Rogerborg

I find your lack of faith in hit-markers... disturbing.

Yeah, no, it's a very silly hobby enjoyed by overgrown kids. Even the "professionals" are generally just hobbyists trying to eke out a living at it. At this point, I honestly think the best result is if the paintball daddies take us under their wing, as they've done the heavy lifting to almost, sort-of, get recognition as a sport. To peacefully and patriotically make our voices heard!

That, really. I just go straight there now. A decent retailer will sort the issue at that point without letting it escalate. A non-decent retailer will rage out... but a non-decent retailer was most likely going to do that anyway, so nothing is lost.

Bottom of the page, Theme -> Dark Theme.

Sounds like we need to get the UKPSF committee playing airsoft.

Well, that's a shame. Area-66 runs the occasional evening / night games, so depending how far the travel is, it might be worth keeping an eye on them. To be clear, I do like PoW, but as with Section 8, you can occasionally go whole games without even seeing the other team, especially if you're on defence. At Area-66, it's generally straight into the action.

Yup, sounds like he was banged to rights, and this was (in Scotchland especially) probably the least bad outcome. As per the previous thread, these T4Es are sold as "made for real-life training, drills, practice, and even less-than-lethal self-defense" (sic). They call them "markers", and they can (ostensibly) shoot paintballs as well as rubber (or conceivably harder) balls, but that's not how they're marketing them. It seems that Euan got snitched over these guns specifically, so I'd wonder if he flexed about their ned-stopping power to the wrong person. This looks to be more of a problem for paintball than airsoft now.

An interesting tale. Apologies if I missed it, but have you done a detailed thread on it? I'd be very interested in hearing the details. Our friendly neighbourhood UKAPU reps might be too.

Please don't take it personally, we're just super-wary about scammers at the moment. On that: You don't have to do this, but it helps to assure buyers that you're not just using stock pictures to bait buyers with things that you don't have. I'd also recommend that you say what payments you'll accept (i.e. PayPal goods and services) and whether your prices include postage (and if not, how much you want for it). Also, please include any PayPal fees that you want the buyer to cover in your listed price, rather than adding things on later. Best of luck with the sales.

Seems like first one, then t'other. The first visit was when an air-gun was caught during importation, and he invited them in and tried the "Honest mistake, seller said it'd be fine" exculpation. Then later, after a report by a vengeful wife concerned citizen, they came back with a warrant for more of the spicy-boi air-pistol firearms that for some galaxy brained reason he still hadn't got shot of despite having been charged for the one they already knew about. I'll double-down on my comment that the air-guns that got him in a pickle have nothing to do with airsoft, and the bloke's a prize prick for trying to claim otherwise. While I don't agree with Scotch air-gun law, a loicence is "shall-issue" and he could have applied for one at any time.

No, I prefer Area-66, as it's a smaller site (thus more playing versus walking) and easier to get to for me. PoW is a very decent site though, well run, and I've not seen any problems with the players - I've enjoyed my days there.

Mmm, it's hard to tell what actually happened there, legally speaking. Could be UKARA, UKAPU or UKASA. Either way, blagging our defence rather than scamming (e.g.) the Military Vehicle Trust means that hanging's too good for him. Not that I actually think he did anything wrong morally, but pragmatically, he's brought some unwelcome attention to our hobby.

Sure, but my issue is when they choose to get things so deliberately wrong, in a way that assumes the audience lacks the most minimal of knowledge, or even the basic cognitive reasoning of an average ten year old. As an audience member, it feels personally insulting.

Err... "brand new Ares AEG L85A2". Listed "as new", but the title is unambiguous, and he's comparing it against new, retail prices. I wouldn't call this bloke a scammer, just a brass necked chancer operating effectively as a trader, without any warranty. It's all consensual, but a lot of grubby interpersonal transactions are.

Eh. Sorry to hear that things are winding down there, but around me, Area-66, Players of War, The Depot 2.0 and Biohazard are all doing fine. Granted, Biohazard seems determined to try to run weeknight games that they keep cancelling at the last minute due to lack of numbers, but Sundays always book out. Everything is pre-book, nobody has gone back to (actual) walk-ons. Cost, yes, that's an issue. While I'm not a Poor, I do baulk at paying £36 for a Depot day. That doesn't seem to put too many other folk off though, it's busy enough, last I heard. Folk do drop out, that's the nature of any hobby. But actual game days don't depend on... influencers... turning up. Us peasants can have a great day without it being InstaFaced or used as the raw footage for some YouToob fictional production.

Season 1 of Shooter is particularly egregious, given that it's specifically about the snipiest of snipers. Put the crosshairs right on the target and you hit. At any range, on any target, from any elevation, without holdover, or leading. I nearly snorted up a lung when Snipy McSniperson described .223 Remington as "a squirrel round". The thing that strikes me is that Hollywood is full of people who make content about guns, but loathe guns so much that they refuse to find out the first thing about them. And that's how you Arec Bardwin someone.

Reviews unclear, watching it now to determine if it's a great film. Hmm, they're not even bothering with CGI-ing in ejecting shellazines. The bloke doing the "sniping" is comical, he's holding it like it's a rattlesnake that just bit him, and jerking it all over the place. Still seems to be hitting everything though, and every shot from Freedom calibre is an instakill. Grea- decent film though. Needs more Emily Beecham, but then everything does. Arec Bardwin - and particularly the murderously incompetent nepotism hire armourer Gutierrez-Reed - have ensured that everything is going to have winding wheels or gas valves from now on. Eh, no biggie. We get the joy of spotting them, most folk won't know the difference, and we're watching make-believe anyway.

No dishonour there, that's a really well put together scam site. If I'd read this after wine o'clock, I might have joined you. They only got hyperbolic (and ungrammatical) when it came to the "hurry, hurry!" claims on the product pages.

"Bring cash to a non-existent McDonalds, up a goat-track, in the middle of nowhere. Don't tell your wife where you're going, she wouldn't understand." "PS Bring a shovel too"

Far away.

Every time I think "is it really worth their while?" I have to remind myself that this is a hobby where people will happily pay multiple hundreds for toys, just to get a moment of unboxing euphoria. We must look like super-easy targets. Thanks for pointing out this new twist.

The double shot on semi is typical of beefing up the motor and going to 11.1V, and the gears won't be helping either. It's not that anything is wrong, it's just too much right. Some folk get lucky on 11.V, but I've had double-shooting on every M100-ish gun I've tried it with. 7.4V, or a mosfet with active brake will sort it. You could try adding more factors, like a stronger spring + short stroking or even a wide-bore or shorter inner barrel, but the inherent issue is that the pixies in there are too angry now. The mis-feeding may just be mid-cap syndrome (too much spring pressure misaligning the nozzle when full, or not enough for the BBs to feed quickly enough when nearly empty), or Specnas being Specnas. Some of them are super-fussy about mags, even by airsoft "standards", as griped about here a few times. And you can't even rely on "Specna" mags feeding in "Specnas" given the variety of OEMs that they seem to use for their ever expanding range. tl;dr version, you might have to use hi-caps and/or shim the front or rear of the mags to get them feeding reliably. That's just airsoft reality.

Damn, that's sneaky. Credit to the scammers, it actually looks and loads like a legit site, there are very few of the usual Chinglish warning signs. The "product" info has been well scraped from a real LOWA site. The contact email is some random outlook one, and the About page is a generic one found on many scam sites, even in the same English on this "French" site. https://www.google.com/search?q="And+if+it's+not%2C+then+hit+us+up+and+let+us+know" The domain was registered 4 days ago (at the time of writing) so LOWA won't have had time to do anything about it yet. I've let LOWA UK know, I can't see an obvious way to contact LOWA GMBH. Best of luck getting your money back.

That's the sort of thing that I'd want to see spelled out right up front - that you're selling a "quick fix, just don't have the time" project, not a skirmishable gun.