Rogerborg

Not all of us, with respect. This opinion is also available. The people issuing the laws, diktats, rules and guidelines, clearly, demonstrably, don't believe that they're necessary. Their actions give the lie to their words, and I mean all of them, all politicians of all parties, all meedja talking heads of all channels, all podiumed scienticians: everybody that we see lecturing us on our Telescreens every day puts on a performance, whips the mask off the moment they think the cameras have stopped rolling, then gets their mistress round to nosh them off at a cheesy wine party. We are to do as they say, not as they do. Long term, we should be clear that SARS-COV-2 being endemic means we're all going to get the coofs, multiple times, no matter how much we mask, wash, clap and jab. Blaming each other for something that is inevitable won't really achieve much except for keeping us perpetually angry, suspicious and weaponised against (REQUIRED_JABS - 1) refuseniks. On jabs, vaccination now is likely as good as it's ever going to get in combination of coverage and efficacy. Coronaviruses mutate faster than we can keep up, and vaccines are always going to be multiple variants behind. Israel, Gibraltar, Malta, all past their third doses and onto their fourth, all with transmission still through the roof, and with waning efficacy against omicron. The ONS are reporting, quietly, without a headline summary, that the more jabs you've had, the more likely any covid diagnosis will be for omicron than for a previous variant (table 1b). Please note that I'm being careful with the wording there, I'm not saying anything that I'm not saying. In terms of how bad it is, raw "cases" are numberwang, and driven by testing rather than rising positive rates. If I were to tell you that there are 2 billion bacteria on your toilet seat, it's because I looked for them. There were 2 billion yesterday, and the only thing that's changed today is that you know, and might be worried about it. Looking at the daily hospital numbers for England, the number of beds occupied by people who have tested positive for SARS-COV-2 is rising. However, deaths are not rising, either with or from, and significantly, mechanical ventilation number have barely budged since October. Yes, bad cases of delta are very very bad, and it's genuinely harrowing for the ICU staff dealing with it. If we could eliminate SAR-COV-2 tomorrow, I'd be delighted. The bad news is that we cant, but the good news is that the numbers that matter, deaths and suffering, aren't anywhere near as bad as the "cases" headlines. If we accept the argument that we have to mask, jab, isolate, jab, distance, jab and jab in order primarily to Save Our NHS from winter pressure, then I cannot see any reason why this won't apply every winter. Our NHS is three weeks from collapse, always has been, and always will be. So I'd suggest that whatever happens this year isn't just for this Christmas, it's for every Christmas to come, forever. I'll respect differing opinions, but I'll respect them a lot more if they're your own independent thoughts, and come with some up-to-date source citations.

Plenty of fine pairs on display on the 32 - 38 range.

Quite right, you wouldn't whip your Glock out at the local Club Chlamydia. Good point about the dick-rule covering this issue, and it all being down to proactive, constructive marshalling. One thing I'd pick up on is the belief that it's OK to flip the wankergun-switch to punish an OMG CHEETAR. It doesn't solve the underlying problem. I'm not saying that it's not funny and satisfying to do so, just be honest about why you're doing it. You're only making the situation worse by escalating it. On the ultimate sanction, I'd like to see a lot more players getting hoofed right out of the hobby, whether it's for persistent cheating, cheat calling, or wanker-gunning. I'd be willing to bet that regularly inviting the most toxic player of the day to not come back would pay off in terms of the potential players that get silently lost because of them. Hard to quantify though.

I can generally find the fill valve, but where's the winding wheel? Behind the knee?

Still, props for the fairly detailed description, and for only mugging people off face-to-face rather than remotely.

My problem with airsoft remains the number of people who are not there primarily to play airsoft. If they were, they wouldn't have to be nagged, cajoled and herded out of the safe zone game after game after game. Whether it's socialising, geardo-peacocking, clowning for an audience, or whatever other reason, I generally have a better day hanging out with enthusiastic rentals or new players keen to know what they ought to be doing, rather than regulars who have firmly fixed ideas which can often vary wildly from the briefing that they've just talked over.

More-what-you-call-guidelines-than-actual-rules?

What happens to the "suppressing fiiiiiiire" types who run dry in the first hour? Game by game / scenario by scenario, yes, I've seen that work well at a filmsim. But the reality is that it requires buy-in and trust from all the players. You can't in practice stop people from trousering a high-cap or six if they want to. The same applies to muzzle energy, mind.

Airsoft technology is weird, I was if anything slightly up on Sunday at 2C.

Fair summary. Since Luke at Negative has just lampshaded the issue, I'll confirm that my Specna is super fussy about magazines, and no, the Reddit "juts chaenge teh MAGA zine catch!!1!" solution isn't going to cut it. There's something very fussy about the hop alignment, feed tube length, or gearbox shell dimensions stopping most mid cap magazines from feeding well. I thought it was just mine, but apparently they all do that. On that basis alone, I can't whole-heartedly recommend Specnas at this point, as it's the sort of thing that sounds like a minor inconvenience, but is actually really annoying in practice.

Since we're well off topic now, I heard a player-marshal grumbling after a game that he'd "hit someone, and the cheeky cnut had put his hand up, then ducked back into cover." I kindly let him know that the cheeky cnut was in fact waving cheerily at him because his BBs were dropping about 3m short. Perhaps ill advised, but he was already convinced that he was hitting me and would have been salty anyway, so I might as well have fun with it.

+1 to him being honest to begin with, then realising that he's got your money and the RIF, and that he might end up with both if he just does nothing. Well, you did the right thing, although I agree that I wouldn't have left it that long. It's harsh on sellers and senders at the moment, but ultimately you just have to mash that "Refund, now" button, and the sooner you do it, the sooner you're back where you started. And 1000% on never, ever cancelling a refund claim.

You'd think, but really, they don't know, and they don't care. It's too nuanced an offence. Look at Eagle6, they literally incriminate themselves with evidence that they're manufacturing Section 5 firearms on YouTube, without any concern or consequences. It's up to sites whether they welcome Señor Spamsalot. I'll single out Biohazard Airsoft for praise on this one: they're a CQB site, run three-shots-pause, three-shots-pause, and the marshals are all over it. The local woodland sites, not so great. It's more "Hur hur, c0ol gnu, m8" than having a quiet word about short, controlled bursts. Ultimately, it all comes down to the marshals. I have a concern that, like with politicians, the job should go to people who don't want to do it.

Great to hear it, and yes, gloves are de rigueur for CQB. Torch, yes, tracers, hell yes. Sorry to hear that Bristol Airsoft is closing, it looks like an amazing site. One thing though, you get a huge adrenaline hit off of the first few days and it's easy to blow thousa- I mean, hundreds. And that's how we end up with a classified section full of "used once, not for me" cupboard queens. I'd give it a few months to see if it's true love. I had another decent day at Area-66 yesterday. It's a site that's just as big as it needs to be, well developed, with a mostly decent playerbase. I'd prefer the marshals to be a bit more marshally and a bit less matey with the usual scamps and scallywags. Still, no real problems, good natured hijinks all round. My DMR crapped out after lunch, so it was MP5K-and-charge. Tuckered out today, mind.

Decent human being + low ROF gun = ✔️ Decent human being + high ROF gun = ✔️ Nobber + low ROF gun = ✔️ Nobber + high ROF gun = ❌ They shamble among us. Yesterday was a constant litany of "No full auto into the buildings!", over and over and over. Some people just can't be told, and sites aren't going to kick them out, no matter how often they threaten to do so. I'd rather that temptation was never put in their paws in the first place.

vvv That. And different chemistries means you can't really compare like for like. Notionally an 8.4V NiMH should spin a no-load motor a little faster than a 7.4V LiPo, but those aren't the voltages that you'll actually see. Most chargers will take a lipo up to a reliable 3.7V per cell i.e. 8.4V for a 2-cell rather than 7.4V. A NiMH "8.4V" pack is 7 x 1.2V cells in series but chargers don't know that. All they can do is to stuff charge in until the battery resistance spikes / the charging current drops, which might be at any point depending on the worst cell in the pack. So much for voltage. The lithium cell will also be able to deliver more power, and will deliver it more consistently as it discharges, which will let your motor pull the spring as fast as it's able to. They both work, I'm not saying that you must get lithium based cells, but I prefer them.

Ahoy and welcome back. There does seem to be a bug that bites after 10 years or so, great to hear that you're still enjoying it.

We call them wanker guns for a reason. Anything over 20rps and you're playing a different game from the rest of us, whether you get there via HPA, DSG or a 40-Mike.

I don't, it's just another grift. Remember the lad on Facebook who begged his way to a bunch of RIFs then started posting some very ill advised pictures and videos. You don't value what you haven't earned.

The Galaxy also uses Jing Gong - or very nearly Jing Gong - hop units. I'm not sure who cloned who, or if Galaxy is just a JG brand.

For pins I've switched to Clevis pins. M6 x 35mm, e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323993239805

Haha, what? I was only joking, that's a crazy thing to say! We should talk.

That's actually a very sensible suggestion which I avoided suggesting because it's too sensible for what's essentially a very silly hobby.

You might be surprised. Green gas can be problematic in winter, but if you're shooting on your own land, and can keep the gas and mags stored at room temperature, you might be fine with it, and blowback guns are great fun. So given your requirements I'm going to do something a bit unusual and point at a site that I normally wouldn't recommend. https://www.onlybbguns.co.uk/pre-order-army-17-series-gas-blowback-pistol-polymer-body-and-slide-r17-5 I have the equivalent AA R17 with a metal slide, but a lighter plastic slide actually makes more sense for a green gas gun over winter (and the Glock should be polymer anyway). It's a surprisingly decent pistol for the money, and takes Toyko Marui compatible magazines (e.g. WE G17 mags) and TM parts if you ever wanted to throw more money at it. Comes in a deal with some gas and BBs as well. https://www.onlybbguns.co.uk/army-17-series-gas-blowback-pistol-polymer-body-black-with-ares-0-25g-4000-1kilo-bb-s-with-gun-pouch-green-gas-bundle-deal Right, that out of the way, I've just stripped and lubed my PT92 properly, and I'm off back out to the garage to see what it can do. Then I might try throwing a cut down AEG spring into it... [SEEN] Huh, that is actually surprising. With the barrel and hop cleaned - and there is actually a fixed hop - and the piston head silicon greased rather than just a quick squirt of lube, I'm actually seeing a pretty consistent 0.49J / 230fps with 0.2g, and the grouping isn't awful either at garage ranges. I only bought the thing out of pity in a going-out-of-business sale at the local ned armoury, but I'm almost tempted to actually run it on site just for laughs.