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We had quite an intensive run of them, alongside the spammers, but seems to have been quieter recently, but everyone needs to remain on their guard & if you see, suspect, or God forbid, get turned over yourself then holler, we can only call ourselves a community if we work together.

It's OK, you can admit swinging the ban hammer gives you Thor vibes, this is a safe space...

Definitely put a chrono at the top of your "to buy" list. Especially if you plan on doing any work on you boltie (or any gun).

Good advice given on this thread! I love running a sub 350fps bolty. I use .32s as they are a good compromise with cost v ultimate 'liftability.' I play at Gunman sites, and Josh usually asks anyone daft enough to use a sub-350fps bolty to say at the safety brief. This avoids the 'He's cheating/shooting within the MED' crap. You could ask the chaps at your site to do the same if they don't already. For short range, get a bayonet fitted... I find that I immerse myself far more with my K98. I think harder, use fieldcraft more and don't walk shots in as much. If you have a look at the day write ups thread, there are a few posts that give advice on getting the most out of your rif. Impulse is a bit of a guru in this department, but don't tell him I said so!

GHK 14.5” URG-I gbbr from Action Hobbies boneyard £300 . Nowt wrong with it apart from no mag and its blue . One hour with a toothbrush and cellulose thinners its looking better I’ll de-blue the crane stock when I have more time . also came with an odin mag adaptor .

You can tell it's the school holidays Or how about this

My son borrowed my G&G M4 and used it for a Black Hawk Down loadout I seem to recall. Colt rail mounted tele sight and a few other gubbins. It looked pretty damn different.

If you like different, may as well go all out with random all the colours ?

If you're unsure at your local site, I'd just speak with the marshalls and clarify. I can't imagine they'd saddle you with an MED if you're shooting at 1.14J or lower, but they may decide to because they're lazy they don't want to have people running around with 2.3J sniper rifles point-blanking people and then claiming "no, I'm at 1J". Typically "AEG", "DMR" and "Sniper Rifle" are more classifications than actual RIF types. I've never been told at any site or event I've been to (outside of AI500) that I can't use a bolt action rifle at 1.14J or lower and then shoot up close like everyone else. For example, when I play Vietnam filmsim events at Gunman, they have a sniper ban during the summer where DMRs and sniper rifles are banned because the ferns grow high and it's harder to find angles without creeping into your MED. However, they still allow me to use my m700, very much a bolt action rifle with a scope on it, as long as I set it to 1.14J or under, because at that point it's just the same as anyone's AEG, just a lot quieter, typically more accurate and more satisfying to hunt GIs with I've never been to a site or event that has told me I still have to have an MED if I have a bolt action rifle (or a gun that looks and acts like a DMR) at 1.14J or under. At some sites a 1.14J bolt action is far more useful, like Gunman Eversley during the summer due to their sniper ban, and also my local Worthing Airsoft as while they don't have a ban, the site becomes even more woodland CQB during the summer because of how much it bushes up. The only difference was AI500. They didn't let me bring one of my 1.14J bolt actions to the shopping centre one for no other reason apart from they said "no sniper rifles", even though it was under the power limits and actively would've made my life more difficult (CQB with a bolt action is a challenge, but a thrill!). They also had a moan at me at the Citadel one when I brought my m21 because it looks like a sniper rifle, but I said "it's an m14 with a scope. It's just a battle rifle and the power is under 1.14J" and so they didn't stop me from using it. So that's the only example I have of a site/event classing guns based on how the action works / what they look like. Also, it can go the other way (somewhat). I've seen people running arp9s with drum mags as "DMRs" because they're locked to semi-auto and the power is higher, though most events and some regular sites will specify that a DMR has to be a RIF based on a real-world DMR, like an m14, SR-25, mk12 etc. DMR rules are the thing that varies the most from site to site, as they could be 1.48J, 1.64J or 1.88J depending on the site, some sites mandate a stock, some sites require specific RIFs like I said earlier.

Welcome, I'd suggest finding a site in the area of the country that you can get to and look for a hire option. Get a taste for the game rather than youtube and then see where you are after a few days with hired rifs.

Welcome to the money pit! Rent a gun and kit first to get a feel for the hobby and make sure you want to invest in it. Make sure you have good boots that give ankle support and wear clothing that you don't mind getting wet and filthy. Where in London are you based?

Ahoy and welcome. No need to over-think it. Find a site near to you, and book a rental package. If you enjoy it and reckon that you'll stick with it, then you think about purchasing options. Renting isn't as expensive as it looks though. A rental package is typically £20 more than a walk on, but you'll get through £10 or so worth of BBs anyway, so it's really only £10 a day to rent a gun and support for it without investing anything yourself. Waiting the 8 weeks / 3 games before getting a site membership / UKARA number will give you time to cadge a go on some guns and figure out what you want to buy. There's no need to go as a team or with anyone else. There will be a brief for rentals covering the basics, and airsofters tend to be a friendly bunch. You'll easily enough get talking to folk on site. Just ask someone about their guns and gear and see if you can get them to shut up.

That's already what you get from a tac41 or a steyer scout. Well, simple spring change, but that's easy.

Had my Detonator CNC slide set & Trijicon style suppressor night-sights delivered today. As per @JimFromHorsham's one, very veery nice indeed with spot-on manufacture. Cheers for that headsup Jim ? Took the liberty of fitting at the same time a WII Tech 200% recoil spring set, WII Tech CNC enhanced spring bushing & WII Tech CNC Steel Recoil Spring Guide Rod. Already had a Nine Ball 6.03 barrel, bucking, gas routers and Bomber CNC optic adaptor + Vortex CCW. Fitted and a happy Mr Dellski.

Are you after a new camo pattern but want something different to the multicam or MTP that everyone else is wearing? Then look no further

Yarp, there's a lot of satisfaction to be had from getting a hit while playing in Hard Mode, using energy that you've put in yourself. It feels more personal.

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All thoroughly wrapped by Fire Support (surprisingly). I was looking to enhance my E&C M16 somewhat and was expecting the G&P stuff to be a lot nicer as their full M4/M16s from back in the day were overall nicer externally, but where the G&P bits turned out a cut above in a lot of areas, they also fell short in a few as well and on balance I couldn't/didn't choose to use most of the front end stuff. As an example, the 203 handguard has a much more realistic leaf sight than an E&C equivalent and maybe slightly better plastic but it's completely missing the metal inner heatshield (which the E&C has). Oh and don't buy an LCT Crane stock.. holy shit literally the worst quality plastic airsoft accessory I've ever touched ? Suuuper thin and awful plastic, sharp, pathetically lightweight, shiny and poorly fit with the side compartment caps barely held in place. The other stock is an ASG which lacks the QD sling mount but the plastic is matt, thick and sturdy; pretty damn close in composition to a real B5 SOPMOD. While I'm not their biggest fan admittedly, you just can't deny Helikon stuff especially the more recent lol. The cap is weirdly small but the (stupidly named) trousers are just stupidly good; got given another pair in green about 5-6 years ago and wear them absolutely constantly yet they still look new, so had to go for a 2nd set.

From an advert that I stumbled across on here . . bought completely on a whim! A G&G Wildhog GC16. In the words of Borat, its a very niice. There is an issue with the acog that I will be asking questions about, but I'll do that tomorrow as I'm going to bed.

Nah,I'm just pissed that nothing happened after his first VERY moody post, but we have to play nice until we know otherwise. I worry a wee bit about rushing in, but at the same time it sucks if someone gets scammed if we hesitate. If any of us get it wrong, the god mods can reinstate them.

Honestly, return it if you've bought from a retailer.

when you push the cleaning rod down the barrel turn the pew upside down & look in the mag well at the hop unit... can you see the cleaning rod or another bb?

Ok, but if you don’t need the air volume why waste time and battery energy pulling the piston all the way back for every shot?

Challenge completed... Bought an optic mount, ASG red dot (which is actually bigger than I thought it would be) and a double pistol case for My M93r from airsofteire Also ordered a stock and a set of wooden grips for it from Octagon airsoft... pics will be shared when they arrive from Hong Kong

Thanks, he's gone?

This is definitely next on my ‘to buy’ list! That looks amazing!!

If I could get a bolt action that's decently accurate and close to the legal joule limit out of the box with fairly realistic looks for sub £500 I'd definitely be quite interested.

Germany has just warned its population of an upcoming sausage and cheese shortage. They are calling it the wurst käse scenario.

Just done a (almost) full rework …. So close to being finished

I also don't think it's a crazy price, but if the fella says it works but doesn't work and thinks his paint by numbers bodge job is that good, what else is he telling us that is wrong, is there more damage than just the nozzle for example?

Pimp it out with any spare attachments you have lying around too.

I'll post a comparison once the starter upgrades are complete.

We actually bought the rifle from Surplus Store. I won’t be able to get over there before Saturday but happy to give it a go with stock spring. I found a hank of rope in the garage that is 30m and laid it out, it’s actually not as far as I thought. Looks like our usual engagement distance for our AR’s on a wide game to be honest. Thanks for all the help and advice, really appreciated.

Only stupid question is one you don't ask. ??

Yeah. I deliberately didn't mention the price because it wasn't unreasonable. It was just the guff about saying it does but doesn't work properly and the autofellatio he was performing over the paintjob that read like he was dreaming as Stevie Wonder could probably paint it better using his feet.

One thing i've learnt with snipers (in general) is that the size of a meter differs depending if they're working out the MED or if they're trying to sell it

Thanks Rogerborg, I've got a lot to learn on this, I've never fired a boltie and haven't put a round through our new gun yet. I'll see what happens the weekend and report back I think we've fallen into the typical noob trap of getting over excited and buying loads of stuff. Hey ho, what else is money for.

It's not an unreasonable assumption that anyone using a bolt action is going to have thrown in a spring that pushes it up to the site limit. Bear in mind that the marshals and other players aren't going to know what energy you're shooting at, so prepare to get shouted at for engaging up close even if it's down at the lower end. That said, there are folk who run bolt actions at under 1.14J in order to not have a MED. And if you're just a bit over, and don't have a sidearm, a pragmatic site owner might tell you to just not point-blank anyone with it - see what they say. On the other hand, some sites can be (understandably) strict about their rules as they're conditions of insurance. Generally you want to run the heaviest BB that your hop will lift (and your wallet will stand) in a sniper. I'd be looking at using at least 0.32g, ideally over 0.4g if the hop can lift it. If you drop down to a lighter BB to de-creep the energy down to under 1.14J, fair enough, but you're giving up one of the advantages of a bolt-action where you need every shot to be as consistent and to carry its energy as far as possible. I'd keep your expectations very low for a stock boltie - you're going to be outgunned by just about everybody else there. Fingers crossed that it all goes well and you enjoy the manual action.

I've just worked it out using an online calculator on .28 BB's which I'm planning on using. Totally get that it would be impractical to treat each gun on a case by case biases and I will stick to the 30m rule if asked too. I'll talk to the marshals when I get the gun chrono'd on Saturday and see what's said. Thanks for the input and glad it wasn't a stupid question Thanks Impulse, I will take .2, .25, .28 BB's with me so if needs be I can make sure I'm under the 1.14J limit. The marshalls have been really helpful so far at the site so I'll take their advice. Personally I don't have an issue with the 30m limit but my son who's 12 wants to use the rifle and I don't think he can judge distances as well as me, I don't want to get him into trouble or piss off other players. We don't have sidearms (yet). My son and i will come down to Worthing Airsoft soon, only heard good things about this place.

As tackle says the main reason i can think is simply stereotypes. Practically what matters for an med is that the bb has some time to drop in owchiness, so it should on paper be only the energy level that counts regardless of the pew type. But on the ground, i can see many an argument being levied of "oi sniper that's not 30m", so maybe easier to just to limit everything people think is going to be an med gun regardless of it's actual power level.

Not daft on your part, the sites are making a very common assumption that any snipers will be running at or close to their maximum limit, whereas your out of the box sniper is only doing close to the aeg limit , which would seem unfair. Best thing you could do is explain this to the site, give them a call & see if they'll allow you to run it with a different contact criteria, explain its running at aeg levels & until you get it upgraded, it's more about practicing the field craft than getting long range kills.

Woodland I don't mind so much because you more typically know that the badmen are over yonder. In CQB, I dislike mid-blue or dingy-red versus bright-yellow. When milliseconds count, it's so much easier to positively identify a target when they're wearing something bright. And both arms, please, I don't need to be doing the mental gymnastics of inferring a positive from a conditional negative. This gets even worse when you have unbanded marshals wandering around too. Of course, a team-kill is a kill.

And bush Wookies that put them on their ankles.

What happens in frottclub stays in frottclub ?

Too much boom in that, you've cracked the concrete...

My son wanted to play this thing ‘Airsoft’ that I never heard of before. He told me that I have to play 3 times and then gift him a RIF. At first I was against it but he convinced me to try it out. I’ve enjoyed it and we’ve been going every month since. My relationship with my son has improved dramatically. Before we didn’t have much in common and now we talk Airsoft, equipment all the time (much to my wife’s annoyance ? So I would try to approach your dad from that angle. As Dan already said there are lots of Dad&Son combos on the field. I thought I would be far too old for this but I’ve seen lots of grey middle aged (and older) men out there.

I'm not "getting off" on anything, just saying how the OP comes across to me. Imo repetitively asking after being told no is hardly a sign of maturity

As others have posted, its sales to under 18s which is legal not owning one, however as you're living with your parents then it's their house so their rules Also as you posted you've asked "more than a million times" but won't accept his answer so started this thread suggests to me you're not as mature as you think

As a father to a teenager I second that - the boy and I have our own distinct loadouts. Looking forward to him coming home in June so I can shoot the crap out of him again: We have (I like to think) a pretty solid relationship as a result of spending Airsoft days together. I certainly know him better than he thinks I do. The boy also has some school friends who's mum was into Airsoft - her and her partner's loadout's were pretty awesome. We had some fun gameday's as a group. However, your dad may have genuine reasons for being apprehensive - I was at first TBH. It's not just the financial cost of owning a gun. My brother and his missus are completely against guns of any kind for example so my nephew would have had no chance if he wanted Airsoft as a hobby. It's part of what sucks to be a kid. You have to respect the boundaries your parents put in place. Of course I am giving the OP the benefit of the doubt that this isn't a wind up thread.

Well after that article I’m calling it “Japanese paintball” from now on . ?‍♂️