Fatboy40

God it's been ages hasn't it, and it looked so good.

Ummm... I should do but sometimes I can't see the wood for the trees 🙄

I had high hopes for the "outer barrel", a nice long rail on the top, but the screws supplied with it were too long and stopped the bolt / carrier from moving when installed. The screws for the stock Action Army rail kit are to short to use, so I bought some 6mm ones but they were too short to properly screw in, so it's just gathering dust now 😢

Well, you'd like to think that, but it doesn't (which is why I asked them on this thread). The Alton site's been around for a while, and it's close to me, and my nephew is 11 in just over a week's time and can then come with me and others as they have a low age limit 👍

Do you mean that after the first hundred shots the gas pressure drops or that you hit another problem? If it's the gas pressure I carry either a mini Nuprol 2.0 can or a mini Abbey Predator Ultra with me, I can then top off the drum mag mid-skirmish and keep that peak drum performance 👍

How do we know how many places are left at any site? Do you just book and hope for the best? (hopefully not)

I know that "Latest News" is probably not the best place for this, however looking at the video below... ... from only a week ago am I and my son going to be screwed if we go there without torches on our guns? (we've already got tracer units and BB's, but I think without torches we're doomed)

Does "one of these" = the AW VX Series drum mag? If yes you may be interested to hear that mine crapped out at the weekend, which I use with my AAP-01 and I've not been abusing it and only use semi-auto, but was repairable. First the output valve crapped out and dumped too much gas each time icing the gun up, but easy to sort out, but more hassle was the coil spring in the winding mechanism popped off of the centre of the mechanism (the AW group on Facebook shows how to fix this, but I'm now going to buy a spare winding mechanism as you can get these).

With a budget of under £100, and you also don't say if you're UKARA or not so £10 of your budget may go on a two-tone job, like others have said it has to be the Action Army AAP-01. If you don't hammer it on auto it's amazingly solid, and even if you need to two-tone it you could spend £10 on a Maple Leaf Autobot bucking as well and still be within your budget.

Nuprol 3.0 coming out of the back of the slide of WE Glock onto my hand whilst spamming the trigger, and this is through a sturdy glove... https://imgur.com/a/Ikf2iZU

Sunday game at Ironsight near Andover with my son, which went really well (other than Nuprol 3.0, using an AW drum mag, icing up my AAP-01 towards the end of the day, will stick with 2.0). My son had a great time which was the best part of it 😀 Very sore knees today, must get knee pads!

We're getting off topic, however a doctor once told me about a certain Southern / TVS newsreader arriving in A&E with a coat hanger up his bum when she was on her shift 😯

Their dates are properly up now, and two tickets booked. Gonna' be weird going pew pew in somewhere I've shopped in 😆

My son loves his Firehawk, his first AEG, and I was interested to hear what you've done to yours. Please don't be offended by my comment but when AEG's like the Double Eagle M904G exist for around £140, with all the above as stock plus 20 more FPS and a quick change spring, I'd think I'd rather just replace the Firehawk with it.

Did you have to think in Russian?... ... on a serious note though my son has a G&G Firehawk, stock apart from me replacing the amplifier (it still sound like dynamite going off with each shot though), what mods did you do?

So, it looks like they're opening again post the second lock-down at the start of June 2021. I've been looking for an indoor site local to me for a while now, primarily due to the constant rain we've had in the south recently, and Z-Mart looks perfect (plus it sounds like I should fit in well with my AAP-01, drum mag and tracer). Edit: Well, that's odd, in that their website now looks different to how it did this morning and the dates in their calendar have vanished 🤨

All of this is as clear as mud really isn't it 😡 The below provides no useful guidance that I can see for airsoft sites... https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19/the-visitor-economy ... and according to the below... https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-response-spring-2021/covid-19-response-spring-2021-summary#step-3---not-before-17-may ... is airsoft acceptable from 12th April or 17th May? Is airsoft an "outdoor attraction" or "outdoor venue", what a nightmare for site owners.

I've been using these... https://www.specs4sports.co.uk/evader-2-over-glasses-goggles--camo-frame-2117-p.asp ... and they fit with room to spare over my rectangular framed glasses and are vented so no fog (however the foam against your face isn't that robust and gets compressed quite easily).

Probably not a worry for me, my original hammer is still good being a semi-only kind of guy, so I'll probably only swap it over for the improved OEM one once I've used the gun in a few more games.

(I was tempted to post this in the Facebook AAP-01 group, but being UK based I thought here may be a little more sensible (and people seem like minded)) I use an AAP-01 as a primary, along with the Action Army stock + Armorer Works drum mag + a red dot, but with the rail kit being out of stock everywhere in the UK I'm think of pushing the button on a Black Mamba (I say "thinking" but I'll probably go ahead and buy one at the weekend anyhow and then regret it at my leisure). In my mind I'm thinking of the following as justifications... With just the stock, and the stumpy rail on it / the stock not being that long, I feel that the red dot is maybe too far back and I'd like it further forward. I've no bottom rail, so nowhere to put a grip which I'd quite like. If I did have the rail kit, and added a grip, I'm wondering if I'd be putting too much load on the outer barrel (I've heard of it "drooping" under excessive weight and the Black Mamba will prevent this). The site I go to most is semi only, so no problems with icing up on full auto, but I'm assuming that the Black Mamba will help with absorbing the cold. ... and I'm struggling to think of any negatives to the Black Mamba other than its cost?