture, "he modifies an imitation firearm so that it becomes a realistic imitation firearm"): he would be doing it for airsoft use. 13 or 31 doesn't matter, the defence applies, if it applies. Bun fight on that below. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Looks like he's already got IFs or RIFs, he just wants more. I'm sure we can understand that. This has always puzzled me, as the offence is committed at the point of sale. Possession is neither here nor there, and there's no defence for selling to anyone under 18. Pragmatically, it makes sense, and you could phrase it as a rental scheme with a full deposit up front. But strictly speaking once "sold" it's no longer the site's concern what happens to it as their defence would be based on their adducible knowledge and belief only at the point of sale. I reckon he already has one, if not a RIF. The defence is "for the purpose only of making the imitation firearm in question available for the organisation and holding of permitted activities for which public liability insurance is held in relation to liabilities to third parties arising from or in connection with the organisation and holding of those activities", where "permitted activities" means "airsoft skirmishing", and site membership is one of the suggested ways to adduce a defence. Site membership is not, however, part of either the 2006 Act or the 2007 amending Regulations. If OP has played at least 3 times over at least 8 weeks, then he's already demonstrated his behaviour and likely future intent to exactly the same degree as any other airsofter, membership or not. And even that's only suggestive. Membership is likely to be sufficient (but not necessarily so), but it may not be strictly necessary. I'd note that the "for the purposes of" speaks to future intent, not past behaviour. And I'd argue that having further days boked shows more intent than (for example) playing three times, getting membership, then not playing for 11 1/2 months, and buying an armoury without any further bookings just as your membership is about to expire. Agreed, and I'd say that it's even worse. The Home Secretary never put his name to the airsoft "permitted activity" by writing it into the Regulations proper. All we've got is a Home Office circular by one "Sam Hardy" a low level drone from Sector 7-G. And the bit that really bothers me is that while Border Farce / Customs choose to consider a defence as though it were a licence to import, it's not one. Since pretty much every airsoft toy is imported, some minor apparatchik could pull the plug on the whole thing tomorrow without even requiring Ministerial involvement, let alone primary legislation. Which is why for all that I'm arguing that OP could probably adduce a defence for modification, or maybe find a wizard wheeze to be sold a RIF, I'm not encouraging it. The reality is that we can't stop kids getting their hands on bbGunz4Less orange horrors plus a can of Poundland black paint. I'd just really rather that they not put temptation in their closets.
  22. The legality: Selling to a parent on the understanding that it'll be (perfectly legally) gifted to you for airsoft use arguably satisfies the letter of the legislation, so, sure, ask your site. Also, there's no age limit on the defence for modification. A 13 year old can be gifted an IF and modify it into a RIF for airsoft use. The intent: What Parliament probably intended was to keep RIFs out of the hands of under-18s, as it's an offence to sell any imitation firearm, realistic or otherwise, to someone under 18, or for someone under 18 to purchase one. However, the law is what they wrote, not what they might have written, so gifting and modification remain legal. However to the however, I'm not entirely comfortable with 13 year olds possessing RIFs, even legally, and even regular players who already own IFs and who make responsible sounds. I'm thinking of the thread on Facebook with a brass-necked lad who just openly begged strange men to buy him a RIF for airsoft use. Most folk quite rightly told him to do one, but a few "u can't tel me wut 2 do" contrarians actually clubbed together and bought him one, for no reason that I could see other than to wind up the folk who predicted it wouldn't end well. And of course, his next posts were pictures of himself posing with his new assault-style toy on his roof, and a video of him capping off mags with his mates in what was clearly a public field backing onto housing. He did eventually take them down after even his sugar daddies facepalmed.
  23. Yup, or a credit / debit card chargeback. No excuses, no costing you one penny to resolve. What you have now is a free gift, you've yet to receive what you've ordered. You don't have to be aggressive, or belligerent, just give them at most one chance to resolve it, then get your money back. Whatever you do, once you've opened a dispute, don't close it before you have either the money or what you ordered, you won't get to re-open it again.
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