I have a buddy who went to chrono his Novi SSG24 at a site. He intentionally put 0.25's in to lie about the weight he was using (site chrono's with 0.2s) and the dumbass wasn't quick witted enough at chrono to say 0.2's and he said 0.25. They converted it and he was hot so got asked to take it away. He then stuck 0.2's in and re-chrono'd and slid by due to the marignally less joule creep with the lighter ammo and came scurrying back with his coloured zip tie.
Promptly loaded said SSG up with 0.46's 😑
We talked him out of using it but I can't help but think site's don't help this situation. I personally ALWAYS chrono on my shooting weight and I know that all of my RIF's are under enough so that nobody dries their teeth when I go through.
Christ I crono'd before lockdown and commented that my 0.25's should be hitting about 290 so just under 1J and the marshall replied "we don't use joules here mate".
I do feel that marshalls should have some kind of recognised benchmark that covers basics, attitude and some theory rather than just if you want a free game next week.
I have a buddy who went to chrono his Novi SSG24 at a site. He intentionally put 0.25's in to lie about the weight he was using (site chrono's with 0.2s) and the dumbass wasn't quick witted enough at chrono to say 0.2's and he said 0.25. They converted it and he was hot so got asked to take it away. He then stuck 0.2's in and re-chrono'd and slid by due to the marignally less joule creep with the lighter ammo and came scurrying back with his coloured zip tie.
Promptly loaded said SSG up with 0.46's 😑
We talked him out of using it but I can't help but think site's don't help this situation. I personally ALWAYS chrono on my shooting weight and I know that all of my RIF's are under enough so that nobody dries their teeth when I go through.
Christ I crono'd before lockdown and commented that my 0.25's should be hitting about 290 so just under 1J and the marshall replied "we don't use joules here mate".
I do feel that marshalls should have some kind of recognised benchmark that covers basics, attitude and some theory rather than just if you want a free game next week.
I have a buddy who went to chrono his Novi SSG24 at a site. He intentionally put 0.25's in to lie about the weight he was using (site chrono's with 0.2s) and the dumbass wasn't quick witted enough at chrono to say 0.2's and he said 0.25. They converted it and he was hot so got asked to take it away. He then stuck 0.2's in and re-chrono'd and slid by due to the marignally less joule creep with the lighter ammo and came scurrying back with his coloured zip tie.
Promptly loaded said SSG up with 0.46's 😑
We talked him out of using it but I can't help but think site's don't help this situation. I personally ALWAYS chrono on my shooting weight and I know that all of my RIF's are under enough so that nobody dries their teeth when I go through.
Christ I crono'd before lockdown and commented that my 0.25's should be hitting about 290 so just under 1J and the marshall replied "we don't use joules here mate".
I do feel that marshalls should have some kind of recognised benchmark that covers basics, attitude and some theory rather than just if you want a free game next week.
Barrel is a must, the G&G one is just aluminium trash but the green bucking is well worth keeping and reusing. The GC predators are worth getting as they are well finished, all metal and have the nicer orange ifrit motors. Ideal if you intend on keeping it an AEG.
I've had my hands on a mates GC Predator and also my own CM16 SRS. Out of the box they are absolutely fine for a first time RIF. Don't get me wrong, if you sit there with 0.01 shims and really take a day about it I'm sure you could do better but it's really not worth it.
Best and most worthwhile upgrades you can do out of the box are a Perun ETU++ and a ZCI stainless barrel.
Welcome to the third end of year review with yours truly. What a year it has been! very frustrating due to closures, but I still managed to get in a number of skirmishes when things were slightly better. I totted up 9 new sites in the South East, 3 in the South West and a few revisits which is probably way more then most! Like last year, more sites have closed down then opened, with a few new ones that never came to fruition (Echelon I am looking at you!). This year the standard of site has been much better then the previous years. No site was truly awful which makes a change!
Sites that bit the dust in 2020:
Incursion/EAG Dorking
Combat South
Urban Assault
Grange Bravo One
The Depot Glasgow
Sites that changed hands:
Zed Adventures -> Gunman (Battle Lakes)
Sites that have opened/reopened:
Zed Adventures Z-Mart
Incursion Epsom Bunker (2019 but meh)
Doomsday (Not sure how they re-opened considering the issues they have had, but I am thinking they are still on life support)
AP The Tower
Last year I announced that 2020 would be the last year I would do this due to trying to start a family. For various reasons this may no longer happen so I will continue with the reviews into 2021!
This year I have been ably assisted by my buddy @Albiscuit who has graciously given me lifts to many of the sites this year. It's been nice to play with someone else rather then going on my tod for so long!
Sites I hope to visit by the end of 2021 are:
Finmere Airsoft, AP - The Tower, Special Ops HQ, IronSight, Gunman Camp Alpha, Z-Mart, Epsom Tunnels, Mayhem South East Longfield and Canterbury. @Albiscuit and I are hoping to bring you a special weekender report at a couple of very interesting sites up t'North at some point.
I am also hopefully making a return to the South West to clean up some of the sites I missed near Bristol such as Black Ops Cribbs and HMP Gloucester. We are running out of sites in the SE to visit...
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So without further ado, here is the SE Tour Awards for 2020. 9 new sites were visited to add to a grand total of 37 in the South East alone.
Best Overall Site – This is the award to the best overall site in terms of everything.
1) Airsoft Plantation (Essex)
2) Dogtag Airsoft (West Sussex)
3) Imperium Airsoft (Kent)
AP: Retains the top spot for the third year running, though it was really pushed hard by Dogtag this year. I popped to AP a few weeks before writing this and had a great time with the lower numbers due to covid. It has some work to do to keep top spot though.
Dogtag Airsoft: Knocked Driver Wood off the 2nd spot, such a varied and "shapely" area. We didnt get to see all of the areas available so we cant wait to go back! Safe zone was probably the best one I have seen outside. Food was great too.
Imperium Airsoft: Suprise entry considering I had slated the organisation of the day, but they have gone strength to strength to improve the playing area and have now provided a covered safe zone. Considering how unique this place is, it deserves a tentative spot in third.
Best Medium/Long range Playing area – Variety and/or quality of the playing area.
Reforger Airsoft: Reforger has knocked Airsoft Plantation off of it's perch. Though Reforger has very few man made features, it's natural stuff completely makes up for it, it's a huge site which really lends itself to long range engagement.
AP: Has fallen to second place, even though it has the largest variety in terms out outdoor playing area. It is mostly flat and with few water features, the sheer changeability of the terrain and vegetation, interspersed with manmade obstacles.
Apocalypse Airsoft: Has fallen one spot due to Reforger Airsoft. Surprised me in its decent size, huge variety of woodland sections and best of all the variety and scale of the buildings used.
Best CQB playing area – Variety and/or quality of the playing area.
1) Longmoor Camp (Hampshire)
2) Reaper Ops The Fort Borstal (Kent)
3) Gunman Airsoft Tuddenham (Suffolk)
Longmoor: Creme de la creme for CQB. Play in a perfectly recreated suburb is fantastic. I would love to go back again during the day. Reaper and Longmoor have switched places this year as I feel I got it wrong!
Reaper ops: The Fort is a really interesting era Fort, A moat section, plenty of elevation, tunnels and turrets. A really unique site with really good views over the Medway. Since the downfall of the Mall this has now essentially replaced it at the top.
Gunman Airsoft Tuddenham: Has replaced Erebor due to it closing in 2019. Tuddenham has so much going for it for it's CQB action, they have just put in a new trench system which improves things. If they got rid of the silly grenade rule in use inside the huts, this could climb the places.
Best purpose built buildings – This means actually built for the site and not already existing.
1) Dogtag Airsoft (West Sussex)
2) Apocalypse Airsoft (Kent)
3) Mayhem Paintball and Airsoft (Essex)
Dogtag Airsoft: With the demise of Dorking, Dogtag deservedly takes the top spot. The constructon of the buildings especially in the CQB area is incredible. The quality oozes out of the construction. There are more buildings planned as well.
Apocalypse Airsoft: Drops down to 2nd this year. The sheer variety of buildings at play, well-spaced out, multiple tiers and well looked after means this is a great site for snipers and CQB assaults. The trench system is also worth a mention.
Mayhem Paintball and Airsoft: The sheer amount of obstacles and buildings means this is worth an entry at number 3!
Best Safe Zone – Safe zone is classed as the setting up area. Enclosed? Felt Safe? Lots of space?
1) Dogtag Airsoft (West Sussex)
2) Mayhem Paintball and Airsoft (Essex)
3) Red 1: The School (Herts)
Dogtag Airsoft: Almost like it was built for social distancing in our covid times. Almost everything is under cover and is of really good construction.
Mayhem Paintball and Airsoft: Has a huge multi roomed indoor/outdoor safe zone. Heated inside and benches everywhere. Shop and Toilets were pretty good as well.
Red 1 The School: It's completely indoors, which is the only reason it gets in this spot. Its not quite big enough and the toilets are pretty bad. But hey... indoors?
MPA Hockley: is a new entrant and absolutely deserving. It's a full retail shop with a small skirmish area attached to it. Its well appointed even for an airsoft shop. I have my doubts they will ever be topped.
Battle Lakes: Had a very large indoor shop with lots of interesting weapons and gear for sale, also sold second hand stuff.
Airsoft Billericay: Has a very large selection of gear is available at reasonable prices. It has gone slightly downhill recently but still claims 3rd spot.
Dogtag Airsoft: Had a hog roast and a freakin' Ice cream truck turn up.
Invicta Airsoft: Not the best tasting food, but you got LOADS of it. Breakfast was included in the price and they have lots of vegetarian options too.
AP: Has a proper burger van, all the sauces, reasonable prices and a vegetarian option. Tasted good as well.
Best Marshals – Marshals that made sure you had a good time, were friendly and weeded out troublemakers.
AP: Has climbed back to the top spot after playing the weekend before writing this review. They will do anything to help you and bend over backwards.
Gunman Camp Bravo: Had such a friendly bunch of people running it, really professionally run.
Invicta Airsoft: Award goes for the most marshals and staff on one site for so few people! They were everywhere!
Site where (We) had the most fun in 2020 – Might not have been the best sites, but definitely had the best experience.
Dogtag Airsoft: Dogtag definitely took the top spot this year, we both had an amazing time and had something for both of us to like. (Considering how we are very different players!)
Gunman Camp Bravo: A very solid day, couldn't quite put our finger on it, but we had a great time and could have played for another couple of hours. Left us wanting more!
Invicta Airsoft: More of a pick for @AlbiscuitIt was a good day in terms of personal performance for him and he loved the Invicta CQB area!
Best site inside the M25:
1) Red 1 Chislehurst (Kent)
2) Doomsday Airsoft (Kent)
3) Mayhem Paintball and Airsoft (Essex)
Red 1 Chislehurst: Retains the crown as the best site inside the M25. Steady improvements despite thieves taking away part of the safe zone.
Doomsday Airsoft: Needs to sort out its sometimes open/sometimes closed status.
Mayhem Paintball and Airsoft: Fantastic playing area, good variety, but poor organisation lets it down.
Most Disappointing site - For sites we had high hopes for but was a bit of a let down on the day.
Splatoon airsoft: Went for a Battlesim, it was one of the most poorly run events that we have ever been to. Had so much promise. Shame, considering the site itself is not that bad.
AirsoftGB: Was the biggest let down. We heard many many good things about it. But when we got there just saw a bowl of grass with a bunch of structures in it. The Farmyard section was quite good, but the rest of the experience wasn't fantastic either. We didn't quite get the hype.
Mayhem Paintball and Airsoft: The photos on the website didn't disappoint. But I didn't realise how quite bad organisation could get until I played here.
Spray and “prey” award:
For the third year running, I still have nightmares of Tactical Warfare in Croydon. I just cant bring myself to go back due to the liberal usage of plastic death.
Best moment:
When we first saw the "Village" at Dogtag Airsoft. Jaw dropped and we looked at each other knowing it was going to be good.
Here are all of the in-depth individual reviews for your viewing pleasure.
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There have been more changes this year in the awards then last year. The standard has been overall much higher. Though there were a number of "middling" sites, which just couldn't quite get on the board.
Not much to say this year, I think people are just hoping to see the back of it. Definitely more of a year for purchasing gear that I haven't played enough to get around to using! In 2021 I am hoping to get to more sites outside of the South East, just for a bit of variety. So don't expect too many SE reviews... Not enough sites left to add anyway!
FWIW I bought mine from Airsoftworld, they had the "new" ETU++'s in stock for a better price than the older ETU replacements so was well worth it. They literally are as easy as 2 spades and a data connector and you're done, a bit of tinkering around with settings.
The pre-cocking is sweeeet and the binary function is a killer!
Boringly practical CM16 SRS with P* Jack. Currently running a ZCI barrel but got a PDI on the way. Outdoor she gets suppressed, indoor tracer goes on. Just a really great all rounder for me.
At the top end yes ideally if shortening your inner barrel your match your cylinder to that to avoid over voluming, get a slight ROF increase and a slightly more accurate shot as well as less creep.
I'd stay worrying about that after you get it looking like you want though as that's a full gearbox out job and a totally different can of worms.
Yes with the XT kit you pick the outer barrel parts you need to make the desired length you want. They screw together on a -14mm thread.
This is where your inner barrel would then stick out to full length so would need replacing as well.
What you are wanting to do is relatively easy, it's just parts compatiblity. Swapping an outer barrel isn't difficult but it's not as easy as breathing.
Are you wanting to shorten your outer as well or just bring the outerbarrel back into it? If it were me, I'd just bring the outer into your existing one as this would remove a large cost (in the form of a new handguard) and remove more complications of which will fit.
You will likely need a new inner barrel as well. For these parts, definitely make your way over to Pete's at @ak2m4, a full set can be bought here https://www.ak2m4.co.uk/external-parts/outer-barrels/xt-outer-barrel-aeg-set which will allow you to customise the length of the outer. He also carries ZCI inner barrels which are a must if you are using the stock G&G aluminium sorry excuse for a barrel. You'll gain a tidy boost in accuracy and also FPS with those ZCI barrels.
Definitely doable, don't try to research exact parts for everything in advance, it won't happen, they don't list compatiblity how you'd want them to, buy the first bit that fits the bill, then buy the next to fit that one and go from there. I transformed a very boring looking 008 from this;
to this for less than £30 (granted not an XT outer barrel set as I knew my rail was 7" so bought a 5.5" outer barrel, 128mm inner barrel and 130mm suppressor.
She looks even better now as well with a CTR style stock, no vertical grip and goes like the clappers with a set of ZCI HD 16:1's inide.
The anchor end of the trigger return spring has come out of its locating hole and snagged elsewhere. This was also getting in the way of the magazine.
I have learnt one thing though. Never ask a question on Facebook. No body actually read my whole post on the MK23 owners group. They just shouted "feed lips" "feed lips" "feed lips" despite me pointing out the magazine wasn't in the gun and was inface in a drawer in the garage.
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Unfortunately the airsoft obsession now is to the have the best most powerful gun at 99.999% site limit.
Joule creep just allows the idiots and cheats to deliberately break those limits and then claim ignorance if caught.
If sites can't police J limits, I'd suggest chrono full auto's on 0.3/0.32 and snipers/dmr on 0.40+.
That would negate most of the crazy joule creep builds and improve safety.
Monster! I'm just waiting for HPA to have the Cyber Monday sale. Going to try and pick up a P* Jack to drop into a CM16-SRS for a bit of a sleeper build.
You seen the FPS limits at MCG on HPA? 330fps on a 0.2. They do that so joule creepers can't get above 350 but still, can't help but think "chrono with the right weight BB and go for 1J eh". I'm sure a 1J MTW will still destroy most things out there. Beech corner won't know what's hitting it lol
This old tart is up for CQB action!
Any day really (self employed) but I voted for a Saturday as it will give me Sunday to get over being "a old tart playing games" and its only 2 hours down the M1/A43/A34 so im all game.
I would rather it be march than earlier as I really need this covid shite to be sorted as I cant risk the misses who is NHS getting something off me just because I'm "a old tart wanting to pew pew"
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