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Just a normal skirmish day at Worthing this weekend and after last week's fiasco at the 'Nam game where everything conspired to stop me playing, This time the weather in the morning was lovely, slightly cloudy but warm and sunny otherwise and since I was wearing a fairly lightweight kit it was absolutely perfect. I was trialing a few things as well, starting to run a chest rig in addition to my belt kit, since running gas pistol and gas rifle magazines on a belt kit was adding too much weight and causing it to flop around all over the place. I was also going to run a backpack for gas and BBs, but the BBs I had with me were in a bottle and rattling all over the place, so I decided to not run the backpack today as my BB bags were padding the bottom of my mag pouches to make the m700 magazines fit better. The other thing I was experimenting with was running my mk23 again and... I both love and hate that gun. I love how quiet it is, but I hate that goddamn trigger pull. Jury is still out on whether I'll keep running it as I might go back to my HK45, but it at least earned not being put back into my box of pistols and instead gets to stay out with my HK45, p226 and AAP-01. Still running around without the ghillie, just a £25 uncrafted cobra hood from Russia to help break up the head and shoulders silhouette. Went out with the m700, which chronoed at around 2.15J, so nicely within the limit but with the 30m MED as I've been running that the past game day or so. First game we were doing an attack and defend on one of the bases that I know well and I went with two other snipers along one side, sneaking slowly along one side to start opening up the defense. Honestly, the attack went so well that our contributions were honestly not that great. We took out two or three on the way up, but our team did really well pushing the middle and the other side, so we took up positions and awaited the counter attack. My friend took up a position that he showed me last game day (and it's utter filth, I used it last game day) and he eventually ran out of ammo there were that many targets for him. I covered him from another position a little further back and we managed to hold the base for the rest of the game. We then switched ends, so we started in and around the base and the other team had to attack. I set up on the same side as we pushed beforehand, with my friend going to harass the middle. I eventually had to fall back to a spot I know, since the other team pushed up well (though it took a bit of time), after a ghillie on their team walked into the base and knife killed everyone. I wasn't there to comment on how visible his armband was, but either it was mostly hidden or the people in there were just blind and knowing airsofters I'm more inclined to go with the latter. However, the position I was in, while it covered one of the structures outside the base, rendering it unusable by the enemy team without getting plinked by me, my position also offered a tiny window to shoot to the back of the base and that's where I started to rack up hit after hit. From where they were, they had no idea where the shots were coming from, as I've looked at the spot from their position before and the gas m700 is so quiet, even though that doesn't make too much difference as the shot is about a 70m shot so they wouldn't hear it anyway. I lost count of how many people I got, but I think I went through two and a half m700 magazines taking people out on the back of the base and also in the other structure I had vision on. With my uncrafted cobra hood and my rifle wrapped, nobody could see me from their side while I was lying prone, and I've played long enough to know when and how to move to avoid being seen. It was a good game, but I think in the end they did manage to hold it, so that was one game a piece. After that we played a 3 base domination, but... well, they started our team at the bottom of the site with two of the bases at the top so we had the large hill to climb to get to two of the bases. Regardless, me and my friend headed up on the flank, keeping to the border of the site and taking a position where we could start ambushing players near one of the bases at the top of the site. It went well until they pushed around on a flank (which was out of bounds, naughty naughty!) and I got hit while trying to relocate. I told them they were out of bounds and they moved in bounds, but they didn't know my friend was there so I just bled out and headed back to respawn. I decided to run, both down the hill back to respawn and up the hill back to the front to try and get back in a somewhat timely manner, but they eventually found my friend as he didn't have a pistol and couldn't engage up close. Oh well! I still pushed back up, getting back into a position where I could start engaging targets that my team mates were fighting. It was a lot of back and forward and each time I got hit (two more times!) I ran down and up the hill once again to make sure I got back in the fight as soon as possible. Highlight of the game was posting a shot through a tiny gap in the foliage to get a satisfying whack onto a guy's helmet that could be heard for miles around from about 60m away and the most annoying part was when one of their team just walked up on our flank and shot us all while a group of six of our team just... watched him do it. Remember what I said earlier about airsofters and being blind? Yeah... Anyway, in the end I think the other team won that one, two bases to one, which is largely what I expected with the spawns where they were. While I was happy to run back and forth (even though I'm currently 145kg, which is anywhere between 40 - 50kg too heavy), a lot of airsofters aren't and we just never got a decent presence at the top of the site since only about ten (of a team of 40) of us made the effort. Every time I went back to respawn I saw lots and lots of people milling about the bottom of the site not doing much, but such is life at a skirmish day 😅 I decided not to go out after lunch. They did a game they like to call Omaha, which has one team starting at the top of the hill and the other team has to push through them through a relatively narrow gap. You'd think with us being at the bottom of the site for the last game they would've started us on defense at the top first, right? Right...? Nope, our team was consigned to the bottom of the hill once more and I decided that pushing up a narrow part of the site with a bolt action rifle with an MED wasn't worth it, plus the forecast was heavy rain in the afternoon and the clouds were starting to look a bit angry. I think I made the right decision, as I had surprised myself with my ability to run all 145kg of me plus kit up and down that hill before lunch but I was feeling a bit tired after that. Also, the heavens did indeed open up and even on the range I was fogging, since it was still warm but it turned super humid with the rainfall. Instead I decided to make sure the SR-25 is still shooting well, setting the scope and making sure the hop rubber was good and oh my goodness was it good. Chronoed it in the morning just in case I wanted to use it and it was pretty much right on 1J and once I had set the scope (since there was no wind today) and the hop up, it was reliably hitting the 60m target. Also, for an AEG it's pretty quiet so I am very impressed with that gun. Had a chat with my friend and we're going to start pairing up more, with one running a bolt action and one running a 1J rifle so we can operate as a proper sniper/spotter pair. Today was okay, but two bolt actions isn't a great setup. Next game day I'm going to be the spotter, since I have a better gun for it and I have the rangefinder so it'll be the SR-25 next time. The only bad parts of the day were the cheaters, since there was quite a bit of non-hit taking, and an annoying rule that they've started to run with at Worthing. Most of the games today were semi-auto only, which I get for filmsim / milsim games where you have dedicated roles and support gunners who are allowed full auto, but at a skirmish day I really don't. I think it's come into effect because too many people whinge about over-shooting, including one of the marshalls when he plays, so they've started making the games all semi-only. It doesn't really affect me, since the guns I run tend to be semi-only anyway because of muh immersion (SR-25 shouldn't have full auto!) and the fact that GBBRs don't tend to like full-auto much, but if you like running a support gun you're a bit stuck at the moment. I really hope it doesn't persist, but it has cropped up in the last two game days so the cynic in me is doubtful. Only time will tell, but I've just had a curry and I'm happily unpacking after what was a good day for the mostpart. Roll on the next!

I don't know if people have come across this, but thought it worth noting, just in case peeps haven't. Potential purchasers are asking for pieces of paper next to the same items with the PURCHASERS name on it. It's obvious to say this, but just in case DO NOT DO THIS If anyone tried it, bring it to the mod's attention so they can be nuked.

I love it when I see airsoft guns or air guns in movies. In one of the promo pictures for the movie Nobody the guy literally has a Hicap in his rifle 😆

I've had one of these for years. https://www.military1st.co.uk/13532001-mil-tec-mag-carrier-chest-rig-olive.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1rqkBhCTARIsAAHz7K0zZE5JwihFAcWtvn4IqydQDCQ3-AGT5VD-X_47cCviYRnyrWFGqoEaAtA4EALw_wcB Not Cool. Not available in any gucci colours, but it's a slightly bigger 'light' rig that is cheap, well enough constructed for BBwarz and has an appropriate amount of coverage for more...ahem...'portly' gentlemen.

It would seem I'm developing a bit of a B&T obession.

Ermmm... that's what catches us dinner. It's my lurcher! Don't ever go for your FAC Dan. You'll end up with a freezer full of cats. 😉🤣

1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison. 2. To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it. 3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight. 4. It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles. 5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late. 6. When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago. 7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects. 8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative. 9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers. 10. If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?" 11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing. 12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever. 13. I run like the winded. 14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don't know whose side I'm on. 15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?" 16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery? 17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited. 18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east." 19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out. 20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops. 21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb."

I've just bought a young Eastern European frog. He's a bit Bulgarian, a bit Russian and a tad Pole.

Like @Duff Beer, I too have a hsgi ao rig, yep it's very good, only downside is if your a wee bit porky it can look kinda silly & almost exaggerate ones porkiness. In over 20 years of playing, & subsequently bouncing between load carrying kit trying to find the perfect solution, gotta say that the bulle mle is as close to perfection as your gonna find, I have two & no matter what I try, I always go back to them. I also use molle bandoleers, again when set up right it's awesome (for me😏). https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/odtmb2nx.html

Took a nice leisurely drive down to Bournemouth today to play at camouflage Airsoft.1st visit. Nice big,shady carpark. Short(ish)walk to registration and met by a cheery chap called John who signed us in and gave us a warm welcome. Thanks John👍 Local players were friendly and made us feel welcome and in the field, hit taking was excellent with compliments on good shots🙂 First impressions of the safe zone was'wow". It was well laid out,clean and organized. Built in toilet block, on site shop and an abundance of free tea and coffee 😁 Chrono station was nicely set up and doubled as a shooting range.(nice touch). Game play was simple but different with games played back to back.The terrain,I found, was very arduous and unforgiving with steep,loose climbs great for the gazelles and mountain goats among us but not much fun for arthritic tortoises like me lol. Plenty of well laid out cover and the building were amazing. Racked up my best kill rate including two bollock shots to the site photographer. His fault for pointing a camera at me and not wearing a hi Vis vest! ( I have promised to by a pic as way of apology) Marshals were friendly, approachable and put themselves about. Overall a great day but exhausting. Will definitely be going again. Thanks camouflage Airsoft 👍and thanks @C-Diddyfor the heads up👍 regards

When it comes to swaps, if the other guy doesn't have a considerable online history, ie feedback/posts/time under his belt, he'll have to send his kit first, no excuses, once received I'll reciprocate & give suitable commendable feedback. Everytime a new member posts up an extensive "wanted" list, I cringe, it's like chucking out a load of chum & waiting for the sharks to come around🦈

I was talking to a chap at Spec Ops, he was considering a swap deal with someone in Northern Ireland. Luckily he'd not committed because he thought a GBBR might get too much attention from the authorities, might get seized, but I cautioned him there's a scammer over there. I'd never ever do a swap to NI

Nah, I’ve still got a BMI of over 9000!, I just hide it well. Where are you based? If you’re down near Invicta you’re welcome to take mine for a spin and see how you get on with it. Somewhere in the cupboards I’ve got a Tactical Tailor Mini Mav, which is as minimalist as you can go without just sticking the mags in your pockets!

It is mate, has served me very well, plus picked up another one to dye black. My son & his GF both have the bulle M4 rig as well, no complaints 👍

No dishonour there, that's a really well put together scam site. If I'd read this after wine o'clock, I might have joined you. They only got hyperbolic (and ungrammatical) when it came to the "hurry, hurry!" claims on the product pages.

Assuming it’s the same one he was using back in the day Tackle’s rig has lasted nearly 20 years. At one point nearly our whole team was using one. I’m all about the super lightweight, but I’ll concede the Bulle would be more comfy when loaded up

Just to add to this, I recently was contacted by someone in response to a wanted add I put up. Guy had a quantity of items for a good price. I asked for a photo with his name on of the items, *pooof*, vanished.

For those who don't know: for some verification of online pics, people ask for you to write your name/username, today's date, etc. on a piece of paper, and scrunch it up before unfurling it and taking the photo -- the idea being that it's much harder to Photoshop or fake details on that, compared to someone holding up a flat piece of paper. Dude's obviously trying to get pics to he can post the image and make like they are "his" items to sell, most likely sending potential buyers sweet FA.

Thankfully I ordered them on the credit card so I should be covered (and thankfully it wasn’t for a hideous amount too. That’s the first time I’ve been caught by one of those. As always, caveat emptor!

I’ve got a couple of HSGI AO Small chest rigs which are comfortable and light weight. On the plus side you can mount what you like, but it’s going to be slightly more bulky than a preset setup

Back from our second ever game at Spec Ops MK. Only did a half-day today as expected it to be hot and it's a good thing as my new boots have cut my heels to shreds, so was very much done by lunch. Turns out wearing them at your desk for a couple of hours doesn't count as a proper test. That aside, another good day of fun. Played a new game mode which involved rescuing a downed pilot (dummy) from the enemy camp. Hugely entertaining, especially when on the defending side as I managed to get a decent rate of kills. I think the game might need rebalancing though as I don't think anyone stood a chance of evac'ing the dummy, but who doesn't love a suicide mission. The boy had a good game with no injuries or mishaps, so at least one of us made it unscathed. He was, unusually for him, tired out by lunch so I'm assuming the heat has got to him. One more game to go before I'm UKARA registered which will simultaneously make the day rate cheaper but also meaning I empty my wallet on gun purchases. Have also realised I need something other than a bright red backpack to carry my gear and my £10 Asda jeans now have holes in the knees, so I'm open to suggestions on budget chest-rigs and trousers with knee-protection built in. Hello new hobby, good-bye fiscal responsibility.

Often people are shocked when they find out I'm not a qualified electrician

Usual cheap “nam” generic stereotypes. got 30min in and gave up, only posting this as the rifle spotting pissed me off no end. airgun as a sniper rifle a2 m16’s I expect there will be more but I got bored enjoy

https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/odtmb2nx.html Recommended by several people. * I use a Chicom rig. Cheap as dirt if your using an AK. Reinforcing the stitching and using an M16 bandolier is about as light as you can go, if your mags fit. You can get these from TGs UK partner: https://www.taiwangun.com/chest-rig/hybrid-chest-rig-olive-8fields TBH your spoiled for choice just with the cheapo 8 Fields gear. The skeleton rig is ultra lightweight and like the the micro rig is ultra customisable. Not Bulle quality though. * Just realised it's already been mentioned!

I also had a good look , but the fact they had every boot in nearly every size was a warning flag , and if something is to good to be true ……

He won't.

Air sniper, read and learn 😮‍💨😄😋

That’s not the battery—that’s your replica having issues. The motor pulls back the piston. That’s it. Why would how fast you pull back the piston affect FPS in any way? It’s how fast the piston moves after the sector releases. A dirty barrel may cause lower FPS, but it can also cause higher FPS. It depends on what kind of “dirty” you’re talking about. For example, BB residue can cause a barrel to functionally become tighter, which increases FPS.

Yup the only thing that tickled my critical faculties was the fact the 'in stock' figure wasn't changing between sizes, and the large figures for those 'in cart' meaning most of the stuff should've sold out already. Lucky escape though, because my appetite for a bargain could still have carried me to the checkout page!

We're near Hitchin, but I'll check dates and see if we can match a trip to my dad's near Eastbourne with a game day before the boy goes in August (assuming you mean the site in Kent) ....or frankly once he's gone, I'll be able to do more or less what I want anyway LOL I suspect my inner child and adult wallet will see my buying it anyway 😁.

Every time I think "is it really worth their while?" I have to remind myself that this is a hobby where people will happily pay multiple hundreds for toys, just to get a moment of unboxing euphoria. We must look like super-easy targets. Thanks for pointing out this new twist.

The double shot on semi is typical of beefing up the motor and going to 11.1V, and the gears won't be helping either. It's not that anything is wrong, it's just too much right. Some folk get lucky on 11.V, but I've had double-shooting on every M100-ish gun I've tried it with. 7.4V, or a mosfet with active brake will sort it. You could try adding more factors, like a stronger spring + short stroking or even a wide-bore or shorter inner barrel, but the inherent issue is that the pixies in there are too angry now. The mis-feeding may just be mid-cap syndrome (too much spring pressure misaligning the nozzle when full, or not enough for the BBs to feed quickly enough when nearly empty), or Specnas being Specnas. Some of them are super-fussy about mags, even by airsoft "standards", as griped about here a few times. And you can't even rely on "Specna" mags feeding in "Specnas" given the variety of OEMs that they seem to use for their ever expanding range. tl;dr version, you might have to use hi-caps and/or shim the front or rear of the mags to get them feeding reliably. That's just airsoft reality.

Damn, that's sneaky. Credit to the scammers, it actually looks and loads like a legit site, there are very few of the usual Chinglish warning signs. The "product" info has been well scraped from a real LOWA site. The contact email is some random outlook one, and the About page is a generic one found on many scam sites, even in the same English on this "French" site. https://www.google.com/search?q="And+if+it's+not%2C+then+hit+us+up+and+let+us+know" The domain was registered 4 days ago (at the time of writing) so LOWA won't have had time to do anything about it yet. I've let LOWA UK know, I can't see an obvious way to contact LOWA GMBH. Best of luck getting your money back.

That hop unit is not an upgrade. Try the original one and see if that fixes it.

I had to google half of that, I don’t know one end of my MTP from my DPM!

IT’S A SCAM SITE I got caught, but thankfully it was on the credit card and not for a lot

We've got the same issue at my local site at the moment, though without the face shots (most of the time) and a bit more shooting within MED. We'll reliably have more than 10 ghillies out of 70 - 80 players, and that's not including myself and my friend as we've ditched the ghillies for now, partially to practice camo and concealment skills but partially to make sure we can't be associated with any of it. Plus, it just feels weird to me when there's that many ghillies and I make the joke that eventually it will be 40 ghillies vs 40 ghillies 😂

Very happy to say the seller has contacted me, the boots have got back to him and he's posting them on to my home address now. Yay! Glad to hear the boots are good Dan Good idea Roger, though hopefully my pre-owned boots will already be broken in

Sorry to have missed you there today (we went to Combat Airsoft in Thetford). Will be there next week though with several guests. Thetford was an excellent day. The pine forest setting was awesome, as was the (relatively) Close Quarter section we used for the starting games. I went for a wide flanking manoeuvre with a group of lads to try and get behind the blue team and push for domination. This meant a trek through the chest high Ferns resulting in me vanishing down a deep pothole much to the amusement of my squad mates following up behind. We got trounced by the red team all day, but it was still enjoyable. My L85 definitely needs some tech attention as the 1100 mAh battery was used up withess than ten magazines, and the noise it makes sounds like it is labouring on something. Once again the Specna performed better than any of the other pews we brought, although the DE held it's own for the Extraction game. Lots of Gillie suits there with very accurate face shots made a few pushes frustrating Had a fun chat with some US servicemen on the next table too.

Go to Airsoft Sniper Forum and as the same questions—they’ll know exactly what’s wrong. Chances are it’s some spec issue depending on whose version of VSR10 you hit, as not all models and parts are TM compatible.

Beautiful! We were on the high moor hunting tinnners' huts, kistvaens and anything else that took our fancy. I think we saw about eight people over three days.

L👀k out!! The bastards behind you! 😂

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!"

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.

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