Rogerborg

I'm fine with Novritsch guns. Sure, you'll get some lemons, but he does seem to put some actual effort into upgrading replacing stock internals in much the same way as any bedroom tech would do, for the same or even less money.

Yup, if he's shooting it at his field's bolt action power levels then you can <ackchyually> rules lawyer it all day long, but let's be honest, he's breaking the first rule of airsoft, and nothing else matters after that. I'd be OK with it being used with next-level-down rules, whether that's DMR power and rate of fire, or regular AEG levels if the site doesn't allow DMRs (and I don't think sites should because they're also super exploitable).

= CYMA. However, the current range at PatrolBase doen't seem to have any PDW / short carbines except in the 5xx series with really nasty external plastics, or the Platinum range at £300+. Specna Arms offer plenty of shorties, but honestly I can't keep track of their constant range-rebranding or where the QC is on them at any point in time. I'll say that my 2021 Edge has been fine run as a DMR with an M140 spring, and has decent factory radiusing and none of the rough finish that they were turning out for a while. The Edge 2.0 range with the GATE ASTER mosfets offer decent value for money. Anything in airsoft is a gamble though.

The question still applies though: what do you want your new girlfriend to do that your old one didn't? I'm not being trite here, just trying to come up with concrete preferences that might point to one make and model over another.

£10 more than brand-new and in-stock from justpaintball (lies! (their name, not the price)).

What are you wanting it to do that your CM16 Raider doesn't already do? Bearing in mind that all airsoft guns are basically the same, or can be made to be, and how vague your requirements are, the answer is - really - whatever you want the most. Folk are just going to pitch our personal favourites. So I'll pitch my go-to of a G36C plus an M4 magwell adapter. Jing Gong, CYMA, Specna, whatever you fancy, they're all basic and robust. Compact with the stock folded, 247mm inner barrel is enough for woodland accuracy, or you can hide a longer one inside a suppressor silencer. One minor consideration with V3 gearboxes is that that you can wire in a mosfet like a Perun AB++ without even opening them up as the trigger tabs are on the outside.

Quoted for truth. Ignore these poors, if you don't have enough toys to overflow your storage, buy more, then just stack them in your boot.

Seller looks OK, to be fair, and not a throbber. But that's not the sort of money that I'd want to gamble.

Sending someone funds that you can't recover for a gun that they're "really reluctant to sell": what could possibly go wrong?

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.