Rogerborg

Wow, that's a weird one. I mean, he has actually modified it rather than just chucking a bucking in, but he's ended up with a gun that's too weak for woodland, and too auto for CQB. However, I think my favourite bit is posting a video of a different gun.

And is an actual game based on tactics rather than who can buy the most £30 figures made of pure cheesium. From what I can determine from the 40K groups on Facebook, it's more about the collecting, painting and army building rather than the actual play.

Fun times (I used to have a goblin army back in the day too) but again illustrates the trick rules and wild randomness baked into so many GW products. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't take it too seriously. But with the prices they charge, and actual prize tournaments, it might be hard not to these days. Oh, I went to the local neckbeard club, it was fairly varied. I'm keeping that in the back pocket as a winter alternative to airsoft.

Huh, must be one of those new smartguns that the kids are into these days.

Long overdue, really. Especially considering how much of Hollywood seems determined to not learn anything about the murder-irons that they hate so much. It's fascinating to watch the very few exceptions on screen, like Adam Baldwin (no relation, 2nd Amendment advocate), or Tricia Helfer (farmgirl, once her strict trigger discipline has been seen, it cannot be unseen). Urgh, the stuff that's coming out now. Filming being halted on the armourer's previous film when she was waving guns around, loading them unsafely, then handing them to an 11 year old kid. And the murder-iron in question being used by the crew to fuck around shooting live rounds, on-set out of hours. Whoever brought those rounds on set should probably be getting the short drop and sudden stop, alongside the armourer.

I'd say primarily. Why not? Is a question that a prosecutor might be asking very soon. Actors have hours of idle time. I can't think of any good reason to not train them, beyond them not wanting to learn anything about icky, scary guns. I understand that you're correct that they're not given sufficient training. What I'm saying is that this needn't be so, and that it might have to change because of this incident. Safety regulations are written in blood. Hot young mother blood in this case. We'll see. I guess it comes down to whether you consider actors to be adult human beings with self agency. What I am 100% confident about predicting is that Baldwin will turn this into an anti-gun crusade. "See, even your botoxed gods aren't safe with murder-irons, so nobody should get to have murder irons. Except actors, of course, because you can trust us now."

It's a tough one. It certainly wasn't intentional, and there shouldn't have been a live round anywhere on set. However, actors are not a special category of human being, and they have culpability for their own actions. "Just following orders" is not a defence, and ignorance shouldn't be either. How long does it take to show-and-tell basic gun safety, and the difference between an inert dummy round, and (a picture of) a live round? It could be done while they're in make-up. It certainly should be. If he knows nothing about guns, then he's in a poor position to be making pronouncements about them. And if he's so anti-gun that he refused to learn the basics, then should have refused to use one. It's hard not to conclude that he's a virtue signaller who dropped his principles at the first sniff of a pay cheque. It's an 1880s Western, so it would have been a revolver. It seems to have been an actual live round. It is unfathomable why there would be one anywhere on set, and the armourer is primarily to blame for that. "The person in charge of overseeing the gun props, known as the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, could not be reached for comment. The 24-year-old is the daughter of veteran armorer Thell Reed" And a big round of applause for nepotism. Wamxn's lib, take a bow too. Seems that it was a live round that went right through Ms Hutchins, and into the man standing behind her. From the LA times article above, it seems that he wasn't even supposed to be firing it, it was just a draw scene. And they'd already had multiple NDs from their prop live guns, although how you'd cause a revolver to fire without pulling the trigger escapes me. To be as charitable as I can to Baldwin, if the hammer had somehow become cocked (they'd already filmed the scene once), and the trigger was defective (see previous NDs), it might have gone off without being pulled. I do feel considerable sympathy for him, and I'd primarily blame the armourer. It won't have been in any way intentional, and he is going to have to live with the knowledge that he could have prevented it by checking those rounds. But he could have checked those rounds, and I believe that he should have checked those rounds.

I fully agree that airsoft sites should only have airsoft toys at them. Even if you know what you've brought, the skip licker who thinks it's funny to pick it up and "pew" it at someone won't. I include metal pellet air guns in that, I've seen folk shooting them on airsoft ranges. In this case it seems like actual live rounds were loaded (why were there even any on site?) and they'd already had this happen on set, to big shrugs. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-10-22/alec-baldwin-rust-camera-crew-walked-off-set Somebody should be going to jail for that, either the armourer, the AD who said "cold gun", or Baldwin. I hope we'd agree with the basic principle that you should always assume that a gun (airsoft or otherwise) is loaded until you've personally verified otherwise. Even - and especially - if you're an anti-gun activist like Baldwin. That wasn't an "accident", it was negligence.

Predators only evolve when their prey forces them too. He's identified a community based on trust, and is ruthlessly farming it.

When even Nuprol came up with a new sub-brand so as not to sully their, er... reputation, that was a bad sign.

Please send him a box of your finest turds.

Agreed, and we'll always be a tenant of last resort. The 2nd time Hammer II Operations got kicked off, I heard apocryphally that it was down to one home-owner on the edge of the nearest estate complaining to the council that they could just barely hear pyro going off, and the land owner said "Not worth the hassle."

I'm thinking of a couple of local sites which sunk vast amounts of time and money into developing themselves, then got kicked out without any warning or negotiation. One then relocated, built up a new site... then got kicked out again a year later. I really feel for site operators, they're at the mercy of land owners.

Fooly ruggedised.

Probably huffing the solvents he used to strip the paint and wreck the plastic. I mean, the Galaxies are decent enough, and great fun, but you can forget "laser lines" because the hop unit is the weak point. An r-hop won't magically fix that. The motor would be a welcome upgrade, but I'd rather put one in a pristine example rather than that melted mess. Can't fault his sales patter though.

I really hope they've got a solid long term contract for the site.

Ahoy and welcome back to the money-sink.

Word. I'd just note that at this point your only real concern isn't possession of a RIF or how you got it, but possession in public. Firearms Act 1968 section 19 makes it an offence to possess any imitation firearm (realistic or otherwise) in public, without a reasonable excuse, the proof whereof lies with us. In other words, only have it with you when you're on your way to an insured airsoft skirmish site, ideally with pre-booking, and have the site details to hand. Other than that, you're golden. Or, black.

Inspiring stuff. The couple of filmsims that I've managed to get to have been far more involving and enjoyable than a typical skirmish day, even if they involve less shooting. Granted, they are a lot more work for the organisers compared to the usual day of "Reds... no, blues.... wait, who attacked last time?"

From the look of the table, he maybe has delusions of being a purfessnul teknishun, and thinks he's actually adding value by meddling with it.

That's true, and I agree that they're the cheapest AEGs that are actually competitive in both CQB and woodland, and with a battery and charger included. It's just that for a bit more you're into Lancer Tacticals and Specna Arms Cores, with rotary hops, quick change springs, better wiring, all the good stuff. Granted, you need to buy batteries and a charger for them, but you'll want to upgrade the CYMA ones anyway. But no argument, if your budget is under £100, CYMAs will get you out there and playing.

Eh. They're robust, put BBs downrange, and the air seal can actually be got spot on even with the stock components, a bit of stretching and some lube. But the hop unit, rubber, barrel, and motor are all just about adequate, and can do with being swapped out, and the plastic is very toyish. I'd say OK, fine even, a decent way to start on a budget, but "great" is a stretch.

I'm perfectly happy with a 455mm x "6.01mm" AOLS in a DMR. In conjunction with a full cylinder, it also lets me get >1.8J out of a slightly cut down M130 spring rather than anything more gearbox-stressing.

Mmm, I only went for the AOLS because the ZCIs were out of stock, but I can't fault it. They do indeed come well oiled inside, is the only thing I'd note.