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I have been enjoying both of these and am slowly making progress on accuracy and consistency. I wanted to try an upgrade. I added the orange lanyard and then the monkey fists are made around stacks of round magnets from Harbor Freight. The orange one holds BBs no problem and the green one works well with 3/8” steel shot. The Altoids tin has two bar magnets in it to keep the BBs from falling out and has the bonus or reduced rattling while it’s in my pocket.

just got the 1”accessory mount for the hammer xt. with a bit of flat band wrapped around the uv light, snug as a bug in a rug. makes for kind of a neat tracer round effect with glow or white practice balls. will post vid at some point

I find my accuracy to be a lot more consistent with the Wasp Enzo, although that could just be down to the difference in the bands

Polycarbonate is hard to work with! But happy with the end product 😁

My not very big collection, yet 👀

I’m new to the hobby (have been shooting for only 2 months) and I’m having some consistency issues. I’ve watched as many tutorials as I could find and have (I think) done a reasonable job following the advice. I have had success making small adjustments and getting nice tight clusters.

In the last week or so, however, something has changed and I seem to be really struggling with consistency. Sometimes I seem to be right on target, other times I’m all over the place. For example, in the picture with the fruity pebbles box, I was shooting at Fred’s head from 10m and I was able to hit it most of the time. In the picture of the pizza box, which was shot just 2 days later and using the same equipment/distance, I was unable to hit anything (I was shooting at the circle). I feel like the few hits I got were more luck of the spread than skilled.

I have filmed myself shooting, but honestly can’t tell a difference between most shots. What should I even be looking for? My first assumption was that my release has gotten thrown off by the calluses I have developed, but I seem to be missing even when the release feels pretty good and I’m quite sure there was no speed bump. My concern is that I’m developing some bad habits that will hinder further progress.

What I’m hoping for is advice on how to practice well as opposed to just flinging stuff down range - I’d be interested in any specific adjustments folks made when they were starting off to boost consistency, but what I’m really interested in is ways to build a solid foundation. As a super novice, I’m much more concerned with building good habits and muscle memory than my day to day performance.

I saw this post from a fellow member who was unfortunately scammed by a fake site. As the person who actually patented and engineered this system, I want to explain why these are 100% scams:

• Material Cost: A real CNC-machined unit of this complexity cannot exist for $59. That price is lower than the raw 6061 T6 aluminum required for production. You can verify the actual build specs and original patents at AutoFling.
• Stolen Footage: They are using my R&D videos to sell air.
• The Reality: You will either receive nothing or a plastic toy that is dangerous to use.

I have the original patents and high-res assembly footage for those who want to see the real engineering. Let’s keep this community safe from these fake "deals."

I had a crappy one before and have about 50ish shots of experience but I want to get something safer (it smacked me once when the handle snapped and I made a redneck ahh handle for it)

Apex+ & Ares

can someone help me with the right way to re tie this? I am new and been enjoying this hobbie thanks

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