Samurai

Yeah, on my first game I didn't know about hopup so my range was very-very limited. Luckily after the game I found it and saw why I sucked - apart from being noob. But it's not just the gun. It's about knowing the game too. I've been playing for 8 years. If you give me a springer pistol and a beginner the bestest gnu, I still would have good chance of shooting him. Knowing tactics, ranges, how to shoot, being able to think with the opponent's head, luring and tricking them are things that you can pick up by playing a lot. Learning these are part of the fun.

GHK

Looks like an O ring. Pull it out. Edit: broken plastic is baaaad.

Skirmishing is for people who would like to play paintball but can't afford it. Milsim is for proper airsofters.

BB weight and quality affects the gun's accuracy the most. No hopups, precision barrels, constant fps come close to how much the gun depends on the BB. If you are after accuracy, get the good BBs. However, as you said, you need it for CQB where accuracy is not really needed, so average quality and lesser weight BBs will do fine. I'm with Esoterick: 0.25 Blasters will do fine.

Don't ask that from airsofters. The ones who took time and energy to actually measure it, will feel ashamed when they read that others' guns can reliably hit a man sized target at 100 meters. I have seen videos that stated "100 meter shot" and calculating from the BB's flight time it was only 30 - and then when I commented it on the vid, the poster said: yeah, it might have been 30. I have heard numerous claims reaching 80-100 meters and when I asked for proof they all said: ok, I will take a vid. They never returned. People usually eyeball distances and don't count the few (dozen) flyers. A fine tuned AEG shooting 350fps (with 0.20g) can hit a man quite reliably at 60m and headshot nearly every time on 40m with heavy BBs. HPA or similar kits might reach further because of the joule creep, ergo higher energy with the heavy BB used. GBBRs can have joule creep too but they are usually way less accurate than an AEG. 50m is the range for a normal, well maintained AEG, with average 0.25. 40m or less for non-maintained AEGs and/or using 0.20. Something like that.

L96 and SVD are huge. If you want a short, but awesome one, get a VSR g-spec and remove the suppressor.

Polarity reversed somewhere?

Just make sure it is not damaged before you charge it. Last week I took one of my old lipos, an 1800mah 7.4 Turnigy one, and smashed it to pieces with a metal bar. I am that scientific. It did smoke a bit after the first hit, and it smelled really bad but that was it. A friend of mine almost burned his house down charging a damaged one though. I keep mines in an empty tin can.

It was a Well MB-06, but yes, I made the custom parts. It's well documented here: http://www.airsoftsniperforum.com/30-project-guns/14184-other-mb06-cpr-project.html

There are 2 types of bio BBs that I know of. One sucks up moisture and grows softer and bigger after opening the bag. These are the older types. The other is biodegraded by the germs in the soil. So you can keep them on the self even after opening the bag for long times. I have some opened bags that are over a year old and they are still the best performing BBs I have. They start to degrade in a jungle environment after a few months or in dry/cold soil after some years if I remember correctly.

I was the last one in a building and I stepped outside as the opposing team overrun it. My team has already taken positions in the next building but they didn't know I held mine that long so I couldn't go that way. I would have been 100% lit up by them. So I just stepped behind the door. The enemy players passed me without looking, focusing on the next building - out of range. I pulled my pistol, aimed... nothing. I forgot to put the mag in after the safe zone. So I just double tapped them with the pdw, one by one, and they just kept coming. Luckily a marshal appeared and told everyone to take the hit because people tend not to do that if it comes from behind where they don't suspect an enemy. I kept shooting them for minutes, some even bled out until someone decided to check behind the door. I got about 20 of them by then. I got a fist-bump from the marshal after that. There is the door on the right and there are at least 5 people on the right not on the picture. Some even tried to medic others.

My current bolt action rifles. First is 490fps, the small one is 340.

The A&K neodym motor has insanely strong magnets, so it's easy to tell. However I don't like them due to the very poor rpm.

Yep, the first batch. Unfortunately it's a big batch, because the Chinese factory sent testers to retailers everywhere in the world and those were unbelievably great, so everyone ordered a lot of it. Then they sent those crappy ones. My sources are a webshop that mainly sells BBs and an other airsoft shop owner. BB king, Nuprol, Rockets and a couple of small brands are the rebrands of these.

I sometimes answer "Any plans for the weekend?" with "Yes, I'm going to shoot people." Then after that awkward moment I add "... only the ones trying to shoot me." And then I add "it's something like paintball."

No need for a macho name because airsoft is not a macho thing. We like it and we think it's a cool thing but the rest of the world sees it as cool as driving model trains or tabletop rpg. Calling it mega death strike 3000 won't change the fact that it is playing soldiers.

I had one with the rail mounting but the top of it looked the same. Only the bottom third of the glass was usable. If the red dot was above it, it became a big, blurry spot that didn't even stay on target. I hope they fixed it since then.

If that's an Element red dot, you will regret that decision.

Thanks. Any link to the actual grenade? Or the name? I read the blogpost and it seems to be a good alternative. How sturdy is it? I'm not a grenade man but it would be useful once in a while. If it survives about 100 uses, then I would get one.

£100? I was looking at this one too. I have not heard anything bad about it, but I find hard to believe the 300fps from an AEP. However it is said to be 300 everywhere and the polish shops chrono the guns themselves. It's on my list.

Edgi trigger units are 55 degree ones. They say it's just as good as a 90 degree one but on the sniper forum people generally disagree with that. Their (or his?) barrel is the best. People usually go with Action Army hopup unit, a proper barrel (like EDGI) and a 90 degree trigger + piston: PDI or Action Army, but there are quite a few out there.

Too bad it's not the FPS that counts.

Think of it this way. You run a field with 2 days milsim events, with serious players, ongoing ops, etc. Then a guy - probably very young - emails you if he can join you with his nerf gun. He says he is very serious about it, even painted it green. Try airgun ranges or clubs IMO.

Nope. But please do a short review after. Thanks.