Adolf Hamster

damn, forgot the whole dmr fps thing, so used to building 1j guns to lift the super heavies yeah 40 (i think that's what the green is, might be 50, there's another colour even softer might be what i'm thinking of) probably a tad soft, maybe the tan too. tricky as you want soft for good easy spinning but you want hard for air seal (which is the main reason to R-hop so you can have both) worth a shot, honestly it's a case of fiddling to find the setup that works nicely. always the way, overhopping is gods way of telling you to use heavier ammo, underhopping is gods way of telling you to get a better hop not that bad for me, but then i'm using .48's at 1j so got plenty of time to track

to add to that- stiff wire is good for routing in the gearbox, holds it's shape nicely.

tbh the omega nub is really meant to match up to their rubbers, not sure it'd work so well with a flathop as it doesn't have the bulk that your typical flat hop nub has. i'd try either a 40 degree macaron with the omega or the modify nub (not used modify rubbers in a while but the last time i did they seemed kinda plasticky) i'd also say going a bit heavier on the ammo would be a good shout too, for a flat trajectory you want the bb to stay in the sweet spot for lift as long as possible and a heavier round travelling slower initially won't slow down so fast. i know what you mean about the pso, i have a similar issue with mine (real sword pso on a we dragonuv) and if i'm setting the rise for extreme range you do end up having to apply copious amounts of kentucky windage.

would be cool if they did. i'd be interested, not as a skirmish gun just for generalised plinking.

^pretty much that. The signal wires are pretty thin, not too hard to route.

the problem with tm's, is that they have a pretty high base level of performance for the energy they do, it can be improved upon (especially for outdoor on mainland limits) but if you don't need that extra performance such as in cqb then it's by far the easier option to settle for good enough and leave it stock. for sure cqb is somewhere where player skill can be used to overcome pew performance.

Case looks about right but looks like they forgot the bit on the end.....

For cqb? I'd leave it stock (note in my book putting proper connectors on a gun doesnt count as a mod) You dont need the range, so the usual low fps problems arent really a thing, and the stock accuracy for a tm should be more than up to the task. You could make an argument for snappyness/trigger response but frankly if you can deal with that then no reason to mess around there. There are reasons to tinker with pews, but unless your definition of cqb is radically different to mine then i cant see the need for expending the effort.

not to mention that sight setup "what do you think an optimal rise for an optic is?" "yes"

this is a fair point, i'll confess to not planning on doing it myself for various reasons that ultimately boil down to excuses. so i'm pretty much exactly the mouse (well hamster) wishing the cat would have a bell on its collar. in my defence, i do have a cat, tried to get him to wear a collar, and he refused by repeatedly removing collars, which feels like a parable for how me trying to do anything political will end up

https://gunfire.com/en/products/1873rs-rifle-replica-real-wood-gold-1152228401.html i mean at least it doesn't have an m4 stock?

in with the buy a bunch of land and make a site crowd. have some multi-story buildings, a mock fort built from concrete rather than plywood and hope, emplaced site guns etc. tricky one when it comes to running it, for starters i'd want to play and secondly wouldn't want it to end up cliquey.

i'd rather a governing body with some accountability to airsoft were setting the rules than some pencil pusher in parliment with an axe to grind against all things gun-shaped. not really, if the governing body is setting rules it'll be stuff the sites will merge in, if anything it'll be the opposite because folk will be used to the standard ruleset so it won't need explaining in minute detail at every site because people will know the score.

pretty common one with a lot of guns. if you "twiddle" it into the right position generally it won't shift, but this is part of the motivation behind aftermarket hop units.

yeah, kind of shitty if there's enough interpretation in the governments guidance that that's the only way to actually find out. i don't know about you but i'd rather know what the law is so i don't break it, rather than find out after i've already done it......

tbh i'd say airsoft is as deserving of being called a sport as any other shooting sport, sure you could argue that it relies on equipment but then so does motorsport. it can be both a hobby and a sport, but the main thing is regardless of which it is there still needs to be representation. i think druid summed it up perfectly: at the moment it's just a few weeks stuck indoors (well, for you lucky buggers on the mainland at least), but there are other issues for our hobby, everything from the small scale confiscation of individual parcels as @Asomodai has had to deal with, through to fighting the next wave of "ermegerd bern erll der gernz" movement which is an ever present problem for any hobby involving gun-shaped objects. we haven't really had one because initially it's a grassroots industry, which is great for ease of access and initial growth, but as has been discussed makes for instability and has issues where site quality is basically luck of the draw. not sure about the lottery argument, i suppose it would be nice to reach a level of recognition where such things can happen but it's not what's motivating me into wanting some oversight. in the long run a well established governing body can set standards such as chrono practice, fps limits (where applicable, such as where dmr's are in relation to rifles/basr's, or lower cqb limits etc), ratio of players to marshals, training for site staff, standardized game rules, how to deal with rule breakers, it could negotiate bulk insurance deals, organize larger events, get involved in larger scale charity work, manage PR and fight both the big and small legal battles. that's in the future of course, rome wasn't built in a day and all that, but i'd rather we were dictated terms by a governing body that we had some input for than be ripped apart the next time a politician with an axe to grind reads about little timmy who took his 2-tone justbbgunz special into school and decides to drop the banhammer.

I aint arguing against hpa, would be a big hypocritical given how deep i went down the air line rabbit hole. But m4 mag on a pistol is a whole different level........

don't encourage him! he can still be saved!

kind of a vicious circle, a body won't have that power until enough people sign up to it, once they represent enough of the uk airsoft scene (not just players but sites and retailers too) then they'll have weight. which leads us to: it does seem they're the best option we have, and arguably better to bolster their ranks to get it moved in the right direction quicker.

my bad, wrong quote agree with that, there is a big difference between a private game with a few mates, and those few mates deciding to run a site, the danger of course being that they'll run things so they have fun, rather than the paying public. staff being players is a tricky one, on the one hand experience as a player might help, but additionally it might hinder especially if they're bringing bad habits from their own playstyles into their work. of course this is part of what a governing body could do- guides on best practice, what to do when dealing with a cheater? what behaviour should constitute a ban? how to follow up on complaints etc.

a very valid question, and i suspect the single biggest barrier any organisation is going to have at the outset. once it's established, well known, and has the majority of the player/site/retailer base behind it then it'll be an organisation with weight like the fia or (i don't know football so just pretend i put a football appropriate acronym instead of this long-ass bracket) as you say initially such an organisation is going to have no power, no weight, and very little efficacy when it starts out. hence the initial questioning of what organisations already exist that perhaps could be transformed into the role rather than starting afresh.

you can't, i realise it's been a slippery slope to this point but you can still be saved, just stare into the light my brother:

interested to see how it goes, it's gonna be hit hard with active brake and precocking- i am not a kind man to motors. gonna have a very similar build to my akm too, so a good side by side comparison. tbh i'm glad someone's taking a serious go at bringing brushless to the airsoft world, i mean brushed motors were old hat in rc when i started and that was over a decade ago. but then this is a hobby where nimh's still exist (nicads even)......

are you meaning sites that are run by airsoft players as opposed to businessmen? because from what i've seen those kinds of sites can have issues of becoming cliquey/unwelcoming to folks outside the core group. there is value in the owner/marshall staff of a venue having a certain impartiality to the player base. as i mentioned in the op it's more than just the lockdown issue, although that is a symptom that highlights the problem. the main thing (for me at least, others will have their own opinions) is the airsoft lottery where sites can be pretty decent to woefully bad, with the most common symptom being very weak organisation/enforcement of rules with chronic lack of marshalling. there's also the issue of fighting the legal battles, say the government decides a flat 1j limit would be a good idea- who have we got to fight that? if they see one too many daily fail article about some chav and his pew being dumb and decide to bring in all the 2-tones, that kind of thing. in the long run a site should want to sign up to the governing body, make it a badge of honour, if you're part of that network is means you're site is going to have systems in place to be consistent, and players will want to play at your site because they know you're able to offer them a good time. additionally a body representing hundreds of sites that follow a consistent ruleset will probably have a better chance of getting a good insurance bulk deal than a bunch of independants. i for one don't like walking off-site before lunchtime because a group of arseholes has picked to play at that field and the site won't or can't do anything to address the issue. that's kind of our point, currently every site owner is his own cook, does things his own way. what we want is mcdonalds- it might not be the best, but you know what you're getting. i hate how much i agree with this

in the long run it would be nice to have a kind of minimum standard for sites, but initially sites just won't listen so anything the governing body does initially needs buy-in from the sites or it won't work. edit: to clarify i don't have an answer for how to go about getting it setup, i'm just pondering on what i'd like to see eventually because it sucks not being able to predict if a day is gonna be utterly amazing or completely shit when the quality of play is almost entirely down to the caliber of players who decided to pick that site on that day.