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Just got home from a day of airsofting at Driver Wood (first time at the site) and I've definitely got a bit of a write up for my experience. Day started early with my alarm going off at 6:30am, but I was ready to go get stuck in. I planned on using the MWS set up as a DMR to make the most of their 1.88J with 25m MED DMR rules, since Worthing Airsoft's DMR rules are just not worth bothering with. Had to dial the hop all the way on to lift the .4s, but on green gas it was sailing them out nicely at about 1.8 - 1.85J, so once I got the gun chronoed and saw how it was performing I was set. I joked with my friend as we headed out, saying "ah, we're a DMR and a bolt action sniper, so I'm sure we won't be the front line." This joke is important for our story here... First game was a three base domination and was a good game to get started. As I had no idea where anything was, I took myself into a central position with my friend who was running his VSR and we got entrenched in some bushes and started picking people off. It didn't take long before we were the front line, with the rest of our team all dead and not pushing back up. He eventually got taken out, leaving me by myself as I was slotting people on the flank just one after the other (seriously, I loved running a DMR as it allowed me to engage multiple enemies one after the other). I eventually got taken out too when a player on the other team was basically on top of me trying to work out where I was, despite me using an MWS with its clack-clack GBBR mechanism. He said he would never have found me if I was running something quiet. We headed back to respawn and then found that our team was basically being spawn-camped. This was a sign of things to come and something I was wary of going into the day after what I heard at the brief. Second game we had to escort a pair of VIPs to various spots across the site, having to hold it for 5 minutes. I'll be honest with you, we got absolutely folded again, barely getting out of our spawn. I managed to hold one of the flanks with another guy, just doing Viet Cong tactics hitting them and then disappearing into the foliage all game; Namsoft taught me well! I also lost count of how many grenades they threw in our direction, both a combination of green smokes (count as toxic, so can't be in it without a gas mask) and bangs. They must've spent a small fortune trying to uproot us, but every time they threw grenades, we simply weren't there. I was surprised to hear we managed to do a whole 1 of the objectives, which was 1 more than I thought with how the game was going. We swapped sides and it was much the same; I took a central position and my friend got into a really good spot for sniping, but while we managed to totally lock down part of the site, the other team was running rampant elsewhere. Then we got teamkilled by a mortar that wiped out about 7 or 8 of us and we totally lost control of that too. That was probably the most frustrating part of the day as it was the one part of the site where it felt like we had traction and then we got mass teamkilled. Third game involved a bunch of oversized playing cards. Numbers were 5 points, pictures were 10 points, ace was 15 points and the joker was -20 points for the enemy team. No prizes for guessing how it went. We actually got a decent start, but then with only a few of us defending the base the other team eventually rolled in and stole all of the cards. I was the last man standing having to cover behind me with the pistol as well as the front with the MWS and it was just a bit too much for me alone. Regardless after I got hit I stood there waiting for a medic, knowing full-well that nobody was around to do so. It did exactly what I wanted it to, as I had 4 of them distracted by me and slowing them down in their endeavours as they watched me with paranoia. However, my team didn't come back in and all of our cards got stolen. I went back to spawn and... we were basically spawn-camped. Again. I still managed to break off and take out a bunch of them from a flank they weren't watching much, but by this point most of our team had given up. I'm not the type and I don't mind being on the losing team, but I could see why morale was low; we had spent all day getting kicked around the site. Anyway, I did have fun and do enjoy a bit of an uphill battle, especially considering I was against so many regulars while I've never been to the site so I don't know any of the strong positions or even where half of the objectives were. The MWS performed exactly as I wanted it to, but outside of 1.88J I will continue to run it at 1.14J elsewhere; I noticed a little more effective range with 1.88J, but it was borderline. So, my overall thoughts: Good: + The site itself is lovely. It's huge and they clearly put a lot of effort into making it a very fun site to play at. + DMR rules are great. 1.88J with a 25m MED is where I'll use one and I thoroughly enjoyed doing so + Games were well put together and worked well with the site + Early start. Briefing at 9am and it's not a massively long one, so we were out to play nice and early. + Very nice safe zone and actual toilets! Shame airsofters are a disgusting lot and the male toilets were rather splashed from bad aim Bad: - Horrendous team imbalance confirmed my suspicions I had going into it. Even heard one of the marshalls speaking to a regular who was on our team saying "you know all the regulars go on green and we always do that side as green" after they split us down the middle - That team imbalance was never addressed. At lunch time, despite orange team getting hammered and basically pushed back to spawn every game the marshalls did nothing to balance it. When there were more greens than oranges, it was more newbies and kids who were moved onto orange rather than a group of regulars. - Hit taking was laughably bad. I had many shots that I watched to completion through my scope, with people recoiling from the hits and then just continuing on. And I know these are being felt as they're .4s at 1.88J that they're recoiling from - It's very businesslike. Whereas Worthing, Southdown and Gunman all feel like a community, Driver Wood very much feels like a business first and I feel it lacked the character of other sites. I felt very detached. Meh: ~ I don't think I've ever been at a skirmish weekend with that much pyro being hurled at me. Green smokes and bangs were raining down like someone on green won the lottery ~ People were proving my point when I say "full auto is a crutch for people who can't aim" with the amount of high ROF full auto spray that was being peppered everywhere ~ Gun sock. My gun literally can't fire if the mag is out, but gun sock needed. I kinda understand this one since they have such a wide customer base and people are dumb ~ They never checked if my DMR was semi-locked. I could've rocked up with a Section 5 firearm and nobody would've known. Fortunately, I'm not a jackass and had already modified my fire selector to only shoot on semi (such an easy mod on the MWS...) - "Outside food is not allowed" combined with "don't worry, we have relatively expensive food on sale". I didn't eat anything on principle! - Going back to the safe zone after every game. Those safe zone breaks need to be shorter! I did enjoy myself and will likely go back again, but there are definitely issues and I can see that a lot of what I heard about Driver Wood was well-founded. Good thing is that the site is good and the games are good, so I can largely make my own fun, but there are a lot of very easily solvable issues that do impact it.

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Thanks for this report. I have been contemplating going to Driver Wood as I have heard some positives comments about it. However, I have been hesitant following my eldest's visit there a while ago. He used to be a regular player, was a marshal for a few years and still plays very occasionally. His experience was very similar to yours, especially with regard to the unbalanced teams (regulars v the rest), spawn camping and hit taking. I don't think I will bother going. The "outside food is not allowed" rule seems to show that it is, indeed, very much a business. I was planning to go to Airsoft Plantation today, but events prevented me doing so; Tower Airsoft on Saturday will be my next outing, followed by Splatoon the following Sunday.

Well, that is not a statement I expected to read here.

Smug bastad! LOL

I don't disagree with anything you wrote, and it's interesting to see the "bad" points line up with the "less good" ones I experienced and put down to me having a shitty day. I didn't think the food was that expensive for what it was, btu equally I am used to Spec Ops which is largely homemade and included. I did take my own water with me as i always do in warm weather, and no one said anything despite me filling my hydration kit openly in the safe zone. We played the VIP and card games when I was there and they were very enjoyable, despite our team getting a pasting - I helped retake the tower for our team half way through reclaiming our cards in the nick of time. Eventually we got taken out with extreme prejudice by what must have been, as you discovered regulars (we were on the Orange team). Chrono seemed fairly well run I thought - they even, to my annoyance but understanding, cut off all my chrono tags from past games. Sort out team balance, and it would make a massive improvement. As you said it is great well thought out site. I'll definitely go back to give it another day.

The magnifier itself its a bit of a crab shoot, even the Eotech and Aimpoint offerings are still a bit lacklustre with the eye relief. Surprisingly the Eotech G45 had the best eye relief and its the most powerful at 5x. EG Tactical or Holly Warrior 2022 versions seem to have the best glass for rip offs of the above. Ref the mount. If you can get on with the height I would go with the Unity rip off OMNI FTC (flip to centre) mount and pair it with a fast mount for your Vortex as having stuff hanging to the right or left is just a PITA. Below image is an older version with a G33 mount but you get the idea. Good vid with info on the mounts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOXLnRPJhsA&ab_channel=WarriorPoetSociety

Oh, right, I've just seen the video, I had to download it to get it to play. That... urgh... Nuprol battery and the polarity should be OK, although NiMh is old technology and I wouldn't spend one penny more on it. A 7.4V lipo will do the same job. The basic-bitch mosfet in the Edge can get stroppy at higher voltages and motor draws, but would flash red if so. As @Dan Robinson says, it should flash green when you plug the battery in. If the mosfet isn't flashing green it's misbehaving (or conceivably the batteries are total duds, or your charger has discharged them - some NiMh "smart" chargers can be worse than useless, and Nuprul gonna Nuprol). If you're getting the green flash on connection, then the motor terminal connections are a good shout. It looks like you have the quick-access grip with a squeeze-to-open latch (that's actually a terrible idea normally, but which will be handy here). Be careful when you remove the base plate, there's a little disk in there which sits under the motor that loves to fall out and get lost. Although since this is brand new, I would also agree that the best thing to do is to call the retailer and have them talk you through it, because at least then you'll be doing things under their instruction and they'll be less able to argue the toss on it if it does have to go back. It probably is something simple, that's not a fire-control mosfet, just a simple relay, and there's not much to go wrong there.

Apart from the stock nut maybe needs a dab of thread lock, it's all good. I use (rightly or wrongly) a bit of silicon grease mixed with abbey silicone spray to make a light grease which I used on the bolt and charging handle. A bit of the spray on the trigger assembly, and that's it Enjoy!

You can adjust the power by twisting the screw inside the nozzle, you need a 1.5mm Allen key, anti clockwise for more power Run the heaviest BBs you can find / afford because you won't be shooting many of them... I ran 0.40s mostly but 0.32s are easier to buy Ultrair or Abbey Sniper Brut, minimal silicone content to keep the hop rubber dry I run a two point sling with a sling point on the top RIS rail and using the built in point on the rear of the receiver. The whole gun is built like a tank, you won't have any problems. The stock nut on mine likes to undo itself, that's the only thing that would give me pause about attaching the sling to it.

Just tell them its faulty and return it

Quite the necro post - but it's about driver wood which makes me tingle in my priesthood. Heard they were cutting bush and I admittedly got scared. So much concealment on that site makes for brilliant flanking but I understand why, because people stick to the main open areas and venture out very little. I'm there tomorrow too, I'll be the easiest target to aim for.

You could buy your own with a mackerel... Like 90% of my collection my UGL's are purely ornamental.

Used but "not used it for a while" so selling "as new" No mention of manufacturer for all the accesories "Very rare" this and that Can't even be bothered to wipe the dust

Just lower recoil, more cool down and venting per shot and just generally not feeling as "punchy"

Mmm, airsoft spring ratings are more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules. The good news is that it sounds like you've got great airseal, so you can downspring and every other component will thank you for it. While I'll stress that @ak2m4 really does know what he's talking about, it is just possible that you might need to go lower than M100 on an XT spring. I absolutely fluked out on a short-tight-barrel M4 and hit 1.3J with an M100 XT spring and had to drop to an M90 to tame it. But that's a freakish occurrence, and an XT M100 will typically be the sweet spot for UK guns.

Did the little green light on the mosfet light up when you plug the battery in? Also...have you checked the battery with a multimeter?

Aesthetically; G&G SR20, custom machined rail, inner and outer barrel. ACM MP5SD hand guard 40mm suppressor CYMA Strike industries grip CYMA stock Magpul trigger guard

Work in progress, BRT CAR15-SD 300 blk replica. This gun encompasses all the best bits of various guns imo; Its a sub-gun / PDW - my fave size. MP5SD vibes - just love MP5s. Retractable stock - again MP5. AR controls - ergonomics. 20rd mags - easy to shoot when prone. 300 subsonics - cool as F in real steel.

Send it back and get a refund or replacement. Opening it up will void any warranty and leave you with an expensive paperweight if you can't fix it.

Child, you have more pressing concerns. I can see your school grades online remember....better keep them where they are. Or the L85A1 will find its way here.... https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/category/1-electric/ 🤗

finally rattlecanned the Mk12

UPDATE.... Arrived and although the packaging had been devastated everything was present and in good condition. Thanks for the info all

Got me some stickers and some Plasti Dip for the tired pick and pluck foam in my gun case. Killed hotel boredom for a bit and gave it some life.

Oldie but a goodie: Supposed transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Ops 10-10-95.

I have done this more times than I wish to admit...

the annoyance of finding out that nuprol vn short midcap mags dont fit or feed into a G&P M16a1

My last two pairs were 47" waist 85 leg.... and the waist is getting to be a tad snug. 😖

A bit optimistic for a gun that's over 10 years old and came with a plastic gearbox