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Airsoft relies on people taking their hits, otherwise it'd devolve into a sadomasochistic event where people just shoot each other until someone uses the safety-word or has to change their underpants. In my experience, everyone who plays airsoft regularly has the right idea about taking hits and how to behave in their mind. However, many people aren't used to adrenaline, or any shade of combat, and many people can behave in a manner they're hopefully embarrassed about once the juices get going. People can get trapped in the moment, and the most common kind of non-hit-taking i witness is those who don't acknowledge the hit until their current purpose has been completed (like the person they're shooting at taking the hit). Then the logic side of the brain takes back over from caveman and order ensues. There's nothing airsoft can do to stamp it out other than turning it into laser-quest, or making everyone use tracers, or have 1 marshal per person like in some those mental Japanese tournaments I've seen online. The best thing the community can do is to make the process of taking the hit seem easier and more enjoyable. This is achieved by all those good-sporting types who congratulate people when hit and cheerfully skip back to re-spawn. Kudos to you all, I try, but sometimes barely able to squeak 'hit' let alone any kind of congrats (the arm goes up with a raised thumb on reflex now, I've beaten the paintball urge to check my clothing for marks finally hehe)

I often let out little farts during a fire fight just to see if I get away with it.

If I do shoot a kid I try and follow it with a Nelson "Haw Haw", so they fully appreciate the situation. Did have one jump up and scream 'don't shoot' once after I burst round a corner and shot his mate. I asked but he didn't have any lunch-money so i shot him in the foot

Mine is losing my temper at the Mall a month or two back after seeing my tracer BBs bouncing off someone and their not taking their hits....lost it so bad was pulled from the game and talked to by marshall. Right enough the marshall was a patronising wanker but thats beside the point.... When will people realise that tracer fire means I can see you not taking it?

Twice I've caved in and bought an M4 - not proud of that. Thankfully I have usually come to my senses and have sold them not long afterwards. I've also shot out someone's helmet camera lense by accident. Was in a woodland game and I was running my sniper rifle. I happened to see this little red light off amongst the trees so I carefully aimed two feet below it so I wouldn't hit the camera... or so I thought. My rifle had been shooting fine/straight all day so I don't know how this happened, but when I pulled the trigger I watched as my shot drifted ever so slowly upwards and then there was a very expensive sounding "crack" noise. Apparently the camera had only been used twice before I shot it out - it's owner wasn't at all happy so tried to get me banned from the site when I pointed out I wouldn't pay to replace it and was even more annoyed when everyone listening in agreed with me. Lesson learned: don't buy cheap cameras or at least buy a protective cover for it when airsofting. Still niggles at me to this day though. There's also the time I went around shooting people with my ASG MK23 with stock silencer on below the minimum engagement distance for a weapon firing at DMR levels. I honestly didn't know the stock silencer boosted the stock FPS of 300 to around 430 instead. Now I know better but still feel sorry for all the players I shot on that day with it.

So my UKARA is sort, first gun bought and pimped (would like some feedback). And over excited for the guns first outing at Holmbush, Crawley on the 28th

Externally it's finished for now. Once I figure out where I will use it, I will probably add more camo.

No grooming on the forum.

That's no excuse. If you can't feel it, you still can hear it.

Swearing after being hit somewhere soft isn't a sin, it's an expectation. I took a bad shot right in the cockpit on Saturday from a sneaky bastard hiding in a dark room, and boy did he hear about it. Even if you've been knifed by someone, I'll usually call them a sneaky fucker, but it's more a compliment at how food they were at catching me off guard than derogatory

So is this like Catholicism? Will the OP be telling us how many 'Hail Marui's' we have to say for each sin? Been playing in the chaos-pit of the Mall for a year so think I've made my way through most the i-spy book of airsoft-regrettable-behavior; mistakenly shooting people; - in the face - kids (they may be armed but still...) - after being hit already - more times than necessary - on my own team my own poor conduct; - sworn a few times ("f*ck! right in the cock" etc) - shot someone already hit in the back of the head with a full-auto burst deliberately (they'd sworn few times at me and tried to shoot me in the nuts before storming-off) - told people they'd been hit rather than telling marshal - almost kick-off at someone recently; http://www.airsoft-forums.co.uk/index.php/topic/26732-the-mall-reading-thursday-night-june-18/#entry202347 Only cliches of airsoft bad-behavior I'm confident in not having sinned in is; - nicking kit (I've even been sad enough to hand in a small bolt that looked like it came from someones stock or similar) - hit-taking; I'm confident in being good at taking hits, I've only ignored ones from people I've hit a decent amount first (the turn and shoot you back kinda scenarios). Never done a cheeky "Ahh they can't tell" or "Sure I hit him too, I'll keep firing and take my hit once he does". Far too paranoid about it really, if anything i take far too many hits that didn't occur, simply as it's quickest, easiest and most satisfying for all (no-one believes they could have missed point-blank, and it's only luck they did miss so fuck-it!)

My confession is I sometime haven't walked all the way back to a respawn to respawn as Its sometimes a really long way to go. Not proud and I won't do it again honest. Also threw a grenade back at someone Killing about 6 people. Never owned up to that one.

i must confess my sins: yesterday, after having feeding issues with my new gun and after a few tests, identifying my PTS magazines as the cause... ... I used a high-cap i felt dirty with every shot, and winding the mag only made the feeling worse i had to caress my 30rd G5 mags for a full hour before i felt better enough to clean my guns before putting them away

Looks to be a JG, the colour of the plastic body seems to be identical.

I don't personally find I have an issue with people not calling hits. Now I have a scope with 4x on it I get to see where my BBs are landing and most of the time I am missing, its either just falling short or the spread at maximum range is a bit too wide due to the wind or whatever that just forces them to miss. Just occasionally you do hit someone centre mass and they don't call it and I strongly suspect that is the gear. I don't think I have actually met a "cheater", all of them have been accidental due to plate carriers and such. When your moving you just don't hear BB strikes, it doesn't take much movement to obscure the noise of an impact and its the main reason I don't like wearing anything on my chest. I don't find at the sites I play at that hit taking is an issue, what I find is that where there is an issue is usually just too much gear and noise.

What grip is that?

Sniper/bolt action rifles are a useless bollocks 60% of the time

More likely the exchange rate....

what, the principles of capitalism?

It's a G3. Probably JG. Lipo FTW. Imax b3 or Imax b6ac are good chargers.

No he was taking the piss, I was taking the shot.

Sorry groverner I'll put the troll treats away

The biggest reason for non hit taking is the amount of gear people wear. Some people have so much kit and protection on they just dont feel it. I am sure there must have been times when someone has hit my mag pouches and I havent felt it but others take it to the extreme with thick plate carriers and even backpacks and dont get me started on the hard shell crowd. If people would just thin down their gear it wouldnt be such an issue.

Be hard to draw the line, even if you said nothing above retail value, it'd just turn every £200+ M4 sale into a big argument of the OP listing every single little bit they replaced for 30-50 a time. Agree that you just have to leave people to make their own mistakes or apply their own sense of worth. Zero In should let people reply to sales threads perhaps, think over here the current rules, monty's eagle eyes and occasional troll back-up does the required job swimmingly

I was in a CQB game using a long Paintball speedball-style zone. It was game on, and we ran forward, and almost straight away I was hit in the chest. I raised my hand and started to stop my run to turn to the respawn, and the Marshall just in-front of me starts yelling "Don't stop - come on, keep going!!!!!!" I thus put my hand down and thought - oh - ok... Then as soon as I got to a barricade, my brain engaged and I realised, he was trying to get the team animated and pushing, not excusing my hit.

I went in one the other day, no sooner had I opened the door my vomit reflex kicked in and had to then take a piss in a bush while out in the game area.

I say the same for my sons, there 14 & 15 so should expect to get shot but they've certainly toughened upto it since we started playing Although they always stick with me & have said many times they wouldn't want to come up against me if I'm on the opposite side In all honesty, it makes me laugh when they get hit & a little jealous that I can't do it YET

Looks like your reporting worked as the photoshopped thread is gone! good work sir!

Thats not a sin, it is manditory !!! When people ask how it goes with my 12 year old son. I respond "Kick his arse as often as possible" lets be fair he has entered into a game where shooting people is the point of being there. I say if it moves shoot it, if its small and moves shoot it more!!! so I think your clear on that one. It could be worse, you could shoot a kid in the head at point blank range who is on your team!!!! which is what happened to my son. He copped one right in the centre of his forehead, the guy couldnt stop apologising but we thought it was hilarious my son was chuffed to bits

Had an incident at the last AI (No bang/surrender rule in play) where someone got the drop on me, and decided to ask if I wished to surrender whilst holding his shotgun's muzzle to the cheek of my facemask, I replied by shooting him with a single shot in what I thought to be centre mass, but actually turned out to be his manhood. He wasn't best pleased on 2 accounts..

I certainly was sir but now they've got rid of the bang rule & it's either take a hit or say 'yep I'm taking it' but now I just shoot At the begining, I was quite happy giving people the chsnce but in all honesty, I can't be arsed anymore as people do it to me & its part of the game Needless to say he got a chewing out for it as a few others saw what he did & backed me up the whole way

I don't think there is one when I tried to find it If you've had an email stating your on the data base or have a membership card with your number (usually game site initials with 5 numbers) not much you can do until you get the email But if you've got the membership card, you can go on ukara site & do a self check, if some of your details come up then your covered

Can't fault what your saying mate I think probably the latter, it's just the principal of it that pi$$es me off.

"Is someone running propane? Feckin' stinks in here!" Is that the reason for the forum name?

There's some idiots around I wouldn't pay for his camera either. If you go into a skirmish with an expensive camera with no case you've only got your self to blame when it breaks.

I've watched "Tears of the Sun" too many times growing up and last night I had it pointed out to me by my friend (whilst we were watching it at her house) that I had most of the gear seen in the movie but not the combat fatigues. She was surprised I wasn't intentionally tying to emulate that look - it was just stuff I'd picked up over the years haha. Now the ideas stuck in my head so I have to go for it. This is a big deal since I'm not usually a fan of Western kit - 90% of my stuff is Russian/Eastern European. Anyway, what sort of style you going to run yours as? The era from the movie or something more modern?

Dunno about the rest, but for flash hiders in CW I'd look overseas as the selection here is very limited. It's all based upon your own taste so me recommending a particular flash hider would be silly. Check out Airsoft Peak and Emperion Airsoft as they have a fair few flash hiders in CW, but really it's just about some intense Googling to find one that you like. How much are you looking to spend on a holster and which kind do you want? IMI ones are about £30 each and readily available on eBay.

Great to see someone else getting into USMC kit! I like the look you're going for will be great to see it come together. I'm looking at doing a Scout sniper loadout in future as I have a lot of gear for my Force recon kit. Jarhead is also a reason I want to do a Scout Sniper kit

if its anything like the TM, which it should be: remove slide, remove front slide rail and triger spring, pull hammer assembly out a little, enough to unhook the trigger bar that runs from trigger to hammer by rotating the hammer forward towards the muzzle ( be carefull of the small spring and loose bit of the hammer) and then it should all just pull out with the trigger bar attached to the trigger, the safety may need presing so it fits. The trigger bar can then be removed. its just a small pin. i seem to remember a you tube vid called La Zouch? [edit] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgX2Vln1T55u-45t4yFGwd14dxp1gBB4K

I bought an orange double eagle ak47 with a plastic gearbox I broke it within a day I bought a set of proprietary gears, which didn't work and gave off a tonne of metal shavings I bought a Cyma metal hop up, which didn't fit I bought a Cyma metal gearbox, which barely fitted Then, I bought a G&P body with a madbull handguard, didn't fit Bought a G&P specific barrel nut for the madbull... right... ok... Damaged G&P body Sold G&P body A week later... the barrel nut came..... fookin useless now Ehhh my life story, but hey! At least, I picked up a free Dytac M4 magazine I found on the ground at a skirmish!

Yup - if playing with different barrels n buckings - it is wise to get another hop unit whilst you are at it if your old barrel/hop is ok-ish then just remove it and leave it, quite easy to tear the bucking/hop rubber if removing get the other barrel assembled with another hop up and bucking - simple swap over if results are crap you still got the old complete barrel/hop to fall back on all still ready to go Tight Bore Barrels can alter - well they usually add 15 to 20fps some hop ups work better than others in some guns and not so great in others buckings - new improved ones can get fitted badly and tear when you strip to re-assemble again hence a wise consideration is to mess with a new setup perhaps before stripping and making a mess of old kinda working ok-ish stock barrel/hop

at my first game, I was holding the gun side ways around a tree. Wondering why all of my bb's were curving off to the left. at the time i thought I had got a shit rental gun... ..

Wtf.. That works really well

It all started a few hundred years ago in the Canadian wilderness with 'Rogers rangers' he worked for the brits keeping the Hudson bay company working on the river trading routes He found the natives would blend in with there surroundings & so copied them which was better than the usual bright colours of the British army, like alot of things, the British ministry dismissed it but got back on board after everyone else Khaki green came into being during WW1 when it became trench warfare and made it harder for snipers

Cheeky upgrade slide.

Bit of recoil porn for you guys. 18+ only...

Right, you've misunderstood - the battery charger is powered by the car battery, you don't try and charge the LiPo directly from the car battery.