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I dont see how this makes it more professional. Just looks like tesco security cosplay

If a site has to go to this level to “police” it’s staff and players in terms of cheating or aggro then it really doesn’t say much about the site at all does it 🤔

Nice. If there's a way to make the black parts look chromed then I know what loadout I'm doing

My Worthing review is probably going to be *fractionally* shorter than @Impulse's. Got to Worthing, car park vaguely swamp like, but passable. Some hilarious sliding on mud/parking attempts observed. Chronoed and tested weapons. Glock 17 Gen 5 is a beast and hitting 50m on the range without issues. Had done some tweaking, building and improvement to P* engine'd M4 so needless to say that decided it wasn't going to work and I ran the NGRS MP5 instead. Considering throwing all HPA kit in the sea at this point (where ironically it would probably be more useful). Glorious sunshine for pretty much the whole day, without being too hot. Perfect airsoft weather really. First game much as described earlier. Standing waiting for rentals to accomplish something before charging off to do... something. There were 2 objective props somewhere out in the game field and they had instructions on what to do with them on them. I say this, because I heard it, but I never saw any sign of them or knew what the brief was. Through I don't mind the clock concept because it can allow for waves of attackers/reinforcements, I think it would be better with some whiteboards with the objectives written on them once known. Yes, you can potentially wander off and try and find a marshall (who will probably be standing in the middle of a firefight) to find out what's going on, but large objective games lead to all the players being scattered without any cohesion. I got into some good shootouts and snuck around a bit, but I didn't really know where I was going other than all the usual spots that people fight over. This game lasted basically the whole morning. The other suggestion around clocks is to have multiple spawn locations, because it makes it more of a 360 battle when you know you could have someone spawning in behind you in 10 mins, as well as give you the opportunity to respawn somewhere else if things are not working where you are. Can work, might be situational though. After lunch, a couple of matches of capture and hold base, fighting over 3 different locations. I was pleased to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat with 8 seconds to go at the end of one of them by charging into the position. Reran it with different spawns and we lost that one 2 -1, so overall 1 match each. Plenty of movement and shooting, and clear objectives so it flowed ok. To finish the day off, it was attack/defend the tower with 1 life only for defenders, semi only for all. I opted to go up into the tower and shoot from there and am pleased to report there was some serious murder going on. Red dot sight paired with the accuracy of the MP5 mean there was a lot of rapid semi only kills on the first shot. There was also a Marshal up top, so they got to witness it all. I think we held out for 11-13 mins. Then the reversal and we somehow smashed in a new course record of under 2:30mins I believe. Then home for tea and medals. MP5 ran well all day. The low caps are consistently reliable feeders and .28's seem to work well in it. I did used to get feeding problems with the high caps, but the lows are good. Glock had its first outing and its first kills. Nice piece of kit. I am already suffering from everything hurting, but overall a good day out.

Hey @Shamal - here's some more crimping work.... https://photos.fife.usercontent.google.com/pw/AP1GczM8ou5XKP6fvVSMwZeb48XLcD6UuGighuqGNZtGuWrNg2tyTQkxSwrdpg=w1737-h977-s-no-gm?authuser=0 https://photos.app.goo.gl/8eDDycPit8rg2jHY6 This was a tight one https://photos.app.goo.gl/r4uzGdZcQqNdz6xT6

Don't use lasers in airsoft, it is completely unregulated and you get unknown emitters with unknown output from everywhere, nobody's got time for retina damage

Rang the orphanage today and said that I had a large donation for them. I'll drop the fat little swine off after school on Monday...

Another weekend, another dissertation to write about how the game went. I went to Worthing as usual and bumped into @Hatchet there this week, which was nice! I decided to bring my HPA VSR, even though it's not perfect at the moment since I am waiting on a 300mm inner barrel and a bunch of foam to arrive so that I can internally suppress it further. At the moment, it's a 430mm widebore in a 470mm bull barrel, so 40mm is foam, but with a 300mm inner barrel it'll be 170mm of foam and should make it nice and quiet. It was still a little bit chilly for the m700 and I was picking up my AEG m14, so I decided the VSR was the best to bring. Set it up, got it shooting 2.28J and hopping .45s nicely, so I was good to go. Picked up the m14 and decided I'd zero the LPVO and set the hop after lunch as the morning was going to be a big, multi-objective game until lunch and that's my preferred way of playing. Sidearm choice today was my HK45, as it was definitely warm enough for GBB pistols and I way prefer them to mk23s, so I was keen to use it. After the safety brief I got a bit annoyed though. The marshalls made a point to split me and my friend up (again) and also split another regular from his two friends. This is the 2nd week in a row they've picked me and my friend out and made a point to separate us onto different teams, so I wasn't that impressed heading out for the first game. We got the far spawn, so a long walk out at first, and I had no idea what the objectives were so I decided to just follow and support my team as best I could. The start of the game had the rentals all around the Tower area and neither team could spawn until their team's rentals recovered an ammo box and brought it back to the spawn. An interesting idea in theory, as I'm always interested in seeing people try new things, but it didn't really work and after 15 mins they just released both teams. I took a conservative position, crawling under a holly bush and setting up a position overlooking the checkpoint on the path. Didn't take long for the yellows to push up to it and I got a lot of kills from that spot without getting detected at all. I kept waiting to make sure I got a good shot off, lulling the other team into a false sense of security at times by making them think I had moved, before taking another one of them out. It was good fun and this allowed my team to push up and take the checkpoint after I picked off enough players to dissuade the remnants from peeking or people from reinforcing. At this time I saw our team (blues) had found an objective (a dummy on a stretcher) that we needed to get to the stables building in the Tower area; they had pushed it out onto the path, but got hit in the process and had to drop the stretcher, so it was now heavily contested. So with checkpoint under our control I got myself out from under the holly bush and pushed into the heavily wooded area to the left of the path to come up on the corner of it to try and establish some forward control. I linked up with a friend who had also pushed up there with his AEG and we basically played sniper and spotter for a while, him picking off targets on the flank and me holding a line on the chapel, quite a popular spot to fight from. Blues kept pushing and managed to get the stretcher into the stables building, so now we had to hold it for 20 mins. I crawled further up as I saw blues pushing well into the Tower area, finding my way to a spot next to a tree that overlooked the path, but from the other side of the Tower area, so I took position there and started to cut off reinforcements, forcing them to take harder routes into the area. It worked really well, much to one marshall's amusement as he watched me get into position and take care of business. However, blues were doing a bit too well and our guys who had now taken the chapel were asked to give it up, and another marshall dropped a green smoke next to me. Green smoke counts as toxic, but fortunately the wind carried it the other way, however with its proximity it was only a matter of time before it expanded to where I was, so I quickly uprooted and fell back to the corner spot I was in before. We managed to hold for the 20 mins and shortly after that the game was over. Something that really worked well for me was I used camo paint for my face along with my ghillie instead of a balaclava or lower face mask today and it worked really, really well. Lower face masks make my glasses fog up (as it routes breath up into my glasses) and I can't get away from that as I have prescription inserts and can't use contact lenses. My balaclava, especially on warm days, makes me sweat buckets which also fogs up my glasses, but camo paint keeps a nice air flow and it worked really, really well. £4 and it'll last me a while, so I think I'm going to continue using camo paint. Big success! I had a LOT of fun in this game and the VSR was performing flawlessly as it tends to (I also took the advice of @Badgerlicious and ran my gunbilical cord around my left side instead of my right and it worked really, really well, stopping it getting caught as much and never getting caught on my own kit (my line loves catching on my pistol suppressor!)). However, I had a massive criticism of how the game was run. It didn't affect me because I didn't get hit once, but the respawns were on clocks. This meant that you had a 5 minute window to respawn followed by 5 mins of not being able to respawn. What I heard from the friend I was split from, as well as another friend who was on the other team, is that they would spawn in, go out and try to play aggressive, get hit and then have to wait 5 mins again because it worked out that they would get back to spawn after about 5 mins, so they'd get back just in time for respawns to be closed. They said they spent 40 mins just sitting in spawn and it was incredibly frustrating. They played less than they were waiting in respawn. For a large, multi-objective game I don't think the clock spawns worked very well and made people very frustrated. A lot went home at lunch time because of it. I didn't play the afternoon as I wanted to set up my m14 and then hang out with one of my friends who wasn't playing today; plus the sun was out and it was (almost) warm, so it was a nice day to just chill out. The m14 was performing stupidly well on the range, which was nice, and the LPVO was basically already zeroed. Don't know how the afternoon games went, but I really enjoyed my day. I think the fact that the sun was out and it wasn't freezing cold or wet definitely helped, though it was a bit breezy at times for sniping, but even that wasn't too bad. All in all it was a really fun morning of airsoft and I'm looking forward to the next months as it hopefully gets a bit warmer. I do better in warm weather, as I used to airsoft in Spain, and my guns do better in warm weather because I like my gas guns, so I'm glad to be this side of winter.

I would love to not be put off by foul weather - but it's not the lack of kit stopping me... It's Neg Air/Luke waving my AEG at me saying "there is RUST in the barrel!" - and 5 minutes later - "the sector gear is also rusted! What have you been doing?!". I sheepishly responded something about rain and trees and running about holding the damn thing one handed. This less than a year after the gun in question was overhauled. I don't care about being cold and wet, bring it on! But I can't bear the thought of my lovely AEGs suffering the inclement weather and getting damaged. What can I do? Am I overreacting?

Maybe you are doing some battlesim or perhaps a multi day event. Possibly you are on the run from the guberment and know one else can help. Congratulations you have reached… …….. a complete idiot. There are many guides out there to “survival” and military field craft. This is not that. If you are in a 24 to 48 hour game you don’t need it. Many events have a permanent safe zones and the majority of players will go to bed at night. If it’s under 24 hours then stick on a poncho if it’s wet or a puffy jacket if it’s cold. Go in a building. I mean look at this sexy mother lover. That’s how to skirmish baby.

How cool is this? Wrong section, sry admin.

Damn, didn't see on sight taking pics 🤣

It does feel like it hasnt stopped raining for the past few months, something on the news about it being the wettest February since records began. Everything around here in the East of England is a boggy flooded mess, every field you see is underwater. Ive got better things to do on a Sunday morning than get up early and go out in freezing cold rain, very much a fairweathersofter Been doing it for long enough now to not need to suffer miserable days playing it. Same with motorbikes, anyone who says riding in the winter slush grime mud and rain is anything other than unpleasant is just lying.

The brew kit Many militaries issue some system to let individual soldiers make hot drinks and heat up rations in the field. Few airsoft events involve living in the wilderness for any length of time but being able to get a hot drink is very useful for morale and we are here to enjoy ourselves, allegedly. For the more involved events you may be expected to provide your own catering, so a little more capacity to cook is useful. Some brew kit options: 1) Hot drink in an insulated container. Possible but it’s limited how long it will stay warm. Maybe useful for winter day game but bulky. Immediately ready to use. 2) Gas canister stoves and Jetboils. Jetboil & Fire Maple type flux ring heating systems are fast and originally intended to fit in an issue utility pouch. Great for boiling drinking water. Expensive and some breakable parts. Compact canister stoves are cheaper and can be very compact. Like jet boils there are parts that can break. Also light & fast. All gas stoves can be noisy and it is possible to mishandle and ignite the can if you are a knob head. 3) Military style solid fuel coolers. The old “Hexi TV”. In the UK HEXAMINE is now band and like US trioxane not healthy to breath the fumes in an enclosed spaces. Esbit also smells a bit. BCB fire dragon gel/blocks is a bit more eco and lights very easily. Solid fuel stoves are very cheap and robust but can take a while to get a full boil depending on conditions. Quiet and May or May not smell. 4) Liquid fuel cooking systems. Pressurised systems like the MSR whisperlite light take time to set up an prime. Are often expensive and commonly flare up more than other devices on ignition. Often sound like a rocket launch when running. As quick as gas once going, breakable and the most complex to operate. Traditional systems like the Trangia are very robust but you need to take care with loose liquid fuel. Take a few minutes to prime but very hot once running. Quiet when running and usually not smells. 5) Wood burners. Good luck with this, way too much work. Options 2 & 3 are popular with soldiers for a reason. Either speed (2) or simplicity (3) and possibly the hexi fumes.

lol, indeed. need a Geiger counter then.

Crikey that's a bit involved.Nice work though.Are you working to a drawing on that? I think we will stick to end feed and push fit lol. We just do small work moving pipes for bathrooms and radiators.Nothing on your scale though.

Having video footage is great, people are unreliable and tend to make things up. It's a good idea, both for insurance and the management of people, customers and staff, to have it.

This is an odd one. I've only played there once and while I wont be going back I didn't see any need for staff to wear body cams. I know they do other activities like paintball and axe throwing so I'm guessing they might've had trouble there so now cameras have to be worn for all activities. Of course it could simply be down to the owner trying to show how professional his staff are for extra clout on social media

Does seem odd, Driver Wood isn't exactly chav central unlike a certain place that's come to the forum's attention this week. The footage isn't going to be social media worthy either.

Reminds me of the time that I had a vasectomy because I didnt want kids but when I got home they were still there!

I was beginning to feel that you were outnumbered in that last thread that has now,thankfully,been locked. I was impressed that you were holding your own,just,and trying to give answers for your site rules. But now that I've seen you following forum members on to other threads and commenting on their posts in a sarcastic manner I have now formed the opinion that you are very much like a dog with a bone. You are not gonna leave it alone because you think you have been out through the ringer and so that entitles you to give some back. Petty. Just do us all a favour and give it up and leave 👍

Detonator slide set , Trijicon raised sight set , TT Magwell ,

The only time that the lad and I have been to Apocalypse Airsoft in Kent was in April 2019, when we had a less than satisfactory experience with poorly designed games and bizarre and contradictory rules. It is a large wooded site of about 100 acres. However, it is now under new management and a lot of people have told me that it is much better. So, with the lad not returning from Stoke(!) until this evening, Comrade Andy and I decided to meet at Apocalypse to try it out; Andy had never been before. The first game of the day, starting at 10:30, was a relatively simple fallback across three sections: the Village, No Man's Land (NML) and the Stockade (or whatever it was called). As defenders, we had cycles of three lives in each, with the first two being on buddy regens and the last one involving a trip back to the next location, from where players were released back into the game every five minutes, with the sequence then rebooting. We were also told that the attackers could attack the Village from the front and flanks, but not from the rear. The attackers had to attack each location in sequence, only moving on to the next one once the current target was captured. The first stage started well but became a bit strange when we found ourselves under attack from the rear. At this point, I took my third hit (from the rear) and walked back to NML, where I asked the marshal about it; she stated that the information that we could not be attacked from the rear had been a miscommunication. When our five minutes had expired the marshal informed us that we could remain on our regen and shoot the enemy players from there and they would not be able to shoot back. At this, my puzzled and confused face appeared as this just seemed wrong; I asked and the marshal confirmed that was ok. We started shooting Blue players, who started shooting back, whereupon the marshal shouted that they could not. I again questioned this and, after a radio conversation, she stated that they could shoot back but we could just tap in with her to regen when hit. A few minutes later, she informed everyone that we were under normal rules, which we really should have been from the time we moved back from the Village. The game became quite interesting for a while with the attackers sandwiched between our remaining gallant chaps in the Village, who were conducting their own version of Rorke's Drift, and us outside it, with both sides trying to outflank the other. However, after 90 minutes, the Blues still had not captured the first objective and the game ended. It was a game that the attackers could not hope to complete in the allotted time as we, as the defenders, had far too many lives. After lunch, we started another game; we had to secure the Stockade, capture a Blue team High Value Person (HVP) at the Pit after wiping out his ten player escort, escort him to the Stockade and hold him there until the end of the game. The Blue team had to extract him from the Pit and get him back to the Village. We had a regen point near the Stockade while the Blue team regened where they started at the Safe Zone entrance. The group Comrade Andy and I were with set off to the Stockade and secured it rather handily, before becoming engaged with enemy players moving around our left flank and trying to reach the HPV. After a while we were informed that the HPV was now ensconced in the Village, so we set out to capture him; this became a rather dull affair that Comrade Andy aptly described as "hiking with guns, with the emphasis on the hiking". To be blunt, it was boring. After this game, which again lasted for 90 minutes, Comrade Andy and I, along with a fair few other players, decided to leave. While it was better than when the lad and I went, it was still frustrating and disappointing. Neither of us will be going back. Guns used: APS UAR (which stopped feeding on the last shot of the morning; the original crap hop rubber had finally failed.) LCT PP-19-01 ASG Commander XP18 (CO2)

They'll never see you coming... oo-er

Have your kit come in on a rubber dinghy from France. That seems to be a successful import method these days!

Great pair of pants 😂. Seriously these are well made and really expensive brand new as you well know. They look from the photos is good condition and looking on eBay etc they seem to be up around 100-150. However they aren’t exactly rare or unusual camouflage type. Depends on if you want sell them quickly or not. Maybe stick them on for 130 and see what offers you get.

They do have H3 on them, which is tritium.

In my opinion, it's better to have it and not need it rather than need it and not have it. I've seen a few marshals get into altercations with aggressive players who aren't happy with them and/or other players over the years, plus it only takes a few knob heads to make a complaint that could then be proven true or false via camera. I don't quite understand why a negative approach has been taken to a site owner wanting to protect his employees, but that's just me 🤷‍♂️

Very seldom have drawings to work from - only a defined space and of course the building plans. We work on anything from bedsits to factories, but tend to work on large houses - those that are worth more than Mr Duck's entire postcode area. If you're working on 28mm and below then the cost doesn't really pan out unless the bigger sizes are in play too. If you're working on heat pumps means that pipe sizes are going to be much larger as you're dealing with low level energy so need huge flow rates by comparison - hence the use of buffers and volumisers. The pics from the other day are for a house with a heatloss of 9kW, but they wanted two smaller pumps over one big boy, even then though you need 35mm once the heat pumps are linked.

If you were to short stroke the thing you would have less energy to transmit to the bb since the spring will have less energy. If you kept the same spring then the motor would have less work to do and would cycle faster but the BB energy would drop, but perhaps not by much if you have plenty of volume in the cylinder compared to the barrel. Low TPA motors tend to draw a lot of current if they cant spin up close to their off load speed so starting from no revs draws lots of juice. You'll still get plenty of torque but at the expense of high current draw and a warm or hot motor. I've not seen a tight piston, side to side, only one top to bottom with the sector gear installed, which is a rack height, gear size issue. I'd be checking the gearbox piston rails are undamaged, or true. I'd also measure the pistons to see what the difference is.

Still upto the same shenanigans. I ordered an item that was labelled as "3 days lead time" but 11 days later it is still showing as "awaiting dispatch" so I've called the store, no answer, and I've called the returns line, no answer, so finally I have emailed to cancel the order entirely. I will avoid these clowns in future.

UPDATE: Took it apart again and drove the pin out using a punch, it looks like it'll accept the guarder/JG replacement as the only CYMA one available is that abhorrent modern MLOK looking one off the platinum - cheers for the help @Hatchet Will update this thread when the guarder part arrives for reference if it fits or not - just in case somebody ends up stumbling on this thread looking for guidance like I was (considering how often the MP5 charging handles get cockslapped off by HK enthusiasts, I was suprised to find very little regarding replacing it)

Genuinely, I've never seen an issue where a body cam would benefit anyone or anything. Edit: at an airsoft site

Probably because the second laser you purchased with the batteries included were dying if they were already fitted it could have been drawing power from them for however long they have been in there for, hence when you put in new fresh batteries it was brighter 🤷🏻‍♂️

i have a real steel folding stock i will be trying to remount it.

Assemble the gearbox without the spring, spring guide and sector gear. Once it is tightened up, hold the gearbox vertically to see if the piston slides down easily. If it doesn't you can try polishing the piston guide rails, although you may need a piston with wider slots for the guide rails. There is no point changing the rack. It does sound like something is a little tight somewhere.

No, they use the email function to hide their usernames, however it does still give you their email, which admins might be able to work with.

NO WE DON'T!

The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong in you. You really have done an excellent job of ensuring that nobody here will ever play at your site and, if it comes up in conversation, will warn people off. Good luck with your business empire.

He's laughing at your response and your lack of self-awareness.

I realise they are the site rules. I merely consider them asinine and arbitrary. The world doesn't owe you understanding. When you accuse people of lacking humility when they have taken the time to express their disagreement, you come across as sanctimonious at best. It's curious that when you said my response is "beyond logic", you said absolutely nothing to address my point about liability insurance. What else did you skip reading?

You have not provided a rationale for limiting HPA to a lower power than other weapons.

I find it bizarre that @Sneakyduck wants to build his empire by directly pissing off members of the forum by not answering a very basic question. It's not particularly entertaining, and I certainly won't be going to the site as a result.

bEcaUSe HPA iS tHe dEViL reeEEeEeEEeeEEEeEEEeeeEe I was also going to write more about what I've seen here, but... there's no point as I don't think I'd get any logical answers, so I'll just sit here with my popcorn instead 😂

I'm getting email notifications again now. Thanks for fixing this 😀

because F**k HPA

The guy from the site does not state that the limit is 300fps on 0.28g. He states that they have a maximum BB weight of 0.28g, that the limit for chrono is 350fps on 0.20g except for HPA weapons, which are limited to 300fps on 0.20g, which should make the guy who is allergic to HPA happy. He just explains it really badly.

That's great thanks @TacticalWaifu So, feedback to the forum developer is: 1. Please add a link to the wishlist that is easily discoverable from the classifieds menu, or from the top level page 2. Please give an option to filter out completed listings (in fact best to default the filter to exclude, rather than leave them included), or a method to easily delete all completed listings from the wishlist. (I've got 6 pages of ads I'm stuck with forever at the moment) 3. Please improve the page layout for mobile portrait mode. And the landscape mode could do with a tweak too.