Rogerborg

Eh. I think it's a matter of luck, even within a brand or model, and even by airsoft standards. Some people swear by CYMA tri-shots, but I got an absolute lemon with random hops and feeding issues. There's a lot of fragile little plastic pieces inside, always trembling just on the brink of breaking, regardless of whether it's in a plastic or metal shell. My ASG Franchi is much more consistent and smootherer, but completely unhopped. Great fun when you do get a hit though, and, aside, it's significantly easier to push forward with your trigger-hand rather than hauling back on the pump action.

I should clarify that my suggestion to the contrary is more about typical magazine capacities, and the amount of BBs you can put downrange or carry on the same budget. That said, I have a blast running an MP5K with a 600 round hi-cap as a "second-primary" when sniping.

When you're lapping a bushing, you generally want to stay away from anal.

OP is thinking in Euros, he should presumably be OK (or at least know his local laws).

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What's that in fractions of an M67 hand grenade? 🤔 7.4V = 18% 11.1V = 27% if my numbers are correct

Perhaps the Novritsch scope add hits markers automatically? 🤷‍♂️

Ahoy and welcome. The AK is slightly more suitable for woodland, the MP5 for CQB, but both will be usable for either purpose - just buy whatever you prefer. You'll want to invest in a decent charger (SkyRC S65 or equivalent) and lipo or (life or li-lion) batteries. I'd suggest at least 2 x 7.4V lipos of 1300mAh or higher. Magazines are another consideration. You'll need to buy more magazines for the MP5, although these hi-capacity mags work well (although are temporarily out of stock at TaiwanGun). As above, I'd forget about shotguns and electric pistols, at least until you have something else reliable.

Is that manufacturer's guidance, or... ... dammit! 😠 Airsoft batteries cost about as much as a bottle of BBs, and storage charge is not something that I worry about with any lithium based battery, whether it's phone, laptop, vacuum cleaner, or ebike. I'm not making an exception for airsoft. Mags stored empty, or full, and with what gas?

"Mission failed successfully."

Yarp, there have been a few videos made highlighting his worse excesses, all of which have been nuked. It is quite amusing to see slow-mo of his BBs slicing away off-camera into the next postcode, while he adds hit markers on some random player and whinges about them cheating.

Ah, but will the paint flake off in short order to reveal the glorious day-glo orange underneath?

Facebook punted me off last year because, "We believe that you are under 13". I'd had that account for over 13 years.

I loathe Facebook with the white-hot passion of a thousand suns, but sites do love it as a way to announce things that maybe 1 in 10 of their players will ever see. 🙄

Hmm, he's not got anything active, and has a history of completed adverts, apparently without complaint. Last advert was October 7th. I'm not doubting your story, just wondering if maybe he genuinely got hit by a bus, or carried away by an eagle.

Cheer up - they're probably all photoshopping scammers.

Even a cheap springer can be great fun in CQB, it's very satisfying to get a hit using energy that you've put in.

Ahoy and welcome. Once you've found the local sites, I'd hop on their Facebook pages and see if you can cadge a lift. While you can take RIFs/IF on public transport (as long as you have a reasonable excuse, i.e. on the way to or from an airsoft site), it's not ideal. And in any case sites tend to be away from public transport.

Dunno. Notionally, it should be calculated from the first BB to cross the first sensor vs the first BB to cross the 2nd sensor, so no problem. In practice, they seem able to produce values from 0 to over 9,000 on typical chronos.

Torn between CoolAF and Careful Now. What sort of energy are we talking here?

That's where it should be, but isn't. The game's afoot.

Only if they're over-volumed, which (as gas guns) they might very well be. With a single BB loaded? Testing can be an issue, as you get wacky readings if you empty three balls at once.

You say that like there's such a thing as a reputable airsoft retailer.

Thanks, that's very interesting. I also saw - on Facebook of all places, which is why I can't find it again - testing of lipos sold for airsoft vs those sold for RC use, which found much higher internal resistances in the airsoft packs, even new out of the box. I've formed a belief that we get the trash-tier cells that don't make the cut for RC use. But I've learned to stop worrying about it since my toys do what I need them to do, up to cycling faster than the mag can feed from a modest 11.1V / "1400mAh" / "30C" battery[*]. The numbers may lie, but, meh, they do the job. [*] Although worryingly I've just done an inventory and only found one of the pair of these that I know that I have. Now I have a little firebomb hiding away somewhere waiting to have something hard and heavy dropped on it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but do all 6-shot guns load 2-BBs per barrel per puff, and therefore split the energy between them? I've had some ouchies from 3-shot BBs, but 6-shots seem to float a cloud of BBs instead.