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Sounds like a 1980s haircut and/or band.  What's the mechanism in those?
 
 
Me, not so much made as slightly tarted.
 
From this gopping abomination...
 

 
 
... to this gopping abomination.
 
 

 
Needs more greeblies, weathering and maybe a chonky barrel - although I actually quite like the stubby look, and every gram saved on these is welcome.
 

Yes, I knowingly bought them, on purpose and everything!
 
 
 
Who presumably said "Never again!".  They're sods to work on, it's gearbox-out just to get the hop and barrel out, with a bench full of screws and push pins, all different hex sizes.  I'm going to run it cosmetically pimped but mechanically stock this weekend just for the chuckles, then see about sorting whatever doesn't survive or function. They really do have plastic bushings, and I've never seen such thin wiring. 

Erm...  it's MAHOOSIVE!
 
BB for scale


 

Hello airsoft friends!  Are these good RIFs to buy to win at airsoftwars battle maps?
 

 
The pistol has 1.3 jewels, just like a watch, and the advanced future riflegun has pure polymer bushings in its bearings so should run very smoothelely!
 
 

Sounds a bit of a Mong to be honest
 
Hence my post yesterday 
 
 

Maybe 'COMPLETED' confuses some people 🤷‍♀️

Love the fact he says he needs to get rid of his as "it takes up much needed space"...........but you want to swap it for something else that will also fill your "much needed space"
Is it half term again already ffs🤪

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

Saturday we had a full day private party booking, a video gaming community that has grown up around a youtube review channel, and get together to play airsoft once a year. 
They are online acquaintances, some of whom had never met in real life before. 
Some had their own kit some rented. 
I have to say, they were brilliant to marshal for. 
The mood all day was fantastic, there was not one single complaint about hit calling, in fact quite the opposite:
In the last minute of one game a player grabbed the objective and made an heroic sprint. 
Afterwards i overheard an opfor player say: 
"I'm pretty sure I saw my shots bouncing off you"
And I thought, uh oh, here we go. But he followed up with:
"But sometimes when you're running like that you just don't feel it".
Why aren't all airsofters like him these days?
 
Sunday I managed to play, instead of marshaling for a change.
One of my closest friends has been out of the game for months, and came back yesterday, so I was glad to be out there with him, and we had a great time. 
Ran my TM MWS for a few games, and my Secutor (well, the exterior is) DMR for a few. 
We got absolutely SPANKED by the red team, but had fun in the process.
A couple of the MWS mags were gassing out on the first round, so I'll need to sort that out, but overall a great day. 
 
Photo title: "Oooh, shoots you sir!"

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

There is an option to 'Hide' (delete) completed adverts.
Depends if you want to keep them to remind you of the sale details.

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

Nuprol.

Would it be possible to have a clearer message on a listing for when an item is sold?
 
Something like a “SOLD” stamp mark appear over the listings pics or similar?
 

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

A gun that only shoots certain people 😄

i finally managed to make it to RIFTs newest site this weekend, The Battery.

as i knew it was going to be a CQB site, i decided my primary weapons for the day were going to be my new KWA Beretta M93r, my KWA GBB Skorpion and my John Wick hicappa and TM Lycoris Recoil pistols as my backups (alternating between primary and secondary throughout the day) but i took a couple of long guns such as my Tippmann in case they were needed, but ended up sticking with the short guns all day.

i had purchased a bunch of mags for the m93 through RIFTs own shop, White Sphere Tactical, and arranged to pick them up on site... so once signed in it was off to collect the mags, bring kit into the indoor safezone.  standard fare for chrono, but due to the CQB, ammo weight was limited to .28g.  

first game was team balancer and found that blue team was overly powerful, so as a lone wolf i got swapped onto red team with a handful of other players to balance the teams a little more.

game modes through the day were all 30 min games with quick breaks in between for reloading, which wasnt an issue due to the relatively small size of the site.  game modes included capturing ammo cans to HQ, moving a gas cylinder "bomb" to three capture points and capturing flag points around the site.  TBH, not knowing the site, i was more focussed on just getting kills for the first half of the day,  but i did help out with the objectives later in the day once i got more familiar with the site and my new guns.

one thing i really need to look into is how to mount tracer units on the skorpion and M93, as these would DEFINATELY have helped in the indoor sections.

i did have a bit of an oopsie moment (which i managed to turn to a win)...  at one point a blue player was hiding behind some corrugated steel barricades at the bottom end of one of the yards, so i decided to charge the location, laying down fire with the m93 to keep the enemys head down as i crossed the open spaces.  as i moved, the m93 gassed out (i think i reloaded the mag, but forgot to gas it..  oops..)  so i quickly took the m93 in my left hand and drew my JW hicappa as i reached the barricade...   where i hit a patch of mud, slipped over, fell into the barricade and as i slid past the edge of the barricade, managed to snap 2 shots off at the blue player, taking him out...    after getting helped up, quickly checking my gear and fist bumping the blue player, i decided to call myself out to go and check my injuries and thoroughly inspect the guns and fortunately found the barrels were clear, so i was soon back out.

and i was running a gopro on my helmet for the first time, so i might have caught my little fall on tape...   in the process of downloading the footage as i type this message, so i should know in a few minutes....


EDIT
i did indeed capture the incident on tape...
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/u1nsfc6n375ex1rm5ynb2/oopsie.mp4?rlkey=2rwbhjnlc7tm7ecp69fuvh75f&st=1sdak9fk&dl=0

Agreed, and it can go heavy on the film and light on the sim. I really enjoyed a Narcos themed filmsim that I did a few years back.  You had a camo-and-ARs Federales side for Sergeant Serious, and a Hawaiian-shirts-and-AKs Cartel side for LARPing larks.  But it was a well run two-day event with defined objectives and a scoring system (for those who cared) that added a lot more depth than a regular skirmish. Well worth a try.

Went to Fireball Squadron yesterday unfortunately could only stay for the morning. 
 
I only have really positive things to say. 
 
Arrived early and was warmly welcomed by the members. The safe area is large with plenty of room to set up and they have a well stocked club house. Cash and card payments accepted which is always good and all paper work was done efficiently and easily. 
 
It’s a woodland site so with the rain it was quite boggy in places which was too be expected and the obvious comedy falls ensured. 
 
Game layout was good and really enjoyable, not the usual team on team, skirmish turns into a free for all. The Marshalls were great and let the game flow. 
 
The owners and members have clearly spent a lot of time and effort on the site, I loved the western village. Overall it’s a real credit and you can see the members are enthusiastic about Airsoft. 
 
For a morning of pewing I had a really good time, was made to feel welcome and was disappointed I had to leave early. 
 
Overall great site, honest players, good marshalling and would recommend anyone to visit. 

Having recovered from the band's 25th Birthday gig last weekend, I set off to Airsoft Plantation for a day of airsoft.

Around 140 players were present.

We started with a rarity for AP, a capture the flag game.  In the first iteration, the defenders (blue) were protecting a flag that they had positioned in the mortar pits, while we (red) had to get a hand onto it.  The defenders had two lives while we had infinite regens by moving 30m back.  This was a fast paced game with us working as a team to break down the defence, which we did very efficiently and effectively.  The SR47, despite being a little low on power, was reaching out and touching heads that appeared over the berms.

After we had achieved the objective, the game was turned around; again, our teamwork and communication paid off and we put up a coordinated defence, which the attackers struggled to break down, taking 50% longer to achieve the objective.

After a return to the safe zone to mag up, we set off for a two stage game in which we were the defenders.  The blue team, who started at the border, had to get into the village, find a case containing a smoke grenade and then transport it to the DEA base, where they had to get it inside the plane and set the smoke grenade off.  They had infinite regens on a buddy 30m behind them, while we had two lives in the village and two anywhere the other side of the firebreak.  The fight in the village was epic; I started near the pond and, again, was part of a coordinated and communicative team that held the enemy up for a long time until we were eventually overrun.  Pulling back to the other side of the village, I engaged in another fight against the attackers before being hit again, whereupon I headed for the DEA base and concealed myself in a favourite bush from where I got a lot of hits, including a fabulous one on a chap who was just about to throw a grenade and promptly dropped it at his own feet, taking out a couple of his colleagues :).  However, after shooting one lad, I heard him telling those near him where I was as he walked back to find someone to regen on; I was then quite quickly taken out after a short firefight with a couple of attackers, although one of them also had to go back and regen.  I fell back to join my few remaining colleagues who, having been pushed back from the plane, were trying to prevent the enemy reaching it.  Despite rapidly diminishing numbers, we held them off for a considerable time until they managed to achieve their objective in a time of 52 minutes.

After lunch, the two stage game was reversed.  Working well as a team, we stormed into the village, taking out the defenders fairly rapidly despite them putting up a hard fight.  After locating the smoke grenade in its case, we launched what developed into a three pronged attack on the DEA base, with the strongest group, of which I was part, taking the case and its smoke grenade by the longest route via Swaziland.  Pushing rapidly towards the DEA base, whose defenders had already been whittled down by those who had taken more direct routes, a small group made a sprint for the plane and set off the smoke grenade inside it.  Our time was considerably shorter than that of the blue team.

After another return to the safe zone to mag up, we set off for another flag based game.  We started at the border and had to both defend a flag located in the casino and get a hand on another in the DEA base. The blue team, who started at Swaziland, had to defend the flag in the DEA base and get a hand on the one in the casino.  Each side had five medics, who were the only people who could regen casualties.  We decided to split the team into two groups; approximately two thirds of the team, including three medics, would set off for the DEA base, while the rest of us defended the casino.  A group of us positioned ourselves in the village so that the enemy could not move through it.  However, they never came anywhere near it so, eventually becoming aware of some fighting to our left rear, we moved towards that, intercepting some of the blue team as they attacked the casino.  Just as we fought them off, our attacking group penetrated the DEA base and a player got a hand on the flag.

It was a really good day of well organised and well played airsoft.  Despite losing every game, the blue team players played really well; however, we played as a team, which made the difference.

Weapons used:
Hurricane/G&P SR47
DBoys AKMS
ASG Commander XP18 (CO2)