Rogerborg

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.

Yup, that's the correct course of action. Sucks for sellers, and it'll end up with them not risking sending anything to the UK - as TaiwanGun have already done - but we shouldn't ask individual airsofters to just write off purchases in order to protect the collective. Oh, I've just seen someone on Failbook say that UPS are demanding that he complete a firearms declaration for a grenade launcher that he ordered last year and which has been in his hands for 6 months or so. Yes, you're righting that read, it's already long since been delivered, and only now are they realising that they should have appeased Border Farce.

100%, or at least just do one as a rental. It's not really extra cost, it can save you from a costly mistake. Well, a valid defence, there are plenty available. Many private sellers don't check, and there are also several retails who accept bogus defences. I know that's not how it should be, but it's how it be. Bristol prison/courthouse don't list any, but it can vary and it's always worth asking your site before a purchase of anything unusual. The late lamented Depot had a blanket prohibition on Dan Wesson style shell loading revolvers, Mk23s with silencers/barrel extensions, and all grenade launchers/shells, due to repeated abuse of them. Anything full auto and capable of over 1.3J (and yes, you can buy a few examples from UK retailers) isn't an airsoft gun, it's (by default) a Section 5 prohibited firearm. That shouldn't be an issue for anything site legal though. Exactly. Second hand purchases are what you make when you know what you're doing. As a first purchase, it's a great way to end up with an unusable money pit. Especially in semi-auto CQB. Pre-cock might be one exception, but I'll cheerfully pit any gas pistol or shotgun against that.

I'd leapt and bounded to the conclusion that not "proving" you'd passed chrono means that they have chronos available for those with the wit and inclination to use them, rather than them putting on the safety theatre performance of pretending that everybody has done so. If that's wrong and they don't have chronos available before play then I'll cheerfully reverse direction and shout "Boo, burn the witches!"

Oh, that is a real consideration, especially given that the hop ups on these like to go off unless you tighten the screws right up. I'd recommend rear-wiring them though, there's room to run thick wiring behind the gearbox and up to the top tube - you can even squeeze a small mosfet into the tube along with a 7..4V lipo.

Agreed, Nuprol to me just means the cheapest, nastiest part they could find, at a mark-up. It's either the scruffy looking pot-metal dial unit (which I wouldn't consider an upgrade), or the £17 plastic rotary unit that's a knock-off of the £9 ZCI unit. In either case, it's clearly misfeeding and double-feeding, the screeching noise is a bad sign (don't use it!) and the damage may already be done in terms of a stripped piston or gears, or mullered tappet plate. I'm really sorry, it gives me no pleasure to say this, but I fully expect the "professional" who has broken your gun to shrug it off as "Owner abuse mate, that's clearly had market stall BBs through it." I very much hope to be wrong about that, but I'd go in prepared to be calm but firm and patient. Bring along the BBs, mags and battery that you've been using and make it clear that what you paid for labour on top of those parts[*] was supposed to buy the expertise to avoid exactly this situation. Oh, and I'd get a record of it in writing as soon as possible in case it ends up in a spat. This is why I break my own toys rather than paying anyone else to do it. [*] £45.50 for equal-or-better equivalents from AK2M4

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Oh, that's an ace site. Just be aware that CQB is intense compared to woodland., with a faster pace and stingier hits. Yes, you'd be fine with select fire. I'd also expect them to be fine with tri-shot shotguns - but would verify that - and those can actually be effective in CQB, since it can come down to reaction time. "Green gas" pistols are also usable and great fun, but then you're looking at buying extra magazines and gas. Electric pistols are usable, but insipid and have a poor trigger response. Most gas (or electric) pistols will come in under their 1.07J / 340fps on 0.2g limit, but I'd stay away from CO2 as they can come in much hotter, and can also rack up quite the cost in CO2 bulbs. Likewise, tri-shots will come in lower (they may not even bother chronoing them), and most (but not all) AEGs that you're likely to buy in the UK should be under that limit. Although with some sites allowing up to 1.2J (360fps on 0.2g) it's not guaranteed, especially on a used purchase which is always a gamble. I notice that they require full seal eye protection, so no DIY glasses held on with a rubber band. And given that it's £30 for an evening game rental package that includes unlimited ammo, and rental of a carbine (and support for it) and a full face mask, I'd again point at that as the best and cheapest route to try it out. It'll give you an opportunity to see (and feel) if you enjoy it, and to check out what everyone else is using. You won't be outgunned or have any worries about failing chrono or running into technical issues with a used purchase.