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  1. Druid799

    Gun picture thread

    No school like the old school
    17 points
  2. Spent rather too much on this WE M14 but its a beauty (Top image is darker as it shows the 'before' process of weathering) I have modded the trigger group with JB Weld to make it stronger
    12 points
  3. Boomarms MOS plate and SRO clone freshly installed to the TM G17 Gen5
    11 points
  4. As someone who has just started this journey I'll add my 2 cents. It was my son who suggested we try airsoft. He's only 12 but having played with Nerf guns (myself aswell) for a few years he wanted to try airsoft. After he got over the initial shock of being hit he really enjoyed playing. Personally I enjoyed it more than I thought I would! Cost - I think its comparable to other hobbies, fishing, paddle boarding, and cheaper than many, cycling, golf, sailing. Heath - I don't think this is mentioned enough, outdoors (mostly) and as physical as you want it to be, I know I come home knackered... Social - Team building, meeting new people, sharing experiences Mental - Keeping your brain active with marksmanship, strategy, problem solving. Most of all its fun and a good way to forget your day to day troubles. I'm not playing airsoft with my son to train him to be a killer, we are spending time together, he's getting more confident and learning to be responsible. I think its a great outdoor activity and good value for money. You can tell i work in Marketing LOL....
    9 points
  5. People talk but rarely see the positives in his impact on Airsoft. Just think of all those "like new" two tone bolt action rifles that fill the classifieds of many spaces. Most wouldn't be able to make it to Mack's without him 🤫
    9 points
  6. Well after that article I’m calling it “Japanese paintball” from now on . 🤷‍♂️
    9 points
  7. Tell me you don't understand basic physics without saying you don't understand basic physics, 1.14 joules is 1.14 joules, no matter if the bb is propelled by a motor driven piston, gas or farting down a straw. If you don't like hpa then just say so instead of making shit up
    8 points
  8. Probably all the people that got them around Christmas, it's taken them this long to realise how shite they are 🤣
    8 points
  9. If your a criminal reading this thread & are thinking about turning an IF in to a RIF, look at the pretty light 😉
    8 points
  10. Hellfish

    Gun picture thread

    We F226 with Full Trades. It's chunky and delicious!
    8 points
  11. Frankly I don’t care about your thoughts.
    8 points
  12. To me the sportsman association defence is also dodgy as fuck as you just pay your money without having to ever attend an airsoft site. To me both these defences are a big middle finger to those who put in the hard work lobbying for the defence we have and potentially could put the hobby at risk.
    8 points
  13. Hopefully, none. To my knowledge, Just-Cos isn't a valid defence for a RIF.
    8 points
  14. This bad boy . . Expect more questions. 😁
    8 points
  15. n00b1982

    Gun picture thread

    Not posted in a while and not great with pics 😂 GHK Mk12 Mod1 Forged Edition, kitted out to look like the Line Survivor build used by Marcus Lattrell. Hogue Grip M3 Scope Replica KAC rail covers KAC Style Vert grip Somogear PEQ2a VFC KAC Style Bipod Mount Harris 9-13” bipod Zparts Muzzle break with Zparts Suppressor Nearest clone ARMS scope rings I could find
    8 points
  16. Carry them like a hero 😁
    8 points
  17. Rogerborg

    What guns are needed?

    If you dropped into a hairdressing forum and said "I want to open a hairdressing shop, what's the best haircut? PS, I have never cut hair before." what response would you expect? Now, if you'd said "What's the best way to get into airsoft?" you'd have been love-bombed with advice about which sites to play at and which to avoid, what to expect, and people offering to meet up and show you the ropes or let you try out various types of gun. Airsoft is actually a very friendly hobby full of mostly decent people who are keen to help other players out. Give it a try first, find out what it's really like at its best and its worst, and then you'll be in a position to ask cogent questions if you still want to try running a site.
    8 points
  18. The best thing that you can do now is log off, create a new account and come back in with a different name and attitude. In a very few posts, you have given most people here the impression that YOU are an utter prick. Pull your neck in and try to accept that you are the problem here, not any of those who have responded to you.
    8 points
  19. Why the fcuk was this person suggested on my FB page? 😳
    8 points
  20. heroshark

    Gun picture thread

    TM aircocking model with the aeg version stock added. Took a little tinkering. Why? Because I can.
    8 points
  21. That stupid cunt is probably best described as a pizza cutter. He's all edge and no point
    8 points
  22. Bumped into a random guy yesterday, who recognised me from here. Sorry dude, didn't catch your name. Thought I'd pop back and say "HI I'M STILL ALIVE". I marshal more than I play these days. Yesterday was a fun day at Red Alert, with 111 players. Surprisingly, with that number, I got no reports of hit calling or the like, though in the afternoon we did have to deal with an issue of a kid being bullied by a group of other kids. I was, of course, wearing my Irish camo yesterday, or lepretarn. Just the shirt. And apparently I'm now the authority on tag rounds, as I was referred to as the tag grenade guy by two different people yesterday. What can I say, I enjoy blowing people up at range.
    7 points
  23. Went to Bespoke today as I was working half an hour away and had underlings to do work whilst I looked important. So I pulled rank and ducked out for a bit with my faulty from new AA G36 GBBR. If you remember the other thread, it is firing a shot at 500 ish fps, then everything subsequent to that just rolls out of the barrel. I bought it from them at the end of last summer, then had trouble getting in touch, and then work/travel commitments made getting to their then Slough based store tricky. Talking to them today, I am willing to grant them the communication issues were down to them preparing for the move. New shop is looking pretty damn impressive. They have a fairly big unit on a small trading estate. I assume a warehouse downstairs, then a large open office upstairs with a new shop area that is going to be quite big too. They answered the buzzer and let me in unannounced. An incredibly polite staff (I think the owner) took my pew, which is now well over 6 months from purchase, listened to the description of the fault and said he'd take it down to his tech whilst I had a look around. I was then given a tour of the new office, shop, firing range, pistol showroom and Air gun showroom. There was not much in stock at the moment as they're still bringing things up from the Slough premises. But they had, amongst other things, the Walther WA2000 along with some very nice looking pistols that I had to fight very hard to resist. I wish I had £780 to spend on a wall hanger. Had a good 30 or so minutes left to my own devices whilst the nice lady behind the counter helped some dude pick out a pew for his daughter, then the guy came back to say that they could see the problem I was having, and would keep the pew for a few days to fix it as they didn't have another in stock, implying to me, that he would have been happy to give me a replacement - so top marks there. They also confirmed that once they're finished setting up, they will be doing all kinds of repairs, upgrades, and customisations in house as well as sales. This should take them another week or two, but i have two or three non essential pews that need attention that no one else seems to be interested in (or that I'd trust), so they'll be heading there once the G36 is proven. Sooo.... If one were to take everything at face value, and assuming they fix my RIF, then I am a happy bunny and they deserve all the success after what must be an eye wateringly expensive investment. Can't blame the shop for a faulty RIF out of the box, but unlike Only Airsoft in Stevenage, where there seems to be an attitude of "warranty is up to them" once you leave the shop, Bespoke seem to just want to keep you happy. Although to be fair to Only Airsoft, they have honoured the warranty when required - it's just the perception that they give off that is unnecessary. Certainly can't fault Bespoke for care and attention so far! Standby for updates.
    7 points
  24. My wood and steel tm akm was looking lonely on the rack so I Grabbed a second hand one and dunked it in the zenitco knockoff bucket. Probably going to strip the last of the paint at some point but I cant be bothered right now
    7 points
  25. Let's be serious. Just Cos is a side gig of one Scotch airsoft retailer that's now nothing more than a fraudulent way for them to (not) claim a defence for selling RIFs to anyone who wants one for any reason. While it may have been set up in good faith in 2017 or so, it's a pointless service for cosplayers as there are no realistic 3rd party risks that it could indemnify. Its only purpose now is to add £20 to the cost of buying a RIF. I'd prefer that retailer didn't do this, but the risk is on them, and it's as close to zero as makes no difference.
    7 points
  26. Imo if you're unsure if a gun is a rif or an if ask yourself 1 question. Would Joe public shit themselves if you walked into the post office openly carrying it? We can debate the legal technicalities till the cows come home, but at the end of the day most people know ⅘ of bugger all about firearms so would just think "gun" rather than "ooh nice glock/sig/whatever"
    7 points
  27. A great day yesterday at Dog Tag. I took a whole load of rentals there in the morning - who seemed to have a good laugh despite the rental G36's having pretty dodgy performance (the site really does favour guns that can land hits at long range, and the effective range of the rental guns seemed pretty poor to be honest). We played a few fields that I hadn't played on before (the last time I visited the site was a good few years ago now) - possibly due to the waterlogging issues that @Impulse mentioned in his post earlier. During the morning fall back games (attackers have unlimited spawns, defenders only get one life per field and have to fall back to the next once taken out) once again some confusion over people shooting across boundaries from the subsequent fields that weren't yet in play occurred - both the field boundary marking, and the briefing/direction that marshals gave could possibly have been improved upon. No major issue though, and hit taking was good from what I saw. The rental masks that the site issued out to my companions incorporated mesh for the goggle section - which, despite some peoples misgivings, I think makes a lot of sense for a rental. The likelihood of a BB shattering on mesh, and fragments penetrating with enough retained velocity to do harm would seem an awful lot lower than the likelihood of a frustrated kid lifting his rental mask mid game to wipe the fogging out. In the afternoon, the numbers dropped right down to mainly regulars (plus me!) and no rentals at all - 11 per side. And, along with the sun being out for the first time in forever, it was one of the most enjoyable aisofting sessions I've had in a very long time. Game play was great, the games active, and people were talkative and sociable - exactly how airsofting should be. And the old faithful Krytac that I ran post lunch was giving me more BB's on target than the SR25 that was providing my arms a workout in the morning.
    7 points
  28. If you want people to help you, it is usually a good idea to be pleasant to them. People tend not to help those who behave like a cunt. Even if you weren't behaving like a cunt, you are pushing it if you expect people who care about airsoft to provide you with a way of getting around the rules that restrict purchase of a RIF.
    7 points
  29. Can we please stop trying to find ways to bypass (the not exactly onerous to acquire) defense we have.... please and thank you.
    7 points
  30. GenuineGerman

    Hello Again

    So after a fairly long hiatus due to having more kids (Clearly can’t keep it in my pants). I finally have the time and more importantly money to get back into the hobby. All I need to do now is restock all my stuff. if I don’t tell the missus how much it was she won’t mind haha 😂 But I’m a few years older definitely not wiser and can’t wait to get started again.
    7 points
  31. So my glasses have finally arrived they are very quite you can hardly hear the fans and i think once playing you wont notice them at all.
    7 points
  32. 7 points
  33. I picked up my M16A2 from the tech today, now has an aster for burst mode fitted. Ignore the 416 pistol grip though, I uh... Thought I had one, and had already used it on another build so it's a stand in for testing 😅 Dead happy to have a cool replica. Just have a few small parts to change. It's surprisingly quite comfortable and not too front heavy. Can't wait to field it next month!
    7 points
  34. I'm not looking for a reason to moan, I'll be honest & say I have no interest in hpa, feels like a step backwards in airsoft when aeg's can easily achieve the required UK power levels & rate of fire commensurate with the real steel models they're copies of. BUT This forum is well known for not only freedom of speech (within reason), at its core are a lot of members commited to keeping the game going, for decades in some cases. it also pushes for a positive sensible stance to all aspects of Airsoft in all it's varieties, & keeping their availability to those who want to play. While that doesn't necessarily correlate with your weirdly biased stance on hpa, it kinda feels like giving hpa users a lower fps might actually encourage some to try to cheat the system, if for example, they're playing your site but they're playing shite, will they blame it on your lower power requirements, & then fiddle with their kit to match, or even scarily surpass those limits. Personally, if I found myself in your position & mindset, I'd be more inclined to exclude hpa entirely if I felt some couldn't be trusted to adhere to the rules. So while you may have felt this is a personal attack, it's more a criticism of the information provided & how it's provided, if that makes sense.
    6 points
  35. Reminds of the Glasgow cosplayer who didn't see the issue walking around outside the convention in full riot gear with a blood splattered riot shield and a very easy to see MP7 strapped to his leg,in general Cosplayers have less common sense than airsofters. So basically fuck all.
    6 points
  36. Special Ops' big first day of the year: the new CQB site opened! Saturday was a 'test game' with, we heard, ~7-a-side. Sunday was the first official game with 16-a-side. Well, a picture paints a thousand words, so this'll save me a metric shit-ton of typing then, won't it? https://www.facebook.com/SpecialOpsSeniors/?locale=en_GB Lots of pics and videos to peruse - I'll let you guys be the judge of how good it is a new CQB site, because this was my first ever CQB experience (outside of laser-tag!) so I have absolutely no idea if it's good. It has been very well put together, there's a big 'club room' and reception area upstairs, a decent safe zone that was a bit tricky to navigate through due to the desks and people and gear filling it up - and the benches are a bit narrow (which Carlos admitted), but it's all impressive to my untutored eye. Carlos and his volunteers have obviously worked very hard and I hope it's a success. I've had a long day at work, so rather than writing out a War And Peace on all the stuff, I'll give you the bullet points (if you'll pardon the pun) I got lost on the way there - Google maps took exception to the location from the web site and kept trying to steer me back to a random location in the middle of nowhere. I had to stop the instructions and just eyeball the map as I drove. There's no signage at the entrance either, so easy to drive past it. It's really not very far at all from the woodland site. (There's a '3 Words' location that other people used successfully - I'll try to find it) Usual rules - 350fps/0.20g, max BB weight of 0.25g. Bangs (upto and including my new grenade with 0.209 primers) allowed (but not much evident) Reasonable car park, close to the entrance, so even though I took all my short guns, and masses of kit with me, it wasn't too onerous to get into the building. I still managed to leave my toolbox at home - which proved really annoying as I had my Allen keys, speedloader, and my 'nade primers in there. That proved enough to stop me using my grenade until a test shot at the end of the day, and stopped me using my GBBR (without the speedloader) or my Tippmann (couldn't get the FPS and hop quite dialled in, thanks to having to borrow allen keys and running out of time) CQB. Damn, it hurts getting pinged so often at short range. The BB's always seemed to find a bit of uncovered or thinly covered skin to hit Fog Of War. Between my goggles fogging up and the variable lighting, half the time I had no idea where my BBs were flying - and thanks to Carlos not having 0.25's in stock, I had to buy and use 0.20s with little idea where they were going. Time to invest in a tracer unit, methinks! I tried a Dye full-face mask I got dirt-cheap, and didn't like it - couldn't get my eye in line with the sights. Back to the goggles + mesh lower mask I also found none of my face protection works very well with my new headset, so bang protection will probably have to be ear plugs for the near future, but luckily the only guys throwing BFG 'nades around were not having much luck getting them to go off. I begged a primer off one of them for a test throw at the end - and 'bang' went my OhShiBoom. That'll be fun to use for real. A bit too easy to get spawn trapped, even with two spawn exits. Apparently the site has been designed (or allowed) to have an uneven balance in difficulty. My team seemed to spend almost the entire session at the difficult side and consequently we got murdered. Might need some extra cover or another door... or just more swapping of spawns. Some of the guys had a whale of a time running around with their rubber knives. Everyone seemed to enjoy the core gameplay. Me, well CQB is a very different style. It wasn't speedy-boi stuff, but still I think I'm naturally more in to the long sneaky flank rather than the bullet-hail around the spawns. I guess I'll get used to it, if I can afford to play very much. My only real criticism is the pricing. I have no idea if it's competitive to what the rest of you guys are paying now, though. When I was going to Spec Ops' woodland site a couple of years back, it was £25 for a (daylight allowing) 09:30 - 16:30 day. It got bumped to £30 recently. The CQB is priced at £35 for a 10:00 - 14:30 / 15:00 - 19:30 session, or £45 for the full day (which I couldn't do, so I took the morning slot) I feel that's a bit much for the half-day slots, but then again I suppose the safe zone is right there, and so are the spawns, so actual pewing time is probably much greater. And much less ammo used too. So yeah, a decently fun intro to CQB, though I didn't totally fall in love with it - I got zapped way too much, zapped others way too little, and thanks to some technical hitches I spent too long meddling with kit in the safe zone. Next time might go better. Guns taken: Double Eagle M906C (Old Faithful) TM AUG HC (always fun to run, but chrono'd very low at 230fps on 0.20's - time for a service, maybe a new spring) Tippmann M4 HPA (slightly too hot, just missed out on chrono due to fps variance) VFC HK416 GBBR (no speedloader, left in the case) G&G G36 (gearbox locked up a few times on semi) TM D.O.R Hi Capa (used a bit, great as always) JG SIG 552 (didn't use it, but should have)
    6 points
  37. The stupid amount of kit I'm taking tomorrow... Added the L85 carbine as it's the only one that has passed the site crono... plan B. p.s. there's a two tone glock in the bag too.
    6 points
  38. I found that by flipping the spring over (i.e. what was at the top is now at the bottom) fixes that issue. I ended up printing 10 of them and I also found that my Quake impact deadly customs holder is a good fit.
    6 points
  39. No. Nopety nope. I've thought about taking the Mrs, but she has a real short fuse and would be pistol whipping people if she ran out of ammo.....😱😮
    6 points
  40. I was hoping it would make my son realise that in the army you only get shot once.....compared to how many respawns he had to do on a typical skirmish day. Don't mind him signing up to learn a skill/trade and serving that way. I don't want him being Cannon fodder for whatever cnut has managed to persuade an alarmingly small proportion of the population to put them in power....when was the last truly justifiable armed conflict we were involved in (outside of local peacekeeping)? The Falklands.... maybe the first Gulf War (the first part liberating Kuwait). No criticism of those serving....it's the ones hiding behind their power I despise for taking advantages.
    6 points
  41. You'd best check for 'cad' too. Most bounders tend to be cads from what I hear
    6 points
  42. Spot on! I vote we nominate someone on the forum to act as spokesperson for the Airsofters' Alliance and ask them to put out authoritative press statements until they're accepted as a lazily sourced supplier of info for time pressed journos. We'll read through the UK Law threads and select Rogerborg someone.
    6 points
  43. And theres the difference between you and I. I do care about people actively undermining the defense that keeps our hobby viable. You apparently don't give a fuck...... And for what its worth in this thread you've pretty much proved that "if I have to explain this, you still won't understand".
    6 points
  44. Not a new pew but it was away getting sorted by our local tech for a while, got it back a few weeks ago (shoots like a dream now), thot I'd try an LLm01 on it purely for the looks.
    6 points
  45. DanBow

    What guns are needed?

    Any help you might have got, I'm pretty sure you've just lost.
    6 points
  46. But they bring the goodness of roast beef and bacon. They should be worshiped.
    6 points
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