RostokMcSpoons

My boonie hat with a drawstring chin strap thing always seems to get caught on twigs and undergrowth more often, so my 'sprint' (oh I wish) from spawn at game start ends up getting curtailed rather abruptly 😋 I'm probably just wearing it wrong, but yeah I stick to my camo baseball cap, which also has a bit more 'form' to it and therefore feels a tiny bit better at taking the sting out of the headshots My mesh lower face mask has ear protection, consider getting either type of headgear with the fold down flaps if you don't have that. "Flaps". Yub-yub wibble etc

He really is taking the pith 😋

Being one of them 'earlier adopter' types, I was early in on interwebz back when being 'Roscoe' was enough to stand out on a chat list. When all the 'Johnny-come-latelies' started filling things up, I changed to Atomic Rooster as my online nom de guerre. Turns out I'd subliminally picked that up from the name of a Prog Rock band (my genre of choice, and yet I don't think I've ever heard any of their music). Still, other Atomic Roosters appeared occasionally, so had to go to something else... I think I've got the lightest touch of Tourette's syndrome, and used to say "Spooooons" a lot (pre Wetherspoons!), which highly amused my boss at the time, and so Rostok McSpoons became my new forum / gamer tag. Been using it for many. many years. I saw that old boss in a pub meet-up for the first time in about 20 years recently. As soon we saw each other.... "Spooooooons!"

Is that the flaw where you must always load a magazine into the pistol with the slide locked back, to prevent the nozzle getting bumped and damaged? If that's the only thing wrong with it, I might still get one (some day)

That KJW KP09 is a handsome beastie, that'll go some way to scratching some of my Browning Hi-Power itch some day

I've heard really good things about the mk45's abilities so it's undoubtedly a great choice for a skirmisher's sidearm, but I'd argue (possibly against my own instincts) that, if you might only end up garden plinking, a more realistic metal slide pistol would serve you better. For reference I've got 3 pistols, a TM D.O.R (hi capa) which is my sidearm of choice, winter and summer. It's great. And a cheap Glock, and a cheap M93. In terms of 'personality' I'd probably choose the metal slide M93 even though it doesn't shoot in the cold! Call it a combination of 'heft' and my liking of the 93's aesthetics. (I remain on the lookout for a TM 93, as I expect it might do everything well)

Apologies 😣😋😂 I'll rephrase that, "I'm running out of physical space for my gun collection"

If that's a thinly-veiled statement of interest, I'd be open to the idea of selling mine (though it still needs a tweak on the single shot mode) 🤗 (Too many guns in my collection and haven't played in months, I've been meaning to thin it down a tad)

Classic tobacco sunburst... 🤗

SG's are proper good rock guitars 🤩 👍that cherry one would be my pick!

Well if we can have a Watches thread (which I like), then let's have one for geeeeeeeetars too, as they can lovely things to behold and meddle with. I am a pleased-as-punch recent purchaser of this: PRS SE CE 24 in Blood Orange If only I could play it as well as it deserves! (This is my 5th guitar, purchased over a span of nearly 40 years, and I've only just got vaguely to grips with rhythm. Lead is a complete no-no. I suck!) PRS really do a fantastic job on build quality, even on their cheaper guitars (like this one). And it plays so easily, it's really nicely set up straight from the box. I might invest in a set of locking tuners on it, the 9 gauge strings are shifting tune as my 'office' room is a bit of a sweatbox at the moment. And those skinny strings are slicing up the ends of my fingers a bit - though that might be because I'm just playing it too much Anyway, share some pics of your beauties

So I've been running with a small bottle for my Tippmann, with no regulator as it does all the clever stuff stepping down the pressure within it's own system. Now I've got an airtac adapter for my vfc, I've got to fit the regulator I bought a while ago. I could just connect the bottle and fire a gazillion shots on the Tippmann, until it's empty, but that seems like some unnecessary wear and tear on the gun. Is there an easy way to release the pressure? And any handy hints on fitting the regulator?

So I've been running with a small bottle for my Tippmann, with no regulator as it does all the clever stuff stepping down the pressure within it's own system. Now I've got an airtac adapter for my vfc, I've got to fit the regulator I bought a while ago. I could just connect the bottle and fire a gazillion shots on the Tippmann, until it's empty, but that seems like some unnecessary wear and tear on the gun. Is there an easy way to release the pressure? And any handy hints on fitting the regulator?

In my limited experience of cqb, accuracy counts for a lot. People are carefully peeking corners (if they're not jumping from one bit of cover to another) so being able to hit a < 6" square area at 15m is what you want to do, repeatedly and often. Or just have fun blasting away with a tracer on your gbb, the choice is yours. (Buying my tracer unit was a big improvement in the experience, because blasting away with no knowledge of where the bb's are going in the dimly lit interior was not so great)

My favourite gun to shoot is my vfc 416 GBBR. My favourite gun to shoot people is my DE 906 AEG So it depends what mood or situation I'm in. If my team is struggling and I need to nail the enemy with accurate weight of fire, the aeg wins every time. But the more 'snipey' and realistic feel of the GBBR is sooooo satisfying. I've just invested in an airtac hpa adapter to see if I can find myself in a good middle ground.

Hi ho, you going quiet has coincided with me being on hiatus on medical advice... Which I've now decided to ignore. So hopefully see you on the battlefield at Spec Ops soon 😎. I might be going Sunday morning. Depends on whether I'm still alive, my wife might notice a guitar getting delivered on Saturday, and then.... 💩💩💩

Hiya! Yeah, I've had much the same sort of issue, my latest gat shoots quite a bit higher than my aiming point at the moment. What sort of range are you zeroing at? How much hop have you got on? Do bear in mind that our toys have different ballistic properties to normal guns - enough hop dialed in, and the BB will lift quite a bit compared to a normal trajectory. You might find the vertical zero is fine at 30-40m, but quite off at 10-15m, unless you take some of the hop off. Or indeed vice-versa, if you're shooting lower than the aiming point, it might just be a lack of hop.

I was up in my attic a couple of weeks ago. Stiflingly hot... I was more worried about the high humidity. Most of my guns are stored in padded bags or the original styrofoam boxes, but there are a couple that aren't. Should I be worried about them?

My G&G feels very, very nice but it uses non standard mags for its differently-placed feed tube. So no M4 mag adapter.

Do be very careful not to spill any brake fluid on that blue paint, it might spoil the finish Edit: unintentionally correct advice 😌🥴😅

As mentioned in the 'What Have You Just Bought' thread, I've picked up one of these bad boys for a bit of a song from Action Hobbies' boneyard. Had to stick a barrel extension on it for a more SLR feel, and an old red-dot 1.5X sight cos it suits the aesthetic, and bingo, it's close to the classic battle rifle look I really love. I was expecting a polymer receiver, so was delighted to find this has a metal upper. It seems to have been upgraded - the rate of fire with a 7.4v is great. The advert talked of a Gate Aster inside. It seems that's true, I watched a video and it follows the expected Gate Aster behaviour from the trigger programming. I think it has a longer inner barrel too, its poking into the flash hider when in normal carbine configuration. Accuracy seems merely 'ok', but I've only chucked 0.20's down the garden for 15m so far. Might need a fresh hop rubber. But of course, it was boneyard for a reason. It seems to have been upgraded, but there is an issue with the single shot function where it doesn't always fire. You can hear the gearbox cycle but I suspect it's not getting all the way back to the point of release. Next trigger pull releases the pre-cocked spring. I've tried changing the Active Braking from 'auto' to 'off', but that didn't seem to make any difference. Any ideas on things what could be wrong? Breaking open the gearbox will be a last resort, given I don't seem to have much luck with the darned things, but damnit this gun is a lovely bit of kit and I'll want to run it a lot if I can get it fettled. Oh yeah, a handy hint for anyone averse to reading instructions before playing with their new toy - the screw in the buttplate is fake - don't expend masses of effort trying to undo it And be complaining about cheesing the screw head when it's made of plastic The butt plate slides straight down and off to reveal the battery compartment!

Yeah they're Brazi's foremost airsoft manufacturer I believe, for what that's worth They have some quite nice looking AR's which had reasonably good reviews on that there YouTube, so they're a tempting value proposition, but really there's not enough evidence here of their reliability and outright performance to really make a definitive call either way.

I have a Rossi sniper rifle (TM clone) and I like it. But sniper rifles != electric gnus, so not much help really. (And I'm hardly a sniper, just a dabbler)