Rogerborg

Easy enough to do if you slink out 5 minutes before game-on and hide in a bush out-of-bounds, 15 yards from a spawn point. He's a rather tragic case who's now trapped in a fantasy world of his own creation. Sneaking onto sites that don't know him (yet) in order to film himself missing by a country mile then adding comically fake hit-markers afterwards to whine about cheaters, then face shooting kids at the aforesaid distance, and always, always escalating the fake drama. He's not there for the same reason as anybody else, and the sooner he's banned from every site, the better. That's if his hard drive doesn't get searched first: the bloke's a proper wrong 'un.

What tier?

Despite Brexit, we still have an agreement with the EU where we don't charge each other customs duties for items produced or manufactured in the UK or EU. But by and large that doesn't apply to airsoft toys and tat. VAT is still chargeable, from anywhere in the world, and the old £16 minimum limit is long since gone. Now, anything up to £135 should have 20% UK VAT added at source. The seller has to register with HMRC and pay over the VAT to them[*], then the item ought to come through without further VAT or duties. Over £135, anything imported becomes liable for customs duties (from the list of ten kajillion types of goods), VAT, and then all the charges that get added on for working out and paying those charges. I can see that getting complicated and risky, e.g. you've got an order containing a mix of items that attract different rates of duty, or if HMRC disagrees with the categorisation or value. [*] I imagine there are ways to arrange things so that VAT and duties end up just resting in your account for longer than might be strictly necessary, or where the basket price that you're charging doesn't always match the value declared to HMRC.

Constructively, Facebook pages for specific airsoft sites tend to be a good place to cadge lifts.

The reasonableness of which is entirely up to the magistrates, judge, or in the case of this Scotch Sheriff, "playing cowboys and Indians". You're unlikely to be prosecuted or convicted, but clearly you should expect a police response when Concerned Karen calls it in as a fully-semi-automatic-assault-murderiser.

Gel blasters in a previous incident this year. Politics aside, this reinforces the point about even IFs being a no-no for public view now. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12168197/Moment-heavily-armed-cops-swoop-group-kids-playing-gel-blasters-Maidstone-town-centre.html

I see myself more as Jane Fonda. Yes, I know they're very 80s, but they do actually work well for their intended purpose, and are available in tacticool colours.

Sweatbands help to keep the juices contained in the first place. I bought a bunch of cheap ones and rotate them between games.

I've reported it twice, it seems pretty clear that the site is unmaintained and that you could list just about anything there.

tl;dr summary - Hackney, 13 year old with a blue-and-white (or pink-and-white) water pistol[*] gets rammed off his bike and arrested at gunpoint, allegedly. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67148208 While I suspect there's a bit more to it than that[*], it's a salient reminder that waving any vaguely gun-shaped-object in public is now absolutely gagging for an over-reaction by the tools of the State. [*] This is strictly the victimhood side of the narrative, being pushed by what appears to be a BLM offshoot. Similar reports from the US about "neighbourhood water fights" have turned out to actually mean non-consensual shooting of random public victims with gel blasters.

I'm coming to believe that all of the posts at airsoft-hub should get flagged as "suspicious". Isn't that the site that had what purported to be a real Glock 17? [EDIT] no, usedairsoft, and it's still there. So airsoft-hub at least wins out in allowing flagging of dodgy deals, not that anything ever seems to get done about them. https://www.usedairsoft.co.uk/two-tone-replicas/glock-17-m-o-s-gen-5-in-9mm-like-new_i47256

Seen his other listings? I shudder to think what state his "crip" will be in when he moves out. I'm thinking foil over the windows and a lot of UV lights.

It appears to be the not-very-quick-change version that requires the gearbox to be taken out, as opposed to the Edge/Orion boxes where you can go straight in through the back passage. Sadly, price inflation means a an Edge 2.0 / GATE ASTER model will run you close to £300. Unless you really want a pot-metal body, I'm still not seeing any compelling reason to look beyond the Double Eagle M9xx range.

Damn, that's a neat job, I wouldn't have guessed.

That's a weird one. The higher current flow through a MOSFET might encourage overspin, but as you say, that one is specifically designed to prevent it. The PicoAAB doesn't have any programming, right, it's just fit-and-regret? I don't suppose "Fit a Perun AB++ instead" is going to be a popular option?

Not thee, them. https://airsoft-forums.uk/profile/36875-lesteraction/

Ahoy and welcome, Dave. As above, going solo is absolutely fine. Any decent site will do an induction for rentals, and airsofters tend to be a friendly bunch - you'll always find folk keen to help out if you say "It's my first day." Ask someone about their gun and see if you can get them to shut up.

Noice. I assume the Perun pre-cocks based on timing. I find that it does help a little if you get the right setting, but that V3 trigger limits the snappiness. If - when - you go to 11.1V then it all pays off, especially the active-brake, ROF reduction, and burst modes.

Has he been bumping the same advert for over a year without bothering to update the picture? Can't fault the resolve.

About that...

They still are now. I've seen these things go off at people's feet and they simply don't notice them. They might have gone off at mine, for all I know. Gas grenades that go "pop" (by bursting a thin plastic disc) are a bit louder, but still underwhelming compared to even a .209 blank.

Depends on the doggo, working breeds put up with worse. Some sadistic wit is going to lob pyro at it or brrrt it eventually though, because people are worse than dogs. I wouldn't be happy about it, but I probably wouldn't quit a site over it. However, I'd stay well away during games.

"the Licensee and any person authorised to act on the Licensee’s behalf" On the face of it, it's vague enough that (just for example) UKAPU could buy a licence and authorise any airsofter to use it. Which would be hugely cheeky, but I doubt that there's any proactive enforcement going on. As long as you're sticking to the allocated frequencies (or PMR frequencies), is anybody ever going to know or care?

Oh, right, I've just seen the video, I had to download it to get it to play. That... urgh... Nuprol battery and the polarity should be OK, although NiMh is old technology and I wouldn't spend one penny more on it. A 7.4V lipo will do the same job. The basic-bitch mosfet in the Edge can get stroppy at higher voltages and motor draws, but would flash red if so. As @Dan Robinson says, it should flash green when you plug the battery in. If the mosfet isn't flashing green it's misbehaving (or conceivably the batteries are total duds, or your charger has discharged them - some NiMh "smart" chargers can be worse than useless, and Nuprul gonna Nuprol). If you're getting the green flash on connection, then the motor terminal connections are a good shout. It looks like you have the quick-access grip with a squeeze-to-open latch (that's actually a terrible idea normally, but which will be handy here). Be careful when you remove the base plate, there's a little disk in there which sits under the motor that loves to fall out and get lost. Although since this is brand new, I would also agree that the best thing to do is to call the retailer and have them talk you through it, because at least then you'll be doing things under their instruction and they'll be less able to argue the toss on it if it does have to go back. It probably is something simple, that's not a fire-control mosfet, just a simple relay, and there's not much to go wrong there.

Yarrr, only for Marshalls' Mates.