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Son and I did our first games with our own kit yesterday! Spent the morning at Dogtag in Sussex. The guns and eyepro we had bought worked faultlessly and really upped our enjoyment of the games. In total this was our fourth session and we are starting to get a feel for this now, there’s less running around like headless chickens and we’re starting to think about strategy. Theres lots more gear to buy 😂 like decent gloves, something to hold spare mags, etc. Pretty happy with our weapons, my son got a number or people remark how good his one looks with scope and suppressor. roll on next weekend!

I wanted to test the theory of barrel scratches, I took 3 barrels, brass, aluminium and stainless steel. Did a borescope video before on all 3, then used a nylon cleaner brush 15 passes on each one, then cleaned with tissue and isopropanol, then another borescope video. I was expecting perhaps some scratch on the brass but nothing on any of them. Just be 2 cents worth. @Yashy Have a watch on YT at how to remove and clean an inner barrel, it will also explain to you about how to clean and remove the hop chamber and hop rubber. If you plan on playing quite a lot this information will really help you get the most out of your AEG.

https://www.usedairsoft.co.uk/clothing-gear/wanted-as-starting-off_i55899 and https://www.airsoft-hub.com/item/27250-beginner "I've been bitten by the airsoft bug but I don't want to spend anything. I see so many of you have worked smart/hard or invested well or perhaps inherited to buy your gear so I just want to mooch off complete strangers."

Haha, you're not the only one. I'm waiting on my rather expensive new toy to arrive and we're only 1 week into the new year...

Bad start to the new years spend already 🤷🏼‍♂️ But what can you do……. enough spares to build another one included.

Should pay me for looking at that fugly stock

I did some work on my mates car for him and in payment he gave me a pew that I didn't have in my collection..... An Ares Scar L. It didn't work (i knew this, he knows i like playing with them to revive them!) so i got to it. stripped, cleaned, greased, shimmed, confused about this EFCS malarkey, figured it out, chrono'd at 0.6j (0.28g) and wondered why the ambidextrous selector was in a bag in the box.... OH MY GOD. what a faff. No, scratch that, WHAT A MONUMENTAL PAIN IN THE ASS THAT IS!!! Now i have patience. I'm an engineer. things that come apart should go back together (with the odd left over screw of course) but even i gave up with that!! Nightmare job. Anyway. Scar L now 1.1J on a 0.28 and with the help of the internet, firing semi/3 shot. Safe is more of a suggestion on behalf of the selector switch (that ISNT ambi!!!!!) Just thought i'd vent/share. LOL.

Time to send all the broken/knackered stuff we all have kicking around at the back of the drawer. I’ve got a KWA USPC with a knackered hop that it’s impossible to fix and make work for example…

Had to laugh. Got home from work and my boy has tried every accessory on it already....😂

Latest arrival Not much info regarding these online, and YT videos are very old and scarce Im pleasantly surprised with the build quality of the TM plastics and more metal than I had expected. Still to be tested as my batteries are deans and I don’t want to change this at all. more a collectors piece than skirmishable, but it will get an outing one day The few YT videos out there show partial markings, this has full “UZI” on the receiver, probably something to do with different markets, but didn’t think that TM bothered with that stuff

May I ask what you think you're missing out on by not quite hitting the joule limit? There certainly comes a point where the pellets travel so (relatively) slowly that you're not competitive on the field but in the real world, you're not going to be at an appreciable competitive disadvantage if you're ~0.1J below the limit. Maybe it's just me but I'd take being able to sight an opponent first and have a better trigger response over chasing the joule limit.

How much under? Around 285-300 on a 0.25 is just about perfect. With a 0.25g BB, the maximum FPS is 313, as it gives the same energy (Joules) as 350FPS with a 0.20g BB. If you set up your rifle to be at, or only just below, the limit there is always a risk that you will be overpowered on a site chrono when you go to play; chronos are not consistent. It is better to set the rifle up to be at about 1J (328FPS on a 0.20g BB or 295FPS on a 0.25g BB) and fit, for example, a 60 degree Maple Leaf Macaron hop rubber with one of AK2M4's red nubs. You will see a noticeable improvement in range and consistency, especially if you also fit a better quality barrel.

Apparently a second hand gun, that costs £495 new, rockets in value to £700 when you add a new hop, spring & a service. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a hop & spring an integral part of any aeg, without either it would be boneyard. Yep, servicing costs money but not essential to sell an aeg, unless of course it was faulty & needed the attention ?. Seller also states it's discontinued, while technically correct, 20 seconds on Google found a UK retailer with them in stock for £495, so I'm still trying to figure out why a secondhand gun, that shouldn't be worth more than £350, £400 at best, is apparently worth £700 ? 🤔 Opinions please, anyone else got a valuation ?

It does look like you are clearing some grease from the barrel, which is a good thing. There will be some resistance but, if it is too much, use less cleaning rag. I would not use a paper towel, though. Use something softer to reduce the risk of scratching the barrel; I use strips of J-Cloth with Isopropyl alcohol. Make sure you do not damage the hop rubber. It is better to take the barrel out of the gun to do it, if possible; that enables you to get a good look down the barrel to make sure it is clean.

It's not like he said it has to be in working or reparable condition. 🤷‍♂️

Ironically membranes like this only work when they are dry, they get wet and you soak yourself from the inside since they become plastic bags. Hence the dwr on such things. I gave up long ago trying to keep feet dry, one or two pairs or wool socks soak up a fair bit of moisture and you can change them out at lunch. If you are going to get your feet a little damp it won't matter either way and if your going through puddles, or standing in water, leather or the membranes will result in the same result, wet feet. Some feet are sweatier than others of ofcourse so some might get on with membranes better. I change my socks out, I find it more comfortable that way. I have the sealskin gloves too, very nice gloves but mine are too short to keep the water out.

The pic looks familiar, as does the text, or at least the context, I think he tried it on here previously, & I've definitely seen similar posts elsewhere, whether its the same chancer I've no idea, they usually get short shrift. LOL, probably related to the various pikeys that wander around with a petrol can claiming to have run out of fuel & needing a few quid to get to their wife who's in labour⛽🤰

Hi, cant comment on foot problems as i dont have any, but i have the adidas terrex in trainer and boot form. Wore the boots today after breaking them in last week and they have performed really well. Feet comfortable and dry all day, the open tread pattern dealt with the wet mud on site really well. Wore a decent pair of socks too

Have a look at a microfibre “stuff it” pouch, these usually come on a small carabiner that you could attach to your kit in some way. Retractable lanyard would be ideal.

Sorry djben9 only just seen your comment. This is something he wants to do and has kind of dragged me into it. I don’t mind as I’m enjoying it more than I thought! it’s a good idea about radios, we do seem to get separated pretty quickly. I actually shot him on Saturday, he was retreating and I mistook him for an enemy trying to flank us. By the time I realised it was him I’d already pulled the trigger. 😂 Are there any particular radios you’d recommend?

Running my British WW1 kit a few weeks ago up at Adrenalin Airsoft (Was visiting a friend, very far north for me usually) one of the best regular skirmish days I've had in a while! (Repping the First Battalion Boys WW1 team insignia, based on blackadder's fictional badges)

They make some interesting offerings. Have owned a VZ58 and a Tavor of theirs in the past. In fairness to them they have made some improvements in the latter over the years. A separate rotary hop up unit rather than an integrated model and a microswitch based gearbox rather than the rod based system of before. That being said, it can be wonderfully annoying to have installed you various upgrades and have the allen screws heads strip as you put the aeg back together. So wouldn't be in a rush to get another one from the firm. Although they still are cranking out different products from the rest of the market. The RDB and L42 are certainly fresh. Makes a change from the latest PCC or M4/AK with mlok foregrip.

Excellent! Keep on enjoying it and always remember that it is about having fun.

I've always had a thing about selector switches and had to fettle them so they feel right. The geared ones seem have too much play and the others, well they grind or somesuch. Bushing the geared ones is doable but alot of faff, but almost the only way unless maybe enhance the detent in some way.

I want both. And an MP5

Depending on where you are in Thames Valley, it may be worth considering the Battery run by RIFT Airsoft. It's toward the top end of your 2 hour driving limit as it's based in Essex just east of Stansted Airport. Is all indoor a strict requirement? The site has outdoor sections, however, some of which form part of the objectives depending on the game(s) played there.

yeah I used the m90 one, kinda wish I had a bit more fps! Im hitting under 300. at 1J

UK sellers are really, really unlikely to have most of those in stock, and definitely won't have the main seal in stock - https://www.kyairsoft.com/ is go to for all parts WE.

A Fleabay purchase just arrived today, speed loader adaptors, WE GBB AR15/M4 (needs a very slight fettle to lock into the loader, prob easier to fettle the loader), AK & MP5 both work perfectly.

oh it could be the hop, if you increased the hop, the FPS will drop, because more force is being applied to spinning the BB if you touched the hop any amount at all, it can affect the FPS a little bit it cannot be battery, battery does not really affect FPS

If you don't want to take the gun apart then at least make sure the hop off is dialled off completely, that's the easiest but to damage. To be honest I've often used bits of kitchen roll, it didn't occur to me that it could any harm!

I thought I had a handle on this thread, now I don't.

There was a batch of the old British assault boots where the soles suddenly self destructed without warning and crumbled almost overnight. People on patrol with field dressings wrapped around their boot to retain what was left of the sole was an amusingly common sight, kind of turned the boot into some kind of medieval fabric footwear.

Hi All, I am the Project Lead for this event, Craig. I have messaged the admin here to make sure I can reply in plenty of detail without breaching any rules (I don't want to be seen to be promoting Op Scorpio in this thread). You have all raised some familiar points that I am keen to address, and will do as soon as I have heard back from Admin. I can assure you this is a very real event, ran in a very different way to a traditional airsoft event. We promise to be 100% transparent with you all and will, in full detail address every point made to give complete clarity. In the meantime the contact number on the website will come straight through to me if you would like to call through and discuss further (I won't post the link without admin permission, but the number is on the contact page). This is the first known thread we have discovered about our event and I am grateful for the feedback. I will be having edits made to the website to reflect your points. Until then I would urge you to re look at prize fund distribution, and any of our sponsors would happily take your call to confirm their involvement I am sure. Until my next post, enjoy your weekends, if it wasn't for threads like this we would not be able to build these events into what they are. Craig Op Scorpio Project Lead Director Project Zodiac Limited Massive thanks to Tuton for starting this thread, hope we get a good welcome ourselves 😉

I think that Airsoft is a game played for fun and enjoyment. By offering a monetary prize those reasons go out of the window and it becomes a competition which some players will be desperate to win at any costs. We have all seen instances of "I hit you mate","no you didn't mate". Can you imagine how this sort of scenario would be escalated if I large prize payout was at stake. Competition is ok in the case of putting your skills to the test in a static comp by hitting targets and trying to beat the best time and accuracy of other players and the winner gets the shiny new gun. I think I would be keeping a good distance from this event.

Yes, banned after being flagged up earlier.

I agree, the wording is vague, "completed" could mean many things, e.g. if all the product information is uploaded, so the advert is "completed" and no further editing is expected if the duration of the listing has expired, therefore the listing duration is "completed", but the item may be unsold and there could be a new listing with the same item if the product is unsold, but the seller withdraw the advert, marking the listing as "completed" While "sold" cannot be interpreted any other way therefore a better alternative

clear enough for me but I’ve still had multiple messages from zero post count lurkers asking 😂

After stagging on all of christmas I've got this week off, which is probably just about the worst one of the year for games but I had to make sure I got one in at least. Took my life in my hands and drove through the biblical floods (some puddles) down to Zed Adventures last night. I think it's probably fair to say there aren't a ton of indoor/urban regular sites in what I'd call 'central south'; not a huge number of sites in general really considering population. You've got loads of sites in Essex/Kent, a blob around Portsmouth, couple of CQB places in Gloucester then the map is a little sparse if you draw a circle around Oxford. With me generally living life around/between NW London, Oxfordshire and Shropshire; Zed was the least-worst place to get to during the evening this week. I'm really not sure if it was worth the trip in the end though 😂 There's a cheap multi-storey (cost me £2 to park) that's well lit and you come out maybe ~15m from the site entrance.. and that's about all that's really positive I could say. In theory you're totally under cover, but the old shop has so many leaks now I got mud on my trousers.. 🤨 (doesn't matter, just funny). The crowd that showed up were all really nice, chill players, but obviously that's a positive reflection on them as people not the site staff. Said staff weren't bad people per se either, but I felt like I was just tagging along at a private speedsoft game night for the marshals, all of which were playing pretty much all of the time. Not a feeling I've ever had at a game before. Also the shortest game briefs I've ever had playing airsoft, by a large margin, one of them took maybe 30 seconds and the guy in his SpeedQB get up delivering it didn't exactly show much enthusiasm. When I say speedsoft players I'm talking HPA guns that were so far removed from any actual firearm I couldn't tell what they were in most cases; looked like Milwaukee power drills. I've been to Zed before something like 3-ish years ago, I think Negative Luke was running it at the time after the Mall and I liked it, had always been meaning to go back. I don't expect an airsoft site to be gleaming by any stretch but none of the SZ tables had had so much as the briefest brush off, the SZ detritus was all just pushed in a corner as apparently a dustpan was a step too far and despite being inside and rarely used the toilets were in a pretty damn wrecked/filthy state. Oh and not only was there a christmas tree up and other decorations, but fake spiders and webs stiff clinging to things from Halloween. They had rigged up sheets and water collectors for the points where the roof was badly leaking, they've also some rigged up the shops' speaker system to an aux lead and put in some funky lights which was cool, but the amount of straight trash in various places definitely counteracted that. I just wanted to play a game somewhere to iron out those niggles in equipment that never raise their head until you're actually in play, but at £27 for an evening game it's very much not on the top of my priority list for the future.

Found this M4 mag funnel on Printables. Fits like a dream.

It's a shame that we are so prepared for it to fail. This is exactly the kind of thing we, as a sport/hobby, need to get us some positive media attention. Maybe lessons will be learnt for the next one, or we might just be surprised how well run and organised it is! I suspect pigs might fly but it would be nice!

Decided to have a look into this as have a mate near Cheltenham and though it might be interesting to check out having read through as much as I could on their site this event seems weird to say the least. The price of standard play entry seems a bit of a red flag due to just how low it is £100 for 5 days of airsoft, 4 nights of camping and other entertainment, that's £20 a day, you'd be lucky to find a site that would run a standard 6-8hr game for that price let alone a big event. Reading through the tournament rules though is where this get wild to me though, as while it is possible that a team could win the £100,000 the odds are on the impossible side, this isn't a simple knockout style tournament winner takes the cash. To quickly (as possible) summarize how the 'tournament' works (as best I understand it) there are 10 'heats' over 2 days, these heats are more like challenges though test your aim, team building, etc. where teams can score a maximum of 10 points per 'heat' (100 points total), at the end of the second day the top 4 scoring teams will enter into a knockout style playoff. Now the team that wins the playoffs doesn't instantly win the money they only have a chance to win it, the winning team then needs to play against the 5th - 15th place teams (so a team of 8 against a possible team of 80) if the team of 8 complete all the objectives in the final game they win the £100,000, if the opposing team of 80 wins the money is split among them. However the team of 80 can only get a cut of that money up to £1250 and they must survive to get anything so if only 20 people from that team of 80 survives only 20 x £1250 = £25,000 is handed out. HOWEVER if the team of 8 completes some of the objectives then the £1250 each player receives is decreased for each objective they complete e.g. if there are 5 objectives and 3 are completed and 20 players from the team of 80 survive and each objective knock off £250 then the winnings handed out will be (20 x (1250 - (3 x 250))) = £10,000. Feel free to double check this with the website https://www.operation-scorpio.net/programme as it took me quite a while to wrap my head around it so may well have missed something but that was as best I could understand it. So the only way £100,000 is getting handed out is if one team of 8 takes on and defeats 80 players or 80 players successfully hold x number of objectives without a single player going down.

"Professional airsoft tournament"

Did the shimming and finished off the perun tasks today. On this gearbox I removed the trigger screw protrusion with a drill bit instead of grinding stuff. The cutoff lever is removed with this perun hybrid. All the scratches are from the manufacturer. The perun sticker I applied after removing the copper and cleaning the plastic with isopropanol. The bearings are 3x8x3 and I had to widen the channel in the selector plate at the top in this pic to take some pressure off the plate so it moves without much effort. Even with 2.5mm ones in the plate rubbed Bearings are from ak2m4, run nicely with thier 7 balls. Obviously better than 6... When I'm finished opening the box I'll lube everything, seems I have a leaky nozzle, the blue, apparently 3d printed, one that came with gun has a texture on it, no o ring and a very strong tappet plate spring which I'll have to compare with some others before I'm happy.

Bit late to the party but I remember those days of first AEG, back in 2015 raiders were the choice then as well, I did however go for an ICS UK1R, still use it today, but played once since 2019 😂🤦‍♂️ My 14 yr old has played a game, due to age restrictions, couldn’t go sooner, and loved it, luckily though I’ve amassed a small armoury and wardrobe collection he is almost set but I feel your pain of duplicating most equipment 🙁, I’ve kind of all gone M4 base with the AEGs, even the G36 (ICS G33), takes M4 mags so atleast he can use my hi-caps 😂 just make sure he enjoys it, one thing I would recommend is radios for you both, my worst fear was the ‘cease fire’ call and man down!, I was the only one moving looking for him with that parent fear something had happened to him….found him with another youngster and loads of big kids preparing to storm a building having the time of him life 😂😂😂🤦‍♂️ hence radios…!

So I have filled in a pair of cut outs so the first position on extending the stock is a useful one. I cleaned the slot, undercut it a tiny bit then used tape to hold in the epoxy on either side leaving the inner rail bit open and dribbled the expoxy in. I used JB weld. A little trimming with a knife took off any high points.

Evening, just wondering if there are any knife guys kicking about? Got an old Al Mar SERE Attack 3003A that I'm wanting to get a rough value on and part with, but wouldn't have a clue who to go to or where. In good condition with a few small marks here and there, never been sharpened to my knowledge. Its the rarer version with 'De Oppresso Liber' marked on the handle. I'll include some pics below if that helps. Thanks in advance!