Rogerborg

Oh, Lord, are techs actually going with "upgrade tiers", like in Call of Modern Tarkov Duty?

Well, if you want one now, I guess that's the price you'll have to pay, take it or leave it. I'd be amazed if anyone takes it, but at least he can claim to his missus that he's technically put it up for sale. Let's just hope that she doesn't find out how much it really cost.

Is a very interesting question to which I didn't come up with a great answer with I considered doing this myself, for much the same reason: most coiled cables that I looked at were intended for very low amperage applications, and thicker wiring isn't as easily available in springy coils. You could form your own coil by winding some higher rated cable around a mandrel (and a heat cycle would probably help), but a coil will add significantly more length of wire than you actually need, with resistance scaling with length. So if I were to do it now, I reckon I'd just use a straight run of mains power cable (an old kettle lead or similar) starting from my shoulder as a simple lanyard, rather than a coil. As I already use a lanyard with pistols anyway, it would just be a matter of switching from paracord to cable.

Generic M4, Section 5 prohibited firearm, lost the M90 spring, doesn't come with the parts shown, lower specced than the Edge series, £30-£60 more than full retail. But it's beige.

Dibs on derailing this thread into a blind / pre-firing handbag spat.

"You need to fully compensate me for my misfortune" is certainly a fresh twist. Mind you, so is being told that you're responsible for demonstrating that an item isn't fit for the purpose for which it's being sold. Unless said son was helicoptering the thing around by the stock, I'm not clear how it's reasonable for normal handling to snap it, or how, if it did, you wouldn't be entitled to a repair or refund. If I sat my 75kg in a demonstrator car and one of the road springs collapsed, would I be billed for the full price of the car? 🤔

Which is still 3x the ROF of a basic-bitch AEG. I'd suggest that this reveals a significant difference in players' thinking. Me, I reckon real-steel ROF of about 10rps is sufficient for airsoft use, and that if you can't hit what you're aiming at with a burst of three or four BBs, then putting ten or fifteen into the air with the same trigger pull isn't the best solution. Even if half the HPA users aren't getting a crazy ROF, then half are. It's the exceptions at the high end that concern me, no matter how few. It wouldn't, for example, be OK to say "Well, there's a sniper out there shooting 0.5g at 4 Joules, but there's only one of them."

I'm not sure to what that refers. I do like the parts of their "waiver" that spell out the expectations on the player, that's useful. What makes me chuckle is the bluff that you can waive your statutory right to sue a business over death or injury resulting from their negligence, which is explicitly voided by UCTA 1977 S2 (and equivalent Scotch legislation). It's bad faith to even try and wiggle out of it. [Shakes fist, yells at cloud]

Airsoft is particularly prone to exploitation, and even more so to the suspicion that people are in it to "win" it (what's the prize?) rather than to call hits. To be honest, when I see Team Walt at a site, I do assume "Teflon" until proven otherwise. It's not fair, but as per the CO2 ban thread (and dog breeds), after you've seen enough of it, you do start to assume the worst. I'm always delighted to find to the contrary, of course. #NotAllPitbulls

The Krytac Trident MK-II M PDW? PatrolBase claim 1.04J. A 155mm barrel should be just about sufficient: I've played with a 1J MP5K with a 110mm barrel (granted, some aftermarket shiny steel one). If you're getting much less energy than that, or are spraying and praying, then your gun is performing sub-optimally. You're not going to see hugely different results from (e.g.) 0 1.13J and a 249mm barrel.

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...