Rogerborg

Oh, I learned something today, I thought it was allocated frequencies, but it turns out it's "self coordination", i.e. "fight over them, peasants". https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/29272/ofw432.pdf

If you actually want it to sell, then we usually recommend asking about 70% of the current lowest retail price for the parts fitted, plus smaller amounts for anything extra thrown in (big bundles have a harder time finding someone who wants everything in them). Do yourself a favour by working out postage and PayPal fees beforehand and including those in the asking price. Opinion can vary on value, especially for rare or out of stock items, but that doesn't apply here. Best of luck.

Like PMR? Like PMR? If using the same frequency, singular, which would be like crashing a burning fuel tanker plane into a school for orphaned kittens when it's being visited by blind nuns.

I've only used cheap Cobra brand PMRs and the range was meh. Outdoors any topology would break them up and indoors I was better off shouting. Other brands and experiences are available. I've got a Baofeng UV-5R now with much better range. In theory, of course, I'd never use it, you understand, as I don't have a frequency loicence. I certainly wouldn't use it on PMR frequencies so that I can talk with people using PMRs, even though that's the safest way to ensure that it doesn't interfere with any actually important radio use. Using them on PMR channels would be like doing 90mph on an empty motorway at 3am, while some rando frequency could be like doing 90mph at 3pm outside a school. In other words, both illegal, but with different consequences and morality. You shouldn't do either, it goes without saying.

Yes, you don't want a "spring gun / springer" [*], and skip any site with "BB" in the name unless you know exactly what you want and why. The bulk of what they sell is disposable tat, and in any case that's a realistic imitation firearm so they should be asking you to provide them with a defence in the form of a site membership / UKARA number (but being a "BB" site, they might not). Airsoft isn't a particularly cheap hobby, you're looking at £30+ per day after buying BBs, and about £100 for the cheapest gun that you'd want to use [*]. These are the sort of brands and models that you'll want to be looking at, although other retailers are available. I've linked to the two-tones since that's what you'll be buying if you haven't played yet. You'll note that a lot of them are out of stock - this is the reality at the moment, we've hit a perfect storm of Chinese Virus, Brexit and loads of people taking up the hobby this summer. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/airsoft-two-tone-assault-rifles All of these are select-fire electric guns meaning they'll shoot either semi or fully auto using a battery. Some of them come with a basic battery and charger, some don't (and curiously it's the cheaper ones that come with batteries), but you'll also want to budget for some lithium based batteries and a decent charger which is going to run you another £50 or so. Then add in (at least) eye protection and decent boots with ankle protection and you're knocking on £200 to get started with your own gear. But the usual advice remains: play first, then buy. Most sites do a rental package which will supply you with eye/face protection, an electric carbine and a supply of BBs, generally for about £20 extra, so £40 - £50 total for the day. That sounds expensive but includes about £10 worth of BBs that you'd have to pay for anyway, so you're only really paying about £10 extra for the gun / eye protection rental. That's less than you'll lose on buying and selling anything if you find out that don't actually enjoy the hobby. If you do love it (and bear in mind you'll get a huge adrenaline buzz the first couple of times you play) then you can go ahead and buy a two tone gun, or play at least twice more at that site over a period of at least 8 weeks, and that will get you site membership and (generally) a "UKARA" number which will let any retailer sell you anything that you fancy. [*] One exception is spring shotguns, especially indoors / very close quarters, which can be fun and close to effective, but again, rent first and find out.

Nice one, let's have a look at that Modify... Well that's some big talk, I wonder how they back it up. <shut-up-and-take-my-money.png> Interesting that they've gone with a 6.1mm widebore instead of a tightbore. I wonder what sort of spring has been put in it and what energy you'll see.

Stereotypes can be both unfair and also useful.

I fear you're going to find that when you get to the delivery stage that they say "lol jk m8" and refuse to send it. You think they'd be up front about, especially if you've selected £GBP and already have a UK address registered with them, but they seem to like leaving it right to the end of the order. Could be wrong, they may have changed their mind again, but there's only one way to find out. Personally I wouldn't risk it now anyway, there seem to be far too many jobsworths involved at the moment.

Sure, if it's a spare gun, why not? DMRs make for an interesting change of pace, and the only smart choice about airsoft is to never get into it in the first place.

They have historically been pretty good, this just does seem to be about the almost guaranteed impossibility of it making it across the Channel twice more. It's a pickle, and always a hazard when buying fragile toys from abroad, but at the end of the day, they're a commercial retailer and the responsibility to eat the cost lies with them, not the customer.

To be grudgingly fair, he does claim that the mags are OK and it's just the gun itself that's defective, and has included fees and postage, which is always nice. To be more fair though, you can get a new, warrantied Army Armament R17 and a 2nd mag delivered to your door for less than that.

Ouch, sorry to hear that. It was brought to my attention that FOB airsoft are flogging Nov rifs and parts in the UK at the moment. No Flecktarn mankinis or whatever you ordered though. https://www.ukfob.co.uk/Novritsch-Airsoft

And I lull myself to sleep with this image. I will never not be amused by people asserting that you have to fit a mosfet to protect your £4.50 trigger contacts.

Only in the reverse-snobbish sense of wanting to be clear that I'm not playing with a TM NGRS or small-bore-paintball-marker. I have thrown on a silencer just for looks a couple of times, but mostly because it was in the bag and idle hands are the speedsofter's devil's workshop. I'm strongly in the camp of play over pay, although I have made a couple of mistakes - I'm looking at you, AEP. Dropping a whopping £140 on the cheapest metal bodied Specna Arms Edge was uncharted territory for me, it was like the start of 2001 when the Monolith showed up.

Should be fine, there are no surprises in the G&Gs, and they don't have notably weak gearboxes. The thing is, you can do most those things to a 1.1J AEG and get most of the benefits. The only actual DMR things about it are the spring and locking to semi, and it's a matter of some debate whether this is worth the trade off. I'm enjoying my Specna Arms based DMR (until the gearbox inevitably cracks...) but that's shooting at 1.8J and even then it's not got a huge amount of extra range over an auto gun. I'm scrupulous about sticking to MEDs and one-in-the-air, although I know some DMR players are... less so. I'd suggest keeping the stock spring and selector plate handy in case you want to swap it back again. The one downside I'd point out to using the G&G is that it doesn't have a quick change spring.

Well, to be a bit more serious, that's what I'm doing. 20+ miles rather than a wobble to the shops and back, and I'm trying not to keep it in Easy Mode all the time. I'll need to keep doing stationary cycling as well though. Snap, I've been out with a mad keen road biker chum that I'd been putting off riding with because I reckoned I couldn't keep up. Now he leads on the flat or downhill, and I cheat my way up the inclines, it's all good. It's an oft-abused phrase, but e-bikes really are a game changer. Just not ideal for fat losers, perhaps.

Might have been "unbanned" though. I hope not, there really should be consequences for promoting punishment shots, plus his faked hit markers and "OMG cheetar!" drama both of which are (an over-used but apt word) toxic to the hobby.

A solution presents itself in three words... Horny. Moon. Princesses.

Wise words indeed. I vanished from here (and Failbook) during the previous mass-criminalisations because I had no inclination to talk about something that I wasn't actively doing. It's easy to slip into a fantasy world of misrecollections and imagination if you're not out testing your theories under fire.

Beats me, I don't do Fortnum and Mason brands, but certainly better than a Tornado F1 aftermarket motor. @Sitting Duck rated the M140 and M160s. I've had three so far (2 x M140, 1 x M160), all with strong magnets. One of the M140s had enough inny-outy play in the shaft that I felt compelled to pop another 0.1mm shim under the end, but other than that, all good.

That's where PMR446 radios come in. They're generally very simple, just pick a channel out of 16 and push-to-talk. On all but the most basic you can select a CTCSS "sub channel", but realistically at a typical airsoft site you won't have to, just switch to another channel if you get cross-talk. They are fun and add another aspect to the LARPing, but consider the difficulty in communicating with or inspiring fellow airsofters even when they're in the same foxhole.

The only thing funnier than friendly-frag is medic-and-double-friendly-frag. Have you seen the latest teaser from the Depot's Facebook page? 12th September is being whispered, no idea where yet though or if it'll be a mates-only trial game.

+1 to this. I always brought a dump-pouch full of assorted torches to the big, dark indoor Depot CQB site to light up doors and stairwells and draw fire. It was actually kind of exploity, and I was happy to move them once a victim had cried foul.

Intriguing. 2W is way over the PMR 0.5W limit, and there's no reason that you couldn't build something usable at that price given that the mind-bogglingly well featured UV-5R comes in at just a bit more for a pair. They could be a peach or a lemon, you'd have to take a gamble to find out. I'd see if there are any Amazon reviews for those or equivalents. If you do push the boat out a little, the UV-5Rs are great, and favourites with sites. They are decent out of the box with good range, long battery lives and more features than you could ever use (I use mine as an FM radio to play the bangin choons of Smooth FM) However, that's actually a downside of them. You can make them talk to just about anything, but the interface is unintuitive and I'm forever forgetting how to (e.g.) set CTCSS sub-channels on them. Something simpler might actually be an asset.

While simping for the rest of your post, I would take slight issue with this. Precock would be awesome for CQB where every femtosecond can matter to trading off with Oberleutnant Overkill, but for a gun with a 25-30m med, which only has an advantage over an autogun at 50m+, I'd say that it's less important as you're only going to be hitting stationary or moving-towards-you targets anyway. I mean, I'd love pre-cock on any of my toys, but I can't think of many DMR shots I've taken where it would have made a difference to real hits that I could actually have made if only I hadn't had that extra 50 milliseconds of spin up time.