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The cool thing is, where it's positioned now will provide some extra cover for the spawn exit. That was one of the things I mentioned in my review of my first trip there. Carlos is all The All Seeing Eye 😋

As if 'BBC' wasn't bad enough at the woodland site, Carlos has now decided that his CQB site would be immeasurably improved if we all look at his choppa ... got to say, it's a big 'un!

I asked in the comments if this is a change to the mags or the RIF, seeing as most complaints center on the mag design

I found this in my garage, bought for my electric bike but lost, and now found... Seems like it'd be usable in my VFC GBBR, but amirite, or amirite (wrong)???

I got very interested in this, but when I saw it firing it seemed to have no recoil or moving bolt, which rather negated the point of being gas powered? (I may be wrong about that of course, but it's how it looked to me)

I think he said lunches are going to happen but he's still building his kitchen area. Extra toilet facilities getting installed too. I think I'll suggest £25, that makes a half day or evening session more of an impulse purchase.. if he wants to keep the games running regulatory mid-week with plenty of visitors it can't be priced as a once or twice a month "special event" thing, which is what feels like now. Or maybe he could throw in a bottle of ammo with the price, it might not hit his profit so much, and would still reduce the cost to the player. I don't know, maybe I'm mentally framing this from my personal currently skint "can't afford to go very often at that price" viewpoint

Special Ops' big first day of the year: the new CQB site opened! Saturday was a 'test game' with, we heard, ~7-a-side. Sunday was the first official game with 16-a-side. Well, a picture paints a thousand words, so this'll save me a metric shit-ton of typing then, won't it? https://www.facebook.com/SpecialOpsSeniors/?locale=en_GB Lots of pics and videos to peruse - I'll let you guys be the judge of how good it is a new CQB site, because this was my first ever CQB experience (outside of laser-tag!) so I have absolutely no idea if it's good. It has been very well put together, there's a big 'club room' and reception area upstairs, a decent safe zone that was a bit tricky to navigate through due to the desks and people and gear filling it up - and the benches are a bit narrow (which Carlos admitted), but it's all impressive to my untutored eye. Carlos and his volunteers have obviously worked very hard and I hope it's a success. I've had a long day at work, so rather than writing out a War And Peace on all the stuff, I'll give you the bullet points (if you'll pardon the pun) I got lost on the way there - Google maps took exception to the location from the web site and kept trying to steer me back to a random location in the middle of nowhere. I had to stop the instructions and just eyeball the map as I drove. There's no signage at the entrance either, so easy to drive past it. It's really not very far at all from the woodland site. (There's a '3 Words' location that other people used successfully - I'll try to find it) Usual rules - 350fps/0.20g, max BB weight of 0.25g. Bangs (upto and including my new grenade with 0.209 primers) allowed (but not much evident) Reasonable car park, close to the entrance, so even though I took all my short guns, and masses of kit with me, it wasn't too onerous to get into the building. I still managed to leave my toolbox at home - which proved really annoying as I had my Allen keys, speedloader, and my 'nade primers in there. That proved enough to stop me using my grenade until a test shot at the end of the day, and stopped me using my GBBR (without the speedloader) or my Tippmann (couldn't get the FPS and hop quite dialled in, thanks to having to borrow allen keys and running out of time) CQB. Damn, it hurts getting pinged so often at short range. The BB's always seemed to find a bit of uncovered or thinly covered skin to hit Fog Of War. Between my goggles fogging up and the variable lighting, half the time I had no idea where my BBs were flying - and thanks to Carlos not having 0.25's in stock, I had to buy and use 0.20s with little idea where they were going. Time to invest in a tracer unit, methinks! I tried a Dye full-face mask I got dirt-cheap, and didn't like it - couldn't get my eye in line with the sights. Back to the goggles + mesh lower mask I also found none of my face protection works very well with my new headset, so bang protection will probably have to be ear plugs for the near future, but luckily the only guys throwing BFG 'nades around were not having much luck getting them to go off. I begged a primer off one of them for a test throw at the end - and 'bang' went my OhShiBoom. That'll be fun to use for real. A bit too easy to get spawn trapped, even with two spawn exits. Apparently the site has been designed (or allowed) to have an uneven balance in difficulty. My team seemed to spend almost the entire session at the difficult side and consequently we got murdered. Might need some extra cover or another door... or just more swapping of spawns. Some of the guys had a whale of a time running around with their rubber knives. Everyone seemed to enjoy the core gameplay. Me, well CQB is a very different style. It wasn't speedy-boi stuff, but still I think I'm naturally more in to the long sneaky flank rather than the bullet-hail around the spawns. I guess I'll get used to it, if I can afford to play very much. My only real criticism is the pricing. I have no idea if it's competitive to what the rest of you guys are paying now, though. When I was going to Spec Ops' woodland site a couple of years back, it was £25 for a (daylight allowing) 09:30 - 16:30 day. It got bumped to £30 recently. The CQB is priced at £35 for a 10:00 - 14:30 / 15:00 - 19:30 session, or £45 for the full day (which I couldn't do, so I took the morning slot) I feel that's a bit much for the half-day slots, but then again I suppose the safe zone is right there, and so are the spawns, so actual pewing time is probably much greater. And much less ammo used too. So yeah, a decently fun intro to CQB, though I didn't totally fall in love with it - I got zapped way too much, zapped others way too little, and thanks to some technical hitches I spent too long meddling with kit in the safe zone. Next time might go better. Guns taken: Double Eagle M906C (Old Faithful) TM AUG HC (always fun to run, but chrono'd very low at 230fps on 0.20's - time for a service, maybe a new spring) Tippmann M4 HPA (slightly too hot, just missed out on chrono due to fps variance) VFC HK416 GBBR (no speedloader, left in the case) G&G G36 (gearbox locked up a few times on semi) TM D.O.R Hi Capa (used a bit, great as always) JG SIG 552 (didn't use it, but should have)

"Gunbilical" ... excellent 👏 And for that reason I'm still waiting on my first chance to try my tippmann HPA on the field. That will very much decide whether I invest in an HPA adapter for my '416, or buy extra mags. Or another AEG (The temptation to buy a cheap electric mp5 remains strong, if unjustifiable)

You'd best check for 'cad' too. Most bounders tend to be cads from what I hear

I've just played cqb laser tag in a works night out. Great fun and everything in a short dose, but trying to get the darned things to register hits, even at 6 ft away was often a bit ridiculous And there's always some one backed into a corner with their arms crossed over the front sensor, who is pinging people as they go past with total impunity. I played a full range version at the Milton Keynes karting track a couple? few? years ago, where the sensors were on mock plate carriers and helmets. That worked ok-ish but I think most of the guns shoot way off from the sights and it was very hard (ok, impossible) to tell how far to aim off when you're in combat. I was good at that and got voted MVP in both sessions, but it still wasn't a patch on Airsoft

I'll never look at you the same way again..... 😍

Yeah there's definitely some merit to that point. I can certainly leave my spares in a toolbox and refill between rounds if I have to

The alternative takeaway from the explosive enterprises video is that you can work around or fix stuff fairly easily on the Version 2 VFC , or go buy the 5.56mm HK53 one instead, which is effectively a Version 3 though with the (slightly less aesthetically appealing?) chunky mag

This definitely counts as both effective and budget-friendly, but doesn't quite have the 'zing' of the Lynx Africa BB bottle idea The search for Lord Sugar's next business partner... continues...

Cool, I'll be interested in one of those 👍

Liking the look of this a lot To save me going to look it up, is the optics mount a standard one, or does it only take the plastic red dot they sold with the D.O.R Hi Capa? (Not sure why I'm asking really, I can't afford £170 on a new pistol, however cool it looks)

But 0.40s are oh-so-satisfying

It is, I think, the AEG VFC's he hates

Gen 3 doesn't have an NPAS built in like the Gen 2 does, but may have some better components inside, so ya takes ya choice on that. It will be happier in the sunshine than in the winter, just cos it's gas (and not a TM MWS?). The hop adjustment seemed to creep on mine, but it's super-easy to adjust back (or maybe the hop rubber was changing its performance - getting oily or cold or dirty?) And the latest two mags I bought for it (the black rather than grey versions) both leaked when I received them. Both got fixed - temporarily. One is now useless because I can't seem to fit it back together properly (and will be a donor if/when I buy an HPA adapter from Airtac) and the other had a slow leak last time I checked. So, when buying extra mags, do some research because it may be the grey ones are the ones to get. Or some old stock or BCM ones. Gas mags are heavy and are more likely to jump out of pouch when you run - make sure they're nice and snug or have retaining bungees / covers. But... I love my '416, it's the coolest gun I own.

Excellent, now just pop it into the post to me, there's a good chap!

Oh yeah, me too. Has to be the UK army spec with the simple rear sight though, amirite? I believe the reason they get bad reviews is it's easy to break the nozzle or knock it off line if you slam-load a mag with the slide forwards. If you always have the slide locked back for reloads to keep it out of harm's way, it'll be fine. (At least that was my understanding, there might be other stuff too) So yeah, we share two guns on our wishlist 😋👍

Ollie Talks Airsoft does a good video on it (it's a big thumbs-up) (Oh man, I still can't process... ) There was one at a bargain price on these classifieds a little while ago, I'm still kicking myself for not buying it, I'm a big fan of 'em too.

I've bought a couple of British army smoke grenade pouches off eBay, £7 for two.... Hopefully they'll do the job

Ah, so very appropriate on Valentine's day.. I often find that in a tight spot, rapid deployment is often a problem... "Hang about ladies, I just have to untangle this". 😁 Yeah, done sort of grenade pouch would be the very thing, but I'm one of them poors now, so repurposing stuff is my go-to thing. I did find this which is cheap enough Viper TACTICAL Elite Grenade Pouch https://amzn.eu/d/0K4Vsln The retention isn't much different from my SA80 pouch though! ... Hmmm reading the reviews they're not that impressed with the retention, I need to find one with a velcro flap