Rogerborg

Ahoy and welcome. Yup, you're on the sensible track (well, as sensible as playing with toy guns can be). I would recommend full face for CQB and Dye i4/i5 are a solid choice: you don't want to take a big hairy bloke's load point blank in your mouth. Whaaat? This is my straight face.

Oh, I wish I'd been able to get my son into it. The problem with Nuprol is that as a brand, it's completely random what you get, since they just brand whatever's cheapest from AliBaba or J. Random OEM. The Sopmod has a decent enough feature list, and if you luck out and get one that made at the start of the shift rather than from the rejects bin there's no reason it can't perform as well as any other airsoft toy. Drones are becoming fairly common now, but I've yet to see someone trying a ground vehicle. Something like a Goliath tracked mine might be hilarious, and potentially effective at breaking deadlocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_tracked_mine

Yup, there's no reason that EU sellers can't add UK VAT at the point of sale, on any value of order. AliExpress can manage it. If they don't think it's worth their while to get set up to do it, that's fair enough, but given that the alternative is £140 minimum orders and the clown show of Customs and Border Farce, I can see them losing most of their UK market once word gets out or people have been stung once.

That's an astonishing question and statement. Phoning interrupts people and stops them doing what they were doing, i.e. helping other customers. Answering emails can be done in a block, more efficiently, while you're ready to deal with them. Then you're rewarding your highest cost, most demanding customers. Why not reward the ones who are helping you out instead?

As a site policy though, it's a poor choice to ignore it. And there was a positive infestation of HPAs and GBBR at my local last week, many of which failed chrono even after doing their speedyboi magic. Site response: "Oh just run your gun[*] as a DMR then." [*] Section 5 firearm!

I'd wonder what limit you're aiming for with a 130 spring. If it's a DMR build, I'd then wonder why you're chronoing with 0.2g BBs. If it's because your site chronos with them even for DMRs and snipers, I'd wonder if they have the first clue about Joule creep, then I'd give a sad sigh, and a single tear would trickle down my cheek. But if you're happy that you only need to lose a little energy, I'd just lop off one coil at a time. No need to over think it, the spring in my DMR was chewed off on site at the chrono table with a pair of rusty pliers, heated (barely) with a cigarette lighter, and had a small file waved at it briefly. It works fine, so do a better job and it'll work great for you. The other thing you can consider is not cutting it at all. Just heat the end with a torch until it barely glows, and squish the last coil or two flat.

A perfectly cromulent solution. I wear a belt and braces, but that's mostly just to hang an MP5K of. It's amazing how many mags you can stuff into the pockets of surplus shirts and trousers.

Ahoy and welcome. Those are reasonable enough choices, there's no need to spend more than CYMA M4 money on a first AEG to see if you stick with the hobby. They also upgrade well too, mine has evolved into a surprisingly snappy and consistent little thing. Is there much to research about airsoft? Turn up, spray and pray, then complain that you would have made 20,000 kills if they hadn't all cheated.

Ah, but this is only a 1J BB. Wait, surely using Airsoft Science, you'd get even more range from a 0.8J BB. (From a TM recoil, of course)

QFT, the only real difference is which works best for you, and that you can stick to. The key point is that if you're not happy with your weight and physique, you have to try something different. You can't wish the lard away. So just work through the list, and don't get religious about it: I was running a fever the past few days, and fed the "energy, naow!" cravings with beans on multigrain toast, and wholemeal pitta-bread pizza. Mmm, forbidden carbs. I'd hope that we can all agree that refined sugars are about as necessary and healthy as crack, and should be the first thing dropped.

Mmm, if I wanted to beat it, I'd just point the GNU up in the air a bit, lob high cap after high cap, and wait for airsoft random magic (and the wind) to do its thing.

Eh. I'd bet on decent plastic over random sintered pot metal. In particular, the JG G36 is a pretty robust plastic fantastic, with no obvious weak points, unlike the back of the lower receiver, above the grip, on an M4.

This is like a reenactment of the world's longest dick measuring contest, with the usual spats over top-or-bottom, shaft-vs-balls. Incidentally, none of these rules/guidelines appear to be listed on the Guinness site. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/96291-longest-airsoft-target-shot

I went with the theory that if I buy cheap, I can buy twice, or three times, and it's worked out pretty well so far. Less flippantly, I really would prefer to have a CYMA and a JG with me than one VFC or Krytac, as having a backup / loaner gun has saved the day more than once. And +1 to the above: CYMA, JG, G&G and Specna Arms are the default choices. I'd flag up that the cheapest <£100 CYMAs have pretty toyish feeling plastic bodies (although the internals are robust enough). M4, AK, G36, MP5, whatever rocks your boat. The CYMA M14 also gets a lot of love, although its trickier to work on. Given stock levels at the moment, you'll be limited by what's available, mind.

Despite promising that I wouldn't use the k-word...

Did she snatch your milk as well? Mind you, UPS would never have delivered it in the first place.

I agree with the agreement, I believe they're subtly different rather than fully compatible clones. I had a heck of a time finding a Galaxy hop unit, and when I got a Jing Gong one (well, two actually) that looked identical, they were fractions-of-a-millimetre different, enough that I had to do some tweaking to fix the feeding and air seal. What's up with the one you have? There's not much that can't be bodged with JB Weld or even a dab of hot melt glue.

Oh, right, sod them then. The sooner they go out of business, the better.

Ouch, good for you, bad for TaiwanGun. I do have a lot of sympathy for them, and can see why they've just sacked off the UK as a money sink. What is your conscience saying? I honestly have no idea what I'd do. I mean, you have the goods, but now they're surplus and worth 2nd hand money to you. I wouldn't want to pay full price for them again, or pay to send them back.

Oh, then the Well MB-03 / MB-02 should do fine. The differences between useless and awesome in airsoft skirmishing is about 20cm at 70 metres, which is unlikely to be an issue in your garden range.

Pretty fairly awesome today. My DMR was struggling and had move curves on it than Christina Hendricks, then locked up half way through the morning. But I quickly figured out the culprit, the idiotic Specna Arms quick-remove (why? whyyyy?) pistol grip base, which had popped out on one side and canted the motor. Replacement grip belatedly ordered now. Easily sorted, then a quick reseat of the barrel in the hop unit took care of the curve and then it was laser beam accurate out to 2,000 airsoft metres. I get that DMRs and snipers are very site dependent, but today was the happy hunting grounds for us, as the other team was rental-heavy and so focused on their objectives that they rarely realised that they were being flanked and picked off. When you can place yourself right, that extra 10m really does make a huge difference, if only by allowing you to be where they don't expect you. For once, my DMR got more use than the MP5K, although some castle storming was done as well. This was despite the day being badly run, with all the usual airsoft foibles: one clueless marshal on chrono, late starts, long delays, a mumbled "You all know the score" briefing, rentals gone wild, test shots in the first game and never again, and on and on. I can see why other people would have had a rotten day, but... .

For £200 I'd want a Chinese orphan to pop out and zero it in for me every game. Well, the usual suggestion. If you're not completely happy, invoke your statutory right to cancel the contract, no debate, no reason, just money back. If there's the slightest ambiguity in who's responsible for getting it back to them, or if they don't respond, then instruct your payment processor to initiate a chargeback. The sooner you do this, the sooner it will get resolved in your favour.

It's strictly speaking always an offence for anyone to sell (import, manufacture, or modify-into) a realistic firearm, trade or private. However, selling for the purposes of airsoft use is a defence, and the truth is that nobody will ever care as long as you're responsible in your use. Some AEGs can be surprisingly quiet, if you get the gears, shimming and lubrication right, although you will get more satisfaction out of a gas blowback - when it's working. Gas pistols are great fun, but mostly for posing power in woodland, unless you're running a sniper or DMR, or are at a site with a lot of breachable structures. General advice is to buy a basic AEG first, then you've got it as a backup or loaner gun, so you won't have a wasted day. I have, when lending out and running into issues, ended up using a backup-reserve-emergency shotgun. But always rent and play first before dropping any money on airsoft, and give the initial adrenaline rush a day or so to ebb before making any decisions. It's a great hobby, but the classifieds are full of "Bought on a whim, never played" guns.

Really? I haven't seen that locally. In fact, I've seen a site loaning out a site Dye mask to an under-16 when they weren't entirely happy with the coverage on his own gear. Dude, brah, come on, they don't fog up on you. I'm fogging up a set of Pyramex iForces in the next room right now just by thinking about them.

Naysayers will say nay, but I say yea. JG BAR-10 or CYMA CM.701 are both nearly TM compatible, and the CYMA may even be skirmishable out of the box. Even the Well MB03 (or MB02 scout) can be made to work OK-ish without dropping big numbers, although the piston and spring are custom (but easy enough to obtain). Don't start throwing money at them beyond a spring to get them up to 2.3J or so, until you see how they perform with 0.4g+ BBs. A DIY TDC hop costs pennies if you're already tooled up, it's just drilling and tapping a hole above your hop arm and putting a fine threaded bolt in. Upgrade from there as budget allows, or breakages dictate, e.g. when your trigger sear gives up the struggle. Since you already have an M4, I'd suggest taking both out with you. If you're not getting consistency with the sniper, ditch it and make any adjustments between games, while playing with the AEG.