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Thanks! Taken a lot of practice and it's why I tell people who want to start sniping to master it without the ghillie / leaf suit first. Sometimes I practice in plain black with short sleeves during summer both to get a tan and also to sharpen my fundamental camo and concealment skills Nope. I have the next gen multi-season one. It's just brilliant and legitimately works in multiple seasons (though my local site has quite a few evergreen plants): https://www.longbowbb.co.uk/product-page/scg-next-gen-halo-multi-season-rifle-wrap At some point I'll buy one of their full suits because I'm super impressed with the gun wrap, but at around £550 all in, that day is not today. Especially not after the amount I've spent in the past two months!

"Do I need a proper ghillie to be a sneaky sniper? Do I need to shell out for a full leaf suit and spend hours, days, weeks, months, years crafting it to perfection?" No. No you do not. One of the marshalls finally found me and snapped a pic of me being one with the bush. This is my lightweight, summer loadout that I've been using because my current ghillie isn't great in woodland as it's really a grassland ghillie and gets caught on literally everything (Worthing Airsoft has basically no grass). Rifle wrap is Sprinter Custom Ghillie and the hood is a Stich Profi Russian leaf hood. Haven't crafted anything onto either of them (the SCG stuff doesn't need crafting anyway...), just picked a good spot that didn't silhouette me and kept still

Going to throw my hat into the ring and shout out these guys. They were my go-to for sniper stuff when I first started as a fresh-faced 16 year old with a Warrior L96, and they're still my go-to for sniper stuff 14 or so years later. https://www.youtube.com/c/6mmhunters

Ah, so that's you. I now have a face to a name! Good to hear the ghillie is working out for you; everyone thinks you need a super-milsim-crafted-all-over-KMCS-leaf-suit, but the concealment vest and good camo and concealment practice (mostly just... staying still!) is super effective in airsoft.

As a sneaky bushboi, this pierces to my very soul. It happens all the time

I can't comment on the AEG part, as I stripped all my gearbox out to fit a Wolverine Hydra gen2 in mine, but in terms of hop and barrel, I recommend both the Prometheus EG and the ZCI stainless steel barrels enough. I have two m21 builds, one is my TM HPA monster that cost me a LOT and one is my Cyma AEG that cost me barely anything (as I kept the gearbox stock since the power was around 1J and I'd rather not open a V7 unless I have to) and both perform phenomenally well. The former performs better, but I'd damn well hope so as it cost about 5x as much! My TM setup has the Prometheus barrel, while my Cyma setup has the ZCI barrel. Both have 60 degree Maple Leaf macarons with omega nubs and I'm ranging the majority of BASR users at my local site while maintaining my 1.1J no MED shenanigans.

Yeah, I heard about that too. The guy I get a lift with is one of the staff and he pulled over on his way back from the lockup to give them a stern talking to. With what happened recently in Liverpool, that could've been baaaaaaaaad. Was a bunch of kiddies waltzing down the A27 with guns out. I'll still sneak. I did last year in a tinsel ghillie and got away with a lot more than I expected, so I'll try it again.

I can't say I had the same, unfortunately. Rampant non-hit taking I can usually deal with (they didn't learn with me. Was dinking them with the 1.1J VSR and they were just ignoring it wholesale), but then both of my gas pistols also said "nah, too cold" today and then to top it all off with a guy charging at me to do a knife kill and I had to actively stop myself from putting him in an arm lock since it's a reflex at this point since I started martial arts. Muscle memory and reflexive reactions are interesting (at Worthing, knife kills are stealth kills to avoid the situation that almost happened with me today) Roll on next game day. These things happen and my last few game days have been cracking. I was due a bit of a crappy one, so now that universal balance is restored I can look forward to the Christmas game next month safe in the knowledge I've done my crappy one already EDIT: And either there was an error in dispatch, or a Karen just called the police on me as I headed back into my house. All the gats were fully covered and in bags (I've been in this hobby for 16 years, I know how it works), nothing was showing, but just had two coppers turn up saying they were called to this address, though they didn't say what for. No trouble and they went on their way, but quite coincidental that I just got home like 20 mins ago and had them turn up. Probably just an error, but rather coincidental.

You'll need to semi-lock it if you do that, however it's super easy to semi-lock an m14. You can just unscrew part of the fire selector (which is super accessible) and detach it after you put it in semi-auto, so you don't need to clip anything or file anything, so if you later down the line decide you want to go 1.14J and full-auto, you can re-attach it no problem. I accidentally found that out when I snapped the fire-selector on mine. It was a super useful breakage

Yeeeeeesssssssss. Join the m21 family! Only the most intelligent and talented airsofters go for the m21, so you're clearly a cultured individual. Although mine is far more modern and tacticool, vintage wood would be nice if you already have a real wood stock.

If you go to the gucci side... https://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/lightlaser-bearing-holsters-236-c.asp However, most of these would require a specific type of light for them to work, since the retention works by grabbing onto the light in many cases.

Get some camo cream. I bought some for when I fully ghillie up as it lets me break up the solid skin-tones while also allowing me to not wear anything on my lower face and steam up my prescription insers, as when I wear lower face, even with my mesh glasses, the inserts always steam up. However, that being said, I'm enjoying specifically not ghillie-ing up and still going invisible. Good practice that I've had people moan at me a lot with the classic "I hit you loads call your hits!!" when they laced up a nearby bush really well, but not a single BB has hit me. As a BASR user, I am painfully familiar with the effects of leaves and twigs on the trajectory of a BB. However, not everyone is as familiar with this and just assume that because they fired a whole high-cap into the bush that one of them would punch through. Totally get that though, angry people throwing tantrums can ruin a day for a lot of people.

Most stock guns don't need anything swapping out anyway. Most can benefit from a Maple Leaf rubber / omega nub combination, but other than that guns generally come pretty great out of the box as long as it's from a reputable brand (G&G, ICS, Cyma, JG, TM etc.) Unless you're chasing performance, I'm generally of the opinion of "use it stock until it breaks" as then you'll get a good feeling for what you want to do with it, as well as making the most efficient use of the parts. Unless it's a BASR. Those typically require tweaking and fine tuning as they're pretty underwhelming out of the box. I wasted a bunch of money throwing parts at making my TM m14 an AEG-based DMR and I hated it. Literally wasted about £200 on parts because I ended up HPAing it instead and stripping all the parts out, since that was far more useful to how I play and I only really discovered the world of HPA about a year later.

A sweatband is a lot cheaper than an Exfog. I'd say if you're unsure of what the right solution is, I'd try the sweatband first and see how that does. Alternatively, you could try mesh. @heroshark makes some pretty fantastic mesh goggles and glasses and I use a pair when I'm playing if it's a particularly humid or sweaty day. I've still got prescription inserts, so there's only so much I can do to combat the fogging as I need those to see, but even with my inserts I get a lot less fogging when I use mesh because there's a lot more air-flow. Fogging is always a hurdle to overcome and it may take you a bit of time to find a solution that works well for you.

As long as you set it so the mag release isn't inside the fabric part of the holster then it works great, but yeah, if you set it up where the mag release falls below the fabric, you will lose mags. I just love my HK pistols though, so this isn't a problem I suffer from any more

This is pretty good, as long as you adjust it properly for the pistol: https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/8fields-tactical-modular-universal-holster Finding them in stock is hard, but I've got two, one molle one and one drop leg that i've shortened to a thigh holster, and they're great.

I see what you mean on that; it's like beating up an old man! Worthing's facilities aren't great, let's be totally honest with everyone, however when it comes to actually organising and playing airsoft games (which is why we're there), I have yet to go to a site that does it as well as Worthing. It's why we make jokes about heated toilets After all, the site has been around for almost 20 years (I started there 16 years ago back when it was Elite Action Games Worthing) and the guys who run it now I knew back then as players and marshalls, so they definitely know their stuff. Also, they've had the unfortunate fate of the site shrinking over time due to public footpaths and complaints of the general public.

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.

Final Fantasy 14. As a vanilla WoW veteran (seriously, been playing since 2004), I was expecting a trash weeb game with a furry agenda (though on that last point I gave it some wiggle room since WoW is pretty bad with that and we all know it...) I found a great game with a pretty vibrant and loving community, as well as devs who seem to genuinely care and take player feedback on board. It's hard watching a grown man break down into tears because he has to announce that he's delaying the launch of an expansion by 2 weeks because he felt it didn't have enough QC time, where Blizzard by comparison would just release unfinished expansion after unfinished expansion with the general feeling of "we've heard your feedback and it doesn't align with how we want to make the game, so you can stick your opinions where the sun don't shine. You whales will keep paying for it anyway". I have now embraced the fact that I am, in fact, a bunny girl and I expect you all to treat me as such.

In short, no. 13ci is great for guns that don't shoot many shots, like HPA DMRs or sniper rifles. I run a 10ci tank (it's so tiny, I love it) in a stock pouch for both of my HPA builds, but one is a bolt action sniper rifle and the other is a semi-auto sniper rifle (at 1.1J because something-something-DMR-power-and-MED-sucks), so I'm not taking enough shots to burn through that much air. I found my 10ci tank does around 450 - 500 shots through my m21 and that does me fine. However, if you're running an MTW and will be playing it normally, you will run out of air if you move to a 13ci tank faster than you realise, especially if you ever use the fun-switch. if I do run my 48ci tank (larger and longer games than your typical skirmish or filmsim day), I put mine in a Warrior Assault Systems backpack, the absolutely tiny cargo pack: https://www.uktactical.com/p-8706-warrior-cargo-pack-olive-drab.aspx Fits it, plus any other supplies I need for the day like water bottles, BBs, gas etc. I put the tank in the internal hydration bladder section and run the line out and through the strap to keep it tight to me. I don't run a plate carrier (because crawling around like a sneaky sniper while wearing a plate carrier is uncomfortable!), so I run the cargo pack as a stand-alone backpack (it comes with the straps to do so), but it could just as easily be attached to the back of a plate carrier.

I was considering jumping to .36s in my 1.1J builds as I don't fire that often and my hop ups could easily handle them, then I looked at the price jump and said "hell no!" .36s are where ammo starts getting pricey.

The unfortunate truth is that BB weight is a very empirical thing. You need to experiment with what works for you. That said, these are my two cents: I generally run .32s in all my 1.1J builds. However, a normal rifle to me is a GBBR or a 1.1J sniper build, so I'm not exactly spamming the trigger with my 35rd magazines. I think I usually go through maybe 400 - 500 BBs in a game day if I'm using my m21, which has the largest magazines of my guns at a whopping 70rds! I'd echo .28s as the overall best value for regular AEG usage and all-around usefulness. Will you gain a tiny bit more range and consistency with heavier BBs? Sure, but you can also just take two steps forward or arc the gun slightly. It's generally not worth the cost to upgrade to .32s or heavier if you're going through a lot of them each game day.