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A man who has made no mistakes has done nothing in his life.

Don't say to the other half... "Oh I'll only go once this month.." and then go another 3 times...!

TM HK45. Time for a new pistol.

Not bought but won a G316C IDZ R.A.S. with E.B.B at skirmish airsoft mansfield yesterday, http://www.smartteamhk.com/en/g316c-idz-r-a-s.html

Answer on the back of a post card to ....... (Apologies to anyone under 25 who wont know what a post card is or what the hell am on about)

I also wish if knew how meny times a day id be on here befor I started.

I wish id had the confidence to tell my friends and family that i wanted to run around with toy guns years ago. as it goes my mrs though it was paintball for the first few games, I didnt tell her its bb guns until id got a ukara. I showed her a YouTube vid of a us milsim event, first thing she says.... "Are these adults?" Yes love, "what... Like grown up adults?" yes love.

This forum doesn't have the bandwidth for me to even start listing all my mistakes that I'm STILL making BUT the main mistake I think was why the hell didn't I get into this much much sooner ? (say 5+ years ago and I might not be quite so crap at it - well that is just a theory but I'd still be $hite no doubt)

The whole "dead men don't talk" rule... I agree with it 100% but no-one seems to follow it to the tee! Just because people aren't "moving their mouth" doesn't mean you can continue to bloody use your hands and point, using flash lights, nodding/shaking their head or start doing the god damn YMCA!

I wanted to play 3 years ago, shame really.

I feel for you. Especially if there anythin like mine, he seems to take great delight in tellin me where he was every time he shot me. Even if he's on my team!

Try having to buy 3 of everything as I've got 14 & 15 year old sons

How much it was going to cost in time and money. That some people would take it so seriously and forget its a game. How to set the hop up correctly.

The biggest mistake i made was buying shed loads of gear i didnt need, then trying to run around in it. Im all about the lightweight and practical now.

Magnified sights are for snipers and posers. Red dot sights don't always turn themselves off when you put your gun away. Red dot sights will sometimes turn themselves off just before you REALLY need to aim at something. Some people have no sense of fun.

Not thinking gloves wee necessary for cqb. I have a scar on my knuckle and 3 dotted around my other hand.

Like most wish i'd had a better knowledge of brands and the differences. I did as much research as i could and didn't do too bad for first gun - ICS M4 (metal new one) still was only a few months until i bought another gun i use regularly and the ICS got put back in the box Wish i'd known my local site was shite and their shop run by a scammer (absolute airsoft) Apart from that most of it you just have to try and see for yourself, or take the time to research Perhaps that if you regularily go more than once a fortnight you end up with enough marks to looks like you got meth-rot or frequent the needle exchange

+1 on the sling and dump pouch. I'd say mid caps and how terrible some clone rifles are

Tell me about it even wearing a set of mechanix mpact covert gloves I still get my little finger fractured playing there.

Given the rate at which G&Gs sell, I hope that such a large amount of production of stock guns with MOSFETs combined with so many people using them might actually start to finally make a change in the rest of the AEG manufacturing world. We're long overdue for the likes of G&P, ICS and VFC to be including FETs in all their electric guns, but as per usual it takes about a decade for even small changes to happen. Maybe once a large portion of the market gets accustomed to the much improved trigger response and the other advantages these new G&Gs have, the manufacturers who don't include a FET will have to up their games to carry on making sales. Might well not happen but fingers crossed.

F*ck me - bet you learnt to park your car at the proper car park after that or was it like that when you bought it ??? best call AutoGlass m8 - that little chip looked like it has turned into cwwwwwwwwack should of called them earlier and you could of kept ya no claims bonus

My old Viper Drop Leg holster broke on my during a skirmish yesterday so I need a new one and I was wondering if there are any better drop leg holsters than Viper? It also needs to be left handed. Thanks, Kielnastra.

I wish I knew what a kn*b I would sound every time I eplained what Airsoft was. Trying desperately to convince people it's not nerf! And ending up havin to say " it's like paintball but more tactical " I would like it however if someone could change the name of our sport to somthin more masculin. Maybe a good start of a topic.

Not to worry Ian, I'm on the path to the darkside - got myself an AK!

I've got a Kydex holster en route for my KWA P226 with X300. Massively looking forward for it to arrive.

I wish I'd know that convincing my 13 year old son to start playing now means I have to buy two of everything!

Yeah it is, shoots really well, very snappy trigger response. It is programmable like their badger (with the unit). Great little CQB, especially for the tight corners and cells at the Gaol It's nice and weighty to which I was surprised about considering the size

Is that the Ares one? How is it? Looks tdb...

Before you take your rifle to the pool, remember that youve got an aeg, not a gbb.

that's what I thought I'll have to do some research into it then as it looks at the moment ☺

I'm lucky my Mrs and her mate have come with me a few times

Don't assume that if you step out around a 90 degree corner that the guy around it 1 metre away wont shoot you more than once. Got a bone bruise on my right pinky now. Stepped out, shot two guys in the chest and stood there like a lemon while they blasted me (both fired after I hit the 2nd guy), received 6 BBs straight to the pinky. I don't think they even felt their hits.

Welcome to the Forums, I'm a recent noob and constantly ask bone questions which the folk are kind enough to answer with wisdom and patience.... It's a great hobby and don't be afraid to ask! Have fun and see you on the Battlefield.

yep, some good advice!, i only have a pair of viper gloves, nothing special but they were just for 'protecting' my hands from debris ect more than hits...as i found out from abut 5m @ UA!!

Be sure you take out the internals before applying that heat. I'm guessing from the bike, that won't be a problem, but it'd be wrong to assume everyone knows there's an inner and outer barrel.

thanks for the response - ive heard a lot of good things about the Green Devils - might chase them re their site - i can order direct from them - but its a minimum of 20 bags - that site would be good - thanks re the tracers - ive found non bio ones at gunfire, actually Nuprol ones: http://gunfire.pl/product-eng-1152208102-Nuprol-0-30g-Tracer-Diamond-Grade-3000-pcs.html they seem to do both 0.3s and 0.28s

My custom K98 Spring conversion I was working on for a while before admitting defeat. Built from a clone VSR and a donor D-boys K98 with wood stock and metal parts. Looks the business, all the metalwork was chemically blued and it really looked great compared to the matt black of the D-boys. Have had positive comments on the look of the rifle from some people who really know their stuff with regards to ww2 weapons. Sadly away to a new owner now but hopefully he's managed to get it working reliably. Next up my M1 Garand AEG. A custom wood stock and metal parts kit on an M14 body, this thing is hefty! Originally that orange lacquer colour most wood kits are but I stripped it down and refinished it with a nice walnut stain and a lot of coats of boiled linseed oil. Fed from small 30rd shotgun mags, they're almost impossible to get a hold of but I managed to get 25 in a trade. :-) Fun for open days as when people see a wood stock rifle they think it'll be a single shot sniper and get surprised when I can pop in an M14 hi-cap and slam it on full auto with no MED as its at 350fps. Lol Currently under a full overhaul on this as it was drifting the shots to one side.

Wise choice not being a sniper trust me I'd look at G&G over ICS as G&G are 99% TM compatible whereas some ICS parts are more bespoke (inside AND outside). If you're really set on ICS don't get the folding stock, get a crane or fixed stock for battery space in the back. I would definitely consider the previously mentioned G&G Raiders (short or long idk where you play) or if you want to splash out perhaps look at their top tech range.

I'm sorry to hear that Ian. I hope that and fingers crossed that you get better sooner rather than later.

I find mine is quite particular about ambient light levels.

I had those kind of preconceptions about the criteria for Milsim, all fed by these being the supposed criteria for awesomeness the 'dyed in the wool' players at my local woodland sites have. They talk/boast about Milsim as if attending one was an achievement or select calling. Because they're the type that talk loudest and most often about milsim, it's their ideas of it that noobs like myself inherit. Then i looked into it online and it all seemed a lot less strict/immersive than this preconception. So I went to one and found the actual rules weren't any where near as strict, was just like any other skirmish but with more complicated game criteria, much longer game time and the site was larger. Games were really well thought out in stages, staff were friendly and great. It was just kind of like an extended super-skirmish. But still, all the people in my assigned squad (and majority there judging by their reactions) seemed to think that total immersion (the 2k of gucci gear and saluting etc as you put it lol) was an ethos that was simply an unwritten rule. Like it was the whole point of attending a Milsim and if you didn't subscribe to it then wtf are you doing here and not at a normal skirmish? No-one seemed interested in having fun or a laugh, just a stern faced mission. There was no 'rebel' team for the one i went to, just nato and pseudo-soviet. It sounds like a good way to cater to those noobs like me who like me only have a camo t-shirt, refuse to walk around in set-formation and don't know the latest nick-names of any of the pointless attacking/defending 'manouvers' that make no difference when performed by unfit/slow people who waste the advantage arguing about which one to use. I commend you for trying to make milsim more accessible, i'll certainly give your site a go and milsim another chance now i'm just about over the jaded urge to put such fools into an actual war-zone and see how many seconds it takes for their underpants to turn into the "correct camo scheme", well perhaps not totally over, i'm definitely grinning rather than grinding my teeth while ranting tho

B6 needs a power source too. Try B6AC. B6 or B6AC is a great choice. There is no need to reduce impact shock on a normal AEG. Normally they come 400-430 fps, it's just in the UK where we are limited to 350. And v3 gearbox that's in the AUG is much stronger than a standard v2 (the one in an M4).

My newest addition to the armoury. Paints a bit battered but shoots well enough down the garden. She just needs a suitable name now!

I havent played anywhere else where you can be clearing buildings with your team and theres a second team pushing up with an apc while theres mortars and drones flying round over head. youtube - sandpit tour. Itll be closed in a year or so, get on it!

UK stores recommend the 7.4 or 8.4v, US stores recommend 8.4v or 9.6v - and a few sites claim 11.1v compatibility. Going with: http://www.landwarriorairsoft.com/batteries-bbs-gas-chronographs-c5/batteries-c62/we-airsoft-europe-7-4v-2600mah-20c-crane-stock-lipo-p3197 http://www.landwarriorairsoft.com/batteries-bbs-gas-chronographs-c5/batteries-c62/we-airsoft-europe-7-4v-1450mah-25c-crane-stock-lipo-p3193 Having just noticed cells are different in LiPOs. 17/07/2015: Well, I bought it from Land Warrior Airsoft yesterday and received it today. Price matched a £1 off too. While I have had no surprises, it is still managing to be lower quality than I expected (for £154 item manufactured outside the UK). I would not call anything I dislike about it 'unexpected' and I am quite happy with it - not fired yet. G&Gs manufacturing tolerances between the parts seems to be lax, but the parts themselves seem individually fine, small amount of rattle, but it is quite lightweight, and overall I don't have any regrets at this point. Well, except that I have foolishly not ordered a sling. Shame it does not have ambi mag release.

Welcome to the forum mate! P90s can be brilliant depending on the brand but being a bull pup they shoot further than you think. If I wasn't trying to downsize my arsenal I'd probably have one of them myself. Like Chock pointed out - a pistol is a good choice for CQB. Even a cheap springer is enough at a push since most engagements can be very close range. I wouldn't recommend throwing a plastic knife at people though - most sites don't take too kindly to it and may see you banned for doing so.

wow such a warm welcome thank you guys lots of really useful information there chock I'm swinging towards the p90 but I know there are hit and miss opinions on the high cap mags as they apparently tend to jam, but regarding equipment I don't plan to spend fortunes buying it I already use a good pair of boots for work so I use them for airsoft too, definitely going to be looking into BFG's as my local site aloes them to be used.

All of us were noobs at some point - I still am tbh - I love being a noob coz there is $hit loads still to learn keep the learning curve steep or life can get boring Welcome to forum - kudos for knowing how to search - too many love be spoon fed you seem to know a little and more importantly want to learn more like most of us G36's are very popular in cqb & site rental guns but its all down to what suits you in the end in here it is a little more relaxed and more noob friendly than some mega ultra serious tech sites so less chance of getting flamed for asking dumb questions (my speciality dumb ar$e questions)

I honestly wonder about the mental state of people who enjoy films like that. Let alone the people that make them.

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