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Sorry for the almost radio silence from me the past 7 days! I am happy to announce I have finally completed the South West Coastal Path, Poole to Minehead. 630 miles. Dead happy and dead tired.

If you're going to incessantly chase after people trying to buy a RIF that you seemingly: A) Can't afford the asking price of. B) Likely aren't of age to have sold to you. C) Can't be bothered to use proper English. Please do so in private messages so we don't all have to read your pretty embarrasing scattershotting. P.S. incessantly /ɪnˈsɛsntli/ adverb without interruption; constantly.

Can i just put forward this thought: We're on an airsoft forum arguing which star trek captain was the best. We have acheived peak nerd..... Yes i know i started it.....

Anyone need a GBBR? I'm thinking £300 posted seems fair.

To the point where he's messaging about for-sales from years ago. But you'll have to post it, and he's only got £300 to give himself a birthday present. I feel such a connection to him now, I'm really rooting for him on his quest.

Can't beat a nice green tea with pomegranate and a well jellied pork pie with chilli relish; cold water pastry hard and almost shiny until you bite it in the summer. Failing that a beef and onion pie slathered in Colman's mustard and HP sauce. Quick two fingers of sloe gin in the winter and you've had the breakfast of champions. You'll be ready to take the world on.

1st , Welcome to the forum ! 2nd , do not ask for advice on “what am best gun to buy ?” On the internet ! 🤦‍♂️ 😂😂 seriously you will not get a definitive answer to your question on any online platform , all the answers you get will be very biased and you’ll even get some people giving advice when they’ve never even seen the what ever let alone owned one BUT because their friends/brothers/girlfriends/cousins/neighbours/aunties/dog walkers son has one they now think there an expert on the subject ! 😳 Your best bet is just look at what everyone else has at a game day , see which you like the look off then ‘respectfully’ ask the owners about it and I guarantee you’ll not be able to shut them up about it AND most will let you have a play as well as all airsofters love having there egos stroked by someone drooling over our toys ! 🥴 PS the two you’ve named are both really good guns made by reputable manufacturers and are very much of a “both as good as each other so go with the one you like the look of the most” level of guns .👍

I love his version of "CYMA owners".

Mmm, I'm not risk averse, and it's fine to do what you want with consent on private land. Public land, no matter how remote, is a huge no-no, as these muppets found out. However, liability is always worth bearing in mind. It'll all be handshakes and gentleman's agreements until someone breaks a leg, impales themselves on a rusty spike, or takes some balls to the eye, and then it'll be a question of "Who pays my mortgage?". You cannot contractually waiver away liability for death or personal injury. Generally you'd go after the deepest pockets. What I'd imagine would happen is that Crippled Cathy would sue the scrapyard for some failure in a duty of care (unsuitable use of the site, site was hazardous, site was responsible for checking gnus for hotness if they were going to let airsoft run there) , their PLI insurer (hopefully they have one) will initially say "Go away, not covered", and it'll end in a legal wrangle. If it gets to court the bench will say "You're not strictly liable, but you've got money, so pay up, then recover it from your client", the insurer would go after the site, and the site might then go after whoever was organising the games. Either way, it could get messy, drag on for years, and end up coming out of individuals' pockets. It'll be fine until it's not, of course.

There's nothing wrong with William Shatner "singing" Rocketman, he knocked it out of the park with his sophisticated cigarette smoking style.

There’s no problem until there’s a problem As it’s a workplace if an individual is injured then it becomes reportable to the HSE. (No need to report a non work related accident, but there is the need to report injuries to non workers) Its up to the owner to decide whether they need to report or not, if the HSE get wind of it and decide it was reportable then that’s a big issue For wider safety on controlled access a scrapyard will be in a better position than random woods - assuming it’s fenced off etc due to the nature of scrap and it’s value. Its up to you and the owner, provided nothing gets out, nobody complains etc then there’s generally no legal issue in itself. Provided things are run in a safe and controlled manner then things are less likely to go wrong, and if they do then there’s less risk of things going badly wrong. If something does go wrong then it can go badly for the business owner Meadows and orchards can be a different matter. Isolation probably means no one is likely stumble into a game, but it happens.

Harry1 really wants a GBBR.

A WADSN clone Modbutton for the MP5. Neat little solution with the M300 torch

Yesterday (27/6/21) I met up with some friends at Red Alert in Berkshire (https://redalertpaintball.co.uk/) for a bit of toy soldier action. They've attended the site a few times in the past, but it was my first time (and in fact my first time doing proper airsoft). The site costs 27.50 for general usage, but site membership (25 quid a year) gives you a 10% discount and a Red Alert patch. For rental players, it'll be 50 quid instead. The rental guns were all the same (an Ares Amoeba Mutant AMM9), with single high cap magazine. This used to include unlimited BBs, but due to people "taking the piss" and running back to the safe zone to refill a high cap magazine multiple times per game it now comes with a bottle of BBs instead. This is a bit better for social distancing purposes as well, as the previous fill method was essentially a single shared bucket. Absolutely no complaints with the gun, it had clearly been well looked after and shot well. The weather for most of the day was a warm 19-ish degrees, and very humid. Rain threatened for most of the day but didn't really pick up until about 4 in the afternoon. As far as I could tell, the player dressed as Tinky Winky only lasted one game in costume with this humidity. The site itself is 35 acres, mostly woodland but with a good variety of man made structures dotted around the place - I believe we used the majority of them across the day. There aren't too many drastic elevation changes, but half of the site is a large slope which is perfect for anyone that enjoys games that involve attacking up a hill. It's all very green at the moment, so away from the man made structures there were plenty of dense fern patches. I arrived at about 8:45 to a half full car park. There is a safe zone attached to the car park, but it's not the biggest, so the majority of players set up out of their cars on the day. For part of the day there was also a kid's paintball party taking place, but they had a separate area of the safe zone assigned to them and things were timed so that they didn't get too scared by the nasty airsofters. The main airsoft safety brief was given via megaphone in the car park, and was clear and concise and sprinkled with a little bit of humour. The site allows full auto, but only in three to five round bursts. No blind fire (obviously), no firing through gaps in structures smaller than an A4 sheet. I was a dirty rental so didn't have to worry about chrono, but on site chrono is mandatory and done with both .2's and the ammo you'll be firing. On .2's the limits are 350fps, 420 (or 425, the site is unclear) for DMRs with a 20m MED and 500 for bolt actions with a 30m MED. There's a dedicated chrono area, but I also saw some taking place on entry to the game areas. There are two site shops. The main site shop sells your standard attachments, BBs, patches, drinks and miscellaneous stuff, whilst the other is a second hand shop and had a good array of pre owned guns, clothing, and all sorts of goodies. A couple of guys from my group picked up some new (old) RIFs to use on the day - one of the guys that did this was a rental like me, but they happily shifted over the extra amount he'd paid for the rental to a membership instead. We had a few late entries - traffic on the M4 was particularly shite this weekend. The briefing was scheduled to take place at about 10 AM, and the morning's games followed. Games: Teams are left arm yellow/right arm red. We were on yellow. First game was a warm up game slated to last 30 minutes, with a fairly standard 3 point Domination game. This took place across three game areas - the Town, Bridge and Village. The Town is, as the name suggests, an area of many structures and old cars. The town features a large "Embassy" building that could provide some good CQB, the Bridge is, er, a bridge over a river, and the village... I didn't actually get down to the village end in this game but I'm willing to bet it involves some structures. Most of my time was spent defending the Embassy as it had a clear view over the town's capture point, but the enemy team didn't push it and just shot at it from the bushes instead. Game finished, everyone tramped back to the car park to reload and mill around for a while. The second and third games were "D-Day", which was a "Rush" type game. The attacking team initially spawned at a landing craft in a wet area at the bottom of the site's main hill. The attackers had to push up through a series of bunkers and then take a man made metal fort at the top, with infinite lives. The defenders had one life per bunker spawn, and two at the fort. As the attackers took bunkers their spawn moved up with them. The game ended when the fort was clear of defenders. There was a 45 minute time limit for this game. This is unsurprisingly a tough game for the attackers, especially with the slogging up and down the hill from spawn on being hit. Our team attacked first and finished in 30 minutes, no doubt helped by our team's LMG who fired off about a few thousand rounds in this game alone. After the second game finished, everyone tramped back to the car park to reload and mill around for a while. There was some grumbling about being hungry as by this time it was about 12:30 and the smell of lunch was in the air, but we went back out to do our team's D-Day defence first. The food should have been a good incentive for the attacking team to push through quickly (we did consider just dying so we could eat), but they completed in 35 minutes so the yellow team won overall. Game finished, everyone tramped back to the car park to reload and mill around for a while and finally eat at about 2. Lunch! The food was decent - there was a big pan of curry on the go, and burgers & veggie burgers were available. During the briefing earlier in the day they'd also checked for any dietary requirements that needed catering for. Lunch took around 45 minutes, either by design or the fact the queue for the curry went all the way through the safe zone and out into the car park. The car park thinned out slightly before the start of afternoon play as the sky had threatened to do that rain thing. The afternoon's game was a game of "Follow the Colours", which was effectively just a pair of opposing moving spawns. Every time someone on the defending team died their spawn (a marshal with a hat on) would take two steps towards their end of the field, whilst the spawn for the attacking team would move up to be in line with the rearmost attacker. Once the defending spawn reached the end of the play area it was removed (the marshal took his hat off). The play area for this game was a long, curving banana rectangle that lead from an area of woodland, through the town, down a hill and to a radio tower. The defenders initially spawned on the near end of the town to the attacker. I believe this game was meant to take 45 minutes each way. This game mode had a few issues, partly due to player behaviour. The intention was clearly that the defending team would move forward from their spawn and try to prevent the attackers from advancing in the woodland area before the town, but they... didn't. Instead, they all fell back into the town area behind their spawn and let the attackers claim nearly a third of the game area right from the get go. I believe the marshal that represented their spawn chose to skip back a few steps at this point! Pushing into the town was hard work as by this time of afternoon the "short bursts" rule for full auto appeared to have been entirely forgotten. A number of the defenders were lying behind clumps of bushes and just filling the air with plastic in the general direction of the attackers, through more bushes (aside from one bloke who was doing it by poking his gun out through the bars of the "jail" in the town and firing merrily away. Eventually, someone got a grenade in there for him.). Because of the initial push by the attackers being uncontested, the spawns ended up so close to each other that the attackers had to pause and have their spawn move temporarily into cover to prevent spawning players getting shot straight away. By this time the defender's spawn was on a track that cut through the whole game zone; we were told not to shoot players on the track as they were dead and walking back to spawn, but they were also shooting at us at the same time so something had clearly got lost in translation somewhere. I found one red player had merrily walked all the way up the track, cut into the game zone, and started shooting into our spawn from behind, but when confronted said "oh no I'm going to the safe zone". The yellow team cleared the embassy about five times, but I'm not convinced that after the first time there were any players other than yellow in it. The attacking team eventually pushed the defenders back far enough and took the point. Round one of the game finished, everyone tramped back to the car park to reload and mill around for a while before switching sides. By this point the rain had started in earnest and there were quite a few people from the attacking team feeling grumpy about taking so much full auto fire at close range. The marshals were having a chat about it when I walked past, though I'm not sure if there was any resolution. It was about 4PM at this point and we'd played 4 games (at least, some of us had, given the late arrivals). The rest of my group decided to call it a day, and by all appearances so did a number of other players from the yellow team. Apparently the red team won the last game, but by that time we were gone. (totally not stealing the below format here) Good The team of marshals were great, very approachable and friendly but not averse to taking someone aside for a quick chat. Rentals were high quality and shot in the direction the gun was pointed. Good variety of stuff on sale in the shops. Food - a curry is always a good thing in my books, and a few people proclaimed it good enough that they'd go back for seconds. The clientele were a mix of age ranges from the young to the, er, grizzled. About ten were rentals. In the most part they were very friendly (the guy with the LMG let me hold his very large and very heavy weapon), but see hit taking below. The playing area had a good amount of man made structures, trenches, bunkers, etc. to get involved with along with the normal woodland features. Average Access road is bumpy sand/gravel to a spacious car park. It's well sign posted and there's a 5mph limit for a reason - some of the divots in the access road are quite deep. Toilets were a couple of portaloos, one male, one female. They were regularly wiped down and seemed in good enough state. Turn around time wasn't fantastic, on average we'd be in the car park for 20 minutes between games and then sat around in the game zone for another ten to fifteen minutes waiting for the stragglers to turn up. Meh Hit taking from a few people. Over the course of two games I heard one player in particular being complained about, by experienced players, with the complaint progressing from "I had to mag dump the twunt to get him to admit it" in the first instance to "we both had to do it this time" in the second. Few instances of full autoing blindly through bushes and through small gaps. Injury of the day In the last game we played Me Mate Dave took a burst of full auto to the face at very close range and now has a very impressive welt on the inside edge of the bridge of his nose, about half an inch from his eye. He says he'll be buying full goggles rather than shooting glasses style for next time. End In conclusion, I definitely had a fun time and would happily go back (also, UKARA reasons), but some of my group didn't enjoy it quite as much as usual. This probably wasn't helped by the excessive humidity at the start of the day and the drizzle at the end, but that's English weather for you.

this is a uk airsoft forum, with a majority uk based membership, and you have to remember moaning about things is a time honoured British institution.....

I've been order a lot of Russian gear recently. Last bit of kit I needed was a balaclava so I ordered. Bloody predictive text.

FFS @Adolf Hamster The last few months we have argued over worse/more stupid things so it’s kinda on par atm and imho feels quite “normal”

Welcome Personally I would chose the Specna option. G&G and Specna are very similar in quality so its worth getting the extras. You'll need to get good batteries and charger. Search the forum for threads on those subjects.

Yea man, scroll up / back a page.

Silverback SRS. God it is compact and performs really well but it's so fucking ugly. Moreover it's super common right now so it's one more reason to hate on it. Also, dog dicks inside the magazines.

LOL, no pictures of the whole gun since fitting the light and switch, but one not long before.

The crime is getting caught, something that should be kept private. copyright https://airsoft-forums.uk/profile/19415-magpietactical/

I’ve been to the store a fair few times and everything is all fine and dandy, the staff are nice and chatty and the atmosphere is pleasant, HOWEVER I have never ordered anything from them online so I can’t say how that side of things are.

It was private land, the fine was issued for breaching the Rule of Six, no other action was taken.

I wish we didn't live in a litigious society, it's only lawyers who really profit. But sadly it's the reality that when someone loses their life, mobility or income, it very quickly becomes an issue of "There's must be a claim, even without blame." The significant case law is Volwes v Evans and the Welsh Rugby Union, where an unpaid volunteer referee was held liable for an injury to an amateur player. The Rugby Union's insurers ended up footing the bill, but mostly because courts like to award against the deepest pockets just on the practicality (if not fairness) of it. I'd get something on record that there is no organiser, marshalling or refereeing, and that everyone is participating as peers and solely responsible for their own actions.

What can one say?

Ye don't really recommend them. Bought second hand King Arms MDT LSS from them before and it was advertised to come with 3 gas mags but instead came with 2 hpa tapped ones... Kept chasing them, they kept saying they would sort it out but never did. I was going to do a charge back on my card but decided it wasn't worth the effort, so I sold off the hpa ones to get actual gas mags for it. What's weirder is that one of owners somehow started following my instagram account that I never use out of the blue. Like, that is creepy as fuck.

A VERY long time ago was at a gameday and a player who’d won a mini gun had it presented to him , i think it was from landwarrior(but probably wrong!) any hoo he gets given the mini gun all big smiles , see him again a couple of mths later ask him if he still had it to which he replied ; “f**k no ! Had to get rid of it the wife said she’d divorce me if she caught me trying to sell the kids on-line again to pay for BB’s the way it eats ammo ! “🤣 so yea supports are fun , till you see the feeding bill ! 🤦‍♂️

I keep eying up a SAW but then I remember how much of a ball ache they are to lug around. That and how much ammo I used to go through with it

Those are scary words to me ’Informal games’ sets off quiet alarm bells. The risks & lines of responsibility of keeping control of safety for both players and anyone else ’Local scrapyard’ brings in a business and the owners taken on a liability by permitting the activity - or there’s trespassing and more danger between people who are allowed to be there and those who are trespassing

that's the thing, a joule is a joule, it doesn't hit any harder than anything else on the field up close.

Legally it is the importers responsibility. On a personal international sale the buyer is the importer. The sender is contractually responsible for declaring international packages with the carrier they despatch. If it goes wrong then the specifics will effect whether or not the buyer can claim back money from the sender

Somewhat related I received a parcel yesterday from POWAIR6 in France via DHL, only place with a L/XL sized FMA helmet (and I bought a few other items but no RIF's), that the Border Force inspected / opened and put their tape all over. It arrived two a half working days after placing the order, and passed from Luton to Heathrow for the inspection, so I'm making assumptions that when labelled correctly and going through a trusted courier things "should" go reasonably well (all of these shitty problems do seem to be happening with less than competent suppliers and couriers).

Hpa'd, at 1j no less. Didnt do it often for obvious reasons, but yes a speedsofter spec m4 carbine with .48's turns outdoor airsoft into a point and click adventure. Good fun once you've drowned out the audible "ker ching" every time you pull the trigger 😛 Even run them in a makarov at 0.7j, although gave that up when i realise i was changing loading nozzles half as often as i was changing magazines and i cant shoot a pistol that well anyway. That reminds me must check if the aksu can lift .48's.....

For outdoor cant say i've heard of places having ammo weight limits. America maybe as a (dumb) solution to joule creep in hpa's Run up to .48's plenty of times never any issue, if the gun is kosher then it shouldnt really matter what weight you run.

If its good enough for patrick stewart ...

it's an interesting idea, if you've got the kit to do it to a decent standard (read: it'll fit and work) then i can see a lot of merit in this at that kind of price. of course wether or not the economics work out to allow you to do this for that kind of money is a different story, you've either got a lot of expensive machines sitting around or are going to be putting a lot of man-hours in. that said, if you've got the kit lying around, custom machined parts at reasonable prices would be a godsend for certain folks of the serial tinkering persuasion.

because no matter how much you deny it, even to yourself, you get a kick out of players being scared of you cos you're carrying a big ass gat.

I mean ok own one so can't really say I hate it but machine guns, lmgs and saws. You're paying twice the price to carry twice the weight and you're getting something that performs maybe as well as a stock G&G with a drum mag. Add onto this the known numerous issues with the gearboxes, box mags and hop up units and you start to wonder why you bothered.

This might be why i am not making friends at site, i'm a (cheap arse) coffee snob, i bring the grounds and a filter....just use the hot water......... *tuts* free coffee ha!

Until it's in my hands, it's the seller's goods, and their problem, not mine. I have no interest in how the seller sent it or what's happened to their item. I certainly have no control over whether they put a UKARA number on it, or declared it honestly, which Border Farce seem to be picking up on now. That said, I've been lucky up to now, and the one hiccup I've had was a stock that never even made it out of Chyna - easy enough for AliExpress to make the call in my favour when the seller didn't bother resending, refunding, or even letting me know. I'd certainly agree with the statement about not ordering anything from anywhere outside the UK at the moment unless you can afford to lose it. It seem like Border Farce have got a real throbber on for seizing anything even remotely assault-toy related being sent to individuals, legality or defences be damned.

i was under the impression RIF was pretty much anything covid karen would look at and think "that's a gun", except pre 1875 designs (ie not very good guns) for example the aps uar, as whilst we might go "well technically...." but the whole point is that a non-gun nerd would still identify it as such as for air guns, surely their defence for being an RIF is by dint of being firearms, ie it's not imitating it simply is.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner of champions.

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This is actually the second time it's happened. I also got three police officers turning up at my office. The conversation went like this: Police: Why have you tried to import a RIF? Me: Because I'm a UKARA registered airsofter. Police: Oh cool, some of the guys from the station are airsofters. You're obviously not dodgy. Have a good day.

@proffrink hey, as the admin you can perminatly delete comments right? I just feel this comment attacks too many of us 😂

What I'd give for an affordable Kobra replica