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i wouldn't worry about upgrades in the short-term. the reason negative (at the time, he seems to have moved away from them) reccommends the warfet is because the customers he deals with (as a professional tech) generally aren't too into teching on their own guns, and a mosfet that can be hot-swapped between guns easily, or re-programmed very quickly in the field. the titan is a connoisseurs component, and a whilst it's a good bit of kit. but it's not something you want in your gun unless you have the background knowledge to set it up properly (which also means having the rest of the gearbox up to code), and deal with any issues that arise. what i would suggest as others have mentioned is to start off renting for a few games, see if you like the hobby enough to stick it out. once you have your ukara setup you'll be able to order a non 2-toned pew which is a bonus. i'd hang back from dropping too much money until the honeymoon is over, the reality is that generally speaking the supermegahighend pews aren't that much better than cheaper pews because at the end of the day there's only so much precision can be extracted from what boils down to an air powered smoothbore musket. it's also worth considering that you need more than just the gun, there's batteries, chargers, magazines, loaders, ammo, eyepro, good boots (seriously, good boots are worth the effort to figure out), camo (entirely optional but generally preferred for outdoors), load carrying gear, and any optics/flashlights/lasers/bipods/slings you might want to stick on the gun. if you're gonna drop £400 on the hobby then a £400 gun on its own won't be nearly as enjoyable as a £150 gun with £250 worth of various accessories, and i say that having made that exact mistake.

For years you will perform the same with a good working £100 AEG and a good working £400 one. If all the skills and gear are sorted, that's when you will be able to use the quality difference, if at all. Ranges: reliably hitting targets at 50m is good for an AEG, 60m is very good. DMR-ing adds a few meters, +10 maybe. Tuned 500fps sniper rifles hit in the 70-90m range.

More pictures have just gone up on my site's site, reposting here for dopamine hits (and because the weird lighting on the last one made my face look like Red Skull). Damn, but I look so purposeful, and so expendable there. Horny xeno girls all want Guardsman-senpai to notice them.

We're quite friendly here, and where we disagree, it's generally respectfully, understanding that there's no single right answers. And there are few wrong answers or dumb choices either, because spending even three figures on any toy gun for playing pretend soldiers is such a daft thing to do in the first place. Whatever puts the biggest smile on your face is the right choice for you, that's the only criteria that really matters at the end of the day. I would steer clear of VFC, though. The sweary tech in that video up-thread, Luke at Negative Airsoft, seems to spend half his time sorting shagged-from-new VFCs. Lovely externals, but the internals seem to be either peaches or lemons.

Don't worry. In the UK half the players would faint hearing the first blank shot and the next day youtube would be full of videos of "REAL STEEL GUN SHOT MADE MY EAR BLEED".

I cannot über-emphasise the importance of this. If you turn up with one high end toy with all the bells and whistles and then find that it's in a sulk, or shooting at 0.5J, you're going to have a bad day (or no day). I never bring fewer than two, and often as many as four primaries, whether as backups or loaners. If I were to have one AEG, then I'd agree with @herosharkthat (especially from your list) it would be the TM every time. Clean the barrel, then leave it alone, at least until you have a backup. Here's the thing, if you enjoy the actual process of playing airsoft, then you'll enjoy it with a £100 plastic fantastic. If you don't, then no amount of recoil or lock-on-empty will change the core airsoft experience of getting shot in the back of your head by your own "team" while you're knee deep in mud. I say this not to put you off, but hopefully to provoke some thoughts about what you want to get out of this hobby in the long term, after the first rush has worn off. I'll tell you what you won't get though, which is 90m effective range out of a 1.1J gun, no matter how trick the internals are or how big the price ticket is.

I don't see anything wrong with getting a high end Rif to start but that said it is risky. I only own one AEG rifle and it's a TM recoil, maybe I'm a seriously odd dude. They are one of the most reliable platforms that have a bolt lock and stop on empty. That said I haven't used it for a few years. One thing that gets me with the tm ngrs is the lack of feedback from releasing the bolt lock. Friend of mine had the das had nothing but feed issues and ended up getting rid. Finding your preferred weapons is personal. I could tell you gbb pistols are the way to go cos that's my bag but it might not necessarily be yours. Some may say gbb rifles as they have the full full functionality, TM MWS is probably one of the highest regarded.

Very true! Not sure how I didn't think of those. I only own four of the things and got another one today...

You don't necessarily have to get a plastic rifle as the first. There are many sub £200 metal ones that perform perfectly well for starting out. CYMA, JG and SpecnaArms are well regarded in the bang-for-buck ratio.

TBH you don't really know what you want until you've played a bit. You also need a back up rifle. If you buy a cheap basic starter rif, you can learn the game and have a play with other people's rifs in game. That will probably tell you what you want to buy as a 'serious' rif. You can then keep the starter as a spare. Be warned though. A proper big boys rif will probably be twice the weight of a basic Combat Machine, four times the price, and only be half as reliable. TBH, I only know one airsofter with only one rif, and he is a seriously odd dude.

Welcome Carl (you youngster) All those in your list are good but are you sure you want to sink that kind of money into the hobby straight away? As Roger said, there are quite a few people selling their purchases for various reasons soon after getting them. Do a search for 'best starter gun' and read some of the previous posts on the subject. You can get a decent shooting gun for under £200 and although it won't have recoil or last round hold you'll get some good experience and better able to decide what to buy next. Plus its always good to keep your first gun as a backup. EDIT: Buying second hand may not be a good choice without a bit more experience. If you get something that isn't performing well or has a problem you won't know about it or be able to fix it immediately. Better to get something that has a known performance and with more experience you'll know what looks or sounds suspicious in a sale. We always advise to rent for your first 3 games so you can be registered with UKARA and it will give you some experience and influence your future choice of weapon... Having a UKARA number also allows you to buy a realistic looking gun.

I very much doubt 90m effective range no matter how much money you dump unto a gun, even upped to dmr levels with heavy ammo. Even experienced bolty users with well tuned rifles will tell you 90m shots are not easy to make even on a stationary target consistently.

Nice one, I'd love to see what you come up with. I agree with keeping the bulk down, I trimmed quite a lot off of my original templates in order to get full mobility and articulation. In particular, torso armour needs to be truncated or articulated if you intend to crouch or bend. Me, or the horny xeno-girl? You know what... let's preserve the mystery.

Que the borg....Its not a License! 😉 regards

My brother has a airsoft rifle and has his airsoft weapon license, am i able to use that weapon without being licensed but under his supervision?

Tech guy is an fucking idiot then. He is pushing you towards the kwa as they probably get a better mark up them than they do the TM (if they sell the the TM at all) Haven't had my hands on the newer kwa's but the old ones regularly had problems, nice guns but not as reliable as most TM guns.

Smart pics mate. Good job on that armour. I'm away to buy a load of EVA and carve up some sci fi kit. Going to concoct summat fairly simple, might add arm and leg pieces. Nothing too intricate or bulky as I need to run about the forest. Getting the sketch pad oot when the bairns are in bed.

Have you seen the angry gun mpa nozzle? Its a good alternative to ratech npas and standard nozzle https://www.milspecsolutions.co.uk/specialist-suppliers/angry-gun-113/Angry-Gun-MPA-WE-M4-L85-msk-Loading-Nozzle.html

Lithium batteries - FAQ https://www.batterypowertips.com/difference-between-lithium-ion-lithium-polymer-batteries-faq/ I've been using Titan Power Li-Ion batteries for a while and there's some pro's and con's. Yes they last well, they have plenty of power and they don't puff up. They also hold their charge really well once they've been charged. However they do only come in a few form factors and sizes are limited by the construction.

I used to dance up amongst the speakers, I was there for the peak of walkmans and preferred in ear headphones, I’m fond of blowing things up Im not deaf, but my hearing is very selective

Kwa used to have the last round stop function and recoil but they drooped the cutoff feature to free up the space to put the electronic triggers and mosfets into their gearbox design. The g&g has the stop function but it is only in the tr16 g2 models, which off the top of my head, are the 308 variants and the knights sr series. They don't have the recoil function though in those ranges. If recoil is a must have then I'd look at adding the stop function to the kwa, it's not the hardest thing to do but would require patience and opening up the gearbox; fitting a leviathan mosfet, setting it up, possibly an external control if you wanted that or having somebody do it for you. It would be something a few hundred quid to do.

Personally I don't think BFGs or pyro should be louder than a 209 primer. Definitely not indoors. There's no need to go louder than that as everyone in the 'kill' zone will definitely hear it. Blank firing guns at airsoft events may add to immersion for milsim games but not necessary for general game days. I think UK has more noise restrictions than the US sites. I'm sure there would be resident complaints if sites had constant semi and auto blank fire.

Of the rifs you listed in the opening post last round stop is only a feature of the tokoyo marui and the gbl. It can be added electronically to the other using a leviathan mosfet and external input system to the rif and setting it up. Doing this would require that gearbox is opened and doing so often voids any form of warranty, if you wanted one. I mention it as it seems you would like the same sort of setup I use which is very a gas system style but would like the ease of an aeg. I use a g&g tr16 308 as I moved back to aegs from gas rifs for a slightly easier setup, now I'm balancing life and get to play less often, but some of the g&g rifs that use the new type g2 gearbox have the stop on empty and now I have that on an aeg I wouldn't be looking to not have it at any point.

Managed to connect all my AEP lipos to my fancy balance charger and storage charge all of them. I am no longer living in fear of burning my house down or blowing up my mp7

He thinks DPM is multicam too https://media.tenor.com/images/05b0e00d201830afb348439cbcb29ac4/tenor.gif

Cheers guys - but actually MPA airsoft sell pre-cut poly discs from 25mm up, as lens protectors. I had identified them as the best source, but the p&p was a bit much for something that could go in a letter envelope. So I pooh-poohed it. "Never pooh-pooh a pooh-pooh". Useful advice, I'm sure you'll agree. Anyway, turns out Nunfa1 is calling in there today and has offered to pick up a couple for me and post them on. Top chap!

Mmm, he does seem very optimistic. £120-ish worth of JG/GE G36C, abandoned, with some random spray paint on it (is that an attempt to two-tone a RIF?), plus a novelty-purposes red dot and a repro-vest. Battery has likely never been charged. A bargain at only £200, doubtless plus fees and postage.

These statement are both true, but I would stress that if you've got the backspin spot on, then more speed = more range. I'd even agree that at typical woodland engagement distances, getting the perfect angular velocity is more important than linear velocity (as long as you're getting somewhere close to 1J). And that if your hop unit and rubber can't impart perfect hop on a 1.1J BB, but can on a 0.8J BB, both with the same mass, that the 0.8J is likely to have a longer effective range. Just please let's be very careful to not make any sort of suggestion that that for 2 BBs from the same bottle, both with the same mass, and both with perfect backspin imparted, that the one with 0.8J of linear kinetic energy at the muzzle can or will ever travel as far as the one with 1.1J.

Advanced topics: Heavier BBs will fly further than light ones if fired with the same energy. We are talking about normal BB weights and site legal energies. Heavier BBs fired from the same gun will have more energy than lighter ones if the gas volume is matching the barrel for the heavy one. BB fired with hop on will have way more energy than with hop off. In VSR style guns. Meaning there's so much more than simple ballistics affecting an airsoft gun that it looks like at first. It's a very very complex system. Tests and observations get us further than speculating on a subset of physics laws in effect.

Airsoft BBs use the magnus effect to fly straight so the backspin influences the distance a BB can fly. Unlike a real bullet, the higher speed of an airsoft fired BB does not necessarily equal longer range. The speed and weight must be perfectly matched to its backspin.

But ballistic calculators don't incorporate backspin, because real steel bullets don't do that. They can not give you anything remotely accurate results for airsoft. It affects range and trajectory for BBs more than anything else. This is ballistic: https://gfycat.com/calmmammothatlanticridleyturtle This is with backspin (Magnus effect) https://gfycat.com/greatvillainouslabradorretriever You are correct about weights, etc, but that's not the whole picture.

Yeah it’s also on my mind to buy used so I can suffer the same fate but I’m not versed in what I’m buying or able to check it over properly. I’ve my first match on Sunday so I’ll hire unless something pops up, local shop doesn’t have them in stock right away, the DAS could be here in 2 days though but like you say….. I have noticed that the classifieds are pretty active here so if I can whittle my targets down I’d be happy to look at used options 🙂 Yeah it’s also on my mind to buy used so I can suffer the same fate but I’m not versed in what I’m buying or able to check it over properly. I’ve my first match on Sunday so I’ll hire unless something pops up, local shop doesn’t have them in stock right away, the DAS could be here in 2 days though but like you say….. I have noticed that the classifieds are pretty active here so if I can whittle my targets down I’d be happy to look at used options 🙂

For me, the username says it all 😏

Based on what? The only RIF defence for the military is the defence under para 37.2.f: the purposes of functions that a person has in his capacity as a person in the service of Her Majesty. This does not mean a member of the services may purchase a RIF. It means that someone may purchase a RIF due to their employment - eg QM 1st Blankshires can tell his staff to purchase some SA80 airsoft guns for some drill/familiarisation. (Though if he did then it would often make sense to buy two tones anyway so that it is clear that they are IFs and not the real ones) Potentially Private Smith might want to buy a RIF SA80 to ‘practice’ at home and use the 37.2.f defence to justify that. His SNCOs might decide to keep an eye on him for that for ‘over keenness’

Yup, sorry, but I'm going to have to flag up [citation needed] on that. This isn't intended as personal, just an examination of the law as it's written and demonstrably applied. We'll start with Policing and Crime Act 1968 Section 125 which amends the Firearms Act 1968 by saying that airsoft guns are not firearms for the purposes of that Act. One notable exception is Section 19 which specifically mentions imitation firearms, and 24A (below). We could have a bun-fight over whether the multiple mention of "air weapons" in the Firearms Act still apply to airsoft guns, even if they're not "firearms". That could be problematic, since Section 24 does prohibit gifting "air weapons" to anyone under 18. It says nothing about their ownership of it though. The recipient commits no offence. In any case, we should argue strenuously against "air weapon" covering airsoft guns, since Section 1 (3) (b) defines an "air weapon" as a subset of "firearm", not as a separate category. If we continue with "air weapon" offences, Section 24Z prohibits minors from "having with them" an air weapon. In that case, they just need to be supervised by someone over 21, as per Section 23. Still nothing about ownership though. Supply of imitation firearms (realistic or otherwise) to minors is entirely relevant. That's covered by Firearms Act Section 24A which talks only about sale and purchase, not loans, gifts or ownership. And as we should all be familiar with by now, VCRA 2006 S36 covers manufacture, modification, importation and sale, not purchase, possession or ownership. Purchase is covered by Firearms Act S24A which provides no such defence for purchase by minors. However, again, being gifted or loaned or owning one is not an offence. The VCRA S36 offence has an S37 defence of "the purposes of functions that a person has in his capacity as a person in the service of Her Majesty". But that applies only to the S36 offences of manufacture, modification, importation and sale, not purchase or ownership, and is not a defence to the Firearms Act S24A offence of minors purchasing (but not owning) an imitation firearm (realistic or otherwise). I agree that it's a responsible thing to do, but whether it can shoot or not is immaterial to the Firearms Act 1968 S19 offence (ibid) of possession of an imitation firearm in a public place, realistic or otherwise, functional or otherwise. See this case, of a bright orange springer. The Sheriff's rather curious comment was that children would have a reasonable excuse for being in possession of an IF (but not necessarily a RIF) for the purposes of (I quote) "playing cowboys and Indians". But that's entirely about the appearance, not the functionality. Only if it's classed as an air weapon (and I'd argue that it's not), then Firearms Act S24Z applies. But I can find no such responsibility applying to imitation firearm offences. Despite everything I'm writing here, I do completely agree with this principle. The practical consequences of an ARV turning up are quite distinct from the legal ones. I can find no offences being committed. If they exist, they're likely to be in the Firearms Act 1968, Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006, or Policing and Crime Act 2017, although firearm legislation is a right old mess, and I'm always happy to be surprised by other sources. Can we find any relevant offences here? https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/contents https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/contents https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/contents

You sure ?, I can't say I've read the "small print" enough to disagree with you, but I know some guys who do, & @Rogerborg@rocketdogbert will be along shortly to settle it🤔

Thanks. It's home made, everything green except the helmet is EVA foam. It's great stuff for airsoft use, super light, easy to work with, and takes all the sting out of hits while still letting you (mostly) feel and hear them. I did have one chap "cheat" call me yesterday, very politely, with my thanks, as I'm always super-careful to call hits while wearing it. The helmet is an M88 with a fan box on the back, piped to the goggles - it can get a bit sweaty in the foam. I'm constantly pondering doing a more "authentic" one out of foam, although having BBs whang off the plastic is quite satisfying. The "lasgun" is a G36C stuffed inside an EVA foam shell, running short M16 mags though a magwell adaptor. That big silver barrel is a dummy with a 3W red LED in it wired to the trigger. The real barrel is that small lower tracer unit. The "iron" sights are just hacked out of the foam using a bit of trial and error, and are accurate enough for CQB use - the whole outfit is really very practical. Most cosplayer add "weathering", but I'm constantly painting over damage - I've just spotted that there's a BB embedded in the stock.

Finally a decent picture of my Authentic Battle Damaged 40K Imperial Guard costume. So many deaths for the Emperor yesterday.

Yep. Its well known that .50 Browning, .338 LM and 6mm BB have similar external ballistic efficiency. I believe that Creedmoor 6.5 is slightly out performed by the 6mm BB. It's all down to the hop rubber. You should hear what a real TM 6mm can do at a mere 300fps!

My favourite thing in life is to have players tell me what the rules are for the scenario that I produced

I am prompted to note that pleasuring yourself is fine, but rocking up in forums and demanding attention is tawdry.

I use a chest rig and belt set up personally. But I like to keep things as simple and low profile as possible. But its all down to personal choice, you will get varying responses from different people and hopefully explaining why we use these set ups, however you need to find what works for YOU. Airsoft is a personal games, the only thing you need to have is eye pro, and even then there are more choices than you can shake a stick at. This is why experienced players tend to have enough spare kit to fill the boot of a car as we buy stuff we think we need or want to realise its not quite right and get another option, and repeat and repeat etc I have tried a large chest rig with loads of room for gear, a plate carrier and a belt only set up and after 3/4 years finally found what I think is the best set up for how I play and what I use. Which is the Viper vx buckle up rig https://ukmcpro.co.uk/products/viper-vx-buckle-up-utility-rig It takes 6 smg mags and 2 pistol mags (but is modular for any set up) sits square in the middle of my chest and doesnt catch on scrub, trees or my sling. Cheap too (my plate carrier cost me over £100 and was used once ) I dont like the feel of a plate carrier, I find it restricting, also I was tempted to fill it with unnecessary pouches and kit. Like you I tend not to carry uneeded gear. I for one do not see the point in carrying gear which you dont use just for a look as you end up with extra stuff you need to lug around, might get caught on bushes etc and costs money. But thats just me. To be fair any set up could look good in your eyes, I would have a look next time your on site and see something someone else is using and ask questions about it. Military 1st is a great website, they have plenty of chest rig options avilable, good service too. Have a browse. Get a camo which works for your loadout, looking at what yoiu have a multicam, tan or olive rig would work and be multifunctional too.

I prefer a plate carrier to a chest rig myself. But that’s because I’m a little overweight and find the chest right feels a tad uncomfortable and looks absolutely hideous on my in pics. I currently run a warrior assault systems covert plate carrier with a triple mag on the front, a dangler pouch for odds and ends and a cargo pack on the back for spare bb’s, hydration bladder and spare pistol gas. Then a belt kit with my pistol, 2 pistol mags, 2 extra m4 mags, a holder for the blank firing grenade and a radio pouch for my comms.