Adolf Hamster

Now there's a sentence you don't expect to read outside of the script for the next silence of the lambs sequel.......

As i mentioned in the other thread for a new gun i'd just send it back, theres nothing in that picture that looks out of place but i suspect the problem is internal with arm-piston interface. Either the ridge on the piston is worn/broken, the the arm is worn/broken, or there's just not the right angle/fit between them thats letting it ride over rather than lock into place.

also i don't think you're gonna have much traction selling a £170 gun with some not particularly high-value accessories for £290.......

it's a very tricky balance to be struck. i agree that micro-analysing over years and judging someone for a decision that by its very nature is a split-second choice made under extreme pressure (with all the human fallibility that entails) isn't good, however at the same time i do think that the accountability is needed to ensure officers don't get gung-ho. we need something to motivate them not to pull the trigger unless it is the necessary course of action.

that's your sear engagement surface, the lower part in that window is the trigger side, while the upper part is part of the assembly that holds the bolt in place. when the bolt is cocked the action of holding the piston back under spring pressure should push the upper part down until it's stopped by the lower part, pulling the trigger moves the lower part out of the way allowing it to drop firing the gun. the reason there's a window there is so you can visibly see when adjusting the trigger pull what's going on, eg how long or short a pull is required to trip the sear. it's possible to have the overlap set so light the mildest jolt could make it trip, but it looks more than enough there. i suspect your problem is more on the upper side, where the upper assembly has a hinged arm that catches on the back end of the piston.

ahh the hypocrisy, "wear face protection"- doesn't wear a covid mask.......

even if we assume everyone on-site is perfectly abiding by fps and med rules, you could still accidentally pop your head up at the wrong place and catch a round from a sniper point blank who was trying to shoot someone further away. or the much more likely scenario that some scrote rocks up with a hot gun and is blasting away and you're the poor sod who rounds the corner on him. people can and do run far in excess of limits, yes we try as a community to stamp it out but the reality is it absolutely does happen despite all our best efforts and i dunno about you but seeing is something i quite enjoy. edit: probably relevant storytime: a much younger (although not fitter) hamster when he had just started out cut his teeth at a site that had, well, a questionable standard of chrono. he didn't realize it at the time but it was pretty normal (at the time) for the site regulars to be running a tad higher (read: a lot) than the specified limits, needless to say these regulars had no qualms pumping rounds into you at point blank range and the young innocent hamster just thought this is how airsoft is- hurts like hell, it was so bad it nearly drove me out of the hobby. during this time caught a few rounds to my first ever set of mesh goggles, fortunately (by luck of the amazon special lottery alone) they were the hexmesh type rather than woven wire and just about were up to the task of resisting the impact, although not without accumulating serious dents. it took me going to a different site with a different culture to realize what was truly going on, needless to say though the experience planted the seeds both of my obsession with range but also my hatred of people who run hot, because i've experienced first hand what it's like to be an inexperienced player trying to play by the rules against those who break them (whether it was ignorance or malevolence on the site's part i don't really know hence my reluctance to name and shame in the hope that the site has changed its ways in the years since). the point is that rating against the unexpected absolutely is worthwhile, for sure if i'd only ever worn eyepro capable of surviving the rated limits and no more i'd have pretty poor depth perception......

hmm, did you get this secondhand? if it's new then better off going back to the retailer.

the general idea with the bolt gun thing is that if it can withstand the hottest thing on the field well within the distances they're allowed to operate then it'll be proof against all but the most insanely egregious users of creative game mechanics (read: spring swappers/regulator twiddlers). it's the most extreme scenario that you'd hope, if it ever happened, you'd be protected from.

tell me, does this youtuber normally wear a mask in-game? covered in leaves perchance?

when you pull it all the way back is there any kind of final click? it sounds like the sear isn't holding the piston back, meaning it's springing forward- either you're not pulling it back far enough to engage the sear or the sear is damaged/broken.

you could put the battery in through the trunnion if it were narrow enough, the ones i use are just small enough to even fit so i have to pull the upper handguard, feed the wires through the trunnion, set the battery above the barrel and pop the upper handguard back on. essentially it's a normal enough gas tube with the bottom half cut open so you can get a bit more space between the upper handguard and the barrel. i'm not sure how the bolt aksu's do it, afaik the recoil mech on those is much more substantial so i can only assume the gas tube is the only free space they have for a battery as well.

yep, it'll boil down to how many uk folks stop using TG over this, and how hard that hits their sales. i presume they do trade all over europe so maybe the uk just isn't enough market for them to make the switch?

my jg aksu seems intentionally setup, it's the "recoil" model which means they presumably didn't want to shred the battery with the machinations of the mockl bolt cycling, indeed the gas tube is cut out specifically to allow more space. i still use it as the 800mah 11.1v's i have sit nice and snug, although the recoil mech has long been disabled. that's still pretty much the case, at least for the non-recoil models i've worked on. it's convenient if you can stuff the end into the gas tube especially if you have a sizable mosfet to deal with. you can approach it either way, a decent 7.4 with the right motor/gear combo can be plenty snappy enough. really depends which approach you'd rather take.

reckon the reason you can't understand it is because you're assuming that thinking is involved.... to be a fly on that wall. i mean i can only assume that the glue worked exactly as intended- it glued things together. but ofc america is the place that brought us the "caution- hot" label on coffee cups, i mean if it ain't feckin hot it's not feckin coffee (coffee being interchangable with tea in that statement)

it'll vary on the manufacturer, but the railed tubes seem to have a smaller inner diameter to the standard. for sure the slim-type 7.4v's fit but not so sure on the 11.1v slim variants. you may end up having to go under the top cover instead which is a tad less convenient for external mosfets.

really? god that makes you despair for humanity.....

wait, wut!?

i think some commendation for the police should be given here, as tackle edit: druid mentioned that kind of situation could have escalated to a lethal response and i can only assume it was either remarkable observation or bravery on the part of the officer to have resolved this in a way that left everyone breathing. i don't know what was going on inside this guys head, was he off the rails? was he trying to get shot 'murca style? or some convoluted political statement? regardless congrats to the police involved for keeping a cool head and denying the media a clickbait title

yep, it was twiddling the regulator before it was cool

ahh systema, the OG hpa quick adjusting fps wanker

by the sounds of it you've done plenty of plinking, so i'll save the usual spiel about being careful with gun-shaped-objects where joe public might catch a glimpse and freak out. on that kind of budget you're gonna probably be looking at one of the lower end cyma's/jg's/specnas, remember to factor in the cost of a battery and a charger. it'll have to come 2-toned as well (yes the irony that an air rifle doesn't need this isn't lost on the airsoft community). most likely gonna be a plastic receiver, but as it's not going to be getting the rough and tumble of an airsoft game should be plenty serviceable (people do skirmish with guns like this and unless you fall on it/drop it on concrete they're fine). reliability wise you should be grand, just don't run it on a heavy battery and you'll see thousands of rounds no problem (folks can put down thousands of rounds per day in airsoft), a good barrel clean will go a long way (use a plastic rod with a cloth not a brush- it'll mess up the brass barrel and rubber hop). accuracy wise it wont be what you're used to, certainly you'll have no problem popping coke tins at 10m but you're not gonna be pulling anywhere near the groups a proper air rifle can do. possibly as a starter, why not try finding a local site and giving airsoft a go? you can rent a gat and see if you like it, it's quite fun when the target is allowed to shoot back at the very least it'll give you a flavour of what you can expect an airsoft pew to be capable of.

it's a tricky one, on the one hand i do agree that if you're gonna trigger's broom an aeg, might as well start with a cheaper platform. however the exception to that is when the base platform offers something that isn't really plausible for a cheaper gat, in the tm recoils case it's the other features such as, well, the recoil, that make it a desirable starter (whether or not you care about recoil is a different matter) same as how an e&l ak sure as shit looks a lot prettier and has stronger external components than a cyma. which if you have my crippling addiction to blued steel is something worth paying for. i completely agree with this *looks at his desk covered in unskirmished e&l guts and aftermarket parts* do as i say not as i do

the same reason anyone does anything in this hobby- because they want to. you can play with a goddamn nerf gun and get kills, so why are we even bothering with expensive cyma's? there are folks who upgrade their guns because they think they need to do so to compete, there are folks who upgrade because they enjoy the process (like me), and there are folks like yourself and tackle who would rather save the money and gain their edge by other means such as fieldcraft or agility. none of these approaches are right, but none of them are wrong either, and the fact that this is a hobby that can cater to such a variety of tastes and pockets is a good thing

have you tried anything more potent than that? i'd be seriously worried about how much strength will be lost by adding a bunch of holes.