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@Tackle have you considered adjusting your hop up and just firing at France? ?

I take it your more a more of a Notting Hill or Little Mermaid kind Gal? ?

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 ?

Eh. Sorry to hear that things are winding down there, but around me, Area-66, Players of War, The Depot 2.0 and Biohazard are all doing fine. Granted, Biohazard seems determined to try to run weeknight games that they keep cancelling at the last minute due to lack of numbers, but Sundays always book out. Everything is pre-book, nobody has gone back to (actual) walk-ons. Cost, yes, that's an issue. While I'm not a Poor, I do baulk at paying £36 for a Depot day. That doesn't seem to put too many other folk off though, it's busy enough, last I heard. Folk do drop out, that's the nature of any hobby. But actual game days don't depend on... influencers... turning up. Us peasants can have a great day without it being InstaFaced or used as the raw footage for some YouToob fictional production.

I think covid would have had a small impact on numbers, but it's likely those bods would have drifted away eventually anyway. I'm more inclined to blame the "cost of living crisis", literally everything has rocketed in price (except maybe Airsoft green fees ?), & for most Airsoft is low down the list of financial commitments, less disposable income will make people reevaluate their priorities. IMHO ?

The rate of fire will slow down but the actual muzzle energy is NOT affected by the speed of the gearbox cycling unless it is cycling so fast as to cause pre-engagement. Once the sector gear lets go of the piston rack it's purely down to the main spring to provide the motive force. Yes, surface imperfections on the BB and dirt on the barrel can impact performance but as @Leo Greer mentioned the difference in FPS is minimal unless the BBs are awful or your barrel is basically blocked. If an AEG is firing with progressively lower muzzle energy then it won't be caused by the battery or the speed of the motor. Equally your statement that ALL AEGs do this is patently false and most likely observation bias.

I thought The Accountant sums up my profession rather well - it's not all grey suits and tax returns you know ?

G3 SBS build im 90% there with. Just need a collapsing stock (if anyones parting with one or has one knocking about ) Talk about labour of love! Lots of blood sweat tears and swearing. Just need to refit the mock bolt. Ground up rebuild inside and out. Only thing that’s left of the original TM MC-51 is the fire selector and stock. Internally complete ULTIMATE 8mm gear box, 16:1 cnc gears, 35000 boost motor, GATE Titan 2, ultimate compression set, guarder rubber & nub on a madbull python. G&G navy lower & Magnesium upper. Very bodged JG front end that only needed 15 minutes of dremelling ?

Totally depends on the chemistry. The main difference between "traditional" Li-Ion cells and Li-poly cells is that the dielectric in Li-Ion is liquid where the dielectric in LiPo is a dry or gel type polymer (which is more stable and less prone to thermal runaway). They can both have varying chemistry depending on application. It's all down to the chemistry and physics of battery charge. If your battery for example is 1000mAh capacity and you charge from flat at a rate of 1C (ie 1x battery capacity in Amps - in this case 1 Amp) then it will take about an hour. If you charge the same battery at 3C (3 Amps) then yes, it will take around 20 minutes. The point we have tried to help you understand is that not ALL LiPos charge "in 20 minutes" because it depends on a) their max capacity, b) how flat it is and c) what rate you charge them at.

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

You wanna call a plumber mate, sounds like you need some fernox in your pipes?

Oh I'm planning on making a point out of it. ????

In homage to Team America (possibly one of the best films ever made) I call it "a Kim Jong Il moment" : I run a heating company with 4 or 5 underlings and some of the questions I get asked by them and customers beggers belief.

Very true, myself & @Duff Beer were part of a pretty big team, I think 21ish members at one point, great guys & generally all very keen, & then out of the blue a couple lost interest, quickly followed by more who felt they had grown up commitments, next thing it's all come tumbling down, now we're just whispered legends in the halls of valhalla lol. We're not quitters though are we Jim Don't you worry Dan, 6ft7in in the land of little people, you'll have no problems convincing them to keep shooting people, mainly the great big Gaijin??

May, well not be enough... I got through 9 litres plus on Saturday, went for a notional pee once, and was still peeing treacle the next day. But it's not just the liquid you need to replace as @gavinkempsellsaid.

I too remember it from the eighties, used to be on about 1am on a Saturday night, what's really worrying is of late I can't even remember whether I've had my meds or what I had for dinner, yet as soon as I saw the shows name I remembered the platoon sergeant was played by a guy called terrence knox........ That's weird shit lol

There is the turnover factor - there’s a natural cycle of churn. People give up or take a life break ….. and there may or may not be new generations to take over, who may also be going for a different flavour As mentioned above there’s the difference between YouTube playing, regular fun playing and the occasional ad hoc once in a while Post Covid there are different life decisions being made, cost of living affects people etc But also there are those less effected by the cost of living. If you’re a teen with a part time job, small or no rent and no bills other than how you choose to spend the disposable money is still your choice If you’re more affluent then your crisis might be whether or not to cut back on a couple of Proseccos If you don’t have money then you can’t spend it If you have money and need to spend it wisely, you might cut back on a few things, buy cheaper alternatives but have the need for some relief - which might mean a monthly game of shooting people instead of a weekly game, or one or two of your favourite games a year Personally I didn’t do badly under covid, I still worked, didn’t have commuting expenses and now I have partial commuting expenses I shopped, bought shiney things from businesses to support them and still have not got back into a game. I have down my alerts for particular games that are an absolute must (Which are likely to be still not happening this year) plus an emergency contingency game penciled in to secure my need to shoot people Its not necessarily the money, but it’s the experience - there are games that won’t scratch the itch and when I take the time away from the rest of my life activities I want to enjoy it to the best

A little bit off topic but... Watch the 1980's TV series 'Tour of Duty', I recently bought the box set & binge watched it while on holiday. The series kinda struggles with new ideas for each episode but it's deffo worth watching.

I haven't personally noticed it, but then I've been a bit of an airsoft nomad for the past year thanks to work changing my shift pattern. As others have posted I think the rising cost of living will have had an impact, especially for the older players with things like rent/mortgages going up. Another factor could be that as airsoft only really became very well known about in the past few years some of those who started then would've moved on to whatever the next big new thing is. I was going to ask if any qere cqb sites. Unfortunately cqb sites tend to not be around as long as urban areas get redeveloped and land owners want to make their money My problem is that I've got to rely on public transport. While I've got quite a few sites within easy driving distance only 1 is on a direct train line. The rest involve a journey of at least 2 hours plus often a walk too. All of this is a big chunk of my cost of a game day

Ha! Youngsters today have no stamina!

*watches it out of spite*

That's another good point I'd overlooked, the sites themselves, we've lost some of the well established greats, the likes of UA, the mall, combat south & probably many more, new sites are rare & often short lived thanks to the stupid amount of new housing being built. How far your prepared to travel for a decent game then becomes an issue, personally I always end up spending more on fuel to get to & from sites than the actual green fees themselves. But then that's probably my fault for living closer to France than my nearest Airsoft site.

Always try to get my head around we airsofters balk at green fees yet spend thousands on gun/gear I can't think of many all day activities that cost less than airsoft green fees (£36 would last you maybe two rounds for four people in the pub these days.

Err... "brand new Ares AEG L85A2". Listed "as new", but the title is unambiguous, and he's comparing it against new, retail prices. I wouldn't call this bloke a scammer, just a brass necked chancer operating effectively as a trader, without any warranty. It's all consensual, but a lot of grubby interpersonal transactions are.

Our April Dartmoor wildlife sighting; definitely not a deer.

Nobody has mentioned Extraction 2 which was released on Friday I thought a decent enough follow up from the first movie, and leaves you in no doubt there will be a third ?

Season 1 of Shooter is particularly egregious, given that it's specifically about the snipiest of snipers. Put the crosshairs right on the target and you hit. At any range, on any target, from any elevation, without holdover, or leading. I nearly snorted up a lung when Snipy McSniperson described .223 Remington as "a squirrel round". The thing that strikes me is that Hollywood is full of people who make content about guns, but loathe guns so much that they refuse to find out the first thing about them. And that's how you Arec Bardwin someone.

Absolutely the circumstances were atrocious -- but in a time where replicas can be identical to "real steel" variants without the lethality, and convincing effects for muzzle flash / projectile travel can be created without the risk to anyone else, why wouldn't you agree with it? Sure, catching some airsoft replicas might make you feel like there's a little less realism for a moment, but there are plenty "dummy" guns that did the job long before airsoft came along... Replicas and props aren'y anything new by a long shot, so what exactly are you against / in disagreement / uncertainty about? ?

I was at my tenis club the other day when a young man came over and said to me "I'm a ball boy" to me... I said "I'm a tit man myself, but whatever floats your boat..."

The "problem" with molle rigs is that money adds up quickly when considering pouches. With that being said, I had a TT mini mav for a while and I really liked it, I ran it on either a simple triple M4 pouch or a double + a 4x3 GP. The only "downside", if we can call it that way, is that it's not swift clip compatible so you can't strap it to a plate carrier, if that's your jam. Failing that, the Helikon TMR, it's €100 but it's very well made, even though it has fixed pouches it takes M4 and Ak mags just fine. A subgun insert can be jerry rigged (thanks to @SgtTalbert's idea), but tough cookies if you run AR-10/7.62x51 style guns). If scalability (and future proofness) is a requirement, then you can't go wrong with the Ammo Hub from @TheFull9, it's not the cheapest solution but it's very well made and it'll take any insert/pouch you want. Doesn't come with a harness so you'll have to pick your own too.

Idiocracy is nigh.

Some fields have a no-running rule, it's not universal. Additionally, while there is a lower power limit, there's also no MED. There tends to be no sprinting in CQB sites, but they tend to be tighter and smaller, so there's less "need," and more chance to get hurt -- plus Japanese airsofters tend to be focussed more on tactics, rather than rushing around. At the end of the day it generally has more manners -- cheating is rarer, there's not the fighting you see (especially in the US), there's just more honour and respect all-round, IME. More clear-cut and tactics-oriented than rule-bending and sprint-and-spray ?

Oh dear that's not boding well for my retirement next year over there..... Perhaps I can change them ???

I remember watching and liking it as a kid loving the theme song not realising who sung it..... Ah the ignorance of youth. Haven't seen it in decades.

COVID fucked up many venues. You can't base a business model on a "yes, you can open on Tuesday for two weeks for 8 people but you have to be shut for the next three months". The more I play against speedsofters the more I don't enjoy airsoft and I've just started to realise this ting in the last few months prior to previous bad experiences. I just wish I'd have enough money to run my own site and ban all of them from it. ? Japanise airsoft it is. No running indoor. No overshooting. Not bending rules because we've got fragile egos and we're man children. And ofc everything is getting more expensive so people cut back on luxury first.

Saw it back in the 80s and thorough enjoyed it. Time for a revisit.

Have you attended the last couple of skirmishes?

Worth mentioning Exeter Airsoft and the chaps that run driver wood. They recently purchased the land which is a huge deal for Airsoft down that way, there are also a number of sites that I know of that are really putting in the time and effort to upgrade Thier sites. The common one is almost always owning or having "best use" of the land.... As to number of players, well I will get to play maybe three/four times a year so I am maybe one of those that are infrequent at sites....

Have you recently been hit by a rhythm stick? If you have you could be entitled to compensation through a personal Ian Dury claim.

This. A lower voltage battery (whether it's a 7.4v compared to an 11.1v, or a dying battery compared to a fresh one) will cycle the GB slower but not affect the fps. The muzzle energy is down to the potential energy in the compressed spring

SO MUCH THIS. It's the regular folks that are the meat and veg of venues going, and keeping places running strong. I saw an (USian) airsoft YouTuber recently complaining about folk who'd turn up with fancy guns, and then beg to borrow play fees... like, my dude, if you can't afford to pay for yourself, why should I believe you'd be able to pay me back? Green fees are a weird one. I think some people don't like the idea of x chunk of change going on y amount of time running around, but venues still have bills, insurance, etc. to pay, so it's important - and £5 or £10 a game generally isn't going to cut it. If they could see their fee per hours of skirmishing, or per smile (cheesy, I know) they'd probably feel better about it -- but the Gucci gear folks would rather put the money towards a shiny toy, than the opportunity to have fun and actually use it ?‍♀️

The power spring in an airsoft gun is a mechanism for storing energy. When the spring is released, that energy is expended in overcoming whatever is preventing the spring returning to its pre-compressed length, which can be friction in the guide rails or between the piston head O ring and the cylinder, or air resistance. Provided that the spring is always compressed to the same length, the energy stored will always be the same, regardless of how that compression is achieved, assuming that the spring strength remains constant..

Sure, but my issue is when they choose to get things so deliberately wrong, in a way that assumes the audience lacks the most minimal of knowledge, or even the basic cognitive reasoning of an average ten year old. As an audience member, it feels personally insulting.

Not a lad, but I'll weigh in all the same As others have said, some places took a hit with the pandemic -- I'd imagine some folk sold up as lockdown went on (and on, and on...), others maybe fell out of love with it... numbers are still pretty good in a lot of places though! I don't think sites are struggling to find players too much, but obviously it can vary -- I've seen some places packed like sardines for one skirmish, and only have a handful of players the next. ?‍♀️ I think cost of living counts for a lot now -- I know of one site at least which has basically tripled the price of its pyros, and removed member discounts on consumables and fees For sites, a lot of the worry is how they've managed to keep going financially during covid, and if/how they've managed to get player numbers back up afterwards. Think it can really depend where you are, though!

Very nice ? Now get to the bathroom and wash all that paint off! ? Bet you got it all up the handle as well lol? Regards

A lorry load of ballroom dancing equipment has been spilled all over the M3. Police are advising drivers to go slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.

Oh don't worry, I didn't hang around to breath it in ? Charging at a lower rate does help preserve the life of the battery. This is the rule I follow: From an FPV website... "The safest way to charge a lipo battery and the one that puts the least amount of strain on your battery is to charge at a rate of "1C" or 1 times capacity. A 1C charge rate means that the current will charge the entire battery in 1 hour ( assuming you are starting with a fully discharged battery around 3.2v ). For example, if you had a 1000mAh lipo, to charge at 1C you would set your charger for 1 Amp. If you had a 500mAh battery, you would set your charger to 0.5 Amps. If you have a 1500mAh battery, you would set the charger to 1.5 Amps."

I've written quite a bit about AUG's. However I'm out of the loop so to speak. You can visually see the difference in 2 of the budget bodies. JG uses a smooth body all over, same as the TM and CA. APS/AA and a few others have raised textured areas on the stock and pistol grip. Of those 2 bodies there's very little difference in feeling, but the JG is slightly nicer feeling IMO. Neither body is any worse or better than the other. TM/CA and externally identical to the JG in all standard variants bar the HC. The HC is closer externally to the ASG commando, but I've seen that with both APS and JG style bodies. All uppers A1 A2 are identical across all manufacturers. A3/A4 variants are usually an A2 upper with a RIS kit, And are imo the only aug variant you should avoid as the balance is all whack with them. Some AUG's have a 3 position safety allowing a semi only position. You can modify a 2 position safety to be 3 position if wanted. I've shown the modification in other posts on here if you search. The internals is really what separates AUGS. JG are the best budget internals. They come with a better motor and gearbox internals. APS can and do have issues with the piston head having an injection point on the sealing face of the piston head that can eat the o-rings over time. The gears aren't as good as the stock JG ones, and the motor is weaker on the ones I've played with. It is a solid gearbox however and even stock with the dodgy piston head it is reliable. CA do the only AUG with a stock mosfet. JG are better value and a Mosfet can be installed on an AUG without even opening the gearbox. So the mosfet is only a selling point if you can't install one yourself. TM do the best running gearboxes, but the gears are soft and they don't take FPS increasing upgrades without also wanting the gears upgrading. Overall I'd say unless you want a HC out of the box, you are universally better off with a JG. ASG do a few variants in both APS and JG body's. Typically the value/discovery line is 0.8 joules and has plastic gearbox bushings, but the rest of the gun is standard internally. The sport line is 1 joule and may have slightly different internals but nothing significant. The proline sometimes comes with a mosfet, and should have bearings and a QC spring system, but these are model and age dependant upgrades, the mosfet is a very recent addition I haven't had one of these in my hands yet. Of the 3 if you are capable of upgrading, the value/discovery line is the way forwards. Bearings (£10) and a spring (£5) and your already over the sport line. I would also be very surprised if a value line didn't come with a QC spring system provided it's from new/new stock. Externally you may get either a JG or APS but I wouldn't be overly worried about that for the £110 price point. It's a far more budget friendly option than the others that only have minor gearbox improvements. https://bbgunsuk.co.uk/asg-aug-a2-styre-electric-airsoft-gun-in-black/ All models in all manufacturers come with the same hop unit. There will be some variation on internal barrels but not enough to swing a buying decision as the ZCI S/S barrel will out perform all stock barrels. Same with motors and after market HT motor is going to be better than anything stock bar the TM HC variants. So keep the base gun cheap as possible. As for your other worries, Creaking is a feature on an AUG. They all do it. As too is BB's getting lost in the body on mag changes. All uppers have some movement. These are the price of wanting to run an AUG, and you have to want to run one and live with the body issues otherwise get a M4 variant. The Hop unit and barrel should be free floating on the spring as this is a vital feature on the AUG it locks the body, tensions the gearbox, and aligns everything internally. You can not shim an AUG barrel it'll cause you a massive headache.

Strike Industries TM MWS completed(?) Might experiment with a small red dot or something, but I can't see it changing much more than that. Started in March last year! Time flies. Love how it turned out. To match, also built a Strike Industries TM G17 (decided to not go with the EMG/G&P prebuilt one in the end). Waiting on a nicer red dot to arrive, but God knows when that will be. Make quite a nice pair!

Kinda had this lying around ? It’s a proper cheeky wee scamp!