Rogerborg

What is it you need? 229mm? There's an AOLS in stock in that length, and I'm happy enough with the AOLS 455mm in my DMR, paired with a Maple Leaf Macaron. The bridge at the end is 1.3mm wide.

Hmm, that does seem pretty thicc. Just grabbing what's nearest, I'm measuring a ZCI correction an AOLS 6.01mmx455mm at 1.3mm and (I think) a stock CYMA barrel at 1.5mm. I'm actually surprised that they're so different from each other, let alone from yours, I'd never thought to measure them before. Both of them take a Maple Leaf Macaron without issues, and I can see why you'd be having a problem with a 2mm thick bridge.

"Buy a TM recoil because it's got the best parts, then replace them all with bester parts." has a familiar ring to it. Where have I heard that before? ?

True that, 0.28g is the minimum that I use in woodland now. And keep your expectations realistic: no amount of money, or belief, will prevent your BBs being effected by wind, rain, or foliage, and nor will they make your targets just sit still and wait for them. I'm perfectly happy and competitive with AEG toys in the £75-£140 range, plus the aforementioned hop rubbers and barrels. Aftermarket motors add snappiness and rate of fire. After that it's about BBs, getting the hop dialled in, and where you point it. If I were going to spend £500 on an airsoft toy, and the goal was maximum accuracy, i.e. maximum consistency, I'd forget about AEGs and think about trying-then-buying a used HPA package.

At that price, I'd be looking at an Edge 2.0 to get the Aster. Specnas with rubbery Maple Leaf bits are a decent enough shout though. You could also throw in a ZCI barrel while you're in there and still come in well under that budget. At a minimum, clean the barrel and hop.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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...