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Adolf Hamster

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  1. What it says to me is that they arent confident enough in their tech departments work to stand by it like it were a new gun, which discourages any notion of buying even a new gun from them if you might need to avail of the warranty. As someone who has only ever played 2 games with an ootb pew i can say that i'd rather spend a month with an eye cast lazily over the classifieds for a good secondhand example at secondhand prices. Although i suppose to be fair, i'm not one who's put off by a little bit of natural weathering on a gun
  2. Torch+treebranch+place to hide= hours of fun listening to people get annoyed at that guy who wont take his hits.
  3. I dunno, seems ok to me. Certainly better than the abominations many people willingly do to their tm hicapas......
  4. whilst i don't disagree with the notion that many cases of cheat calling may well be the result of misinformation, it's worth noting that this doesn't mean there aren't people wearing copious amounts of plot armour in this hobby.
  5. I did think paintball might be more suited to the curved barrel thing, intuitively it would seem less strenuous on the round and i'd have assumed an airsoft style hop might results in bursting rounds if its set too tight. Plus curved barrel would only suit one particular weight/energy combination which wouldn't be popular in airsoft given people want to make dmr's out of basically everything, change hop weights on a whim etc.
  6. I did suspect basically this: Although i've never really dug into it enough to find out conclusively. The issue i have with that as an explanation is that whilst the bb is in the barrel, the airflow past it will be inverted so the magnus effect would be pulling it down against the bottom of the bore, and that additional airflow around the bb would magnify this effect, ie that it would rattle in a tightbore and run along the bottom of a widebore. I did for a while contemplate the idea of an intentionally curved barrel, putting a slight radius along its length to force the bb to roll along the top surface which would help add a little more spin (although likely still need a hop for adjustability) but more importantly mean that the bb would consistently be riding along one surface. Ultimately though in practical terms the trick is getting a pew consistent enough to even be able to notice these sorts of minutia, and that generally the main boost from a better quality barrel is not in its nominal diameter but in how consistent that diameter is along its length, how straight it is and how good the internal surface finish is.
  7. Not in all cases, some setups can have a dramatic drop in power when the hop is almost/completely off, so dramatic the bb can struggle to even make it down the barrel. I've never quite figured exactly how that works but i've seen it often enough that i got into the habit of setting hops at least mid-way when bench testing. Hence why it bugs me when sites do the whole "chrono with the hop off" thing because its basically asking for false readings.
  8. If it aint that then the only other explanation is all but 1 of those radios are dead, because i have no idea why you'd want more than 1 otherwise......
  9. Also why are there as many radios as there are spare mags?
  10. Ahh yes, fully upgraded..... With what? By whom? And to what benefit?
  11. Even better when they shout "freindly fire" and play on, needless to say continuing to fire on them rarely ends amicably.
  12. I've used macarons with pdi, cant say had any real issues.
  13. Is that a front sight block complete with a cut stub of outer barrel i see pictured?
  14. Dont think i ever managed to push it north of 30, but then i was very much tuning for accuracy and mainly running in semiauto. It's worth noting that the auto rof doesn't really define the snappyness in semi auto.
  15. I have in my memory the f2 has an 11mm stroke of the nozzle, so slightly longer doesnt affect it too much. I ran the 800c and cant say i noticed any issues, can't be turned off independant of setting the pressure but otherwise worked well. Certainly kept the jack fed. The f2 is a bit trickier to get to be real speedy without sacrificing accuracy, it'll handle mid 20's fine but an a10 it isn't.
  16. Definately required, very similar setup to what i was running (247 in the m4 and similar in the e&l) I had no issues running the m4 nozzle in the e&l, so you might be fine.
  17. Mans is still a fan of the f2 as a solid all rounder, it'll take some tuning to get the best out of it but it can provide excellent consistency and has a nice range of nozzle/triggerboard combos should you wish to give it a different home. If you're running it at low energy then a low flow poppet is a worthwhile investment.
  18. I'd lean towards the warhead, the ramp up speed makes for a better percieved snappyness. Only downside (although afaik they might have alleviated it on their newer motors) is the contacts on the warhead are much more delicate, so a lot more care needs to be taken on the install rather than stuffing wires in willy nilly.
  19. gotta love it, no detail of exactly what was replaced, why it was replaced, what the replacement part is, or even any claim (let alone guarantee) that the replacement part netted any improvement in performance over the original.
  20. Out of context it's saying they have a good relationship with rs vortex so won't sell clones of vortex products?
  21. How dissappointed would you be to buy that, show up at the next game thinking you were gonna stand out with your limited edition faithful replica only to realise most people arent going to notice just another green m4.......
  22. makes it a 2 in 3 odds though, guess the 1 in 3 are hoping folk are ready to gamble. and it's not as if a pew that appears to be functioning reasonably well on the surface can't still be a horror show once you get under the hood.
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