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Cracking day at Worthing. Running an assault loadout for the first time in a while. It was going great until I decided to tinker at lunch and then it all went downhill 😭 Anyways I quite enjoyed this setup I think it'll be what I run when I'm not being a bush in the future. Plus I think it looks pretty cool 😄

Started off the day with bucket hat and fleece, ended with just the T-shirt! Another great day at Reforger, just hoping the night shift gods are kind to me tonight 😅

After weeks of trying to get an appointment, the doctor finally had a look at the annoying rash on my bollocks. I couldn't believe it. He just pushed his trolley away and carried on shopping!

Hi, I’m old (46) but have over twenty years of firearms experience and would like to get into airsoft. Am I too old ? And if not, can anyone recommend a good place to start in the West Sussex area. Thank you 👊

French Navy coming to Portsmouth. The French Navy will be visiting Portsmouth and unveiling their new motto ‘To the water, it’s there’ or as the French would say it ‘A l’eau, c’est la'

What does Jeff Beezoss do before bed? Puts his pajamazon

On Saturday, I ventured into the darkest depths of Croydon and to Tactical Warfare Airsoft, a site about which I had heard mixed opinions and read mixed reviews. First impressions were good; the safe zone was well set up and the staff seemed to be on the ball. Chronoing was with 0.20g BBs, but most sites still seem to do that. I bumped into a few players that I knew from other sites, so we teamed up for the day, which was cool. One concern early on was the number of young rentals; however, the vast majority of them turned out to be good players and good hit takers. It is a small site but nicely bumpy and has a good and quite large CQB area, for those who like that sort of thing. We played 6 games (3 in the village and 3 in the woods), which were well designed and fun. Hit taking was just about ok and the marshalling was at the usual level (not great but acceptable). Would I go back? Yes.

Not made as such, just playing with paint job ideas on a spare handguard

I asked my friend John if being deaf held him back as a gynaecologist. 'No,' he replied, 'I'm dead good at lip reading.'

If you really are certain that everything in the gearbox is ok, then it would seem that you have a truly massive air leak between the nozzle and the hop rubber; you can check this in two ways: 1. After checking there are no BBs in the hop, turn the gun upside down and place a small piece of paper covering the open end of the feed tube; if the piece of paper flips up or levitates, you have found the leak. It could be that the wrong nozzle has been fitted, that the nozzle is worn or that the hop rubber feed lips are damaged. It could also be that the nozzle is not coming forward fully, which would be a gearbox issue. 2. With the nozzle, shine a light up the feed tube and take a look down the barrel; if you can see light, see above. If the stock hop unit is the rotary one, I would not change it; it is rather good. However, consider fitting a Maple Leaf Macaron rubber and one of AK2M4's 70 shore Omega nubs. For the barrel, I would recommend one of the ZCI ones; once again, AK2M4 sells them. If you haven't already done so, fit a good quality high torque motor.

Welcome Lee Adding to what our Shamal said, check out www.playairsoft.uk a website made by our @shadowfacex ...and a few of us are older than 46 😏

Hi @Lee9nineand welcome to the forum. 👍 No mate you are not too old. In fact you are very nearly not old enough. Lol I'm a lot older and still play regularly but at a pace that's comfortable for me. I do still push myself when needed though. Having a good few years of firearm experience will deffo help. check out a site called Airsoft UK they will have listings of most UK Airsoft sites along with contact details and prices and facilities. ALso have a look at afuks @GAMBLE.he has a very informative tube channel which will help you. FInd your nearest site,go along,get chatting to the guys/gals and you will soon be playing like a pro. Have fun,enjoy yourself,listen to the briefing and remember to call ya hits! Lol.😀 regards

You need the “WE MOS Magazine “ as an example https://www.airsoftworld.net/we-airsoft-galaxy-spare-magazine.html

Spot on!

Good new cqb site opened in Wiltshire https://cqb-airsoft.co.uk - still early days but the site has great potential.

For what its worth, I have the same TM red dot on a TM FNX-45 and have no problems with it holding zero after thousand+ rounds & lots of beating up. That is run on red/green gas to around 260 fps with 0.36s, so if anything a bit more kick than your HPA setup. Sounds like you got unlucky with your red dot, might be worth returning if you still can? Or maybe some loctite on the adjustment screws on the inside?

KISS certainly applies here, can’t beat a simple load out. Might have to dust mine off!

Tomorrows minimal load out for UCAP VENDETTA. TM MWS, Vortex red dot, Inforce WML, Ferro Concepts slingster. Genuine SADF M83 chest rig - 4 mags, Impact BFG, timed BFG, M4 speed loader, spare 209 primers and tools, phone. Comfy even with all that weight.

I think the time has come to hang up my hat. My last game was supposed to be a test, to see if I enjoyed playing any more, as I've been moving more toward real firearms recently. Something of a mixed result came of it! The little I played, I enjoyed. But truth be told, I'm old, fat and knackered and in my current state, as demonstrated by my accident, I'm a bit of a fucking liability. If I'd been fitter, not sure I would have fallen. But who knows? I'm going to stick around, as I like the banter, and you never know, there may be that one gun that comes up that persuades me that I really need to shoot someone with it! My enormous thanks to everyone who has helped, advised and taken the piss over the last few years. Particular thanks to @rocketdogbert, without whom I would undoubtedly have not bought as many guns 😄 The only thing for me to do is pull my finger out and stick everything that's left up for sale. But fuck me, what a ball ache! I frigging hate selling stuff. That's possibly why I've not admitted defeat before - can't face the bear pit of the classifieds. SoS p.s. my son's chosen a username for himself and I can't stop laughing.... He's Sonofsonofsammo 🤣

I know it's an oldish thread, but that green FNX is lush

As someone who stopped playing in 2010 and is trying to get back into it... Don't sell everything! I thought I was done with it but I caught the bug again tail end of last year. Regret selling everything. But wish you all the best regardless!

Hi, ALL! 👋 We have secured the village and bridge. Now we must move on? 🤪 Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is! 🔫😎👍 💷GAMBLE💷

Yes men are obsessed with personal growth 🤭

Uncle Bob was at the opticians. 'I got some semen in one of my pupils last week, will it cause me any harm?' Rather shocked the optician stammers out, 'Oh no, I'm sure that you'll be fine. ' 'Thank fuck for that,' says Bob, 'her parents were going to go to the school and the police. '

Grab and go.

Talking of frogs 🤣

My Cybergun FNX duo

I bought one of those dna genealogy tests for my pet frog the other month and we got the results back today. Apparently he’s a little bit French, part Scottish & a tad Pole.🐸

I was told that I have my mother's eyes today. Strangest will I've ever heard!

Saw my next door neighbour over the fence she told me that she was having a problem, someone has been stealing clothes off her washing line I nearly sh1t her pants...

I was just viewing a woman's profile on a dating website, 'Blonde 33 Great Personality 5ft 3 Green Eyes.' Don't get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against short women, but, 3 green eyes? No wonder she's single! 🤭

So I finally fitted my TM AKM’s wood kit 😎 and for comparison a stock tm akm

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.

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.

** 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.

Loving the latest mate, what an awesome build and it is so fast!

This reminds of the the original concept behind British Army MTP... MOD: "We have DPM and desert that give us 90% camo in woodland and desert environs. But we have to buy the squaddies two sets of rig..." PJHQ: "Check this pattern out. It gives us 70% camo in BOTH environs, so we only have to buy 1 set of rig." MOD: "Take my money." PJHQ: "Cheers. You know, the Yanks are working on the same concept." MOD: "For real? It must be good. Take my wife's money too." PJHQ: "Cheers. By the way, they have this 'Future Soldier' concept too which looks pretty cool." MOD: "HOW MUCH? Naaaah mate. We'll just take the cam. The lads can navigate with a map and compass and Bowman's got another 20 years left." Sorry. Your 'borrower' pics sent me off on one there. 😄

**Edit saw you have Sawflys already.... My bad

Fine, if true.

They look fine and seem to offer more protection than the ones I've been using for 10 or so years

My mws in its current form. G&P npas Summer buffer spring Pts buffer G&P buffer tube Daves nub That's it for internals, I've tried so many others and it's all crap, just leave it as close to stock as possible. AG v2 11inch URGI rail. steel outer barrel, cant remember the make. geiselle gas block. b5 systems bravo stock. b5 systems grip( pictured with a bcm). g&p steel forward assist, mag release etc. AG b2 maritime bolt release AG mini socom and 4 prong flash. Bcm handstop. Surefire, ngal, unity mount and eotech to finish. Ferro concepts sling and swivels and probably other crap I've forgotten. Running on propane or mapp gas depending on temps.

Thank you very much for taking the time to pass on so much knowledge. You have given me food for thought.

The MP7 😍😍

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