Leaderboard

Yes & no, fets, sound generators, tracers, smoke generators, various options for recoil, hpa, wanker guns, the list is seemingly endless. Or, you could run a bog standard aeg with technology more than 25 years old, & still dominate the battlefield. Works for me 😁 (sometimes lol😏)

What is it with at least 50% of You tubers who insist on calling a MK23 (i.e. 'Mark23') pistol an 'M' 'K' 23?!! It makes me cringe every time! Am I being irrationally intolerant? Probably, but I can't help it - I just want to throw stuff at the screen when they do it, and once you've heard them say it the first time, you can't then unhear it for the next 40 times they mention it in the course of the video.... And don't even get me started on the ' Em Kay 18' rifle!

An old Finnish joke about the Winter War: A large group of Russian soldiers in the border area in 1939 are moving down a road, when they hear a voice call from behind a small hill: "One Finnish soldier is better than ten Russians". The Russian commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the hill where a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence. The voice once again calls out: "One Finn is better than one hundred Russians." Furious, the Russian commander sends his next best 100 troops over the hill and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence. The calm Finnish voice calls out again: "One Finn is better than one thousand Russians!" The enraged Russian commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the hill. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought... Then silence. Eventually one badly wounded Russian fighter crawls back over the hill and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men... it's a trap. There are two of them!"

Welcome Denis ✋ Honestly your best bet is to attend your local site and chat to people there. Of course you can tell us where you'll be playing and someone who goes there may chime in or PM you. Just in case you want to look for a site near you: https://playairsoft.uk/map Enjoy 👍

That boils my blood. If you think the token adoption fee the shelters charge is expensive then you cant afford to keep even a healthy cat, and that's not fair to the animal.

Wait, you guys aren’t calling it a SOCOM?

Been playing for 24 years now there has been some major improvements if you want to modify your gun, but the QC is still spotty as hell and TM is still the only really reliable brand. However in the end if you actually know how to set a hop unit you can still be competitive with stock JG G36.

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)

My walls are getting a bit cramped so got some longer grid mesh to give my pews a little space & room to expand. p.s. excuse the mess, I'd only just finished moving them all from A to B & back again.

@Tackle - I think we're talking about different situations. I mean when someone who doesn't have a pet says "I can't afford £150 to buy a cat. Can anyone give me one for free?" You seem to be referring to caring pet owners, running in to unexpected difficulties? I of course wouldn't look down on the latter.

Fixed Pretty much

Yikes! You nasty man, how dare you ambush me like that!

I found so far as gameplay is concerned people tend to be more gung ho. I've always thought the idea wasn't to get shot, but I realise you can be effective and die often.

Because all airsoft youtubers are total wankpuffins who should have been strangled at birth .

Is that the Em Kay 23? 😁

Sadly, it is indeed "worth a try" though. There was a 15 year old lad begging on one of the UK Failbook groups who successfully grifted a bunch of gear from "you can't tell me this is a bad idea!" contrarians. As a thank you, he started posting pictures of himself up on his roof, doing his best Rooftop Korean impression. The "told you so" was epic.

Asks the man considering HPAing a TM pistol 😄. Short answer no, long answer hell no. Bring back the world of nicads and the only 2 aeg options were TM or classic army. Ok maybe there's some good stuff that's come to light in more recent years but it ain't all good.

I think that young blood brings in new ideas and innovations Just take a look at the expo that happened across in Taiwan a few weeks ago, most of the reps and innovators/ manufacturers who are introducing the new stuff are barely of shaving age. My parents could barely get their head around owning a Betamax let alone getting it to programme to record one of the 3 available channels. Now mum (chasing 80) is able to get her box to pause live tv while she saves another programme on the hard drive to watch later Innovation comes along and we get used to it, but I’ve only been playing maybe 7 years now and have seen things progress I understand the use of hpa, but ruins the immersion for me with the umbilical Bluetooth programming of mosfets seems useful Lipo’s or Life battery’s are certainly much better than NiCad’s Thermal imaging will be cheaper and common in a couple of years Still lots to look forward to I suppose, it’s great to see it continue to evolve Young players are the future of our hobby for innovation

Just make a topic in the Appraisals section and get some idea of value before creating a Mack's worthy advert https://airsoft-forums.uk/forum/151-appraisals/

Regarding people: too many speedsofters indoor who act like they're in a tournament and they have to WIN at any cost to compensate for their small pp. Advancement in technology is always a good thing. When I was a kid rich people bought Marui or CA and poor people bought Cyma. Nowadays so many good manufacturers out there you don't have to spend silly money to get a really good gun.

Some of the replies on here are amazing to read through 😂 I’ve been in airsoft for about 5 years and always thought it was just me who thought there were some delusional people expecting well over retail for a used gun for no reason! scared to post my gun for sale now though… but I’ll be checking back on here just in case there’s any ‘friendly’ advice 😉

Sounds like a great plan, except the pikey bastard will probably open a fresh account, & sell your knackered gat at full price to an unsuspecting noob claiming it's in full working order, payment by bank transfer or F&F only....... "no ukara mate, no problem but we'd better keep it on the DL then & F&F it" 😉

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!

Got the vfc mp5 flashlight handguard mounted on the A4. had to do a tiny bit of dremel work for the back tab that goes into the upper receiver. The part of the outer barrel under the cocking tube (where there’s a Phillips screw) comes into contact with the top of the tab so I sanded it down some. the holes for the retaining pin is oblong. The stock pin will still stay in place but I opted to use the handguard pin that came with my Magpul SL mp5 handguard as the flashlight handguard won’t need to come off anyway. Figured this way, the pin (which has a screw threading into it) locks the handguard into place.

The Dyslexic in me made sense of it straight away - perhaps the responder has a similarly operating mind. Yes it should have been clearer, but it's hardly Apple Corp or Tesco type organisations we're dealing with. Mind you, I spot typo's in all sorts of website sites and publications. Hell, I sent a letter from my son's school back with red marks on the errors with a post-it saying that we should expect better from a Grade 1 Ofsted listed school. I wasn't very popular. 😁

This only reminds me how much I want an SLR

Thanks both - I'll go with eiher CYMA or Nuprol - whichever is cheaper - in the 30 round capacity. Are the 15 round ones reduced in size for any reason does anyone know?

I'd say yes and no. There have been quite a few changes where newer tech is slowly adopted, such as lipos and mosfets, but they're nowhere near essential and nothing touted as a game changer has remotely been anything like one

In CQB i have single handily Cleared rooms by charging in getting a single kill, dying, then respawning and repeating till the jobs done while my team mates just stack up at the choke point.

In Italy it's more commonly referred to as "SOCOM" because it's easier to pronounce (and sounds much better, from a language perspective) than Mark 23, mk23 or any other name.

Christmas is over, I know, and as always I'm either too early or too late Anyhow, I have just ordered: 1x Vector Optics Mustang LPVO; 1x repro Unity LPVO mount; 1x LPVO killflash; 1x 40mm killflash for my Swiss Arms 4x40; 1x MP5 insert to go into my Ammo Hub; 1x M4 insert, same as above. A few days ago I ordered dis monstrosity and dis monstrosity feeding apparatus because when the question is "how many RPS do you need??" the answer is always "yes".

Irrational, perhaps but understandable. If you're presenting to educate and inform, you have a duty to name things correctly.

I told you all I was waiting for something expensive to arrive... MWS #2 will be a short barreled rifle. Will have a modern and a retro build for it, but will likely just go retro most of the time.

What really grinds my gears is... People writing "hone in on" when it's "home in on" The bastards.

Rain X for the front of the scope, and an antifog for the lens at the back (I use 'cat crap') - it has made a difference for me. Also I was realising that most fogging was down to my heavy breathing misting it up, so now I make a bit of a conscious effort to not breath all over my scope, inc. holding my breath when I bring the rifle up to the aim etc.

I think airsoft has changed as there’s a new wave of younger players getting involved; there’s certainly a lot of players who must look like someone they’ve seen on tv and the combat master is a perfect example of that imo. Technology advancements help to some degree, are they helping the sport though? It doesn’t matter if you’ve upgraded your gun with hundreds of £££ or got a rental on your first day. You can still enjoy yourself. although I don’t understand the hype behind HPA, how some people demand realism with their gear, weapons and attachments but are happy to be powered by a gas canister cabled to their gun! But that’s just me

The tethering, the cost, the magazine's, carrying a bottle. Hpa is not cheap at all, but it's a better gas for guns. Cost/benefit for me is unacceptable. Same for GBBR, cost/benefit wise.

Airsoft UK facebook group is starting a website with a forum because Zuck is gonna shut down the group but on their own site they can't get shut down and people can sell RIFs.. 😂

I used to as a Fizzy riding kid. Then my Dad bought me some Derry boots. After the first night in a well heated pub, I went back to the bloody bags!

Most people have heard of Karl Marx, but fewer know of his sister, the pioneering runner Onya. Tribute is still paid to her, and she is mentioned before each race!

I've put rain X or similar on the outer lenses to keep them useful. The a version for plastic now. Rain and visors was a terrible combination without something like this on them. Anti fog on the inside, rain X on the outside.

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.

If it's really wet, I tend to ditch optics altogether, which is part of the reason I like having back up irons on guns where possible. However, to guard against rain moisture I use flip up scope covers and I just obsessively keep them shut until I'm in a position to shoot (and probably with the rifle horizontal). For fogging... you can put anti-fog on scopes the same as you can put it on your eyepro. The microfibre cloth is a good idea, but make sure you keep it away from the elements as if it gets too wet/dirty you'll just be smearing wet dirt over your scope.

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?

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 😉

Managed to cop a genuine 6094 in AOR1 running it with FFI base clothes. Love the MWS platform compared to AEG or hpa

& your Prince Albert.