Spartan09

I would go the opposite... get the rifle first and only get a pistol afterwards. But before you buy anything, play three games within 2 months to qualify for UKARA as well as getting to know wether the sport is for you or not. Dont be aftraid to ask questions at sites, we are all a friendly and approachable bunch, and will be happy to show off our various toys 😃

Thanks sneaky. Have given the moscarts a clean and replaced o rings on the valves, hopefully that fixes the issue there. But they are just normal o rings i got from work, designed for engine work.. not sure if they can cope with CO2 though. I tried tightening the pistol valves, with no effect. The outer seals look good, but they seem to be leaking from the centre of the valve itself. Have tried cleaning and lubing the valve as best i can, but aside from 1, they are all still leaking. Definately think i need to replace the valves, but i need to know what type of valve they use before i order them. This website lists different valves for TM, ASG, APS, WE etc... but i dont know which ones i need to work with my mags. https://www.bullseyecountrysport.co.uk/valves-343-c.asp

Welcome to the forums, and i hope you enjoy your first steps into Airsoft. Definately look at decent face protection, as the "cheapest-of-the-cheap" stuff may not hold up under fire (im talking mainly about ebay specials... if you buy from a reputable airsoft shop you shouldnt need to worry too much) Also, many sites insurance will not cover your teeth, so full face is highly recommended. For your first gun, unless it is a pistol, then avoid GBB due to the issues mentioned above by Edcase. But there is no requirement for you to run a pistol unless you have a DMR or a bolt action sniper rifle. Another issue to add to the list is regarding the NE Sten... unlike an m4 or ak mag, you cant get an adapter for a speed loader to load the mags easily. The only way i can load my sten mags is to place a finger and thumb either side of the feed lips and force bbs straight down into the mag... its doable, but bloody awkward. That said, the quality of the build is superb. You mention that you want something that is not m4 related. With that in mind, as well as recommending AEG as a starter, and other mentions of AKs.. the consensus is that Cyma AKs are the best balance of affordability and quality. Plus they are a base from which you can upgrade gradually over time. Another option i can suggest for your consideration is a TM P90. I own one, and it performs great. With .25g bbs and 100% stock internally, it shoots laser straight and with decent range.

as the title suggests, i have some questions regarding fill valves on some of my kit. i have the following leaking gear: - 3 x Vorsk hicapa mags that are leaking from the fill valves, one also leaking through the outlet valve, - 1 x original magazine for the EMG John Wick Hicapa - 5x MAG POM CO2 moscarts (3 leaking from oring on the threads, 2 from the valve inner o ring) when looking for replacement fill valves and o-ring kits, i see numerous different options and i dont want to buy the wrong parts. so my question is, does anyone know what type of valves i need to buy (TM/WE/AGM etc) , and for the MOSCARTS, is there a specific material O ring i need to buy for CO2?

Just found this thread last night, so i will share my most recent experience from last weekend, attending one of my regular sites, RIFT Redcon 2. arrived on site in good time, signed in etc then moved through to the on site shops.. Only airsoft to collect some bits i ordered on friday and asked to be brought to site as i wouldnt get to their shop in stevenage before game day, then RIFTs own on site shop to buy smoke grenades and co2 capsules. Went back to my car to get loaded up ready for chrono while chatting to some friends... heres where things went wonky... Attached my HPA tank to my Osprey vest, and one of the poppers on a strap btoke off, fortunately threading it through the MOLLE and using a small cable tie i found in my car held it for the day, but i need a new carry pouch. moved onto my MOSCARTS... filled them from a CO2 fist device... all but 2 leaking like sieves. Nothing i can do onsite, but pray the others dont start leaking. Got my rifle mags and one pistol mag loaded and went to chrono before the main rush, passed chrono, but the pistol mag started leaking slightly from outlet. Back to car and no amount of fiddling would stop the leak, and i realised i had left valve key at home... no issue, i will just run 3 pistol mags instead of 4... went to gas the other mags... all leaking.. FUCK Ran back to onlyairsoft, praying they had mags, they only had 2 green gas and one CO2 Raven hicapa mags... no choice, i bought them then ran back to the car to load them before running back for the briefing and team armbands. I was pleasantly surprised to be issued not only a team armband, but also a medic armband... not seen the medic rule before at RIFT due to the pandemic, but this would be a lifesaver on the 70 acre site. Game rules: total war all day, swapping sides after lunch. One team had objective of recovering "flight recorders" to HQ, while other team had to find numbered poles and connect them at their HQ to make radio aerials. Locations of teams objectives marked on a map at their main spawn, plus 4 capturable forward respawn points. Morning game, not much to report, got a few kills, got killed a lot more but the medic rule helped keep me in the fight a bit longer. Helped capture one forward respawn. Attacking a group of containers (one of which held a pole the enemy needed) We came under fire from enemies hidden in the bushes. Popped a smoke and charged one of 3 gaps in the bushes that the enemy were firing through, got a trade off kill on one of the enemy. Respawned (as had alredy used my medic life) and returned. Identified where one ARP user was shooting from and popped a TAG AFG6 grenade into the bushes... 2 enemy KIA. Team mate behind me pissing himself laughing. Initially he thought the grenade had gone off as i threw it, but was just the igniter as the spoon flew off. Next thing.. BOOM followed by one of the enemy players shouting "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!? HITTT!!" team mate then asked me where he could buy the grenades from. Break for lunch, i didnt buy food on site, just a cup of tea to refresh while reloading. Also took my tippmann to the range to adjust the hop. After lunch, quick briefing and raffle from only airsoft (didnt win, gutted as prize was a TM M870 Gas shotgun) and off to respawn. Afternoon had proceeded well, team captured all 6 poles (though one seemed to go missing on its way to our HQ, so we only ended up with 5 =/ ) I normally play on my own, floating around the site and supporting any firefights i come across, while also trying to sneak behind enemy lines to harrass them.. but as the afternoon wore on i hooked up with several other lone wolves, and ended up part of a 6 man squad. Then it happened, i encountered a cheater... As a squad we moved across the land, securing a forward respawn, confirming one of our objectives (pole) had been captured and then seen that 3 of our team mates had captured the enemy HQ, making their score zero as long as they held the HQ to ENDEX. We then moved towards the "container yard" to check if the pole there had been captured yet. As we approached there was heavy fire coming from a container on top of the hill down towards the 3 lower containers that our team was trying to assault. With the enemy focussed on our team mates the squad split up, with me moving towards the upper container, one squad member trying to move around to flank the container (but got trade off kill with enemy coming out of the woodland before he was in position) and the other 4 trying to sneak into the container yard from the opposite side to the rest of our team. I approached the upper container, drawing my pistol, and saw 2 enemies with their backs to me through the window cut into the container. A third entered the container through the container doors and i saw him pause to look at me, trying to work out if i was friendly or not. No choice but to shoot him, then his team mates before they could react. Enemy that saw me took his hit, as did enemy 3, but enemy 2 decided to tuck himself into a corner, but his leg was still exposed.. i shot him again and he moved his leg. I asked him if he was going to take his hit, and he started gesturing to another enemy in the back of the container i couldnt see. I shot him in the hand, as evidenced by him shaking it in pain... still no hit call. I shifted angle slightly so that his pouches and stomach were exposed and i shot 4 times, seeing the flaps of his pouches moving, at least one hit the side of his stomach. Still no hit call. Then he shouts "NOW" and bomb-bursts out the container doors to shoot at me full auto while his team mate popped forward into the window to shoot me. I ignored cheater and tried to get his team mate, but was too slow and taken out. Cue cheater then shouting at me to stop cheating and take my hits, at which point i asked him when he intended to take the 6 or 7 hits i landed on him. He tried denying i hit him but eventually relented when one of the other enemies i had shot (and loitered in the container to avoid getting hit again) backed me up, and so he sloped off to respawn. As i headed to my respawn i had a word with one of the marshals about cheater, and was told that i was the second person to complain about him and they would be dealt with. I dont know the outcome of that, but i didnt notice him again (not really surprising on a large site) After respawn i went back to the container yard to find my team had pushed the enemy back, so i checked for the pole to find it had been taken already. By this point a large group of enemy had respawned and were advancing on the containers. I was pinned where i was and couldnt leave without being hit, so i decided to try and get as many enemy at range as i could. Got 3, possibly 4 at range, but then enemies got into the containers. Dropping to pistol i got 2, a third rushed the container i was in but his shot missed me by milimetres (heard it whizz past my ear) enemy 4 got into a neighboring container and tried to get a shot on me from his window through the door of my container, managed to get a snap shot which i thought had missed as i didnt hear a hit call but he pulled back. Enemy 5 tried rushing to post a grenade, but got shot before they could throw. After a pause, another enemy threw a smoke grenade into the container then tried to medic enemy 5.. he didnt make it. Next thing i hear a voice shout "do you want to surrender? Or are we coming in there to get you?" I shouted back "you are welcome to try" just as a BFG got thrown in through the door. Came out with hand raised to see 10 enemies with their guns all pointed at the door. We all fist bumped and commented "well played" before i headed to respawn. Enemy 4 had reappeared by this point and confirmed that i had indeed got a headshot on him. I apologised for headshot and shook his hand but he was cool with it. Respawned and headed to defend our hq for the last 15 mins of the game. End of the day and im packing my kit away, thinking to myself that it was a good day, despite the gear malfunctions and the cheater incident, only to then realise that at some point, i had lost my Runcam Scopecam somewhere on the land... Overall a good day, but severely annoyed at losing the runcam =/

Few things over the past month... - 10 x TAG AFG6 grenades and 10 x TAG FBG6 grenades (only one of each pictured as most have been used =P) -Poseidon barrel for my tippmann m4 -2x Raven hi capa green gas mags and 1 x CO2 Raven mag for my EMG john wick hi capa (panic purchase from on site shop due to all my pistol mags leaking when i went to fill them.. so now searching for fill valves for Raven and Vorsk mags) -Patches for my stargate loadout (have the Earth symbol patch on order, but not arrived yet) - second hand Walther scope to fit on one of my snipers (most likely WA2000) good condition, and previous owner had made a mesh lens protector/killflash

*facepalms* Im guessing thats the last time xxxxx borrowed anything from you?

Cyma spring shotties are good fun and really cheap. I picked up a breacher style cyma from the boneyard at patrolbase (all that was wrong was the loading gate needed filing down to prevent snagging) So far i have only shot it in my back garden, as i have only been to one CQB game since i bought it, but didnt take it with me as the site also had woodland areas i felt were unsuitable for a spring shotty.

welcome to the club 😃 happy i could help

the tippmann also has the benefit of dropping in a CO2 adapter kit (included with the gun) and you can run 80 round mid cps with a CO2 bulb in the mag (if you can find the mags) you are thinking of the tippmann M4V2, which is a gun i own. The M4V2 can be run as HPA and it does recoil but it can also be run on CO2 mags as i described above. i think @BigStewis thinking of the tippmann Omega

@AlphaBear if you are still hunting an AW drum 😃

Fair enough.

No worries. Thanks for letting me know. Will the meet be rescheduled to another date again?

Sorry to hear that. Hope you recover soon

@heroshark @Barny @Asomodai @GAMBLE @Tackle @leadly @MiK @L3wisD @Seany.exe @Alimcd @Sneaky @Keldon Anyone know if the meet is going ahead? Or has it been cancelled? Dont want to travel and find im the only one that turned up. Apologies for the tag spam, but i didnt get a reply to my post from last week

i should mention to @AlphaBear, my AAP doesnt have any AA "blingy bits" like a flared magwell... aside from an AA stock kit and Spitfire tracer, its 100% stock external

hey alphabear just double checked, and it is a VX model drum. i had to import it from AirsoftAtlanta due to it being out of stock everywhere in the UK.

got an armourer works drum on mine, simply plug and play

good to know... added the vest to my shopping list i just knew that would set SOMEONE off =P Nothing too exciting in this weeks haul... Can of green gas and some more Valkyrie bbs. Also bought a replacement drinking tube for my Source Rider hydration bladder... was wearing the it at CQB last weekend, but someones shot managed to hit the collar that clipped the adapter onto the hose =( (3rd pic shows damage) Also took the oportunity to buy an adapter so i can refill the bladder from a tap or a bottle while its still on my back

got to wait a couple of days for payday, then i will be looking to get a replacement hammer and nozzle springs in preparation for when the stock on finally shits itself. also... FUCK does it sting getting shot by one of these... went to Red1 the school last weekend with my brother, who wanted to try the pistol to see what the hype was about, as well as checking how well the spitfire tracer unit i fitted worked (as he is considering one for his next HPA build). little fucker then jumped on the enemy team... and shot me with my own gun =/ i swear that shot stung more than anything else i got shot with that day, even though it was well within chrono limits and shooting .25g i did get him back later though, so its all good

looks pretty good. where did you source the fans from? i was thinking of trying to get something rigged up to get air circulating through my helmet, especially in CQB arenas, to minimise fogging as well as keep my head and face cool

oohhh.... will be keeping an eye on this one. definately want to add a lee enfield to my armoury. hopefully the brexit clusterfuck is resolved so they will ship to the UK though

Dammit... you had to show me those links when i still have a week to payday... But to answer your question, as long as i can fit the mags into the pouches, then yes, i will be looking for one of those vests, otherwise i will be looking for something as close as possible while allowing several mags to be carried. Maybe in the future i will.look at an MP5, but i prefer the look of a p90... plus i already have too many guns at the moment, so im in no rush to buy a new one XD

Yep, already got a single point harness and a TM P90. Just need to find a reasonably accurate tac vest and pistol holster To complete the loadout.

nah.. SG1 got cancelled in about 2009 after the movies ark of truth and continuum, Atlantis was cancelled in 2009... i do miss the series. definately one of the best sci-fi series ever made