Badgerlicious

Paradise? I miss paradise 😭 Hopefully they use it in two weeks. Shame about the (non) hit takers, it's such a rarity at worthing. glad the marshals were on top of it for you guys. I guess I sort of had an airsoft day, me and a mate went up to the range at worthing for the afternoon. He's got himself a cyma vsr, changed the hop rubber and barrel, and it's right on the power limits. Though it certainly needs some bedding in and tuning, it's hitting 75m with a 0.4 and some lobbing. So I think he's going to have a good time next game day, or hate sniping, one of those 🤣

This bush seems to have a red dot mounted on it?

Lexan, hacksaw, sandpaper, and about 30 minutes of hand cramp.

Oh quids in, my games at the local zoo are gonna be so much better with this piece of kit.

Hawke vantage 3-9x scope. Optics are nice and clear, nice eye relief, and it feels really well made. I got a ris mount for an rmr sight too. Just gotta get home and camo her up!

This, basically. It will never be solved without unrealistic methods. What joule testing will do is catch the stupid cheater, and inform the ignorant that their gun is hot. It's £60 for a chrono that can program bb weights + £200 for a quality chrono like a skan to check against, shouldn't be a huge burden a business. There's not much excuse to not test in joules these days.

I was, with my perfectly concealed flamingo shirt! There was some great yellow ad hoc squads pushing flanks and bases all day. Some wonderfully aggressive play from everyone it felt like. We somehow got wonky watch and all the barrels out in about 15-20 minutes. My friend definitely found that out, lol. MVP 100% goes to whoever dropped that training smoke on sandbag in the final minutes. Gave us the cover needed to get sandbag and diffuse the bomb.

Was a good day, some great objectives to play, some excellent team play with mot of my friends now on radios, and I always love being able to play the whole site. My rifle is performing nicely, just needs to be made a touch more accurate. New pistol was pretty disappointing, even after I thought it was lifting bbs. probably just needs a new rubber though, so there's still hope. Also got shot in the ol' jewels, so that's one off the bucket list I hope to never repeat.

The zero one calculator is a great tool to check your joules: https://www.zerooneairsoft.com/airsoft_calculator.php energy = mass x velocity, so you up either mass or velocity your joules will go up. if you were getting 310fps before, it's not hard to jump 10+fps with better air seal, and go over the limits. Do you have your own chrono? I'd suggest it to anyone that wants to tweak their gun in any way, besides external attachments.

The older black boots I wouldn't touch for comfort. The newer brown boots are good boots, usually at 1/3 of the price new, but you have to go to a shop to make sure it's a pair in decent condition, or buy from somewhere with a generous returns policy . Online retails will send you whatever is the correct size with zero regard for quality. "grade 1" can be a pretty big range, and some boots with ruined soles end up in that bin because few really care to check.

Try a tiny bit of grease on them and stick them to the bushing on the other side of the gearbox.

Raven R226. I'm just gonna stop hoping to stock nuprol guns, I cannot in good conscience sell this thing to someone when it can't hop a 0.2 out the box. Looks lovely externally, slide is nice and smooth, action is nice and smooth, but the hop is just... wafer thin as stock. Decided write this one off and buy it myself. Shimmed (read: put tape under) the hop arm until I can get something more permanent sorted out. At least it hops 0.25s now even with a drop in power. We'll see how it handles the field this weekend. On the other hand, Swiss arms adaptx holster, really, really happy with it. I didn't think a universal quick release holster was really doable but this is quite nice. And it's ambidextrous! I've fitted it to the R226 and my WE EU17 Gen 4, and it can fit both no worries. Takes some adjustment, some parts are a bit fiddly, but overall a fairly simple process. Again, field testing this weekend.

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Kombat Trojan chest rig. Viper has the same thing under the name Spec-Ops chest rig. £30 for 4x mag pouches, 3x pistol mag pouches, 2x smoke grenade pouches, a utility pouch and a radio pouch (that doubles as a decent 5th mag pouch). The drawbacks being it's a fixed layout, so you cannot add or remove any pouches. You might be able to find the same thing on ali or wish, though I haven't found the exact model myself. I must spend a good 50% of my time on my belly and the stitching is still good after a few months of running it. That plus the rigger belt. I recommend it through your belt loops, there will be some play in the holster otherwise, though it shouldn't be unusable. The pic is me and my mate both running one. We're both pretty "meaty" lads, so you can get an idea of the fit. Though he's put his on a kombat molle yoke, and mine's on a dpm yoke. The OD green goes really well with dark woodland colours imo.

I have the TM AUG HC. I love it, very much. As said, the TM has a midpoint on the safety that allows for semi-auto fire, but it is still a pretty heavy and squishy trigger 'cause it's a bullpup. A few things to note on mine. 1) the safety push lever thing is fairly sharp on the corners, I filed mine down. 2) After two years of running it, the semi-auto has stopped working. I haven't even touched the gearbox in all this time though, I've been waiting on a second reliable gun before I crack the AUG open. Full auto works fine though. 3) after two years, even the TM is getting a wobbly bottom rail and a bit creaky. 4) Get a second ejection port cover because the mock bolt is a total ass to put back in But, you'll get 40m effective range (at like 0.7j on 0.28s) and an absolute hellfire of bbs. If we're throwing out suggestions, the arp556 is a pretty nice gun. A friend has one, and it sits right on the full auto power limits with 0.28s, even with that tiny barrel. Has decent accuracy, range and RoF too. Plus it takes regular m4 mags. The metal bodied one is already pretty light, and now there's the v2 polymer version that's about the top of your price range. Though it's a bit springy when you're shooting it for some reason.

Across the front of the gearbox, above or below where the nozzle comes out, some very thin tape to weaken the air seal between the gearbox and the hop unit. Might need more, might need less, might not work, it depends where your other leaks are.

🤷‍♂️ it loosens the airseal and reduces fps. It's not a permanent solution but it'll do in a pinch.

Well in recent years, availability. 🤣😭 You can at least flat hop any bucking you please.

If it has a better seal than the stock one it can certainly cause an fps jump. Replacing mine gave me about 10fps. One method to reduce fps is to put tape on the front of the gearbox to create a slight air leak.

My friend recently got the MK18 SA-E19, so I might try and get a poke about inside. Weird that it possibly came with a flat hop nub, or possibly a flat hop. Some shop tech hiding parts in guns perhaps?

A follow on from my AK21 purchase last week. I ran the gun last weekend and was pretty impressed, it was hopping 0.36s to 50m, even while dropping to 0.65 joules with the hop set. So this week I've been in the gearbox giving it a higher volume cylinder, a notch cut, which has solved the power drops with no hop, weather has been too awful to test at range though. A couple of fun things I've since found, the shimming was pretty damn good, which it had to be 'cos the inside was bone dry. Maybe there was a slight hint of grease from ages past, but there was close to nothing in the box. The inside has been painted too, so it's got a slightly rough texture. At least it's got a pretty face. 😔

How's the quality? I've been trying to get some vn midcaps, only managed to snag 2 so far (and mistakenly bought some high caps *shakes fist*)

The newer issue British army surplus boots are very light for what they provide. There's a reason a new pair of altbergs costs north of £150, hence my suggestion for surplus and going to physically look at them, you can sometimes stumble on near new or even boxed boots for surplus prices. Tell that to my friend who rolled his ankle on his first game before buying boots with proper ankle support. I get that some people prefer trainers, and if you're on a flat CQB site I totally get that, but as a majority of airsoft sites seems to be in vaguely well kept woodland, boots with proper ankle support will save you from a lot of pain and limping, or worse, should you take a misstep on a root or step into a rabbit hole.

I use a pair of surplus altbergs. £50 and super comfy year round. Any surplus brown boot is going to be great tbh, Alterberg, Haix, Bates, YDS, Iturri . Just make sure you go try them on first with whatever/similar socks you'll be wearing. Check the soles are still hard and not spongy, wear a pair of thick socks over a pair of thin socks to reduce any chance of blisters. Maybe buy some altberg brown polish and a brush to keep them waterproofed.

What an amazing day at Worthing! New gun is wonderful, hops .36s out to 50m even while lacking in power a bit, so there's room for improvement. Even my goggle fan running out of power and a morning of not being able to see much (I got it sorted at lunch, and a new love for revision anti-fog wipes) couldn't put much of a damper on the amazing rolling defence game of the afternoon. Some excellent defense and enemy callouts from yellow, and some great coordinated pushes from blue. My new camo hood and loadout was proven to work. Almost got stepped on a few times, and there were many claims of a sniper (It's a <1j aeg) while I held the flank with a few others for a good 10 minutes. Took about 6 of them to weed me out 🤣 All in all a wonderful day, one of those where you realise how much you love this sport.