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Yes lad! How did he get on? My lad is a recent convert (he's 12) and has the bug big time now. We went out last weekend and he was a monster. Must say I enjoy having him alongside me and hearing him shouting out to other players "Mate, your 2 o'clock moving right to left!" is hilarious. No idea where he gets it from!

(cracks knuckles) Boneyard Cyma Thompson off Actionhobbies + lockdown boredom = something truly cursed

TM mags are annoyingly proprietary so £25 for each mag (x9) - £175 Tracer - between £40-£140, depending on brand or whatever Let's just say top end, cause TM recoil, can't cheap out now after all that, can you? Chest rig? - can get a decent one for ~£50, but some can run £100+ HOWEVER!! That one has a DEVGRU patch. Gotta make sure everyone knows So that EAAASILY makes up the rest [Realistically, he should be looking at the £1200 - 1500 range. That's generally what upgraded TM recoils go for. But upgrades don't mean shit, most of that is labour charge] Deffo another case of "Oh shit, I paid WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much for a toy pew pew pretend gun, totally means I can get all that back WITH PROFIT right?"

Yes, but this one goes to level 11.

Yes. Same offence, same defence. One subtlety is that a defence (against prosecution) isn't the same as a license (to actually permit it). Border Force have historically treated a defence as a licence (that's the language from one of their own internal documents that came to light a few years back), but at any point, they could change their minds say "OK, we're not sending the rozzers round, but neither are we going to allow imports. At all." Enjoy whatever we can, while we can, is how I see it.

When I was just 16 my parents died and left me an orphan. It was devastating. I'd rather have had the house.

I'M BACK BITCHES! After over three months out, due to illness, music festivals and other life stuff, I returned to the battlefield today at Red Alert. Got to meet @Lozartwho seems a thoroughly nice bloke, surprisingly 😉 Got my Secutor Rapax DMR back from the local tech and ran that all day. He has performed witchcraft. In the first game of the day I got more kills with that DMR than I usually do in a whole game day. That's right, I can shoot straight now! Got several tag round kills and 3 pistol kills. All in all a fantastic return. I've missed it! Also; OUCHIE

Edward Snowden is celebrating being granted Russian citizenship today. He won't be when his call up papers arrive.

Will be a very stiff type of foam, but if you get some generic stuff online and cut it just a hair on the large side for the PC, then once you squash them in there you'll have more than enough rigidity for airsoft but it's flexible enough that it bends if you really need it to.

My tumble dryer door keeps popping open on its own.I'm getting fed up with it. If it does it again I'm throwing the towel in!

I'm waiting for a handstop from arisaka and gbrs cheek riser 💪💪 and 416 will be ready 😬😬

Hey guys show me your mad boneyard scrap heap challenge guns you made from broken crap! It’s honestly my favourite kind of airsoft build no matter what it is. Here are my two best examples. An Ak74su that I think started as a broken cyma with no gearbox or stock. Then got a stock off eBay one day. A very gucci v3 gearbox off here. A perun mosfet. Short strokes gears. Shs motor some other second hand bits. And my speedy boi gi capa made from like. Three different eBay lots and some upgrades etc with allll that stuff on it it’s cost me maybe £170 in total. Let me see what abominable things you guys made

I do, I build a lot of fpv drones so fine soldering isn't an issue, more finding the the parts is the hard work.

What brand of lenses are you using? WHile it may be that the optician hasn't got the right fit for you it may just be down to the quality of the lens (I use Acuvue Oasys and have no issues with watery eyes at all) In other words, just these ones: https://www.safetyspecs.co.uk/select-by-impact-resistance/en166b-safety-goggles

This coming from a Yank. Lets assume that guns are a "privilege" . I would be OK with mandatory training. I would probably treat the process the same as driving a car. I dont think firearms should be treated as if they are some oddity of society.

Not sure what the OPs point is here. As already mentioned, ukara and orange tips have bugger all to do with importing. Yes it was delayed for a couple of months but that's hardly anything out of the ordinary as the parcel would've been in a pile of things waiting to be checked and sent on or thrown in the crusher

Bugger, that means I could've sold on my cheap red dot sight for a massive profit, rather than just make Spinal Tap jokes on social media?

Only played half the day this weekend as I am still troubleshooting my KJ m700 on higher power, though I ran it in the morning on 1J as it seems to be really good there (it sends .48s to the moon with minimal hop applied on higher power). Honestly, was a bit of a frustrating one. I was really looking forward to getting out and playing this weekend, but it was a super busy day and they ran a rolling assault game where we weren't allowed to flank. Forcing a 40 vs 40 rolling assault into a narrow corridor just becomes a meat grinder and that's exactly what happened. Wasn't even close, we got slaughtered. However, this wasn't my main point of frustration. The worst part was that I managed to low crawl and sneak into flanking positions within the narrow field of play 3 times and every time I got shot in the back just as I was getting ready to shoot the enemy team in the side or back. I spent the whole game, which was pretty much the whole morning as we only did a warm up game beforehand, crawling incredibly slowly past the enemy line of sight while my friend drew their attention away from my movement and using site knowledge to get around what was otherwise a pretty impenetrable enemy defensive line only to get shot in the back by my own team every single time. Yes I was in a ghillie and expect a bit of friendly fire, but not every single time especially when my armband was around my unghillie'd wrist on the side they were shooting me from so it was clearly visible. Pretty sure two of the three times were the same rental players too. At least the first game was successful. Me and my friend set up to deny flankers on the three base domination warm up game and we denied the flank for the entire game from concealed positions. I did, however, remember why I don't like the mk23 as a sniper sidearm though with that awful squishy trigger making follow up shots hard to make accurately. Back to blowbacks next time! Also disappointing because my m700 is still overhopping .48s on 2J. I found that the middle intake valve + green gas is 2.1 - 2.2J at this time of year, so I know the power setup, but the hop still eludes me. Going to stick a 50 degree in as the 85 and 70 degree ones didn'ty work, but if it keeps doing this I might just make it my 1J bolt action of choice and do a slightly different build with my other m700 for a 2J build. Next week is AI500 and going with zero expectations. I'm no door-kicking CQB speedyboi (my CQB experience consists of urban sniping), so I'll be finding all the long areas and just playing there

I'm confused about how he got to that figure. Rif: £600 E6 upgrades: £900 if you tick every option including ones not mentioned on the ad. Vortex: £250 + £300 So £800 for a tracer, mags and unknown brand PC...

that's what some people call a 4/5 cylinder or 70%, ideally for 240mm you should go with a 3/4 cylinder

https://prefired.co.uk/ads/tm-devgru/ Wow! - Just wow, just shy of £3K for a TM

Technically it isnt fixed hop, even though they do advertise it as fixed. If you push the metal hop arm towards the front of the gun, it increases hop, push to the rear and it decreases it. You can also bend it to increase hop. Mine us currently easily overhopping 0.3g bbs with the hop set to around 70% of its travel.

You really want to move to country primarily to own guns? I thought about moving to USA awhile back because of the money i could earn in my profession and had fallen in love with the side of America I had seen( I am a geek and regular travel to Atlanta for Dragon con basically geek mardi gras). Any way the more I looked into the more I saw the UK is shit the USA is shitter (it ani't getting any better). I have made friends over there most are professional all of them have been laid off multiple times with little warning and no restitution whats so ever in the time i have known them. An English friend who married a local has been there 8 years has had 8 jobs and only got his green card last year (he can still be chucked out the country for any reason). What ever state it's you'll miss the NHS, first year we went a friend had a drunken fall, went to get checked out at the hospital. A sprained ankle cost him 5k up front that he had to claim back on his travel insurance. " love shooting and I'm an advocate of responsible gun ownership for sport shooting, hunting, pest control and self-defense. Guns were all-but outlawed here and we're still murdering each other in the streets, just now we do it with handheld sharp objects instead." 5 times more people were murdered with knives in the USA in 2020 than in the UK. I really don't want to live in a country that i need to be armed to feel safe. The Whole self defence thing is a red herring you are more likely to be rob/burgled for your guns and much more like to kill a family member/friend, yourself than a "Bad guy". Restricting gun ownership works. Ever country with gun control laws has significantly less murders even by proportional population. The USA needs to get over the second amendment as the out dated deliberately woefully misinterpreted legislation it is( it also needs get universal health care, reform education and Employee rights). I know I'll be in the minority in this group with my stance. I would never want Americas gun culture in UK. I don't think guns should be banned but they should be heavily regulated.

What I mean is the nurpol gearbox is a weird shape so a more standard gearbox may not fit properly into the body without modification.

Last one I sold went for £40-ish, no wonder I'm always poor lol (edit: i should probably admit that I usually sell stuff for close to what I paid - /+, cos that's the kinda nice guy (aka mug😭) that I am)

Liked the vid of him playing at Spartan Airsoft he’s posted recently, amusingly with a tongue-in-cheek click bait title. In reality it’s just a load of people enjoying their hobby and having a laugh, which is how it should be.

Can't remember exactly when I bought this gun originally before embarking on my external mods, I think it's pushing 9 years or so. Being a very very run-of-the-mill V2 AEG AR I didn't think he'd record it but there we go. No I didn't do any work to the insides myself nor did I know what was in there, I never look inside my guns 😂

Fun day at the Ridge on 18th with my son.

Harsh truth is that you can keep shovelling money into it or you can give it to an airsoft tech who understands the details of how things work and will fix it for you.

Another thing to check, if all else above fails. Is that the piston doesn’t bind. This will lower your fps dramatically and cause your gun to struggle cycling. With the 13:1 gearset and motor you have used. It does sound a little sluggish. In comparison this is a set of 13:1 gears and a 22tpa motor with a perun mosfet on a 7.4 lipo. ✌🏻✌🏻 Hope you get it sorted buddy. IMG_2516.MOV IMG_2516.MOV

This is mine and my dad's speciality. The M4 pistol is a dsg build literally built out of spare parts and yet is somehow the most reliable out of all our guns despite shooting 50rps The AK bullpup is made from a boneyard SRC rpk, some bent aluminium and some cut up rails. The SCAR H is still unfinished but that was a VFC that I picked up second hand with a locked up gearbox. The L96 is a former two tone well that has had a mancraft kit installed

I really want to know who started this TM 1911s can't finish a mag? in single digit temperatures they'll struggle to cycle but so will most GBBs. most of the years you'll get 40ish rounds out a single fill.

Same as I paid for mine from them. Got a very snarky reply when I posted on Dave's custom facebook page that the price of his current batch was quite a bit more than I had just paid !

KM is to airsoft what The Sun is to journalism. We don't read The Sun for the same reason that we don't eat from the toilet bowl. KM should receive the same disdain.

I'd be more surprised if a thread did stay on topic Sorry, byt the Tiger has to be the most overrated tanks of ww2. Yes it was well armed and had decent armour, but the Maybach engine was underpowered, unreliable and over engineered. This meant it was slow and drank fuel like it was going out of fashion. All this meant that the tanks at the front were reliant on long complicated supply train where advances were limited due to fuel issues and tanks needing repairs to be taken all the way back to Germany. Also there's the sheer weight of the vehicle. At 50 tonnes many bridges were simply unable to hold that weight. Another problem with the Tiger is the production cost. A single Tiger cost the same as 2 panzer 4s or 4 Stug 3s

Obviously, momma says anything else might be construed as being criminal 😏

It's why I gave up historic re-enactment. The groups I was in were always trending towards "professionalism", i.e. committing to providing clients with more numbers, bigger living history displays, and showier arena performances. It got to the point where we were prepping and loading vans days before big events, and staying on after weekends to tear down, as the chap running each group tried to turn it into a career. Me, I just wanted to eat hog roasts and swing swords. Airsoft needs more hog roasts!

You mean, by the access roads at typical airsoft sites, right? In Minecraft.

Cos anything nice would probably get trashed ? 😏

Ok, I’ve been lurking this post for a while. I can’t be bothered to go through and quote individual posts because I’m at work on my phone (don’t tell the bosses). KM has been caught on video firing TAG rounds AT people within 50m, if anyones unaware of the affect of being hit by a tag round at that sort of range it will knock you out if it hits you in the head. (The video was recorded at Apocalypse Airsoft it was brought to his attention in the comments and as far as I’m aware it was re edited) He has been caught at numerous sites in the southeast using a hot gun, this is technically hearsay as I was told this by the site owners/managers themselves and as we all know is banned from more than just the sites mentioned in the OP. KM is, whether we all like it or not (majority of us don’t like it) a role model for the sport and especially its’ younger audiences. His portrayal of airsoft is not in a good light and unfortunately in this general society the smallest negatives will always outweigh the positives, and as I’m sure it’s been mentioned it was fought for airsoft to remain as it is under the VCRA and the last thing we need is a Facebook group called “Bored Mums Against Airsoft” or similar gaining any traction and using his videos as evidence to prove the activity is dangerous. If you want a more “hardcore version” of airsoft do a milsim, if you bitch and moan there you’re on your way home. Be prepared for all the other caveats that come with it (ammo/camo limits/ hard routine/multiple day events), or speak to your preferred site about private hire days and you and all your friends can go shoot each other till you look like you’ve got monkey pox.

I'd never criticise anyone for taking safety seriously, to be fair even if it means you don't turn up on Monday morning for your "respectable" job with your chops covered in red marks & welts, then it's done its job. But changing fps limits for more "hardcore" games is ridiculous, it's hard enough to enforce what we've got so giving players carte blanche to increase fps could get out of hand. Anyway, whys it even being discussed, to do so would break the laws of the land, so it's obviously never gonna be an option, shit like this only gets more draconian, not relaxed ffs.

😋 I would whole-heartedly defend the wearing of lower face masks tbh. One sniper shot to a tooth or the gum tells you it's eminently sensible. (I was lucky, I didn't lose the tooth)

Noone is 'belittling' you for wearing lower face, you're just being called out for being a fake tough guy. You're acting like KMs victims are just being little bitches, and saying you'd like a more dangerous version of airsoft, yet you don't even play the version we already have to it's max. This is why people are liking the post, because it rings true. There is literally no need for lower face in airsoft at current power levels, this sport IS safe, if everyone follows the rules, which KM doesn't, hence people disliking him. To recap, the point I'm making is you don't get to call other people safety nazis and pussies when you won't take to the field without a mesh training bra on your face.

For some reason one of his videos labelled ‘most terrifying airsoft injury’ popped up on my fb feed once. had to have a watch. he basically puts his foot down a hole and rips his trousers 🤣 I guess I was hoping for open compound fractures or bunji pit impalement. I played a legion event of all things at lydd training area back in 2017. only went because of the site, Somehow the mod cocked up and didn’t realise legion were a commercial airsoft co or something so it was subsequently closed to airsofters immediately after the event 🤣 I remember seeing half of THG there wandering around like a lost sheep. was a great area. Always nice to play new sites you’re not familiar with!

I don't post often, but I've been lured out of hiding to say; BigBell, are you really sure you want Airsoft to be any more hardcore? Given that you wear lower face, that kind of suggests it's a bit too hardcore for you as it is.

My early 90's P226 is slowly getting there. It's a TM with full guarder kit along with a Genuine surefire, genuine early west german grips and a steel replica early rear sight. A few other little bit left to alter, but not looking far off.

Ah Daves Custom Scalpers at it again