Rogerborg

I heard all sorts about him being banned left, right and centre, but he still seems to have no problem finding filming locations for his fictional dramas.

To the massive nascent market for niche toys in a niche hobby?

It's actually surprising that prices haven't jumped faster and higher than they have. Retailers are missing a trick, fortunately for us.

No need to over think it. You already have a rotary hop, so just drop in a Maple Leaf rubber and you should be able to lift any BB that you can afford. 70 or 60 degree, I wouldn't go harder. Softer will wear faster, but changing hop rubbers is cheap and quick compared to just about anything else in airsoft. Buy a heavier spring or springs, depending on your site's energy limits. It's not an exact science, don't expect 140m / 459fps on a 0.2g out of an M140 spring, and be prepared to clip off a coil at a time and heat and flatten the end in order to tune the power. Get a chrono, and understand whether you need to tune for Joules at the BB weight that you're using (good site), or for fps on 0.2g (bad site). You can use an outer barrel extension rather than a silencer to hide a longer barrel, e.g. https://www.ak2m4.co.uk/external-parts/outer-barrels But bear in mind that barrel quality beats barrel length. I'm running an AOLS 455m, which to be honest is far longer than you need, it was just about willy waggling. AOLS or ZCI are fine at the cheap end. Internals, eh, leave 'em alone. Maybe a full cylinder if you need it, and a full steel rack on the piston - although stock CYMAs shoot at up to 1.5J using a plastic rack, there's no need to change it until and unless it strips. If your motor struggles, I'd replace that rather than fiddling with the gears. I like the Big Dragon M140 or M160 motors from Ali Express, you might as well buy honestly Chinese branded Chinese motors (or "mortors" as they say on the packaging ). Locking to semi is just a case of cutting a bit off the selector plate. I'd suggest buying a spare one for that and keeping the stock one safely aside in case you want to go back to full auto. Heaviest BBs that you can lift and afford, and don't expect instant magic from it, you'll have to tune and tweak it. One handy thing about having a longer inner barrel hidden inside a suppressor or extension is that you can remove the outer and rotate the inner if you have consistent curve to one side from the barrel being slightly rotated.

Sure, it would be interesting to see what you've come up with. It's not that insane an idea, you're just using a leaf rather than a coil spring to shove a piston down a cylinder, and let's be honest, we're all playing with toys. If it's draw-and-release rather than drawing to cock a latched spring, then consistency might be an issue, and CQB sites in particular might want to take a hard look about what it's really capable of, as opposed to how long a pull you use for chrono.

Damn, that's swole. Are you now, or have you ever been, an 8mm freak?

It particularly gets my goat because there will be folk out there with pistols shooting at over 1.3J, quite likely unchronoed, with nobody batting an eyelid about MED or ROF. Sites should be educating players that appearance and barrel length means very little in airsoft, not surrendering to the fantasy.

*Ahem*.

Beats me, with their track record (company and users) it could very well be either. Surely you'd Glock-block it after the first hilarious incident, but I guess some people prefer to be shocked and offended.

That is quite possibly the dumbest, laziest, wrongest thing I've heard of a site doing, and it's up against some quite stiff competition.

He'd be in less trouble if he'd dick-picced them, I expect. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9823505/United-flight-evacuated-teen-sends-picture-airsoft-gun-using-AirDrop.html

Well, that's a giant bag of dicks, and no mistake. What an appalling attitude. What site should we be avoiding?

I'm having my butler order the under-footman to look up this "The Jungle" in Fortesque's Almanac of Significant Happenings.

Too cryptic, chap. If you're not going back (prediction: you will), then just name the site (prediction: you won't).

Training. Take the time to ensure that all your marshals, even your mates or the ones doing it for freebies, have a clear understanding of what they're supposed to be doing, and why, both on technical issues like chronoing, and on resolving issues in game. It wouldn't take long, and even less so if you write it down. This starts with site owners, and sadly far too many of them seem to have a muddle through attitude, or that everybody knows what they're doing - or more specifically, that everybody has the same assumptions and beliefs that they picked up fifteen years ago, which isn't necessarily the same thing. Given the thankless job of trying to run a site, I'm certainly not judging, but it is so nice when you come across one that documents everything, rather than running it via Facebook or word of mouth on a "Just ask m8 lol" basis.

And long term, it's a balance of trade issue. China sends us shiploads of cheap tat, and in return, we send them... not much, really, and very few bulk goods. That's one reason why prices have jumped, it's covering the costs of sending empty ships and empty containers back to Chinaland.

I occasionally use one voluntarily, but I wouldn't like to see them mandated as it gives Oberleutnant Overshoot more free reign to say "Well, your rag wasn't out / I didn't see it."

If you have a look at 5:00 in the video above, he highlights that there should be a small spring pressing down on the trigger bar. If it's weakened or missing, I'd replace it. I don't recall the size offhand, but a piece of spring from inside a pen might do the job.

If you're risk averse, then I'd suggest a CYMA, any of the M4s or AKs, particularly as a backup gun. Don't be fooled by the price, cost doesn't bear much relation to reliability in airsoft. The plastic on the cheapest M4s is pretty shoddy, and there's nothing fancy in there until you reach the Blue or Platinum models, but they're robust enough and everything can be upgraded as time, budget and inclination allows. Evos in particular have run hot and cold on QC, with the gears shredding in short order. That's supposed to have been sorted now, but it's not something I'd like to gamble on at the price.

Do they have a fuse? I honestly can't remember, I've rewired mine and gone with Deans connectors. They are quite fiddly to disassemble, with lots of little parts to lose, but there's a comprehensive guide here: And I'd always recommend buying a basic multimeter which takes so much of the guesswork out of it. Sight unseen I'd expect it's either a broken solder connection, or the trigger, which is a teeny, fiddly thing.

"Buy another toy" is generally the right answer.

... and we woke up in 2016, and are having the exact same "Shut up, thicko gammon" / "Shut up, thicko globalist" handbag fights that were ever so constructive then. 🙄

My theory is that they don't really want to sell. They only listed because their missus ordered them to get back what they (actually) paid for their toys, even if they paid over the odds. Then they get caught up in a dick-measuring contest about not taking one penny less than their asking price.