Rogerborg

OMG CHEETARS PUNASHED!

Yup, definitely stealing that one. I had the usual day at Biohazard CQB. Fun, fast paced, constant action. But too many players for the site, and muddled briefings rattled out quickly in a room with bad acoustics. Infuriatingly long breaks between games, with no cattle-prodding of the slackers. So, just like every other site, really. The actual play was mostly good natured, very few whangers, solid play from the rentals, it'll do until Depot 2.0 gets going. MP5K and R17 both behaved well, some rebellion from the Specna Arms SA-E02 set up for CQB, which resolutely refused to apply any hop even after trying a selection of rubbers and nubs at lunch. I didn't push the spacer ring between the barrel and hop unit, I wonder if that gave the barrel too much vertical play.

See also YouChoob "celebrities" and "professionals". This used to happen all the time in reenactment as well. Local single-group events were great fun, and carefully run. Big multi-group events tended to become shitshows, with an escalating level of "Well, if you're playing by your own rules, then so am I." Not always, some of them were very well thought through and run, and you could generally tell beforehand which ones they were going to be, and which were going to be wing-it-and-hope whangfests. I know which one this event looked like up front.

I think the big-brain genius is talking about trying to smuggle a RIF back hidden in his car, without a defence, and just hoping that he won't get caught. I'm torn between wanting him to try it, and hoping that he doesn't.

Usual opinion on that: pre-game chrono is theatre. It confirms that honest players are honest, or will punish them for being inadvertently a bit hot (but honest enough to show up). Rogues - and we seem sure they were in evidence - will simply cheat or avoid it. They'll even get a thrill out of that. The "holiday rules" aspect of an expensive event like that is also going to lead to it, and if they pre-announced that there was going to be no chrono, they practically invited it. You either catch rogues in game, or not at all. No warnings, no excuses, no "I'll put it in the car", they're off the site. Given the paucity of marshals, that was clearly never going to happen. Shouldn't your support (and money) be conditional on their behaviour changing? If not, why would they bother? That's assuming that they'd been honest in their disclosure. Actually, it's assuming that they were insured at all. Given the likely cost of cover for a one-off event, they might have decided to just chance their arm. And I say "they", but if you'd lost an eye, who exactly would you sue? An individual? A limited company? A limited company with no assets set up just to run these events? And on what grounds? Having eye-pro shot off or through doesn't automatically mean a hot gun, and accidents don't always mean liability. Eye pro can be insecure or insufficient. As I keep noting, EN166-F glasses are not and can not be rated for airsoft energies, and yet many folk wear them. The only case I can think of is one where a rental lad got blinded by being shot in the eye, in a safe zone, point blank, and claimed that the site had said nothing about removing mags, hadn't checked them, and hadn't prevented dry-firing. You'd think that would be open and shut, but even at that, the site argued the toss on liability and I don't know how or if it was resolved.

Ahoy and welcome. Are you planning to rent for a bit before re-mortgaging the house to buy RIFs?

Showing his missus the advert, before he bumped the price and added: "Don't really want to part ways so might not say yes to offers" ? But then why even leave it up? Either way, avoid like the plague.

Ah, I misrecollected some of the details. Brigadier, not Major, it was a larger multi-tool, but a 2" blade, I infer folding, so not illegal at all. Arrested, fingerprinted, DNA taken, accepted a caution and permanent criminal record, which later seems to have been struck when he received better legal advice. The take-away point though is that yes, they check things. It seems like everything going on the train is going to get x-rayed, so you'll get caught. Given the potential criminal penalties, and the certainty that you'll lose the item, you'd have to be a mug to attempt it without a rock solid defence. I have high hopes for OP though.

Why? Unless you have a defence, and can produce it on the spot, don't do it. You're looking at up to 51 weeks in prison, and/or an unlimited fine. Yes, they check. Truckers are regularly caught and given custodial sentences for contraband and weapons. An ex Army Brigadier was caught on the Chunnel with a small multi-tool with a 2" blade, arrested, and accepted a caution and a permanent criminal record. https://metro.co.uk/2006/11/20/brigadier-held-for-knife-on-train-400495/ (There's a happier ending to that one, fortunately, but it shows that they do check)

To be clear, I think the description is helpful and at least partially honest, but I'd be offering a fraction of that asking price for a junk toy.

Advert looks honest, it's not in stock, caveat emptor on that one. I don't think there's any intention to rip anyone off, just optimism.

No blood, no boobs = no byline.

Has there been any press about it, good or bad, large or small?

It would be a dick move, as you're not going to be playing with the hop full on: you'd be bouncing 0.2g off the ceiling. And if you get caught hot in-game (unlikely, but decent sites do chrono in-game) I'd have zero sympathy for you being kicked out and banned from that site. This isn't meant to be judgemental, I get that it's very frustrating that airsoft is such an inexact science. And if you've only got one gun with you there's a strong incentive to take a... liberal... interpretation of chrono rules. I've come a cropper at chrono with an unexpectedly hot gun: just barely, but barely is enough. But that's a great reason to always have a backup. If you don't have an M100 handy, you could clip that M105 down. Clip off the last coil or two (I do one at a time), heat the raw end in a gas flame (I've just barely managed it with a cigarette lighter on site) to get it glowing dull red, and flatten it down. Give it a little run over with a file if you fancy getting it really flat. Chrono, and repeat if necessary.

Well, we are where we are. Specnas come with an M90 spring[*] and I was seeing around 0.83J ("300fps") out of mine today with the M90 in it. 90m = 295 feet, so that's actually about what I'd expect. Fine for CQB, not so great for woodland (only Tokyo Maruis go further with less energy ) Hop should effect energy. If it was shooting at the same muzzle velocity with or without hop then it sounds like something was wrong there, and it's now actually applying hop - and you won't need much to lift 0.2g. Although 0.58J (250fps) is pretty weak, I'd want more than that for outdoors. Given the quick change system in the Specnas, and that the air seal could be better (reportedly and from experience) I'd be looking at looking at throwing an M100, 105 or even 110 spring in there. Or sorting the air seal, but I couldn't get mine perfect with grease or new o-rings, and a spring is cheaper than changing any other part. [*] As well as an M120 which isn't much use for the UK - too much for an AEG, likely not enough for a DMR.

Christmas blow jobs are the best.

[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.