Rogerborg

Yup. Full, robust V3 gearbox. With an M100 spring, 6.01mm x 110mm (off the top of my head, it might be 105mm) barrel but otherwise stock air seal components, mine is currently shooting at 0.95-0.97J (320-324 fps) and is an absolute blast to use. They're not magic. The motor really wants upgraded, the two-piece trigger has a lonnnnng pull, the hop isn't great, and the consistency is all over the place - my working theory is that the barrel isn't held in place securely enough, although as part of rewiring to the rear, I've deleted off the front fuse holder and the bracing piece that held it, so I may have done that to myself. I've never found an 11.1V that will fit in the battery tube, although you can get a small mosfet in behind a short 7.4V. But all that goes to illustrate that there are load of things that you can do with them.

Agreed. The cheap CYMAs are robust, but the plastic is very toyish. Contacts are under £5, that's not a concern in airsoft terms, but my CM.516 (Big Dragon M140 motor, M90 spring) overspins and double-shoots on semi with 11.1V. Using 0.28g+ BBs, with the hop adjusted for them? If you're lobbing site 0.2g without dialling the hop in then that's not the G36's fault.

It's a tough one. On one hand, airsoft sites are more of a weekend labour of love than a profitable full time business, and it's always tragic when landowners kick sites off after site "owners" have sunk most of their income into developing them. On the other hand, we are paying customers and there's a certain expectation of a minimum quality of service. I'd far rather that a site employ a head marshal / chief cat-wrangler who is actually good at and enjoys that role than buying a bunch of props and trinkets. On the 3rd to 6th hands, everyone's an expert in principle, but it takes a special sort of determined masochist to actually run an airsoft site, so I try not to get too judgey or mental over it. Maybe give it a 2nd rental in good weather and see if it's improved, it really does come down to the people and the mood on the day.

Maybe if owners would stop saying such great things about them... Agreed on the SMLE's, and let's hope that PatrolBase get a load of them.

I've come to believe that the tone of the day hinges on the morning brief, and more particularly who gives it. It's startling how big a difference there is between someone reluctantly mumbling meandering and mugging their way through a brief on the assumption that the day will run itself, and a no-nonsense "This is how it's going to go" brief by someone who actually enjoys herding the cool cats. Like any job, there's a very specific set of skills that makes a site run smoothly, and I think I've identified it.

Area-66 are meandering in that direction by asking people to show them "OMG cheetar cot" videos before publishing them. Ultimately their sanction is to tell clickbait drama llamas to not bother coming back, but as always with airsoft "rules", it's all down to enforcement of that, rather than "why I oughta" fist-shaking rhetoric.

Sadly, you've listed some of my pet peeves, which seem to be common at most sites. You only missed marshals hanging out in groups and InstaFacing on their phones. YouTubers and airsoft "celebrities" produce heavily edited videos showing a rather selective view of airsoft, sometimes bordering on staged or fictional. And, yes, there are generally a bunch of people who aren't massively engaged in the objectives (if they even listened to the brief), or sometimes even with playing airsoft at all. But you'll have good days and bad days. For example, the timekeeping at Biohazard today was actually pretty decent, and we did get told who'd won each game, which was nice. It really comes down to the players and marshals who show up on the day, and whether the numbers suit the site. The good days are great. It's a pity you didn't enjoy Bunker 31 as looks like an interesting site, sort of outdoor-CQB. I don't think you've got a lot of other options up there - it's quite a trip to Tazball, Viper Strike or Evolution, and I haven't played at any of them, so have no particular recommendations to give.

"Everything in my loadout is completely authentic."

That I know of. Under at morning chrono, or under when tested in play? I've never seen them test anyone during the day, and given the way morning chrono was run today, I'd wonder if even in-game chrono would be done with site 0.2g rather than taking their word on what they're shooting. I mention this because I spotted some grey BBs on the floor and I've only ever seen those in heavier weighs than the 0.25g limit. Eh, it was an OK day, I maybe just need to get my fitness level up and dump some of the pointless gear. I've become everything I mocked.

I've had better days of CQB. Taped versus no-tape teams, and I was on the taped one. Try spotting the absence of something in the dark in the 2 milliseconds it takes for them to spot your red-and-white hazard tape. Barely audible muffled, muddled briefings. 2 out of 3 tracers crapped out. Pistol mags were giving up or gassing out all day. And to end it all, a cracked nail and bruised finger through a padded glove from a speedyboi who must have teleported to get to where he was lying in wait. Maybe the eddies in the space-time continuum effected his regulator, because as we all know, HPA players never, ever nudge them up during the day even when the site is lax and laissez-faire and would never, ever catch them. [More generic grumbling and muttering] To be fair, the actual play was OK, the games all worked well enough (once people figured out what had been briefed), and it was nice to catch up with @Musica. Maybe I'm just getting too old experienced for CQB.

That take is edgier than the spud peeler that Druid had the temerity to import.

In bulk though, and selling from stock. When we're talking about items that they have to order, track and send on individually, and customers bugging them with "were gun tho m8?" on a daily basis, I expect any profit margin is soon going to get swallowed up in extra staff time.

To be very grudgingly fair, that would run you £350 in Bogging Blue from PatrolBase, and I can't see it in stock anywhere else. If you pretend the battery and BBs are worth anything, you can get the retail price to £375. To be fairer though, what's the market for someone who wants all the features of an Evolution Airsoft gnu, but in two tone? I guess it's teenage sons who want a better PC now.

Shame, but I was surprised that they ever did it. Handling custom orders on an ad-hoc basis was always going to be much more expensive for them than flogging stuff from stock.

There's a lot to be said for going for a reliable older model rather than the freshest thing on the market, whether it's toy guns, cars, or girlfriends.

I think it's fairly apparent that this answer is from someone who not English as their first language speaks. Not a criticism, but it's impossible to comply with contractual terms that can't be explained cogently by the people whose job it is to do that. What I'm not going to do is to ask a leading question about airsoft, since I want to avoid an answer of "Very sorry I am to be informing you that all gun soft airs firearm are prohibit most strictly."

Update again: <eye-roll.gif> I've asked (again) for the actual text used internally by PayPal to decide UK transactions, not for a summary, synopsis, interpretation or opinion. I'm not holding my breath.

Sorry, I have to agree that this won't particularly useful given that I'd always encourage first getting the air seal as good as possible, then changing the spring. It would certainly be interesting to see comparisons, but there are just too many variables involved, starting with individual chrono, for it to be more than a scatter plot.

Secret definitions put them on shaky footing. Contra proferentem seems to apply here: they drafted this contract, so any ambiguity in it would ultimately be decided against them. I'm flirting with their chatbot just now, let's see if I get anywhere beyond "Thank you for your query, fellow human..." UPDATE: Timed out before a response, I broke their simulated brain.

Or someone talked over it, or the marshal got distracted and missed that one point on that one day, or they've got hearing problems - something I've never heard mentioned at any brief, anywhere, ever (maybe it wasn't said loud enough). To be clear, I fully agree that all rules are only meaningful if enforced on the field. However, we live in a society that's both litigious (boo) and inclusive (yay), and "I'm sure I said..." won't satisfy either of those.

I should really get myself a tip jar.

Wouldn't it be nice though to not hear "Oh, nobody told me that", or "That wasn't covered in the briefing" ? There's another very good reason to have a tangible rules-board. When a lad got blinded at Absolute Airsoft when his chum shot him in the eye in the safe zone with a BB still in the hop, the point of contention was that "they were not told that unfired pellets had to be cleared from guns before they were brought into the safe zone".

I'm going to be contrarian and say that this is a total Chad advert. Chadvert? It's completely honest, no flim-flam, raw thirst trap for NGRS simps. Respect.

Mmm, it's a constant risk that the first or only person to answer a question might be Billy Bullshiter. I'm a serial replier (hello), but will always try to distinguish between what I've heard and what I've tried. I prefer "I don't know, but have a hug" than giving a Redditard answer just to harvest dopamine. Even within the personal-knowledge category, I'll caveat it out the wazoo with "for the specific examples that I received, when I received them" because of @ak2m4's point that last week's widget made in a batch by Genericorp, distributed in a container by Wholesellers Inc. and grabbed off the shelf by Tactical Customs Ltd may be entirely unrelated to what you'll receive next week.

They've been back and forth on it a few times, and I'm sure they have purple-haired employees who will potato-screech and ban the face off of anyone flogging so much as a toy cap gun. However, at the moment, the UK prohibition is on "(j) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories". They don't mention imitations or replicas, and airsoft guns (under 1.3J / 2.5J) are not firearms (for the purposes of the Firearms Act 1968). https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full We could ask their CS goons, and it might be interesting to see how many different answers we get. I agree with not putting "Real replica imitation firearm shooter gun" on the invoice, but "Jing Gong G36C" or similar is specific without being overt and at least gives you some options. I'd rather have something on an invoice than no invoice at all.