Rogerborg

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.

"does not include those who wish their ban to be kept private". It's remarkable - commendable - that so many are happy to be public about it.

Fully agree, my spend was: £140 Specna Arms SA-E02, definitely not a recommendation, a contrarian way to get the cheapest metal body, QC spring, decent rotary hop unit and a basic X-ASR mosfet £8 ZCI Cylinder Stainless Steel (Closed) £3.50 Rocket Selector Plate (so I could swap back to the original to get auto back again) £8 XT Outer Barrel Extension (7 Inches) £20.50 AOLS AEG Inner Barrel (455mm) £7 Gearparts AEG Spring M130 I share a scope with my boltie and the rubber and nub came from the bits box, so that was me done and dusted for under £200. Not a .308" platform, not the most consistent or snappy, but lobs 0.32g well enough at 1.8J. Of course, with it being airsoft I've since spent more on a fixed stock, pointless bipod, Big Dragon M160 (that the mosfet doesn't like) and so on. But you could bag an M14 and do it for even less.

The part that fascinates and horrifies me is that he didn't do it himself. He paid for that to be done to that poor thing.

True, it takes a while to reach the custard-and-Haribo standard of teching. Got to start somewhere though. Oh, we all forgot to say: don't start meddling with your only primary until you have at least one reliable alternative.

Image uploaded for posterity. Why... how... hasn't that appeared in Airsoft Heretics yet? ?

Fine for your first two mags if you have a dump pouch. Not a game or life changer.

Offering swaps from the BT33 postcode?

^^^ That, basically.

Urgh, yes, that does still happen, because sites are still talking in terms of fps rather than Joules. I always wonder how many people don't ask, and how many sites really don't care. A few years back, at a thankfully defunct site, I did hear a chrono-marshal tell a mate to just put heavier BBs in and come back. What a farcical waste of time. Why bother at all?

lol m8 just stick some hevier beebs in u get under 350 no wories

Sure, radius the gearbox (YouTube provides videos) and don't expect a decent response or rate of fire. It might shred the gears, crack the box, or waller out the bushings, or it might not. Only one way to find out. Why though? What are you trying to achieve?

And stops you getting a Thor thumb.

All of what we do is LARPing, so sure, if you enjoy it, it's the right choice for you. However, completely running out of ammo is going to put a bit of a damper on that game[*], so I'd agree with having a way to reload or a backup hi-cap tucked away somewhere. [*] On the few times that's happened I like to play Pop Up Pirate to draw incoming fire - they don't know that you're out.

And if I were to take a guess based on that picture I'd go with 2.5mm.

I'd take issue with the claim that any of this stuff is "certified". It's marked as such, that's all. That's a weird thing to happen to them. It looks like might have got soapy water in between the two panes. It's easy to get it in, harder to get it out again. The black line is just double sided foam mounting tape, you can replace it if necessary (I DIY dual pane all my goggles using tape and PETG plastic).

DMRs are (almost always) built, not bought. At a bare minimum you'll need a way to lock it to semi, and a stronger spring to get it up to your regular site(s) power level(s) - quick change can be a godsend there as what constitutes a "DMR" varies wildly from site to site. I'd check your favourite site's rules first, as a (very) few places will require a MOSFET controlled rate of fire delay - and I actually agree with them on that, DMRs are super easy to exploit. After that you get into a near endless money pit of motors, gears, airseal and barrels and bears, oh my. CYMA are a good shout as they have robust internals. The M14 is cheap, but harder to work on than V2 gearbox guns. I'm not sure on how you'd modify the fire selector on those. If you want to go AR-10 / SR-25 then the CYMA CM.098 variants are a popular default. The "MOSFET" in those is just for trigger protection and may actually produce problems rather than solving them based on the X-ASR in my Specna which baulks at higher draw motors. Being V2 based parts are readily available and semi auto locking can be done just by removing a tiny piece of the fire selector plate so that the cutoff lever isn't disengaged even when set to auto - I'd recommend buying a spare plate for all that they cost. Although right now you'll have to buy what's available, given the ongoing stocking issues. Pistols, meh, I run an MP5K on a leg panel as a sniper/DMR secondary. Full size V3 gearbox; full auto; light, cheap mags including a 600 round high cap if you want to just slot one in and forget it. On cost, rate of fire, and weight-per-shot, it beats a pistol hands down. Other opinions are available though.