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FYI this has been cancelled - Site owners being a pain apparently. Shame as it had already been cleared out and was starting to look decent!

I have decided not to return to AI after the last few, been very poor. You seem to have had a good experience but I have seen reports of police being called for not allowing people out of the gates and marshals saying they will shoot at people's cars if they try to leave? Good that they're listening though i guess. Still sounds like chrono is a mess despite the 8mm BB's that were being used in Dover.

Gareth has been busy and brought a new site! Its the old Ambush adventure site. Given the development he has done on the Gatwick site, I'm super excited! (Its also an hour closer to me). Here is his FB post below. Welcome to Chobham Activity Centre one of the oldest Airsoft sites in the country. This site has been closed for well over a year and will be rebuilt from scratch. Some players may not know but I was the head marshal at this site for sometime. I know every inch of the site and how it plays and the issues. This site will undergo a huge rebuild. This will include: New safe zone hardcore. New toilet block with real toilets. New seating and cover. Shooting/chono range at 50m. New air system. The game zone will be rebuilt: Multi level fort. Towers. Open Bridges. Closed Bridges. And a whole lot more!! I am aiming to open the site for Airsoft only (Full site use) Sundays (all other activities Saturdays) First game 6th of May Address: Higher Park Farm, Halebourne Ln, Woking GU24 8SL

It was indeed Ambush. Driver Wood announced they have brought the site yesterday and it will be opening in May for airsoft (Sundays only)

👀👀 from what I can tell the mood yesterday was set from the starting brief. It was massively overbooked and they said in the brief ‘we didn’t expect this many to turn up’ loads of rule changes that were made that nobody was aware of and some questionable marshalling. The organisers turned around and basically said it’s the players fault😂

Anybody go to AI500 this weekend? I didn’t go but after posts in the Facebook page and the organisers threatening to call the police for harassment over some memes I need a little more information 😂

Their website states that they produce them themselves, either they don't care about a false advertising claim or they actually do. The massive price difference would also indicate they they are doing something different to other brands

So.... AI500 2022... After last years questionable weekend i really thought that some things would have been sorted out... Some of them were, others not so much... Let me start off by saying that there was some really good gameplay from both teams. I was on the green team and despite being outnumbered, most of the team were pushing any trying their best to make the most of a shit situation... Now... onto the nitty gritty. If you have seen any of the posts regarding last year, there were a few main points that came out of them. They mostly mentioned lack of marshalling, complete lack of chrono, poor organisation and communication and less than ideal bottlenecks. Some of these were addressed to an extent but i don't think any of these issues were truly sorted. GENERAL BITS The weekend was off to a questionable start when we realised how many people the other team had compared to us. I think they had over 50 more players after no-shows ect. I really don't know how they can let this happen with an online booking system. Surely they can ask people to move over before the event has started. We were held in our spawn quite a lot over the first day. When asking a marshal on day 2 if they would make anybody move over his response was 'we have'. I kid you not, they got about 5 people over and called it a day 🤣 We didn't see the second half of the field at all until the second day at 12pm when they finally decided we were getting fucked so hard they would let us start pretty much at their spawn. Well this was great to see that half of the site but it was too little too late unfortunately and we were back in our spawn within about 40 minutes. I have no idea how they could just watch us sit in the spawn for so long and not think about changing things up sooner. We were pissed off as we could make no progress and im sure the tans were fairly bored sitting around doing not much (Im sure some of them enjoyed the £90 interactive shooting range though) They made a good attempt this year to avoid the bottlenecks of last year and put up some temp barriers and also covered the sports-field in tarp. This made movement much better than last year. It's worth me mentioning that there was a hole in the floor in one of the buildings. Tape had been put up on either side but nothing was mentioned in the brief including the fact that you cannot shoot down the hallway through the tape (nothing was there to indicate hard cover) CHRONO Let's start off by taking a look at the chrono (if you can call it that). I can only assume after some moaning last year about not having one, they thought they should really be doing a chrono this year. Welp, doing a voluntary chrono is certainly not the play they should have made here, they may as-well have not had one. Saying that, at least there were no 8mm BBs flying around like there was last year. Neither did i have blood drawn this year. THE PYRO SAGA Right, this one really got me. This carries on from last year but it triggered me again this year. The rules state the below. 'Pyro limited to MK4 anywhere on site. This includes reusable pyro (at the last game TLFX made us some MK5 pyro but with a special bang so they were not as noisy as normal MK5 levels). These will be permitted if anyone has any left or will be sold on site via Ammo Drop. If not bought directly from site though please stick to MK4.' Now i spoke to TLFX and they have confirmed that no special pyro was ever made for last year. There is no such thing as a Mk4 bang in a Mk5. This year, the onsite shop was selling MK5's from FBS. Apparently these were fine as they had been sound tested. However, the rules still state no MK5s? Why cant i use my own? Why cant they just admit that this is a deal with the onsite shop to get more purchases and is nothing to do with sound levels. BIO and ammo limits The rules clearly stated that only BIO ammo was to be used and a max of 600 round per person. Ammo limits were not policed at all, plenty of people running around with box and drum mags from the start. On the topic of BIOs, at the end of Sunday I was emptying my mags with some full auto goodness when a Marshal came up and said 'Just because it's the end of the day, does't mean you need to waste your BB's.' Upon my reply of 'Why? I paid for them' I got a response of 'we have to sweep them all up'... Okay cool, if you're sweeping them, why make me get Bio's then? Questionable marshalling A few things here, i really don't think that they had enough Marshal's. The marshals that were there, did not seem to communicate at all and some of them were just rude. There was a few places that we were not able to shoot over due to delicate windows. We seemed to get an absolute bollocking for shooting over these areas but tans could fire over them all day long and have no issues. People were getting shouted at all day for this despite nothing being mentioned in the brief, same goes for the hole in the floor I mentioned earlier, how am i mean to know if i'm not told? Also, when you are telling people, maybe just mention it rather than getting your knickers in a twist. Mentioning it on the brief would mean you don't need to tell every player individually. They were not amazing with policing hit taking although really this falls on the players more than anything. One marshal was even taking handfuls of MK5s off people as he didn't realise that they were allowed to be corrected by players... None of them just seemed to actually know the rules. Anyway, i could probably write more, I just don't see the point. They had so much time to make sure that this went better than the last one and even had the weather on their side this time however the organisation was still piss poor, rules may as-well have been non existent and yet despite people not coming back on the Sunday there was no real effort in my opinions to fix the issue (minus one 40 minute bit of gameplay). Nowhere near worth the £90 in my opinion, 2 days at a local site would have been just as good, if not better as they actually would have equalled out the teams and changed game-modes after seeing such a shitshow. The blatant lying about the MK5's really ticked me off too. Some serious changes need to be made if they want to get back to how AI used to be.

Hiya, A new brand has popped up recently called Warhead Delta. Warhead are very well known for their motors and have now started to make BBS. Their pricing is fantastic and sometimes over half the amount i would normally pay. My goto is Geoffs but having shot over 4kg over the weekend of Warhead i can confirm that they are as good, for half the price.

Hm… write up coming soon…

I can think of a better place to hide it 👀

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Just having a look at the documentation... It says the pressure operation range is from 40-140psi... This documentation is for Gen 1 though... No documentation for Gen 2 so i assume its the same.

This. If you can get a UK distributor, dropshipping is fine. Otherwise you're just asking for people moaning about delivery and issues when it takes a month to resolve issues

So now they buy on your website that just auto buys from ali express instead 🤣 Fair play. Good luck.

I can understand going for a profit if you hold stock and its quick delivery but 80% is quite a markup for dropshipping and china delivery times

When one of the teens asked for green gas and they passed the HPA tank i had a little giggle

Haha its been good so far. I'm finding that im hitting 277FPS on a .32 at only 52psi... Not sure if something is up there or not! Either way, its set up well and had a right blast on Sunday!

I probably could have worded this much better if I'm honest.... I think this is what I'm trying to get at. What do you all think good value is? In terms of today, £30 entry, £20 on single bottle of 32's plus just over £12 for lunch and two drinks.

Title says it all. Some of the best sites I have played at were 25 including lunch, others 40 with no lunch. I'm not talking about anything special, just your average woodland site. im finding I can easily spend £70 on a skirmish day after lunch and BBs. Kinda seems a bit excessive…

Here's mine. Its not currently got an engine in and has not had one for 9 months. Bottom end bearings went bye bye. Should be back this month. Not many people are aware of the 4 door R34s and the ones that do take a strange look on them. I personally love them. Maybe its a sign that I'm getting older but ever since I drove a B5 S4 I have been in love with 4 door saloons. The engine being out has been a bit of a blessing, although its been a boring 9 months without the car, its got some goodies going in such as forged pistons and rods, link ecu and a few other goodies.

Me and a mate both got Billet SBR's. Had a good weekend testing mine out. Unfortunately my mates had an issue where air was constantly coming out of the barrel, even without pressing the trigger. We checked what we could but he has sent it off for a replacement. He's understandably put off by the whole thing but hopefully a new unit will get him back on track 👍 Mine has been pretty solid. I got it within 1 FPS of the limit with only 1 adjustment so ill take that was a win. My hop seems to be non existent or shooting for the moon but i'm sure once its bedded in it should be mint

Haha not too sure about that! Nobody I know runs HPA so going to be an interesting one. As much as I have watched 10's of video's at this point, i'm still not 100% on how it all works! Going to pop down to a site this weekend for some words of advise

Last year was my first event. I don't have much to compare it to other than normal skirmishes. Saturday was not great, mostly due to weather and the amount of people. People were stacking up in a few places meaning it was hard to make progress. Other people have written up much better reviews. Sunday after a fair few people had gone home was 100x better due to less players. It was their first time at this site and they had no idea how it would play with so many people. I'm hoping this year should have everything ironed out and be much better. My mate who got me into airsoft said they always have good and bad years. Given Sunday last year and the time they have had to sort out the issues, it should be good!

Hey all, Anybody coming to AI500 this year? Ill be on the green team for anybody that wants to find others to play with. Apparently they have reduced the team sizes this year so it should be slightly better gameplay. Sunday last year was really good so I'm hoping it carry's on from there. Also as its the second time on the site I'm hoping they have sorted out a few of the issues.