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Lovely bit of work that!

So No2 son decided as he’s working and earning now he want a new gun that he paid for himself , I said have look on the forum anything like the look of and I can get it for you .
and he decided on a Cyma M14 (being sold by @Majestykthanks bud 👍) which I will admit really threw me , did think he’d go for something more modern BUT he is my son so he certainly doesn’t follow the rest of the sheep ! 😁
any hoo started out as a two-tone and after a few hrs of work on the stock now looks a bit better I think .

It's all terribly exciting right now. 


 
I now have all the constituent parts for a sleeper FN57. Basically all the FN57 specific upgrades, already got the non threaded non screwing up outer barrel.  Now acquired Guarder Gen 2 slide and frame. The upgraded Hammer and recoil springs, specific inner barrel upgrade etc. 
 
Nice to get the Strike Warrior back up and running with a grip safety that's not split in half. 
 
I am seriously contemplating buying a second FN57, boneyard or otherwise and do a stupid build that won't fit in any holster.

It's all terribly exciting right now. 


 
I now have all the constituent parts for a sleeper FN57. Basically all the FN57 specific upgrades, already got the non threaded non screwing up outer barrel.  Now acquired Guarder Gen 2 slide and frame. The upgraded Hammer and recoil springs, specific inner barrel upgrade etc. 
 
Nice to get the Strike Warrior back up and running with a grip safety that's not split in half. 
 
I am seriously contemplating buying a second FN57, boneyard or otherwise and do a stupid build that won't fit in any holster.

It's all terribly exciting right now. 


 
I now have all the constituent parts for a sleeper FN57. Basically all the FN57 specific upgrades, already got the non threaded non screwing up outer barrel.  Now acquired Guarder Gen 2 slide and frame. The upgraded Hammer and recoil springs, specific inner barrel upgrade etc. 
 
Nice to get the Strike Warrior back up and running with a grip safety that's not split in half. 
 
I am seriously contemplating buying a second FN57, boneyard or otherwise and do a stupid build that won't fit in any holster.

It's all terribly exciting right now. 


 
I now have all the constituent parts for a sleeper FN57. Basically all the FN57 specific upgrades, already got the non threaded non screwing up outer barrel.  Now acquired Guarder Gen 2 slide and frame. The upgraded Hammer and recoil springs, specific inner barrel upgrade etc. 
 
Nice to get the Strike Warrior back up and running with a grip safety that's not split in half. 
 
I am seriously contemplating buying a second FN57, boneyard or otherwise and do a stupid build that won't fit in any holster.

Maybe I should brazen it out and say "Customised so the couplers don't get caught up in your webbing like they always do!"  I reckon most G36 users do cut them off anyway...

It was a standard walk on day.
 
Most sites have a rule saying you cant shoot through something smaller then an A4 sheet of paper. Also many sites don't allow people to shoot with guns over their head.
 
The thing is you're bringing up points that really have no bearing on this specific situation and only replying with a bit of "Whataboutery?". 
 
Some people say Airsoft is either supposed to be playing it as it's own sport and not following any traditional ideas of how a rifle would be used in real life, OR going full milsim and only playing with low caps. The right thing for me is somewhere around the middle, making play immersive but fun for the majority at the same time. 
 
I would hazard a guess that what the guy was doing in my scenario may not be against the rules of some sites, but is not the norm and is certainly going against the spirit of the game. 
 
I would like to think most people would agree with me. But I couldn't speak for them. 
 
 
 

the version i always interpreted it as was you had to see what you were shooting at.
 
the whole premise being that holding a gun round a corner and firing without looking to see if perhaps someone happened to be right on the other side of the cover.
 
so i wouldn't consider hip firing, or any of the tacticool holding the gun sideways shenanigans as blind firing if the person doing the shooting has clear sight between his gun and the target.
 
it does raise the question on wether or not the use of mirrors/fancy optics (ie corner-shot style equipment) counts, which boils down to wether the primary purpose of the rule is safety (as above) or enforced fairness in terms of letting the target have part of you to shoot at.

It was a standard walk on day.
 
Most sites have a rule saying you cant shoot through something smaller then an A4 sheet of paper. Also many sites don't allow people to shoot with guns over their head.
 
The thing is you're bringing up points that really have no bearing on this specific situation and only replying with a bit of "Whataboutery?". 
 
Some people say Airsoft is either supposed to be playing it as it's own sport and not following any traditional ideas of how a rifle would be used in real life, OR going full milsim and only playing with low caps. The right thing for me is somewhere around the middle, making play immersive but fun for the majority at the same time. 
 
I would hazard a guess that what the guy was doing in my scenario may not be against the rules of some sites, but is not the norm and is certainly going against the spirit of the game. 
 
I would like to think most people would agree with me. But I couldn't speak for them. 
 
 
 

I never said it was necessarily a safety issue, but imagine if everyone did the same thing?
 
I dont think he could see where his barrel was pointing because it was waving above his head, sure right direction, but at what elevation?
 
The point is you should have something showing to be shot at, it keeps games flowing. 
 
Gun hits are not a thing on many sites. 
 
No problem with snipers on the ground mostly hidden. At least they are using the rifle in a realistic way, knowing exactly where the barrel is pointing and not being completely hidden. 
 

The more you buy and sell, the more you notice. It's prevalent in any second hand selling of any kind unless there are contracts in place (Ebay.... And even then!). 

It is especially prevalent in non essential hobby classifieds (If I may be stereotypical here). Airsoft, Guitars, RC Cars, Gaming. Full of flakes and dreamers who either don't have the money, patience and/or people skills. 
 
It's one of the reasons that I have to take a big deep breath before I put anything up for sale and have to be in the mood to deal with the above. Also one of the reasons why I almost never buy second hand stuff myself, I find it difficult to trust peoples descriptions. 

I had an argument with someone about this a year ago at Mayhem. I was being shot at by someone who had a rifle above their head over a bush, but their head was behind the bush. They claimed they could see through the bush. I complained to the marshal who agreed it should be aimed down the sights of the rifle. But another marshal said the opposite and neither wanted to mediate and get involved. The guy who shot me decided that because safety brief didn't specifically explain this circumstance to anyone. He could see me, so it must be fine. 
 
So in the end it it meant I have a very small chance of hitting them through the bush and they gained an unfair advantage. The site you played at may have stopped hip firing, trying to solve the same issue I had. The average Airsofter can be pretty stupid and it's best to have a simple single rule, then attempt to explain what I experienced above. 
 
Some rules that sound overbearing to us, are in response to Airsofters that have pushed the boundaries (And the spirit) of the more lax rules that existed before. Not because marshal's are trying to be arses. 
 
Hip firing I have no problem with. 
 
 

In truth I am pretty good with a dremel. Probably make it look professionally done.
 
Edit: To be honest, anyone who hasn't used a G36 for an extended period of time, will probably call it broken. Anyone who HAS used a G36 platform, will know exactly what I am talking about and be more forgiving. 

Maybe I should brazen it out and say "Customised so the couplers don't get caught up in your webbing like they always do!"  I reckon most G36 users do cut them off anyway...

This. Though admittedly it's hard to price some things up. Case in point my practically "unused" set of 6 G&P Mid cap G36 mags, never used in a skirmish, no scratches, dents or otherwise. Considered the best traditional G36 style mag out there. Cost £17 per mag from any shop that has them in stock right now... Issue?
 
I coupled them all together for storage, and of course like all G36 mags, the couplers break when separated. It immediately falls in value despite never been used in a skirmish. So have now priced them at essentially less then a tenner each. It's hard for me to go any lower then that, but I can see why someone would ask for higher because of how all the G36 couplers will fail in short order anyway... The fact it happened before being sold is just a harsh reality! 
 
I would like to think I price my stuff quite nicely though. And my stuff generally does sell.
 
But it gets harder when it comes to the even more niche stuff, you have to wait for the right buyer (specialist in odd things) to come along who knows it's a good deal. But to the average M4 multiglammer it means nothing. 

The more you buy and sell, the more you notice. It's prevalent in any second hand selling of any kind unless there are contracts in place (Ebay.... And even then!). 

It is especially prevalent in non essential hobby classifieds (If I may be stereotypical here). Airsoft, Guitars, RC Cars, Gaming. Full of flakes and dreamers who either don't have the money, patience and/or people skills. 
 
It's one of the reasons that I have to take a big deep breath before I put anything up for sale and have to be in the mood to deal with the above. Also one of the reasons why I almost never buy second hand stuff myself, I find it difficult to trust peoples descriptions. 

I had an argument with someone about this a year ago at Mayhem. I was being shot at by someone who had a rifle above their head over a bush, but their head was behind the bush. They claimed they could see through the bush. I complained to the marshal who agreed it should be aimed down the sights of the rifle. But another marshal said the opposite and neither wanted to mediate and get involved. The guy who shot me decided that because safety brief didn't specifically explain this circumstance to anyone. He could see me, so it must be fine. 
 
So in the end it it meant I have a very small chance of hitting them through the bush and they gained an unfair advantage. The site you played at may have stopped hip firing, trying to solve the same issue I had. The average Airsofter can be pretty stupid and it's best to have a simple single rule, then attempt to explain what I experienced above. 
 
Some rules that sound overbearing to us, are in response to Airsofters that have pushed the boundaries (And the spirit) of the more lax rules that existed before. Not because marshal's are trying to be arses. 
 
Hip firing I have no problem with. 
 
 

This. Though admittedly it's hard to price some things up. Case in point my practically "unused" set of 6 G&P Mid cap G36 mags, never used in a skirmish, no scratches, dents or otherwise. Considered the best traditional G36 style mag out there. Cost £17 per mag from any shop that has them in stock right now... Issue?
 
I coupled them all together for storage, and of course like all G36 mags, the couplers break when separated. It immediately falls in value despite never been used in a skirmish. So have now priced them at essentially less then a tenner each. It's hard for me to go any lower then that, but I can see why someone would ask for higher because of how all the G36 couplers will fail in short order anyway... The fact it happened before being sold is just a harsh reality! 
 
I would like to think I price my stuff quite nicely though. And my stuff generally does sell.
 
But it gets harder when it comes to the even more niche stuff, you have to wait for the right buyer (specialist in odd things) to come along who knows it's a good deal. But to the average M4 multiglammer it means nothing. 

The more you buy and sell, the more you notice. It's prevalent in any second hand selling of any kind unless there are contracts in place (Ebay.... And even then!). 

It is especially prevalent in non essential hobby classifieds (If I may be stereotypical here). Airsoft, Guitars, RC Cars, Gaming. Full of flakes and dreamers who either don't have the money, patience and/or people skills. 
 
It's one of the reasons that I have to take a big deep breath before I put anything up for sale and have to be in the mood to deal with the above. Also one of the reasons why I almost never buy second hand stuff myself, I find it difficult to trust peoples descriptions. 

I had an argument with someone about this a year ago at Mayhem. I was being shot at by someone who had a rifle above their head over a bush, but their head was behind the bush. They claimed they could see through the bush. I complained to the marshal who agreed it should be aimed down the sights of the rifle. But another marshal said the opposite and neither wanted to mediate and get involved. The guy who shot me decided that because safety brief didn't specifically explain this circumstance to anyone. He could see me, so it must be fine. 
 
So in the end it it meant I have a very small chance of hitting them through the bush and they gained an unfair advantage. The site you played at may have stopped hip firing, trying to solve the same issue I had. The average Airsofter can be pretty stupid and it's best to have a simple single rule, then attempt to explain what I experienced above. 
 
Some rules that sound overbearing to us, are in response to Airsofters that have pushed the boundaries (And the spirit) of the more lax rules that existed before. Not because marshal's are trying to be arses. 
 
Hip firing I have no problem with. 
 
 

Default suggestion is FMA Airframe.

Site Name: Skirmish Wycombe
Contact details: 01494 578077
Website Address: https://skirmishwycombeairsoft.com
Facebook Page: Skirmish Wycombe Airsoft | Facebook
Site Address: Fryers Farm Lane, High Wycombe HP14 3NP
 
The last true long standing site close to London that I had never been to. @Albiscuit and I were going to go to Red 1 Oblivion, which fell through so decided to dust off the old reviews and give Skirmish Wycombe a visit. We attended on 30/01/2022.
 
Skirmish Wycombe are usually fully booked and run every week switching between Saturdays and Sundays. It's a paintball site which is also used for Airsoft. It's a fairly long running site. 
 
Small Woodland site which has nice variation with regards to elevation with a valley running through a third of the site and elevated precipice above it. Short/Medium/Long range engagement distances. Foliage is both low and high but hardly any at head height so there is enough visibility for bolt action users and not so great for the taller person. There are plenty of earthworks and man made structures (None of which are particularly complex and only one small elevated building.)
 
Good:
 
Playing Area: It is quite a small site but it's nice and varied, despite being a paintball site first, the zones are opened up nicely and run into each-other for Airsoft ranges. As explained before there are lots of manmade buildings and earthworks, though maybe something a bit more elaborate could make this a truly excellent. 
 
Turn around time: Pretty short, you certainly get your moneys worth, they get lots of games in. 
 
Safe Zone: Small area, though it looks like it could be expanding soon, everything is covered and was big enough for the small crowd that attended. Park bench style seating and tables. Digital signage for the food stall, Battery charging available. It was good overall, but it did feel a little "tired", could do with some sprucing up. 
 
Safety Brief: Short and sweet. Covered most things. 
 
Food: Pulled pork with BBQ sauce and for us non pork/veggies, freshly cut Mediterranean vegetables with Mac and Cheese. It was stonkingly good food for an airsoft site, and is included with the £30 entry fee. Seems to be cooked on site. The tuck shop had digital boards with the prices on, they do freshly made milkshakes (Shakeway style made with different sweets etc) Had what appeared to be syrup style fizzy drink dispensers. So for Food and Drink, this site is first class. All the more impressive that it's in-house. No food trucks here. 
 
Shop: Really good shop! A large and wide selection of RIFs and pistols. They had an LCT Val, WE Makarov, G&G GK5C, F2000's. Really interesting selection. Prices are high like at most on-site shops. But not many places have this breadth of selection.
 
Game Modes: Mostly simple, but effective, usual domination/zombie/4 way round robin games. Have a nice looking bomb setup. 
 
Average: 
 
Value: £30 is quite a lot to ask for when the site is pretty small, but the food and turn around time does make up for it. 
 
Clientele: Very young, lots of rentals and new people to the sport with very few older gents. They were friendly enough, but behaviour in the field was very suspect.
 
Toilets: In an elevated shack in the car park, not an ideal position. It has real porcelain which is usually a good rating by default, but they were a little dirty and stank quite badly! I think the waste is stored underneath and removed periodically. 
 
Car Park/Entrance: Small mud car park, sign posted at the entrance but you need to follow signs for Fryers Farm thereafter and not mistakenly come off the other junctions within. Car Park is nearly right at the end of the main track after you see a gate that says "Staff only". It hadn't rained much recently, but I can imagine it getting slippery up to the nearby elevated safe zone.
 
Chrono: Mandatory and everything was tagged. Usual 350 FPS for AEGs, shotguns and pistols. 450 for DMR and 500 for BASR. Would get a "Good" but Al overheard a marshal ask another marshal
 
"This guys rifle is shooting over 350 on one chrono and 320 on another, what should I do?"
 
"Go by the reading that lets them play". 
 
They also required me to chrono by .2's so they do not account for joule creep on heavier ammo. 
 
Bad: 
 
Hit taking: This was the massive bugbear of the day. In the morning there were some poor hit takers, mostly from frustrated players who couldn't break through enemy lines. We really enjoyed the mornings games despite this and were glad to carry on without grumbling. I made a prophetic comment at lunch (As long as the hit taking doesn't get any worse, I would consider this site fantastic, we'll see what happens!)
 
The Afternoon was a complete shitshow for all three games. Two almost whole site games fighting over a single objective, there were about 4-5 grey hooded rentals, none of which would take their hits, you could see bb's pinging off them, they held important buildings which overlooked the main objective and wouldn't budge. I went up to one at the end of a game and said how well they held up and if they died at all? "Nah mate". It was almost comical how it was the grey hooded players that didn't take hits. It was a classic stereotype.
 
On my own side there were other hooded rentals who would get shot, take the hit and instead of walking back to spawn 3 minutes away, would go behind a hedge and spawn straight back in. 
 
I had to exclaim to many rentals on my side that dead men don't talk as they kept trying to relay information to me about enemy whereabouts after they had been shot or asking me where I was shot from when I was walking back to spawn.
 
Marshalling: I was tempted to put this in "Average", there are a number of marshal's, but only one appeared to have any experience or clout, and was looked to for advice by the others on a consistent basis. Considering how many people were complaining about how bad the hit taking was, I didn't see anyone get spoken to, no test shooting and no shadowing of suspect people. 
 
CEASEFIRE: In the afternoon games ceasefire was called no less then 6 times in two half hour games. Unsure as to why, some people say it was because people were walking on a footpath nearby. This needs to be sorted with maybe a proper fence etc as it killed the flow of the game (And many people would sneakily move up and into better positions from where they were when the ceasefire was called).
 
Conclusion: 
 
A really difficult one, we really like the site and we will come back to see what happens playing against different people. The morning was excellent and was great gameplay but the inaction over hit taking really killed the Afternoon for us to the point that we left slightly early deflated. It goes to say, there were roughly just as many rentals as there were experienced players.
 
We liked the informal atmosphere and the on-site facilities were great. They limit numbers as the site is rather small and the numbers were about right. I'd like to come back and see what it looks like with summer foliage. 
 
The Marshalling team need to be far more pro-active/confident in dealing and directing players, maybe some more experience would be a good idea. 
 
Bullpup Watch: T97, an Aug of some description.
 
Best Guess Map: 
 

 

Problem is the AK21 retail price is overblown as these are regularly discounted in any sale to around £170 new. This doesn't look to be in the greatest condition either.
 
I'd say 100 if you want to shift it. 

So I bought a bunch of parts to finally finish my last three builds of my "Addiction" Era of Airsoft and add a couple of upgrades to already upgraded stuff. 
 
ZCI GBB 113mm Barrel for TM M9 US
O&T AEG 363mm 6.04mm steel barrel for M249
ZCI 247mm Barrel for Bizon
O&T AEG 280mm 6.04mm steel barrel for XM8C
3x Rocket Steel Quenched Japanese M110 Springs
3x Rocket Steel Quenched Japanese M100 Springs
2x O&T RVG Style Vertical Foregrip Black for XM8C and JLS RX4
ZCI AUG Air nozzle for JLS RX4
ZCI CNC Steel 14:1 Gears for XM8C
Rocket Silent Cylinder head AK for Bizon
2X 22TPA XT Short type High Torque Fan Motors for Bizon and XM8C
ZCI Piston Head for JLS RX4
 
Anything I buy from now will be very selective and somewhat higher quality then what I have bought before. I have had enough cheap/Midrange but upgraded rifles! 
 
Moar pistols.