StoveCap

Greetings, Heading into first year of Uni later this year. And I was hoping to double check with anyone here that I've done all my relevant checks before I head off to university with the slice of my collection I select to bring along with me. Specifically, I'm heading to Cardiff Uni (Hopefully). They have an Airsoft society, so I'm also going to ask in their socials some of the more specific stuff to cardiff uni. So this post is more for general advice from any other Uni Airsofters or anyone who lives in shared living. Main questions are: Is it alright to store my stuff in my Dorm room? How can I secure my stuff relatively cheaply? (Worst case, a flatmate or other person gets into my room and tries to nick them. How do I protect from that without buying a gun safe?) How transparent with flatmates should I be about my stuff - Should I explicitly state and show my guns, or do I hide them, etc...? What's the best way to transport my stuff outside my dorm in the city so that I don't have to worry about any panic? (I already have gunbags, but I'm a little worried they're still gonna understandably cause some panic) Obscure money saving tips, I already have all the general tips, but there's always something new I could learn. Any oddities to Airsoft in Wales? And anything else that might be relevant that I haven't though of. Anything helps.

I'm certain that has nothing to do with the BB weight, sounds more like hop problems. Sure, on lower power builds the performance increase of using heavier BBs is less noticeable than on higher power builds. Because the Heavy BBs have less initial velocity to conserve better than their lighter counterpart. But no matter what, if you have a hop that imparts the same relative spin on both the light and the heavy BB, the heavy BB goes farther. It wont run out of magnus effect sooner. It is heavier, heavy things conserve energy better, and as such will spin longer, prolonging the magnus effect, and conserving the muzzle energy for longer making them faster than lighter BBs at any range farther than ~10-20 metres.

Dunno where 85 is, im seeing them for 65ish on HPA. most i saw was 72 from bavtacs website. Either way, the extra 20 is indescribably worth it. The DE Mags are so much worse.

General consensus is, Avoid AngryGun like the plague for internals, its apparently a roll of the dice whether you get a workable one or a mish one. Both barrels are good but Laylax is apparently better than ML Crazyjets. Also look into the Federal Concepts NPAS instead of the RATech.

Loadouts for Milsims / Battlesims are completely up to the very specific event you go to. There are milsims that require you to pack 24/48/72hrs worth of equipment, food, water, etc... Because you are always in the game, and the game is 3 days long. They require you to wear a specific countries equipment, or equipment that a irregular militiamen would wear, because your team is meant to represent that. There are also milsims that are in effect just 10/12/14 hour long versions of skirmish games that have no more stringent rules than an average Sunday out. Find a milsim you can and want to go to. Look up its rules, how the event is structed, how the site normally works, what lodging if any is provided, what infrastructure (Do they have water on site, is there a food van or other food source, etc...). And then decide whether you have enough. Or ask someone who has been to that event or events like it for kit advice. And in general, a Primary is all you need. A slightly beat up M4 will serve most people well enough depending on what M4 it is. And for multi-day events, a Tent/Bivvi and a kelly kettle will serve you brilliantly. I'd also recommend taking some lighter eyepro if you don't already rock really minimal eyepro. I don't know how good you are with wearing full-seal goggles at god knows what time in the morning, but I find some nice ballistic shades to serve me well when I'm getting neat and tidy when I wake up.

430 for 4 of the worst MWS mags there are and a fucked up gun without an outer barrel, muzzle device or the original stock? Yike.

Heyo, getting a DE MWS on the 23rd, Already got an extra MWS Stanag and Typ89 Stanag in the meanwhile, Just wanted to check that abbey Maintenance Gas is fine to leave in there and slowly purge / shoot out. I know that purging magazines too fast can damage them, so I was thinking of shooting but I dont know if shooting it out of the magazine would be any less or more damaging than just being careful and slowly purging them. Also thinking of getting a 60 degree Flamingo bucking and M.H.N asap, and getting a replacement GM bcg when the DE nozzle breaks (I've heard its not great). Anything there sound like it wont work?

The physics behind it is fairly simple, Heavier BB's conserve their energy better. Assume you have a Mini cooper going 100mph and a Truck going 60 down an infinite straight road, If you just let both of them go - no accel no braking - the mini stops LONG before the Truck, even in spite of the speed advantage, because the Truck is way heavier. Same principle for BBs, Light 'mini' BB may be faster at first, but that Heavy 'Truck' BB is still gonna be at a solid 30-20mph by the time that mini stops. (This is an Analogy, i dont actually know how accurate my waffle about Trucks and Minis is here)

Best BBs are really dependant on weight, on the sub .36 range, any reputable brand is pretty much as good as the other. At least that's as far as I've looked into them. Bang for buck I'd go for ASG, any series. And if you can hop heavier than .28 you should probably get heavier - you can buy the best .28 out there, you're still gonna be outranged by a decent .32

As previously stated, 90m at UK power limits is not impossible But indescribably improbable. UK Snipers are typically accurate (With internal tech work done) accurate up to the 70-80m area. Some systems achieve this easier than others, and some systems are able to push range up slightly despite our power limits because of other factors (i.e. Super high volume cylinders push heavier BBs). Before anything else, do some research on websites with may more info on this topic specifically - https://www.airsoftsniperforum.com has a treasure trove of the nitty gritty details for sniper work. Searching up the platform your about to buy on here usually gives you a wealth of details and such that you'll want to know to get your sniper going as far as it Possibly can. But to get the lightest, quietest and furthest shooting sniper you can, you've got two options - Tac41 or VSR. VSR is a more well-documented platform. With better support and more tech guides. However, it is a bit harder to get into peak performance (imo) and its generally louder than the Tac-41. On the other hand, the Tac-41 is an easier upgrade. It only Needs a Spring swap to get great range, But for the quiet aspect, you'll also want a WASP or other quiet piston, which is also a pretty easy swap out. Its a little heavier than the VSR, but its not as heavy as the other two Silverback options (SRS and HTI. Above all, slap a decent suppressor on the end of the barrel and that'll do a lot for the noise.

If you're near Reading - Look at Z-Mart CQB in Newbury, its in a sectioned off area of a Shopping centre, ran be the guys who used to run the old abandoned mall Site in reading iirc (Might be wrong). Not heard anything bad about the site.

For all to enjoy! 😆

Understand your trying to diversify the opinion pool here. Its a respectable thing to do But I made a profile on this forum just to express how incredibly stupid trying to defend the Crying Cumstain is. He's a man-child with a cult fanbase who cheats, commits borderline illegal acts and whines in his videos. He literally fucking threw his gun into a bush and cried when it wasn't working properly in one of his videos.