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Almost 15, and yep I insist he wears a full face mask no matter what. No mesh or anything else. He has been shooting for almost ten years. We both shot full auto live fire in Krakow, Poland this year, and he has great discipline and common sense. He gets that from his mum of course. Hope I'm allowed to post that picture, I can remove it if not? He chose that one, I went for luger, 1911, uzi, AK, Tommy, and all the ones ive seen in the movies. Expensive but worth every penny. I shot 15 different ones, him 13. Made our holiday, can't wait to go back. Wife is Polish, so will go back again soon. Found out about Taiwangun, so have another reason to visit now

Speaking of M723’s…. dNA M723 Need to learn the art of taping things.

Latest purchase is a VFC M723 with the bits to make it a Delta ("Gordy") carbine. Need to decide whether to rattle can it or not (I'm tipping towards a paint job).

The issue that I haven't seen mentioned is that whilst yes your intention was to show a cheap bargain and use them outside of airsoft games - A person could see them posted here, not read the rest of the context, go out to Lidl and buy a set, rock up to airsoft and then their next post is "I bought goggles I saw on an airsoft page and now I have 1 eye - It's all their fault!!!" Extreme? Yes, however stupidity is everywhere 😂 Roughly nine years ago my at the time regular site had a chap rock up with some cheap safety glasses (Think the type that comes with those £20 springer and BB bundles) who assumed as it was bought from an airsoft (More so hobby store where they sell samurai swords etc too, you know the types I'm sure!) store that they would be fine to use. He was walking back to respawn and had got a stray BB hit his glasses, shatter them and LUCKILY the BB hit just under his eye. I saw him again maybe 6 months later and he was still having trouble with where the BB had hit him and it had caused damage still. He tried to sue the site for negligence (It didn't go very far obviously) but it put the site owner at risk, all because he didn't do his due diligence and ensure he had correct safety gear. There's more to it than just you getting hurt. Imagine if you was the player that had shot at someone, not expecting to hit their eye protection (BB's aren't exactly known to go exactly where you want them to 99% of the time) and the next thing you know the dude you've just shot is on the floor screaming in pain because his cheap eye pro broke and now he has plastic splinters in his eye ball - That would be traumatic for everybody I reckon 😂 The site owners would also have to fill out an incident form for their insurance, which then puts that cost up for them. Sadly most sites are struggling financially as it is in this day and age, the last thing they'd need is premiums going up too. One accident from misjudgement or poor decision making from an individual can spiral into a big ordeal. I hope I don't come across as rude or targeting towards you as that's not my intention at all, I genuinely just don't want to see people getting hurt outside of "Ouch the BB hit me and it stung" 😂

I've got a VFC gas shotgun with the 30rd shells - same system as Marui, Cyma et al. On 3rd spread, it's a decent distance - I've never measured it but it's not that much worse than a typical AEG. On 6rd it probably loses 5-10m of range but obviously a bigger spread. I've played outdoors with it a couple of times and not felt completely outgunned. I think it also depends a little on the site you're playing at. If it's got wide open spaces, hundreds of people and everyone has a hicap then it would probably be a bit pants. Most sites I play at these days are built up/dense woodland and the games are semi-only with most people running midcaps. In those, if you pick your shots it's no disadvantage at all and makes for a very rewarding game. You do have to be on it with gassing up the little tank though.

Lct is very busy of late

Is that what happens when an mp5 and m249 have a drunken 1 night stand?

https://www.usedairsoft.co.uk/rif-s/gas-powered_1/vmp-2m-and-we-p-virus-biohazard-f226-set_i85835 This is dreaming big time lol

Bloody hell, this place is only about 5 miles away. What a piece of luck... Spoke to the guy on the phone and I will pop there with my MP5 in a couple of days to get a couple of batteries. Bargain.

No offence taken at all mate, I'm here to learn... Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm a pussy who doesn't want to get hurt, and especially not see my son get hurt. He's far too expensive to replace... Cheers Rick. And yep stupidly is far too common these days. Far too common.

I run a couple of grab bags (1 black, 1 OD), not the issue type, small bucket bags with molle on both sides & the ends, larger taco's on one side, smg taco's on the other, twin pistol on one end & twin 40mm on the other (which handily takes a bfg & small gas reservoir can). Main compartment takes nalgene water, chocky, spare goggs & battery, what more do you need ?. Perfect 👌 (Obviously I own about a million other rigs that invariably never get used lol) 😱

I never get bored of seeing an issue grab bag, ha. If you sit and look at it, there's a significant carrying capacity there. Like you'd need a decent sized chest rig to have 3 mag pouches, 2 frag, a smoke and maybe 2 med-large GPs and an admin pouch for the generic internal space of it. Might have to start being one of the recommendations for newbies - one and done gear purchase right there, no assembly required.

It's a topic that gets discussed often in any good forum/arena of airsoft talk, end of the day safety is the #1 priority in anything and most certainly in this hobby. I know I'll always say the same things others have said here any time it comes up, partly for the people involved but also for the many, many lurkers who just read the forum but don't post (usually on most sites there are actually way more pure readers than posters). The hobby has a real 'churn' of new players and people leaving, so any time eye pro comes up I find that most people with an enthusiasm for airsoft will want to get involved with conversation even though it's been said a lot before, because it always needs bringing back up to the forefront to stay in people's view; as it were.

I know i said id try the mash up, but the reality for the short game format at Dragons Lair, its just not needed. So instead I took the grab bag - short sling so it sits chest/abdomen and boom, a load out.

Would you rather: a) Pay out for a face mask and eye protection that will last and be as safe as possible or b) Lose teeth and eyes and potentially put a site at risk of closure Safety should always be paramount in my opinion, even if it means forking out £100

This morning, I loaded up the Volvo and headed off to Splatoon. Commandeering a table, I set up the two guns I would be using and then went out to set up and chrono two second hand guns that I had bought recently; one was spot on, putting out 1.05J and pinging BBs out a very long way, while the other was also reaching a very satisfactory range but was considerably underpowered. It will be on the work table when I get an opportunity. Around 70 players were present. I was pleased to meet up with Gary again; he is a chap with a very interesting background and we are two of the "more mature" players at the site. After the usual morning rituals of the chrono and the safety brief, the first game was Spinners; there is a spinner in each of the three sections of the site and the aim was to control at least two of them. For once, I stayed in the middle section, where we had a hard fight but eventually secured the spinner and set it to our colour. We then struggled to defend it as enemy players attacked us from the other two sections; however, when the game ended, it was still pointing our way, as was one of the others. Victory! After a return to the safe zone to refill mags etc, the next game involved getting smoke grenades to the grey helicopter in the container field. Each team had three smoke grenades, which were located in the furthest section of the site; they could only transport one at a time, going back to collect the next one once they had bombed the helicopter. The teams started at opposite ends of the container field, with the grey helicopter in the middle, albeit closer to the banded team's start point and regen than ours, which was not where I had expected it to be as the layout of the container field had changed somewhat since last time I was there. At the start, both teams sent about half their players off to get the first smoke grenades, while the remainder fought for control of the area around the grey helicopter. Those of us in the latter group had a long and grinding fight, while rumours abounded about the presence or absence of smoke grenades. The enemy quickly got two of theirs into the helicopter, which seemed ominous; however, following that, our transport team got their mojo together while the rest of us pushed the banded team back so that our grenades could be set off in it. A 3-2 victory! After a break for lunch, the next game was to transport a bomb from the far end of the field to any one of the four vehicles in the container field (two helicopters and two buses). The bomb had a timer, which was started at the beginning of the game to set it off when the time allowed expired. Therefore, as the attackers, we had to get it into a target and then protect it until the end of the game. The defenders could try to retake the vehicle and move the bomb 1m outside it. Fighting through the central section of the site, we launched lots of probing attacks into the container field, finally deciding to try to get the bomb onto the red bus, which was successfully done after a struggle. It seemed that not all of the enemy realised that it was there, as some of them continued to defend the other potential targets; this made the defence of the bus fairly straightforward and the bus was blown up! Victory! After more reloading of magazines, this game was reversed; I joined some of my colleagues defending the right hand side of the container field, covering the red bus and the grey helicopter. The enemy pushed hard and repeatedly broke our defence, but we pushed them out every time, although on one occasion they got the bomb into the grey helicopter. Having retaken it, we moved the bomb the required 1m away and locked the area down until the end of the game, when it blew up in the open. Victory! As the last game was a team deathmatch, which would then turn into a Filipino deathmatch where hit taking was not obligatory and you only had to put your hand up when you could not take any more, I and a fair number of the more sensible (older!) players elected to leave. It was a good day of airsoft, the best that I have had at Splatoon for quite a while; based on it, I will be coming back rather more frequently than previously. Guns used: ICS CXP-APE Double Bell Colt 607 ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)

Biodegradable BBs are expected to degrade in years and decades as opposed to standard BBs which will take centuries Every ‘degradable’ object also needs to be in the right conditions, airsoft bio degradable BBs are likely to need to be stepped into the ground to be subjected to pressure and heat This will mean that they are not suitable for the land that you have access to

You'll be waiting a while, they are bio but will still take a LONGGGGG time to break down.

If anyone's wondering, I am waiting on some more new boxes before listing - many bits too long and overall packages too heavy to send through the post as it is, and I'll need to split a few types into multiple packages to be managable.

It's coming...

I have a solid plastic hard case for it already, but I appreciate the advice. Cheers Bill.

I know it shouldn't need to be said but remember to keep the pew well under wraps while in public.

@TheFull9 between this and the 80's para chest rig for sure. The mag poachs held 4 G3 style mags, one you can see acted as my pistol holster, so had two small pistol mags on the side pockets, main space carried speed loader and some smoke grenades. Only down side is the frag poachs are too lose for the mini smokes they use for poison gas. @Tackle yeah, build-a-bag is definitely in my future, but then, I have a bag..... I'll have to find an all day battlesim for the mishmash rig to push capacity.

You mean to tell me a bit of black electrical tape doesn't double the value?

Hey, I got a Cyma CM355 abs version this morning. It is a cheap spring shotgun but it is a nice (not so) little thing! Doesn't have the hassle of gas and shoots FAR. Mind you I live in Italy where the limit for any airsoft replica is 0.99j, but this thing shoots as far as an AEG

Welcome ✋ Airsoft is one of the few sports that you can still play at 60 😁 Just take it easy and take care of the ankles 😉

My father and I used to shoot air rifles and airsoft guns in the back garden with no eye protection whatsoever, so you're already doing one better than we did 😂

Eye protection is something you should never cheap out on. I buy loads of stuff from Aliexpress (because it's great), but I will never buy eye protection from there, even though my general experience on the stuff I have bought from Aliexpress has been fantastic. For eyepro, I bought a pair of sawflys, a pair of heroshark's mesh goggles, and will get some Trittech glasses in the future. As I need prescription inserts, all of these options I think went into the triple digits since prescription inserts are pricey (the Trittechs will go into the multiple triple digits...), but 100% worth every penny.

So much this. A lot of these pre-made ghillies, especially the cheaper ones, catch the light weirdly and stick out like a sore thumb to anyone who knows what to look for. One option I tend to use is a £5 OD scrim net, secured with elastic hair bands that I then also use to tuck natural foliage in. Doesn't need much natural foliage, but a little natural foliage works wonders for concealment. The other option I use is an SCG pre-made rifle wrap. If you really want something pre-made, then these are good, but double the price of what you were looking at: https://www.longbowbb.co.uk/product-page/scg-next-gen-halo-multi-season-rifle-wrap (summer / sites with evergreen foliage) https://www.longbowbb.co.uk/product-page/scg-autumn-halo-screen-rifle-wrap (winter)

Do it! I've only used it once, but so far really enjoying it. Even with the suppressor it feels lighter and handier than my other AR15s (MK18, CQBR, 14" URGI), and the kick is impressive (and loud) on green gas. There are caveats however. Had to buy a tool to get the hand guard off because the retention spring is so tight. Had a nightmare getting the barrel nut off too, because VFC love using loads of locktite. Then finally had to replace the hop unit and inner barrel because they'd locktite'd the hop screws and I stripped the head off one of them, so it now has a unicorn inner barrel and 4uad hop and nub.

Courier has just arrived with a Cyma CM355T

Bought an ASG SPAS springer trishot that uses 30 round shells. Fun for CQB and room clearance. Not very effective outdoors. Invested £30 in the cheapest single shot 15 round magazine springer from Super5s after an interesting discussion with one of the guys there about converting it with a stronger spring to a DMR ! Maybe one for the long winter nights. If it fails after a game it’ll be fun and not too much money wasted.

I have a few shotguns in my collection, 15 in all 😁, all spring powered. Not had any issues with them. Each type has their own strengths and weaknesses. Gas, less strength needed to pump, sound great when you rack, a little more power, but gas usage means you do have to be wary of your shots and do require (as any gas RiF) up keep to keep them in good working order. Springers, a good arm work out and you’ll feel it the next day but no worries about worrying how much you have left in the tank and will just keep going. As the previous commenter, I would also personally recommend the Cyma range of shotguns as build quality is good and always good fun. I have a number of their full metal ones and a couple of polymer builds for variety and love them. Obviously the polymer builds are also cheaper than the full metal one to. I also have a couple from the Double Eagle brand with there textured rubber grips and they have also never let me down and are good fun. The majority all have the tri shot barrels to as a shotgun should spread! I’ve also got some S&T shotguns which are full metal with real wood which are beautiful to look at and hold but they are only single shot and can have a little more range if that’s what you are wanting. My opinion with shotguns is that they are best for close quarters, room clearing etc and are not designed for reaching distance. So you have to adapt your gameplay for them which can be fun! Buy I would definitely start with a springer, get the feel for it and if you enjoy it then look to upgrade down the line!

Yep, that makes sense. So much for my cunning plan. I don't want to piss off the landowner. Thanks mate.

For shipping, consider parcel2go, kinda "comparethemarket" type site, often cheaper than going direct to pf/rm/evri/yodel etc, & lots of options for switching between price/speed etc.

Genuine gifts still have a value When crossing international boundaries there is a different threshold for taxes and duties on gifts The potential problem with the Chinese habit of marking as ‘gift’ is that it is a fraudulent customs declaration, and an obvious fraud However customs are used to it, they will just get to it when they get to it

Rookie mistake that, it’s the blue that doubles value!

Royal Mail I emailed E Hobby Asia who I ordered from and asked if they put toy parts or the actual details on the declaration. They did list it as a Co2 mag along with the price etc. But, and I’am not sure if this is a problem, they choose ‘gift’ rather than sale of goods. I would have thought it they choose gift they shouldn’t have put down a value.

Picking the Maxim? The boy's got taste

Welcome! I am 62 going on 12!

No

And the hips.

Personally, I'm enjoying the resurgence of "optic on carry handle" that seems to be floating round

We will make sure extensive testing is done before actual release .

Long as I haven't offended anyone... 😆 I have no intention of letting anyone shoot at me with lidl eyewear, they were only for target shooting. But I do get and accept the honest and decent advice. Thanks. On a different note, I brought the CYMA blue edition mp5 for sale on here and am very excited... Can't wait.

You succeeded - It did indeed make me chuckle 😄

Welcome ✋ It's great you can get some gear and info from your mate. So you can try without jumping into buying. Will save you loads on potential bad purchases. 👍

Well I just joined the hundreds/thousands of middle aged blokes & pre-ordered one.

Went to Worthing this weekend to play for the first time in a hot minute. Last game day I didn't book on and tuned all my guns for the upcoming Vietnam filmsim, and the game day before I had my only gun I brought go down at the start of the day so I was running around with just a pistol, so it was nice to get out there with a proper rifle. I was running my PPS Kar98k and Bell 1911, using my Vietnam load bearing kit (US m56 webbing plus SKS chicom rig), as I wanted to make sure that it was all working as intended for the Vietnam game in two weeks time. Me and my friend put ourselves on blue team, since we saw a lot of regulars on yellow. First game was a king of the hill on a base that I don't usually play around, because it's a nightmare with MEDs around it from one side. We started on the side that sucked for sniping, so I went over to one of the other bases to make sure nobody could do anything sneaky and sure enough, I spotted some ghillies trying to do just that. Called out their position and our team forced them back, but it was a largely quiet game with a blue team victory. We then swapped sides and so I took a position in the middle of the pack, again mostly just keeping eyes. Once again, I noticed one of the ghillies trying something, not spotting him but spotting the ferns moving in an unnatural way and just waiting for his ghillie'd head to pop up, which it eventually did. I fired a grand total of 1 shot that game and got a whole 1 kill on that ghillie, but spent most of the game just relaying enemy movements to the rest of my team. Again, fairly uneventul, but another blue team victory. They also gave us players a little talk because apparently there had been some poor hit taking and some overly happy full auto trigger fingers, so they gave a warning. Also, my SKS chest rig fell off. One of the leather loops that holds the straps decided to come loose and go walkabout, so that was a thing. Luckily, the m56 generic rifle ammo pouches can hold 4x Kar98k mags each, so I dropped from 11 mags to 9 mags; not much difference, and still plenty of ammo. (and before you go "bloody hell, 11 mags?!" I will say they're 10rds each. My 11 mags is still less than a single midcap!) After these convincing wins, the marshalls moved the last group of regulars from blue onto yellow, apart from me, to try and balance the teams for the large game before lunch. It was a multi-objective game and it was far more balanced than the first two games. Yellow team had to move things to bases in a specific order and then hold that base for 5 minutes. Again, I didn't even shoot that much and just kept eyes. I had a good line of sight to just outside their spawn (though well out of range and far too many twiggy bits in the way for me to even try and arc the 150 - 200m shots it would've been), so I spent a lot of time relaying enemy team movements again and dissuading ghillies from trying anything sneaky. Saw them trying it on the same flank as the first game, seeing the movement through the foliage and calling it out to my team; ghillies become far less potent on the field when people know where they are. In the end, I'm not sure who won, but I know that the yellow team got a bunch of their objectives done, so it was probably them? After lunch we played a bunch of shorter games. I was going to swap to my m16 to make sure that works and my load bearing kit works as well, but with my Kar98k mags still gassed and loaded, I didn't want to waste the gas by gassing up all my m16 mags and emptying all my kar98k mags. Stuck with the Kar98k. I chronoed the m16 and zeroed the repro colt 4x on it in the morning, so I know it shoots well, but the Kar98k definitely needs a clean as I realised shots were going off at angles every so often. Barrel is going to need a good cleaning... The games after lunch themselves were back to being fairly one-sided again. Blue team got back to their winning ways as we played a flip can game (blue needed blue side up, yellow needed yellow side up), and I got back to my ghillie hunting ways. I took a fairly rear position, but I kept an eye on where I knew one of the enemy ghillies would go, and sure enough, I saw him cross over the path, trying to get in behind us to shoot us in the back. The marshalls asked why I didn't just shoot him, but it would've been about a 90m shot and I didn't want him to know I had spotted him. I headed back, tucking in behind a bunker to watch our backs, eventually catching the attention of some of my team. After I told them that there was a ghillie somewhere there but he hadn't crossed where I was watching, they went hunting and took him out. When we swapped sides, I finally had a more eventful game as I managed to get into a bush where I could overlook two of the flip cans. I did almost got taken out by a rental, but he made a rookie mistake, shooting a single semi-auto shot at me while I was in a thick bush. His BB rattled around in the bush but didn't hit me, so I dropped to the floor and pulled my pistol. As he moved to engage another target I popped out and took him out. He would've got me if he just let out a burst of full auto and I felt his pain because I have 100% done the exact same as him before. Then the final game was a timed assault on one of the bases. We defended first and I took up my favourite position down a path, as their respawn was down that path I knew they would try and use it as a quick means of ingress. Sure enough, a bunch of them rushed down that path, led by a friend of mine, and my shot narrowly flew past him and hit the rental behind him. This dissuaded him from trying to continue along that path, but didn't stop a lot of the rest of them and I managed to single handedly pin a bunch of them at a checkpoint that they simply couldn't push through. They eventually took the base from another avenue, but I was proud of myself for holding back the tide. When we swapped sides, I went along that side, but dropped down from the path down the hill a little and came up along the fence line. Took one out close with the pistol and then got a beautiful shot onto another at the base itself with the Kar98k, but we took the base pretty damn quick for a blue team victory (as we did it faster). All in all, it was a great day to get back to. I do enjoy hunting ghillies (especially when it's successfully done!) while wearing a bright hawaiian shirt There were definitely issues (hit calling and full auto bursts being way too long and too close), but I saw the marshalls pull players out for breaking the rules which is great to see. You'll always get some players who try to cheat, but it's always disheartening if nothing is done about it, so seeing the marshalling team take a hard stance on it was really great. I personally didn't see much non-hit taking, as I only had one guy who didn't take one of my shots, so it probably wasn't even that bad (or I just was very ignorant to it!) Now I just have to pray that the sniper ban is lifted at Eversley Alpha in two weeks time so I can terrorise the (sold out) US team with VC sniper shenanigans; target rich environment! If not, the m16 will serve well, but I definitely prefer the sniper and DMR style of play. Now I just need to make sure I do some maintenance on the Kar98k and my 1911s before then. I'll also probably give the m16 and xm177 a re-lube just in case as well.

Good day out today testing out my "new" 6b45 ratnik vest. Unfortunately that thing is an absolute sweat machine and the gorget (neck protector) is a much better idea on paper than it is in practicality. Otherwise it was great as usual to get onto the field and spray some BBs. Some great load outs at the field today including a top notch 1980s UN peacekeeper (with period correct mustache) and some Finish camo that made me spectacularly envious. Great sportsmanship from everyone I had the pleasure of shooting at and been shot by but I'm definitely worse for wear in terms of welts and bruises.