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If my wife asks, about £20, and i won a lot of raffles

So as 2023’s airsofting is over I thought I’d embark on the masochistic ritual of tallying up the year’s expenditure. We only started in May this year, but it’s quickly ascended to being a primary hobby with an outlay to match. I’ll preface this by pointing out this is for two as I’m covering me and my son, so you could reasonably expect to halve this for a single player. Overall, perhaps unsurprisingly, I’ve spent more than I thought over the year, but I’m still happy with the deal I get for time out with the boy doing something we both enjoy. There’s also chunk of discretionary spend in here. Things like the Hi-Capa, optics and some other addons were birthday presents for the boy. In effect that money was going to be spent regardless, if not on airsoft then some other interest or hobby. Wearables could have been far higher I suspect. He already has a full compliment of MTP gear from cadets and I just wear a mix of sports wear and black combats. Most of this spend has been on face-pro and carriers. If I was going to go down the full cosplay loadout route I expect this would be much higher. As it is I’m happy with my current I-Use-This-For-DIY-&-Decorating Terrain Pattern loadout. The weapon upgrades were entirely unnecessary. Certainly nice to have but not made a huge practical difference game to game. Both AEGs got motor upgrades, plus a new hop unit, bucking and nub for my M4 and a MOSFET for his G36. No regrets, I like to tinker but I doubt I could claim its changed the course of any battles. Biggest waste of money were two pairs of surplus Revision Bullet Ant goggles. They were bulky, uncomfortable and constantly fogged up. Replaced with Bolle Trackers for £8 a pair and they’ve been perfect. Best buy has been my Bulle chest rig from Flecktarn. Super cheap, super comfy, exceptionally well made and makes a vast difference to a game day. I think my number one recommendation to new players after weapons and face protection is some kind of carrier. Two AEGs and a pistol for a shade over £400 seems like a sensible spend for the year. Too soon to speak for the Hi-Capa as it’s new, but my Double Eagle and his Cyma have chewed through around 10,000 rounds each without complaint. Being sensible, 2024 could be much cheaper. We don’t need any more gear and if I bulk buy some BBs the ammo expenditure should be reasonable. However we’ve both got GBBRs on our list of interest so in reality it’s probably going to be another expensive year. I regret nothing.

Freshly completed UKSF L119A1 build. TM M4 NGRS CQBR base gun. Put together by Firesupport UK, and painted by myslef.

I bought one of these super-cheap scope mounts from Ant-Supplies (£9!), and it's doing a pretty good job with my old air rifle scope It could do with cantilevering a bit further forward, just an extra 3/4" would help with the eye relief from my natural position , but it's 'good enough'. (I suppose I could have the turrets in front of the forward ring, but I think that would look odd)

You can reach that point when you've got so many guns you don't use half of them even if you play on a regular basis. You spend easily hundreds if not thousands before you realize it though. 🧐

Fast Delivery from Surplus Store, only ordered these on Wednesday. All I need now is the pew to use them with.

Let me get this straight .... you were using a G&G mag in an Ares with a Specna gearbox. The nozzle broke, you think it was the follower that's in the G&G mag that caused it. My 308 mags have the same follower, but they are designed to work in conjunction with the 'stop on empty' function and this may be where your issue is coming from as I'm presuming your pew doesn't have this and therefore every time your pew cycles when empty, the nozzle hits the follower. In which case you're probably right in your assumption as to how your nozzle broke.

I think if you have a supplementary power source, esp something like capacitors, you will take some of the load off the primary power source. Those smaller caps are likely to have much lower esr than the larger ones and may be able to supply a burst to help the battery whose voltage is sagging which is significant. Getting enough energy out of them to matter would be the issue. There are some some fairly standard caps of 47000uF 16v with 13mOhm ESR. Sadly they would only give you 47mA for a msec for each volt they were above battery voltage, but could supply 77A. getting the right cap for the job, esp given what is available its tricky and you may have found the best cap already for the task.

You know what MOA is, right? 5 MOA is 5" at 100yards. I very much doubt any standard AEG would do much better than 25 MOA!

“Will an Airsoft gun scare off a fox?” asked the op Only if we ram it up your pipe and you squeal like you deserve!

I can just imagine it. Him sitting alone in his bedroom in his ghillie suit with his "Sniper", "Shooter" and "Enemy at the gates" posters on the walls, surrounded by empty KFC buckets, stroking his rifle and muttering "nasty, nasty. We will makes them sorry, won't we my precious?"

I would like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year. It's been an interesting,funny and,at times,fudal year of forum shannigins and banter which all makes afuk the place to be. As of now I am in Christmas mode and shall be donning the Santa apron and putting the Heineken hat on and staying up late.(10.30ish) lol. I shall probably go dark for a while as posting up eats into drinking time🍺🍺. God willing I shall be looking forward to another year of Airsoft and gun fun 😁 Enjoy your festiveness and I hope all your wishes come true x P.s No talking about me while I'm gone👍 Regards

Early xmas present to myself 😎

I bet the moderation is strong in this one...

Not really bought, more got I sent in my LeatherMan tool that I purchased back in ‘99 whilst visiting Singapore to the supporting retailer for warranty assistance I was hoping for a sharpen and tighten Instead, they “retired” it and replaced it with the current replacement model Well chuffed! I do carry it on my loadout if that counts

I think your All over complicating this. All you need is a bipod, massive scope and a huge suppressor. Preferably on something really unsuitable, like a p90. An L85 will do though.

Sorry to bore you all again haha Finally an updated family photo of my British Forces weapons. picture 1 Column 1 L115A3 L86A2 L85A2 / L123A2 UGL L85A2 TES L85A2 (3para 2009) L22A2 pistols L9A1 MK2 Browning L105A1 (SAS CRW) L105A2 ( UOR P226) L131A1 (gen 4 glock) Column 2 L108A1 (MK1 minimi) L119A1 CQB L119A1 SFW Model 723 Model 715 (SAS GW1) L1A1 SLR Column 3 L7A2 GPMG L100A1 L91A1 (A3) L92A1 (SD) L128A1 combat shotgun L74A1 L1A1 Law 66 Picture 2 L85A2 TES Updated! Swapped my original ICS to this ARES version. Picture 3 L129A1 SHARPSHOOTER Picture 4 Diemaco C7 In use with paras and royal marines. Picture 5 Colt Model 701 seen in use by sas during OP Barras. Picture 6 Colt Model 604 As used in Northern Ireland 70/80's