Rogerborg

But it's fully equipped! What... uh... what is he magnifying? 😕

Mmm, a lie doesn't become true just because loads of people repeat it. Folk will always find excuses to justify what they've already decided to do, airsoft or otherwise. It's up to sites to make their minds up on this one, but I'm sure we know how lackadaisical and/or clueless many of them are about the miles that some (not all) players will take when given an inch. And I guess it's still not as exploitable as the much more common trigger-spammed DMR.

Oops, I missed the "real". Yup, an airsoft toy is available, but the review for it there doesn't look very complimentary.

I'll see your Guzzi and raise you a Royal Enfield Bullet AVL.

Straight, short, zero effort: I think these play fast and loose with the concept of "bolt action" given that they can shoot faster than semi-auto DMRs are meant to shoot at most sites.

Thanks, I had no idea that existed. It looks like an interesting choice. How was the accuracy? Seems to be in stock at (at least) Zero One, price isn't too mental for an airsoft toy.

I had to look up Bulldogs, the beloved workhorses of the BBGunz4U style sellers. "This is the NEW Bulldog Proline R.I.S 6mm airsoft gun, it is an outstanding new AEG unlike any other rifle on the market today. It has a lightweight polymer and ABS body similar to a sportline gun but it has full metal internals the same as most Gen 3 rifles. This mix makes this airsoft guns a hybrid in today’s world of airsoft, lightweight compared with most full metal Gen 3 guns but can match them in durability and firepower due to its Gen 3 internals." Gen whut? Sportwho? Prolapse? Bayonet, check, skull facemask, check. Shockingly, no Raven GBB. So, anyway. Price £100. Price £100. Price £100.

To make it more like Modern Call of Warfare?

Mmm, that's a bit of a dilemma for sites now. The unspecified-virus-of-unknown-origin got them used to running with pre-booked limited numbers. But now they're finding that airsofters are a fickle bunch who will happily RSVP then wake up on Sunday morning, hear the rain on the roof, roll over and go back to sleep. They're going to have to decide whether to go with full pre-pay - and accept reduced numbers who book and pay, and those who pay and block slots but then don't show up - or go back to the Before Times of actual walk on days, with the uncertainly of whether they'll get nobody showing up when it rains, or everybody showing up when it's sunny. I have no idea how this will shake out, but to be brutally honest, I'm more in the category of player who'd rather make the decision on the morning, not eleventeen days beforehand.

That comes free with your UKARA number.

You have two pieces of negative feedback. One from @DaktariT who has made a perfectly reasonable comment here, so I doubt you're referring to him. The other is from @Tommo92who joined in August and who has had zero interaction with this forum other than with your advert, and is vanishingly unlikely to be reading this. Perhaps having a generalised rant about this whole forum based on one person who is only tenuously a member might not be the best way to win friends and influence people.

Oh, nice, it shows per-cell voltages so you can see if you've got a problem one.

A spooky ghost?

Ahoy and welcome. Mmm, airsoft can look like it's over-burdened with overweight, overgrown kids, but... no, wait, I'll think myself out of this hole somehow. 🤔 Don't take it too seriously and it can be great fun, and I include gear and toy gun choices in that. At the end of the day, everything is a 6mm BB blowgun and you can be competitive with even the cheapest CYMAs until you're sure that you're going to stick with it.

It might not though, then that time is sunk. And it could have gone into finding that you can get much better value elsewhere even if they shipped free and gratis. Similarly with used sales (gnus, cars): crazy asking prices on the assumption that you'll do the dance, mate, haggle them down, mate, everyone knows that, that's just the game, mate. I know some people do enjoy the thrill of bargaining down to what you can just click on elsewhere, but I suspect that's going to become an increasingly niche selling strategy in an era of easy comparison shopping.

If this is your 18th birthday (I assume from 2/3 years + college) then you might find that a local site will give you your a membership (i.e. UKARA) number as soon as you hit 18. In fact, there's no particular reason why you can't be a member before then, it's just that 18 is the minimum age to buy any imitation, realistic or otherwise.

£150 new now, so you're swapping 3 mags for a warranty. Mind you, given the number of pre-abused "new" gnus that PatrolBase apparently send out, maybe that isn't a crazy trade.

Bit of both. Voltage will determine how fast the motor wants to spin with no load. Current will limit how fast it can spin under load. And I agree that C is king, airsoft batteries tend to come in very wimpy compared to RC equivalents. One of the few actually interesting things I've seen on a Facebook group was a bloke testing airsoft batteries against RC for internal cell resistance and in every case, the airsoft cells were worse, even fresh out of the box.

Huh, that is a fair point, Chinese migrant workers got blamed for importing the coofs to Italy back in 2020.

Well, about 80% of a respray. Also, it's one of those toys where you'd want to have some sort of warranty support for if[*] the gears grenade. [*] When.

Thanks for the followup, sounds like you're on a roll with fixing stuff.

Thanks for the followup, it's good to hear that you got it solved. I don't like Omega nubs for this reason, they seem quite prone to it.

My Canadian girlfriend agrees. This isn't Facebook: you're not going to fool anyone, or fool us that you're fooling yourself. All[*] airsoft toys are cheap Chinese made tat with various degrees of markup and marketing. You're selling them, so you'll lie about them in order to sell them. You can go ahead and lie about how much you're lying, but... this isn't Facebook. [*] With the exception of Tokyo Marui, but you're not trying or lying to sell us Tokyo Marui.

Opinions vary on how safe they actually are, but better than nothing. I charge mine in a deep ceramic pie dish. If you seen any sign of damage or puffing, I'd replace them.

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