Rogerborg

Genuinely unable to tell which of the snippers and gas-electric-spring guns actually work and/or exist or not.

Mmm. I called it at 2pm after going through 3 litres, with a 5l backup in the car. It is astonishing that folk try to do a whole day on a few cans of Monster or Irn Bru, and surprising that sites don't emphasise the importance of water along with batteries, BBs and eye-pro.

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme?

Most likely outcome is that you pay postage, and he pays nothing. We like to dream about it, but the only thing that is going to stop him is prison time, or hospital time. It's vanishingly unlikely that either is going to happen.

When I get wandering FPS, it's been down to the barrel not being seated tightly in the hop, or the hop not being tight against the gearbox.

Pouring one out for our banned homies.

Huh, 'tis the season, we only had 14 at Area-66, I guess everybody's on holiday. Really surprising, usually it's packed. Cracking also though. The marshals all got to play, the games were kept small and tight, and were all really fair, good natured and light-hearted, but still closely fought. Less can be more.

Well, when I say "small awl", I mean the pointy thing from a Poundland precision screwdriver set. Yes, I was questioning my sanity too, as I couldn't see any problems. I was convinced it must be the gears fouling on the shell, but ruled that out with a sharpie (no witness marks left), wiggling and loupe-work. It's actually a wonder that sintered monkey metal in worn out moulds comes out as well as it does.

Seems like an opportunity to note that most questions of "how do I improve?" or "how do I convert?" can be answered with "Just buy a TAC-41".

Well, this suddenly became very relevant to my interests. I've just been putting a set of (can you guess?) SHS 13:1 gears in, and ran into the same problem. Or rather, it was the spur and sector not meshing correctly in my case. It's not the shell, nor the shims, and the gears weren't fouling on anything but each other. I shimmed the spur, put in the sector deliberately undershimmed, it had loads of side-to-side free play, then it hit a consistent sticky spot and rode up, losing all free play. I ruled out everything except the gears themselves. There were no visible flaws with the teeth. I've fixed it now by scraping between the teeth on both spur and sector with a small awl, then forcing the gears back and forth past the sticky point, rinse (well, brush) and repeat. I didn't see any significant chunks of material come out, but after a few iterations, the gears unstuck, feel fine now, and could all be properly shimmed. Airsoft QC, is all I can assume. "Upgrades", eh? ?

I've made a few basic trigger-protectors myself just for the "pleasure" of it, but even following the best Redditard instructions and carefully testing everything, every one of them has let the magic smoke out. Given the price and tiny size of modern mosfets - and the features - here's really no need to go that route any more. I haven't pushed the boat out as far as optical / in-gearbox mosfets, but the Perun AB++ unit works well for me, and as a bonus gives you the Deans connector "free", so to speak.

Best: Galaxy MP5K (G.5K). Huge amounts of performance, portability and fun for so little money, wildly exceeded my modest expectations. Worst: CYMA CM351 tri-shot. Fragile, misfeeds, trigger barely functions, hops are all over the place. Cheap, but every penny was wasted. Reckon I'll just bin it, I'm never going to use it, and I wouldn't inflict it on anyone else.

I guess one benefit of something cheap like an MI-7 is that you can just go ahead and do what I've done to mine: lop off the whole bottom-right quarter of it.

Fair enough. I won't touch ASG Blasters (not the Devil ones) now for that reason, and... well, Nuprol is Nuprol. Maybe it's something that we should be testing more. Although you'd be binning what you'd already bought, so I'd be looking at sites to do it. One of my locals has banned ASG blasters, one hands them out to rentals though... ?

Depends who's got the most daddy issues. On topic, having become a convert to paintball masks in CQB via the cheap MI-7, I guess I should look at the higher end ones. Dual/thermal pane is an absolute must-have. I've fogged up absolutely everything else short of the MI-7 - it's starting how much better even that entry level setup is to goggles or glasses.

How would you know? Genuine question: do you test each batch of your BBs for shattering? And if so, how? If so, that's admirable, but I'd be astonished. I've never, ever seen anyone do it, individuals or sites.

Isn't the correct term "turd herder"?

This right here is why I have some sympathy with Anzio's 1J limit on HPA. Just not their method of conveying that and implementing it.

But then you get 59:20 of cuddling and crying.

Are £170 hookers a joke to you?

Valken MI-7, with a decent dual pane thermal lens, and spend the rest on hookers and blackjack.

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times... or at least I will do given sufficient time. I'm immensely relaxed about chrono spats. Heck, I might even do some flowcharts.

Pre-game? Then yes, there's no point. Specifically, there's no point in pretending that 95% compliance solves the 5% of problems. The goal is to stop hot guns being used in-game, yes? Pre-game chrono doesn't ensure that. It helps the honest and compliant players to be honest, and to comply. I'm happy to use pre-game chrono as a facility. But I remain baffled as to how it's meant to stop the dis-honest and non-compliant from taking and using hot guns on the field, via any of the methods mentioned above. And aren't those people the problem that we're trying to solve? Related, does this sign actually prevent shootings? How, exactly?

Thank you, that's admirably honest of them. It's great to know that their Mystery Mass is is barium sulphate, although disappointing that they're still using so much styrene as well. On one hand, I hope that landowners don't read that. On the other, BBs are only going to get more biodegradable if landowners, sites and players demand it, and don't just accept that "bio" on the bottle actually means that.

Interesting. My understanding was that traditionally BBs were made of ABS, and only bios use PLA. However, that's apocryphal and historical. It might make sense for manufacturers to use a single base material, i.e. PLA. Of course, adulterated with increasing amounts of Mystery Mass: 6mm of ABS would only be about 0.12g, and 6mm of PLA about 0.2g. Any BB can shatter, and "bio" BBs aren't likely to be worse than ABS for biodegradability (even if the truth is that they take decades or hundreds of years to fully break down in woodland). Since bios work well enough now, and don't cost a huge amount more, I'm OK with following sites' preferences. If they're mandating bios and getting issues with shattering, that's up to them to track and make the call. Aside, I would flag up that the sites that should be mandating bios are indoors CQB sites. Why? Because they can sweep them up and have them industrially composted, which will actually break them down. Better that than dumping tonnes of ABS (or even PLA) into general landfill.