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I’d tend to agree with this, and must clarify that I avoid using white light as much as possible - it’s far more satisfying to bean someone with a single shot out of the darkness.
However there always seems to be a willy waving torch duel at some point. It seems to me that many airsoft deaths at night games are due to blue on blue, confusion and disorientation reigns supreme. There is an argument for not really needing a mega powerful torch, and in lieu having something to flick on and identify friend or foe.
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I've been using The Odin LEP for over a year now, so know a little about its capabilities. It's a great unit, if a little specialised.
I run it purely for night airsoft, in conjunction with bino NVG's and a Jerry C5 thermal ecoti overlay. I don't run an IR laser, and just use passive aiming with a Eotech XPS3.
On the rare occasions I use white light the LEP is pretty devastating, and wipes out the targets natural night vision, or causes their NOD's to autogate. You can get this effect with many weapon lights, but the Odin LEP really spotlights the target at medium to long airsoft ranges. It's especially useful for designating targets to other team members, whether they have NOD's or not. It reminds me of a stage follow spot in a theatre.
The light isn't a nice white high colour temperature, but more of a piss coloured yellow, which is disappointing, but acceptable. It's not so great at short distances, as you can struggle to cover the whole target with the spot of light. It's also pretty bulky, much more so than a Surefire Scout for example. Battery life is very good, as are the mounting options, remote switch and value. It's also great at reducing spill from your firing position, if you can mount it as far forwards as you can.
I've had it shone at me whilst messing about, and I didn't go blind - I think it's safe. I have seen brighter torches, and I am more concerned over the various Russian lasers and full power IR designators out there damaging peoples eyes and kit. It emits light at a frequency we can see and react to by shutting our eyes, unlike IR/red/green lasers.
It's a cool airsoft toy, but not really a game changer, IMHO. I'm lucky and daft enough to enjoy all of my NVG kit, but none of it is guaranteed 'pay to win' when up against decent teamwork and moderate NOD's/thermals.
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On 13/02/2023 at 14:41, Emergencychimps said:
Did the Gunman Airsoft Night game at Tuddenham.......it was great, easily some of the most interesting events that are happening in airsoft in my opinion at the moment.
It's their second attempt at running a night game (3 hours long) as one single game, it wasn't perfect but my god it's got potential and the site is very open to feedback. Previously their night games have been like skirmishes in a small, but interesting part of their site (the village if you know the site). These events take advantage of the whole site, extra buildings, dense woodland, open areas, tracks, ridgelines trench network etc.
Single shot only unless you have a genuine LMG/support weapon, relevant medic rules, mix of objectives, regen hikes weren't silly. There was also really good use of additional lightning, a few big floodlights and lots of dark areas, the site is big enough to cope with what they are doing!
Objectives were provided, with a map and grid references with times that the objectives were open for. Marshalls were present when needed (generally around objectives) but didn't ruin the night team sneakiness when not. Hit taking was good (night games are tricky to enforce). It seemed like a lot of objectives were near each other at similar times, or in a way that you'd have to cross the route from their respawn to their objectives (which we didn't know) to get to your objectives. Much confusion around who is on your team etc. There was a command net and command element that gave out a couple of extra objectives throughout the evening.
It genuinely felt like the best bits of a mini milsim. Mix of players with and without night vision, thermal, some with torches and tracer units etc. Made it a really interesting evening. Some of the players had travelled from Derby and Watford for it.
Every other night game they are doing is one of the more immersive types covered above, the others are basically skirmishes in the village. If you're looking to just shoot people in the dark, do the night skirmishes skirmishes, if you want that bit extra, do the more immersive ones.
Very impressed with the management at Tuddenham, massive improvements to the site and the type of events they are running. Really upping the experience of what can be done and achieved, the sort of thing I am sure we all want from our sites.
Re reading this, it sounds like an advert for the site but I am just a customer, albeit a very happy one.
I’ve just come across your post and agree entirely. It did feel like a ‘mini milsim’ and the standard of player effort was very good.
Are you going to the one this weekend at Tuddenham? I was the player that travelled from Derby, and all being well will do the four hour round trip again this weekend, it was that good last time.
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Did you leave the ‘silent fill’ gubbins in the fill valves? I find these handy on other mags, but not TM ones. You can use dental ligatures to make your own for about £2 for 500, just don’t use them on TM mags unless you like buggering them up.
20 grams of gas should have given you about 200 shots, not 20.
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In my book the only thing better than an MWS, is a pair of MWS. Sharing the same mags/BCG is handy. Having said that, I’m enjoying my GHK AK running on CO2 in the cold weather.
So to answer your question, no I don’t carry boring electric guns as insurance - you’ve got to commit to gas. I really really enjoy playing airsoft with the difficulty set to hard level, with all the challenges of GBBR’s.
15+ years into the hobby, it gives me satisfaction to hand some HPA spray and pray try hard his arse by moving more carefully and only taking shots when there’s a high probability of hitting. Much fun.
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Pick the o ring out with something like a dressmaking pin and throw it away. TM gas system is not designed to use ‘silent fill’ inlet valve modifications.
Sounds like you need to purge your mags - use a fresh tin of gas, turn the mag upside down and fill with a long burst of gas, but use your little finger to keep the knocker valve open briefly. Between one and two seconds, then let your finger off the knocker valve and let the liquid fill the mag.
Or your tin of gas is getting empty, and you’re injecting vapour not liquid.
Try chilling your mags in the fridge for 20 minutes first, and getting your gas container up to around 20 degrees C
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10 hours ago, SSPKali said:
FPS variation was down to worn nozzle…new TM nozzle fitted and mags now within 5fps of each other🤷🏽
Where did you get that from mate? Impulse?
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On 06/01/2022 at 22:27, Tactical Pith Helmet said:
Damn glad you are going to be OK.
The people praising masks for glasses, do your specs steam up with no mask/goggles at all? I find a pair of small lensed rectangular framed specs steam and get covered with sweat in very hot weather just working let alone playing. Are any of you so afflicted?
Can do, depends on the weather.
As for airsoft, I had a eye near miss for the first time in 17 years of playing a couple of weeks ago. It was at a CQB site in Derby, and I foolishly broke cover and ran across an open doorway only to get pre fired by some tights wearing HPA hicapa spammer who was lying on the floor and put a line of bb’s into my face out of his/her/it’s stupid M4 magazine. The eye pro took the brunt, but a stray bb hit my eye socket in the gap between my ballcap and my specs and left me dazed and a gnarly black eye formed overnight.
I wear prescription Oakleys which don’t seal to my face, but have got away with that for years. It’s at my own risk, but it’s probably foolish. My main error was going to a silly CQB site and exposing myself to a lot more risk than I usually do.
In retrospect, I’d say wear high quality full face for CQB. I’m never going to that kind of hell hole, it’s not what I play airsoft for and is just too unrealistic.
I’m sticking with my prescription Oakleys and being very picky about when I stick my neck out as a target. I like to try and treat airsoft like real life and not run out into obvious potential lethal danger, and as such I don’t get hit very often when playing. I do a lot of milsim, and this Dye type paintball PPE just doesn’t work with NVG or respirator’s either.
- Paul72 and Tactical Pith Helmet
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1 hour ago, marine said:
I'm sorry, I meant to take 10 shots per magazine in the test
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I can’t help you with sourcing one, but I’ve owned a Vector and found it terribly front heavy, with generally a poor design both ergonomically and technically.
Have you tried one? Bespoke Airsoft supply a KWA thing that looks a bit Vectorish. I think it’s called a TK45 Ronin
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On 09/01/2022 at 21:28, scar527 said:
Since people are talking about upgrades, I have to report that my hao industries bolt that I had set up for ultralight use actually works worse that the stock bolt in the cold. Like way worse 😂
Now I'm back to my only upgrades being Daves nub and HSB, a 150% spring, and a laylax 370mm inner barrel and the thing just works even in the cold. Occasionally I'll use a different rocket valve for DMR purposes but the more stock the better it would seem.
I am curious, how many people rate the tan modify bucking? I've heard they have QC issues as of late, and I'm going to run the stock marui until I can't anymore but its good to have options in the bin for when the time comes.
I’m still using the Modify X blue bucking, and getting good results with DN (Daves Nub), Laylax 370/6.03, black NPAS, black gas, standard TM mags.
On 10/01/2022 at 09:01, marine said:Hi !
1. 0.32g Specna Arms EDGE bio
2. Yes
3. 10 shots per mag
I see that VORSK gas it´s very unstable but you can see that max and min are better with T8 gas route
10 shots per mag? That’s terrible, I’m getting about 100.
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I was surprised to discover that a TM MP7 is perfectly capable of holding its own in woodland as well as urban/CQB. 6 mags and a 6.03mm inner barrel/ML bucking and they shoot miles with green gas and heavier bb’s.
Get one, you won’t regret it.
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Will you split at all?
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On 20/11/2021 at 19:04, novioman said:
Now have one. Only used it once so far, so limited information
Pro’s
Excellent build quality
Slide well finished, not sure what the finish is, but it’s not a paint.
Con’s
Trigger is very heavy, haven’t got a gauge but would guess about 7+ lbs
Mag is slow to load, speed loader is supplied and needed.
If you try to squeeze the trigger very slowly you can hear a small gas release, don’t think this a fault though, just down to the no hammer design.
Definitely a collectors piece and not suitable for the skirmish field.
Heavy trigger and hard to reload mags would necessarily put me off from skirmishing one.
GHK mags and GBBR mags in general do have a learning curve to reloading them quickly. And the DAS M4 has (or had) an unrealistic heavy trigger. People skirmish both of these guns all the time.
Any possibility of doing the Devil Hunter mod on these GHK Glocks, do you think?
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I made a tool to get my mk18 barrel nut off, used a vice and AR upper clamp. And a electric heat gun to melt the thread lock. It was an absolute arse, but do-able.
With this in mind, you’re probably better off going for the CQBR as your base gun. You’ll need a low profile gas block/gas tube and flash hider.
I sometimes run a 10.5” barrel in hotter months with a 250mm inner, but I’m trying the 370mm 6.03mn in winter to get better performance on black gas. The HAO rails seem much better than the alternative clones. The mags are SAA, they’ve run totally fine for me and weight 100g less per mag.
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Yes, I own a modded MK18 and they are the same internally as far as I can see.
It doesn’t look much like a MK18 now though
- GStevo80, Nick G and Jacob Wright
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8 hours ago, Whodat said:
Hi All,
Long time lurker, first time poster. Am joining your proud band some time tomorrow when the postman comes and I have a couple questions. Should be getting a run out with it at Gunman in a couple weeks.
First, should I expect to be able to lift 36s with either stock nub or the biro trick? Second, if not I don't suppose anyone has a spare supernub they'd be willing to lend me and I'll get it you back as soon as the next run comes online??
Thanks!
Chris
Which Gunman Chris, Descent?
.36's I always found to be a bit too heavy, in terms of cost, joule efficiency at 1J, availability and also time to target from pulling the trigger. SixG nub is the one to go for, or the laylax arm from somewhere like Firesupport if Dave doesn't have any nubs ready to go/has missed the emails or whatever:
https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/first-factory-strike-hop-arm-for-marui-m4a1-mws
Biro trick might work, give it a try.
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Jay, try looking up the Okto 8 games, they’re an offshoot of Gunman airsoft. The people running them have been organising airsoft for as long as I can remember, and can be trusted to not cock your weekend up.
There’s a game with them in a few weeks on the same Eversley site.
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Didn’t you fancy waiting for the Angry Gun A1 receiver set? I’m not sure what the cost difference will be between that and the “cut & shut”?
I’m tempted by either, if I knew where to lay hands on a spare bare bones upper?
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On 13/09/2021 at 12:49, alxndrhll said:
I'm not quite sure what you were expecting when fitting a 9.3" rail on a 10.5" outer barrel? The repro SureFire cans need the clearance so the QD works properly, granted they're too chunky to sit 'in' the rail.
Entirely subjective at the end of the day, I think snug to rail/'internally suppressed' looks decidedly wank so I like having rail - outer barrel - suppressor... granted I'm not sure I've ever bothered with a suppressor on a GBBR. It's just extra weight and length at the front for zero gain.
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I own both, and can kind of agree with Kali.
The undersize scale of the MP7 is also a downer for me, but it’s my go to for jumping in and out of windows at Anzio. Loud as hell as well for that intimidation factor (until they see the weenie gun).
On balance I prefer the MWS, it’s easier to dial in the FPS on an npas, and a lot more real steel kit fits it. I also find mine is a bit more accurate than my MP7.
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5 hours ago, hunter511 said:
Hive mind assemble,
After finally managing to remove the rail system and barrel from my mtr I'm considering a new, less janky looking front end. I have a BCM type outer barrel, looking at 13" and up handguards. Ive got a built up 9inch BCM set up for cqb, what I need/want is a decent setup for woodland that has decent inner barrel length (unlike the stock set up) and will provide relative consistency and accuracy. Ideally short dotted and capable of .28s.
Suggestions for inner barrel accepted. Im hoping to use a stock marui rubber with super six g nub and at the moment I am deeply unimpressed with the modify tan rubbers. Both attempts Ive made to use them have failed hard.
Also any suggestions for a longer preferably m-lok front end as the BCM ones seem to top out at 12" and I'm not a fan of marui's made up one?
I’m currently getting good range on an orange Modify X. I found the blue got chewed up pretty quickly, so I’m seeing how I get on with a harder compound.
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We had a couple of .303 Bren guns in our ACF armoury back in the mid 1980’s. I remember being issued one for an exercise with 2 mags and just 20 blanks. I got a massive bollocking when during the contact I ripped the whole lot of in one burst.
Sod carrying around that lump as a teenager