Rogerborg

Uh, are you in the UK? If so, what muppet sold him that? If you're in the UK, then what he's got there is a Section 5 firearm, not an airsoft gun. Any site that knows what it's doing will tell him to put it back in the bag and play with something else, lock it to semi (which I doubt he can do), or go home. I'd strongly suggest not thinking or talking about fps, because the question then always becomes "using what weight of BB?" You want to be thinking in Joules, using the weight of ammo that you're going to be using. I honestly couldn't tell you what fps any of my guns are shooting at, because I only ever look at the Joules number on my chrono (set to the weight of BB that I'm using), and any half decent site will be doing the same. 0.2g is fine for indoors, but outdoors you want the heaviest BB that your hop unit can lift, and your wallet can stand. For a full auto / burst mode gun, I find 0.28g is a decent compromise of price vs performance. Heavier is just fine, if your hop can lift it. You're fine to use 11.1V in your gun. If the retailer says otherwise then they're looking for an excuse to void the warranty. But if that's what they want to do, they'll do it whatever you use, or say you used. If you experience overspin and double-shooting on semi (you pull the trigger once, the gun shoots twice) then you can use the active-brake or pre-cock settings on your ASTER to fix that. You've bought a perfectly decent gun, and it'll do you proud if you feed and treat it well. As above, clean the barrel (YouTube has plenty of guides), give it 0.25g or heavier, and get the hop dialled in (again, YouTube will help, or ask here). Your ASTER is great, it's worth the time figuring out its features. But none of that matters, as long as you're having fun in game. Plenty of us have a blast using the cheapest CYMAs, shotguns, revolvers and such. Airsoft isn't about having the bestest top-tier laser-beast gun, it's about the experience of taking and making hits with whatever you have to hand. Your gun will be as good as anything else out there, once you figure it out - you haven't wasted your money.

I hear he barely ever mentions the Embassy balcony.

Have you tried them both out in-game? What is it about the ONE series that you find better then the EDGE 2.0? You have a great fire control system, and (I believe, pending correction) a better quick-change system. On the EDGE series, you can change the spring just by removing the buffer tube, but on the ONE series, the gearbox needs to come out. As above, muzzle energy doesn't mean much, as long as you're putting out 1J. Or not even that: there are people with Tokyo Marui guns that cost as much as both of yours put together that shoot at 0.7J. If you want to get closer to your site limits, you can throw in a stronger spring easily enough thanks to the quick-change system. Although all the usual caveats apply about optimising airseal first. You haven't made a bad choice, and the ASTER has some nice features. Adding some pre-cock will give you snappy semi-auto response, burst are always fun, and if you run on 11.1V lipo and/or throw in a beefier motor, you'll be glad you've got active braking available.

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.