[Ricochet]

There usually was leeway, but the hard tip for FPS is the limit, is the limit, is the limit. As mentioned before “380 isn’t the goal”, it’s a HARD LIMIT. Being 380 exactly means some days your gun will be 381. Start by getting your gun performing the way you need it for indoor play, this, like everything else starts with hop and barrel group and BBs (quality and weight). Once you have your gun shooting accurately/reliably, look to see if you can intelligently get a little more precision out of it. There’s nothing saying you can’t tune it for best results. Although FPS can, but doesn’t always help with overall performance, performance deficiencies are usually associated with other things first. A velocity related issue is BB weight, as increased velocity can (but doesn’t always) help with pushing out heavier rounds and heavier rounds typically perform better. So, let’s say your gun is performing fine, but you think it can do better and the FPS is a little low. Try a tighter bore barrel and a heavier weight. This will increase your overall velocity, or at least your joules, and get you closer to the limit without likely going over. From here you can look at better hop-ups, higher quality rounds, better internals and cycling parts, etc, to tune up your gun from there. This’ll also likely leave you with an FPS buffer to tinker in the future that you won’t have if your gun is running 379.5 with a 380 limit.

The gun itself is the owners respinsibility, not the fields to be lenient or give special consideration to. There is no excuse about being over that ends with you being able to field a hot gun, especially when it’s shit simple to be under the limit.