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** MODS - appreciate this may be the wrong section for this, however im justifying it as it was my first time airsofting (kinda), and its being written to help newbies get an idea of what visiting a site is like for the first time. please move / remove if deemed necessary ** Personal background - i'm mid 30's, average fitness, used to airsoft semi regularly in my mid teens. financially i found it quite prohibiting, but now im deep into a career, that burden is eased. Avid gamer, but constantly thinking i should have a hobby that's more active. A stag do in the Epsom Bunker got me stuck in a youtube rabbit hole re airsoft and decided to give it another punt 20 years on. Pre Arrival / Gearing up - After grabbing some cheap kit from amazon and a well maintained second hand RIF from another website, i booked my night game at Driver Wood, Crawley on recommendation from an old friend. I made a stop at Crawley surplus store the day prior for a browse and some bits. Picked up a couple of mags, knee pads etc. Chatting to the sales person, he told me he regularly gets involved in the night games and recommend a couple of extra bits if i had the budget. One of those being a bifrost tracer unit and some BB's. He was also kind enough to chrono (checking the joules / fps of my gun) my second hand RIF to ensure it wasnt hot (too powerful) prior to game day. I was a touch anxious about the event itself. How does arrival / check in work? Where do i leave my kit between games? Do many people play solo? Will i get screamed at for making a 'bad play'? A quick call to the site alleviated my concerns. I spoke to the co-owner, Joanna, asked her a dozen or so questions and she was happy to run through everything with me. I didnt feel rushed off the phone or an inconvenience in any way. Arrival - I arrived at the site about an hour early. Car park was massive and i was clearly the first arrival. Grabbed my gear and went in. The site 'safe zone' was like a big military FOB. It immediately set the mood of what the game is about. Filled in my disclaimer forms and checked in. Garry (the other co-owner) was manning the desk, told him it was my first time and he ran everything by me again. Garry is extremely professional, softly spoken and clearly very passionate about airsoft / paintball. He effectively did a 1 on 1 safety briefing with me and gave me a couple of freebies which was very generous of him. I bought some snacks, drinks and some smoke grenades. About 30 mins later, the other players started to arrive. I was nervous. These guys were KITTED. Vectors, HPA guns, side arms, shotguns, reusable grenades, please dont tell me thats a grenade launcher... I'm about to enter a world of hurt im thinking. Garry had told me that the Wednesday night crowd were the most dedicated of their customer base, now i knew what he meant. After i finished prepping my kit and filling my mags, i paced the zone, anxiously drinking my redbull, trying to keep the cold at bay. It wasnt long before a young chap started talking to me, il call him 'R'. I told R it was effectively my first time and he practically offered to show me the ropes etc. We went round the zone, looking at all the kit people had. Everyone was super eager to see what i had and talk about what they had, it was a military nerds wet dream. Everyone knew everyone on a first name basis. There was lots of banter being flung around but all relatively PC which was a surprise to me. I had expected an almost, military wannabes, toxic masculinity in the sport; not at this site. The site owners and the marshal were mingling with the crowd, chatting to everyone. A chap showed up with nothing but a side arm and a gigantic viking battle axe, everyone cheered when he walked in. A small criticism at this stage (and this may only be applicable to me as i'm partially deaf and wear hearing aids), the music in the safe zone was relatively loud, which made hearing other people somewhat of a challenge. The armbands used were rather sun faded green and orange bands. My colour blindness doesnt help but i seriously struggled to immediately process the colour of the bands on first sight, causing slight hesitation in target acquisition. Feedback for the site would be to get them replaced for a blue / yellow or blue / red. In total, around 30 people attended. A full safety briefing was given and we progressed into the game. Early Evening Gameplay - I made sure i was on the same team as R, the light was still decent at this point and we went to their main 'map' for a capture the flag game. My play style was cautious at first, but after being hit once i realised it really didnt hurt all that bad (certainly nothing compared to your mates going full auto on your leg at CQB in the Epsom Tunnels - NOTE: this was NOT allowed at the Epsom site owner explained. It was a privately held event and was very difficult to police... but it happened!). I switched to a more aggressive play style and spearheaded the charge to the flag, holding it down behind cover for the bulk of the game. GREAT I was taken back at how taxing the game was on my body, as i said at the start, im of average fitness, but i was f***** after the first game. I had made some kit errors that caused some fogging in my eye pro. This would effectively plague me for the rest of the evening (i have since resolved the issue by getting a delta mike face pro and some good anti fog wipes). No longer was i cold, so much so i removed my thermal compression layer from under my shirt. I was surprised there was only a single marshal keeping an eye on the game. However, it soon became apparent that this particular crowd lived and died by the honour of the game. I didnt witness a single case of hit cheating, talking dead men, blind firing or anything of the sort. I saw people congratulating each other on good shots, checking others were OK when there was a whelp of genuine pain, team mates telling the enemy that they themselves were hit first and fired back as a snap reaction, for the enemy to put their ('dead') hand down and crack on. Sportsmanship to the highest level. Late Evening Gameplay - As the night progressed the light got darker and darker. The tracer units were really beginning to shine. Tracking your shots over a distance felt like it would have been near on impossible in the darkness and i had stopped using my sight and opted to look over the gun and follow the tracers. When it got dark enough, they moved us to a 'map' that was clearly built with night games in mind. There were fog machines dotted around the map in key areas. Heavy tree coverage brought the ambient light down to almost nothing, with just silhouettes visible through the trees. The temperature and low wind caused the fog to settle neatly over the ground, parting aside as you moved from position to position. Powerful mood lights lit up key areas and choke points, slowing radiating their red, green and blue lighting through the site. Atmospherically it was awesome. The tracers added immensely to the atmosphere and was a great purchase for my first experience. I ended up having some great 'moments' with other team mates that ended in adrenaline fuelled laughter. As it was so dark, i didnt know who they were (and not recognising them by voice this soon into meeting them) so I couldnt have a laugh about it once back at the safe zone. The final game mode was zombies, which involved a bit of hiding (great opportunity to catch your breath), then being super sneaky round the forest floor being hunted by the zombies. Had a long chat with the owner on final return to the safe zone as he mingled amongst the customers. Conclusion / TLDR - I had a great evening and slept like a log that night. The site staff were truly excellent and the Wednesday night crowd were exceptionally accommodating. I will be booking the next Wednesday night game with them for sure. I ached liked a b**** the following day. Getting shot really doesnt hurt that much, especially with some adrenaline flowing round your body. Fogging is your worst enemy, do everything necessary to prevent it. Consider mid caps, especially for night games, I sounded like a macarena for the bulk of the evening.

I really do like that! I shouldn't coz I'm reducing my collection but a GBB TM MP7 just seems like it's got to be done.... Damn it

Its so pretty .... ❤️ But as it's only a fancy 1911 and this thread is resplendant with superb looking RIF's, I'll stop posting pics of my R28 now 🤪

At the local zoo, I spotted one cage with just a ham roll in it. Slightly confused, I asked the zoo keeper if this was deliberate. They told me it was and that it was bread in captivity.

I have a carboard box half full of bubblewrap that does the job and cost me nothing due to my lack of impulse control and rampant consumerism.

It should bounce / funnel into the back and down the pole Of course reality might not always occur

I knocked up a box for my Chrono to fit in out of foam floor tiles, cost about £10 for the tiles off Amazon

The simplest answer is to just get what already exists for the task, and will probably also be cheaper than making an alternative with PVC pipe An airgun pellet catcher is under £15: https://www.amazon.co.uk/pellet-catcher/s?k=pellet+catcher Or you could build something similar with a drain hopper which will cost less, at £10 or less, but it’s made of plastic so will end up getting broken at some point, and doesn’t have the in built angles in its design to reduce the risk of bounce back https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-universal-hopper-65-68mm-black/13847 To save a plastic system from being broken, and also to cut the noise of any material including a ‘proper’ pellet catcher is to line it with foam, material etc Other systems with varying levels of ‘temporary’ will be a box or bucket lined with something to absorb the unpack

Why so surprised?

By the looks of it they make gelblasters... So I assume it's not Airsoft at all...

Pics are starting to come in from Op Stonebreaker this past weekend. The AO is an old nuclear power plant now used for training and the occasional MilSim. I was running a hybrid AT/LMG role.

Simple question , What da fook is this add all about ! ? ! ? 😳 who the fornication are JinMing ?

Cardboard box (what ever I have laying around at the time) I punch a hole through the side to ‘stuff’ the chrono in and then I’ve got the bottom rail from a coat hanger that I folded over three lengths of old towel(so there’s 6 layers) quick running stitch with needle and cotton to keep it in place , I then just let that hang down in the box to catch and absorb the impact from the BB’s . once I’m finished just stick the box in the recycling, roll the ‘catcher’ up on its self and stick it back in the cupboard with the chrono for the next time ! 👍

Sticking it up at £400, which I think is reasonable.

Of yer maw! Got to make sure people see exactly what they're getting!

Got any more pics? 😂

Ofcourse I can when it arrives just eemed a good deal how much was yours? Is yours a V2?

You should have tried triple a, boomer had had enough of him and his wanting.

Yeah right mag is not WE. The WE pmags are classed as “msk”, not m4 though they work in both. Try milspec solutions for these. I’ve 5 and have never had a problem. Seem better for cool down too, compared to the steel m4 mag.

I wouldn't be hunting anything other than animals with an air rifle 😳 And I would sooner teabag a tiger than put a £2k+ optic on an RIF and start jumping in ditches and diving into bushes with it while people try their best to shoot the lenses out, but YMMV!.

Try a few old t shirts or similar material

I think you left a digit off of that...

My CYMA CM.123 (essentially the same internals) is fine in the cold. A bit weak with the stock battery, much better even with a tiny 300mAh 35/70C (i.e. 10.5A - 21A) 7.4V lipo and no mosfet. Sounds like your battery is quite tired. It might benefit from a gearbox lube, although they're pretty fiddly to take apart, or more specifically, put back together. Some silicon lube down the "nozzle" so that it gets to the piston rings might help.

I bought a couple. They are cheap enough. Sadly I had the same experience as most other users. Using one or two together on a can of Abbey 144a, the gas spewed out everywhere. Not a drop went in the magazine. I ended up buying a can of Nuprol 1.0 Blue to fill my TM FNX 45 mag. No need for any extensions on the Nuprol nozzle. I may try making my own extension with synthetic tubing and see if that works, as I have quite a lot of 144a.

Joerg Sprave has you covered.... https://youtu.be/j21pBoKnm04

I did consider this device but wasn't surehow it worked. Does it funnel them in to the back pole to drop out or would the roll down the bottom lip? What a guy a video to follow as well!

I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALY WANT AN ALUMINIUM STOCK FOR MY XM177

Only one, whilst the remainder just bullshit about non-sensical stuff and charge too much for it.

A match made in stripper heaven for a Double Eagle.

Although I'm always a bit way of the progression from "honouring my Keltoí ancestors" -> "neo-paganist symbology" -> "a rather selective interest in mid-20th century history".

Remember folks, it's the HALF TERM ALERT. I expect an influx of "Under 18" and "Why two tone?" threads any day now.

A Freudian slip is actually when you say one thing, but mean your mother.

/heavy breathing 🤤🤤🤤🤤 …. From Taiwan to delivered in 2 days! 😱 (am on shifts atm will get fitted asap)

thankyou , the Eotech wasn’t too bad and only a the lower 1/4 ( ish ) of the sight picture was obscured but was in actual fact just a stand in for getting the hop set up , it’s now ready for phase two for some longer range zeroing

Been a while due to madness at work, on call every bloody weekend so no airsoft since January. However... finally the armour is finished. During last week's fine weather, Plastikoted the whole lot before painting in Halfords OD and then sealing with PU Lacquer. I'm happy with the results. Just need to skirmish it now, when I get a free weekend. Also touched up the coat on my rifles and lacquered them for protection, I like the shine its given them. When I get a chance, I'll post a full pic of my loadout. Eezer G

geoffs. 0.48 super precision for low round count guns, 0.32g super precisions for pistols and everything else.

Penguin walks into his local and ask the barman “have you seen my brother?” Barman asks “what’s he look like?”

not quite a joke but I found it funny all the same & the guy's response is sort peew peew related...

Less of a gag, and more a sick joke: Biden and his cameltoe.

My youngest boy asked me what I knew about solar eclipses. Very little son. I replied. Regards

Took the new girlfriend home to meet the family. The kids love her and my folks think she is great. The wife's not too impressed though! 🤔 Regards