Airsoft-Ed

At this point they'll both be so cheap that you could probably get both for less than a tenner anyway!

Aye, we went to The Grange on the way back and they said they'd had a handful of people come through saying it was a disappointing waste of time lol. I know now to never book tickets in advance ever again, £12 on the day vs £10 in advance? It's worth paying that £2 extra on the day for the chance to decide against going if it sounds like it's going to be shit. We only still went so the £10 tickets weren't a complete waste.

What didn't you like about the reflex sight? Don't want to sound like a cock... But was it actually sighted in? 'Cos I can imagine thinking something was a thorough pile of balls if it wasn't configured.

I spent about 45 minutes there, I honestly found the Scimitar IFV that was just randomly parked in the exhibition hall more interesting than anything any of the stalls had to offer... 9 stalls, none of particular note. Incentive Designs were showing off their ridiculously over priced, gimmicky tosh, JD's stall made a mockery of all the others. For the size of the stall AI mag had, there was 1 guy sat on a chair in the middle of it, doing sweet piss all the whole time I was there. It was just a waste of time tbh, 2 hour drive and we'd seen everything in less than 5 minutes.

Wow =/ I knew booking in advance was a shit idea. I was happy to pay £2 extra on the door for the chance to pull out without losing money at the last minute as well, but my mate booked all the tickets

Yeah, seems a bit shit, but I've got the ticket booked now -______- The range not being there is highly shite, I read somewhere that WE Europe have pulled out as well, the range and the gas guns were the most appealing aspects of it imo, so that sucks. I'm hoping there's going to be one of those new VFC FNX-45s there for me to have a grope of, if there isn't it's going to have been a long, expensive trip, for nothing. Wish I'd not booked the ticket now.

It's tact on to The British Shooting show in February, that's the other one. Though personally I find it's bloody effing awful when it's mixed in with air guns and real steel, too many weirdos dressing head to toe in tweed, with tiny children who look like their "mini-me"clones. It's horrifying. Also, animatronic dead pigeons... Just no. There was even a wine bar and shoe polish station last time... How up themselves are these people? I felt like I'd stepped through a portal to the mid 1800s or something. Plus there's this tension in the air of, "We have to make it look good to the real gun people" even though we really don't... Not being allowed to handle, or dry fire any of the guns on display just made it a bit of a waste of time I thought. Did anyone ever go to the Airsoft Arms Fair that The Grange used to run bi-annually? 'Cos that was great. I'm hoping this is going to grow into that, but on a larger scale, I'm hopeful the pistol shooting thing might be good too. Not going to hold my breath, like. But fingers crossed.

I'll be down there on the Sunday as well, might wear an AF-UK patch if anyone wants to keep an eye out.

My mate has a VFC H&K416 with a V2 Fusion Engine fitted, add the QD suppressor and if you're more than 12m away, you can't hear it. At all.

All this talk of pulse rifles...

I bet if I could get a moderator position on the other forums I could make them much better places to be. It might take me a while, and the hardest part would be building up a positive relationship with the actual members, but I bet I could at least make a dent. But it seems that being a nobend is part of the job description on other forums, so there's no chance I'd get on the mod team. =/ AF-UK is just the nicest place to be. Letting people get on with it and not imposing a load of pointless, moronic restrictions is the way to go, because people aren't stupid. Everyone knows why there are a load of stupid rules elsewhere, it's just to allow the mods to "moderate" posts of the people who do it wrong, and it serves no purpose but to boost their egos because they can exercise their power over people, and disenfranchise the community. They try and run it as a dictatorship instead of leading by example. A little bit of respect for people goes a long, long way, this forum community is testament to that. I just imagine the mod team of some other forum having a discussion in the private forums... "Hehe, guys, guys, what if we made it illegal to mention other retailers? We could make out that they don't exist, like the info can't be found elsewhere... I mean, they'll use PM, I know, and people will get asked the same questions millions of times, by millions of people, when they could just publicly post the answer once... But I want to be able to delete people's content when they half mutter another shop! :lol:" Y'know, I'm done being coy now... Can we just please nuke Zero In from orbit and just leave the classifieds?

Also, you used to be dead in one hit, from an AI bad guy... None of this running around unhit for 30 seconds to be totally okay again. How did you get around it then? YOU DIDN'T GET HIT! They're freakin' bullets ffs! You can't shrug off 9 trillion of them and be ok! Regenerative health is the worst thing that ever happened to the fps genre.

I grew up playing all the original Ghost Recon and RB6 games, they were awesome, and they had so many features that aren't in more recent titles. Like, being able to lean was a staple thing back then, and getting hit in the limbs would actually alter your accuracy and movement speed etc, you don't get stuff like that anymore, modern shooters are all too easy.

Yup, youngest I've seen a site allow is 12. Could always lie about their ages I guess, but expect a bad time if anything goes wrong that might call on the involvement of insurance companies...

Me and my dad used to do a lot of RC flying, he would generally build them and I'd fly them. To him it was like big Airfix and to me it was like a Playstation game. Coolest thing we had was an electric motorised A10, I think it was something like 1:32 scale, wingspan was a good 1.2m or so. But recently there were some regulation changes at the club we were a part of and they just made it a pain in the arse to be a part of anymore, silly license type restrictions for the field we used to fly at, you had to take a test to prove you could fly and knew what you were doing, it was just a load of bullshit. Not really done much regarding it in the last 5 or 6 years, so it's just as well I discovered airsoft to fill the void.

The extended bit on the top of the springer mags is built into the gun in an AEG, so the mags don't need to have it. Makes them incompatible.

I'd just throw it in the bin as it is, who's going to go through your bin bags before lobbing them in the back of the bin lorry? It's a non-issue.

Flying? That sounds awesome. If I ever won the lottery then I'd immediately get myself onto some flight training course or other, private pilot license would be awesome. Always wanted a go in a helicopter as well, I used to fly a lot of RC planes with my dad, tried the helis and they're a right bitch. I'd bet money on real helis being a shit ton easier to control.

I wouldn't say it was normal, but it's something I can imagine can, will, and does happen. A lot of people probably just don't mention it to anyone, or don't notice it, or don't care. A lot of people seem to just buy optics to look cool and never actually bother to zero them, which I consider moronic at best, but the number of times I've picked up someone's gun to have a go and their sights have been off by more than several feet is so common I've lost count.

You could just try bending it back slightly. Support the barrel and the stock and put some weight in the middle and leave it for a day or so. Or just send it back and get a replacement.

I've heard a lot of people have completed the main story line in a single day... I was expecting people to get at least 20+ hours out of it, pretty much everyone has aired some level of disappointment, so I'm glad I never jumped on the hype train. Though I've always hated Halo for having the most dull gameplay of any game ever, short of Mario or Sonic, so I guess I'm not surprised that Destiny looks like a prettier carbon copy of it. I'll stick to waiting for MGS5.

Writing this kinda turned into a more general rant than a reply... So yeah, just throwing it out there early so people aren't like, "What?" One thing I've noticed about range, BB weight, barrel bore and hop up, is that a lot of the time, people will just swear by something based on one good experience. They'll never test it again, they'll never properly bench it against anything else, and they won't have the observational skill, or the time investment in the game, to actually notice minor changes in things under certain circumstances because they don't understand the science properly... Or they simply don't care. A lot of the "OMGBESTGUNEVER" stories are essentially just 'victims' of a placebo effect, I've seen countless people showing off guns to people saying stuff like, "This has the best range ever" or "Here, want to use this for a game? It's flawless" when I've been standing over their shoulders, witnessing the untold levels of awful their gun is demonstrating. So basically, it's all about getting your own guns, shooting to a point that you're content with. Those guys whose guns I saw were terrible, they were happy with them. They were totally fine with going into a game with something that in my opinion was too bad to be skirmished. Someone is always going to come along and chat shit without having 1/100th of a gram of sense in their heads. Someone on here might have been one of those guys. I didn't say, "No actually that's terrible, terrible performance". I just let them get on with it. But, I don't know who would see that gun performing like that and think it was amazing, and who would see it and think it was terrible, like I did. As you're happy with it, who cares? You might think .25s perform better when a target is under 50 feet away, the science says there's little difference. You'll chalk it up to experience, people flinching when they're hit, that epic shot through a keyhole you were standing 15m back from, you could never have done that with .20s, and the guy would've just shrugged the hit off if it'd been anything under .25g. That's fine, I do it too. Sometimes things might be better, scientifically, practically, theoretically, however-else...ally, but I don't care because I have my own beliefs. I refuse to believe widebore barrels make sense for example, but plenty of people are raving about them being the greatest thing for accuracy since rifling. I'm just not getting it, and I have yet to see first hand evidence. I think a lot of people who don't understand it, and haven't seen it either, are just taking people's word for it without waiting to see for themselves first. If something works for you, and everything says it shouldn't... Maybe it is a placebo effect. But... Placebos work. Some other guy might have better range and accuracy because he did it all right, but your mentality, your belief that it works, might just align the stars and put you in a better position, you might be more tactically aware, you might be a better player. It's all in your head that the gun is better, but your experiences so far have made everything work. You're just playing for the fun, you aren't playing because you get kicks from the mind games, you just think guns are cool, or whatever. If something works, it works. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that shit. I've have people use my pistol after showing me theirs, mine has had 3 times the range and they've just said, "Hmm, yeah, it's alright that". Are these people blind? Was their ego too damaged to comment what they really thought? Who knows? I just let people get on with it. However! Nothing less than .25g... .20s are for (exceptionally) poor people, support gunners, and people who just play to play, without caring how good their gun is in comparison to anyone else's. Not sure what I was really getting at with any of that tbh, just started typing. Hey ho. Take from it what you will, hopefully I didn't subconsciously type out my allegiance to Hilter's ghost or anything.

Or if you're running a support gun where a pot of ammo = 1 mag and lasts you a single game. Then lighter ammo is a lot cheaper, and the volume of fire makes up for most of the disadvantages of having less accuracy and range... But it's mostly a cost issue lol