Rogerborg

Sounds like GearGrindr. Nope, I pay to go to an airsoft site to play airsoft, not to talk about playing airsoft. I can do that here free and without travelling. Still, I am grateful for their honesty that the actual play (if any breaks out) will be a completely chaotic whangfest.

Tan? Tan? 60 degrees is beige, you degenerates. 😠

This 100% reads like a shill advert. I'm not saying that it is. But it 100% reads like it.

Kegel exercises should help with that.

Specna are OK at the moment. G&G are solid choices, with decent plastic, but are woefully short on features given their current prices. A QC spring is a deal breaker for me now, in any commodity AEG. If it were my money, with polymer as a requirement, I'd go Double Eagle M9xx.

The obvious question would be: what do you want your new girlfriend to do for you that your current one won't?

Seems to be a voluntary participant. Absolute champ, doing more to support our boys than any Defence Minister in living memory.

Dammit, my grandads fought Hitler to protect Great Bri'ish traditions like dogging.

How's the front sight? Does it look vertical and true? Have you tried removing and re-seating the rear to be sure that it's on squarely? If so, I'd secure the gun on a bench, tie a string to the rear sight peephole and run it in a straight line over the front sight post. Stand in front of the gun and see how well it lines up with the barrel. It'll only be approximate, but it might give you an idea if it's badly off. Worst case, you could throw on a red dot, unless the rail is wildly off from the barrel.

Eh, maybe. The site won't want to admit liability and their insurer won't want to indemnify them, but in the event where someone gets rekt, courts like to make awards against the deepest pockets to ensure that the rekee isn't left hanging. For example, motor insurance that doesn't cover the type of use at the time, or even when vehicles are stolen and crashed, or are sold on without cancelling the policy. The underwriter is generally obliged to pay out, and can then come after the policyholder to try and recoup their losses if they made a fraudulent declaration or neglected to tell them something material. There's nothing to stop you naming the individual and the site in the suit though. Vowles vs Evans and the Welsh Rugby Union is the precedent that keeps coming back to mind, where an unpaid volunteer referee was held to have a duty of care to ensure players' safety (and had failed it). In that case, the WRU's insurers paid out. I'm generally agreeing with the point though. I'm there to get shot with low energy plastic BBs, and accept that there will be loud but not deafening bangs, and that I might catch a metal BFG in the shins. If I suffer a life changing injury due to a higher energy projectile, or an earball bursting explosion, I'm not just going to shrug it off and say "Well, who could possibly have foreseen that?"

I can old-man-yells-at-cloud about them too, it's just that we hadn't got there yet. I've seen a few pyro-lobbing-things described as "mortars" and "airsoft", but they seem even more niche than TAGs, and mostly just talked about for, well, this.

At the sites I've played, it's been "1 in the air" or "Every 2 seconds" - which at DMR ranges is much the same if you actually wait to see the impact or miss. In practice, I've never seen it policed at all, and I've seen other DMR players taking the absolute piss with it - and it's very easy to do when you see a target appear. Example, we had a bloke on here reckoning that he might set his mosfet to limit him to a shot every 0.5 seconds, i.e. four times as fast as the above rules/guidelines. DMRs are super, duper exploitable. I enjoy(ed) mine, but if I were running a site, I'd ban them off entirely, as one of my local sites already has.

When an airsoft version appears, I will have one, even if it costs more than the real thing. Hi-Points are literally bulletproof.

Ahoy and welcome. Yes, the site will be open on "walk on" days. The pricing on that is for people who have their own gear: gun, eye protection, and BBs. Some sites have got back to really meaning "walk on" as in, turn up, pay and play. Some (many/most) now require pre-booking for "walk ons". If you haven't played before then you'll want a rental package which will cover the above, so you can see if you enjoy the experience without spunking hundreds on a daft toy first. These are always pre-booked as the site will have limited amounts of rental guns. They tend to run £20 - £25 more than a "walk on", which looks expensive, but since you'd go through £10 or more of your own BBs anyway, it's not actually that much more. And if you have gun or battery issues, they'll just fling another one at you and you can get on with playing. As @rocketdogbertsays, it's best to ask the local site for clarification on all of this, as their explanations can be a little... minimalst. And yes, it's fine to rock up solo, we're all there for the same thing, and it's super easy to get talking to people. Just ask someone about their gun, and see if you can get them to shut up.

They do make a fair bit of sense if you're already slow-and-steady on the trigger. I've actually de-DMRd mine because it was, if anything, too good, and it's quite hard to not trigger spam just a bit when you're presented with a tasty target. That's the joy of airsoft toys, nothing is permanent.

Hopefully they never see any of those HPA metal-shredding BB-hose videos. Sure, it's not really a concern, especially for a bolt action in in EnglandWaleshire when at most it'll just get bumped up a category to a very low powered air rifle. Scotland, on the other hand... <looks around nervously>

Decent day indoors at Biohazard. They made good use of both floors, and play was generally good natured and fair. There were a couple of players taking the piss with rate of fire and getting away with it because - wait for it - they were using silent HPA proton-blasters. If the marshals can't hear it, they can't act on it, sadly. Oh, dry firing in the safe zone. Jesus wept, and there's no way to excuse that since the site owner was chatting with folk while they were doing it. I now habitually wear polycarb sunglasses in "safe" zones since they axiomatically aren't. Still, the actual play was great, although if my faith in the Emperor wasn't so strong I might question His decision about the coverage (or lack thereof) of standard pattern Guard flak armour. All the squishy bits got peppered.

<ackchyually> The legal limit is with "any missile" that it's capable of shooting. It could very well be over 2.5J without hop applied, or with a heavier BB. There's no reason that the State can't drop a 6mm steel BB in there for testing, since the legislation is targeted at potential harm. It's quite possible that a lot of our "non-firearms" might actually fall foul of a destructive test.</ackchyually>

Yeah... and no, since apparently[*] Colonial criminals have taken to putting orange tips on their real steel yeet cannons. Anything gun shaped could be a gun. I mean, two tones shoot as well as RIFs, right? I don't like that we live in a world where assault style toys result in hysterics, but I don't think we can put that genie back in its bottle. [*] For interwebs levels of veracity.

Which is rather the point that I'm beleaguering. What gets sent downrange is the choice of the finger behind the trigger rather than the face at the other end. Eh, never mind me, mild tinnitus makes me kind of grumpy about pretty much anything that goes bang. I wish His standard armour covered a little more of my vulnerables, I took a lot of deaths in His name from rib-shots.

Cover it up, and don't wear a balaclava to hide your age? Given that Karen is going to scream "Assault style toy!" if she sees you walking down the street with it. And public possession of an IF is an offence, although we have a Sheriff judgement that "playing cowboys and Indians" would be a reasonable excuse. Sounds to me like Dibble handled it OK-ish. It's not like Karen would have told them that it was bright red.

I should be clear that I'm not having a "Ban ALL the things rant" since I know it's futile, but I consider Mk5s and even 9mm blanks too loud for indoors given the likelihood of them going off close to ears in an enclosed space. There are a lot of fun things that are bad for you, but when bad means irreversible hearing loss, and when you can have fun with merely naughty things instead, I'm struggling to find a justification for them. My core problem with the fun-but-hazardous things in airsoft is that they're a risk not to the owner but to other people, including, well...

Strands, no. I'm not aware of Ares using solid core wires, although it would be nice if they are. Sorry, that's one for Mr Multimeter.

Look at it this way: would you be OK with someone running around with a steel bayonet fitted? It's OK, they promise not to stab anyone with it on purpose. I'd assume not, since the risk is easily foreseeable. And once a spiky muzzle device has caused an injury, we can't pretend to not know that it's capable of it. I did some H&S training which hammered on the point that the absolute worst thing you can do from a liability perspective is to not mitigate a known risk. So is it reasonable to shrug and say "Well, I'm glad that will never happen again" ? I don't know, but I'd rather not be the next person to get impaled by one.

I dunno, that sounds like a half baked idea.