Rogerborg

Why do I get the feeling that you're under 18? Either way, you're fine, with or without supervision. He can loan or gift it to you without any issue. Ownership or possession in private has never been an offence and so doesn't need a "licence" (and he doesn't have one). Possession in public (i.e. you're on your way to or from an insured airsoft site) always needs a "reasonable excuse" (i.e. you're on your way to or from an insured airsoft site). In practice, what @EDcase said: don't let it be seen, and it won't be an issue. No larking around in the woods, or climbing on your roof for a photoshoot.

And the 2nd half of Negative Airsoft's workload are guns that have been worked on by other "tech guys". One thing about the KWA T10, I've spotted some sellers saying that they come in at "~380 - ~400 fps", which (rant about fps vs Joules aside) means they'll need to be down-sprung for UK use. Not just to come down to site limits of 1.1 - 1.2J, but legally as well, since anything capable of auto and over 1.3J ("375fps" in old money) is a Section 5 prohibited firearm, not an airsoft gun. If I were paying that much for one, I'd want to be sure that I wouldn't have to pay even more to have it re-sprung. The only reliability issues I've heard of with Tokyo Marui guns are when folk (owners or techs) meddle with them in some way, or (for the GBBs) run them on higher pressure gas than they're made for. That's not to say that you can't get a great VFC or a stinker of a TM, but TMs are Japanese made for the Japanese market, and have traditionally been the yardstick for reliability - if left alone.

Is that a "mine haven't" or "they are incapable of it"? Genuine question, I haven't so much as licked one.

We're quite friendly here, and where we disagree, it's generally respectfully, understanding that there's no single right answers. And there are few wrong answers or dumb choices either, because spending even three figures on any toy gun for playing pretend soldiers is such a daft thing to do in the first place. Whatever puts the biggest smile on your face is the right choice for you, that's the only criteria that really matters at the end of the day. I would steer clear of VFC, though. The sweary tech in that video up-thread, Luke at Negative Airsoft, seems to spend half his time sorting shagged-from-new VFCs. Lovely externals, but the internals seem to be either peaches or lemons.

They will be, until they're not. Given that the purpose is to create a dakka-dakka-dakka noise, is there any argument for doing that using devices that can and have killed people, when you could achieve the same result with an mp3 player and a speaker? If the critical immersion element is that they're creating muzzle flashes out of an open barrel, they can get sodded right off, because that's the bit that kills you when a pebble, shell sliver, wadding, or rogue live round joins the game. For context, I was at an English Civil War reenactment when a small smoothbore black powder cannon cooked off while being rammed. Poor show on the sponging, but the rammer was lucky/smart enough to be using good technique to "throw" the ramrod down it without gripping it tightly, which is why he didn't lose his hand entirely. However, the wad of grass that he was stuffing it with came out fast enough to turn his hand into cooked hamburger. Clear barrel "blank" firers are bloody dangerous, and I have no desire to be anywhere near them.

Well.... I am developing very mild tinnitus, and it's not from work or concerts. It's either from motorcycling air noise or from airsoft pyro. I almost always wear (and have almost always worn) earplugs when setting out to ride at over 40mph. Still, it could be that. Or it could be pyro. I don't wear ear protection in airsoft, but I'm coming round to think that I should. Personally I think that a .209 primer or Mk3 is sufficient indoors. If folk don't hear and take those, they're unlikely to take a 9mm or Mk5 either. That's earball overkill. And 9mm or Mk5 is all you need outdoors. Even then, a 130dB-at-1-inch Mk5 going off right by your ear outdoors will do just as much irreversible damage as if it goes off indoors. I will now tune back in to my scheduled "eeeeeeeeee" sound.

I cannot über-emphasise the importance of this. If you turn up with one high end toy with all the bells and whistles and then find that it's in a sulk, or shooting at 0.5J, you're going to have a bad day (or no day). I never bring fewer than two, and often as many as four primaries, whether as backups or loaners. If I were to have one AEG, then I'd agree with @herosharkthat (especially from your list) it would be the TM every time. Clean the barrel, then leave it alone, at least until you have a backup. Here's the thing, if you enjoy the actual process of playing airsoft, then you'll enjoy it with a £100 plastic fantastic. If you don't, then no amount of recoil or lock-on-empty will change the core airsoft experience of getting shot in the back of your head by your own "team" while you're knee deep in mud. I say this not to put you off, but hopefully to provoke some thoughts about what you want to get out of this hobby in the long term, after the first rush has worn off. I'll tell you what you won't get though, which is 90m effective range out of a 1.1J gun, no matter how trick the internals are or how big the price ticket is.

You could drop a feather and it would hit the ground at the same time, but only if your firing range is in a perfect vacuum. Be sure to double-mask so you can breathe.

Mmm, he does seem very optimistic. £120-ish worth of JG/GE G36C, abandoned, with some random spray paint on it (is that an attempt to two-tone a RIF?), plus a novelty-purposes red dot and a repro-vest. Battery has likely never been charged. A bargain at only £200, doubtless plus fees and postage.

These statement are both true, but I would stress that if you've got the backspin spot on, then more speed = more range. I'd even agree that at typical woodland engagement distances, getting the perfect angular velocity is more important than linear velocity (as long as you're getting somewhere close to 1J). And that if your hop unit and rubber can't impart perfect hop on a 1.1J BB, but can on a 0.8J BB, both with the same mass, that the 0.8J is likely to have a longer effective range. Just please let's be very careful to not make any sort of suggestion that that for 2 BBs from the same bottle, both with the same mass, and both with perfect backspin imparted, that the one with 0.8J of linear kinetic energy at the muzzle can or will ever travel as far as the one with 1.1J.

Hi Carl, we've all been there with that first game buzz. However, we've also seen the classifieds full of "as new, never skirmished" guns as folks' enthusiasm for purchasing exceeds that for playing, especially over the winter months. I'll skip the tl;dr physics-vs-airsoft-magic, and given your requirements, just point you at this. Now back to the scheduled "Buy a TM recoil" posts.

No, just count your blessings.

Oh, I'm surprised you didn't have your butler do the shooting for you.

Ackchyually, we had a good bun fight a while back about how we should be using direct measurements of impact energy, which would make the entire fps / BB mass issue moot. Sadly, I couldn't find any cheap solid state components that claim to be able to measure the sort of small (energy and size) impulses that we'd be getting with anything like the required level of precision. So then you're left with trying to hit a pendulum and measure its swing, and it all goes a bit Rube Goldberg.

I'm backing slowwwly away from one of them, I think it's a bit bitey.

Yarp. From a quick skim through it, he also seems to be saying that he got lower muzzle energy with higher gas pressure, or viewed another way, higher muzzle energy by putting a bit less puff behind it. To be honest, I didn't really watch it, I don't think there's much for us to lean here, no matter how many spherical see-saws free-falling in a vacuum get postulated.

Those faaaabulous rainbow tracers really do look pretty good, and I particularly like the side visibility on the bright muzzle flash. The bar's just been raised a bit higher there. Just a pity that it doesn't claim to light up red tracers, those are next on my list of wants.

OK, to be specific, I mean that for any given mass of BB, there's no rational argument to be made that less energy at the muzzle = more range or more energy at the target. I get that in airsoft we tend to have a limited amount of puff to impart down a limited length of barrel, and there may be cases where some mass and muzzle energy of BB goes further/hits harder than another mass and muzzle energy of BB, given the limited puff we (generally) have available. However, the context is an experiment where he had an excess of puff, enough to actually reduce muzzle energy. That's interesting to see, but not hugely relevant to us, since it doesn't really matter how we tune our muzzle energy down to the site limit, just that we can do it.

I think you may be over-thinking this a bit. It's interesting to see too much puff equalling less energy at the muzzle. That could, possibly, be relevant to airsoft, maybe. But in terms of ballistics, and energy at the target, it's just angular velocity and linear kinetic energy when the BB leaves at the muzzle that matters to that BB (and to us), not how it's imparted. Get the angular velocity (backspin) right and you'll get the straightest possible flight thanks to Saint Magnus. After imparting the perfect angular velocity, if you get the linear kinetic energy at the muzzle maximised for the site limit, you'll get the maximum possible range, and the most energy delivered to target. I'm not really sure what else there is to analyse. We know that heavier BBs will retain that energy better due to the the cube nature of air resistance versus the square of velocity. And I've been careful to talk in terms of energy, not speed, for the linear component. I'm not even sure if you're saying that it's possible to somehow get more range out of less linear energy at the muzzle - I hope not.

More pictures have just gone up on my site's site, reposting here for dopamine hits (and because the weird lighting on the last one made my face look like Red Skull). Damn, but I look so purposeful, and so expendable there. Horny xeno girls all want Guardsman-senpai to notice them.

I'd also have to note that he's only claiming 1.8J from a 2.55J spring, so the air seal is suspect. And a laser though. Has he got the only scope ever made without crosshairs? Given the minimal chance of them staying zeroed together, which one is he using for aiming? Dazzle pattern camouflage. Oh, sure, it means the other team will spot him a mile away, but they won't know what range his gun is at, or which direction it's moving (I guess they could just aim straight it it, like everybody does, at everyone, all the time). Or if he's wearing a ghillie, maybe they'll think it's a spooky ghost gun just floating along, and get too scared to shoot at him. Really though, if that tape is easy to get off, why wouldn't you take it off before listing it?

Sorry to hear that. I'm amazed you actually got a refund, I guess that's the power of PayPal. It bends my brain that stores don't realise that it's to their benefit to handle support issues as promptly as possible. In B4 "lol, just fone them m8", sure, that gets your squeaky wheel greased, but it's a piss poor way for a business to to operate. It means they have to drop whatever they were doing, look up order details, Dave has to ask Chas if he's seen it / worked on it / sent it out, everybody's tickets get delayed, and they create pissed off customers who are happy to warn other people about them.

I'm always happy to help the boys in blue convert their 5x5x5 intel to the new 3x5x2 system. Just my civic duty.