Rogerborg

One, I could see, but how can it move multiple BBs upwards once there's nothing under the bottom one? 😕

You might very well be right, and an IF it should come through OK eventually even if it gets caught and a firearms declaration is demanded. But I have to ask, is your experience from this year, as things seem to have been tightened up.

"And then James May repeated the words of my brother from over forty years previously. Meccano put deliberate mistakes into their instructions to encourage young minds to find their own engineering solutions. And creeping up behind me like an unwelcome proctologist, the sense of betrayal returned."

Can't stand all the headshots.

What I hope is that you'll do an honest appraisal of the MaXXX versus the ZCI, ideally a before-and-after bench test with the variables and human factors minimised. So much of this hobby is about feeling good about what we fit rather than any objective benefit.

And "holiday rules" apply when it's not your local site, and especially if you've dropped £100 on the experience and feel a sense of entitlement to enjoy yourself any way you fancy. My rule of thumb is that 5% of any subsection of humanity will be absolute throbbers. I reckon 380 people at this event won't really need telling how to behave, and 20 won't listen. It all comes down to enforcement on the day. Gets back to my other hobby horse about door staff having the ideal skill set for marshalling. Now this is actually heartening to hear. I don't want anybody to have to be kicked off site, but the sooner it happens to the 5%, the better it is for everyone else.

Which will be enforced even less than muzzle energy. And nobody here has said that. We're baffled by why some toy guns are being arbitrarily restricted in ammo and usage based purely on their external appearance. What's changed once is likely to change again. Not that it matters much at the end of the day, it just winds me up because I like to play strictly by the letter and spirit of any rules, but it's impossibru to do that if they keep changing. And one of my least favourite parts is being howled at by a marshal because they didn't read the last-second update, or - as I'm sure we've all experienced - didn't even listen to the safety or game brief. Now, here, I 100% agree. However. It's less work to get things right than to get them wrong. When organisers still choose to make it up as they go along, and hope for the best, they deserve to be admonished for it. Make shaming great again.

Being a cheap Scotchman (I know that's redundant) I tend to invert guns while mag-changing to save every precious little sphere.

Exhibit A. Which brings us to... It's not malice that I'm thinking of, but miscommunication, or ignorance. There's a lot of it going around. Because if it's shooting 1.1J then it's not a DMR in any meaningful sense, it just looks like one. That's the point we're making here: that they're punishing guns based purely on some (arbitrary, undefined) appearance, not their performance. If everything is limited to 1.1J, when why on earth are some guns restricted in ammo and usage? What possible rationale is behind that? Especially as I guarantee that there will be folk running 1.5J Mk23s or CO2 pistols without an eyebrow being raised. I wouldn't be surprised if there's far fewer on Sunday, one way or another.

But they don't chrono, and even if you do get caught in game, all that happens is you need to change guns. What could possibly go wrong.

Never fails to amaze me when marshals wear hi-vis vests or jackets, but a camo cap. If I was only going to make one part of my body day-glo, it would be my head. (I know, I know, my profile pic )

That actually sounds like a smart idea, although I imagine the stacking at chokepoints will be over 9,000. Rules are here. Yes, their treatment of DMRs is utterly inexplicable. It's just "we don't like long guns, cope with it". Predictions: You'll be told by a marshal that all DMRs are prohibited. Bang-pyro will be flung for the first half of the day on Saturday, and nobody will be ejected over it. Someone will argue the toss over BB shower grenades, because shower claymores are allowed because of reasons. 40-Mikes will be used and abused, because nobody said they couldn't. All that said, if it really is mostly in play, it could be a great weekend.

Legally, no, the restriction is only on realistic imitations. Practically speaking, Border Force seems to have cracked down a lot this year and it would be risky to post it over. If you want to bring it yourself, your first hurdle will be the airline at the Hong Kong end. I'd check with them and see what their requirements are. Best of luck, this is a question that gets asked a lot, but we rarely see any answers.

You should, but I very much doubt that you'll need to, any more than I expect you'll need to chrono. Or course, what goes out also comes in, and this is CQB. It's not an event that I'd attend without full face protection (and not mesh).

Wasn't 2021 Ai500 at the Citadel more what you'd call "Operation Chokepoint"? 2021 Citadel review: shitshow with shitty weather. 2022 Citadel review: shitshow with better weather. Paying them £97 again seems to be the triumph of hope over experience. Experience suggests that the opposite is usually the case.

Sorry to hear that. Now that we've heard about it, I'd be happy to discuss it, even though it's OT for a thread specifically about Licking Mustard. Did NAF offer any help trying to find and recover it?

Cheers, much appreciated - thanks for putting the time in.

How would they know? He has no qualms about booking in under fake names to get around bans.

Quite possibly. While "any thing which has the appearance of being a firearm" is an extremely broad definition, it's hard to see how a half-sized bright orange toy could meet it. The take-away point is that it can be prosecuted, and the process isn't one that I'd wish on anyone.

First, I'm not encouraging you to do it. Quite the opposite. But all you actually need is "a reasonable excuse (the proof whereof lies with [you])". There's nothing in the statute that requires you go to your local police for permission - and it's not like they have a statutory power to refuse. It would definitely be the sensible thing to do though. When I used to do swords-and-axes reenactment, we trained in public (and got a few recruits that way) but were careful to liaise with the local community policing unit, and had contact names and a copy of our public liability insurance to hand. Is this by yourself, or some sort of multi-person photo-shoot? I ask because there's a pragmatic difference in a rambler stumbling across you doing a Trenchcoat Mafia tribute act with a selfie stick, versus seeing you chatting a photographer wearing a hi-vis - the universal symbol for "it's OK for me to be doing this".

In the general case, yes. Not so much a two-tone - and we do see a surprising amount of of regret purchases of those. Barring a close personal inspection and test, I'd always assume the latter, and that any used purchase is no more than a shell that's likely to contain most of the internal parts, probably arranged in something like the intended fashion.

Careful now: he has a very specific set of skills.

Doesn't look like it, but he avoided jail. Even the Sheriff sounds disbelieving that it reached court, but reach it it did. Just keep your reasonable excuse to hand.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in cold sweat, yelling "No, the Bayeux Tapestry is not a primary source!"