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What Helps You Decide on a Magazine? Readers Wives ??? (edit my bad wrong forum)

Get your mind out the gutter!

Gunbag! ✅ RIF! 🔫✅ Mags! ✅ Extra batteries! ✅ BB’s! ✅ BDU! ✅ Extra cash! 💷✅ Transport! ✅ Optional: 🤔 Bring some food and drinks? Extra clothes, bad weather? I could go on.... Just make sure to be safe and have fun! 🤪👍 💷GAMBLE💷

Prison's are designed to be able to be secure with a few guards as possible, they intentionally employ choke points, funnelling designs and are essentially inverse castles (designed to keep people in versus keep people out). I just don't think this is a good site for a large number of people. I think for prisons you need to design the event around the site. It needs to be asymmetric in terms of teams a few people as the guards who can lock down buildings etc and the rest as inmates trying to escape. That or you need to have far fewer players so they can't just lock everything down. My vote with 400 players on site is clusterfuck.

Hi we are from Southampton...my 14 yr old has just got his first Airsoft gun today so please expect lots of questions from me asking for help/ advice as this is totally new to me.

Yep, don't think they pay to go to uni either ?, amongst other freebies ?

Grrr..... I'm normally itching when I come back! Darn bugs! Lol 😉 Regards

Sounds a bit rude to me OOH ERR MISSUS

Thank you everyone for ur advice today.. im sure I'll have plenty more questions to ask u all in time....all I can says is he's itching to get going now

@Gamble has done some great vids for new players but he's too shy to post em 😄 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-V_yVApaCpm096XBAQE1A

Holy bot necro Batman.

What it says and the reality, is going to be very very different. That to me looks like just the total boundaries. The drops from the green sides into the moat looks around 2 stories. Sunset October is around 7pm. So that's unlikely to be usable. The chunk to the right is going to be parking and camping. You remove the open grass areas, which well are gonna be just that. Leaves you with about 20 very easy to lock down controlled buildings, that are designed to funnel people. Oh and a single bridge across of the bottom left part of the site is going to be so easy to lock down. For the first 20-30 or so people who get over it. No idea how accessible the higher ground is from the moat. So that might change things but this is going to feel a heck of a lot smaller with 200 people shooting you with hicaps. We went to the Gloucester prison and locked down that site with about 50 per site. I mean we have locked down woodlands sites with not many more. That site with 150 would be pretty epic but 400 from my experience of large games, its just going to be a cluster fuck of camping and ammo spamming. That after the first 20mins of any story will fall apart in to a skirmish. Maybe if they limit it to 400 rounds but that they have stated its not going to be milsim. Perhaps I am just jaded but large games usually tend to be pretty terrible mess after a couple of hours of marshalls trying to herd cats. Giving up, just standing back and lobbing the odd pyro for effect.

Hi and welcome to the fold 👋 Ground zero is a great site. Big though. Plenty of challenging terrain with means it can be hard work.will test your fitness lol. I'm sure you will enjoy it though. Check out @GAMBLEon the tube he has some great vids which will answer a lot of your questions.👍 Have fun 🙂 Regards

I also use both mesh and normal goggles. I've read the stories of BBs shattering but I've never seen anything happen in the few years I've been playing. Its really only possible with high power sniper rifles at close range and they usually have a minimum shooting distance of 20-30 metres. So its possible but HIGHLY unlikely. (Perhaps it was more likely in the past and maybe BB quality has improved?) As Iceni said, goggles are good as long as they are close fitting around the eyes. It depends how much exercise you can do before sweat becomes a problem. Forget shooting glasses. They're like half protection. Lower face protection is very advisable and mandatory for under 16s at the sites I go to. THIS is good because it includes ear protection and easy to breath (Example only: You may find them cheaper elsewhere). You can also bend the mesh to fit the face. I've not been to Ground Zero but from the google photos it looks really good (and big). Who knows, you may get addicted too 😉

That’ll teach you not to be welsh ours are free ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🤣🤣👍 Or as we called it in the army ‘shinny mine hunting’ as in “haven’t a clue what it is/who’s it is but its shinny and it’s sat there all unclaimed so it’s mine now !” 🤣🤣

Dont listen to him, he'll see the light once he see's us having a proper tea and crumpets on proper tables and plates rather than eating beans out of the tin in a muddy hole. A gentleman must have standards y'know......

Okay so, so Survival in Torrington has a spot this Sunday, so I'ma probs gonna go along to that just to see what the crack is, and go from there. If I love it, which I'm sure I will, I'll go to the one on the 2nd May as well, which should give me time to heal a million BB exit wounds.

Hi, ALL! 👋 Another BDU unlocked in my collection, can’t wait to test it out, German! 😆 Will be in my video this Sunday! 😁 Close to completing my BDU camo collection.... got to draw the line somewhere.... until something else comes along!? 💷🤪👍 💷GAMBLE💷

Thats like the 38 special snub nose brocock that I used to have. ☹

I got this one in chrome and it's pretty good. https://www.bespokeairsoft.co.uk/airsoft-gun/revolver/hfc-co2-revolver-2-5inch-full-metal-black I got make some ratshot shells so drops FPS under 350 like a shotgun

My new viper speedloader came with that gizmo on it. Seems a bit wobbly but will try it and how it works? 👍 Regards

The black deployment bag is a good investment. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174671408442?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28 It's big enough to fit a normal gun inside (long guns won't fit), as well as all your kit. For the money you won't find a better bag. It also means you can take clean clothes and change before you head home, so you are dry, warm, and not filling the car with mud. It also gives you a place to keep everything together when you store it at home. I have a couple of those bags and they get a lot of use.

@PewPewLoki Interesting find. I believed that the leak was from the middle of the mag where the two halves meet. That was at least how I got one leak free - simply by merging them with steel epoxy. Anyway, good to know that the valve is 1911 spec for Easy replacement. The question is however, did they become leak free after you changed out the valve? Also, could you clarify what o-ring it is that have created the maracas, and where it sits on the valve? I didn’t quite get that ( p.s haven’t seen this o-ring floating around in mind )

Hey folks, not sure if this has already come up in this thread (I searched and couldn't find anything, and apologies, but I couldn't bring myself to read through all 190 pages of posts) but a quick random one for anyone looking to buy (or having bought and regretted buying) the SAA/Ace 1 Arms PMags: Have you noticed yours are leaky AF? Mine were. Could barely rattle off 4 shots. So I bought the G&P 'stendos, which seem decent, but still not amazing. However, if you open up the SAA mags and take the release valves out, you'll not only notice that they're standard TM-spec 1911/MWS valves (easily replaced/repaired), but you'll probably also find a seal rattling around the inside of your mag. As you can see from the attached picture, not only have they completely come off the valves, but they're also flat and hard and torn. Replace these with TM or LPE or even WE/Army, and you'll have a way better time with them. Not sure where SAA/Ace 1 get their seals from, but this is pretty shocking.

As far as I'm aware E&C are still the guys on the original Specna One Series, which is why they are still the best in the range.

Ahh fairy muff was just going by what the guy in Socomtactical said when I bought it .👍

Rediculously overkill optic for my cyma cm.002 Ex police leupold cqt with a vector frenzy auto attached via a custom mount a mate knocked together for me.

I will, at 600 chats per minute. chat chat chat "Get some!!!!" chat chat

Specna don't even OEM their own guns! The Arthurians are made by E&C who USED to OEM the Specna's. I had one of the original SA-A03 rifles made by E&C and it's been absolutely stellar.

It's so easy to fall into a massive rabbit hole with airsoft, and once you get one thing, there will always be something else you can convince yourself you "need" to buy to go with it 😂 Don't be put off or intimidated by people at the site who are carrying enough kit to stage a revolution. Most of it is for show, as that forms part of the hobby too. You and your lad are squaring away the basics, and the extras you're asking about are all sensible progressions. Keep the questions coming as people like your boy are the future of the hobby. We want you guys to enjoy it and keep coming back for more. Just make sure you clean all the external dirt of the gun when you get home, and give the barrel a clean every few games. Some people do this every game, which is no bad thing, but not absolutely necessary. For gas guns, give them a bit more TLC, cleaning and lightly lubricating, and always keep a bit of gas in the magazines to keep the o-rings from drying out and shrinking.

Thanks so much for the advice everyone it's really helpful.... sorry for the random questions but am a bus driver so giving me time to think....is it best to get a small rucksack and take a spare battery( don't know how long these last for)with him for the first time one to carry stuff In and the other obviously as don't want to ruin his first go by the battery going dead...and also does he need a case to care his gun around like u do with air rifles etc

Don't leave batteries in the gun and if you do end up getting Lipos (recommended) pick up a charging bag as well. Helmets can come later and, at Ground Zero, are pretty useful preventing bumps and scratches from all the trees. As others have mentioned, anything over the head is recommended to take the sting out of a BB hit. I favour a boonie if I'm too hot in my helmet. They also provide a bit of extra protection from the sun, especially if you can get one with a detachable neck cover. Gloves are also something to consider as a shot to the finger is really sore. Don't think you have to pick everything up at once though. Build it up over time and after a couple of games you'll soon be able to prioritise purchases based on the freshest set of 6mm welts! Military 1st is a great site to pick up all sorts of kit. Link is here. Their prices are good, service is quick and stock list is huge.

@Colinc1968! 👋 Always when you finish, fire it to clear barrel of any BB’s (Not in the safe zone!) in the chamber and then take out the battery! 🔫👍 Dont want to damage or loose anything important!!!! 😵 Any hat wear is good, depends on what you want, might change over time? 🤔 This a clear example of what NOT to do!!!! 😂 💷GAMBLE💷

Thanks for the advice hope I'm not asking to many stupid questions...as to clothing would it be cheaper to visit our local army surplus shop to kit him out as the stuff we looked at seem very expensive...? What sort of face mask with ear shields is best when I do change his mesh shield

Ground Zero is my local site. As others have said, it's big and the terrain can be challenging. Please make sure your lad's wearing something more supportive than trainers on his feet. Really easy to roll an ankle there. On eye pro, I'd move away from mesh asap. Bolle Trackers or Cobra are decent and only a few quid. Look at DIY places rather than airsoft shops for them and you'll find them cheaper 😆 Hope he has a great time and don't be afraid to ask other players questions either. Airsofters are generally friendly and also love to show their kit off and share advice.

High caps are easy. You can fill directly from a bottle of BB's as they have a trap door loading method. They rattle a bit, You have to wind them on. But essentially on the field 1 high cap and a bottle of BB's stuffed in a pocket is more ammo than most could use in a day, and you can fill up in 1 minute without any other tools. Easy to have 500 bb's loaded and be carrying 3000. Mid caps are a bit more involved. You have a bit more investment in the magazines because you will own more of them. You will also need some way to carry those mags. Say you have 5 mags, then you are going to need at least 4 pouches, or 2 double pouches, a webbing kit, vest or bag, And if it's a full day of play you may also need to have your bottle of BB's and a loader. 5x100 is still only 500bb's. If you are carrying a bottle you'll want a pouch or bag for that and the speed loader. The reward for midcaps is you don't have to wind the mag. So the gun is always ready until the ammo is out. You don't rattle as much, and you get far more mag swaps in a game over high caps, without it been a constant thing like with low caps. You'll have a bit more downtime to reload those mags, and a decent speed loader can save a lot of frustration when you have 5 mags to sort between games, or whilst your been covered mid game. Low caps are even more involved, whilst you can get away with 5 mags, you probably won't be comfortable with that unless you are an established player. 5x30 is only 150bb's. and 10x30 is only 300. If you are using low caps there's a good chance you are either in a mill sim, or play in a very frugal fashion with ammo, As you adapt to the lower ammo count and probably won't be carrying more ammo (or the games will be ammo limited). It's best to avoid low cap mags unless you want that realism. For me I tend to run mid caps, but will often have an empty high cap on the webbing and a bottle of bb's either on my kit, or on a mates kit. So if things start to heat up there is a fast reload option available, It's pretty rare I push hard enough to need that high cap in assault but for defence it can be useful.

Yes, that’s the one. It might be better in summer, as I’m currently putting all sorts of winter gas through mine which might be smashing it a bit. Nuprol 3.0 and 4.0, Guarder black, MAPP - I think these add extra wear. I stripped it down today, and gave it a really good clean with IPA, it’s actually not in that bad condition. I think they’re probably good for 2000 to 3000 thousand shots. I’ve stuck a Laylax purple in for now, will do some range and accuracy tests tomorrow. Weirdly I’ve gained about 70 FPS! Must just be a better air seal with the nozzle and less friction on the bb due to less surface contact.

I, like most people, started off with hicaps - I had three 500rd mags for my Cyma AK74. I was very much a spray-and-pray airsofter back then, so I liked the fact that I could carry 1500 rounds at once, having not spent much money on mags or mag pouches. The trouble is, they remove some of the realism of airsoft, and of course there's that sodding rattling noise that you get if you so much as scratch a bollock. I've since kicked over to midcaps and I've never looked back. I love the realism (sort of) of having limited ammunition and having to reload, I love the tactical advantage of quieter movement, and my wallet loves the fact that I now spend less on BBs.

Gone down for me ..... my doctor doubled the quantity on my prescription, which turned it into half price I also suffer from free shit syndrome, and find my pockets stuffed full of freebies

I've been naughty again... Genuine US LBV-88 Enhanced combat vest, with x4 Genuine grenade pouches (From Finland), genuine M12 M9 pistol holster from surplus place in UK and Genuine 3 day buttpack attachment. (From France) to add to to my growing collection of M81 Woodland. Plus M81 windproof smock and M81 Gortex jacket...all running with my Bolt M16A4 (That Luke fixed for me..) Also not related..decided to become a Wanker as well and bought a G&G 2400 round drum mag for my MTW, for some high speed speedy boy shit...for giggles. Have M81 plate carrier with midcaps for when being a bit more normal with it.

The topic of ‘Fees’ rears it’s ugly little heads quite regularly and in the end it always ends up the same way , you’ve got one side that says you should have one single figure that you ask for that covers everything and on the other you’ve got the ones who go in to very long winded reasons for why you have the goods price and then P&P plus PayPal is tagged on after . One of the biggest reasons they Say this seems to be letting the buyer choose the delivery method instead of setting it them selves wether by parcelfarce/ Royal fail or Hermies/etc me I just do Royal Mail/Parcelfarce as my preference for who I’ll send via and that’s that you want anything else ? Sorry no can do .

Not TG but don't you hate it when you specifically choose an alternate shipper to UPS and then they go and use them anyway!!! Well I won;t expect that order any time soon.

This, especially in and around London where land prices are at a premium. No matter how derelict, that disused factory etc will belong to someone and sneaking onto it to waive replica firearms around is a recipe for disaster.

Finished this today

I think I'm finally done with my VFC SCAR-H. Parts: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12v6YkUH44YzoyB8OpJLW5I2xgpuF0jbp0GJial5D-7Y/edit?usp=sharing I'm probably going to remove the flashlight, is there a smaller/lower profile one I could use? it's too chunky.

They are absolute shit lol. I have had loads of AG parts, all but one of them have problems..they clearly test nothing! There is no other explanation for it. Ag nozzle, weird full auto so removed. Ag bolt (sf version) piston wouldn't fit, also spring retainer wouldn't go in without modding. Ag outer barrel, hop issues when installed Ag maritime bolt catch, sticks out about 3mm more than a real one, so you cannot wind the mag release enough to seat it properly. They even admitted to me they screwed it up! Ag mag release, fell in half first use lol..pin just fell out! Ag charging handle, roll pins just fall out Ag lightweight bolt catch, needed heavy filing to move freely. Ag urgi v2 rail, will not fit an mws without their adapter ring which only comes with their outer barrel set which causes hop problems! The v1 rail was fine and had a more durable finish. Saying that, my flash hider is perfectly fine, even they would struggle to fuck that up. They clearly make things based on pictures on the Internet, this is why everything is out of spec..then they clearly do not test finished products on a base mws but on modified ones made from their parts. I hope they go out of business.

Here's an idea. Get the gat,use it,use it some more, put it away and then use it again. That's how it works.Not, buy gat,fire one shot in garden,tear it apart,get loads of upgrades, rebuild and end up wiv basically same gat as was minus any warranty. Lol. Oo I know, I'm a luddite cynic! 🤪 Form an orderly line and take a ticket to deliver my admonishment..... 😋🤭 Regards

It may not be airsoft but it definitely belongs here

Update to the KWA DD M4v7 - - Slim motor (US import from Tactical Parts) - Replica slim DD pistol grip

Yeah I have the matching flash hider, I think I have sorted it. I was trying to treat it like a normal screw and having it all the way "untight" by having it full loose to the left. Didn't realise it is a cam lock and so I needed to fully tighten it right and then back it off slightly once it was on. very confused but sorted.