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Today I visited a new site: Northern Spectres Airsoft situated in the grounds of Sedbury Hall, Scotch Corner. This site has only been open (nearly) a year. This site has one of the best setup safe areas i've seen. Large solidly built coverings with plenty of picnic tables available and space in the middle to move around in. Outdoors electrical sockets if you need to charge anything are also available and a couple of log burners. To the end of the safe zone was a hut looking out onto their small firing range which was also used for chrono. The safe area also has private changing areas, actual toilet facilities with running hot water. The site also offers hot food for a extremely reasonable price. As for chrono, this site does not operate at the standard FPS limits. Most of the FPS limits are slightly higher than the standard but because I am dumb, I forgot to take a picture of the sheet detailing the limits they use for AEGs, DMRs and snipers. The site itself is a pretty standard woodland fare with plenty of man made cover from tyres, wood and drums etc. The site has a few different structures with a small CQB area too. I spoke to the owner and he was showing & telling me about the plans they have for the site plus the ideas they have for a modular CQB space with lots of rooms and corridors than can quickly be changed so it doesn't become stale between visits. The player count today was pretty low, about 10 people attending, which is not normal according to one of the more regular players I spoke to. This meant the games were pretty much 5v5 all day and were kept to small areas to keep the flow of the day going. Several game modes like attack/defend, capture the flag, domination were played plus a game where you had to capture tubes and deposit them in your teams bin - the team with the most tubes wins. I took the Ares RDB out for it's second running ever. It worked fantastically for an hour before crunching the gears/piston. I took the gun apart and cycled it and it looked like it was working fine. I tried to field it again and it began crunching again - this time I retired the gun. I think it may have killed the piston teeth so there's a job for the next few days. I borrowed a G&G CM16 from the guy I went with to get me back into the games but had a lot of luck running with the TM Goldmatch in the CQB area. This site has real potential and if the owner is serious about what he was describing to me, the site could be fantastic. The one thing that needs doing is advertising as they seem to rely on word of mouth a lot. They do have an instagram and facebook but there really aren't many photos or videos of the site or players on there.

sry for long answering so yes ive already check the hop up unit and it seems to pushing well but just in case i change the hop up bucking for a FRICTION PRO from QUANTUM and i was shooting 0.28 the problem is still there like the first 5/6 shot goes well but right after it drop right away at like 20 meters i dont know what it could be

Excellent thanks for the assist, much appreciated

So you didn't wait to see your grenade go off?

A simple bubble test should find the source of any leak before you go buying the wrong part.

I would say £850 is your ballpark. The return spring, hop bucking & nub along with the furniture will only add so much value as they're replacing rather than adding to the stock items. Especially with the stock and grip, if you had the originals, you could boost the value by at least £50 as they'd be listed as an addition instead of a swap. I'd say the sling and handstop (as you said it was cheap) would be where people may try to haggle on the price so I didn't factor them into my valuation.

I mentioned it previously, no response, Galvatron asked again on the actual thread, still no updated pics or reply, yet still thinks it's worth 1.1k . Bonkers 🤪

"Has some exterior damage in areas" It'd be nice to know exactly what and where has damage

I'm probably asking the obvious, but are the mags leaking at all? Could be a slight leak at the output valve or the main o ring inside the mag? I take it, when it fails, there is no gas left in the mag? That's all I can think of at the mo!

When I wrote this post a couple days back I did not expect it to cause so much traction!

[Rantmode] Or buy a few dozen speedloaders and bb's in the common weights. Or a set of digital scales. Or invest in some tape to write the fps readings for different bb weights on the chrono Or just memorise the site limit for common bb weights. Or read about joule creep and what it means. Or spend ten minutes googling why fps and joules are different things. Or take the chrono with them and randomly spot check players Or re-chrono players when they're complained about. Or actually kick players off when they do get caught. We dont need airsoft sites to fully understand the intracies of physics as they pertain to airsoft pews. The community has done that and served up practical solitions on a platter and even then the majority simply cant be bothered. [/Rantmode]

G36 built by Luke and a pair of E&Cs. G34 wasn't working out of the box but does look very lovely.

Clearly the answer is for every site to buy a sub-Joule resolution Strain Gauge to accurately measure actual impact energy, combining it with a chronometer to measure the velocity, and thus infer the actual BB weight. I'm sure the very cash strapped Airsoft sites we have will just get right on this, it's only a couple of grand in precision measurement equipment.

I think someone has just used a public forum to realise they don’t know how a chrono works.

Looking to part ways with my MWS URG-I as I look to downsize my collection due to lack of playing and could use some advice as to value. Internally I have added dynamic precision nozzle return spring, flamingo rubber and maple leaf nub. Externally has magpul ctr stock, pts pistol grip, cheap but effective handstop, wadsn torch, element peq 15, dual pressure switch, viper sling and Vortex sparc AR sight. Comes with 6 leak free TM mags. Any help on price appreciated

That's uh, that's a bit of a mental price right? It's like £450 new so even adding all the "upgrades" it's not looking great.