GeorgePlaysAirsoft

I love night games, seen them work just as well as most day games to be honest. Cheaters do think it's easier to be a bastard though. 
 
I remember doing a 4 hour round journey to do a 3.5-4 hour night game at urban assault every 4 weeks for about 18 months. The good old days!
 
Regarding that LED flashbang thing......it looks awful, been discontinued and it's the first time I have seen it which I think shows how popular it was and how well it took off. Reckon it wouldn't last many throws at all. I'd strongly recommend a standard bfg or disposable pyro if you're allowed (some sites allow them during the day, but not the evening). 
 
Torch wise, I'd recommend one of the surefire clones, you're looking at around £40-£50 all in, it mounts nicely to rifs, looks good, provide a decent amount of light, have the momentary on function etc. Think it'd serve better than a more short term version. Torches are great for CQB in the day too, dark corners etc. Bright is great, but sometimes not having the brightest torch is useful, super bright and your torch can be seen from miles away or even a few rooms away, bright enough but not the full power of the sun and it's a bit more discreet. 
 
 

Last weekend's 9h night tournament was a blast!
 
We were missing one member (so we were 5 instead of 6), nonetheless we went balls deep and did almost everything!
 
The tournament itself was very interesting since in order to locate/complete some objectives we had to find information inside other objectives (namely Objective 4, its coordinates were found inside Objective 3, E1's coordinates were found in either E4 or E2 and the rest was distributed throughout the AO).
Storyboard was that we had to help a sniper called "Silent Arrow" in eliminating a drug lord, by recovering information around the AO so we could tell him which person to kill.
 

(map for reference with all the objectives marked)
 
At the start (11:00 PM) our guns were taken away and transported to an unknown location (AEG on the map), we were then given a small cartographic exercise in order to find the coordinates, hiked from the HQ to AEG, collected our gear and proceeded to C2, then E4 and E2, since they were limited to a very short time frame (30 mins each, 01:00-01:30 E4, 01:30-02:00 E2), here we had to wait for a car to leave small boxes along the road (marked in green), those boxes contained very useful information regarding other objectives, mainly coordinates and items we needed.
If one team was not able to recover those two packages within the given time limit, they would have had to hike back to the HQ and ask for them, with a point penalty of 500 points per package (which means being last, since 1000 points equal two combat type objectives).
 
This is where we had our only engagement with a patrol which lasted a whopping 15 seconds, we got spotted because another team, who was sitting in the tree line next to us, ran away creating a lot of noise so the patrol got alerted. When we opened fire they melted, but still, 100 points lost -.- (another 200 if you lose the engagement)
 
With those two packages retrieved, we headed back to the HQ so we could input the coordinates in our GPS devices and plot a sensible route. The main goal was to reach C1 as fast as possible because it was the objective with the strictest time frame (03:00-03:30), unfortunately we fucked up navigation and barely missed it, so we decided to do Obj.2, here we had to injure (by shooting him in semi auto in non vital parts, essentially arms and legs) a dude, extract him and blow up a building. Barely completed it, we messed the extraction part because we didn't have enough time.
 
After that, we skipped WP4 and went to WP3, WP2, WP15, stumbled upon Obj.4 (had to insert a chip inside a laptop without being seen by the defenders), WP5, attacked Obj.3 where we had to blow up a laboratory, then moved counter clockwise through WP11, WP6, Objective 1 where we had to exfiltrate a case of radioactive material and take a picture of a scientist, after telling him apart from the rest (they all had images of chess pieces on them, it was relatively easy because he had a king), skipped WP7 because we didn't realize we were that close, went WP14, E7 and E1.
 
At E1 we found the sniper, who was an archer IRL and he had setup a shooting range with four dummies at a good 35 metres, we gave him the correct name and he fucking pierced the dummy with an arrow from that distance. Kudos, that was a fucking good shot! (We were later informed that he was competing in the national archery championship, so yeah).
 
On our way back to the HQ we went to C3 and then finished at 07:35 AM.
 
Back at HQ we did a small debrief with the organizers and noticed that they had given us 5000 points in total, we thought we were like last, or second to last, since we had skipped a few waypoints, skipped C1, almost fucked up Obj.2 and we were the last team to finish..
 
Fast forward 20 minutes, results were out.. Last team (of 6) did 3250 points, then 3 more teams with less than 3500, hype started to build up and then, drum rolls, the 2nd team got 3850 points!!!!
 
Well colour me impressed! Never thought we could have had such a large gap from the 2nd! 
 
Unfortunately I forgot to turn on track recording on my GPS, but my mate's said we hiked around 23 kilometres, in 8 and a half hours, not too bad!
 
Kit wise, a last minute change I made was to bring the Mayflower instead of the TMR, and it was a really good choice, the thing is 100x more comfortable and lighter despite the overall larger signature and capacity.
What let me down was the backpack, 3 hours in and it started digging into my shoulders despite having only two litres of water, one bag of BBs and one NVG monocular in its protective soft pouch, along with spare batteries and a tiny bit of food so I'm gonna have to look around for a replacement.
And a stronger insect repellent, my arms are filled with bites it looks like i have a plague of some sort!
 
 
Group picture before starting (mhm, tinted lens in pitch black conditions, fucking 1000000iq play )

I have one, I think they are pretty good if you are wearing a balaclava of course. The metal is quite flexible so you can smush it to fit your face....ymmv of course.  The downside is that for me at least it interfered with the chin strap on my helmet which was basically unacceptable. I ended up cutting it down into a kinda orange peel shape so it just protects my teeth.

I have one, I think they are pretty good if you are wearing a balaclava of course. The metal is quite flexible so you can smush it to fit your face....ymmv of course.  The downside is that for me at least it interfered with the chin strap on my helmet which was basically unacceptable. I ended up cutting it down into a kinda orange peel shape so it just protects my teeth.

This set off a bit of a walk down memory lane for me. I was playing at spec ops before it became spec ops - at the time mr spec ops ran the games at Ground Zero and spec ops was an invite only all day long proto-battlesim type thing. No hicaps seemed like such a big deal then and I spent loads of money on TM standard mags cause it was either them or the Star "realcaps". Mad to think midcaps weren't invented yet.  Fond memories of ruining my jetboil by using it to make pepperami instant noodles. I also helped build some of the first structures there. I also lost my USP on its first game which sucked but a guy cheered me up by doing a peter griffin impression. This must of been in 2006-7 or so. Funny to know they still do hotdogs and chilli con carne as that was the menu all those years ago. I went again I think 2014 or so hoping to meet aforementioned mr spec ops but he wasn't there rip. There were rumours that there were abandoned houses out in the woods, there was also a supposed sighting of the "beast of bloxworth" and also during a night game, a ufo. We never did come across any of these houses but I note that the site down the road does have one. So maybe there was a beast of bloxworth after all...

This set off a bit of a walk down memory lane for me. I was playing at spec ops before it became spec ops - at the time mr spec ops ran the games at Ground Zero and spec ops was an invite only all day long proto-battlesim type thing. No hicaps seemed like such a big deal then and I spent loads of money on TM standard mags cause it was either them or the Star "realcaps". Mad to think midcaps weren't invented yet.  Fond memories of ruining my jetboil by using it to make pepperami instant noodles. I also helped build some of the first structures there. I also lost my USP on its first game which sucked but a guy cheered me up by doing a peter griffin impression. This must of been in 2006-7 or so. Funny to know they still do hotdogs and chilli con carne as that was the menu all those years ago. I went again I think 2014 or so hoping to meet aforementioned mr spec ops but he wasn't there rip. There were rumours that there were abandoned houses out in the woods, there was also a supposed sighting of the "beast of bloxworth" and also during a night game, a ufo. We never did come across any of these houses but I note that the site down the road does have one. So maybe there was a beast of bloxworth after all...

This set off a bit of a walk down memory lane for me. I was playing at spec ops before it became spec ops - at the time mr spec ops ran the games at Ground Zero and spec ops was an invite only all day long proto-battlesim type thing. No hicaps seemed like such a big deal then and I spent loads of money on TM standard mags cause it was either them or the Star "realcaps". Mad to think midcaps weren't invented yet.  Fond memories of ruining my jetboil by using it to make pepperami instant noodles. I also helped build some of the first structures there. I also lost my USP on its first game which sucked but a guy cheered me up by doing a peter griffin impression. This must of been in 2006-7 or so. Funny to know they still do hotdogs and chilli con carne as that was the menu all those years ago. I went again I think 2014 or so hoping to meet aforementioned mr spec ops but he wasn't there rip. There were rumours that there were abandoned houses out in the woods, there was also a supposed sighting of the "beast of bloxworth" and also during a night game, a ufo. We never did come across any of these houses but I note that the site down the road does have one. So maybe there was a beast of bloxworth after all...

I had the same thing as Alvin and it was totally fine (short version I pretty much answered no or n/a to every question which didn't specify parts)
 
There is a question whereby if you put "yes" to RIF parts, they want you to "confirm the use of the RIF as above" - I did mark the question as "yes" but did not confirm the use of the RIF "as above" cause.. it's not a RIF.
 
I may be paranoid but I'd encourage anyone who has this form for parts to not include anything vaguely "ukara-ry" or "defency", just in case they start demanding ukara or whatever for just parts. I still have a copy so if you want to take a look let me know and I can ping it over.
 
 
 

I had the same thing as Alvin and it was totally fine (short version I pretty much answered no or n/a to every question which didn't specify parts)
 
There is a question whereby if you put "yes" to RIF parts, they want you to "confirm the use of the RIF as above" - I did mark the question as "yes" but did not confirm the use of the RIF "as above" cause.. it's not a RIF.
 
I may be paranoid but I'd encourage anyone who has this form for parts to not include anything vaguely "ukara-ry" or "defency", just in case they start demanding ukara or whatever for just parts. I still have a copy so if you want to take a look let me know and I can ping it over.
 
 
 

Brought a part (mock silencer) from Evike late last year, didn't have UKARA then and got hit by the exact same form by UPS. I think the word Airsoft in the shipping content triggers the flag for this process. 

For me (completely glossing over the shambles of their communications), I fill in what I could to support my claim (i.e No velocity, its a part, not a RIF, playing with an organization, no UKARA as not importing RIF etc.) They released it fairly quickly after I sent the form back to the right person. Not that I would guarantee its the same for you, given import orders are risky and next person could be completely different, but hope that helps.
 
 
 
 

Because being a member of an airsoft forum is not airsoft. 

I was there as well on that day, ShadopOpz at Richborough.  It was the most surreal thing ever.  Stripper parts at the end 🙂
 

They are a novelty gun for sure but quite fun, so fun that at one point in time i had 2.
Downsides:
- Only one of the 3 barrel has hop applied vertically.  After mine broke I sent it for repairs and whilst it was in, had the hop modded so all 3 barrels have vertical hop and a heavier spring in there to take it to whatever 250fps with .2g is to 1j. After that, I used .28s
- As above, I can't honestly claim them to be reliable guns. Mine has broken twice, each instance a gearbox jam. The first occasion was caused by bb's getting jammed, the second occasion I don't know...as I haven't gotten it fixed yet!
- I didn't have a great experience with the drum mag, it would fail to feed too often and sapped the fun o meter. I used it maybe twice and then switched to carrying (lots) of standard mags, which hold 90 or so bbs which, quick maths, gives you 30 shots which is far from ideal. gbbr people can say what they want but i haven't heard anyone using "realcaps" in a "normal" aeg in well over a decade
- I should note that at the time i was using blaster bb's or whatever, I don;t use them anymore for other reasons but this contributed to me becoming a bit of a geoffs fundamentalist
- the rear sling mount is a real weak point. look for a "full stock sling adapter" if you want to sling
 
 

They are a novelty gun for sure but quite fun, so fun that at one point in time i had 2.
Downsides:
- Only one of the 3 barrel has hop applied vertically.  After mine broke I sent it for repairs and whilst it was in, had the hop modded so all 3 barrels have vertical hop and a heavier spring in there to take it to whatever 250fps with .2g is to 1j. After that, I used .28s
- As above, I can't honestly claim them to be reliable guns. Mine has broken twice, each instance a gearbox jam. The first occasion was caused by bb's getting jammed, the second occasion I don't know...as I haven't gotten it fixed yet!
- I didn't have a great experience with the drum mag, it would fail to feed too often and sapped the fun o meter. I used it maybe twice and then switched to carrying (lots) of standard mags, which hold 90 or so bbs which, quick maths, gives you 30 shots which is far from ideal. gbbr people can say what they want but i haven't heard anyone using "realcaps" in a "normal" aeg in well over a decade
- I should note that at the time i was using blaster bb's or whatever, I don;t use them anymore for other reasons but this contributed to me becoming a bit of a geoffs fundamentalist
- the rear sling mount is a real weak point. look for a "full stock sling adapter" if you want to sling
 
 

Blasters have been banned from a few sites because inregular shapes and a habit of shattering if you used them exclusively I think they're what caused your issues rather than the gun it's self. 

They are a novelty gun for sure but quite fun, so fun that at one point in time i had 2.
Downsides:
- Only one of the 3 barrel has hop applied vertically.  After mine broke I sent it for repairs and whilst it was in, had the hop modded so all 3 barrels have vertical hop and a heavier spring in there to take it to whatever 250fps with .2g is to 1j. After that, I used .28s
- As above, I can't honestly claim them to be reliable guns. Mine has broken twice, each instance a gearbox jam. The first occasion was caused by bb's getting jammed, the second occasion I don't know...as I haven't gotten it fixed yet!
- I didn't have a great experience with the drum mag, it would fail to feed too often and sapped the fun o meter. I used it maybe twice and then switched to carrying (lots) of standard mags, which hold 90 or so bbs which, quick maths, gives you 30 shots which is far from ideal. gbbr people can say what they want but i haven't heard anyone using "realcaps" in a "normal" aeg in well over a decade
- I should note that at the time i was using blaster bb's or whatever, I don;t use them anymore for other reasons but this contributed to me becoming a bit of a geoffs fundamentalist
- the rear sling mount is a real weak point. look for a "full stock sling adapter" if you want to sling
 
 

Couple of better pictures,
Now if someone would just release an steel valve knocker with the 'spring' bit as part of the single piece we would all feel safer using the damn things ! 
 

Adding finsihing touches to my tigerstripe loadout.  It's not intended to be period correct in anyway, Shap or form, but just (imo) what looks cool, and what works for me in game. 
 

 
 

Couldn't find anything about them before I ordered. Anyway, for the sake of search engines and all that:
 
I did order from them, my order was shipped quickly and it took 7 working days to get from Poland to the UK. Not bad, really. I'd use them again. I can't comment on how they'd handle something going wrong but in any case everything went right.

Couldn't find anything about them before I ordered. Anyway, for the sake of search engines and all that:
 
I did order from them, my order was shipped quickly and it took 7 working days to get from Poland to the UK. Not bad, really. I'd use them again. I can't comment on how they'd handle something going wrong but in any case everything went right.

Massive caveat that this is pure "grapevine" but I have heard similar things for a while now to the point that when I came to acquire some weighted plates I assumed they were essentially out of business and went to tridentgearco instead. if you want something heavier than trident's 4.2kg a pair set then you could maybe look at : https://www.hr4k.co.uk/products/hr4k-plates 
 
 

Filmsim at Tuddenham today.  Pretty simple domination and timer based games today.  TBH, it felt more like a standard skirmish than the usual filmsim, but fun nonetheless.  Attended with the lad, his mate and an old friend that has not played for over a year due to covid restrictions etc.
 
In the morning we had a standard but very clear safety brief.  As a rule, these are of a rare kind.  What they say they do usually actually happens.  Chrono well before kick-off, so any issues with fps can be dealt with, and spare rifs can be fetched.  
 
Nice clear game brief delivered with a bit of humour, simple rules and a flashy magnetic backed map of the area/overhead photo thing.  Whatever it is, it made knowing what do where easy.
 
Game stared almost on time, which is nice.  The armband team attacked a pair of positions with the aim of setting off a timer.  I managed to run to one timer fairly early and pressed the wrong button, because despite the clear game brief, I have a crap memory.  
 
Once the timer had been correctly started, we moved to the next objective.  With the first completed, I managed to work my way to the second timer.  About twelve far pluckier previous attempts had failed, but these had led to the opposition giving away their positions.  This was only possible due to some good teamwork and pretty clear communication, which is impressive for a random group of strangers I think.  Whatever, the case, I was hit about five feet from the timer with the marshal counting down from ten.  At the count of eight someone threw themselves through the hail of BBs and started to medic me, until the penny dropped...  he realised that I was shouting to ignoe me and get the timer, which he dived at just in time for the countdown to end, and we lost.  Seriously, it was hysterical.  His seriously nice gesture used up too much precious time, the game had been great fun and no one seemed to mind taking the L.
 
The next game turned around and was even more fun than the last.  Having sussed the best spots that had blatted us previously, we swiftly set up position in them.  An inability to stop talking by a couple of the players meant that we were swiftly discovered.  I retook the position despite heavy fire from the lad whose mouth had lost it, as we had split up after respawning, and he had forgotten what I was wearing I think. The opposition soon played a really simple but clever series of flanking moves which almost surrounded us as we defended the timer.  The amount of plastic flung was prodigious, we stuck out until the end.  I think the morning was a draw overall?  We may have lost, I don't really remember, if I knew at all.  
 
Lunch was too long, as it always is.  Half an hour would be ample, but that may not allow enough time to drive to the nearest Mackie D's for ultra shit food.  Being a cut above such behaviour, we had broccoli frittata, pork pies (with jelly), cold sausage and green tea, as per Healthy Airsofter's thread.  Loads of protein and no carbs (OK apart from the crisps).  If this carries on I may end up shopping in Waitrose or something. 
 
The afternoon was played in the village.  This was a really great scrap over a chess timer type deal.  At the close of play the timer in the shipping containers had about two minutes difference, which showed what a good scrap had developed around it.  The second timer in the buildings was 100% held by the other side.  Fuck knows what happened there.  
 
The turn around was well played and the fight over the containers even better.  I was getting a bit knackered by now.  Lack of sleep made me sluggish, but a new rif performed well, despite the inevitable hop setting palaver as it settled in.   A new toy always makes a game good I reckon, especially when it turns out to be a snappily sharp little number.  
 
The loaned out and ever reliable G&G CM had a minor fit, it failed to fire as if the battery was totally flat, until I reminded the lad to select auto, as the 'fet is set to one shot burst.  In semi it just sulks.  
 
Some really good gameplay saw the buildings well contested, with the front of the village lost and retaken by each side numerous times.   A plethora of bangs were thrown.  Smokes were slung.  The teams ended up well mixed up as players went forward and showed some really spirited gameplay.  Some moaning about none hit taking as ever, but TBH I think that such stuff usually gets raised when players get hacked off at losing each or nearly each game, which I think the banded team did.  It seems odd to me to value winning over decent gameplay but there we go.  
 
Thoughts at days end.  With wet foliage all damp deep green, russet and hues of autumn gold, DPM is still ten times better for Northern Europe than MTP.  There are too few women involved in the sport, in winter when the girlfriends stay at home and only us fools still play in all weathers, it really stands out.  There were far less kids too.  The games themselves could have been less skirmishy and more complicated (says he who forgot which button to press).  The marshals did an excellent job.  Airsoft is an excellent way to catch up with old friends.  The boy's friend borrowed a sniper and used one for the first time; he loved it.  It's an idea to change what we do to sometimes perhaps, to learn how to enjoy the sport in new ways.  Due to laziness, I used my old webbing comprising a large ammo pouch for spare BBs, speedloader and a mag, one fastmag, one holster and a water bottle, all in various camos.  Radio on the webbing and what else do you need?  
 
Sorry for the ramble, just sharing a few thoughts arrived at after a post game Bloody Mary or two, sore back banished, cares forgotten for a while, laughs laughed and muscles aching slightly.  Hope you enjoyed your airsoft as much today.  It certainly beats a run around the local park for exercise.
 
  
 
 

Getting the retro band back together.
All these are accurate takes on uksf AR platforms the best I can for AEGs. 
Sorry for poor phone pic. 
From top to bottom.....
 
Colt model 715 (later known as C7)
Diemaco L119A1
Colt model 725 (later known as C8)
 

 
 

My Cyma XM177
 

My lovely airsoft relic is now mostly done. I'll do some fine tuning when I've got access to the range at my local site, but I'm really happy with this. Don't see many of these around these days, much less with a real-steel Remington m700 wooden stock. Now I have the perfect bad-guy sniper rifle for filmsim events as I can dress up as a civilian dissident with a sporting rifle now.
 
Only thing I need to get now is a leather rifle sling to finish that sporting rifle vibe.