Rogerborg

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.

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.