Rogerborg

It sounded experienced. Marshals should know more than any player on site. Far too often, they know less than that guy on Facebook asking "What am bests startar gnu lol?"

Aw, chap, no. I guess this is a salient lesson that once you reach the point of initiating a dispute, the only acceptable resolution is a refund.

The only thing I'm reading into it is that Border Farce got a fat wodge of funding thrown at them and are stopping everything that they can (and some stuff that they shouldn't be stopping) just for the sheer jobsworth spite of it.

It doesn't really matter which one I trust. The site is going to go by theirs. This is why I'm always first at the chrono in the morning in case I have to do some emergency fettling. Urgh, fps again. I've never understood this "aim for" / "hard limit" stuff. I'll aim for the hard limit, and I expect everybody else will too.

I didn't learn this the first time I had my lens shot out. I finally learned it after the second one. BBs seem to home in on them. Cat Crap works, but I find that Revision anti-fog wipes work better, and better than anything else (and I've tried them lens-vs-lens against most lotions and potions).

Nice one, that's why I got mine. It's been rebuilt more than a Cuban taxi by now.

Fair point, but without one trustworthy reading to compare against, there's no particular reason to believe that any particular chrono is over, under, or reflecting reality, whether it's a freshly purchased Skan or a 5 year old site Whang Dong. Heck, last time I was on site, we ended up using my own Whang Dong in addition to the site's Xcortech without even comparing them against each other. The site owner wasn't remotely fussed when I suggested doing that, he just wanted to get the folk who'd showed up to chrono done as fast as possible. At the end of the day, it's up to site owners to care about and enforce this, or not, and all we can do is to go elsewhere if we don't like the way they're running things.

UK airsoft is just fine. It's a decent mix of rentals and noobs, Dye and Crye babies, geardos, Walts, and the actual airsoft veterans in jeans with random brand NBBs or a scruffy AK non-ironically held together with duct tape, all playing more-or-less happily together. Power levels are fine too. I wouldn't be fussed if they went a bit higher, but they're not going there. Auto guns and bolties are both usable and distinctive. There's some debate over DMRs, in terms of both power and power-play abuse of them, but it's not a huge drama and sites are free to fiddle with their rules, or bin them off altogether. When I hear about the competitive stuff from Italy, or huge sites and squad play from Hungary, nah, not for me, thanks, let alone the roid-rage flip-out-and-fite-IRL tosh from the Colonies. I've enjoyed a couple of light filmsims, but for a regular Sunday I'm fine with short games, short walks, lots of shooting toy guns and maybe playing a bit of dress-up, without some Major Issues barking orders at me.

Yes, that's moronic. No outdoor site should be chronoing on 0.2g, and I wish they'd stop talking and thinking in terms of fps. The biggest cause for complaint I can see above is a marshal not asking what weight of BB was being used. But then I've ranted elsewhere about quis custodiet ipsos custodes.

QFT. Saying something is not the same as enforcing it. Even if you did somehow manage to ensure that every single player chronos every single one of their guns in the morning (and you won't), there are any number of ways to cheat it, deliberately or even accidentally. Ultimately all that matters is what you peak at in-game. And the only person responsible for that is you. Sending people home for it, well, their gaff, their rules. I wouldn't be happy about it, but I'm sure they've heard every excuse under the sun: "It was fine this morning", "It's never done that before", "My usual site is OK with it". But none of that alters the reality that a hot gun is a hot gun, and if you excuse 0.01J, then why not 0.1, or 0.5? Now, if there's a problem with their site chronos, that's another issue. But who here has a calibrated chrono, and against what do you calibrate it?

Don't feel too bad, there are some very plausible scammers out there who will put in a fair amount of effort to build up trust. My rule now is no chat, just ask sellers to email me a PayPal invoice listing the item, postage and expected delivery date, and the total that they want me to pay via goods-and-services. If they can't or won't do that, walk away. Don't get caught up in any "Yeah, mate, actually..." tall tales or back-and-forth on postage and fees with lazy twunts. https://www.paypal.com/invoice/create

You buy a chrono which shows Joules, you set it to 0.36g, and you look at the Joules figure. My DMR is shooting at ~1.8J on 0.32g (site limit is 1.88J). I couldn't tell you what that is in fps, because there's no reason for me to know.

If you're basing this off of watching WuTube sniper videos, they're heavily edited. At the risk of it all Kicking Mustang off again, some of them take deliberate face shots to generate clickbait, go out of bounds, set up before the game, ignore MEDs, don't call their own hits, and add fake hit markers to big up their 1337 5k33lz and generate even more drama. It's not common though, eventually it leads to site inviting them to not come back, and sniping isn't as generally effective as they make it out to be, not at most sites on most days. You can have a great day when you find the perfect spot against the perfect cluster of victims, or you can get overrun and pasted in short order. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the best way to find out the realities of airsoft is to go and play it.

If by old you mean 80s or 90's, sure, but things have moved on. I've been wearing Goretex lined assault boots for the past decade or so for most purposes (airsoft, hiking, motorcycling, office wear - people meet the queen in them) without issues or complaint or a drop of water getting in. However, given the current prices for surplus I couldn't really recommend what's available right now, and I would definitely agree with skipping the Viper / Kombat stuff which appears to be the worst of both worlds.

It is a peculiar choice, but only stylistically. They're just toys, you can make most things work, and you don't even need a particularly long barrel to get the energy up. Stock CYMAs come in at 1-4/1.5J, even the carbines. Stick a barrel extension on, a longer inner barrel, and see what you get. Hopefully the fire selector on the "v2.5" gearbox works like a standard v2/v3 and you can just nibble off a little bit to lock it to semi. The one thing I'd note is that the standard magazine is pretty long which can limit your sneaking around options.

This is a Flicking Bustard thread. Staying very still. Point taken that if you don't move then you'll be nailed down eventually, but I'd emphasise the other points that most airsofters are lemmings and will queue up to be shot in the same place in the same way, over and over again. And in the unlikely event that two or three of them do actually talk to each other and coordinate to find you, then you're tying up two or three players. Back when I used to watch sniper videos, I noticed that most of Spliffing Duster's video start with him already set up and the opposition coming to him (because he goes out and does that before the game starts), while Novritsch does a lot more of sprinting from a spawn to reach a good position, and pushing. I'm quite serious that the secret to spotting the former players is to play with the same degree of sportsmanship they do. I'm not advocating it, just pointing it out.

Er, that's a surprisingly good sign. It's currently hosed, I'd give them a chance to sort it, especially if it's stripped any internals.

I'm not a huge advocate either, but it was a pragmatic decision made by a busy site with a lot of players. I'm sure the culprits were dealt with too, but after you've caught two or three examples of the same gun being abused in the same way in game, it becomes a question of whether you want to keep catching them, or try and stop them getting out there in the first place.

Urine was traditionally used to produce ammonia which can be used for softening leather. However, just peeing on your feet sounds more like a prank played on the new squaddies.

https://www.popularairsoft.com/airsoft-innovations-finally-reveal-flak-10-flak-5-gas-powered-airsoft-super-shotguns I'll cheerfully pre-empt the pre-emptive backlash to say that if I were King of Airsoft I'd blanket ban anything made by Airsoft Innovations, purely based on their choice to market the 40-Mike to sociopaths using that "Pain Train" campaign. That wasn't accidental, it was deliberate and cynical, and actions should have consequences.

Agreed, I've given up trying for RIFs, annoying as it is to look at the prices on GunFire and TaiwanGun knowing that the only thing stopping them getting to us are a cluster of jobsworths and incompetents. I've had a bipod and some motors come through from Ali Express, but an M4 solid stock didn't even make it out of Chinaland.

I thought Canuckistan was planning to ban all transactions involving assault-style toys and essentially kill airsoft? It does seem to be somewhat of a lottery regarding importation, and something to bear in mind that is UKARA (and similar schemes) provide a defence to the offence of trying to import. They are not a licence to do so, although Border Farce have historically chosen to treat them as one - but are under no obligation to do so. Another fun twist is that Border Force do not even hold figures on how often they check defences for importation of RIFs! So I'd follow @Mr. No_Face's advice and declare, declare, declare. If you can adduce evidence that you are an active airsofter in Canada, that can't hurt, and if you can book ahead at an airsoft site in the UK for soon after your arrival, I'd go ahead and do that too. But there's always going to be a risk that you run into a jobsworth who (sadly but correctly) knows that a defence is not a licence and that they're under no obligation to let the killer death toys in.

If it's the rotary Nuprol it's likely better than the stock dial unit (but the ZCI is much cheaper). I wouldn't consider any dial unit to be an upgrade. It's not the plastic-vs-metal body that's the issue, it's the free play between the multiple gears on any dial unit. It's the nature of these toys that things go wrong, and we're talking fractions of a mm of clearance between perfect feeding and airseal, versus jamming in one direction or air leak in the other. I don't particularly blame the tech for getting it wrong, it's just that you paid them to get it right. If they had any concerns, they could have put the stock parts back in. I'm just thinking: What Would Luke At Negative Do?

Then I'm back to approving again.

Recommended at the price, I got a cheap monocular for airsoft and general spying larks, and they do help, depending on the field. To combat Licking Custard specifically you should go out onto the field before the game actually starts, find a likely bush that's of bounds, and spot him when he hides himself in it.