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Site Name: RIFT The Ridge Contact details: 07751586781 Website Address: https://riftairsoft.com/ Facebook Page: RIFT Airsoft "The Ridge" Barton Le Clay | Facebook Site Address: Luton Rd, Barton-le-Clay, Bedford MK45 4LG I had put off going to airsoft recently despite having been packed ready to go for the past 4 weeks. A last minute dash to celebrate an anniversary resulted in me looking at Airsoft sites close to Dunstable for Easter Sunday. A second visit to Red 1 The School was on the cards but I did spot that RIFT Airsoft were playing The Ridge which was pretty darned close. A quick message to @Albiscuit and we got booked in. Despite doing these reviews for years, I had never visited a RIFT site, Always wanted to do COM 3 but never managed to get around to it. RIFT Airsoft have been going for years and have a knack for acquiring fairly unique sites. General consensus about the site from previous reviews: "You get a work out, but it's fun". Medium sized ex Quarry turned 4x4 Trail of which the entrance is scarily located right on the onramp to the A6 (As in you are literally about to merge onto the A6 blink and you'll miss the site entrance on the left and have to come back around from the next junction). The Ridge is a Sandy/Woodland site which has huge elevation changes around the North, North West and West sides of the site. Very steep hills which need careful footwork to navigate. Despite being promoted as a Quarry, it has lots of Bush style woodland vegetation which provides some cover and a challenge to walk through. Short/Medium/Long Engagement distances, though due to the stronger wind in the large open area long distance engagement was difficult. There are no man made structures at all. It's a pure site in that regard. The site has no permanent Airsoft event infrastructure. It is all brought in from outside in a van for the day. Good: USP: Not many sites like this in the UK. Sandpit closed down years ago, Imperium's Quarry is quite small and the one used in Kent for the RUCKUS games is almost never used (More of a "Guest" site.) The Ridge quarry is not as good or featured as the other quarry sites, but it's open more often. There is no quarry machinery etc. Just the sand and rock left over. Very glad it exists though if you want a somewhat different game day to usual. (Roll out the desert uniform!) Safety Brief: Very much a "mall" style safety brief, long, but covered everything and it was needed due to the natural dangers the site has. Shop: Pretty good shop. A large selection of low/mid tier pistols and rifles. Gear, gas and bb's. Game Modes: More complicated then your average skirmish, with multiple objectives (The pole game was quite interesting). You need to pay attention in the game brief to make sure your team win. Even if you dominate the opposing teams spawn point, they can score points if you aren't playing for the objective. Chrono: Mandatory, nothing was tagged, but everyone's rifle was noted and FPS was ticked off on a sheet. I do prefer tagging, but this is a reasonable way of doing it. (As long as people don't switch up to a different "M4". FPS limits are 350FPS for AEG, 370FPS for LMG (With MED) 450FPS for DMR and 500 FPS for BASR. Green gas pistols were not chronoed. Average: Playing Area: It's sandy, which makes it different, but with more woodland then you expect, and the woodland is where most of the play occurred. The sandy areas were "mostly" open and flat which did not encourage people to use them as anything more then a shortcut to get to the woodland. The woodland was dense, but passible to the West and North West, North was higher foliage and passable, The South East and South was more dense and mostly impassable. All woodland sections had open clay paths. throughout. Not as many brambles as you might expect for a Quarry site, but still enough to keep you looking to avoid. Value: £30 for a quarry site is perfectly fine, despite lack of features. Clientele: Appeared to be 18+, A mixture of serious and casual players. Seemed friendly enough and stayed within their friendship groups. Had a laugh with some on the way to the safe zone. Despite a zero policy on drugs there were a couple of players hotboxing in a car in carpark at lunchtime. Turn around time: Could have been shorter, but it was quite a hot day so appreciated the rest. (The walk down to the car was pretty steep as well) Food: Pork Hot Dogs cooked on-site, No veggie/non pork option, when we asked if they had an alternative they said we needed to have contacted them before hand, but I couldn't find that information on the website. There was a fair selection of Sweets, Crisps and Drink. Hit taking: Mostly good, but with a few of the usual teflon Multiglam and casual players. Frustrating at times as they wont take their hits until they hit you. The determination to kill someone before admitting to being hit before is strong to those people. Marshalling: Mostly hands off. I didn't see them get too involved in the non hit taking aspect, but they were always within shouting distance to query the game objectives, directions and current points total. All had radios. Bad: Car Park/Entrance: Rough going. The Entrance to the site is right on the entrance to the A6. You need to go slow to catch it before you run out of On Ramp. The car park is split into two, an uphill dirt track where you park on the side of the road (I recommend parking as close to the top of this) Or a largish car park at the bottom of the track though whilst level, it means you have to haul yourself down and up the hill in-between games. Safe Zone: It's basically the Car Park and Entrance. People setup out of their cars. No cover. As mentioned, the site has no permanent infrastructure. All brought in on the day. Toilets: A single Portaloo for everyone to use. It was a hot day so I didn't dare use it. Conclusion: We liked the site, it's different. We can rock up here more often then other Quarry sites. But as much as you want it to be, it doesn't give you that "Quarry experience" It seems more like a Woodland site with large open sandy/rocky bits. Going up and down the elevated areas does sap the energy and can be dangerous, but taking it nice and slow through the dense woodland bits tends to work better and require less effort. I am sure we will return as it is really quite close to London (With a car it's a doddle as it's all Motorway/A Road). Definitely a site for the more serious and experienced player. Bullpup Watch: LOADS, 2x FAMAS, L85, L86, UAR, TAVOR etc etc. Best Guess Map:

On the other hand. I have an FN57 that needs a Guarder Frame and Slide kit installed...

Yup. It's a pretty good upgrade and may do exactly what you need it to do without opening up the gearbox. The stock Ferrite ICS Motors are pretty pants.

I would just get a better motor at this point and stick with 7.4v lipo. SHS/Rocket Green 16TPA should do the trick.

I am mildly interested in a KA VSS with Midcaps. But dont bust a gut about getting a price atm.

It's got gas in it. You must love them.

On one the gearbox had major work done to it and made it worse performing (Drained a 7.4v 1450mah lipo without firing a full high cap mags worth of bbs), noiser then before and made irreversible changes to the shell. I had to replace the entire gearbox. The other sounded and performed fantastic, but was reassembled in a hurry to the point the trigger wouldn't reset in semi. Both were longer then usual jobs and I was charged at a premium for. Because it's a real pain to ship back and/or drop off I couldn't be arsed in pursuing it, sold one at a big loss that didn't recover even the cost of the repair work let alone the rifle and parts. I know that's my fault I didn't pursue the issue. These are things that could have been picked up on if tested for a reasonable amount of time before being sent back to the customer. Going by conversations with other people in private, I am not the only person to be left a bit disappointed. I think better decisions could have been made whilst the work was being done to reduce the cost and get things performing as they should have. Either way, I have put it behind me now.

Still unable to view my attachments. Can there be an investigation as to why that might be?

I think a boneyard section is a great idea as well.

@rocketdogbert Is the man. Otherwise Shoutyman on Youtube is pretty competent with GBBP's (Negative). Not a fan of what he did to my AEG's I sent him though.

Removing the tooth of the release side of a sector gear can cause nozzle and tappet timing issues, potential misfeeds etc.

Cheers for that. Fire Selector wise, I think it can effect all of them depending on how it was put back together and just takes a couple of adjustments to fix it. There is a knack to it. I think mine are fine though. I forgot I had a spare gearbox shell and Motor Cage as well (Motor Cages are sold out world wide being the weak point in high FPS builds) So that would be worth something. Still on the fence about selling. I did ask elsewhere but people seem to think £280 is the max I could get for it... But they also tried to offer that same amount to me in PM. (Despite saying no PMs!)

Are you sure that's not Hong Kong Dollars?

Hello all. Might be further slimming down my collection but now moving on to the more uncommon stuff. I am NOT looking for offers via PM. I am NOT looking to sell right now. I am purely looking for Appraisals. I have A Real Sword T97 and Real Sword T97B both in good condition with minor wear marks and scuffs. Both include the original boxes (Somewhat dog eared), paperwork, Mag and Accessories (Bar the tube style mid cap loader on the T97). Both have only been fielded a couple of times each. Both have been upgraded on all the non proprietary parts. Both have the optional original scope rail mount. I have additional brand new Real Sword parts for some of the more proprietary gear box stuff, a spare gearbox shell and motorcage, Pistons, Anti reversal Latches etc. Both are running around 1 Joule. The Quick change spring can make light work of changing the power output. Real Sword T97 Castellan Neodymium High Torque Motor Prometheus Purple Bucking Nitrile Piston Head O-Ring XCortech Mosfet Plus ZCI 450mm Inner barrel Real Sword T97B RA/SHS Neodymium 16TPA Green High torque motor Xcortech Mosfet Plus Replaced Piston Head O-Ring Macaron 50 degree rubber and nub ZCI Barrel (Cant recall the length) We all know how difficult these are to get hold of, no brand new ones to my knowledge out there. These are some of the highest quality externals that can be find on a bullpup rifle. What sort of price realistically should I be asking for?

I find that you are far more likely to get hit by customs charges with anything that is above 2kg. Which means it goes through Parcelforce who are far more on it then RM. Had 12 mags delivered today from WGC where I got stung. But some light Polymer parts from WGC came through RM with no issues. A whole rifle will very likely be stung.

Hello. I am unable to view and delete my "My Attachments" That is accessible from clicking your username in the top right. It just displays "Something Went Wrong". Since the Account File Limit has dropped in the past couple of years I have had to delete loads of useful tech images to keep my site review images in place. But now I cant even remove images at all unless I go back through my post history. Cheers.

Airsoft AEG Motor Systema Medium length NR | eBay @RostokMcSpoons Its not a neo motor, but one of the better Ferrite ones that will likely go cheap/

Putin wants to be the ultimate dictator and be as expansionist as the previous regime. But nothing about him is Communist. So again, I am not sure why you would say Russia is Communist. Were you wrong in that statement? You did bring up the politics in this Airsoft forum.

Russia hasn't been considered Communist, nor has it been run by Communists since the fall of the union. It has been passed off as a weak Parliamentary Democracy but is actually controlled by an Authoritarian Conservative Capitalist Dictatorship. I am unsure why on earth people still think Russia is run by a Communist or Communist party. The SU was certainly Communistic Totalitarianism at it's core. Like many political stances and parties with "Labels" such as Conservative, Democratic, Socialist, Communist, Capitalist. Their actions generally have very little to do with their label beyond lip service.

Sorry for not replying earlier gents. The only vests I have used in the past are of the 8Fields, Mil-tex, GF own brand and some Russian/French Surplus stuff. The best vest I have is a "laser cut" GF own brand thing. For me "Real quality" would be something along the lines of Invader Gear, compared to what I have used before. I am not sure I am willing to spend much more then 90 quid as I want to get at least 3-4 Vests of different colours. The Invader Gear I was looking at because its the best vest I can find in Vegetato. Should I be looking at something second hand instead for the OD, Black and Tan varieties? Cheers!

Just posted this up for sale at £65.

What's your waist measurement if you don't mind me asking?