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As a young squaddie in the early/mid eighties I dreamt about owning a pair of these, but could never justify them as they would have cost me about 3 weeks wages, or beer tokens as they were better known🥴 (no such thing as dry January back then, or any other month lol🤣)

Thanks to @Mini airsoft for the deal on the bits 👍 Changed the front end and the stock from the classic polymers, now I’m torn 😩 I do like the pic hand rail, undecided decided on the stock, it might live in a box on the shelf

Dropped of of my mags and broke the feed lip. I've ordered a couple of spares but I found a file on Thingiverse - here - so printed one. It fits and feeds ok but the pusher doesn't go up fully to hold open the slide on mag empty. I'll give it a little fettle and see how it goes.

@proffrink is working on the issue within limitations of the software, it is a work in progress.

Correct. You have to gut a gas magazine for certain bits to able to run it on HPA though. You could tap each magazine as well but no one does it nowadays it's just not an efficient way to play. Grip line is an hpa engine.

I agree with the underarm only and no higher that waist height. It's a big ol chunk of metal so it's still gonna suck if you kneecap someone with it, nevermind anywhere else. I've never used my impact BFGs (or any BFGs) outdoors for fear of losing it. Never had one not go off when indoors with the exception of dud blanks.

Knocked up a shell holder for the boomstick, just one of many files on thingiverse.

Just doom-scrolling through my YT feed, and a review of a similar grenade suggests there's a fair chance it won't go off unless it hits something hard. So bouncing it off noggins will just have to be done! Anyway, as YT seems to know what I'm typing elsewhere, I'm just off to make a nice tinfoil hat and pair of gloves

the rule at the site i play at is that metal grenades have to be rolled knee height or lower and like you say not posted through windows or over barriers incase someones behind or under

Lob it DUDE! They'll never see it coming.

We always recommended, an underarm throw, no higher than waist height

Will it though?

Some bits for the Sig Thanks to @Mini airsoft

Reported the piece of shit (without even having to visit his channel thankfully)

The dark alley treatment is too good for that piece of lowlife scum! I’ve also reported his channel. I cannot for the life of me think what goes through some people’s heads that makes them want to do anything like what he has done/said. A lot of mental health issues out there! Don’t comment or react to his video, as that’s what these pieces of shit thrive on! Just a nice silent report to YouTube and hopefully he gets removed, until he makes another channel. Hopefully karma issues him as awful a fate as poor Ollie has been dealt.

As with TAG rounds, they'd be the sort of things that I'd expect to be restricted to well managed milsims where all participants are over 18 and have given informed consent to being around them. A typical skirmish day is full of kids and chucklefucks, and nothing capable of crippling the most vulnerable participant (shooting glasses and no earpro) has any business even being on site at all.

See here for a starter FAQ on HPA: As per the above posters, converting an airsoft gun to HPA would generally be: AEG - Designed to operate an electric motor that runs a piston to create a small quantity of compressed air into a chamber to launch your BB Convert an AEG with an HPA engine, which is fed from an air system. The AEGs magazine only contains BBs, which means you can still switch magazines as required Gas - Designed to operate with a small quantity of gas released into the chamber, typically pre-filled in a pressurised compartment of the magazine allowing you to prefill your chosen number of magazines and switch as required Converting these involves replacing the magazine fill valve with an HPA valve nipple then running a feed from an air system while you play. As GBB magazines contain their BBs and gas, which gets replaced by the air feed then you can either just use one magazine (which would be the norm) or need to detach & re-attach the airsource if you change magazine for more BBs Of course you could use a sealed HPA valve and pre fill an amount of compressed air enabling you to fill and swap magazines - but it won’t be capable of holding full HPA pressures and would have limited HPA shot capacity as the stored air decreases pressure with each shot (other typical gases generally go to a liquid state when filled under pressure in the magazine, expanding in their gaseous state as released to the firing chamber Dedicated HPA guns are designed from the start to operate with compressed air, and can have their nipple feed in a ‘convenient’ location These may have integral regulators embedded in the gun allowing for the cylinders standard output to be fed into the nipple, or as seen on most airsoft HPA systems in the classifieds need an inline regulator as well ensuring a lower operating pressure is delivered to the gun

I'd very suprised if your impact would go off on a regular basis outdoor. The whole concept is that you need a hard surface to make it work. I play indoor only but you have to follow multiple rules because that thing is lethal if you yeet it. 🤣 Under arm, defo below waist height, no yeet, preferably you check xy corner/room/etc. before you post it so you don't injure anyone. It's really limited how you can use it even indoor let alone outdoor when you can have massive distances.

When you tap a GBBR to run on HPA, you are just replacing the source and type of gas from green gas to compressed air. If you have a magwell adaptor, it goes in the magwell and your free to use a normal hi cap or mid cap mag as the gas is no longer stored in the magazine, it is now fed into the gas parts either by a hose that is part of the adaptor or, by replacing the magazine gas fill valve with an hpa adaptor valve. Of course, if you use a fill valve replacement, you still have the low capacity of a gas mag but you are pumping hpa compressed air through the mag instead of filling it with green gas.

To HPA a GBBR, you’d need a “tap” that goes into the magazines and replaces the gas port. It’s essentially a replacement for green gas. The grip ones are usually AEG, which involves an “engine”. By no means an expert though!

I thought GBBR conversions were though the magwell and AEG were some form of smart arsery through the pistol grip..... a Learning thread for me too this one 😁

I’m sure the boots, DMS were more than adequate so the young you made the sensible choice. Can’t scrimp on hydration.

Nah, I wouldn't bother with an impact in woodland, unless they have lots of solid-floored structures that people need winkled out of. The usual airsoft rule applies: don't send it out in any way that you wouldn't want it coming in.

Been spraying kit for a while. Thought id share a few tips ive learnt over time. Halfords camo spray paint is top quality for price, works just as well as higher priced brands like krylon and EC paint. Best way to make stencils is put a laminator sheet through the laminator to get a thin perspex like sheet. Then trace the camo patterns off the back of a shirt and cut with an exacto knife. Gives nice clean lines. Stencils held away from the item you are spraying gives less clean edges which actually work really well for camouflage. Using a light colour spray far away from the finished product to create a light dusting that dulls all the colours youve sprayed. Airfix/ modelling matt sealents work well to protect the items from lots of chipping Dhobi mag/netting works ok as a spray template, but can look bad as a finished product. Using a net with bigger holes works a lot better to break up shapes. Appreciate most people probably already know this stuff but hopefully helps someone.

I’ve started a business recycling chewing gum... but I’m having trouble getting it off the ground.

I've done it before on custom paint stuff. If you can, put some clear lacquer over the letters to stop then scratching off!

The SEF markings are usually inset (moulded in) and then coloured but the font you'll need is https://www.1001fonts.com/alte-din-1451-mittelschrift-font.html You can get water transfer paper that works in an inkjet printer and make your own (although the white will be an issue)

Yeah, but I’m still not sold on the stock In fact, the standard one is already back on it 😂

Not a fan of sigs generally, but that definitely looks better👍

Or you can just stop your worrying and buy a Prometheus for Fa-mas nozzle at Fire Support. Mine has one and works like a... nozzle! Prometheus Air Jet Nozzle for FA-MAS Series - Airsoft Shop, Airsoft Guns, Sniper rifles, Airsoft pistols, parts and bbs by FireSupport (fire-support.co.uk)

I've reported it to YouTube but unless they get lots of reports, I doubt it'll change. Unless he gets the "dark alleyway with no cameras" treatment....😡

custom gbb workshop colt rail gun marui gbb airsoft all stainless steel kit

I'm not saying Stoke on Trent is rough, but the local shops put steal by dates on all the food.

It's a hideous gun anyway (IMHO).

Indeed; it does not apply to airsoft toys.

Finally got a pair of Lundhags - been wanting a pair since the late 80s and the SASS catalogue. They don’t feel as heavy as they look, I can run and the membrane will never fail! Really wish I’d got them a long time ago.

Ok, problem solved! A bit of a roundabout way to get there, but I ended up buying a WE Glock17 Gen 3, and then fitting the army Armament R34 slide to it (fits perfectly), hand stippling the WE lower to match the Taran Tactical/JW2 look with a soldering iron (dead easy, and looks really good), and fitting the flared magwell from the Army Armament to the WE (again, fits perfectly). Pistol now works well with all mag types - highest FPS with WE and Action Army/AAP, slightly lower with army armament magazines. The magazines mostly have flat routers, and the BBU is curved as the original mags have curved routers, but this doesn't seem to be an issue as far as I can tell.

If you are seriously considering using them, please have a long, hard think about WHY you want to use them. When you have done that, if you still want to use them, join the army. I have spent quite a bit of time messing around with serious pyro; no airsoft players should be allowed anywhere near a MK9.

Is this a serious question? "185 dB of sound pressure at 1m" That's instant, permanent, hearing damage and tinnitus, plus traumatic brain injury. Wanting to use one "in airsoft games" is a great argument for why you shouldn't be able to get your hands on one. Frankly, I'm not even happy with Mk5 bangs in game, given the foreseeable risk of one going off right next to someone's head. Mk 7 and above have a 20 metre safe distance, for reasons that should be ear-bleedin' obvious.

Yes mk 5 at our sites as well. Sorry don't know what happened there ,🤔

Never heard of them but tbh you'll be hard pressed to find a site that allows players to lob mk9 thunderflashes around. Mk5 is the limit at every site I know of

I implore everyone to spam the report button - from the man himself it is fake https://www.youtube.com/@OllieTalksAirsoft/community Also, what fucking lowlife sees a man diagnosed with 3 months to live and thinks "I can scam some people with this"

According to the interwebs it was designed between 1980-1983 and produced from 1984 so i can just sneak it into my, casual, 80s SAS load out. 😁

Working on an upper reciever to drop into one of my augs to make something close to the australian f90. There are a few differences on the lower as well but im not going for every detail. I just like the overall look of the foreend.

It took a while to get me back to the bunker. It was a collection of little things that put me off, lots of shouting, pushing the game too hard, marshals stripping people of any kind of stealth tactics by walking up behind them and shouting "move, move, come on lets push forward", which is all well and good until you're wielding a single pistol and there are 8 opposition players around the corner with rifles and lovely little camping areas, waiting to pepper the life out of you. It started to seem as though there was an element of clique-ness and there were becoming rumours that certain people were managing to skip chrono, resulting in hot RIFs on the field, which isn't particularly fun in such a close quarters environment. I might add that I'd never experienced a hit from anything that felt like a hot gun, and the chrono issue may have been only rumours, but with everything building a gloomy picture of the place I decided to take time away from it. I had an experience where I had a few duff flash-bangs from their onsite shop, not a big issue. I had a quick chat with one of the staff, to let them know more than anything, he decided it was much more appropriate to call me out in front of everyone, telling me I had no idea how to strike a fuse and that there was nothing wrong with them, despite the fact that they were all damp from storage. It irritated me, because I'd always recommended them as a site to visit, we'd played regularly on an almost weekly basis at one point. The flash-bang incident was the icing on the cake. Going in last night the atmosphere was much different, it was calm, the marshals were respectable, visible and in the right places at the right time, the briefing was prompt and to-the-point and the game play was well managed. I felt like the night was for the players, like it once used to be, really enjoyed myself. Even if you only go once, it's worth a game for sure. As for Valiant, that one is on my list of "places to visit". I did the Vendetta site in Gloucester and absolutely loved it, a number of our team have done Valiant already and they loved that too!

I've been going to the bunker semi-regularly for over a year. I like the site, it's quite unique and presents a good challenge, especially when navigating it and even more so when flash-bangs has filled the place with lingering smoke. I did stop going for a while because the atmosphere didn't fit what I liked, lots of cheating, lots of poor player attitude etc. I went again for the first time in some months, last night. They've shaken things up a bit, new leadership, some new game formats, new furnishings, new attitudes. I've got to say I really enjoyed it and will continue to attend The UCAP Bunker. It's reasonably priced, accessible, easy close parking, plenty of space for setup and challenging play.

Quick pic of it on the bench, I'll do proper ones tomorrow