Where do you store your equipment during this cold weather?

[Jester316]

I just pile everything in to the closet, and then scream Democracy at the missus if she argues.

This is one of the few times I feel that Saudi Arabia has it right... Bring everything inside, and if woman says something you stone her while screaming "WOMAN DON'T SPEAK!".

Well obviously you don't want to stone your woman, they're expensive in this country. Luckily I can just shotgun chocolate at her and that serves as a long term distraction.

Girls are only expensive for the first 2 drinks. Than you switch from top shelf to well, and they can't taste the difference.

[Welshy McSheeplove]

I don't even need top shelf, all mine drinks is shit beer like Blue Moon.

[Trench]

I guess that I am pretty lucky. We have a small room we have set aside for our airsoft stuff. Mostly because my wife and kids have just as much airsoft stuff as I do to store. A family that all plays/shoots together stays together.

[Alien_Hunter]

I guess that I am pretty lucky. We have a small room we have set aside for our airsoft stuff. Mostly because my wife and kids have just as much airsoft stuff as I do to store. A family that all plays/shoots together stays together.

That brought tears to my eyes

[Shortbu]

Holy crap, I didn't give bio bb's a thought. I have probably over 300,000 of them in the garage also. Most are still in the sealed factory bags, other are in ammo boxes, but just to be safe they're coming in the house.
I also noticed that when I first started shooting during chrono at Santas War, my gun was barely reaching the creek. Once I shot a couple hundred rounds through it, it started to reach out like normal after heating up the bucking. Which leads me to think that rubber buckings could possibly get either brittle or deform from these super cold conditions. It's just a thought, but if you have as many replicas as Cyclops or I do, it could be a very expensive and time consuming risk.
Maybe I'll bring my replicas in the house and move the wife into the garage!

[Cyclops]

Shortbus I like your idea... But 1 thing I'll need some help with my wife... LOL I also chronoed one of my guns today and at LOW7 it was shooting 390.... Today it was chronoing at 160 ish. After a hicap went thru I re chronoed it and it jumped up to 310. Weird but seemed like the bucking had to be warmed up like you said. My house is ONLY 750 sq ft. So not much room for all my toys.....

[Jewish Ninja]

While buckings are affected by the weather, I've found that it's not a permanent thing. Provided your garage isn't reaching the same temperatures as outside, your guns should be fine.

[Variable]

I keep my bb wars stuff in my airsoft room, aka my living room. Built a display stand so you see how cool my shit is when you walk in the front door.

[MillerSA15]

Shortbus I like your idea... But 1 thing I'll need some help with my wife... LOL I also chronoed one of my guns today and at LOW7 it was shooting 390.... Today it was chronoing at 160 ish. After a hicap went thru I re chronoed it and it jumped up to 310. Weird but seemed like the bucking had to be warmed up like you said. My house is ONLY 750 sq ft. So not much room for all my toys.....

All the rubber stuff gets hard at those temperatures and doesn't make such a good seal anymore because if you remember in physics class cold things shrink and warm things expand. That means that the o-ring on the piston isn't providing a good seal, which is probably what contributes most to your fps issues.

A hard bucking would mean you are getting a higher chrono (because it isn't putting any backspin on the bb, which slows it down) but crap range. The seal at your nozzle and cylinder head are probably also pretty bad when everything is super cold. All of those things leak air, which means low fps.