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Half term ‘nuff said ? 🤦‍♂️

I honestly don't think I have ever had a bad airsoft day. I go with no expectations so am not disappointed with my performance. I'm crap all the time lol. For me it's an escape from the hum drum week in week out work. I can get myself dressed up,put a load of guns in the car and go. I often think as I'm driving that the people in other cars have no idea of the terrorist toolkit I'm toting lol. It would be interesting to get stopped by the fuzz on a game day just to see their reactions. But win or lose I enjoy every minute. I may not get dozens of kills and I will get some battle injuries but I'll shoot a lot of puddles on the long and frequent walks back to respawn.😀 Regards 👍

Your want to start an Airsoft business, you've crunched the numbers and have determined that it will be profitable, but you don't know what you need..... Yup, winning. Hold up, weren't you the one asking about shooting two Tone RIFs in your local woods not long ago? Seriously, I would educate yourself A LOT on this hobby before you start trying to run a business around it 🤦🏼

I sell international Airsoft permits. £5K for six months. PayPal (F&F) only please.

Obviously North Korea

£240 of RIFs, plus Bogging Blue paint. The usual random assortment of burn-your-house-down chargers, Pinty-knock-off, BBs and mags. Mirror-posing use only, maybe. Being "given" away for only £400! (And you have to collect) PatrolBase should really start marketing these as "buyer's regret packages".

Just arrived from Brownells. An AR-15 Tekmat, Strike industries dust cover and best of all, a Strike industries multi angle pistol grip. Going to experiment with different angles at UCAP Vendetta this weekend.

This. I hadn’t played for a covid while, first game back; one gun too hot, second; hop just sucked and some games a little speedsoft for my liking. Got several pistol kills, including two double taps in a row swiftly followed by sweet defensive position hitting me square in the face and drawing blood. fuck I love airsoft. Great day, great memories. On to the next.

TMs can be messed with inside but it'll most likely shorten the lifespan, potentially by a lot. The real MP5 barely kicks so trying to get the max recoil from a replica is kinda counter intuitive to some extent. For the second question, TM by a country mile there's no comparison there.

Never underestimate the sheer power of Airsoft, one minute your a noob asking about "speshul licences", next thing your Alan Sugar intent on world domination 🤣 PS to say that it's never been done in "said" country but is legal there is absolutely humongous bollocks, Airsoft is a global sport, & even the countries its not legal in, such as Cyprus for example, still have groups of players who do their best to stay under the radar, while at the same time getting out to play regularly. Prove us wrong, where is this magical land just ripe for conquering 🤔

you can do it manually, so normally it should be done when an item has been sold (eg i do it when i have received money on paypal). sellers who aren't doing that will only get a week before the ad expires and they presumably won't bump a sold item. usually i tend to ignore any completed ads and only really pay attention to uncompleted ones if i really want the item (in which case i'll send a message knowing there's a decent chance of no reply) op- assuming you're messaging folk about current ads (ie not completed/uncompleted listings as above) you might want to think about how you're opening conversations with folk, a friendly "hey man, i see you have an ad running, is this still available?" will give a better impression than a blunt "where u live?" or "gie ye a fiver" low-ball offer. i do make a point of trying to reply to everyone who messages me about ads, but i can understand how some folk might not do that, especially if it's an account with minimal forum presence. another thing to bear in mind is that sometimes pm notifications can be a bit iffy (well, i've had a couple of occasions where it doesn't give me a notifications for new messages), so sending a chaser message isn't the worst idea, although obviously you don't want to spam someone's inbox every 5 minutes demanding a reply. rule of thumb i tend to go with is at least a full working day as folk may well not be visiting the site on weekends if they're out doing things (the most obvious example being out playing airsoft), if i've sent a chaser and they don't get back then i'll just assume they either don't visit that often or for whatever reason don't want to reply, sometimes they do reply a week later sometimes that's where it ends.

Go on then, what country is it? I mean, no one cares enough on here to nick your genius idea, so you may as well spill the beans.

I don't know how the adverts get updated by when they are completed or not (guess the seller does that after a period of time) but often I have found that sellers list the item on multiple places. When this happens if they sell it, they're often unlikely to update that places they didn't sell it through unless they just happen to go back to that site. If you are contacting sellers about items that haven't recently had activity, then it's probably sold and they don't check here often enough. Or you're contacting sellers about items that have completed and they can't be bothered to reply, whether they have seen your message or not, as they have marked the item as complete. Also, life happens, work etc so this could be why people aren't replying as soon as you'd like. If I were you, I'd make sure you're contacting only about items that have been listed or bumped recently, make sure your messages are polite and you'll see a good response rate. If you contact me about a completed advert, something from a long time ago or with a message along the lines of "I'll give you 50% of the advertised sale price" - I'd just ignore you.

Are you contacting people whose items are Completed or Uncompleted in the advert? You have very little footprint on the site beyond multiple wanted adverts and complaints. I would be unlikely to sell anything to you as you are very new to the sport and are unlikely to be able to prove to me that you are a regular skirmisher to want or legally be able to sell a RIF to you. Do you even have a UKARA number?

Aye. Bought the last brand new one known in the world a couple of years ago from a shop in Denmark, 90 quid! I've never used it, but being NOS for well over a decade it was not in the best of shape internally when I received it. Haven't used it in anger; It's currently in bits and will hopefully be reassembled tonight with new air seal, gearset and motor parts. Ready for its first skirmish this weekend!

If they were demonstrably there before the date of the incident, i.e. on archive.org This is also why sites who are run a via Facebook "About" page might also be making a liability rod for their own backs. Thankfully there aren't a lot of incidents, and the Absolute Airsoft case went quiet so I assume was settled by the insurer out of court. That's what indemnity insurance is there for, to cover you when things go wrong. One thing I would highlight is that the Vowles vs Evans and Welsh Rugby Union court case has set a clear precedent that even unpair volunteer referees do owe a duty of care for the rules they agreed to help enforce. So as well as not being thanked for marshalling, you might (just conceivably) find yourself named as a co-defendant.

I can't speak with certainty but I would imagine that verbally stating the rules and safety advice is an insurance/liability requirement. I've been a part of and lead heavy/oversized cargo lifts. Health & safety rules state that you actually have to go through a proper induction process. You can't just say "check the board"

I'd say that lot wouldn't come to £400 brand new

I think I speak for all those who bought the first batch (many probably wishing to avoid missing out and forever regretting it) when I say...

THAT never gets old…👍

Actually, the VFC MP5 is excellent and has nice gas efficiency, it certainly rivals the WE and I think will be better built. Check out @Badabing video review on Youtube

what this man said I have done mag dumps with a full auto MP5 at a range in the USA and the thing barely moved. Of the two TM hands down it's much more user friendly requiring significantly less maintenance, won't suffer performance issues due to temperature and will just have (if not external quality) much greater build quality. if you must have a GBBR MP5 I would look at WE MP5s over VFC.

Do you know what the think of this is? Personally a grenade coming at me means I am charging the position it came from as they often don’t have their weapon ready…. Given the faffy way most players do this. An issue for player Marshall’s and “off duty” Marshall’s enjoying a skirmish too. I know people in other sports who don’t tell people they are an instructor/coach when participating because they think that it will shield them should something go wrong.

At the top of the conversation you will see the name of the person. Just below their name it will show 'when' and 'if' they last viewed the conversation. If it shows read but no reply then you can assume they're an a-hole and move on. There have been a lot of people joining just to sell their tat. As said above, many will advertise elsewhere as well so if it sells they have to manually set to 'sold' but I suspect that many won't bother. There should be a minimum number of (meaningful) posts per month to keep selling option available.

I've never had this issue TBH. As others have said, you have no 'form' on these forums. You don't have an Avatar. In fact you don't have anything in your profile to indicate that you engage in any kind of LARPsoft/BBwarz at all. I am also perplexed as to how you can be ranked a 'Collaborator' with just 16 posts - not your fault - this new rank system is proper broken.

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^what he said

Your asking in the wrong country.

On signs, disclaimers, web site rules, verbal briefs etc …… nobody pays full attention & you cannot assume. People don’t read the part of the disclaimer that says that you are signing to confirm that you have read it. At our first ever event the site planned to use their standard disclaimer - which was aimed at rental players, not own gunners. So I went through the disclaimer with management & discussed what can and cannot be changed - particularly in the terms of site insurance. I could allow players to have guns in the safe zone - and therefore add all the rules on ensuring they are safe I couldn’t allow players to self fill due to insurance terms on the fill station - which caused a dilemma in complying to a new event organizers collective set of rules which included air safety rules with training - I was permitted to run training, issue passes (valid for a year) and but not allow self fill for the rest of the day (I expected that nobody would take up the training - but they did, and that allowed the next organizer to run a smaller session of only those that hadn’t been to our event) Safety must be covered along all methods - and therefore not be reams of paper and hours of waffle Core rules should be repeated, no matter how many regulars are there Particularly at our events as we have ‘standard’ rules, our preferred rules and also specifics for how we want to run that event or mission - we’re probably trying out a rule or respawn option - we like barrel tags/knife kills & surrenders but there are specifics on what is an enforced rule (tag/knife) and what is an option (surrender) and also in certain formats we don’t allow them such as our Battle Royale format has no surrenders permitted (though I permitted one surrender when two players met face to face seconds into the session rather than force a 2 inch kill)

Or he'll end up with an absolute horror that constantly shits itself whenever the Nine o'clock News comes on. Either way it'll be an adventure!

Yeah about right. A bit of tweaking you might get a bit more range. But if you can hit a target consistently at that range you are good. Most airsofter can't judge distance and forget that a pistol is a back up and expect to be getting aeg range.

It's kind of endearing, like adopting a rescue puppy. You'll turn that poor broken two tone horror into a gleaming fully functional rif. Post pics when it's done. 👍

site i go to often adds "or hollywood action heroes" on the end of that line... RIFT do this, but also cover many of the more important or obscure rules in the actual briefing as well, such as the "no running from grenades" rule that i havent seen at any other site. answer to that is to have the head marshal/site owner remove it, then set it up again next game day... avoids vandalism and allows the rule board to be amended if required

Thanks for the heads-up on that, hopefully the motor is ok! I did pull it apart tonight. The gearbox was jammed up. I re-assembled and everything seemed fine, except for a wobbly motor wire to the trigger. Like an idiot I wobbled it more (like a kid with a loose tooth) and the connection snapped. So I've disassembled again, fitted a spare connector. And then found the shimming was off. A couple of shims found on my desk had pinged out without me noticing. That's me for the night. So tomorrow I've got some soldering to do, and a shim job, and then I'll see if it kicks into life. I must admit now - I have no idea how all the bits for the fire selector switch fit back together. I hope there's a decent video out there! Oh, and that comment about me being able to put a V3 back together in 5 minutes? Call that 'pride before a fall'. For some reason this particular gearbox has had its own awkwardness that meant I spent more than a little time trying to get it back together. Which is why that broken connector was pretty damned annoying. The one definite forward step is I've rubbed down and re-painted the bright green bits with my Halfords green camo, should look nice with the dark grey receiver when it's all back together

Unexpected gnu in bagging area... This really was unexpected... I drive past Action Hobbies a couple of times a week, so keep up to date with their Clearance and Bone Yard specials... saw this yesterday, made an offer on it, and now it's mine... It's a dead JG S-552, normally retails ~£160, I got it for £50. Why buy a perfectly good gun and break it, when you can buy a broken one and break it some more! I've not had a chance to take it apart, but it's a V3 gearbox (my 'speciality') Thanks to all my recent tinkering I've got a spare motor and two (count 'em - thanks @Adolf Hamster) trigger units (which is what Paul at AH thought is the problem), so I think I've got a fair chance of fixing it. If I can, I'll have a tidy little back up gun. Picked up a decently large padded gun bag for a tenner too.

Bit of an oxymoron as soon as you open it up what ever reliability you had is gone just go for what you like the look of.

Even though it only weighs 685g it feels more like 692g. You can also load it with 0.48g bbs adding 11.04g which makes all the difference, until you empty the mag.

How I see it is this way, airsoft sites are there to A: Make money, B: provide people with a fun environment to pew They are not there to provide an income stream for any old yahoo to rock up, film, then edit the footage in a way that can potentially cast the site in a bad light (deservedly or not). I'm all for people being allowed to film, and with the size and quality of cameras now, a ban is unenforceable. But with such a signed waiver on file, a site owner might at least discourage the click bait merchants and possibly give them good grounds to have videos taken down.

Area-66 are meandering in that direction by asking people to show them "OMG cheetar cot" videos before publishing them. Ultimately their sanction is to tell clickbait drama llamas to not bother coming back, but as always with airsoft "rules", it's all down to enforcement of that, rather than "why I oughta" fist-shaking rhetoric.

I don't like the goontubers carrying more cameras than a TV outside broadcast crew, so I don't watch their crappy videos Personally I'd rather they just didn't allow filming at all. Unfortunately this results in all the whinny idiots making unfounded accusations of the site allowing players to cheat

I am going to generalise but since covid i have found every site i have been to a little lack luster. Our local site.. The late the great Combat South ( pours drink ) closed. So we have tried lots of other sites and have not yet found one we would go back to regularly. We have had some fun, don't get me wrong. Sadly the effort most sites seem to be putting OR equally the lack of staff they seem to have these days seems fairly noticeable. I am no Combat South fan boy ( Love you Russ ) . They had some games that didn't work and honestly most weekends were a rinse and repeat of tried and test scenarios. But it was always delivered to a high standard, the marshal's were visible and engaged. They also provided a high quality lunch. (Which i do not understand why other sites who are now charging upwards of £25 a person, do not provide something so basic. Well not without an additional fee. Tight asses) I am hoping that as Covid fucks off, that competition for players returns and the the sites start upping their effort. Or i'm just jaded and overly entitled.... Or due to the great sites being lost to housing developers that the glory days of airsoft are dead. Or because today's airsofter seems to be weak, whiny and scared of being drilled full auto. Or its the speed softers fault. .......... it is speed softers fault

Oh I see... ... Hairy palms?

Me too

do you know how to strip it? if so check to see if there is any silicon oil on it. i recently bought a TM USP which was sticking i found out it was bone dry and issues were sorted when i lubed the piston and the hammer mech.

I picked up the WE Hi Capa Dragon 7" Type A. An old gun, and definitely not to everyone's liking, but I think it's pretty. There's a lack of decent videos in English for this sidearm, so I put one together. I can't stand unboxing videos where they talk about every little feature, like "It has stippling on the grip". No duh! It's a video mate, we can see it. So this is just a very simple look at the gun.