Rogerborg

Drat, erratic problems are the most annoying. Well, if it needs shaved, it needs shaved. I had similar when I put a Maple Leaf into an MP5K with a bit of a peculiar hop unit, I just nibbled a little bit off the bottom lip to sort it.

I prefer reasons why!

Let me just stop you there. No, that's it, I just wanted to stop you. If only you'd stopped there too.

(presumed, tl;dw version)

Triggered! [UPDATE] I mean... ahoy and welcome!

Thanks, that's very informative. And that's less so. Why do you think the Specna metal bodies are more robust than the G&G? Do you disagree with the above? Truth is, either one should be fine, as far as airsoft toys go. Just accept that they are very expensive toys, and not pieces of quality engineering. I'd agree that G&G have been more historically consistent, but Specnas offer more features and better value for money - if you get a good one, which you probably will now. It's always a bit of a gamble. I also agree that the plastic bodied G&G CM16s are pretty good for the price too, and it's a really nice, light but strong plastic that's likely to take a drop better than random pot metal bodies. But then they've still got dial hop units rather than rotaries and no QC spring, so again, Specna Cores (or the cheapest Edges) beat them on features. None of them are bad choices, just get whatever you fancy and enjoy it.

I also need closure on this anecdote! Sounds like the obvious stuff had already been ruled out.

That's what I've gone with now, the lighter and more breathable, the better. 1980s style sweatbands actually work very well to prevent this. Buy two or three, and wear one while you air one. We've all got our own rituals for fogging. I go with fan goggles (FMA or DIY), dual paned (DIY), and Revision anti-fog wipes. Dye i4/i5 masks with dual pane ("thermal") lenses get some love, or if nothing else works, you can try mesh, and the gold standard there is Heroshark: https://www.facebook.com/Heroshark (the chap who makes them was just posting in this thread).

I agree that consistency is what gets you effective range. But a 0.28g 1.13J BB with sufficient backspin will go further than an 0.28g 0.8J BB with sufficient backspin, because sadly BBs lack the capacity to keep believing in TM magic once they've left the barrel. However, this is a hobby, and it's all about what makes you feel good. If you do go with the TM, just stay away from marked distance target ranges, and sweary chaps on YouTube.

I do like designated medics, it really helps to keep groups together and adds a little roleplay. My best woodland day was doing sniper/medic, and mostly the latter - lots of crawling through the undergrowth to sneak a medic tag onto folks' boots.

It's a toss up whether the marshals will be able to cope with that, let alone the players.

Hmm, a different make and and model is coming in about the same energy? You're definitely not testing with 0.12? If not, you might want to check your chrono against another one. At the end of the day (well, at the start) it's the site chrono that will matter.

All the more to spent on extra pistol mags that you'll never use either.

My understanding is that EU sellers can charge VAT and duty at source, and have to do it for anything under £135. It's just that for reasons best known to themselves, aren't bothering. AliExpress sellers don't seem to have any problems with it - or at least with claiming that they're doing it, which isn't necessarily the same thing.

And we know that the laws don't make much sense when you could go and buy an airgun that looks identical with nothing more than a bit of ID, but we are where we are. We generally recommend renting for 3 games (over a period of at least 8 weeks) to get a UKARA defence, but if you don't want to wait, buying two-tone is a viable option.

As an example of how utterly fouled up firearms law is, it's actually not an offence to sell a Section 5 firearm. It's an offence to possess, purchase or acquire one though. This is the exact opposite of VCRA Section 36.

Was that me? What was I doing standing up there! Happy there we could play there, sad that we can't, happy that we're getting Depot 2.0, sad that it will never be Depot 1.0. Were you there for the day when the "last man standing" was actually hiding in the chest freezer in the kitchen? Seen at a site: Concerned Player: "Come down from there, you'll hurt yourself." Tree Wookie: "I'm a professional tree surgeon, I do this for a living." Concerned Player: "No, it's not safe, come down, it's not saaaafe." Risk averse people who choose to get hard plastic shot at their faces always confuse me.

Oof. Yes, what you've been sold there isn't an airsoft gun as it's over 1.3J and capable of full auto, which makes it by default a Section 5 go-to-jail prohibited firearm. One thing though, you are testing it with 0.2g BBs, not whatever random yellow blobs came in the box with it? I do have to ask because the top hits for it are from BBgunz4u style sites, or pre-two-toned.

Yes, that. Snap, 3 x timed, 1 x TRMR multishot, and I've mostly stopped taking them out in woodland now. The only time I ever threw a bright yellow .209 timed VTG outdoor, it landed right underneath somebody, banged, and they played on and shot me until I pointed out where it had gone off. They're just not a good solution to woodland problems.

/thread If you want something done right, do it yourself.

The tl;dr version.

That is a pickle, isn't it? I've been to sites with a strict[*] "don't touch anything that doesn't belong to you" rule, but that's a great way of ensuring that the only people picking up an item will be its owner, a marshal, or a thief - and the last two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. If there's a marshal in sight, I tend to wave them over, or pick it up and take it right to them, holding it out conspicuously. If not, it's a bit of a bind: I know that I'm not going to nick it, but if it's sitting in a place where I could, then somebody less ethical could too. Even moving something a little to a more or less conspicuous location can be a problem. I was briefly convinced that I'd had a TRMR nicked at a "leave it where it is" site, when some helpful chap had just lifted it off the floor and put it up on a shelf, exactly where I wasn't looking for it. 🙄 [*] Strict in the sense that they say it, but then a lot of sites say a lot of stuff that they don't really mean.

Then (unless they're CQB with a 0.25g limit or so) they're wasting everybody's time by chronoing at all. They're really chronoing bolt actions and HPA using 0.2g? There's actually a potential legal issue there, given the possibility for guns to Joule creep over the 1.3J / 2.5J airsoft definitions, and become section 5 firearms, or air guns. To be clear, I have no problem with that. Well, I mean, I have a problem with trusting players - again, that's just chrono theatre - but having a handy-dandy chart with weights and fps limits makes practical sense. My issue is really about how sites specify limits. When I see a site saying (e.g.) 1.2J AEG / 1.88J DMR / 2.32J bolt action, that's all I need to know to set up for that site by chronoing at home with the ammo weights that I'll be using. When they say 360fps / 450fps / 500fps, I have to go through the pointless step of converting those numbers to Joules, for no good reason at all. Worse, if they're thinking in terms of 0.2g, then it can lead to them using 0.2g for chronoing, with the aforementioned pointlessness and pitfalls.

Yowch. Opinions vary, wildly. They sell a lot of blue-and-orange tat, some of it with plastic gearboxes good only for backyard plinking. However, they also sell some of the exact same RIFs as you'll get anywhere else, and they can sometimes be cheaper. I've bought from them a couple of times, but I knew exactly what I wanted, and why, and had done the sums on it. They used to do a secret discount if you left something in your basket for 24 hours, but I didn't get offered that the last time I tried it - so went elsewhere. Their videos review by Sweaty Moobs Dom are hilarious, but not informative: they always lie about energy levels, and frequently show fps number using 0.12g BBs. There's also some risk of being sent a returned gun being resold as "new". They turn over a huge amount of stock, a lot of it flogged to nose-pickers, or drunken regret purchases. Approach with considerable caution, and don't buy anything from them that you can't also find listed at a more serious site like PatrolBase.

It's not about accuracy, or even about cheating the chrono, it's about it being the most useful number given the vast range of BB weights being used by players. Simply put, if a site says "350fps", then you'll have to convert to Joules and then back to the fps for whatever weirdo weight of BBs that you're using. Almost nobody (in woodland) will be chronoing with an actual 350fps limit, and no (woodland) site should be using 0.2g BBs at the chrono. So let's just skip that first step, and tell us the Joules number.