Colin Allen

Typo!

I rather like the CYMA pistons; they just do the job.

The only time that the lad and I have been to Apocalypse Airsoft in Kent was in April 2019, when we had a less than satisfactory experience with poorly designed games and bizarre and contradictory rules. It is a large wooded site of about 100 acres. However, it is now under new management and a lot of people have told me that it is much better. So, with the lad not returning from Stoke(!) until this evening, Comrade Andy and I decided to meet at Apocalypse to try it out; Andy had never been before. The first game of the day, starting at 10:30, was a relatively simple fallback across three sections: the Village, No Man's Land (NML) and the Stockade (or whatever it was called). As defenders, we had cycles of three lives in each, with the first two being on buddy regens and the last one involving a trip back to the next location, from where players were released back into the game every five minutes, with the sequence then rebooting. We were also told that the attackers could attack the Village from the front and flanks, but not from the rear. The attackers had to attack each location in sequence, only moving on to the next one once the current target was captured. The first stage started well but became a bit strange when we found ourselves under attack from the rear. At this point, I took my third hit (from the rear) and walked back to NML, where I asked the marshal about it; she stated that the information that we could not be attacked from the rear had been a miscommunication. When our five minutes had expired the marshal informed us that we could remain on our regen and shoot the enemy players from there and they would not be able to shoot back. At this, my puzzled and confused face appeared as this just seemed wrong; I asked and the marshal confirmed that was ok. We started shooting Blue players, who started shooting back, whereupon the marshal shouted that they could not. I again questioned this and, after a radio conversation, she stated that they could shoot back but we could just tap in with her to regen when hit. A few minutes later, she informed everyone that we were under normal rules, which we really should have been from the time we moved back from the Village. The game became quite interesting for a while with the attackers sandwiched between our remaining gallant chaps in the Village, who were conducting their own version of Rorke's Drift, and us outside it, with both sides trying to outflank the other. However, after 90 minutes, the Blues still had not captured the first objective and the game ended. It was a game that the attackers could not hope to complete in the allotted time as we, as the defenders, had far too many lives. After lunch, we started another game; we had to secure the Stockade, capture a Blue team High Value Person (HVP) at the Pit after wiping out his ten player escort, escort him to the Stockade and hold him there until the end of the game. The Blue team had to extract him from the Pit and get him back to the Village. We had a regen point near the Stockade while the Blue team regened where they started at the Safe Zone entrance. The group Comrade Andy and I were with set off to the Stockade and secured it rather handily, before becoming engaged with enemy players moving around our left flank and trying to reach the HPV. After a while we were informed that the HPV was now ensconced in the Village, so we set out to capture him; this became a rather dull affair that Comrade Andy aptly described as "hiking with guns, with the emphasis on the hiking". To be blunt, it was boring. After this game, which again lasted for 90 minutes, Comrade Andy and I, along with a fair few other players, decided to leave. While it was better than when the lad and I went, it was still frustrating and disappointing. Neither of us will be going back. Guns used: APS UAR (which stopped feeding on the last shot of the morning; the original crap hop rubber had finally failed.) LCT PP-19-01 ASG Commander XP18 (CO2)

And it is Sir Ranulph Fiennes. @Cannonfodder, it seems that you have a stalker. Perhaps he fancies you.

Assemble the gearbox without the spring, spring guide and sector gear. Once it is tightened up, hold the gearbox vertically to see if the piston slides down easily. If it doesn't you can try polishing the piston guide rails, although you may need a piston with wider slots for the guide rails. There is no point changing the rack. It does sound like something is a little tight somewhere.

The polymer Double Bell KAC PDW is small and incredibly light; it takes standard M4 mags as well as the replica 6x35 magazines. https://extremeairsoft.co.uk/product/double-bell-pdw-polymer-body-black-808/

You think you have victims? Are you really that deluded?

But it’s RARE!

Move on nothing to see hear Nothing other than you changing your story.

There you go again, making assumptions and attempting to belittle anyone who points out the incoherence of your approach and your responses. You really are making this up as you go along. Your original position was that the lower power limit only applied to HPA but now you are claiming that it has always included GBB, which is not borne out by the posts in this thread. Your credibility is disappearing faster the Rishi Sunak’s.

The pot calling the kettle black there. Yes, I read everything that you wrote; I tend to do that before responding to someone. You really don't get it do you? Your policy towards HPA is nonsensical and arbitrary. I and others have pointed out far more sensible approaches but you claim that we do not understand joule creep when we clearly do. If you are really that paranoid about joule creep, either chrono everyone on what they are using or on your maximum allowed weight and, if necessary, re-chrono HPA users again if you have concerns during the day. Why would anyone suggest chronoing on a weight you do not allow? You are just creating a strawman argument. Yes, it is almost as if he is making it up as he goes along.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong in you. You really have done an excellent job of ensuring that nobody here will ever play at your site and, if it comes up in conversation, will warn people off. Good luck with your business empire.

You really are overly sensitive aren't you? I fully understand joule creep; what I do not understand is your bizarre approach of limiting the power output of HPA weapons below that of all others, including GBB. Oh, get over yourself.

I suspect that you did not mean that to sound arrogant, but it did.

Do you enjoy making yourself appear foolish? A couple of friends and I carried out experiments on joule creep using AEGs, GBBs and HPAs years ago when we were marshalling at a site and HPA was just becoming a thing. Joule creep exists; however, its potential negative effects can be managed through proper chronoing procedures, random in-game checking and developing a culture where HPA users are required to reset and lock their systems if the temperature changes. It seems that you have chosen not to do that, but have chosen to impose an arbitrary rule on HPA users. Why don't you do the same to GBB users? Their guns are also susceptible to joule creep.

I am pointing out that your statements do not validate your approach to HPA; that is not being argumentative. There is neither love nor hate in this discussion; if you think there is hate, you probably need to become somewhat less sensitive.

None of which provides a valid reason for restricting HPA users to a lower power output.

You have not provided a rationale for limiting HPA to a lower power than other weapons.

That is pretty conclusive.

Ares pistons have a habit of doing that. They are junk.

Was that Graham McLellan?

I think you have 😝 Did you get the Ares sorted?

What weight BBs are you using? If you are using, for example, 0.25g, being just below 300FPS is not a problem. If you are going to work on a gun, you really need to buy a chrono. What did you lube with silicone oil? Gears should not be lubed with it; you need to use something like Super Lube or gun grease. It is possible that you have got silicone oil on the hop rubber, which could explain the very short range. A new spring is only worth investing in if doing everything listed does not drag the power up to where it should be. If everything is sealing, you should only need an M100 or M105 spring.