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Oh don't get me wrong, there's a lot to learn, but BF, Hop, and GT are all there to keep that consumer industry churning in the US. Just constantly buying new guns, buying new parts for those guns, cycling through built-up and stripped-down builds, etc, etc. Watching Guntubers buy and sell LPVOs and Dot+Mag combos like 5 times round as the discourse goes back and forth between the two gets aggravating and I think Airsofters don't need to worry about like 99% of what they talk about. Stuff about concealment, moving quietly through terrain, and observation are useful if you're on a large site/MilSim though. Getting serious about gear is especially fun for MilSims.

The Patrol Base guys have also done a few tutorials on their YT channel. Which I thought were very easy to watch.

thank you thanks mate!

If you have a UKARA, it's worth asking the seller to slap it on the box somewhere nice and obvious anyway, But yeah the only things you'll really get pulled up on importing are real firearms parts that are pressure bearing, (barrels, gas blocks, bolt carriers, etc). Those ones will get you a nice visit from the police. Furniture and optics are fine.

It's a waste of time apart from certain review channels. Youtube airsoft is all about clickbait bullshit and drama which doesn't represent reality.

Yes and no, never any issue. Just avoid UPS though as they will continually ask you for a UKARA or other Defence even though one is not needed for those items.

Nope, no issues at all.

so i recently bought some rails and stocks from Asian airsoft sites and had no issues with them. Have you guys ever bought bolts carriers from Asian airsoft stores and had any issues with customs or border force?

Some of this guys stuff is great and so on point for this thread! Thanks

No, he is just desperate to get his gums around Tate’s knob.

HALLOWEEN - SPECIAL "Death by Daylight" - Sunday 19th October 1pm - 9pm! Ace Airsoft - Wolverhampton Woodland - TF11 8PN A horror themed Airsoft event, some of it in the dark with interactive elements and a super scary finale. Expect Scary Moments, Fun and action packed games, Scare Character Actors to interact with and evade, Objectives to fulfill, LARP Weapons to find and use, Body Parts to collect and of course lots of epic Airsoft Action! MORE INFO & BOOKING: https://aceairsoft.co.uk/death-by-daylight.html See you all there for the fun and scares! NB: Unfortunatley this Halloween Special will be the only game day we put on over October.

HALLOWEEN - SPECIAL "Death by Daylight" - Sunday 19th October 1pm - 9pm! Ace Airsoft - Wolverhampton Woodland - TF11 8PN A horror themed Airsoft event, some of it in the dark with interactive elements and a super scary finale. Expect Scary Moments, Fun and action packed games, Scare Character Actors to interact with and evade, Objectives to fulfill, LARP Weapons to find and use, Body Parts to collect and of course lots of epic Airsoft Action! MORE INFO & BOOKING: https://aceairsoft.co.uk/death-by-daylight.html See you all there for the fun and scares! NB: Unfortunatley this Halloween Special will be the only game day we put on over October.

That sounds like a perfectly valid reason to buy more guns

I will embrace the cringe. I do plan at some point on getting some cameras and becoming yet-another-youtube-airsoft-sniper, though I have no compulsion to make a career of it and play into the drama-farming Youtube algorithm. I do think I have some interesting things to share though, part of which is a unique setup amidst the sea of over-engineered full body ghillie suits with MTWs, Tac-41s and Novritsch rifles. Will see though. I may just decide I can't be bothered and it's low on the priority list...

My post was made in jest, I don’t really have any objection to someone who wants to film their game to watch later. I plan to do the same when I can remember to buy a mount that doesn’t immediately fall off. Just had a funny mental image of someone with more camera than gun running round wondering why they can’t aim straight.

I’m going to back up this guy who is filming, it’s minimal cringe up against anything else in airsoft - and particularly if he’s filming for personal use rather than running a YouTube channel he is not inflicting his footage on others Cameras are the lightest things that ever get put onto a gun. Try going back to head/gun cameras in the 90s, assuming that you don’t have rails taking weight with no attachments, nor light, laser, reactive / optical sights @Gunboat Diplomat If he is looking at hours of footage of shots dropping low, then he is seeing where his shots go and is using his footage to learn - unlike all those players who call out ‘cheats’ when their shots are falling away We are (mostly) grown up adults who like to go out and play games shooting each other Some like to dress up, some slap every gadget on their gear, some take a battered old gun dressed in t shirt and jeans For the multiple cameras, people generally start with a head mount (it’s actually the most stable mount as our body stabilises the head & brain) When you watch back head mounted footage you find two problems: A lot shows the tree or wall that you are peaking around, otherwise you discover how much you are moving your head around looking here and there (or you discover that you are blinkered staring ahead only and keep getting shot out by someone coming from one side) Next comes the barrel / rail mount (though some start with this) This shows what you are shooting at, but the rest of the footage is the sky and the ground A kicking mustang / YouTuber adds a barrel cam claiming that it gives close up footage, but they want the crosshairs & zoom to then edit on the hit effects For a third camera a reverse mount goes on the gun to show you as you aim - these get added by the YouTubers for edits, but may also be added because you’ve seen someone else do it Bodycams may get tried, but result in a blurry image of your gun blocking all views A occasional sighting back in the day was a third person view mounted on a pole coming out of the back of the players vest - these tended to be quite novel as if you were not dedicated to editing a third person story view then you would immediately discard it when you realise how inconvenient it is getting caught in branches, bushes, doors etc

I mean he was £100 over the asking price for the much more desirable emr goptac only a few listings beneath him. Out of stock doesn't mean jump in value

This guy was pretty decent https://www.youtube.com/@GunfatherMilsim He's an active-duty SWAT officer in the US who also plays airsoft, so he put together some of the more relevant techniques in some videos. He's gone back to just real steel stuff now, but his old stuff is still up.

I thought a photo would be of use to those interested. A bit more awkward to adjust than the normal hop unit however.

Visited Finmere Airsoft for the first time this weekend to take part in one of their Chaos and Control days, a long objective lead day rather than your usual skirmish. Milsim-lite I guess you could call it. First notable point before the day of the event even came around was the great communication with the organisers. I posted a quick question via their ‘Contact Us’ link but got a swift answer and then welcome into their larger WhatsApp group to discuss game day specifics or ask for technical help. Even got sent a PDF with the game objectives and rules, site map and walkthrough video in advance of the day so everyone should know what they are doing. Really well organised and not something I’ve seen before. Arrived at the site an a rainy Sunday morning. The site itself is a fairly typical woodland affair with a long central access road bisecting it into two distinct halves. Safe zone is right in the centre, they have a mix of seating and tables, most undercover from the worst of the elements. Small tuck shop, supplies and a lone portaloo which was remarkably clean. Game area features some nice set pieces like a prop submarine, crashed airplane and some other abstract structures that could really be anything. Gameplay for the day were two 2-hour long domination rounds with five control points spread around the map for capture and control. Capture involved the usual flag raising plus starting your team’s stopwatch at the control point to start accumulating points. Each team’s spawn had an area map that you could mark POIs on and a radio. The radio allowed you to get in contact with the ‘drone operator’ to get intel and/or call in airstrikes or chemical weapons on certain positions. I’m guessing this isn’t anything new but it was the first time I’ve played anything like this and I had a great time playing Battlefield Commander with my rifle propped up in the corner of spawn and picking places on the map to drop imaginary ordinance. Another new one for me was their dead rule. You get 3 lives with the first 2 hits requiring you to be revived, but whilst injured you are allowed (and expected) to call out info to your team. Creates an interesting dynamic where a downed man can sometimes be the pivotal part of a firefight as he calls out enemy movements to the survivors. On your 3rd hit you are fully dead, then it’s the usual silent walk back to spawn. Other notable points of the day were zero moaning or bitching about hit calling, randoms happy to and actively looking to team up to do objectives, everyone generally very laid back and some guy brought a bag full of apples from his garden. All in all a great addition to our roster of local sites so will be going there again soon.

Don't threaten me with a good time! But I do agree that some real-steel shooting practices do work well in airsoft, while others (most of them) very much do not; some do work with a bit of modification though. I've got some legacy US military sniper handbooks and training aids, obviously not up to date, but from the 80s - 2000s, that have really helped me in my chosen way of playing airsoft. I find a lot of fun from adopting and adapting (where needed/possible) real-steel firearms practices into airsoft, without going to a silly degree where I'm spending thousands of pounds on high quality scopes, night vision, thermals, ways to combat night vision and thermals, and ten years supply of baked beans for my off-grid cabin in the woods. I might try and put together a DOPE card for my sniper rifle, though with airsoft and how wonky our rifles shoot by comparison to real-steel, it'd be more of a "rough estimate" than the exact readings you'd have on a real firearm. All that said, I do try and set up my gear to be as realistic as possible; such is the curse of being a filmsim immersion nerd. Proper number of mags set up in the right way, comms, observation kit (binoculars, rangefinder, and I want to get a wind speed reader) sustainment kit (food/water), and the airsoft essentials like BBs and gas that allow me to play uninterrupted for an entire day without needing to head back to the safe zone, or even to respawn outside of when I get shot. I carry all my kit on me, and more often than not I find myself reloading in the field as the way I play revolves around not getting shot, so I'll often fall back if spotted rather than risk getting taken out in an unfavourable firefight, or my position getting grenaded or sprayed with full-auto And if you want some very good, but very old sniper youtube videos, this was the channel that properly got me into ghillie sniping 18 years ago. None of this KM drama bollocks, just some good old fashioned sniping, the way it's meant to be done! https://www.youtube.com/@6mmhunters/featured

I like AirsoftCamMan also so another + for him. Airsoft Alfonse is good too he has been to some cool sites ngl I used to watch Kicking Mustang but I read when he is filming he has his buddies guard him off camera to make the footage better. He does have a nice ghillie tho