Impulse

One of my friends had them make him a Lee Enfield stock for a VSR receiver a few years ago and it was a year turnaround on that. I'd be hesitant to go with them on their response times as well, as I'd be unsure whether they're actually going to do it and I wouldn't be able to chase them up for updates if I got worried about the radio silence.

Yeah, it's hard because I first went to Worthing Airsoft in about 2005ish and have known some of the guys for almost 20 years, but the past few months have been pretty rough and have got me thinking about alternatives. I've tried all the sites near me and the only one I don't think I'd go back to is Dogtag, so I have options once I have my own car.

I would've understood it more if I was like... singlehandedly ruining the enemy team, but the reality was I had spent the entire morning doing bugger-all because other people on my team decided to spawn camp, which then wasn't dealt with. Also combine the fact that me and my friends have been singled out and split up for months now I'm just starting to feel like they actively don't want me there. And of course, as you said, it's a woodland site that allows people to use ghillies with bolt actions or DMRs, which is what I was using so I'm not breaking any rules nor going against the spirit of the game.

Of all the places I could've got them, Hong Kong was not a place I was expecting to find trousers in my size. Picked up the last pair they had on WGCShop anywhere near my size (only had Large-Long, didn't have any larger sizes in Long length unfortunately), but they're a bit tight around my fat waist at the moment. Good thing is they fit around my unreasonably sized legs and they're long enough, so all I have to do is lose weight and they'll be great. Finding desert marpat stuff is a nightmare already without me being 6'5 and chonky, so I'm glad I picked these up.

I'm going to have to be critical today, or I'd feel like a fraud, so it's a bit of a spicy one today; I will always be impartial and call it like I see it, even if I'm friends with a lot of the staff at a site. I went to Worthing Airsoft today and the weather was fantastic; very little wind and it was about 14ish celcius, so almost optimal conditions for gas gun sniping. I said I would use my mk12 MWS, set up as a DMR, until I ran out of .4s and then I'd switch over to my m700. Took a while to get the power where I wanted it, but between 1.8 - 1.83J was where I got it, so right up near the limit and pretty consistent. I wanted to play all day today as it's been a while since I have for a variety of reasons, so I gassed and filled my mags and headed up for the safety brief. First point of criticism here as I got split up from my friend again. We like pairing up and linking in with another pair and usually try and be on the other side to the rest of the regular players to make sure there's a bit of balance, but then we got split up again and I'm getting really pissed off with it. The other, large group of regulars who tend to stick together basically never get split up; it's always the four of us who get split up instead. The morning game was a mess. They put the spawns far too close to each other and then gave different messages to each team. Our team was told that a part of the site was off limits, because if we pushed into there from spawn we'd end up on top of the enemy spawn, but the enemy team was told no such thing so they pushed through that part of the site. Then our team started doing it as well and it was a messy spawn camp that my friend said went on for ages. They did eventually break out, but by this point we had largely done all the objectives. We had found the mad scientist, (a guy dressed in like a fancy dress hazmat suit), captured him, escorted him all the way around the site and brought him to the tower where he had to "heal" one of the marshalls. By the end, the blues had just given up on trying to push out and a lot went for an early lunch. The only two deaths I had were from people going out of bounds, one sneaking through the area that the yellows were told was out of bounds, and one guy was waaaaaaaaay out of bounds when I was on the other side of the site. The marshalling in the morning game was essentially non-existent and it never should've gone the way it did. Furthermore, one of the marshalls decided to have a go at me after I set up to defend the tower area after I got shot from out of bounds on the other side of the site. On my way to respawn I saw our team bringing the scientist to the tower, so when I respawned back in I took up a defensive position that I like. The marshall had a go at me, saying I'm always there and how ghillies ruin airsoft and how he's going to run games where no ghillies are allowed because I was ruining the game. First, I had only just got there as I spent the rest of the game to that point taking an overwatch position on the area around where the mad scientist was, then sneaking around the other side of the site and shooting blues in the back. Second I had actually done very little all morning because of how the blues were being spawncamped relentlessly, and not by ghillies as we were all out trying to find stuff to do and having an uneventful morning because we didn't want to spawn camp; especially with how overcast it was today it's very easy to remain concealed even wearing regular DPM. And thirdly, with how the site is set up, combined with how much it bushes up, there are large swathes of the site that are quite simply unplayable with a 30m MED, so I'm limited on where I can go as it is. Anyway, after the relative shitshow that was the morning, the afternoon games were a bit simpler and worked better. The spawns were put far away from each other, though the blue team spawn was very close to three of the five bases that had to be captured in the first five base domination game. Somehow we managed to capture the base that was just down the hill from their spawn, which the marshalls were surprised at and said we shouldn't have taken that, but they had 3 of the other bases, so they won the game. There were some great firefights and I managed to get some great long distance shots with the m700, as I swapped over at lunch time. The next game was an old school attack and defend on the tower area and we were attacking. I crawled on my belly behind a bunch of knee-high foliage to a spot I knew would have a good angle into the tower itself, covering both one of the main doors and also a crawl-space style half-door a bit further back. From there I got a LOT of hits and nobody had any idea I was there; I've missed using the m700 with how quiet it is! Anyway, the next game we swapped over... both sides and teams. Me and a friend got balanced onto blues, because at this point quite a few blues had gone home, so we had round #2 of attacking. I did exactly the same thing I did to the blue team to the yellow team and it worked just as well. It was a lovely, filthy little spot and I love attacking the tower area from that side because I can get to it undetected as long as I low crawl for about 80m though or behind some foliage. So that was me for the day. Played all day for once, so that was nice, and very much enjoyed the afternoon. Didn't enjoy the morning game like I usually do and didn't enjoy getting moaned at by a marshall for literally no reason, but at least the afternoon was good fun. I think I'll be using the m700 for a while as I don't want to get .43s for the MWS yet because I recently upgraded my PC's video card and that wasn't cheap; I've still got a bag of .45s and then an unopened 1kg bag of .48s, so sniping is going to be the way I play for a while, especially since the warmer weather makes the m700 so much better. Hoping next game day is a bit better than today and hoping the weather holds up now that we are in May, but I think the site is really getting difficult now to play with an MED as it's bushing up a lot with how wet it has been and now how sunny it has been the past few weeks at least. I will keep using guns with an MED because I like the challenge, I like excuses to use my pistol more and I like the long distance shots, but it's going to get very challenging for the next few months.

Yeah, don't run maintenance gas through your gun. It's great for storing your mags after a game day as the higher silicone content keeps the o-rings nice and lubed, but vent it out and refill with regular gas before shooting because as @Chev Chelios said, the higher silicone content will get on the hop rubber and stop it from shooting well.

I'll echo this. The TM 1911 does have its issues with the small magazines, but it's really not that bad. During the summer, mine easily rattles through an entire mag, but won't do much more. During winter, I tend to use something else though because I run a bolt action or DMR like 99% of the time, and my local site has a lot of quite close-up parts so I tend to use my pistol a hell of a lot because MEDs are a thing (I often refer to Worthing Airsoft as woodland CQB)

Fortunately the number of players who use DMRs tends to be fairly low; at least at my site, I'm one of the only players who uses one. So if I were marshalling, I'd make a mental note of the players running DMRs when chronoing and I'd keep an eye on them through the game day and make sure they weren't spamming. And I don't think so. All the non-programmable mosfets that I know, things like the gate nano aab, also don't lock them to semi-auto.

Wonder how they'd handle my SR-25 then. It's locked to semi by a perun, but then the full auto sensor has electrical tape over it as well, so when flicked to full auto it doesn't even shoot. Only way to undo it would be to take the gun apart and remove the tape

Thanks to @Lozart for setting me up with some medium scope mounts that are the perfect height since the low mounts it came with were too low. I wanted it as low as possible and with the medium rings it's less than 1mm clearance over the rear sight, so it's perfect! M14 recce setup is now done!

Yeahhhh, for that budget you will get a KWA mp9 and *maybe* one spare magazine if you're lucky. Since the magazines are 48rds, you need a lot more than a single spare magazine. GBB SMGs and rifles are unfortunately expensive to get into because the magazines are hella expensive and you need a bunch.

In short, yes

Most airsofters: "You don't need 25x magnification on your rifle" Me: fits 3.5-25x56mm scope to m700

First Aliexpress parcel arrived today. About half of the stuff has arrived (but the most expensive stuff has arrived now) The scope she tells you not to worry about... ?

Typically AEGs will find longer barrels more difficult because of air volume issues. The gearbox only has so much air to push through the barrel, so if you have more barrel volume than cylinder volume your BB will stop accelerating and start decelerating while it's still in the barrel. However, if you have more cylinder volume than barrel volume you will end up wasting a lot of air as there is more air to push after the BB has left. This makes it a bit louder as you get a more noticeable pop as the BB escapes the barrel and the air expands, but it can also have some issues that I can't remember. All I remember is discussing it with a tech and he told me what happens but I can't remember exactly what he said, I just remember it sounded like a valid issue that I wouldn't want. For HPA it isn't such a problem because you can typically adjust your dwell depending on how long your barrel is, allowing more air to released per trigger pull in order to properly fill the barrel. A properly volumed HPA setup will joule creep like a gas gun. For gas guns, the problem with longer barrels is joule creep. With a gas gun the BB will constantly accelerate through the barrel as the gas constantly expands through it, much in the same way a bullet will accelerate more through a longer barrel than a shorter one. So when you have a heavy BB, which starts and moves slower than a lighter BB at the same energy, it will have far longer in the barrel to accelerate and will leave with a far greater muzzle energy than a short barrel due to the relative increase in energy imparted through the longer acceleration. All that said, you don't need a long barrel to have a "DMR" as it's just a designation in airsoft of a rifle that is semi-auto locked and typically has a higher energy limit and an MED. However, I'm a bit of a purist and am of the belief that a DMR should at least look like a DMR, so a 14.5" or 16"+ outer barrel is a must in my opinion, and then I'd just get an inner barrel that will go all the way through it. If you're going HPA, the only thing I would watch out for is joule creep, however you can easily fine tune the power output by tweaking the psi on the regulator to make sure you're within your site's limits.

First Aliexpress parcel arrived today, so hopefully the others will arrive this week too. This one was only £91 including taxes because of the sale they had last week. Looked through it and it's crystal clear, but need to get a battery for it so I can see how the illumination works. Zoom looks nice, though I can only really tell this once it's on the rifle because holding it my hand on 6x zoom is interesting, but the reticle is exactly the kind of reticle I wanted. Came with exactly the scope mounts I was going to get separately too... and they're too low so it won't go on my m14 as it rests on the rear iron sight, so will need to pick up some mediums ?

I don't find it that hard, however I'm very used to using a bolt action sniper rifle, since that's what I've used for over a decade, and I like to remain undetected. Nothing gives your position away more than a bit of trigger spam; you'd be surprised how much a single shot can go unnoticed. But yeah, it's unfortunate that a lot of people can't control themselves

DMR rules are the rules that vary the most across different sites. The basic premise is that they have higher power, but must be locked to semi-auto, have an MED and you will not be allowed to spam the trigger; usually the rule is "one in the air", so you have to watch your shot to completion before pulling the trigger again. However, there are things that can vary: Power - I've seen lots of different power limits. 1.48J, 1.64J, 1.88J, 2.32J are all powers that I have seen for DMRs at different sites RIF type - Some events and sites require the RIF to be a DMR in the real world. This usually means it has to be some sort of .308 calibre replica like an m14 or SR-25, or something like a mk12, VSS or SVD if it's not a .308 replica Stock - Some sites mandate that a DMR must have a stock. Some don't. I don't mean like a fixed stock vs retractable stock, I mean in terms of not allowing something like a revolver or mk23 without a carbine kit to be used as a DMR And yes, as has been said, people tend to look down on it when people put a scope on something like an m4 or arp-9 or something like that, up the power to DMR limits and then spam the trigger. It's mostly spamming the trigger though, that's the big no-no when it comes to DMRs. Cue the "that's not full auto, this is" video clip.

Generally anything Tokyo Marui will be good, so I'd take a look through the pistols that TM have on offer and see if you like them. Outside of that, I really like the AAP-01. It's super modifiable and pretty reliable as long as you don't use the fun switch. If you want to use the fun switch, they require upgrading because the full auto will blow the trigger sears apart. I've had no issues with mine at all, but I only run them semi-auto.

So, finally got to test my mk12 MWS with the sixG nub and stock TM hop rubber. Initially I was a little disappointed as while it hopped .4s, it required me to put the hop all the way on and I want to be running .43s through it once I get through these .4s. However, as the hop rubber started bedding in it started hopping way better and when I tested it with some of my friend's .43s it fired like a dream; it's set up at 1.8J (ish) and locked to semi as a DMR. Hard to get a gauge on what the effective range will be because it was stupidly windy on Sunday, so will have to see on a less breezy day to properly zero the scope and see where I can reliably put rounds.

Only played half the day today at Worthing, but not the morning this time. I had so much I needed to do in the morning that I only got out in the last 40 mins before lunch, then played through the afternoon. I brought a small armoury with me today as I wanted to give 3 guns to a local tech (G&P m14 DMR, Cyma SR-25 and A&K m249), then I brought two guns to give to my friend as he's buying them from me (Cyma m14 and TM Hi-Capa 4.3) and finally I brought some guns for me to actually use (both MWSs). I had to set up the Cyma m14 and TM Hi-Capa before handing them off, so I did that first. All good there. Then I had to set up my MWS with a new hop setup and initially it wasn't amazing. Hop up was on the all the way and it was hopping the .4s, but since I wanted to run .43s I was a little crestfallen. Oh well. I then went back to the car, took the G&P m14 apart and sprayed the stock OD to cover a digital desert camo that was already on there (got it 2nd hand and that was what was on it), and then sprayed the cheek riser and heatshield plain black. Only took two coats, so I sprayed it, waited for it to mostly dry, then gave it a 2nd go over and it looks so much better now. Left it hanging on the tree for the whole game day as it wasn't meant to rain and I wanted to give it the maximum amount of time to dry. So I finally got out to play with the mk12 MWS, set up as a DMR at about 1.8J. At first I went to a path and saw a ghillie in a holly bush at the end of it as I was peeking through a crack in the wood, so I waited until someone from my team pushed up, I saw him faffing with his pistol and then peeked and took him out. As my team pushed up to where I was, I saw that nobody was covering a very obvious route where the enemy players seemed to be attacking from and then shooting our team in the back, so I set up by a barricade and simply watched that way. Despite the fact that it looked like I was well out of the fight I got a surprising number of hits on players trying to sneak up that way until I heard a lot pushing from the other flank, so I repositioned to get an angle on them. Despite the fact I was only out for 40 mins, I got a lot of hits so it felt good. Then I went out in the afternoon and the hop rubber in the MWS is starting to bed in. It was overhopping the .4s now, so I took it down a few clicks to get it straight again. I also tried some .43s at lunch as my friend had some and it was hopping them amazingly well, so 2kg of .43s is being ordered this evening. It was a 3 base domination and I managed to crawl onto the side of a small log pile, deploying my bipod and watching the right of the base with my friend on his bolt action a few metres back and covering my blindside. Managed to stay there all game, slotting any of the enemy team who came down the right side and none of them could locate me, despite the fact that I'm not exactly using the quietest of guns; MWS is a GBBR after all! I only got hit because a bunch of rentals crouched behind me, despite there being no cover, and someone shot at them and hit me by accident. Thanks guys... ? We then swapped sides and I took to defending the flanks again. It's a thankless job, but someone has to do it! Final game that I played was an attack and defend with us as the attackers. I crawled all the way along a flank, as the foliage is high enough to where I can get into good firing positions on the base without people seeing me at all, which is exactly what I did. Sniped a few of the defenders from their positions and then took up a spot to try and cut off reinforcements. The only shame is I got a lovely shot on someone moving in to medic another person I had already shot, only for him to completely ignore the shot. It was getting later in the day where people haven't drunk enough water and hit taking was getting questionable, but I was going to call it there anyway. I still had to get back to the safe zone to reassemble my newly olive drab sprayed m14 so I could give it to the tech, along with my SR-25 and m249, so I did that. 6 week lead time, but I'm not desperate, especially with the fact that we're in spring and will be moving into summer at some point; all my gas guns will be at their best, so that's what I'll use for now!

I think he meant that at range it will (generally) hit a target quicker because it decelerates slower than a lighter projectile. I don't have the exact numbers, but it's typically at longer ranges. Up close, the lighter BB will hit first because of the initial speed and less time for it to decelerate. But yes, they leave the barrel slower with the same energy. 2.32J with a .2 is 500fps and with a .48 is something like 322fps

I hate the reticle, which is why I discounted it a while ago. The price point where I start liking the reticle with Vortex is £330 with the new Venom series. Used to be £500 for the Strike Eagles as a minimum for me, which I didn't want to spend, especially for a rifle I won't be using all that much as it's a backup

No, run .25s if you want. You can get some nice performance out of HPA using heavy BBs because you don't have to worry about air volume like you generally do with AEGs, but it's not the be all and end all. There's also a bunch of reasons why heavier in general is better, but that's across all platforms, not just HPA. I'm tired of people pretending HPA is some sort of magical system that does something revolutionary when it's functionally the same as an AEG (using air to propel a small plastic ball). Will you get better performance out of heavier BBs? Yes Will using .25s be pointless? No