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Hi, ALL! 👋 Still around, been busy with things going on…. Steadily going through the backlog of footage collected, upload them when I can. I know players on here, that I encountered, you will soon be in a video. I will message you, likewise and check my page more often. Thanks for the support on here. 👊😎 💷GAMBLE💷

My bike's still powered by cake, but I've a couple of mates who have e-bikes and they find them great fun, both are on Specialized Turbo Levo's of one variant or another which are way over budget and far more bike than it sounds you want anyway. That said, my parents have the hybrid style ones and they got plenty of happy miles in them without any major issues. TBH if I used a bike to commute I'd probably have one just so I didn't turn up a sweaty mess every morning.

Popped along to Gunman Tuddenham for the first outing since April, mostly to test kit for the upcoming Defiant Battlesim in October. A good day to be fair, much warmer and drier than I expected, gameplay really good from both sides and not sure I heard of any hit-taking/cheat calling issues. Marshals were professional and helped to keep the gameplay going.

I have an Air Arms S410 with a suppresser, comparing it to airsoft guns you would want a gas or spring bolt action rifle or a NBB (non blow back) like a Mk23 SOCOM pistol. Both as boring as the S410. If I wanted something for plinking in the garden would go with something fun like the "ASG CZ75 Marushin Shell Ejecting Gas Blowback Pistol" myself.

I had been undecided about where to go today, with the options being Splatoon and 501st Airsoft. As I had been tweaking a couple of guns, Splatoon was the final choice as it has a well marked out 60m range. Numbers were lower than usual, but higher than last time I was there, with around 60 being present at the start of the day. Having set up and checked the two tweaked guns, which were both shooting at around 1J with the hop set, I set up my gear for the day and went through the ritual of chronoing, with is handled very efficiently at Splatoon. The first game was the usual fallback, with us as the defenders; we had one life in each of four zones, while the attackers had infinite regens on a marshal. In the first stage, I took up a position on the right and had great fun potting attackers until I took a gun hit and had to revert to my trusty sidearm. I was soon hit and had to fall back to the next zone, where I again took a position on the right and had some delightful exchanges of plastic with enemy players, taking out many of them before one of them finally got me. The next zone was the first half of the container village. I decided to take up a position where I could pick off enemy players who were trying to break into the zone; this worked well for a while until I again had to switch to my pistol, which was not ideal in the circumstances. Having been hit, back I went to the final zone, where I decided to fight on the left flank as usual. As a team, we held up the enemy well, until they eventually reached the grey helicopter, which was their target. After a break, this game was reversed; the fight in the first zone was tough, against a determined enemy, but we took it and moved on to the second zone; the Begadi hop in the MPiKm was proving to be worth its rather high price, with shots being very consistent and long ranged. Having taken that zone, we attacked the first half of the container village, which we cleared reasonably quickly but suffered a 30 second time penalty as an opposing player was still alive in the pile of tyres when we called the zone clear. Pushing on into the final zone, various attempts were made to reach the grey helicopter; none were successful until someone finally took out the enemy player who was in a perfect position to shoot anyone making a run for it. When the dust had settled, our time was around seven minutes faster; hoorah! Lunch followed, during which a few players left; as a result of few of us were asked to switch to the red armband team. The first game after lunch was a simple domination; each team had to set three spinners across the site to their colour at the end of the game to get points. As usual, I headed to the lower field, eager to shoot my former colleagues. This was a messy fight, with the spinner changing hands a couple of times, finally ending up showing the other team's colour. One nice moment involved spotting an enemy sniper who was just getting into position on our flank and sending him back to regen with a couple of well aimed shots. I have no idea who won the game overall! After another break, we had to escort Geoffrey the Giraffe, who is actually a very large stuffed toy zebra, to either of the helicopters; we decided to take him to the grey one as it is harder to defend. We had infinite regens on our start point and the defenders had three lives. Pushing up rapidly, we reached the edge of the woods near the helicopter and stalled in the face of a very solid and active defence. Having taken out a few defenders, I was hit and went back to regen; on my way back to the front, we heard the joyous news that Geoffrey had made it to the helicopter. Hip Hurrah! After another break, this game was reversed; I took up a position on the upper level of the container village and had a great time shooting enemy players as they tried to push into it. At one point I spotted the shadows of some enemy players who were behind a container below me and to my flank. A pyro took out two of them and I shot the other, who had reacted more quickly than his colleagues and ran around the corner of the container into my line of sight. Geoffrey again made it to the helicopter, but in a time that was three minutes slower than when we took him there. After this game, I decided to leave; the final game was a CQB one in the Kill House, which is not my bag, man! Overall, it was a rather spiffingly good day of airsoft. However, I am still not convinced by the site now allowing full auto for all weapons, albeit with a 15m minimum engagement distance; I far prefer semi auto only games. Weapons used: CYMA MPiKM JG/Golden Eagle AMD65 ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)

Went to Splatoon today, they'd changed the games around and started with the two longer fall back games in the morning before lunch which I think went amazingly well. Paired with the use of full auto allowed (Used to be semi only) it felt like the games were more competitive and quicker with both sides actually completing the objective (Fighting through four "zones", which defenders need to be cleared from. They have one life where as attackers have unlimited) before the 45 minute limit was reached. First time out with the PKM today and it absolutely shreds! AK-105 sadly still wants to fire upwards, even with a new hop unit etc which is very strange. Got out for the first two games but sadly the PKM had taken a toll on my scoliosis and rendered me almost useless after lunch, so missed out on the third game but still had heaps of fun in the morning!

Hi and welcome. Kent here. Congratulations for not calling UKARA a "license" 🙂

I've had no batteries catch fire or explode, except some nicads back in the 70s which overheated exploded and melted some carpet, in 50 years. I store my batteries in ammo boxes partially charged nowadays, but before that just looked after them, threw away the puffies or physically damaged ones and use a decent charger. I'm also older than you're dad, so lets not use that as any factor in batteries catching fire. 58 being old.. Pah If you have a damaged lipo ( they are only protected by a thin plastic pouch) chuck it. if you have a cheapo charger, chuck it. If you have electrically abused the battery, chuck it. That's how to stop batteries nuking. Don't use old batteries, if you have been using a battery for Airsoft for a year get a new one, you've likely dropped your battery more than once, either in the gun or just being lazy and chucking it on the table. Lipos are soft and will deform if you drop them. I neither charge my batteries attended or place them in a nest of kindling, just use sensible charging currents and a proper balance charger.

No, I'm zeroing the sight when it's attached to the weapon. This is more like it, I'll check these out! Thanks for the recommendations!

As everyone has said it should be fine, anyone can own pc's etc. BUT I'm gonna say something contentious that not everyone may like, but it has to be considered. You haven't said where your coming from, home country or ethnic origin, & Unfortunately some government agencies have been known to use racial profiling as a tool to essentially narrow down their search process in the "fight against terror". In that respect, should you tick any of the stereotypical boxes they look at, as someone here on a student visa, it would crap if some over eager civil servant spots the "military vest", & misconstrued it's purpose. If you felt this was feasible, might be better to mail the vest to your UK address & avoid any unpleasantness. On the flip side, probably like many here I like to use certain brands in daily life, whether it's clothing or luggage etc, when travelling to certain countries I've been inclined to tone down my attire, turn up looking like a poster model for 5.11 etc & you may get mistaken for something your not. It's a worldwide problem, but all we wanna do is pew pew lol.

Had a fun weekend at Stirling this weekend. First Stirling in a few years and good fun. I was running solo but was lucky to be attached to 1 troop although the takings really were the same as any other callsign. Lots of patroling and recce to build up a target package before conducting strikes into the village. It was really hard work as the tempo was high for a 36hr event and opfor fought incredibly hard with everywhere outside of the fob feeling like a hostile environment. If you have your admin on point and are comfortable being aggressive in a firefight then it really is worth giving it a try as they're really special events. Run TF if you're into sprinting into battle and opfor if you're looking for a more relaxed attitude to the game. Either way you'll be looked after.

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it was just as bad on Saturday , very elitist attitude asked a small group on my team where they were taking fire from and was ignored ,blank ignored ... made me thing they didn't speak English or could understand me till they started talking to each other , lot of hpa abuse too , after lunch was single shot only but no one followed that

I guess you must have gone on Saturday then! I went on Sunday and it was probably the worst I have seen at Tuddenham (or any site) for years. The Marshall team did a lot to try to tackle it, "motivational speeches", threats of overzealous marshalling etc. but unfortunately there seemed to be so many bad apples there it was basically impossible to adjust. Groups cheering when players finally took hits, terrible hit taking, over killing and shooting to yield, players gloating about the fact they'd hurt others through intentional head/face shots etc. As a Tudds regular, it was very very surprising to even have it there as normally it's just not done. If anyone attended tuddenham on Sunday, please don't judge the site based on that day alone. It's not a reflection of the site or regular player base.