Rogerborg

It's a very silly and ludicrously expensive hobby played by overgrown kids who take it all far too seriously. It's also great fun if you don't take that description of it too seriously. You'll have a huge adrenaline hit from your first couple of games, so I'd rent first and put off making any purchases until you're sure that you're going to stick with it. The classifieds are full of what we might call "Renters Remorse" packages from people who bought early and then realised that the long term reality is a bit different from what carefully edited YouTube videos will show you. This isn't to put you off, just a cautionary note about enjoying it for what it is.

Cry harder. I mean, cry, rant, sing us a song, tell us a story. There's a minimum post count to access the classifieds system, to put off scammers and spambots. If you make a few more posts, you should be good. Also, ahoy and welcome.

It seems to be a maintenance thing, in the belief that it'll keep the bucking material (which may or may not be silicone itself) supple. Which it may or may not do. It's not going to harm them though, and if you have ten year old buckings, and silicone lube to hand, it's worth a try.

RIP to all the people murderkilled with that point-blanking DMR, sad loss to the sport.

Another another here for M-pacts. I "saved" a few £££ recently by buying some HANDLANDY gloves which are fully armoured over the back of the hand and all the fingers and thumb. Great protection, might do OK for impactful workwear, but awful ergonomics for triggering. Back to Amazon they went, and I splashed the extra on M-Pacts. Zero regrets, they're ideal.

Adds +10 speed, +15 to dodge.

For once I'm not trying to start a handbag fight over lubing rubbers, and silicone can't hurt in any way. I'm just curious where the idea for (habitually) lubing hop rubbers came from given that they're about the cheapest consumable part in a gun, and it'll be wiped off the mound rapidly anyway. To be fair, Luke seems to be a fan of lubing at the end of the day and cleaning at the start, and shows a startling difference in air seal and energy between dried out (with alcohol, or time in this case) and lubed. So after 10 years of sitting, I do actually agree that you might as well spooge whatever silicone based lube you've got in there. I wouldn't use anything else though - I'm not at all fussy about metal to metal and will use any old grease or low-fling oil, but silicone hop rubbers and nitrile rubber o-rings only see silicone.

Eh? What lube are you putting in your hop unit or barrel? OP, I'd put some silicone (liquid or spray) into the nozzle, then blow it out with some auto blasts until it's clear so you don't get any into the hop rubber. And maybe some low fling oil into the gearbox. I mean, ideally you'd open it up, clean it out and re-grease it, but these aren't really precision machines. I've dripped a little chainsaw oil into a gearbox before without calamity.

If I were to generalise, not every player who's there to "win" is a problem, but every problem player is there to "win", by imposing their own imaginary reality. Whether that's the essentially silly game of pretend gunslingers (often played to arbitrary and muddled rules that can change half way through), being the highest imaginary rank of tactical genius, or by beating the rules. I suspect Licking Mustard falls into that last group, given the shenanigans he clearly revels in. Me, I'm mostly there to pleasure other men by giving them loud encouragement when they slam their balls in my face.

The only time I've genuinely Had Words with anyone on site was a Major Moveup, who I... cordially... invited to show us how it was done rather than just yelling "orders". To be fair, he actually did say "All right then, I will if you won't", C-clamped up, and John Wicked into the chokepoint room. Sadly, that was shortly followed by multiple shouts of "Marshal!", "Take your hits, you cheating [cad]!" and "Like [fork] I'm taking that, do one". Because... Yup, the root case of most airsoft evil. 5% of players are 95% of problems, just get rid of them.

Oh, sure that got binned off on mine before I even fitted the mosfet. Just be careful not to trap the wires when closing the handguard. And yes, I really like mine too, especially with 11.1V, a meatier motor, and the Perun to give bursts outdoors and pre-cock semi in CQB. I bought it as a "leave it alone, you muppet" backup-backup, but I've ended up using it more than anything else. I'm now playing a game of chicken against myself to see how long I can go for without opening the gearbox: it's still got its factory tamper sticker on it, although it's had some lubricating spooge spurted in it both top and bottom orifices.

Huh, no, that's a new one on me. Was that all stock?

Snap. There's not a lot of room in there, so I run the mosfet side-by-side with the battery up front. I'm using 11.1V 1400mAh batteries with 105mm x 20mm x 16mm dimensions, and Deans. Due to the wonders of V3 gearboxen, I didn't even have to open it up to fit the Perun, just wired it to the trigger contact on the outside of the box.

If you mean type of magazines, then it claims to just take regular G36 / AR36, i.e. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/airsoft-rifle-magazines?*59=389 If you mean mid caps in stock, well, that's a different question. You can swap the magwell out to one that takes M4/AR/STANAG magazines - mine needed a bit of filing and sanding internally and externally to get everything fitting smoothly, but now feeds better off of M4 magazines than it did off of G36 ones. This one claims to be specifically for Specna Arms, although I would caution that it looks to be drop shipped. Other alternatives are available. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/specna-arms-ar15-magazine-adapter-for-specna-arms-g-series-ar36

What's that chronoing at?

Welcome, friend!

Reddit sez: "Phoenix Airsoft and NoMansLand mainly" MusTard adds them even when it's quite clear that his BBs are hooking off into next postcode. He's creating pure fictional drama. Indeed, my main problem is that anyone who get into airsoft after watching his garbage is likely to be someone who finds those sort of antics appealing. "Narcissistic personality disorder — one of several types of personality disorders — is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism." Sound familiar?

Very much dependent on site, season, shrubbery and situation. What works at the bright treeline won't be ideal in the dark depths. Most stuff works if you stay still, nothing works if you move. Nice, but isn't that digiflora with extra capitalism?

I'm not even sure it's that deep, because it doesn't take much critical thinking to realise that you're far better off retaining people who want to avoid trouble than the very few throbbers who are there for it. The basic problem, and it's not one that I'm blaming sites for, is that owners and marshals aren't there to have arguments either. Easier to pretend that you didn't see what you saw, hear what you heard, or that you couldn't identify the culprit, then get back to bantering or InstaFacing.

I stopped myself from railing about this earlier, but I might as well now: that seems pointless, because you won't know that they've ignored it until the reputational damage is already done. You can't trust a rental, visitor or newbie to honour it, and you don't need a regular to sign it. It's about the people, not the processes. Which gets me back to my usual rant about how great airsoft would be if sites stopped wasting everyone time with long briefs that the majority don't need to hear, and the problem minority aren't listening to, and just kicked the gits out. Which is why this thread brings me such utter delight.

It'll only take a few Mustards tarnishing their reputation for a site to get camera-shy. My hope is that they'll see the sense in moving to a pre-approval-required model where they trust their regulars not to stitch them up with clickbait.

They're all over the place. There's a sweet spot for just the right amount of physical pain and abuse that arouses them, but they demonetise, delete or ban people for hurty words, and they really don't like anything bang-gun related, even when nobody actually gets hurt, and the message is "Don't do this". Brandon Hererra's demonstration of why you shouldn't try and make a Shinzo Abe boomstick at home didn't even stay up for a day - but they still left up the reaction videos to it, showing the spiciest bits.

Good for them. From the thread, it looks like he's been giving 3J facials with an overpowered pistol - he's a compo claim waiting to happen, I can't see why any site reckons he's a net positive for them. Anywhere being used as a film set for his dramas doesn't give a stuff about their players, that's for sure.