Colonel Kurtz

I'm still waiting on the Laylax Schrodinger, currently looks like early Sept release in JP. Other than that I'm actually in a rare state of airsoft content, and nothing really grabbing my attention!

One the marshal told me The Malls been broken into a fair few times, they've arrived in the morning to find an open door or similar. Mostly 'urban explorers', and no-ones burnt the place down yet. Most the vandalism there seems to be done by muppets during games, trying to shoot out lights etc. Also told me an amusing tale of a 'terminator' game, where the terminator spotted someone in casual clothing in the basement and shot at them. The guy ran off so the terminator followed him, and got to one the fire-escapes which was open. Their guess is it was another explorer! i chuckle at the thought of what must have gone through that guys mind when he broke into an abandoned building, walked round the first corner and encountered a very realistic looking terminator holding a rifle. Personally after escaping my first step would have been to check i hadn't traveled in time when stepping though the door...

In berkshire - reading. v good cqb arena, to me it's main selling point (other than being a whole shopping mall and right on my doorstep) is the layout not having a couple of choke points that become a stalemate every-time (like many other cqb arenas). of course there's always a corridor queue stalemate somewhere, but the layout of the place allows you to sneak the long way round most times. Wasn't referencing something that'd actually happened, just trying to imagine a scenario where being a powerlifter/bodybuilder would give one a winning advantage in airsoft. All I can come up with is carrying lots of stuff and i found the idea a bit amusing as i've often seen people try to carry a dozen laptop bags/ ammo tins and fail in epic comic style. If someone could pull it off and manage to carry a massive pile of objectives through a shopping mall while guarded by team-mates, all in one go, it'd be hilariously awesome. My religious belief is following the great ones (Bill and Ted) and their one commandment - be excellent to one and other, so I've got plenty respect for anyone trying to better themselves whatever the context. I did a lot of fitness training in my youth, concentrating on tensile/core rather than mass/lift Doesn't matter what build you are for airsoft, it's what you do that counts. Although for CQB i'd say the closer to a hobbit you are the better hehe! I've played against someone well hench twice and they were opposite ends of the scale so I don't think there's a cliche or anything. One was a douche-bag who was hopefully unable to feel most the hits to his upper body due to it being used to much stronger punishment, rather than deliberately ignoring them. And hopefully he'd just had a bad week rather than any other reason for experiencing a lot of rage. The other was a true gent, leading a team of people that kicked a fair bit of ass that day, being cheerfully polite/ offering congrats, trying to motivate the shy hire-gun types on their team etc. Never really seen people get mocked for being bad first time at airsoft, but unfortunately it seems most new players will be ignored by the majority until they get their own gun that isn't two-tone and a soldier-ish loadout. I don't think it's quite snobbery, just people not being bothered to be friendly to someone until they appear to be fully invested in the hobby as the sport gets a fair few tourists like paintball.

As far as airsoft goes the winning seems to mostly be done by the sneaky/quick gits rather than the man-tanks, although often play a cqb scenario/game where someone able to carry 20 laptop bags and ammo tins simultaneously would be a def winner hehe Great thing about airsoft is if god created man then tokyo marui made him equal Ever played at The Mall? edit - actual winning (objectives and all that fancy malarky) is done by good teams of course

The only winning move is not to play

I think such a caliber of airsofting woman would have to be encouraged to make noises like professional female tennis players when hit. Penny would have to watch/wait while i defiled Bernadette

"Small White Balls" it is then I just tell people it's like if you crossed laser quest with paintball and filled it with the cast of the big bang theory

The name airsoft always seemed a bit of a nerf word to me. If gonna rename airsoft then i think it needs some sub-genres; Balls Hit (milsim) Balls Quest (cqb) Balls Out (woodland skirmish) As for hardcore airsoft like russia as mentioned above, i guess you've never heard of fire-fight-club (damn i broke the first rule)

Needed a more pro load-out so bought this;

Some kind of embalming fluid!?

^ Pretty sure every airsofter's loft has an unwise purchase sat in it somewhere! I have two B500A1...

Got given a sub-zero looking mask, i gave it a test shot and it punched the thin plastic lens right out. So I didn't get chosen to represent Earth in the next Mortal Kombat

How did the dude get to be squad leader? Doesn't seem like he was promoted based on ability... Unfortunately the idea of skirmishing being a smooth running military op seems an impossible dream, unless you had to prove your athletic/tactical/shooting abilities to play it first. At least it's not a giant stag-do like paintball.

Unfortunately the law couldn't be tailored to say "well mannered middle class under 18's only", so it doesn't matter how sensible the minority are, if the law was changed you'd have all sorts of estate dwelling hood-rats running around with RIF putting the shits up the general public. Although maybe they'd all buy molle-belts too which might keep their trousers above knee height

i know i shouldn't have been trusted with a rif when I was under 18, and kids aint getting any better behaved!

Recently I had a good stealthy kill-streak through The Mall and managed to sneak in a shop full of opp players through the entrance they were using. Out the corner of my eye I saw someone facing more in my direction than out the shop doors like the rest so I quickly turned and sprayed some bb's at him as he turned and did the same. Turns out it was one those pillars with a mirror on it and my own reflection. The noise quickly alerted the opp who turned round and gave me a proper peppering as i was standing there thinking 'doh' (if i'd not paused to 'doh' I could have got 1 or 2 first, or ducked away, but I just stood there thinking 'what a wally', which made me more of a wally)

I found an allen key inside a tub of butter once, guess it's similar dimensions to the tub i put my airsoft tools in, but still a big autopilot failure as was in the fridge. The best autopilot failure i ever saw was someone who'd passed out drunk an hour or so earlier stagger down-stairs, walk into the kitchen and up to a chair, tilt the chair back on two legs, piss on the floor underneath it, tilt the chair back to standing and then stagger back upstairs (unwoken by the cries of WTF from housemates) I found a single pink high-heal shoe in a corner at The Mall once. I asked if there'd been anyone wearing them as a joke, or one worn at a zombie event or similar and marshals said they couldn't remember a single time someone had worn heals there and certainly not recently. (my guess therefor it being a lucky charm or left by someone who broke in to explore/whore/inject the night before) A friend of mine found a rusted dagger on the bank of the Rhine in Berlin when we were kids, on inspection a decade or so later it turned out to be one of the more ornate/original ones dished out to the first batch of Hitler youth/SS, rather than the plainer ones handed out en mass. Was either where some Nazi met his end, accidentally dropped or decided it wasn't best to appear a dedicated Nazi anymore and chucked it in. Same friend also found his long lost first airsoft pistol buried in his parents garden. Turned out his mum had thought it was a real gun due to looking nothing like his airgun pistol and had 'disposed' of it to protect him.

Cheers pal, was a troll too far. Why I love airsoft so much more than paintball, full or normal decent folk not meat-heads on a stag-do. Was a guy with a t-shirt saying 'haters gonna hate' at my last skirmish, think he has the answer!

Ah well, machine pressed - boo! Can fully appreciate the need for tracer, i'd go nuts if i couldn't see where my shots were actually hitting at The Mall Seems like you got 4 options; Buying the G&G UMP QD silencer (for like £50) and then doing some serious surgery to combine a tracer with it or turn the part of the silencer that clips directly to the flash-hider into an adapter (yikes) Try to find/have made a threaded outer barrel replacement (gotta be something that'll fit out there...) Getting a madbull ultimate hop-up to fit and perhaps modding some mags yourself to have LED in too (at least prob possible unlike modding the G&G silencer) Buy/use another gun that does have a threaded barrel

I'll stick with public cheeky comments thanks. What i was hoping for; "Yeah i keep trying to quit but love it, and keep ending up on here/ at one last skirmish" Perhaps my cheeky/piss take ratio was a bit off, i don't have a tournament lock unfortunately. However, if you don't want people to make cheeky comments about things you've said, DON'T POST IT ON THE INTERNET I actually agreed with everything you said in the pasted post At least I'm a troll you can actually shoot, but you quit so never mind...

Only reason to hate HPA or any other type of airsoft gun is if your a whiny knob cheese and you got owned by someone using one. Bitches be jelly. As long as it passes chrono then who cares, doesn't matter if it might get a few more FPS from joule-creep or similar, there's plenty DMR and sniper out there doing leagues higher. Everyone seems to try use as heavy ammo as their gun will lift these days anyways and the heavier ammo is only reason something will hurt more. HPA lift heavier easier. If pains the issue people should bitch that everyone should be forced to use 0.2g instead, why limit the argument to HPA? HPA might have potential for silly ROF but AEG's can do a ROF silly enough to make no comparative difference. None of this stuff will make a significant difference to you getting shot or not, that's down to your actions and the other guy behind the trigger, so def agree with it not being the guns fault in the OP. People seem to take good care of their guns in UK, so all that OP talk of 'it's cos your guns poorly maintained and dropped 50fps' seems irrelevant. People pay attention to chrono's here, and if anyone finds their guns dropped they'll get right on it, sending it to a tech if they don't know themselves. Haven't seen a HPA setup last a whole day skirmishing yet, so even if you hate them just wait for the guys gun to break half way through the day and then get your revenge when he's reduced to using a 30rd semi pistol. But anyways, why do you care, thought you were quitting, something that def needs to be announced, again and again... Yawn, you aint going anywhere addict, here's a few bb's to stop you clucking

Looks like it's got some kind of flash-hider on the end, sure that doesn't come off (might have a tiny screw keeping it fixed, then threaded on) hopefully that's the case then you just need to get a thread adapter to 14mm CCW (might be a 12mm CW on the outter barrel if that flash hider does come off)

The madbull hop-up doesn't give anywhere near the same lvl of glow as a silencer tracer. Not even sure if it'd fit in a UMP, dunno what kind of hop-up it comes with. Prob best off getting the barrel threaded, or better - finding a replacement that'll fit.

Like most wish i'd had a better knowledge of brands and the differences. I did as much research as i could and didn't do too bad for first gun - ICS M4 (metal new one) still was only a few months until i bought another gun i use regularly and the ICS got put back in the box Wish i'd known my local site was shite and their shop run by a scammer (absolute airsoft) Apart from that most of it you just have to try and see for yourself, or take the time to research Perhaps that if you regularily go more than once a fortnight you end up with enough marks to looks like you got meth-rot or frequent the needle exchange

I have a pair, I turned them inside out as best i could and put the through the wash at low temp, no destruction.