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Fuck knows honestly. He's always had that trick of just starting shit, getting a response, then editing around it so the other people look mental. It's an old trick. He does start that video saying he's brought his, "most painful gun". Another channel to shout out is Gun Gamers btw. More MilSim/LARP focused but a good bit about gear setups and the like. Generally seem to have good vibes as well. I'll say that you can learn a bit from firearms channels like Hop, Brass Facts, or Garand Thumb, but there's not much crossover in practice. Airsoft is basically simulating the most close-up form of fighting possible where everyone's within 50m like it's a Ukrainian trench raid. A lot of American firearms advice is how to maximise your paranoid schizophrenia level so you can convince yourself there's a civil war, retreat to the deep forests, and die of dysentery eating beans and MREs.

We're all pretending to be something we aren't & dressing up, so as much as I wouldn't be seen dead in a 'costume' at a game, I really like to see players who go all in and wear either full wehrmacht or pink fluffy bunny. I wish I had the confidence to do it but I'm too reserved.

It's always the new members who don't bother to read... There's a "WANTED" section of the classifieds, post an advert there not in the forum section itself. https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/category/17-guns-wanted

I went to a game last month and this bloke had a go pro on his helmet, the side of his rifle, a scope cam and even had one mounted on the lower RIS on his side arm. One of my buddies asked him if he does youtube and he said not really its so I can improve my tactics when i watch it back. Pretty sure this hits alot of your statements lol

Mine arrived today, looks bloody lovely Show some pics, looking for inspiration!

Hahaha. I would love to do an EM2 and the later sa80 prototype (as pictured). But time and funds aren't as free anymore. Struggling to keep up with issued kit. Let alone prototype stuff, haha. And yes.... the plastic definitely looks mouldy. Maybe they should give to me to look after...

No, he is just desperate to get his gums around Tate’s knob.

I will embrace the cringe. I do plan at some point on getting some cameras and becoming yet-another-youtube-airsoft-sniper, though I have no compulsion to make a career of it and play into the drama-farming Youtube algorithm. I do think I have some interesting things to share though, part of which is a unique setup amidst the sea of over-engineered full body ghillie suits with MTWs, Tac-41s and Novritsch rifles. Will see though. I may just decide I can't be bothered and it's low on the priority list...

Don't threaten me with a good time! But I do agree that some real-steel shooting practices do work well in airsoft, while others (most of them) very much do not; some do work with a bit of modification though. I've got some legacy US military sniper handbooks and training aids, obviously not up to date, but from the 80s - 2000s, that have really helped me in my chosen way of playing airsoft. I find a lot of fun from adopting and adapting (where needed/possible) real-steel firearms practices into airsoft, without going to a silly degree where I'm spending thousands of pounds on high quality scopes, night vision, thermals, ways to combat night vision and thermals, and ten years supply of baked beans for my off-grid cabin in the woods. I might try and put together a DOPE card for my sniper rifle, though with airsoft and how wonky our rifles shoot by comparison to real-steel, it'd be more of a "rough estimate" than the exact readings you'd have on a real firearm. All that said, I do try and set up my gear to be as realistic as possible; such is the curse of being a filmsim immersion nerd. Proper number of mags set up in the right way, comms, observation kit (binoculars, rangefinder, and I want to get a wind speed reader) sustainment kit (food/water), and the airsoft essentials like BBs and gas that allow me to play uninterrupted for an entire day without needing to head back to the safe zone, or even to respawn outside of when I get shot. I carry all my kit on me, and more often than not I find myself reloading in the field as the way I play revolves around not getting shot, so I'll often fall back if spotted rather than risk getting taken out in an unfavourable firefight, or my position getting grenaded or sprayed with full-auto And if you want some very good, but very old sniper youtube videos, this was the channel that properly got me into ghillie sniping 18 years ago. None of this KM drama bollocks, just some good old fashioned sniping, the way it's meant to be done! https://www.youtube.com/@6mmhunters/featured

He’s been reviewing hours of footage trying to work out why all of his shots are low. Only seems to happen when he is filming.

I'd probably say don't over complicate it, get some practice in changing mags so you're comfortable with your kit and doing it so you can change mags without watching what you're doing and it's fairly quick. If you use radios, practice using them, make sure you don't hot mic etc. Maybe some snap shooting practice, hitting with your first shot vs your 10th can make a difference. If you do CQB, I think the limited penetration or "Israeli method" is the way to go, which is basically a fancy way of saying slow down and fight from the doorway/window, learn about slicing the pie and understanding the principles of a section attack and that this can be applied a lot will take you a long way.

He finds out that he plays a bit shit because there's a kilo of camera equipment on everything

I watched a couple of minutes of his latest video, downvoted then closed it, with it leaning so heavily into "toxic femininity". Is he now the airsoft Andrew Tate?

Not so much tactics but Bodgeups did some good videos showing what sniping is like in airsoft. All his videos are a few years old now though ad he gave up on the whole YouTube thing. I won't go into detail but his headshots aren't the worst thing he does. I would say he's a cunt but I don't think he's got the warmth, depth or ability to provide pleasure. With airsoft on YouTube you need to remember that 99% of videos are very heavily edited to make the player look far better than they actually are

He is exactly the kind of player you hope never turns up at your site ngl. Just kinda starting drama, being aggro, and there's a lot of chat about how he cheats a lot.

reminds me a bit of the Singaporean SAR I had a fiddle with in Afghan.

A nice find. A brand new KSC SIG P230

Yes and no, never any issue. Just avoid UPS though as they will continually ask you for a UKARA or other Defence even though one is not needed for those items.

Some of this guys stuff is great and so on point for this thread! Thanks

That sounds like a perfectly valid reason to buy more guns

My post was made in jest, I don’t really have any objection to someone who wants to film their game to watch later. I plan to do the same when I can remember to buy a mount that doesn’t immediately fall off. Just had a funny mental image of someone with more camera than gun running round wondering why they can’t aim straight.

I’m going to back up this guy who is filming, it’s minimal cringe up against anything else in airsoft - and particularly if he’s filming for personal use rather than running a YouTube channel he is not inflicting his footage on others Cameras are the lightest things that ever get put onto a gun. Try going back to head/gun cameras in the 90s, assuming that you don’t have rails taking weight with no attachments, nor light, laser, reactive / optical sights @Gunboat Diplomat If he is looking at hours of footage of shots dropping low, then he is seeing where his shots go and is using his footage to learn - unlike all those players who call out ‘cheats’ when their shots are falling away We are (mostly) grown up adults who like to go out and play games shooting each other Some like to dress up, some slap every gadget on their gear, some take a battered old gun dressed in t shirt and jeans For the multiple cameras, people generally start with a head mount (it’s actually the most stable mount as our body stabilises the head & brain) When you watch back head mounted footage you find two problems: A lot shows the tree or wall that you are peaking around, otherwise you discover how much you are moving your head around looking here and there (or you discover that you are blinkered staring ahead only and keep getting shot out by someone coming from one side) Next comes the barrel / rail mount (though some start with this) This shows what you are shooting at, but the rest of the footage is the sky and the ground A kicking mustang / YouTuber adds a barrel cam claiming that it gives close up footage, but they want the crosshairs & zoom to then edit on the hit effects For a third camera a reverse mount goes on the gun to show you as you aim - these get added by the YouTubers for edits, but may also be added because you’ve seen someone else do it Bodycams may get tried, but result in a blurry image of your gun blocking all views A occasional sighting back in the day was a third person view mounted on a pole coming out of the back of the players vest - these tended to be quite novel as if you were not dedicated to editing a third person story view then you would immediately discard it when you realise how inconvenient it is getting caught in branches, bushes, doors etc

This guy was pretty decent https://www.youtube.com/@GunfatherMilsim He's an active-duty SWAT officer in the US who also plays airsoft, so he put together some of the more relevant techniques in some videos. He's gone back to just real steel stuff now, but his old stuff is still up.

Visited Finmere Airsoft for the first time this weekend to take part in one of their Chaos and Control days, a long objective lead day rather than your usual skirmish. Milsim-lite I guess you could call it. First notable point before the day of the event even came around was the great communication with the organisers. I posted a quick question via their ‘Contact Us’ link but got a swift answer and then welcome into their larger WhatsApp group to discuss game day specifics or ask for technical help. Even got sent a PDF with the game objectives and rules, site map and walkthrough video in advance of the day so everyone should know what they are doing. Really well organised and not something I’ve seen before. Arrived at the site an a rainy Sunday morning. The site itself is a fairly typical woodland affair with a long central access road bisecting it into two distinct halves. Safe zone is right in the centre, they have a mix of seating and tables, most undercover from the worst of the elements. Small tuck shop, supplies and a lone portaloo which was remarkably clean. Game area features some nice set pieces like a prop submarine, crashed airplane and some other abstract structures that could really be anything. Gameplay for the day were two 2-hour long domination rounds with five control points spread around the map for capture and control. Capture involved the usual flag raising plus starting your team’s stopwatch at the control point to start accumulating points. Each team’s spawn had an area map that you could mark POIs on and a radio. The radio allowed you to get in contact with the ‘drone operator’ to get intel and/or call in airstrikes or chemical weapons on certain positions. I’m guessing this isn’t anything new but it was the first time I’ve played anything like this and I had a great time playing Battlefield Commander with my rifle propped up in the corner of spawn and picking places on the map to drop imaginary ordinance. Another new one for me was their dead rule. You get 3 lives with the first 2 hits requiring you to be revived, but whilst injured you are allowed (and expected) to call out info to your team. Creates an interesting dynamic where a downed man can sometimes be the pivotal part of a firefight as he calls out enemy movements to the survivors. On your 3rd hit you are fully dead, then it’s the usual silent walk back to spawn. Other notable points of the day were zero moaning or bitching about hit calling, randoms happy to and actively looking to team up to do objectives, everyone generally very laid back and some guy brought a bag full of apples from his garden. All in all a great addition to our roster of local sites so will be going there again soon.

"Scope cam, recording. Helmet cam, recording. Pistol cam, recording. Rifle cam, recording. Chest cam recor...oh everyone's gone home"

He's been failing to sell that for a few months now. You can't tell, because he's not bothered to add his name and the date to his photos.

Link - Here Got to love those long and very detailed descriptions when paying £750 for something. Going by the description, don't even know if you get the mags/box with it lol From the looks of it all that's added is a RDS and the Extended barrel thing that makes it look horrible imo. I cannot find one of these that's more than £300-400

KM seems to always encounter toxic and cheating players in his videos, and it definitely gives that vibe of, "if you smell shit everywhere you go, it's you." I genuinely think he's an absolute negative for the hobby, and it's shite that he's far and away the most popular channel because that shit gets views.

This list exists for which sites he's banned from. Some of the things he's accused of are actually insane behaviour. Granted, it's two-ish year old but that's 40+ sites that confirmed he was banned at the time. I can second AirsoftCamMan. I watch his stuff from time to time.

I'm quite a fan of airsoft Alfonse. When you say tactics, do you mean squad level or an individual level? While I'm not a fanboi, the gbrs YouTube has some bits of interest, dirty civilian and garand thumb also have some nuggets in there. A lot of it is real tactics and they arent always relatable or that transferable, but they can give a chain of thought

There‘s a long list of things he’s not liked for all with good reason 😂

I remember a few very good halloween games, including one where a fully costumed Xenomorph crept up behind me and ripped my head off!, in a LARP kind of way of course! 😆

Sorry I didn’t know

Got a Romeo 2 off here and fitted it to the sand viper tonight along with a flamingo rubber. Decided to go with the full length shroud and waterproof extension now the weather's taking a turn for the worse.

It's pulled up adverts from all the way back to last year, haha

I've bought BCG's from a variety of Asia sellers (Tiger111HK, RWA, WGC, AST to name a few), never entered anything other than my name/address and they just sail through customs.

Zombie themed Halloween games. In fact I'd go even further and say all holiday themed games. Inevitably they're always the same, just with some people in costume and the same cookie cutter games with bugger all thought gone into the actual game mechanics

It's a waste of time apart from certain review channels. Youtube airsoft is all about clickbait and bullshit drama which doesn't represent reality.

As @Austeyr has wisely said, there is a section within the classifieds, please take the time to acquaint yourself with the various sections, as well as ALL the forums rules, & be aware that your wanted ad will attract scammers like flies on 💩, so be careful & only ever use paypal goods & services.

We weren't getting enough shots off to need changing mags... 😆 I've just received some more paper targets for practice and to make sure we scoped in properly. We do have baofeng radios but haven't used em yet.

He was just what came up when I looked for Airsoft on YouTube. Told the wife, she was disgusted by his behaviour and pleased no one at our site is like that... Thanks for the replies and suggestions gentlemen.

I quite like cam man, mostly sniper content so I’ve been watching him while getting used to my DMR.

I noticed on mobile you can't select the categories any more either for the classifieds 🤔

For sure you notice the quality, its also very heavy at around 5kg but if your more of a player then you cant go wrong with an MWS those things are a marui master piece.

Player marshals may or may not be effective, but they are not cringe, which is also the case for many of the items in that long list. I have acted as a player marshal from time to time, but always in collaboration with non-player marshals. The role is useful for keeping an eye on behaviour within teams.

Another purchase from Stryderb (Sam) from here. Absolutely love it, phenomenal rate of fire. (26 rps) Couple of free mags as well. Can't wait to get a tracer for it. Thanks Sam.

Now we're talking mate that would be great!! Chuck a Tokarev in too while we're here...?