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As far as CQB is concerned, pretty much every CQB place is limited to very small venues due to cost of buildings in the London area. I have compiled a list of all the sites that are Public Transportable and up to an hour of walking from Central London. To be honest there are very few additional sites that require a car to get to anyway and none of them CQB as far as I can say. Outdoors, Pure Woodland or Woodland with few structures considering it's size in Green Outdoor sites with a specific CQB section(s) of a reasonable size in Blue Urban sites (Has a mixture of Outdoor/Woodland with significant Man made structures not purpose built for Airsoft) in Purple Pure CQB in RED Sites within the M25. Bunker 51 Red 1 Chislehurst Tactical Warfare Croydon Mayhem Airsoft Abridge D&A Dropzone Incursion Airsoft "The Tunnels" Sites just outside the M25 Reforger Red 1 The School Red 1 Oblivion Ultimate Wargames Ambush Airsoft Campaign Airsoft South Herts Airsoft Sites a bit further away but possible to reach with public transport and less than an hour of walking. Airsoft Plantation Skirmish Billericay Dragons Lair (Moving soon to a place that's easier to get to on public transport) CAMO Canvey Island Driver Wood (But the CQB specific sections are hardly used for Airsoft anymore) Dogtag Skirmish Wycombe Battle Sector X Future Survival Gravesend Invicta Black Site ** Imperium Splatoon Hockley Arena ** Reachable via Train on Saturday games only, the first Sunday train is too late to arrive in time The only pure indoor CQB sites are Bunker 51, Incursion, CAMO, Future Survival, Battle Sector X, Hockley Arena and Invicta Black Site. The largest being, Incursion and Black Site. If you have a car than RIFTS The Battery would be well worth the trip as it is a mix of Indoor and Outdoor CQB which is pretty unique in the South East. Splatoon is kind of urban considering a 1/3rd of the playing area is taken up by a shipping container area which is pretty good. Red 1 The School uses an old school for half the day but its very limited in terms of a playing area.

I was looking at another forum recently and they noted an intention within the Labour manifesto to increase firearms licensing to cover the full costs involved. Now I know that's not airsoft but shooters of ALL disciplines should be aware that if one group is targeted successfully then you can bet your last BB that they will look elsewhere to do something similar. Get more money in from our sport, maybe ban it, or more difficult to access. Who knows. You can never trust these politicians........

I'm a sucker for a carbine kit, just need a 226 to put in it now, a 1911A1 for my VN loadout & a bucket list Auto 9.

As mentioned in the 'What Have You Just Bought' thread, I've picked up one of these bad boys for a bit of a song from Action Hobbies' boneyard. Had to stick a barrel extension on it for a more SLR feel, and an old red-dot 1.5X sight cos it suits the aesthetic, and bingo, it's close to the classic battle rifle look I really love. I was expecting a polymer receiver, so was delighted to find this has a metal upper. It seems to have been upgraded - the rate of fire with a 7.4v is great. The advert talked of a Gate Aster inside. It seems that's true, I watched a video and it follows the expected Gate Aster behaviour from the trigger programming. I think it has a longer inner barrel too, its poking into the flash hider when in normal carbine configuration. Accuracy seems merely 'ok', but I've only chucked 0.20's down the garden for 15m so far. Might need a fresh hop rubber. But of course, it was boneyard for a reason. It seems to have been upgraded, but there is an issue with the single shot function where it doesn't always fire. You can hear the gearbox cycle but I suspect it's not getting all the way back to the point of release. Next trigger pull releases the pre-cocked spring. I've tried changing the Active Braking from 'auto' to 'off', but that didn't seem to make any difference. Any ideas on things what could be wrong? Breaking open the gearbox will be a last resort, given I don't seem to have much luck with the darned things, but damnit this gun is a lovely bit of kit and I'll want to run it a lot if I can get it fettled. Oh yeah, a handy hint for anyone averse to reading instructions before playing with their new toy - the screw in the buttplate is fake - don't expend masses of effort trying to undo it And be complaining about cheesing the screw head when it's made of plastic The butt plate slides straight down and off to reveal the battery compartment!

My bad , read MTW and thought MWS 🤦🏼‍♂️ as you were 🤪

I got distracted buying a pistol speed loader and bought two CTM TAC Magazine Extension Plate's for my AAP-01... https://i.imgur.com/ESj7Kpy.jpg ... as I liked the thought of more gas in the mag and a few more BB's. Pretty simple to install... https://i.imgur.com/p712x6p.jpg ... and look good... https://i.imgur.com/DLW0z7y.jpg ... but don't work with the Action Army flared magwell which I had to remove As expected the extra gas made the pistol too hot and added around 0.17J over my usual power using Nuprol 3.0, all good though on Nuprol 2.0.

What have i made? Well yesterday i made a mess of my chrono by trying to test the output of my trishot. Which didnt end well. I think i may be in the market for a new chrono......

probably the best thread on the forum.

A woman is standing looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, “I feel horrible; I look old, fat, and ugly… I really need you to pay me a compliment.” The husband replies, “Your eyesight’s damn near perfect

How do non binary people kill someone? They/Them

Different platform. The hardest part would be the fixed carry handle upper. Real fake guns is making an A1 on a PTW, which has had extensive modification to an upper. Might be worth checking out his build for ideas?

Nova and angrygun do the receiver sets , nice build here : https://www.popularairsoft.com/news/tokyo-marui-m16a1-gbb-mws-nova-kit

Coincidentally I was trying to sort out a gun this morning that was shooting off to one side with a ZCI rotary and an Mr hop. After discounting the barrel being rotated to the side in the hop unit, swapping out the nub etc with no change, I realised something quite interesting. The hop arm on the ZCI unit had been poorly moulded. It appears moulded in two halves - and on my version, the two halves were not perfectly aligned. This resulted in a small step halfway across the 'cup' where the nub sits under the arm, therefore placing quite significant uneven pressure to the nub. 10 seconds of careful scraping with a blade sorted it, and now the gun is shooting dead straight. I've used ZCI units in most of my guns with good results, so this was a first for me. Had me scratching my head for a while!

Ah, welcome to "dad tech"-ing. Its a proud moment when the little snot monster you raised, runs head on into a hail of plastic in the daftness we call airsoft. I've mentioned on your other thread about the m4 mag doodad. P90's are great little pews and can, if played with correctly, show up a lot of the big heavy lumps that I/we carry around. Ours was a boneyard and was shot to hell n back. However now, it absolutely screams plastic death. If thats a thing. If not, i just invented it. And want it on a patch. EDIT: and the only daft queston is one you dont ask.

I think for ak there's a vfc plastic rotary that's really good if you can find one, only about £15. Maybe some AK owners can confirm this

I've used those ZCI blue buckings that come with their hop units before in similar circumstances when the gun seemed to be misbehaving with other 'fancy' buckings (maple leaf, unicorn etc) with good enough results.

Shit happens, I got my son a springer pistol froma corner shop years ago... plod got involved after one of his pals shot a bb at another friend. we're supposed to learn from our mistakes, not sure if I have TBH.

It means that the knuckle dragging twat was unable to put a full stop after "externally".

Bargain! I'll have it at that price. It don't matter if it's fake cause I've got no one to talk to anyway. 😂

Went to the farm in Lincoln yesterday for the first time yesterday and apart from some really inconsistent performance from my ICS APE had a great morning, I say morning because into the second game after lunch my son got a call to say his son was being rushed to hospital with a suspected broken leg. We rushed off to pack up and leave, and while doing so were asked why we were leaving and then instantly offered a refund for half the day that we would miss. We declined and we told that if we came back to mention it on booking and they would only charge us half a day. Just to add a cherry on the top my son posted on the Lincolnshire airsoft page to say how appreciative he was of the gesture and the first response was from the farm team to ask how his son was doing (fine btw thankfully not a serious break). So not only is it a really interesting site to play, it is well run, good game play and pretty decent people running it to, and a second cherry is that it is really reasonably priced for a full game day!

Superb morning at Driver Wood on Sunday - a 2.5 hour game, starting just before half nine, and running all the way through to lunch. Its the first time I've been there when they have run that, instead of two nominally one hour games (but which can get eroded through general faffage). As I only ever go for a half day/morning, packing as much play into that time gets my vote. Quite a fun game concept too - with lots of balloons located all around the playing area at different objectives in the team colours - idea being that you shoot out the enemy team colour balloons, and defend yours. Also I took along my 12 year old daughter for her first taste of airsoft - which she absolutely loved! I managed to give her a heavily curated experience - generally with us sticking as a pair, and me playing a lot less 'aggressively' than normal (and taking a lot more hits in the process!). She got a few hits herself, including her highlight of taking out a group of five enemy players ten minutes before the end - leaving her absolutely buzzing. I managed to arm her with a fully polymer Specna (even a polymer buffer tube) that I built up from a few parts - super light and the stock can be adjusted pretty short. Shout out to the site shop as well -coming to the rescue and selling her a multicam hoody for just £5 as she didn't have anything suitable in her own wardrobe.

If you're ever after something a bit different I'd recommend Barti Spiced. Used to be called Barti Ddu (Black Bart) until recently. Its infused with seaweed and this creates quite a unique taste as far as rum goes, and quite a moreish one at that

I'll be that guy again, and ask: if you feel strongly that UKAPU isn't doing what you want, what's stopping you from volunteering to join it, and changing that?

It appears to me that UKARA has a monopoly of lobbying power because they hold the secret sauce data of the airsoft market. However because they are not really an airsoft association they do not have the capacity to take on the role of one. A full fledged airsoft association should really be doing a number of stuff even during "peace time", e.g. PR and promoting safety and improving the hobby etc (see suggestions from GPT above). So that the public perception of our hobby does not depend entirely on external factors such as whichever party is in charge. In other words, the toy gun illuminati might be too good at being secretive it is unintentionally trapping the hobby in the fringe zone it originated from.

Amazingly the story of UKARA is truly becoming lost history because their operation is so obscure. Here is a brief mention of it being an Excel file sitting at a site called Ironfoot Airsoft that used to exist (near the GCHQ site), but the farmhouse is now demolished. So there is really no solid up-to-date information of exactly who and where and how UKARA is maintained.

Dogtag definitely got slated which is the other side of Crawley. Driver Wood gets slated as much as any other site.

I’ve just got an Acetech mini tracer unit (Lighter S iirc ) fitted in mine , directly to the -14mm thread that is under that cap you’ve highlighted , then the outer screwed back on . Works perfectly and you don’t even know it’s there till you need it , like just now 😛 IMG_6086.mov

PayPal are awful to deal with if anything goes wrong as a seller, I can see his point as long as he doesn't abuse it. I really, really really prefer doing as much as possible in person, at least the first time. Cuts all the bullshit.

FINALLY got my hands on an MP5 and four spare mags. Found a solution for mounting a scout light which works really well, and allows use of the original TM forend for maximum battery space. The claw mount is the wide TM version. You can mount an optic towards the back, with room to spare for a Surefire offset mount in front of it. The Scout light is long enough that shadowing isn’t an issue, but short enough that ambidextrous handling is still possible without having to change the forend and use a vertical grip. Pressure switch is just taped neatly on the top, as I like to shoot thumb over bore / C-clamp. Got a night game coming up soon and can’t wait to try her out. The suppressor is the TM pro tracer, attached to the adapter which comes in the box with the MP5. Looks good enough for me.

I use Ant Supplies all the time. They are so cheap that I actually have a stock of bits to stick on future rifs.

https://www.ant-supplies.uk/ I bought some 20mm / 1" scope rings from here for the princely sum of £6 I bought an M4 armourers tool for £6 as well The main thing is not so much the cheap scope rings, it's the fact they do loads of bits and pieces, but don't charge for the p&p. So if you want something small and cheap you won't get bombed with a £5 courier fee on top. They do general shooting / hunting stuff, so there's not a whole lot of specific Airsoft kit in there, but it is worth a poke around if you want a hat or a sling, or survival kit. Edit... Flip up optics lens shield for £6

£700 for a pistol which by his own admission isn't running properly, comes with a load of unknown "upgrades" (probably the reason it needs a service) and has that paint job https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/item/51817-51-custom-hicapa/