Adolf Hamster

does it work both ways, ie if i write in bold do i become a millionaire? edit: sadly it does not appear to work both ways

even though it's unlikely i'll be visiting any of these sites any time soon (what with being the opposite end of the country and all) i have enjoyed your reviews. it's good to have folk who can put out proper information, warts and all. tbh, shifting to being more regular doesn't mean you're going to be lacking material, it might be good to have some context for sites over time, sort out which places can maintain a good average and which ones might have been luck of the draw.

in that case, i suggest hiring an engineer and asking them, unless you already have one on the payroll of a businesss. shock horror as work done by qualified professionals turns out to be expensive when they're not volunteering for a hobby.

for a bespoke one-off there are companies that can do cnc machining bespoke, but it's gonna be expensive, as in hundreds of pounds to make something that for a mass produced part would cost a tenner. the ones i've dealt with you had to at least furnish them with proper drawings/CAD, and to get those you'd need to pay someone with those skills which definately won't be cheap either.

true, although if airsoft is gonna end up on trial then the place it'll lose is the court of public opinion aka facebook and the daily mail. i'll admit that personally it's not something i've put much thought into, almost entirely down to selfish disinterest. i can see the angle you're going for, making it a random encounter rather than a known obstacle would make many techniques for dodging hard. there'd need to be the perception that it couldn't be dodged to deter folk.

depends on what period of history you're going for. there's the raptor Grach, which seems to have mixed reviews, some folk on here have them hopefully they'll swing by to let us know how they're doing. there's the makarov, which afaik there are 4 versions- ics and kwc do non blowback versions which i don't know much about aside from the kwc having a pretty big issue with power. for blowback there's WE and KWC. the kwc is co2, snappy as hell, but only a single action trigger, slightly "off" in many of its dimensions (ie it looks weird), non-standard hop means how it shoots out of the box is how it shoots (although not that bad all things considered), comes at "you have got to be joking" fps (although they can be tweaked to bring this down to sensible levels as mine was before i got it), and of course CO2 and all the long term reliability that entails. the WE imo is the best of the bunch, decently snappy, more comfy than the kwc the proper single/double action with pretty good (by airsoft standards) trigger pulls in both, with a few minor tweaks you can get hilarious range/accuracy on good ammo, and snappy enough. of course as with many WE's they don't like the cold. the tokarev afaik had WE and src versions, don't really know that much about either of them. but tbh outside of a ww2 through early cold war loadout it's gonna be a bit dated. i also beleive there's nagant revolvers floating around as well, although we're getting pretty niche by this point. personally, i'd say the WE makarov is the best bet, not bad performance wise and thematically can fit most loadouts from the cold war right up to the modern day (although granted the grach and/or g17 would be better fits)

by the looks of it then 2A does kind of insinuate the steel thing is a no-no, as if you'd modified the gun to be usable firing steel then it'd break that definition. i'm assuming at least that it'd need modified, particularly the hop, as nearly doubling the weight is gonna be a challenge to lift. only reason i even think it's possible is a janky rhop installation years ago that would space .48's at 1j either way that's a court battle i don't particularly want to see happening. as mentioned earlier it seems that the current crop of weights sit ok with MED's as they stand, the exception possibly being nov's full thrust stuff but that hasn't taken off sufficiently to render it a problem same as marushin's 8mm stuff. i'd guess anyone who's tried steel up to this point has presumably been ignorant of how these things work, most likely assuming they're like air rifles, rather than seriously contemplating it as an option. however given the above definitions i'm not sure it's worth experimenting with, and even without those considerations the perception of using steel is so tainted by this point that wether it works in theory or not is largely irrelevant. kinda like how nuclear energy makes sense on paper, but you mention the n word at all and the droves of nimby's will immediately assemble screaming chernobyl at the top of their lungs. indeed, i'm still yet to be convinced that any material that doesn't swell in storage is also biodegradable. y'know that's not a bad idea, although the biggest prerequisite of the site actually having enough background knowledge to implement this is another hurdle. as i believe you're fond of describing it "safety theatre" it's kind of sad really that these issues simply wouldn't exist if you could trust the players to be honest, but thanks to humanity's fundamental flaws that's never going to happen.

there are some good reasons to not actually use steel (is it actually illegal or is that just an urban legend? i've honestly never looked it up), i can see it playing merry hell with magazines, feeding etc then scratching the hell out of the barrel as a goodbye present. and as already mentioned MED rules would need revamping, for example to maintain a given MED you'd need to drop the power, which might not be the worst given poor range judgement, accidental close range strikes and kicking mustang are a thing. however it might ironically solve one problem- it'll be more biodegradable than "plastic". of course as i'm writing that the idea fairy strikes.... lead- quite possibly softer than some of the bb's on the market currently..... although there is gonna be a point where the velocity drop would be so much it'd be impractical, you'd probably draw the line when you had to wait until after lunchtime before all the shots you'd fired that morning actually landed. needless to say this is all entirely hypothetical with a lot of big citation needed stamps all over it, but it's fun to ponder these things every so often. the issue with joule creep is when not chrono'ing on game weight, if you chrono on game weight (without lying) then it's not a problem (compared to say stuffing .2's in, passing and not realizing the power jumps when they put their game .4's in), of course chrono'ing on game weight opens up for liars. i don't think there's any decent field expedient solution that which doesn't invoke the joule creep issue. at least as long as chrono's are just measuring velocity compared to say a ballistic pendulum that can actually measure energy (and would be immune to bb weight liars) of course anyone who lies about ammo weight to cheat chrono, or indeed exploits any other method to do the same well, you said it best:

indeed, iirc 0.5g was the heaviest marketed ammo i could find at the time. this is an intriguing question. i'm tempted to say an awful lot of it is perception, ie that people just assume steel is going to hurt more because it's steel. certainly my logic is that with the flat 1j limit (ie no mucking around with med's) is that 1j point blank is gonna sting just as much if it's a .2g or .5g, and whilst the heavier ammo will hit harder at range than the lighter ammo, it will never hit harder than what's considered acceptable (ie the 1j point blank hit) although we're straying into territory where there really needs to be more actual information, for example how much the current crop of bb's deform at our impact energies is going to play a very big part of wether or not there's an argument here. if they do deform, then yes harder materials would present a problem, but if they don't then my above suggestion that perception is the issue would be more valid. i'm kind of the inverse, my preference would be for heavier ammo and lower muzzle energy, as it's a flatter curve. with lighter ammo the closer you get the more it's gonna hurt. tell me about it, hell the number of times i've had to explain to sites that my gun is not underpowered after i've already told them i'm running X ammo weight. the .48's are always fun when they see 200fps on the readout expecting 320..... never happened to me, likewise i've never had a site question when you start the day with an m4 and finish with an ak......

could just have been a hot gun. as for the MED thing last time i ran the math on it a 0.5g bb fired at 2.5j worked out to be around 1.3j left after 20m, which isn't too far removed from what's generally considered for sniper/med/rifleman limits. of course if it was even heavier than that it'd hold even more energy and hit harder, so yes if we started seeing dramatically heavier stuff being used it is a question that would need to be raised. currently the heaviest i'm aware of for 6mm is 0.5g, although personally i preferr the 0.48's as a white bb is easier to track. however novritches full thrust goes up to 0.62g albeit with a larger bore diameter and associated drag. although i'm guessing the mass increase for nov's bb's is going to be more of a factor than the diameter, as the drag will be a factor of the cross sectional area (square law) but the mass affected by volume (cubed).

i'd be more interested in the ford system for antifog with the tiny wires to heat up the lenses. i vaguely recall seeing some images from shot show or somesuch for a product that worked like that, but i can't remember who made them and no idea if they're still in business. there was also someone on here looking at doing it DIY, going all fancy n shit with moisture sensors.

as mentioned i'd guess that the choice of filler is going to be a cost/weight balance. if you want a white bb then you couldn't use iron so whatever you're using (eg ceramic) is probably going to be more expensive. aside from curiosity, i'm not entirely sure how much it matters what they're filled with? the effect on target is going to be largely dictated by the energy, and anything strong enough to not shatter/permanently deform is going to have largely the same effect regardless of what it's made of?

it's also why afaik a lot of the heavier ammo comes in "stealth" config, whilst some manufacturers can do the heavies in lighter colours (presumably with a different filler) a lot of them are like that. never thought to try something as simple as testing them with a magnet.

i'd guess it's a covid thing, either shops not ordering or polarstar not shipping.

that was a ballsy move, but it's nice to see the gears of comedy still spin freely in the modern age. edit: as a side note, was chatting to my mate and he was suggesting there's about a 25% change in hardness with the stuff he's been working on. different polymers to what we're using but loaded up with iron nanoparticles up to 35% (forgot to ask if that was by weight or volume) he also made a point that fillers aren't the only way to increase density, i'm not a polymers guy and i got lost somewhere at the point where he started talking about chains being different lengths but the gist of it seems to be you can just make it more dense without adding anything, although not sure what the limit was (ie wether or not you could double the density for example)

with the caveat that you ask 10 different people you'll get 11 different answers: personally i'm a fan of the autobot green, the metal sealing ring especially is good (although some of their other styles do that too). ZCI 6.02 on a budget, PDI stainless if you're feeling flush, i like their 6.01's but then i'm cool with cleaning halfway through a game day. afraid i can't help with those.

it could be the nozzle, but it's not the only possibility. there's also the feed lip position in the hop unit, the quality of the magazine and the quality of the ammo. if the mag is weak or cheaper bb's with a rougher surface are binding in the tube then that can cause some real nightmares. what sort of ROF are you getting in auto? as speed can be a factor too.

true, although i'd argue 2 points: -given our plastic bb's can already do that, a heavier/stronger bb isn't going to make it worse. -[kickingmustang] anyone who isn't wearing face protection is willingly taking on that risk [/kickingmustang]

that is bad, at least the place i was talking about they were doing it to break the stalemate and didn't really have a home team.

i really hate that, just as i hate when sites will change game rules mid-game in order to break a stalemate. for example place i used to play had pretty damn rigid "thou shalt not do the sneaky flank going this way" rules for a certain game mode, except when the defending team were doing a good enough job to halt the game they'd then open up the aforementioned flanking rules without telling the defenders kind of makes a mockery of putting the effort in to attacking through a choke point, which given the layout wasn't really that hard to do if you put more thought into things than simply returning to the same cover you got shot at 3 times in a row.

yeah, that statement of mine needs a big "citation needed" slapped on it, but if they were then that sounds like the best option.

why do i have it in my head for some reason that lct are supposedly looking at making a FAL?

this is the thing, i have a suspicion some of the harder bb's like geoff's don't deform much on impact, but i have no evidence to back that up. problem is i work in a uni, so pinching expensive equipment to do a homer is questionable and i sure ain't doing that kind of test on-site for obvious reasons. yes and no, for our current crop of hop designs most likely it'll be difficult to put enough backspin on it yes given the average airsoft contact patch is so short, but i've had guns that would send .48g's to space on 1j so it's not out of the question that lifting heavier than that within reasonable limits is possible. golf balls aren't solid, they're filled with rubber, so not really comparable to a bb. there's also the issue of the target- what area are we most concerned about when it comes to a bb strike? a hard strike against steel would only really represent a gun hit, and lets face it we don't care about those from a safety perspective. proper eyepro (as in stuff that is of suitable rating for airsoft) is tested to resist a steel projectile, so it's not really relevant there. so really the impacts that matter are bare flesh and clothing.

Question comes down to how much do our bb's deform at airsoft energies. Wonder if work would mind me stealing the high speed camera for a little while.....