Rogerborg

[who?] Really, I'm very interested to see comparisons.

It almost feels like they're deliberate, doesn't it? Still, mustn't theorise, or conspire. Oh, good news, my pistol grip has now made it to the UK, so I can hopefully bin off the awful Specna grip soon. I await my door being kicked in by a firearms unit firearms declaration demand.

This is the best kind of correct, but neither Act mentions "weapons", only firearms. I'm not aware of any statutory definition of an "air weapon", low powered or otherwise. Parcel Farce have chosen to use that vague term, and that brings up the principle of contra proferentem. In a take-it-or-leave-it contract, any interpretation should go against the party that wrote it. In this case, if they use a term that isn't well defined, they shouldn't get to then narrowly define what it means in their favour. There's a lot of "shoulds" in there, mind, it's best to not gamble on nuances of law.

I'm quite intrigued as to whether these training days teach "real world" tactics, or airsoft tactics. Because real world tactics (I've watched a lot of them in Hollywood movies) mean a SWAT team bursting into a den of crashed out junkies at 3am, or a Delta Beret team bursting into a compound full of women and younglings... at 3am. That's a bit different from two teams of essentially equal players all hopped up and tickling their triggers. Absent grenades, airsoft "door kicking" means shoving some fat bloke in a plate carrier into the room to see where he gets murdered from, and then shooting the shirt out of that area. I'm not sure that "Sacrifice Porkins!" is part of any real world doctrine. However, we live to learn, and I'd be interested to know if anyone is teaching something better than that, that actually works in a game of pretend soldiers.

Limited edition.

"Low-powered air weapons", yes. "Imitations", no. "Toy guns", no. We joke around with this gun-vs-toy stuff a lot, but in this case, we should be listing as "low-powered air weapon", and nothing else.

It looks bad, it seems bad, but this is every day stuff in 2021 UK. Dibble doesn't care about property theft. Nobody got sliced up a treat, and there's no boobs involved in this story, so it's going nowhere. Some pikeys - yes, hello, Thought Police, pikeys - ripped off a lorry, as they do multiple times a night, every night, with no consequences. The RIFs will be pawned off for pennies on the pound, passed on to 13 year old drug couriers, slung under a bed, forgotten about, or just pitched in a ditch. UK stocks will remain as low as they are for a bit longer, but this too shall pass. It's not the end of the world, or even the end of airsoft.

I agree with Lozart that 25mmx25mmx7mm won't be sufficient for a helmet. Fine for direct ventilation of eyepro, but the 50mm "turbine" style blowers shift a lot more air.

Eh. We're a very soft target, but this will be a very short story, at most. The thing about RIF crimes is that generally nobody bleeds, so it doesn't lead.

A fag constantly hanging off your lip would also be de rigueur.

I imagine they got whatever would fit in a a clapped out Transit van with ROI plates.

I'd imagine it was a choice between that, or them not moving at all. Failbook suggest that there's a notorious "campsite" nearby. Since it happened a couple of days ago and is only being reported now, I fear that means that Dibble didn't get boots in there quickly enough to recover any. Probably too busy looking for people speculating on what "campsite" really means. Sadly, this might indeed catch the #ScumMedia's attention. However, I would note that it's absolutely trivial to get or create a RIF, so this isn't really going to put more into the hands of wrong 'uns. But my God it's bad news for UK stocks.

Especially around the seams, I use a hair dryer to melt it in there good and proper. That's why I've never taken to new fangled boots with textile panels, I wouldn't know what to do with them.

Not bad for me, actually quite amusing. Sad for them though, they never seemed happy, and not so funny for the young rental that one of them physically grabbed when he went off the deep end. It's a tiny minority, not really a big deal, and I certainly don't mean to make a sweeping generalisation about folk who want to do training, I'm mildly curious myself.

Sure, I've bought from them as well. If you know exactly what you want, and why, they're no worse than any other online retailer. Plus, Sweaty Dom's product videos are legendary.

Well, the simplest way to git gud at room clearing is to John Wick in while shouting "You missed, you missed, I didn't feel it, gun hit, didn't feel it, missed." My very mild concern about actually paying for training to play pretend soldiers with toys is that it might - might, not saying that it does - indicate a predilection for winning the game rather than playing the game. I'm thinking of a couple of players I've met who took it all far too seriously, and ended up flouncing or being kicked out of the hobby. All that said, I would be interested in doing such a training day, if only to see how well it really works in airsoft versus fearless rentals and pre-firing speedy bois.

The first thing I'd recommend is playing with it. Specnas are perfectly decent out of the box, and we're talking about a few metres more range, under ideal circumstances, and ignoring puffs of wind, blades of grass or random airsoft physics. They shouldn't actually need anything doing to them. The only thing I would really recommend for any new airsoft gun is cleaning the barrel and the hop rubber, as they tend to ship with a light coating of protective oil inside them. 0.25g is fine, I'd shoot through that and then go to 0.28g (or maybe even 0.30g or 0.32g) later. And again, the difference is marginal. Again, you're talking about a couple of extra metres, and at that range you're relying on your target being helpful enough to sit still and wait for the BB. If you do swap out the barrel and rubber, it's a very simple process on an M4. The video below is as good as any, although your rotary hop is a bit different. It's actually easier to get the nub out, you just push out the pin holding the tensioning arm in place, and it lifts right out. It'll be obvious when you have a look. The only thing to be careful about is losing the small parts, they like to leap into hyperspace.

You'd think, but it's super hard to find. I mean, in the sense that I didn't turn anything up in 30 seconds and got distracted by something shiny, but I'd love to read something convincing.

But did you wash your balls? Nobrich says that it's very important to wash your balls before smacking them into someone else's face.

Only because I've just had a nostalgia replay through GTA: San Andreas. (Urge to cap some Ballas with a TEC-9 intensifies)

In that context, I've seen some anecdotal suggestions that some big boots can shift damage from the ankle up to more serious knee injuries. However, we're talking rigid MX and skiing boots, and big offs and oofs, I don't think that generally applies to airsoft unless you're jumping into trenches or off of castles and such. And at that point you want parachute ankle braces anyway, and note that study didn't find any evidence of shifting the damage. "Be like unto the ninja" is a fair point (fitness thread ahoy), but accidents happen, and I consider ankle support to be fairly effective PPE for a likely injury. It is an interesting subject because while it might seem like it's just common sense (like wearing seven masks) that ankle support reduces ankle injuries, but there does appear to be a paucity of detailed or controlled studies. I won't make the sophomoric argument that "The military wouldn't use them if they didn't work!" because it's quite possible that they've never actually done the studies themselves.

I'd respectfully disagree with the flasher pervert above and say that I think my ankles have been saved a couple of times by being well supported, although I've been getting a bit (literally) slack with my lacing recently. Must bondage better. Also, I wear army surplus GoreTex lined boots not just for airsoft, but for biking, office wear, evening wear, swimsuit competitions...

Not strictly on-topic either, but I've had another AliExpress order that looks like it's not even going to make it out of Chinaland. First a stock, now an M4 pistol grip, I'm starting to think that they're blocking assault-toy related parts at source rather than letting HMRC / Border Force have all the fun. I've had plenty of fans, motors, switches and such make it through without problems in the meantime.

EFA. BBgunz4u style sites are just dodgy market stalls with a web front end. CYMAs are fine, you can upgrade that gradually and end up with something as good or better than a Nobrich product, for less. Granted, the trigger on the SSG-10 looks like a smart idea, but everything else is just somebody else's internals put together, and you can put things together, right?