Rogerborg

Indeed, they can get soaked on the outside, and it feels weird squishing around in them, but nothing gets through.

Mmm, indeed. I don't mind honest advertising, and if it's some ex Royal Marine or similar who's actually an airsofter doing it mostly for a laugh, that's another thing. But I'm thinking of one weekend in particular that was advertised as featuring training by an ex-SAS member, then you'd camp out and listen to his riveting tales of derring do. When I asked how they'd established the identity of someone who isn't supposed to identify himself, who can't be verified, and why he would be blabbing operational details, the advertising got quietly amended to "ex military". Even at that, I'd wonder. Still, we do this for fun, and if you enjoy the experience, it's all good. Another thing to consider is asking your local site if you could rent it out on an off-day for your team, specifically to practice tactics and set-situations against the marshals. They might enjoy that as well.

A more suspicious person would wonder at a new account bigging up a retailer as their first post. Not me though, I trust everything that I read online without question.

Waterproof socks. I've just been out cycling in lashing rain wearing trainers, and my feet at the only parts still dry. eBay for "SealSkinz", "Goretex socks" and similar.

Room clearing drill: pull, throw. Frag self, get mediced, repeat. The issue I have with these courses is: who's training you, and are they training you to play airsoft against rental chavs, or to murderise insurgents up a treat (and then you get rinsed by rental chavs). I've seen a few of these advertised on Failbook, typically promoted as being run by an ex-Delta Special Ranger SAS Force Operator. When I've asked how they've established said person's bona fides to be sure that they're not just some grifting Walt, it's been crickets, blocking, or the claim suddenly alters.

Well, that, really. 0.28g or above is the best investment in any 1J+ airsoft toy.

Should be fine, the C rating is just what it can provide to the motor. It won't drive it any harder unless the 43A (30C * 1.45Ah) battery is the limiting factor, which you don't want to be the case anyway.

Incompetent leadership appointed based on nepotism and gobbing off, standing around doing nothing, what more do you want from a milsim?

Yup, ZCI or AOLS barrels offer decent value for money and will generally squeeze a little more energy out of it. Maple Leaf macaron hop rubbers work well, either 50 or 60 degree. You can use a Maple Leaf omega nub or the Gear Parts clones, some people love them, I'm not completely convinced. The stock Specna Arms hop unit itself is decent, being essentially the highly rated ZCI unit. While you have it apart, I'd put a squirt of silicone lube up the nozzle, swirl it around inside the cylinder, them give it an auto burst to blow the excess out. Just to lube the o-rings in case they've dried up a bit. Other than that, clean the barrel and hop rubber and you're good to go, you shouldn't need to touch the gearbox.

Good to hear, but actually giving them licences is in the clammy hands of the civil servants.

How do you store laptops, tablets and phones? I charge in an Explosion Containment Pie Dish, then tend to throw them in a plastic box, but that's mostly so that I can find them rather than to protect them.

PLA/bio BBs do degrade a bit over time, I had some Geoffs 0.43g that started crazing and cracking several years after being opened. However, at that mass, they can't be made primarily of PLA, and the Mystery Mass might end up being unfriendlier to Mother Gaia than ABS.

The only reason I got to read his is that you quoted it.

The sad truth. Especially those that require car travel. I used to be big into historical reenactment, but knocked it on the head when the costs of driving around the country became prohibitive for a leisure activity. Now that I'm looking at 70 mile round trips to the nearest airsoft sites, that's starting to become a consideration too, even absent the current "responsible stockpiling" of fuel going on.

Classifieds -> never keen skirmished -> shoots like a laser.

The B6 works fine, but is old tech now. The SkyRC S65 is a newer generation (it will handle Li-ion and even LiHV) and is pretty good value for money, e.g. https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/438918 You'll want an XT60-to-whatever-your-battery-has connector for it.

Ahoy and welcome. You may have picked a good time to get into it: as the weather turns, stocking situations should improve and you might find folk selling stuff on.

It seems bleedin' obvious with hindsight that said incel-mong shouldn't have had his cert back. Although taking a cert away doesn't take collectively licensed shotguns away, it just makes them illegally held. Whether it was obvious with foresight is another question, but you can't fix mong with some farcical psychobabble about hugging your inner unicorn. Fortunately, the response seems to have been fairly measured: tell Farces to apply the current system better, rather than imposing more prohibitions that will only really punish the non-mongs. Surprising, but welcome.

And another thing, if you do turn up with your Captain Sergeant-Admiral stripes on, don't expect anyone to even know what you're pretending to be, let alone care. The only rank insignia I can recognise are from Star Trek, and nothing beyond Voyager.

The most recent incident that springs to mind was that incel mong going postal with a shotgun, I infer a 3-shot pump or semi-auto on a shotgun cert. It's surprising that shotgun certificates are still "shall issue", and not much harder to get than a RIF, er, "licence". Application, monies, secure storage, "not a mong" declaration (even if you are a mong), and you can collect as many as you like.

You could at least have blurred my face.

Wow, that's some talent you've got there, being able to judge the muzzle energy of an airsoft gun by sound, or feel, or using the Force. And no, you can't tell from comparing ranges either, given the difference that BB weights and having the hop spot on make. You're not special, and if you aren't interested in playing by the same rules as everybody else, please find a different hobby.

I dithered over whether to buy another one before mentioning they were available again. Looks to be out of stock though. It's quite a lot of magazines more, and I believe it's fair bit heavier. Claimed weights are all over the place, but worst case is 3kg loaded. The joy of a plastic fantastic is that you can just strap it on (fnar fnar) and forget about it. Still, any MP5K is a good MP5K, and at the moment we have to take whatever we can get.

Just between us lot, I'm not really from the 40th century or using a laser gun. Anyone who's at a site to play with toy guns should have their expectations set firmly to silly and frivolous. If you're offended by what you see, you can have a quiet, friendly word about it, and explain your fee-fees. If the response is a shrug or hostility, then either suck it up, leave, or take it to the site if you think it crosses a line. First person to rage loses, and should find a different hobby.