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I'd use the term "retailer" very loosely with this guy, I'd say more of a tinkerer who thinks he's cornered the market with his homemade "product", which to be fair I think he has. If the market was "overpriced products that would definitely never sell on afuk", he's definitely killing it lol. Dragons Den ? ?

I'll only watch a gun review if its a model im considering buying, & then ill only watch a respected reviewer, someone who will point out its faults, most definitely NOT a 15yo sprog in his bedroom, or anyone with paid promotions within vids, literally sold their soul to the devil lol. As for airsoft in game play, I'd rather stick a mk5 up my arse ?

My first game day since breaking three bones in my ankle back on early January. The venue? Section 8 Airsoft. The weather? Appalling hot for we Scottish folk up here. In between managing to drink three litres of water and sweating it back out immediately, I had a grand time. Had to take the rough terrain at a walking pace, which it turned out isn't that much of an impediment really. I even managed to stay ahead of the usual Treehuggers, who glue themselves to a piece of cover after getting shot at and don't move for five solid minutes First time bringing out my VFC G3, which performed admirably, and my VFC AR, which uh, less so. The G3 was more than enough gun to carry the day and I got a couple of surprisingly distant hits with it. (The sheer joy of "suppressing" a guy hiding in foliage and seeing the hand go up. Very fun). The site marshals had a split schedule planned. In the morning they ran a few skirmishy games to get people moving. Typical attack/defend with swapping over, and a domination game across three locations. The site is really fun with a lot of variation in cover, height, topography, so it's easy to keep it interesting. The second half of the day was a crack at a longer, more narrative style game. This one had a couple of the issues these tend to have, a few too many rules not quite explained well enough for a wide variety of experience levels and playstyles. It was quite fun, but there's definite tweaks to be made to the rulesets. I trust them to run it well after some testing. Overall the marshalling was very good, and play in general was very good. My team were competent, my opponents slightly moreso, and only one guy really stood out as being cheeky. (He was promptly sent home). Plenty of good banter, just a really great day.

Pick up this E&C M110A1 today very nice!

Played the full day today at Worthing (because while this weather is warm, it's not Spain levels of warm so I'm fine in this heat!), partially because I couldn't bring more stuff as we were down a car. The guy who usually drives our group had family stuff this weekend, so we got a lift up to the site with someone else but they didn't stick around as they had things to do. This meant I packed super light for today as I didn't want to leave any of my expensive and/or rare guns just sitting around the safe zone. Brought my full civvie kit to see what I could get away with (black and white flannel isn't exactly woodland camo...) and my aliexpress repro D3CRM, with my mk12 MWS as a DMR and my 1911 for a sidearm. Fortunately, the mk12 was shooting really, really well, as was the 1911 so no dramas there. Set the hop, set the power, went through chrono. The only thing I left in the safe zone was a mostly empty rifle bag, as everything else was in my 25L backpack that I carried with me all day. It was... very muggy. It was overcast in the morning, but very warm and with how thick the foliage is it was like playing in a giant greenhouse, so it was a very sweaty day. I downed about 4L of water through the day and I still could've had more honestly. First two games were very small scale. Had to control the saloon, with each team spawning pretty close. We swapped ends after the first, so both teams got to see what it was like. It was a good warm up game as if you got hit you were back in the action very quickly, and I had my first taste of "oh I'm going to get away with a lot today huh..." when I sat in a fairly thin bush in my flannel shirt and nobody saw me. My mk12 isn't exactly quiet either, being a GBBR, but I managed to go both games without getting shot while slotting in some nice shots through gaps in the foliage. Second game was a big game that took us up to lunch. Each team had a bunch of bricks that we had to bring to one of the bases, but only one brick was released at a time, so we couldn't get our next brick until the current one was in place. Our team pushed up well and so I decided to take a rearguard position, as I knew with how the enemy team was spawning they'd be dipping to the bottom of the site to come up and shoot us in the side. And sure enough, not too much time passed before I caught a bush wookiee trying to sneak up that exact route. Spent most of this game relaying enemy movements to my team as they did objectives, with the occasional long shot or flank denial thrown in. Was a good game all in. I heard some players grumbling about hit taking, and someone did the angry "I'm going to full auto that guy in the back because he shot me and I'm butthurt over it" but that was dealt with very quickly by the marshalls. I also saw the marshalls actively enforcing hit taking as well; I had no issues myself too, so I think anyone with godmode was dealt with pretty fast too. Once the bricks were all in the base (which we got pretty quickly with our forward positions), we had to find gold bars and a 4 digit code. I have no idea how this went, because I think the gold bars were towards the bottom of the site which I'm not going to with my 30m MED because it's really thick down there. After lunch the two games we played involved the bricks again, but this time there was a box in a really open position in the middle of a checkpoint along a long path. Only one brick at a time like the morning game and we had to put the bricks in that box. Neither team was allowed to push past the box, so it became a giant meat-grinder around the objective box. In the first ones there were some pretty good pushes on both sides, though I did have to highlight to the marshalls that there were a few players who were sprinting up and only calling their hits once they put the brick in the box, even though they were getting lit up on the way in. However, when we switched sides... it was a slaughter. My friend and I both set up with our DMRs on a tall barricade with a clear vision down the path and were dropping shots on them at 80m (confirmed with my rangefinder). They... couldn't get anywhere near that box with the two of us picking them off as soon as they tried and it was games like that that make running a DMR feel really cool. After that we had timed attack and defend on one of the bases, where the game only ended when one of the attacking players gave the marshall in the upstairs of the base a fist bump. My friend and I set up on one flank, around that same path we just dominated but a bit further back and totally shut that area down. However, while we were there, two players got balanced onto the other team and made a mad dash into the base. I called it out as I saw them, but nobody listened and they then cleared out the entire base by themselves. Well played to them, honestly. Then it was our turn to attack and I managed to push up really far, getting into a spot that denied reinforcements one one flank in its entirety. Someone did get up close and saw where I was, but I managed to dissuade them with a few pistol shots (and the rest of my team pushing up on the other side adding pressure). As our team was playing far more aggressively, we ended up winning this one as well. Final game was a simple 3 base domination. By this point there were only about 10 players on each side, but I set up on that path again to deny it as a route of ingress. I managed to get a bunch of people trying to go that way, with a few moody shoulder shrugs after I hit them at range, but then they pushed down the middle and cleared a lot of us out, my friend included (who called it there as he was out of ammo and it was the last game anyway). I managed to stay low and I took out the pair of players with my 1911 who pushed up aggressively, before turning my attention to the base itself as I had a line of sight into one of the entrances. I saw the blue armbands (I was on yellow) and posted a few shots through some twigs which was very satisfying. However, the most satisfying thing was that the marshall had no idea I was even there. In my black and white flannel shirt. Shooting a GBBR. And he only realised because I shot my friend in the back to get him to move out of the way (he was in my line of sight to the entrance!) and then was like "wait, who shot you in the back?" and then my friend said I was over there and then the marshall saw me. Who needs a ghillie anyway? All in all it was a really great day, and I feel it went better than the last few. The games were really fun, with a good blend of silliness and seriousness for a skirmish day, and I had very few issues with hit taking all day. Everyone seemed pretty honest today, at least the people who entered my crosshair. No drama, just a good day of airsoft. Really needed that today and looking forward to next game day already. The maxx hop unit in the MWS is so good...

Don't forget half the video being taken up by a history lesson on the real version of the rif

Today was an invitation only day at Airsoft Plantation, which was planned to run alongside a private event which was also running on the site. The lad travelled down on Saturday, so we were a mini-team again. Unfortunately, a number of players cancelled due to the intense heat, so a smaller than expected group of players were present, which made for a different and interesting day. We started off with a simple game in the village; the attackers, with infinite regens on their starting point at the far end of the village, had to get a player onto the upper floor of the Cock Inn. The defenders had two lives, one in the village and one in and around the structures on the high street. I started off on our right, trying to prevent attackers pushing down that side. The MPiKM scored many hits before a sneaky enemy potted me and I fell back to my second position, from where I continued to contribute to our defence until an enemy player managed to achieve the objective. When the game was turned around, the lad and I, accompanied by our friend Tom, pushed through the brush on our right, slowly progressing against well positioned and determined defenders. The highlight came towards the end, when the lad ran forward, crawled under one of the Land Rovers, and then stormed the Cock Inn; excellent play! After a hydration break, we went out to the woods to play three "rescue the hostage" games. The site owner was being held hostage in the kill house by two thirds of the players, who had one life in the woods and one around or inside the kill house. Starting at the wobbly bridge, the remaining players, with infinite buddy regens, had to rescue him. In the first iteration, our group of four players were in the defending group. The lad and I took up positions covering the left and were soon engaged with some of the enemy, delaying their advance and forcing them to change direction. However, I was eventually hit and fell back towards the kill house, where I was hit again in a confusing exchange of BBs with a group of our own players who had assumed that we were attackers. The game was repeated twice so that everyone had a turn at attacking; our attack was not exactly great and we failed to rescue the hostage. In the final iteration, the lad and I took up positions in the boundary ditch, planning to ambush any rescuers who came by; none did and, just as we decided to change position, the game ended. After lunch, we moved to the mortar pits; the attackers had to get a sticker on each of the vehicles in that area except the bus, while we had to stop them. The lad took up position on the top deck of the bus, calling out enemy movements and potting many of them with his Val. This was a wild and challenging game, with small groups of players sneaking or charging around, engaging and then changing position. When the game ended, the attackers had managed to sticker 10 vehicles. When the game was turned around, we moved out of the hill fort, which was the starting point. At this point, our team leader commented that "They don't seem to have moved up to the front"; he was then promptly shot by an enemy player who had done precisely that! As before, it was a confusing and challenging game, with players popping up all over the place. At the end, we had stickered eight vehicles. The site owner commented on the quality of the lad's play and his tactics; clearly, taxpayers' money has been well spend on training him. For the last game, the private hire group, who had not been involved in our earlier games, were invited to take apart in a game of Ambush with us as the ambushers. As usual, this involved the potential ambushees walking along the high street, while we grinned at them from the buildings. They could not shoot until we opened fire; once we had done so, they could move off the road and try to flank us. Their aim was to get one player into the hut at the far end. We were heavily outnumbered. As usual, once the shooting started, this descended into mayhem as we were gradually overwhelmed. I was eventually hit by a sneaky player just as one of their players made it into the target hut. Despite the low numbers and the heat, it was a good day, played in a good spirit. The hostage game was probably the weakest of the day as it was rather channeled, but it was still fun and the other games were excellent. The private hire group seemed to really enjoy the final game although they were quite surprised by how much better our guns were than the rental ones; I suspect that a fair few of them will be back. A few were asking about how to get a UKARA registration. Weapons used: Me: CYMA MPiKM Double Bell MPiKMS-72 ASG XP18 Commander CO2 The lad: Cyma AK74M LCT AS Val ASG XP18 Commander CO2

GOD DAMN MIDGES!

More like Turnip's Tub.

I used my AAP pretty much stock for aaaaaaaaaaages. Swapped the hop rubber for a Flamingo and put in a Hadron H plate and it shot great. Sears will hold up as long as you don't flick it to full auto and start spraying full auto everywhere. I eventually upgraded everything, but with a simple hop rubber and h-plate upgrade for like... £15, it shot really well for a long time. I know a guy with an SSP5. It's fine and will do the job, but my AAP shoots better

My latest acquisition... A Kw15k pistol run with my ratnik loadout... Just need to wait for the holster to arrive and the magazine pouches so I can add them to my 6SH117

Repeated for emphasis. With a V3 gearbox, the trigger tabs protrude outside, so you can just solder the trigger wire onto them. I fitted a Perun AB++ to a G36 V3 without opening it. You will have to do a bit of soldering though. The only zero-effort solution is to pay a tech.

Like an AAP-01? Like, an AAP-01, man. Actually the AAP-01C Shinobi. What does your AAP not do that you'd want it to do? Mine has a Maple Leaf rubber, and a [checks emails] Maple Leaf barrel as well, mostly just because I had an extra 1cm or so to play with after adding an adaptor and tracer unit (indoors) or loudener (outdoors). It's not laser beam consistent, but it rarely produces a wild shot. Given the fixed slide, a DIY TDC mod would be my next port of call: just drill, measure - oops - just measure, measure, drill, tap, and grub screw.

I signed up to some porn sites with the User Name HaVoC_MaN. If you know, you know...

Finally we can all complete our Gloria from lock stock and two smoking barrels loadout! ?

As above the perun ab++ or its gate equivalent the warfet. There are other mosfets that do burst like the merf but tbh i wouldnt really consider them worthy competition. Either way they'll need a seperation of wiring between the trigger contacts and the motor which for most gearboxes means cracking them open. Thats one of the reasons i like the gate ecosystem, as if you wire the gun for a cheaper basic mosfet like the nanoasr then changing up to a warfet is a plug and play operation and you could theoretically swap one mosfet between multiple guns (if you note down the settings for each pew). They have some disadvantages, specifically that because precocking is reliant on cutoff timing the first shot after a burst of auto wont be timed properly, which depending on your shooting style and disposition could range from inconsequential to annoying.

This is why there's only like, three Airsoft YouTubers I watch. Most reviews they just unbox it, plink at a target in their garden, and maybe put it through a chrono before telling you it's incredible and to buy it immediately.

Did some filming for a video promo for my killhouse Sexy SnapInsta.to_AQMKd1pS0u6GSZzzqHr74P0hxJi1_VqFDSYKzy--IgFj-n7zR9v-enMJhcYq302l786dQSoQVP1UmpYT3SMAtoZhko7qGanVK75pRAs.mp4

It wasn't relisted, I tidied up the thread as only one of the questions was actually constructive, & that information could be added to the post. Regarding gdpr, there are friendly retailers, who when asked nicely, will confirm if a ukara number is live, & if a name & postcode is supplied, that all three match, by doing so they haven't broken gdpr rules, so no need for a witch hunt or false accusations.

i wish i could do that, i have all my kit out at the moment, and because she plays tarkov she knows EXACTLY what i have I thought having the other half play games would help me, its been nothing but grief How are you finding your sand viper?

ASG XP18 Commander. It is great out of the box and can be upgraded to be even greater.

Congratulations on getting back out!

These things truly are toxic, huh

I can definitely see this being something Steven Bartlett would invest in he loves his tech and can be another thing he can endorse with huel haha.

I'd get something running on CO2 then.

The paid promotions in reviews really puts me off. So many reviewers for other products out there that get paid from the manufacturer to do a review they like especially in my other interest of cars, so many car YouTubers I refuse to watch as the endorse terrible products just so they get a pay day from the manufacturer. Makes them dishonest reviews then.

The f2000 would probably get a vote. Reasonably long barrel for less muzzle pop, plastic body to dampen the noise and most of the noise being cradled by the shooters body is a pretty good recipe for quietness. That said, it isnt that quiet as the user given your ear is right next to the box so i'm mostly relying on the comments of others. Generally when it comes to quietness its usually hpa's and gas non-blowbacks (mk23, revolvers etc) that get mentioned, where you can be standing 6 foot away from the shooter and the sound of the bb's hitting the target is more audible than the gun.

Managed a half day at dirty dog in this ungodly bloody heat. Absolutely class time on the field as always and a happy first outing for my cyma aks74u which ran like an absolute dream even if all the zenitstyle furniture makes it weigh like a battle rifle. Might be time to pick up some classic wood grips. Great sportsmanship from everyone with none of the all too common dramas that come from a day on the field. Only unpleasant part was learning even if it's hot to wear a mouth guard when a ricochet BB landed in my open mouth. I will admit I was relieved when I realised it wasn't a tooth. If anyone hasn't checked out dirty dog and it's somewhere reachable absolutely recommend it. Just maybe wait till it's not heat stroke weather ?

Dunno about "as standard" but shimming and motor height can make a big difference to noise. Also gear/motor combo changes that speed up the cycle time seem to help - the noise might be the same in volume but occurs over a much shorter period so seems quieter. Obviously not much use if blasting away on auto though. Of the group of people I Airsoft with, the quietest AEG is probably my brothers G36, maybe the polymer body helps?

I'm the opposite I want the cover open with a real looking catch ? , I'm sure I have a cyma a1 full upper and it has a gas tube I will try and dig it out

This is something that annoys me greatly and the reason I don't do gun reviews, it's not really a representative review of the gun if that's all you have the space for

Makes me laugh when I see reviews of guns and a big negative they say is this isn't ambidextrous so I wouldn't purchase this gun, even though I only shoot r/h but I'll still pull this gun down. It's like come on do your research on a particular platform and you'll know before hand that the rs isnt ambi. (Yes I'm talking about the l85).

You forgot the 20 minutes dedicated to listing every individual control on the gun and how ambidextrous it is.

In my defence it's mainly for gun reviews. Can't stand the ones running round a field shooting thinking they are sas. They never show you how many hits they received.

Today's the day.... Bren pre-orders are now live! Magazine pricing and availability soon to follow... https://www.raresoft.co.uk/product-page/viva-arms-bren

Well it's not going to win any beauty contests, or shooting contests but it works reasonably well now. All it needed was... New Gearbox (complete) New motor New grip New ejection port cover(still doesn't bloody close tho) New receiver pin (tbf I found the catch for the original pin when I removed the old gear box) I forgot to add... a new hop unit too. Still want a gas tube for it (rarer than hens teeth apparently)

The Perun AB++ or something similar is probably the closest to that as it sits outside the gearbox, but you do have to open the gearbox to do some rewiring unless you are fitting it to a V3 gearbox.

Had a fun couple of hours on the range at Bespoke Airsoft in High Wycombe this week to try and improve my response time to target and accuracy with the MP5 and Sig 226. The lane had electronic targets linked to an iPad with a number of games, spent most of my time playing hit as many targets as you can in 30 seconds and shoot the hostage taker not the hostage. Managed to get from 27 to 45 hits in 30 seconds with the MP5 and 14 to 30 with the Sig (with a mag change) big learning was ammo conservation, I will confess I am a bit of a spray and pray player but this taught me to make an accurate first shot count rather than sending 2 or 3 in case the first doesn’t hit. Two other lanes were occupied and we had a competition going between us for rescue the hostage, hostage target was green, hostage taker was red, hit as many reds as you can without hitting the green. Shop was well stocked (I only took 2000 BB’s so ran out) and reasonably priced. I Had a look at their walls of guns and they had some nice looking kit. I wasn’t there to buy a gun so didn’t look too closely in case temptation took over.

Went on a bit of a C2R rampage ?? C2R Chameleon with a few different skin sets, dangler, spare shoulder pads & a couple Spriritus Mk4s (with SMG & AR inserts). Not sure which camo to go for, about to mix them ? Working on getting a C2R placard next!

One to add to the book of challenging wanks ?

Much like my airsoft guns, I just grab whatever cheap disposable Chinese-made tat comes to hand first in the morning. Actually true, I like buying Chinese standard movement watches from AliExpress, sometimes to disassemble. One day I'll manage to re-assemble one. And my MP5K. And my AEP.

Not so much about how my airsoft day went, but how preparing for Sunday went. I was picking out a rifle to use with my launcher for the 3D printed projectiles and thought 'hmm, it's been a while since i've used this, I should probably check and re-lube it if needed'. I took the gearbox out to find a few cracks around the piston head. The second I touched it, it came apart. I had a spare G&G V2 gearbox shell but that doesn't fit in the Specna Arms receiver. RIP Specna Arms gearbox - 2 years in my hands and god knows how many in the last owners. ZCI replacement on the way from AK2M4. The work/repair list now consists of: Mk18 - new gearbox shell required KWA KM4A1 - Got it from action hobbies but they failed to mention the gearbox shell was also shagged in this. Will probably use as a donor shell because of Colt trademarks. Ares RDB - piston shredded or sector gear knackered I think AR57 - requires Perun ETU installing after dud one bought from user on here MP5SD6 - needs backdraft HPA unit fitting HPA M4 - firing semi only despite having full auto functionality - was planning on using this tomorrow but now it's giving me issues P90 long barrel - requires ETU installing I've got a lot to be getting on with. Update: As for the actual airsoft day - it went pretty well. I took the L85 to see if i'd solved the issue of the RNG accuracy and I hadn't so I brought out the sniper and that went very well. Using a new optic I can now see where the BBs are landing which made sniping way easier today - when I could see through the summer foliage that is. Armageddon is a very heavily vegetated site which hampers sniping a lot so you have to pick your position well. I got a fair few kills both attacking and defending and one i'm particuarly proud of was when attacking, I managed to shoot through a gap about 3" wide between some tyres to hit a guy hiding in a makeshift bunker. When defending myself and another sniper with a ghillie held down our complete right flank and some of the middle ground 'killing' 10-15 players between us. I like sniping but I HATE the rubber(?) coating on the JG Bar-10 rifle stock. I've cleaned this thing several times and it always ends up sticky and bits start to come off. Will be looking for an aftermarket stock thats just as light or lighter. I like the look of the Maple Leaf MLC stocks, particuarly the S2 but no idea how they compare. Will have to have a look around.