RostokMcSpoons

If I'm there I'll be sure to ask Carlos about that Enjoy your shooting!

Thanks guys. Great input, much appreciated. I was actually expecting the spec ops cqb to open before the outdoor site, so it'd get a run on hard surfaces, but the thought of having a method to wrinkle out some hard-core tent campers does have sooooo much appeal I'll want to give it a go at least! (I have feeling I won't be going though, I've got a head cold and it's getting worse not better - the idea of a snotty nose inside a face mask is really not that appealing. Plus my knee is super fragile, every chance I'd have to drop out at some point, and I really can't afford to spend £30 on a part day 😢)

Yeah the "use cases" I have for it at the outdoor site of spec ops are: - the kill houses in Ping Ping City. Very tight areas, the grenade will only be travelling a couple of feet around a corner on each throw - tents at BBC. The tents all have windows that can be approached, it'll be a drop rather than a throw into them - the church. If we play the game where attacks are only allowed through the church door, there'll be a stack of people queuing up next to it to get through. The temptation to yeet will be strongest at this point, but if I can get close enough for an underarm toss then I'll get a stack of kills in one go (if they take the hit)

Just doom-scrolling through my YT feed, and a review of a similar grenade suggests there's a fair chance it won't go off unless it hits something hard. So bouncing it off noggins will just have to be done! Anyway, as YT seems to know what I'm typing elsewhere, I'm just off to make a nice tinfoil hat and pair of gloves

Underarm, eh? It's just not cricket sir!

So if my rather knackered knee settles down in time, I'm hoping to be playing outdoors at Spec Ops on Sunday. Yay! Hopefully I'll get to run my Tippmann HPA in anger for the first ever, and also it'll be my first chance to throw my recently won multi-shot grenade around. (Assuming the primers arrive on schedule) Now I've not seen much grenade use - at Spec Ops it's almost always smokes, just the occasional thunderflash going off too... I don't really know why, they're mentioned as fine to use in the briefing (after checking and approval). So I don't really know what's good and what's bad in the use of 'nades. It's a big ol' chunk of metal so I won't be heroically yeeting it any distance, and neither will I drop it blind over the top of a barrier where it might bounce off a noggin, but on the other hand I'm not going to look inside every tent before I chuck it in, as that would rather defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? So what are the do's and don'ts? Titled with thanks to these fine lads

Reported the piece of shit (without even having to visit his channel thankfully)

Really, really, really need to put your stuff through a spell checker if you're going to sell things. I'd not have much faith in someone who can't spell 'coming' and sticks apostrophes into plurals, and generally doesn't bother with details - like grammar, punctuation and spelling. But maybe that's just me!

Watch out, there's quite a difference between the various Holy Warrior sights... most of them are on a par with the Sotac (that I own), it's just the more expensive S1 that is a level above. I had a thread about the various Eotech clones, where the debate didn't quite get heated as such, but rose above room temperature, where the main bone of contention was the acceptable level of parallax on a sight. I contend(ed) that parallax might look horrible at short range, but once you're at 15m+ then it's really not worth worrying about given the inherent accuracy limits of our BB guns. I empirically remain 'unfussed' as the camo-painted-to-match-the-gun sight on my fave AEG is an £8 Eotech knock-off from Action Hobbies' boneyard! But I have noticed at least one of my red dots isn't great when shifting viewpoint vertically, even when focusing out at distance. So ... something to bear in mind. Good video here... I've just bought yet another cheapo boneyard sight - a T1/2 clone to replace a dying one from my collection, but if I ever spend any 'proper' money again on a better sight - it'll be a Vortex Crossfire. https://www.opticswarehouse.co.uk/vortex-crossfire-2-moa-red-dot-sight

The C7 build inspired me to put my Classic Army M16 back together and rattle-can it (again) ... I might add some more stripes to break up the stock a bit more and add some extra contrast, but it came out quite well considering it's cold and windy outside so it wasn't ideal conditions. Now the only problem is that darned thing isn't feeding from my Lonex mags The feed nozzle is pushing down enough to release the normal 4 BB's through (which fall out when I release the mag) so it's not the mag positioning that's the problem - I guess the cylinder's nozzle isn't moving back far enough? I can see it move when I fire. Bah humbug. @Egon_247 you might like the new FW video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPsgXZpSXI Ian's preferred version very much in line with yours

Yes it is, so just copying images and posting them in unedited 'willy-nilly' will soon eat that all up. I use the ms windows snipping tool, paste it into paint.net, save as jpeg to a folder and insert from file. That way my images drop from multi megabytes down to a few hundred K at most. If there's a more efficient way to do it (and I'm sure there is, I think there are other screen grab utilities that will shrink the final image and reformat), I'm all ears!

Ukraine would like to have a word, they think you might be.... Useful

Yes it does, but as Mr Flange notes, it does make the hop rubber slippery and therefore less effective (and consistent). So you can do one of these 1) Not give a stuff about accuracy, cos it's a pistol anyway, and use oily gas to keep the mags good without any further faff 2) Use maintenance gas between games to look after the mags, vent them before a game day outside the gun, use dry gas during games 3) Use dry gas all the time and sort the mags when they go wrong (if you're ok with taking them apart and lubing the seals) I've tended towards option 1 with pistol mags, but option 3 with the rifle mags... but the last couple I bought aren't holding gas nearly as well as the first couple, and stripping one of the mags has left it ... buggered? So might move to option 3 there.

Nope. (as in - no, that's not what the OP was asking) I'm thinking there might be some mileage in this - a change in the mechanical noise might make quite a psychological impact on the firer.

... uh huh. Not what he's asking for chum

It's about a 3.5" group at 18m. (just realised I'm mixing my scales ridiculously, but that's what I've measured), I did upgrade the bucking and nub (see my own DE 906 thread), but I don't think I saw much difference from stock, tbh. And it hits out to at least 50m, and will run 0.32s. I seem to outrange a lot of other players (but then maybe they're just rentals with badly hopped guns, so not necessarily the best evidence). I've never been disappointed with my DE. Well, until the fire control unit started playing silly buggers. Maybe the 11.1v spamming was too much for it after many thousands of shots. Bought a used replacement for £15 quid.

Very happy DE M906C and M904G user here, great value guns! I would say I can get through 4 high-cap Lonex flash mags in a game (so I've just bought an extra one), but I am a spammy full auto player out in the woods, so if you're only semi-auto in CQB, two mags should do ya. A battle belt with a harness gives you the extra option of carrying a holstered pistol on your hip as God intended, so don't rule them out

Yeah I'm going to buy whatever the recommendation is too, but we didn't we do this quite recently? Pretty sure it is either a G&G for the smaller ones (or, ridiculously, the dragon / dick shaped ones), and it's the TM for the M4 size version

That's interesting. Tbh once I've identified someone trying to sell me Voodoo dick enlargement with a side-order of chemicals and a Scandinavian girl-friend thrown in for the smallest of fees, well once I've finished signing up for that I don't bother looking at anything else! Was it one of those. or something a bit more 'targeted'?

Ban the spammer, all the posts go too. It's very easy, just a moments work. You'd think a simple question would be fine to do the job. I'm presuming the spam posts are coming from a bot that only knows what the 'registration' and 'post a thread' pages look like. Any change to the registration page will break the automated script. However, these days you can build or amend a fairly sophisticated app just from a chatgpt session (well CodePilot if you want to be specific), so any sort of simple challenge might get worked around. I can't imagine the spammers are getting many hits from their posts here so hopefully they won't bother taking any further action if the bar is raised even a tiny little bit

I'm sure there's going to be a psychological aspect, when you see your gat shooting like a laser it does feel very satisfying. When it is spraying around all over the place it... Not so much. But apart from that, all FPS are the same. Except TM FPS. They are MAGICAL. 😋

We just need to see one example post to know what they're up to these days. It's all the same shite. I'm banning several a week too. I'm generally reviewing the latest posts from whatever time I wake up to around 8am (I'd be doing that even without the spammers, as I'm the lab rat that keeps pushing the button in the hope of a reward)

There's an article in the news from a day or two ago that claims 'converted' guns are now more likely to be involved in firearms incidents than real ones. At the moment they're just talking about blank-firers. According to an ex-con they can be made to fire a real cartridge in 20-30 minutes of work. I felt a tiny pang of fear about GBBs considering how so many parts are real-steel compatible. I have no experience of blanks so don't know how differently they're constructed. Here's one article, it was picked up by a number of media sites... BBC News - Converted handguns fired more than 'real' weapons in UK crimes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67895627

Yes he did. In an interview he said he was pissed as a twat when he recorded it. Plus he was of course in The Damned, it wouldn't be very punk of him not to. The 'official' lyrics have him singing 'cuss' but you can hear a drawn out 'n' and 't' quite clearly. Not bad for a #1 song that got masses of plays is it 🤣

Yes I read an article about that, someone realised the maths didn't stack up with his age, so asked him about it, and so he told 'em about his Happy Time 😋 But if you want a really good "got away with it" pop song story, try listening to Captain Sensible's version of "Happy Talk" again... Considering he did this on TOTP, and I noticed the first time I heard it, I'm amazed he got away with this! ... 2:30 is where the magic happens 😂