Rogerborg

TAG launchers already serve this purpose. As noted, some sites are OK with them, some want nothing to do with them. Anything that's lobbing a substantial projectile for a useful distance will be operating at higher energies than shooting glasses are rated for, and it'll only take one person looking up to see what's coming in to illustrate why this is a safety and insurance problem.

They are fun little plastic-fantastics. The gearbox is solid, the motor has speed but little torque so the auto is fine but semi is a bit comical[*], the short barrel and front end flex provides "area suppression" abilities, and the V3 trigger has a pull that spans postcodes. In that condition, yeah, £40, I might have made an offer, but I'm after one with a non-mullered front end to sort my equally glued-and-taped one. [*] Literally comical, a teammate and I had a good laugh out of me nearly friendly-firing him, but it took so long for the motor to audibly wind up that I actually managed to get my finger off the trigger first.

Actually, yes, G36C is a good shout. The CYMA claims 2.3kg, the JG 2.4kg, but as you say, the front rails are surprisingly heavy (and removable). If you're running an optic, then you can remove the iron sights, and even lose the stock if you want to shave every gram. Actually, every gram would be losing the top rail as well, and eyeballing it. Bullpups are also viable, as are "SMGs" (everything's shooting 5.95mm BBs). A P90 come in at 2kg, and is very handy. Whatever you go with, one thing I'd suggest is considering an optic on a tall riser. Not having to hold the gun up at your eye level can make a big difference, and all the tacticool room-clearing bois are loving having an extra 2" of erection. I have actually run this in CQB and it works well, especially with a full face paintball mask. Bit of an issue with shooting through windows and such, but that's less of an issue outdoors.

Oh, herrrro. Although you do need to go plastic bodied, and Luke at Negative bought up all the Galaxies in the world a while back. Anyone know if there are plastic bodied MP5Ks in stock anywhere?

I hear that each Novritsch brand BBs is individually gargled three times by Nov himself.

I reckon two of them might even stop a BB from Licking Mustard.

But you use 100% of that? Oh, mate, no, never go over 70% of your 85% limit!

You gotta pump those risers up. Those are rookie heights in this racket.

Mmm, while I accept that storing lipos at somewhere less than completely full will probably eke out a bit more life from them, it's not something that I bother with, for several reasons. The recommended storage voltage / energy seems to vary by manufacturer, so how is the charger going to get it right? They'll self discharge from full anyway. Which may not be ideal, but... When do you not fully charge your phone, tablet or laptop using the same battery technology? Do you worry about those? Airsoft batteries are consumables, and paying the cost of a bottle of BBs every couple of years is noise compared to any other airsoft cost.

I swithered between Thanks and Careful, Now on that one. I mean, I'm sure it'll put electrons in, but my concern would be to which cells, and whether it will stop. Still, charge in an Explosion Containment Pie Dish and it'll probably outlast the gearbox.

I've yet to have anything that won't hop a 0.28g, although I think they're all running Maple Leaf buckings at the moment. Might be work asking if you can cadge a few heavier BBs at the chrono.

Counterpoint: since shimming the barrel is about the cheapest and quickest thing that it's possible to do, why not?

I reckon so, I've also seen people reporting issues with handguards, although it'll be a lottery what gets through and what doesn't.

Given that's a plastic gearboxed gun, and being given away for reasons unknown, I wouldn't be spending more than the bare minimum necessary to find out if it even works. Unfortunately, even the very cheapest combination of charger + battery is going to run you £30+. Airsoft isn't a particularly cheap hobby to get into.

Yup, sold under many brand names, including "PINTY". These work just fine for airsoft purposes where a breath of wind makes more difference than seconds of arc on your sight.

Yup, I run 0.28g outdoors. The tl;dr on the physics is that the 0.2g will be faster when it leaves the barrel but will lose that speed much sooner. The heavier BB will hold its energy, go further, and they're also a bit less prone to being blown around. You'll want to go as heavy as your budget and hop unit allow.

It's just a marketplace like eBay, the experience is down to the individual seller. I've only had issues with one item, a solid (well, hollow) M4 stock which got knocked back by the courier at the Chinese end twice (conceivably due to them cracking down on 'firearms' parts) and never made it out of the country. The refund was easy enough, and you can save a little to a lot over the same item bought from a UK seller.

The only way to police that is to test in game. Do that, do it a lot, and many of these issues will get caught. Don't do it, and whatever you did it at the start of the day was just theatre.

Yup, my local CQB sites do that, loaded with 0.2g, with a maximum site weight of 0.25g, so it's reasonable on the face of it. However, what it doesn't control for is when some clever-dickhead is intending to rock 0.4g in his HPA'd m4-mag Franken-Cappa, knowing that it'll chrono much lower with 0.2g and that the chances of being caught are essentially nil. I lost a fingernail to what I'm convinced was that scenario. There's no perfect solution, but if everyone was informed and honest, then we wouldn't need chrono. If you're going to do it, and do it for safety reasons, you might as well do it properly, and on the precautionary principle.

<Mounts hobby horse> Which is why sites should be putting their own BBs in for chrono, and 0.4g, not 0.2g </dismounts>

Not...

Unless they allow binary triggers because a marshal has one. Unprecedented, I know.

If it's a feeding issue rather than motor overspin, then yes, surprisingly, it did help[*] with double feeding issues on my MP5K after I'd meddled with it. We're talking a small indentation. I ran a 6mm just a few turns forwards with gentle pressure, then in reverse to deburr it. [*] Always assuming that it wasn't just another disassemble-reassemble which resulted in everything lining up properly.

It crossed mine when I realised that I was cannibalising my existing keyrings to attach various things to assorted stuff, so bought a bunch of them.

I've never regretted buying a load of keyrings. Alternatively, yes, paracord or just a robust cable tie.