Adolf Hamster

Loving the dedication to accuracy of the maxx hopup unit and custom made edgi barrel... And the dedication to ruining it by using an open bolt engine......

does it? because if they have a problem with hpa players then lowering the limits for those players will be as effective as a lower speed limit sign is at preventing speeding...... ahh, so you do understand that hpa in and of itself isn't the problem, it's the person operating it....... yes, i get how annoying it is to play somewhere with regular occurrences of players who are, one way or another, being assholes. but there's only 1 option available that you can do to fix it, and that's to move, either to a better site or if that's not an option move out of the hobby. because people will always be the worst kind of people and there ain't no changing that.

This, unless the journey is desired more than the destination just throw in a maple leaf and have done with.

Am i the only one thinking that looks a little too well polished to pass as a cobray

The battery is but one component in a complete system. Whilst the concept of "thou shalt not use 11.1v lest it destroy your pew" is complete bollocks, it is only so because its antithesis "7.4v shalt not save a speediboi motor spinning speedierboier gears" remains true. End of the day for a given energy target there is a fixed cycle time, trying to push beyond this limit no matter how its acheived will result in sadness. Yes short stroking or its deviant brother dsg'ing aim to allow shorter cycle times without failure, they do this by artificially increasing the spring rate required for a given energy target, thus reducing the chance of pme. But the ultimate answer to the question of "muh trigger response" isn't in hammering the system until it cries for mercy but in leveraging the advantages of precocking and brushless motors but if that fails then the only answer is to slow it the fuck down. If you really want cycle times measured in milliseconds and your rate of fire to be limited primarily by how long it takes a bb to work its way from the hop to the end of the barrel then hpa remains the easiest, and by that i mean least likely to fail catastrophically, method. At least with hpa the downside of trying to run too fast is a failure to feed rather than catastrophic failure.

To be fair, an organisation that doesnt charge for its use or for that matter be particularly overbearing with engagement (as evidenced by my penny pinching self having thorougjly forgotten i'd signed up) it's hard to care that much about what they do. Yes in principle a single unified body representing our hobby sounds like exactly what we need, ultimately many folks simply dont notice or care the "on the ground" effect and thus are unlikely to give a monkeys if #3457 of their 10000+ strong email spam list are or are not in breach of their constitution. Until ukapu gets the widespread site engagement that means you'd realistically notice and care for a ukapu approval notice on their webpage then the majority of players are unlikely to care so deeply for how its run. Having left the hobby precisely because of a lack of consistent good management amongst the sites i have access to it seems obvious to me that what this sport needs is not government lobbying or annual general meetings, but a widespread network of sites that agree with a real world noticable effect on performing duties such as marshalling, good chronograph practice and site bans that not only stick at the sites that initated them but at others in their region. But alas we're stuck with sites that ask "what size bb's are you using?" With no real effort to understanding the effects of joule creep or for that matter the difference between joules and velocity measurements despite it being something anyone with a gcse in physics should at least understand the implications of even if they remain ignorant of the factors that cause it. Hell even when explained something as simple as "you can put a cable tie on most hpa regulators, here's how you do it *cable ties his own regulator to demonstrate*" or "you know you can can just print the site fps limit of various common bb weights and sellotape it on the back of the chono" is largely ignored with at best a token effort to ask what weight of bb's a player is running

i'd argue it's sufficiently airsoft adjacent to be ok, we don't bat an eyelid at an RS optic or RS furniture so there's precedent that unregulated RS components are fine. all that seperates an rs mag from an airsoft mag is a donor cyma, a dremel and a lot of swearing.

Tbh at this point i'm not sure how the argument started, what its about or how its continuing, it seems to be mostly arguing about how people are being argumentative in their arguments from argumenters who argue they arent argumentative as an an argument to the argumenter they're arguing against.

For the benefit of the curious we have established via pm that the problem in this case is my atrocious memory.....

See i'm not the only one who got this. Although i dont rightly remember ever signing up to ukapu so one is wondering where they got their hands on my email?

Whilst i appreciate the dedication, and thoroughly endorse this idea as being fucking awesome, i might be inclined to suggest that if you don't have the confidence to work on a mechbox, this might not bode so well for the mountain of fabrication work that will be involved in such a project. However, i say that in the hope that i will be proved wrong

Cordless, although corded woulda been fine for what we were doing

was using a dewalt sds a few months back and i couldnt help but feel the resemblance to a vector If we're talking guns we need more of we need some more old school stuff, nice m1 carbine (as an aeg that is) or sks.

I love the look of it, but wasnt much of a fan shooting something that had less trigger feel than a dewalt.....

The f2000 is already a thing, g&g, cyma and jg do them?

for me it was covid. it didn't make me want to stop playing, far from it i couldn't wait to get back on the field. and then everything opened up again and i got back on the field, looking forward to having some fun again. except it was ruined, by the same old shit that's bugged me about this hobby since day 1. wasn't the first time i'd felt like this, but thanks to the enforced break it made me realise the value of it even more. that is to say that this hobby lacks consistency, that all it takes is one group of bad apples to rock up and even sites that are generally good can fail to provide an experience that lifts the spirits. the hobby you do to have a good time becomes a source of annoyance, and if you ain't having fun then why do it? so decided to pack it in for now, not saying i won't be back but tbh i suspect without some major changes to how sites/the community organises itself i can't see the situation improving to a point where i'll not end up feeling the same again.

Damn, there seems to be no wide options in my size i mean i dont need em, both pairs of lowas i have are perfectly servicable and mans has recently jumped on the heritage boot bandwagon so i really dont need them. if i repeat that enough i'll be ok...... probably..... Their hiking sock is warm but very comfortable, although tbh the longevity doesnt quite match up to the boots.

i'm a tad old school, i prefer to use an earcrometer for measuring how laboured a gun is

Always did wonder why people cared about charging rates, sure other hobbies like rc you have a good reason to care about charging fast but in airsoft just buy enough batteries to last a days pewing and be organised enough to charge the night before. Plus i'd wager the lions share of sites wont have plugs for general use and even those that do will have stiff competition. Op- in addition to a good charger, a tool that i've found invaluable for lipo usage is a cell checker, can be used to troubleshoot if you've got a balance issue, a dead cell, or simply a quick test to see if its charged.

Ahh yes, the french style, can't go wrong with a classic.

Ooh, a duel, what we going for? Slapsies? Handbags at 20 paces?

Whilst i can certainly vouch for lowa's comfort and durability, and certainly feel like i've got my moneys worth out of the past ~7 years, i'm not sure they're the right choice in this case. You've already got a set for going through the mucky stuff and i'll be honest the renegades don't grip so well on hard surfaces. Walking onto something like polished concrete with them wet is like walking on ice and even dry they're not that grippy.

Huh, can't say i've seen that one before. The only purpose i can possibly see it serving outside of maybe some optimisation of mould tooling during manufacture is for it to be a recess to let the top bb sit neatly in position until pushed by the nozzle. Although i can't say i've ever seen the feed lips on the bucking fail to perform this duty. If that it its purpose it's clearly failing.....

No definately the kid, you can see the hit markers and everything......

You mean the first 20 shots hit but the kid didnt call it.......