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I think omega3squadron sounds healthier.

*not a fact. Depends on capacity, level of remaining charge and charging rate. While LiPos can be "fast charged", it is NOT the recommended method. Charging rate should ideally match the mAh value of the battery - 1400mAh charge at 1.4A, 3000mAh charge at 3A. Fast charging is likely to shorten the life of the battery.

He's got a habit of posting tech advice which is complete bollocks

Where are you getting this info? The battery has nothing to do with FPS… unless you’re running too high of voltage and are getting PME. Cycling time also has nothing to do with FPS… Friction of what? I’ve measured over a dozen different brands of BBs, both weight, sphericity, and checked for air bubble consistency on the inside. Not even horrible green BBs from sporting goods stores had enough size or weight inconsistency to cause any FPS variance like this. This would require some of the BBs to be literally double the weight. For reference, even low quality BBs like Lancer Tactical have weight variances that are in the hundredths of a gram. Dirty hop unit, and dirty barrel… yes. Except it’s only happening with certain BBs, and the drops are consistent. The chrono can misread, but averaging in giant drops like this isn’t accurate. This does bring up a valuable point, though—OP, is it possible you mixed heavier BBs in with your .20gs? They would have to be really heavy, like .40g+. I realize that’s not at all likely, but it’s a possibility nonetheless.

Can we not link all the previous recruiting "Leet Speshul Operator" threads to each other, that way they can all hook up & form a squadron of speshul army solja's. They could even have their own dating app, but what to call it🤔, tinder's gone, so has grinder, something with er on the end🤔........ By jove I've got it, it's a toss up between Wanker or Walter 😜

Here they are VFC MK11 MOD0 SR-25 & VFC MK20 SSR, both GBB & both absolutely stunning! Dream to finally have the MK11 I have a thing for chunky straight mags

Aug A3 by GHK has landed , the unsightly forward rail removed … now we need a grip … and more mags … and some olive green Krylon 😛

I'm going to do a trademark pivot and say that it's great that everyone can enjoy airsoft in different ways. If you're calling your hits, and having fun, it's a win for everyone. Although I wouldn't be astonished if it's full of folk who were who in the Cadets for a few months and now call everyone brother.

FTFY

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I expect that you know it far better than us. It was a first visit for us, and since we can get to Glencoe in the same time, I think we'll be heading north again if we bother what with all the pewing and biking this year. My wife likes to return to The Old Country in summer too. We did find solitude beside the Dart though.

You have to account for a recovery time from the battery dumping a load of energy in to the winding motor, you have to account for cycling time, you have to account for friction, account for the BB's not being precision sizes, some are ever so slightly larger and smaller which affects the ability to transfer energy. There are other factors that also can affect fps, hop up, dirty barrel, lubrication and the chrono can misread which is why you take multiple readings to get the average fps.

I was in the 'SAS' in the 90's, do I get biscuit too? Ok, 'SAS' = Saturdays and Sundays But it was the Army catering Corps, we've killed more soldiers than anyone else... I'm assuming our own squaddies count.

Does the email go straight to someone at the WMHCHQ?

An old woman is riding in a lift in a very lavish London building when a young and beautiful woman gets into the lift, smelling of an expensive perfume. She turns to the old woman and say arrogantly, "Romance, by Ralph Lauren, £150 an ounce!" Then another young and beautiful woman gets on the lift, and also very arrogantly turns to the old woman saying, "Chanel No 5, £200 an ounce!" About three floors later, the old woman has reached her destination and is about to get out of the lift. Before she exits, she looks at both beautiful women, bends over slightly, passes wind and says, "Broccoli, 49 pence a pound.

Always did wonder why people cared about charging rates, sure other hobbies like rc you have a good reason to care about charging fast but in airsoft just buy enough batteries to last a days pewing and be organised enough to charge the night before. Plus i'd wager the lions share of sites wont have plugs for general use and even those that do will have stiff competition. Op- in addition to a good charger, a tool that i've found invaluable for lipo usage is a cell checker, can be used to troubleshoot if you've got a balance issue, a dead cell, or simply a quick test to see if its charged.

Yeah but am I allowed to shoot from my bedroom window at next doors fecking cat? I hate it with all my being.😂😂

I bet he's off to form the Airsoft Players' Union of the United Kingdom. Thanks for cat-wrangling for so long, I can't imagine there will be a big queue of volunteers daft enough to be the someone in "Why someone oughta!"

Both the admin assistant and the website developer are, as I understand it are paid for their time from shared UKARA funds, which are directly contributed from the fee that retailers pay for access to the UKARA system. I don't believe that money is abstracted from the running of UKARA for anything other than operating expenses and it ultimately is pooled, which is understandable considering how expensive it is to engage in legal proceedings or to provide scientific evidence that can be used when discussing and countering legislation. Whilst harsh, it's definitely true. The nature of volunteering is that it's done in one's spare time, or referring back to some of our past hijinks, pulling all nighters.

It’s a major pain to change, because, as Speedbird says, the gearbox is proprietary. However, you can switch the gearbox to an Arcturus and use a micro switch + inline MOSFET, or an E&L and use a standard ETU like the Perun Hybrid or GATE Titan. Specs on those gearboxes are very close to drop in or completely drop in for Ares receivers, but there’s no guarantees in airsoft. It’s a big pain to change the gearbox anyways.

Next time I’ll just quote his post say in all caps “OFFICIAL BOLLOCKS MARK”

thought this might be of interest. I got a delivery from JKARMY today to the UK but it looks like they are taking no chances when it comes to shipping to the USA. even the magazine had tape around it. Took me 15 minutes to remove it all.

The gearbox is proprietary on Ares EFCS guns. There are no drop-in upgrade options. You will need to undertake modifications to the gearbox and/or fabrication of adapters to fit anything other than the stock EFCS unit. Not saying it can't be done - but it's probably not worth the hassle.

Talking about the Tutorial subboard specifically, but every pinned thread on the forum could probably do with some going over to see if they're really relevant, or needed, anymore. e.g. Some pinned threads in "Tutorials" are essentially just links to a long defunct website (mechbox.com - which in itself I always thought was just trying to make the word "mechbox" a thing, but that's beside the point.) Clearing out old and worth-less pinned threads can make room for our contemporaries to recreate the same content, but better and more up to date.

Hello. Just thought I'd post in this topic just to clear up a couple of comments here. The meeting that has been previously announced here that is being held on the 22nd of this month is not an AGM, it is an emergency management meeting, which is being held to replace myself as chairman, as I'm resigning. Once that emergency meeting has occurred, and a new chairperson elected, we will begin the process of organising, and notifying our members about an upcoming AGM. I won't go into details in full as to why I'm resigning on here (as I'll leave that to a press release to be done at a later date) but essentially dealing with the absolute mess that was the Coronavirus regulations pretty much made me want to pack airsoft in all together (and I want to enjoy airsoft once again) I thank you for your interest in UKAPU and I hope to possibly see you at the AGM, whenever that may be!

I would point out that it is a legal requirement to give members written notice of an AGM. Members have an absolute right to attend, raise issues, ask questions and vote. Stating that “I don’t see why they won’t be able to this year” makes it seem that they are there on sufferance. As a member of the association, I will be writing to the committee pointing out that they are in breach of their constitution and requiring them to give all members 28 days notice of the AGM.

That's marginally concerning to say the least. Going off Constitution Draft 3.5 dated 2021-03-02 (the latest UKAPU have published): There are various points of order which the leadership of UKAPU seem to have failed to consider or keep to -- so rather than firing shots at every individual wrongdoing, I'm going to reiterate the only one that matters right now: This doesn't seem to have happened. You've certainly only made this forum aware with *less than 7 days notice,* much less 28 -- and the required written notice doesn't seem to have been given to members. Facebook: last updated November 4, 2022 Twitter: last updated March 4, 2019 (looking for a press officer, a position still vacant in mid 2023) Instagram: last updated February 18, 2021 Website: last "news" update: "Facebook announcement" (which never happened on Facebook), February 19, 2021. You've not informed the membership of the AGM, you've not given sufficient notice for the AGM, and you've certainly not given any notice to members concerning election of officers, or the opportunity to nominate members to stand as candidates prior to officer elections. Additionally, it doesn't appear officers were elected in 2018 or 2019, which was concerning, since they're supposed to be elected annually for a 1-year post... 2020 and 2021 seem to have been pretty much the same people being uncontested and voted unanimously, which is a concern given how badly basic communication and governance seem to be going (or not going) 😕 TL;DR: it's a shitshow. You're not even trying to follow your own Constitution, and haven't remotely given the membership notification, never mind adequate notification, of the AGM -- so the fact that you're suggesting it's going ahead in less than a week is a complete farce.

Male bees die after mating. That's it. Their whole life. Honey Nut Cheerio...

You may as well wear blackface and scream allahu akbar to top it off... Really want to offend as many people as you can, thats the dochy thing to do. People will wear regalia to upset people, I have seen some patches in my time and know that people get them because they think that they are edgy like the Osama game patch I have seen... Not something I would wear, I think that it would be the last thing a person of the faith would want to see. Its a game to have fun, its not a game to bring politics in to the game. IMHO leave that at the door.

Surely members should have been sent an invitation to the AGM?

You get to play soggy biscuit as well!

I expect all twenty of the blokes on the Iranian embassy balcony will be in it.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Come on, Trading Standards, sort this out. A couple of test purchases, shut it down.

It's taken me a while to decide whether to reply to this, and if so, what I should say. As Shamal has rightly stated, I am the East of England UKAPU representative. I initially joined as a member, but decided that I would like to further support the community as a regional representative. During my interview for the position I too expressed reservations with regard to what the union provide - as others have pointed out, the social media pages are not frequently updated and there is little 'evidence'. All representatives are volunteers, and in any case, I believe that the Press Officer position is vacant. There is often assistance offered to player-members which unfortunately goes unreported due to this. This has involved helping with customs and import of RIFs, where players experienced issues - and similarly assisted players in Northern Ireland where I believe there have been further issues with customs. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the Union were approached by a number of game organisers/site owners to gauge the legality of running games during the lift of restriction levels. The Union provided this guidance, but it was highlighted that if Airsoft was registered as a sport (like paintball is), then we potentially could have returned sooner. However, in order to register as a sport we would require a national governing body. The membership was 'sold' to me as more of an insurance scheme; in case I should ever need assistance, but also to support the ongoing efforts of the Union to provide some kind of national governing body - which was well supported by representatives, members, non-members and site owners when discussed with them. Whilst it was before my time, I believe the references to 'proposed bans' etc relate to the VCRA 2007 bill. @Cannonfodder if you would like I will try to find more information relating to this. Unfortunately, our Chairman has suffered from issues with his personal circumstances lately, and this has led to our AGM not happening as early in the year as perhaps would be expected. Rest assured, I am actively pursuing this and hope it will be able to go ahead soon. With this in mind, I cannot comment on the plans going forward for the annual members skirmish or attendance at NAE. In the past I have attempted to arrange a members only game, but then struggled to find a site to host it at. It is on my list of things to arrange, and as soon as I have news I will share it. I do recognise that perhaps the communications from the Union have not been as good as would be expected, and for that please accept my apology. @Rogerborg - are you referring to the Operation Stigma II post on Facebook from May 2022 as this is all I can find? @RebelScum if you would like, please send me a message and I will do my best to chase up your patch - as it is of course not right that you have yet to receive it. Finally, I would like to address suggestions that members of the Union are in it to 'make a name' for themselves, or as an 'ego boost'. I appreciate this is personal opinion, but when engaging with other representatives I have not experienced this. I see the other representatives as individuals with only the interests of the players and the sport at heart. My inbox is always open, and I am always more than happy to engage with any player, whether they are a member or not. I've done my best to address what people have said, and am happy to discuss anything. - Jacob

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The thing is by doing that you're giving them the attention they want. Thinking about it I'd rather not see any political patches, whether they're to the left or the right, as I'm on site to shoot plastic at people not debate which form of government is best. Treat your political views like you treat your dick. They're both ok to have, they're ok to be proud of but what's not ok is forcing it down someone's throat. As for finding something offensive, at the end of the day we all have a different place where we draw the line (I know I've got a dark sense of humour but there's certain things which piss me off). If you're going to start screaming at someone over something you don't like and demanding they remove it then IMO you look just as silly as them

I think @RostokMcSpoons ‘s response summed up my feelings pretty nicely. I would be in the ignorant camp for most of these things. Do I know what a Swastika is and why not to wear it? Yeah. Do I know what patterns on shemaghs or keffiyehs mean what? Heck no. Young players are stupid, not always malicious. We’ll change more of their behavior by being friends than we will by alienating/being hostile.

An Aliexpress G43 to go onto an Aliexpress FTC and an Aliexpress G43 Killflash.

ChatGPT to the rescue! (Bold text added for emphasis.) I also had the AI analyse the communication quality of the original post, for the funny: Gosh. We can all learn.

You sir are the Devil's Spawn, and no mistake P.S. did you find any of those SIG mags? 😊 I remain a constant admirer of the L85 Though it did lose quite a bit (where it gained quite a bit) when it transitioned from the original XL65 prototype (Somewhat ironic it's the Ares Research Services as my source for the pic) I quite admire that, mostly because I'd have no idea of the donor gun without your hint. Total conversion > Bits stuck on

The lad and I were there at Easter for one of our regular visits; it didn't seem too busy. An excellent and entertaining write-up, as ever.

Gunman Eversley 10-11/6/23 Namsoft Another great weekend at the Eversley site, in glorious weather. The summer has bought the rhododendrons into bloom, and prompted a furious work party regime in Wild West (the ‘village’ in the gamezone). First impressions as we arrived on Friday were of seriously low numbers, the usual number of campers was well down, and we choose a spot easily. This was deceptive however; as work on buildings has seen many more water tight and habitable. That seems a decent guess that accounts for all those sleeping under hand cut shingles rather than canvass. What it meant was a much more spread out arrangement that allowed for a bit of quiet if you wanted it, or the ability to make a bit of noise if you felt the need. The Worthing Massive were camped next door in a palatial bell tent type affair, complete with gazebo and some serious cookware. @Impulse had a fondle of the Snow Wolf K98 and I drooled over his mate’s Tanaka Woodstock version with the stamped markings. Friends in the 173rd stayed in their newly constructed shack in the firebase. Their task this weekend besides playing, was building up the sandbags to a decent height and deepening the dugouts so that tired old knees wouldn’t ache so much in game. Saturday started with Josh giving an ultra-high energy safety and game brief. Seriously, we were all laughing at the same bloody stuff we’ve all heard before, but the game was as always different to the previous with some new themes written in, and the delivery is brilliant. This time we had dog tags issued with different colours for different players, and different colours for different values e.g. gold tags were worth five times the plain white tags issued to the Vietnamese team. There were several new faces and quite a few missing faces. I think the game was even-ish at about 15 players each. This was quite a way down on last years I seem to recall. That said, about eight people booked and couldn’t make game day. First game was about setting the atmosphere and getting into the mindset. The VC and PAVN had to transport loads across the site passed three US strongholds with patrols between each. Helped by the low US numbers, we managed to really ace this, avoiding the other team and setting up our cache in the bottom corner of the site. Repairs bridges and a drained swamp made this a little easier too. As Mrs TPH had forgotten her magazine and had to go back to camp for it, we were last to arrive at the start point. We were tasked with harassing the strongpoints along with another Worthing straggler and a son and Dad duo we often team up with. This was exactly what we wanted to hear. Using the radio, we managed to locate and attack the US team all morning. Unfortunately, the SF squad were patrolling between each stronghold and we attacked just as they arrived three bloody times! Once we were pincered, once we fled as they reinforced from the other side of the position, and once we watched them arrive just as we were in position. The same US player managed to shoot me three attacks in a row, much to our mutual amusement. The third time I swore revenge and crept back to the stronghold to revive the others in my squad. I was too late, not being able to call loudly enough to them to wait for me to crawl up to them. I decided to stay on alone. This played off as believing us neutralised, they spotted a VC team in the distance and formed up to attack. I opened up with the RPK, and they were forced to medic players and then winkle me out again. I had however saved the carrying party, so job done. Afternoon was similar. We hunted, our team split up and Mrs TPH and I formed our usual seek and destroy squad of two. We enjoyed hunting larger squads and carrying out fast hit and runs. We enjoyed in particular attacking the improved fort and moving between shots to emulate a bigger squad. By days end, we were extremely hot, we’d drunk all of our spawn point (1G) water and some that a VC carried round to all players in a damn great Jerry can. We were down to the canteens on our belts and had still not really drunk enough despite a good fill before heading out. Saturday night was a very chilled affair. Going for a piss at 1:30 it was eerily quiet. I seemed to be the only one awake, at least on the main camping part. We’d had a drink and multiple hotdogs with a site member/good mate, and a wandering VC. Missed the drunken singing of Jefferson Airplane but awoke without the usual hangover the next morning as a result. Sunday was brutally hot. This time the US was on the move and we had to intercept them in mobile groups. Group Baboon (VC) was the largest and had an uncanny ability to sniff out imperialists, our team of two moved around a sight less noisily tbh, and we managed to get on the tail of one US squad in particular. I revenged myself on the player from the previous day twice and shot the same tail end Charlie about thrice myself, twice whilst being medic’d leaving both players KIA. My favourite attack on Sunday was on the bulk of the US team moving multiple items. I hit the back, CYMA chugging away as usual, Mrs TPH hit the flank. We managed to split the squad, leaving the carried items vulnerable to the rest of the VC who heard the firefight and zoomed in like sharks on a blood trail. A memorable moment was finding the back of a group of players in contact with Baboon VC group. I could see a US player crouching behind a tree and shot him neatly in the back, moved to new cover and waited for more targets. I could vaguely make out more players in green around him, and when a similarly dressed player sneaked up I shot him too. It was revealed then that the US guy was part of a squad who had been hit by the VC and moved out leaving him behind among a bunch of dead PAVN (in green PAVN uniforms). I’d hit a PAVN player moving up to survey the damage. I also manged the perfect support gun shot at last. One slow chug from left to right and I hit an entire squad in one burst. I have never before had such a perfectly presented target and all five or six fell to the single sweep of the barrel. Shows why it’s worth lugging the damn great thing around. Sunday ended early. Too many US players had dropped out through heat exhaustion to carry on, and nearly everyone was wilting. At close, the scores were US 13 dogtags, VC 11. Completed objectives were about even. We applauded the US team as a late VC player turned up festooned with tags and the Vietnamese team were victorious again. This was seriously funny, and very good natured. I shook hands with the chap who killed me thrice, and was told that I was a pain in the arse by the laughing tail end US player. Hurrahs: Great gameplay, great social, great ruleset, great scenario, great site, great laugh, great to see mates from the airsoft scene and of course from the forum. I even loved the weather, working in North Africa desert was something I enjoyed too though, so no criticism of those that dropped out. The lack of sexist patches and ‘banter’ makes taking my wife a good thing too and our daughter has become jealous of the fun so she’ll be making her airsoft debut at some point this summer. Moans: Bleed out time was possibly too short. We were caught cold on Saturday at the end of the day. Caution on the part of the US players saw us dead and on our way back to spawn before they should really have got our tags. Then again they knew the rules and saw us time ourselves by looking at our watches. Fucking contact lenses! Can’t play without them, can’t see my BBs to walk them in until I actually hit something. This weekend seemed particularly bad, and I got frustrated at the speed at which I could hit at distances over 20 yards. Gunman rules state all support guns fire either deployed or from the hip. I do deploy mine on a knee when I can (easy with a real RPK) but despite my years of hip shooting, it is never as accurate as shooting from the shoulder. I nearly got an AK out tbh. It is also harder to spot incoming BBs with the contacts. I know that testing in the garden with specs, that I can spot BBs easily, and have even seen lead shot at 1300fps in some conditions, when a shoot is on over the road. I’m booked on the next one, likewise the next post –apocalypse game. In fact we’ll do a few bike rallies and airsoft games this year and ditch fucking about with holidays as such. We like sticking to the UK and Covid seems to have made our favourite out if the way places too popular. Dartmoor was like a theme park this April. Du ban GI!

Think this has rather gone off topic.

Thought I would treat myself to a new optic for the HK 416a5

Ive “made safe” a couple of lipos on site when players have asked me how to dispose of them A quick nail through them sees a nice wee flame and a good puff of nasty smoke n fumes , always gets a wee crowd and a cheer 😂

Yeah they're only dangerous when near full. I got a good reaction driving a nail through one🤪

U are al jest haterz wot is jest jelus of kicing Mustang he is th best aersoft sniper

Well they hit something, whether or not it was the kid they hit is a different matter

That's true. An aeg doesn't care what it's eating just so long as it's volts.