Rogerborg

That suggests that the magazine isn't pushing the BBs up quickly enough. Have you tried another mag? Something which might have helped when I had a feeding issue was running a 6mm-ish drill bit up the feed tube and by hand and with a few twists and light pressure, creating a tiny indent in the hop, directly above the feed tube, for the BB to key into. This may just be airsoft woo, but it didn't harm my toy and seemed to help.

It's sad that some woodland sites are still even talking in terms of 0.2g when nobody, literally nobody, is going to be shooting those from a bolt action sniper. Any site that's actually chronoing snipers using 0.2g is gagging for them to creep over 2.5J with realistic ammo. Rant aside, yes, OP is a bit over, but kudos for chronoing on 0.32g and talking in Joules. Is that with the hop set for 0.32g, or with it off? Opinions vary, especially when we're talking about legal limits (what the gun is capable of), but I also chrono with the hop set for the ammo, and I've never played at a site that requires chronoing with hop off. It's easy enough to cut a spring. You're not far over, so I'd go one coil at a time, as heating and flattening the end also knocks a bit off.

They should have. Rate of fire limits and running round corners spiky-thing first are pretty obvious risks that can be mitigated by saying "Not at this site, chaps." And there we go. Well, they're at least rare enough that not many folk are going to get hurt, although that'll be cold comfort to those who do.

The practical issue is that accidentally smacking Pop-Up Paddy in the face with a BB, even a 2.3J 0.5g BB, is significantly less harmful than yeeting 12J of explosive into his earball. There was an image going around of a chap who'd taken a TAG to the face at some Murcan milsim: it had wrecked his goggles and he was streaming with blood. It won't happen until it happens, at which point everybody will instantly develop 20:20 hindsight about how inevitable it was.

I was editing for brevity.

Well, that's the comment I anticipated above. People can and do pop out from cover, or run right into incoming projectiles. Unless he has x-ray vision and precognition, he can only be as accurate as reality allows.

Nice 2 minute intro, are you planning to do any gameplay videos?

Every penny that we spend on airsoft toys is ultimately wasted. However, if you can squeeze some fun out of them, you can recoup that. My personal experience from r, s and flat hops is that they're things that you do to enjoy the process of getting back to the stock performance, not because they turn your toy into a laser. A Maple Leaf macaron does the same job (putting more material inside the barrel window) without butchering your hop unit, arm, and nub. If you do want to double down on your purchase, then you've got a baseline energy level with your (sensible) BB mass. If that's consistent, then you could throw in a heavier spring and start chasing 1J again.

There's a bright orange post-it note stuck on the inside of my front door saying: "EYE-PRO, BATTERIES, WATER". Saved the day several times.

Agreed, there are loads of YouTube videos on how to do it for various guns. Your hop unit will be under the dust cover. What they don't generally show is the trajectory. Credit to Novritsch, he actually explains and shows that here. What I do is to over hop, to ensure that I have at least enough hop applied, then dial it back slowly until the BB just lifts towards the end of its flight. It helps to have someone standing off to the side to observe your trajectory.

Sad times. I have a stack of tired midcaps looking to meet new springs, but can't find any. It's not the cost, it's that I have a principled objection to disposing of anything that could be repaired. If anyone does find a source, please sing out.

That's my issue with them as well. TAG rounds are so far beyond anything else that we use that I'm baffled as to how a properly informed insurer would indemnify a site. Given the masses, muzzle velocities and ranges claimed, they're barely within UK air-gun power levels, which is a particular issue in Scotland. Something something pyrotechnic something, but there are also solid rounds, right? The bangs are earball-hurty even outdoors, and given the ranges and time to target, any claims of precision have to be qualified with "at the time when you launch, not when it lands". They were fun when I saw and heard them used (at a distance) at a filmsim. But they were used only by the organisers, and essentially non-competitively for theatrical effect. Being aimed at people by J. Random Airsofter, that's another thing altogether. We've seen the injuries these thing can cause, right? Smashed eyepro, and significant tissue damage. They seem like something which will only be allowed until its banned, and it'll be a safety rule written in some poor sod's blood.

Of course, that's exactly what someone who was in the SAS would say. 🤔 Who?

QFT. Of course, on the internet, anyone can LARP as a psychopath. I'm guessing that our local gangsta kid had no dad, or too many temporary ones. Which I suspect is also the extent of the gangsta kid's rufty-tufty experience. Me, I keep it old school, street style. Does he actually add any value here? I've had him blocked for as long as I can recall. Which is of course only about 10 minutes given my advanced years.

Almost anything will take almost anything. Some exceptions are early G&G ETU models which could give low battery issues when running 7.4V lipos, and the risk of getting either double shots on semi, or premature engagement on auto, running 11.1V. There's nothing special about lithium vs nimh though, an electron is an electron, and you don't need a "lipo ready" gun, or a mosfet, or any particular gun to run 7.4V lithiums.

"Upgraded" to a monkey-metal basic-bitch dial hop not as good as the plastic unit that you'll find in any Specna. I shudder to think what sort of day-glo orange will be found under that Desert Diarrhoea rattlecan paintjob. Guilty. Transport him to the Colonies, and his children, and their children too.

Marmite has been (seriously) suggested as the solution to conflict in the Middle East. They say it's to address a zinc deficiency, but clearly the real result would be to unite the entire region in fully justified loathing of the foul Satanic sludge.

That. Only psychopaths actually go around prepped to flip-out-and-fite-IRL at a moment's notice. Most "fights" are over before half of the participants know that they've even started. Not that I want to see this at any airsoft site, ever, but the only real interest I have in these handbaggings is how they're resolved. Back in the day, etc, etc, it would have been sorry-mate-lost-the-rag, handshakes all round, and move on - at least the first time. Now, especially when caught on camera which makes everybody look bad (witness the excoriation of all three participants here) it's harder to forgive and forget.

Ah, right, you have chosen wisely. I've gone mesh outdoors now, it's so liberating not to have the worry about fogging.

Nice, what's the hole size on that mesh?

It was still a better love story than Twilight.

Yes, but you get 2 more mags, which you'll doubtless need since it's shooting nearly as weakly as a Tokyo Marui.

Always best to report these directly to @Jedi_Masteror the other mods to get the account nuked from orbit.

Anything except those ASG non-devil blasters. It's always hard to be sure, but I've seen an incident of a rental getting fragged in the eyes through a mesh mask, and given that the site handed out 0.2g Blasters and had repeated reports of it happening that day, it's a reasonable assumption. They seem to get a bad batch every so often, but "it's not all of them" is cold comfort to the targets. PatrolBase is fine. Outdoors I use bios, Valken 0.25g, 0.28g and 0.32g, and for heavier stuff, Geoffs or Longbow. Indoors, BAW Bag (yes) 0.2g tracers, and I have some ASG Devil 0.25g Blasters that seem OK.

Full disclosure, I made that mistake too, having bought a CYMA with a nimh battery, then gone deeper down that hole before climbing out. It's not a disaster, some folk still swear by them for their non-exploding properties. And yes, lithium charges differently from nimh, so it's likely you'll need a different charger unless you current one has a lithium mode. Any remotely decent charger will also balance-charge lithium batteries to keep the cells at the same voltage. We're currently liking the SkyRC S65 charger.