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Payday so brought my wish list well part of it

A free Shield SMS from Shield Sites. warranty replacement for my burnt out MOD Surplus one. The guy said it was the oldest one he had seen in ages.

First time for me at Gunman Airsoft Camp Bravo yesterday. I've been to Gunman Tuddenham a bunch of times but not their other sites. I'm not really into woodland but it was the Halloween special night game that ran until 1am and as an enjoyer of airsofting at night, it looked like a good way to spend my Friday night. They clearly put a lot of effort into the event with all sorts of Halloween props around the safe zone. Not like Poundland spiders and some cobwebs. They had crazy 12+ foot tall skeleton creatures with lights, animatronics and all sorts. It was very professional. I found the first game the best even if our spawn was about 15 miles away from the action but it was nice to have the full? site in play which was unusual according the one of the regulars I spoke to . Thankfully I only had to go back once I think as we were being very sneaky, flanking etc. After that it went to the more typical, faster paced, skirmish type games which were OK. Game play/attitudes were good too. Everyone seemed friendly and no real arguments over overshooting that you typically get at night games. I did see a couple of people that complained a little bit of getting overshot, already dead etc but if you're walking around without your hand up and you're dead, you're going to get shot. Same for hits. If you mumble "hit" and don't immediately put your hand up, you're going to get hit again. They had staff? that were dressed up in various spooky outfits roaming the site and following/chasing you forcing you to move if they spotted you in one position for too long. Including someone with a chainsaw which was fun. In addition to marshals wandering around pumping out heavy amounts of fog from what appeared to be industrial/pro fog machines. There was a sound system blasting out music the entire time with a pretty slick QR code to request songs. They played everything I requested which was cool. I requested the suitably spooky Children of the Grave by Black Sabbath and that blasting out in the middle of dark woods surrounded by fog was simply perfect. Food was very good too. I'm not used to that amount of choice at airsoft sites. I've paid more for lower quality food at other places. So yeah, thumbs up from me.

& some might say that this is camo, but I've yet to see anyone play in it ?

We all need a wee bit of colour in our lives.

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Back when I was shooting at things and people for a living, I had the following setup: - a Jayjay's MC belt kit - a mesh vest with slanted MOLLE loops on the torso rather than the H-yoke. I had picked that config for field work when we were not issued the Osprey, and before being issued Virtus. And I had taken inspiration from former instructors who also had an airborne background and had attached a US woodland LBV-88 to their DPM PLCE belt kit. I've come full circle now.

I'm starting this up as a reference thread for everyone's photos of G3's

**List Maintenance carried out: up to date as of January 2025** ________________________________________________________________________ Retailer list, broken down by region. It's always helped me tick off all the the places i want to search for a particular item. If you are a shop/site owner who doesn't appear below, post in the thread and I'll get round to adding it on. At the bottom, there is also a list of shops relatively local to people in Surrey/SW London and then Birmingham respectively . Hope this helps! Airsoft Retailers UK & Ireland http://www.landwarriorairsoft.com/ https://www.fire-support.co.uk/ https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/ http://www.actionhobbies.co.uk/ https://www.surplusstore.co.uk/ http://www.ak2m4.co.uk https://www.outdoorandtactical.co.uk/ https://www.zerooneairsoft.com/ https://www.airsoftworld.net/ https://wolfarmouries.co.uk/ https://agl-airsoft.co.uk/ https://www.skirmshop.co.uk/ https://www.leicestershireairsoft-online.co.uk/ https://www.bullseyecountrysport.co.uk/ https://www.bombupairsoft.co.uk/ https://www.socomtactical.net/ https://www.onlyairsoft.com/ https://www.bespokeairsoft.co.uk/ https://www.defconairsoft.co.uk/ https://www.airsoftzone.co.uk/ https://urbanairsoftuk.com/ https://uk-airsoft.co.uk/ https://extremeairsoft.co.uk/ https://www.bztactical.co.uk/ https://www.tacticalairsoftshop.co.uk/ https://www.davescustomairsoft.co.uk/ https://www.combatsouth.co.uk/ https://www.mpa-airsoft.co.uk/ https://shop.super5ives.com https://caffeineairsoft.co.uk/ https://www.ascensionresearch.co.uk/ https://jdairsoft.net/ https://www.justbbguns.co.uk/ https://www.onlybbguns.co.uk/ http://www.bbgunsuk.co.uk/ https://bbguns4less.co.uk/ https://www.tangodown.co.uk/ https://www.raresoft.co.uk - Niche & Collectable items https://hobbyking.com/ - Batteries & Chargers https://www.componentshop.co.uk/ - Batteries & Chargers Asia https://shop.ehobbyasia.com/ https://www.wgcshop.com/ http://www.airsoftglobal.com/ http://www.asiaairsoft.com/ http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/ https://tactifans.aliexpress.com/store/4423021 http://www.khmountain.com/ https://www.ebairsoft.com/ https://airsoft.tiger111hk.com/ https://shop.jkarmy.com/ https://www.uncompany.com/ https://www.crw-airsoft.com/ https://www.airsoftpeak.com https://e.x-fire.org/ https://www.18airsoft.com/ https://www.sixmm.com/ https://ast-gun.airsofttaiwan.com/ https://www.kyairsoft.com/ - (WE and other GBB parts - 5x feedlips for 15 USD) https://www.tacticalgeartrade.co.uk/ (No RIFs - sights and accessories only. Also Chinese stock; not UK as indicated by .co.uk) US (there are obviously a lot, however these ones will ship to the UK - most do not) https://www.airsoftgi.com/ http://www.evike.com/ https://www.airsoftatlanta.com/ https://www.airsoftstation.com/ https://www.airsoftextreme.com/ https://ampedairsoft.com/ EUR https://isashop.eu/ (custom 3d m12 sidewinder adapters) https://www.airsoftguns-europe.com/ https://www.airsoftzone.com/ https://gunfire.com/ https://www.airsoftshopeurope.com/ https://bunker501.nl/ https://www.darkbull.eu/ https://www.safarasoftair.com/ https://www.airsoft-entrepot.fr/ https://www.airsoftshop.be/ https://www.taiwangun.com/en https://www.airsoftestartit.com/ https://www.specshop.pl/ https://www.powair6.com/en/ https://www.weapon762.com/ https://www.softairgames.net/ https://www.begadi.com/ https://emperionstore.com/ https://www.wizeguy.eu https://airsoftmania.eu London/Surrey/Local walk in https://wolfarmouries.co.uk/ Camden Town https://agl-airsoft.co.uk/ Camden Town https://www.tacticalairsoftshop.co.uk/ Croydon https://www.surplusstore.co.uk/ Crawley Surrey https://www.socomtactical.net/ Guildford Surrey https://www.davescustomairsoft.co.uk/ Farnham Surrey https://www.justbbguns.co.uk/ Feltham / Hounslow https://www.onlybbguns.co.uk/ Colnbrook - Jct 14 M25 http://www.red1airsoft.co.uk/ St Albans – Jct 21A M25 https://www.a2supplies.co.uk/ Reading https://bbguns4less.co.uk/ Essex https://www.airsoftzone.co.uk/ Essex / NE LDN http://www.thecageairsoft.co.uk/ Essex-LDN City Airport Birmingham/West Midlands/Local walk in https://www.targetszone.co.uk/ https://jdairsoft.net/ https://extremeairsoft.co.uk/ Leicester

So my AA12 itch has been scratched, can't wait to get out & boing boing boing some of you (apparently the sound they make ?). Thanks to Graham aka @StackUpAirsoft for coming up with the goodies, at a good price I might add. ?

That's not far off the DPM used by Oman

Those colours on the left are a bit of me. Where do i buy? ?

DPM, DDPM, MTP, FLECTARN etc are all colours.

I emailed them to ask if they would accept my “sportsman’s association” membership in replace of UKARA. I’ve not used them just yet so unsure of the delivery times etc but I got the following response; “ we have no difficulty in accepting your request to send a RIF as a member of this Association if it is considered a valid defence in the UK. We have already accepted other defences other than the UKARA and have had no difficulties with UK customs. We do not have a complete understanding of what is and what is not accepted in your country as a valid defence, but if you feel that your membership of this association justifies the purchase of a RIF then I encourage you to proceed with your order. We will prepare all the documents to send your order enclosing the correctly completed RIF defence. Kind Regards Danilo” Hope that’s some help!

All that matters is it works for you. I have a 4x sight and a red dot mounted at 45° on mine.

Saturday 26th - Armageddon Airsoft - Halloween night game. Having picked some more brains over my Mk18s random issue of only firing once per two trigger pulls, i'd swapped out the hop rubber to a Begadi Fly 5 and ran this rifle the whole night to see if the issue was remedied. As it happens, I never had an issue once! It would appear that the feed lips of the Maple Leaf Macaron are ever so slightly too long to play nicely in this RIF and randomly cause feed issues - more testing needed to confirm but i'm sure the issue is fixed. The night game was, overall, great. The games started about 1815 right as we were losing the light with probably around 20-30 people in attendance. The first game was TDM but ruined by people behind everyone else using weapon lights to illuminate their own team revealing them to the enemy and even resulting in some teamkills - annoying to say the least. The rest of the games progressed at much slower pace as all the light was gone inside the woods resulting in a much more dynamic pace of gameplay. One random person firing tracers would often descend into multiple people trading scores of BBs to each other which, in the darkness, was hilarious to see. Some people tried to play without tracers (to prevent giving their position away (even I did)) but quickly found that you simply can not tell where you're shooting without tracers. The games were pretty fun as you had to pick your shots at people who were actually out of cover which was super satisfying when you get a kill. Long break at this point with BBQ provided - even the site dogs had costumes on! The penultimate game was 'lightbox' which was basically flip the switch for the light of your team - whichever team light is on at the end wins. We were told the box would be in the middle of the 'village' area. The box was actually so far to OUR side that me and another guy (the first two into the village) ran straight past it and it was discovered by a guy who bent down to tie his boot laces... IDK who placed that box or what his idea of 'fair play' is but god, that match was pretty rigged in our favour. Despite that, we only won because one guy sprinted at the objective and flicked our light on at the last second. The site had a nice quirk to this game for halloween; around the village they had hidden 6 large prize slips - if you found one and brought it to the site owner, they'd give you a halloween bag. AFAIK it had a bag/bottle of BBs and some other stuff thrown in - a nice addition to keep seasonal events relevant and fun. Naturally the rain arrived for 10 minutes and dissipated quickly. The final game started around 2315 and was a good old game of timed defence with limited lives. Our team defended first, 5 defenders (with 3 lives) v 6 attackers with unlimited lives - attacker respawn was 30 paces back (reduced players due to people leaving). After several exchanges and being suppressed I was one of the last two people left alive IIRC and the last guy was hiding in a dark enclosed area to maximise time before attackers called clear - I was fighting for my life and was knackered from constantly changing awkward positions after firing and exposing myself. We lasted 20 mins exactly. Our attack was 5 v 6 with the defenders still having 3 lives each, while a little unfair in a timed mode, made for a nice challenge. After telling some of our team to go hard right and advance from the dark and mostly unlit area, I moved left and darted between the trees while I had flood lights at my back. Naturally you're going to think this is stupid, allowing myself to be illuminated but I was quickly past the main area of the floodlights and only really had to be concerned with the enemy weapon lights as long as I kept myself to the shadows cast from the trees. I was utilising a mix of low and high crawl to move towards the defence area but realised my rifle was just slowing me down so I left it leaning against a tree. Mk23 in hand, I low crawled closer and closer on the left flank often having to stop and lay flat as the enemy checked the area for movement. Unfortunately for me, a teammate with a DMR (who hadn't seen me) had also used the same flank and started firing from further behind making my advance even harder but they were taking enemies out at the same time. I had to expose myself as two of the opposing team were sat right infront of me - three shots handily dispatched both of them. Eventually I was close enough to start throwing pyro into the defensive perimeter. I holstered the Mk23 and swapped between the left and right, dropping pyro over the barriers and bushes in an attempt to maximise kills without exposing myself. Satisfied that I had cleared the immediate area, I crept in only to receive two shots into the side of my head knocking me on my arse. How the pyro I landed in the area hadn't got this guy, I had no idea but fuck it, i'll assume they were behind hard cover. I took my 30 paces back and respawned. By the time I ran back to the objective, it was empty and we called clear. 20 minutes and 50 seconds. Technically we lost however the enemy team had a extra man with 3 lives so i'm claiming a win on this one. After all the crawling through the undergrowth, my front was soaked through but gladly I wasn't stung and/or bitten to death! Overall an enjoyable night and i'd recommend the site to anyone else who's looking to try new sites. The one recommendation i'd probably give the site owner is to maybe think about trialing semi-auto only during night games. There was one instance of someone being full-autod in the face from about six feet away. Almost inevitable in the dark and they appeared to be pretty unhappy about it.

Today, I took another trip to the relatively new Dragon's Lair site near the Lakeside shopping centre in Essex. The lad and I were regular but not frequent visitors to the original site, which was very different from the new one. Numbers were surprisingly low compared to previous visits. There were only about 40 players, with around nine being rentals; I am used to there being around twice as many. The first game involved us starting on the hill with a mission to clear all the structures in the valley and declare it clear when we thought that we had eliminated all of the enemy. We would incur a five minute penalty for every surviving enemy player. We had infinite regens on a buddy while the defenders had three lives. We took it slow and steady, focussing on clearing each structure in turn; the enemy fiercely defended the first compound, which we eventually cleared through direct assault and a nifty posting of poison gas through the back door, although I was twice shot by my own team. As they had defended it so strongly, a number of them had used up their three lives, which made the following stages somewhat easier for us. After the capture of the first compound, I moved onto the rear wooded ridge, which gave me a great field of fire across the valley. When we called it clear, three ghillie suited enemies revealed themselves, so we incurred a 15 minute time penalty. The game was then turned around; I again took up a position on the rear wooded ridge, from where I was able to prevent some of the enemy turning that flank and to pot a few more while they were attempting to break into the first compound. As they moved along the valley, I followed them on the ridge, taking out a few. They completed the mission more rapidly than we did. However, four of us were still alive when they declared the valley clear; the result of this was that the adjusted times were identical. The next game involved the enemy defending the hilltop while we attacked it; the regen rules were the same as the previous game. A group of us worked our way around the far right, engaging the enemy and pushing into their left flank, while the rest of the team took the direct route up the hill. There were some great firefights and a wonderfully amusing and very loud argument between two enemy players, who were very annoyed with each other over something. Eventually, the enemy force was whittled down and we took the hill. After lunch, during which the two argumentative players left along with another player who was caught with a magazine in his rifle in the safe zone, we went out for the reverse of the previous game. I took up a position on the left flank in a very nice bush to try to prevent the enemy mimicking our flanking attack; they did try to and we had a nice little exchange of fire, which ended with them having to go back to their start point to regen as they had nobody left to medic them. Shortly after this, I was again shot in the back by one of my own team! My new position in a slightly less nice bush did not last long as we were starting to be swamped. A small group of us rallied behind the final hut and prepared to sell our lives dearly; we were able to hold off the enemy for longer than I had expected until we were eventually overrun. After this, we deployed to the valley. Six enemy players were in one of the compounds; their colleagues had to rescue them one at a time and escort them back to the hilltop, while we had to prevent them by killing the six or preventing the rescuers reaching them. A group of us pushed up the hillside, attempting to interdict the most direct route by which the enemy could reach their compatriots. This resulted in some fun firefights, which denied them the use of the direct route. The game eventually ended and I never did find out what the outcome was, only that we had definitely killed at least one of the six. As there was not much time left, the marshals decided to finish with a game of infection; I took the opportunity to leave, which others had been doing since lunchtime. Ray and his team have done a wonderful job in creating the new site after the closure of the previous one. The amount of work that has gone into it is staggering; the safe zone is even better than the old one and the scale of construction in the playing area is impressive. However, due to the limited size and the layout of the site, the gameplay can be somewhat repetitive, which is also a criticism that I made of the old site. As part of my regular peregrination around a few sites it serves its purpose well, but it is not a site that I could play at all the time, which is probably true for the other sites that I play at. Weapons used: King Arms PDW Double Eagle Honey Badger M904G ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)

Got several other H&K's but only these 3 G3 variants.

First normal game day back after surgery (I played AI500 last weekend, but this is my first regular skirmish day back) and... Mother Nature is having a laugh at my expense. Absolutely tipped it down in the morning during the brief and the initial getting stuff ready time, eased off a little for the gameplay, though it was still raining a decent amount, and then it absolutely tipped it down again after lunch. I'm not a cold and wet weather airsofter. I'll happily play when it's overly warm and 25 celcius or more, but when it gets cold I am no good, and when it gets wet it makes sniping a real pain with how wet scopes get and how hard it is to see through them. I brought the SRS and MTW with me today, with the hi-capa and mk23 as pistols, and decided to go with the SRS + hi-capa combo. I also made the decision last night to not pack my usual sniping ghillie setup with the cape and boonie and opted instead to bring my cobra hood so that I could wear it over my gore-tex CCE waterproof jacket and that was a fantastic decision as I remained largely dry all day! Anyway the first game was a king of the hill game at a base that is... not the best for sniping. My friend decided to head more towards the objective, so I held the flank instead and marveled as my cobra hood did its job rather well. A sneaky yellow-team player managed to get all the way around and started shooting people in the back. Took a bit of time for me to make sure he was actually a yellow player and not just a trigger happy blue as his armband was on his opposite arm so I couldn't see it, but I did eventually manage to see his armband and took him out with the hi-capa. He walked right past me and didn't see where I was! I managed to take a few players out who decided to try the flank but my efforts swiftly dissuaded the yellow team from pushing along there and it got quiet, though I did manage to take out an enemy sniper about 10m in front of me as I saw the foliage moving unnaturally and just waited for him to move into a spot where I could get him with the hi-capa; I could hear his rifle shots and he did take out quite a few blues from his spot, but eventually he moved and I took him out! However this showed me reasons #1 and #2 as to why I'm not a huge fan of this SRS. Reason #1 is the bolt pull; it is horrendous and I had to be really careful about when I pulled the bolt back as the movement would definitely get me spotted unlike my gas m700s where I can pull the bolt back very slowly and deliberately to where people won't see me doing so even if looking directly at me. I would not get away with that with the SRS! And reason #2 was that rain got into the hop rubber. This is an issue on my gas m700s as well to be fair, but the SRS is even worse with how exposed the hop rubber is to the elements. It just stopped hopping well at all and I had to crank the hop up to lift .45s. Lost a bit of consistency as well, with the occasional shot flying wide. Regardless, blue team won that because we had a bunch of people sprint for the objective at the start and then locked it down before the yellow team could get there, so we held it the entire game. I'll never be one of the initial sprinters, but having those players on a team is such an advantage against us walkers. Hey, I have a bolt action and a ghillie, I have an excuse to move slowly! ? Second game was a multi-objective game and I really enjoyed it. Managed to get into a very forward position, but with how blurry my scope was, how dark the woodland was, and how rubbish my now-wet hop rubber was being, I couldn't get many shots from that spot. However, I got a couple trying to use the ridge line on our right as a staging point, but eventually one spotted me and while I took him out with the hi-capa, he very much knew where I was so I knew it was time to move. I managed to sneak my way out of my spot and headed back to re-organise my magazines. I also realised reason #3 as to why I'm not a huge fan of this SRS; two of my magazines aren't feeding properly. Fortunately I'm used to having low round count so I could make do with the 3x SRS mags that worked. Anyway, I repositioned to a spot I had scoped out last month when I was still on blood thinners and using the lunch times to look for spots, so it was my first time using this spot and it worked an absolute charm. I could easily pick people out of a bunker about 50m to my front, cover the path to the left of them, and also I was concealed enough that the few who pushed to the ridge line and tried to use that just... didn't spot me. One player came up on our flank there and absolutely wrecked about 5 or 6 blue players with his pump shotty, but he didn't spot me lying about 10m in front of him, so I remained completely still until he looked away, at which point I picked up the hi-capa and took him out. He had a giggle about it as I wasn't even behind anything, just lying completely still and not silhouetting as there was a pile of logs to my other side. By this point, however, I realised that my hi-capa wasn't hopping now either as I'm sure some rainwater had now got to that hop rubber as well. I burned through most of my ammo from this spot, picking people off with my SRS through my rather blurry scope and remained there until the game was over. During lunch I put the SRS and hi-capa away and swapped over to the MTW and mk23, however after I made sure it was chrono'd fine (it's still 1.1J because I have a Halloween night game next weekend that I want to use it for) and shooting well on the range, I was about to head back out... and then that's when the heavens opened up again. At that point I was like "you know what... I'm not going out in that" and hung around the safe zone chatting to people under some cover. My friend came back after about 30 mins, absolutely soaked, and we decided to pack our stuff away as the rain abated for a little. It picked back up, so it was the right thing to do, but not as heavy as it was when I was about to head out! Anyway, I'm really happy to be back playing airsoft, but this SRS isn't it. My MTW is probably going to be my go-to for the winter and I'll put it back up to 1.88J after the night game next weekend, but I'm also going to revisit a spring VSR build and give that a spruce up as there are a lot nicer upgrades available now since I originally did my spring VSR build in about 2019. I think that'll be a lot less vulnerable to getting water inside the hop rubber due to the fact that it's not poking out and mega exposed like the SRS one.

The instructions on my new deodorant says remove cap and push up bottom I'm not sure how taking my hat off will help but here goes nothing

Noooooooo