Dan Robinson

^^^^^^^^ This - my one double pews with 11.1v.

If you can't laugh at your own stupid - what can you do?

Had heard that story along with a load of others about musician's "riders" from my then flat mate who was a drummer - but never realised that was the reason for it. Reminds me of a job where I had to get on a flat roof of a converted warehouse in London Docklands where there was a 3m balcony around the building for the top floor apartments. I'm still of the age where if I hurt myself doing something stupid its no one else's fault but my own - and that the same should apply to everyone. Hence I was rather miffed at having to write a risk assessment for the management company to go up there to confirm something ahead of a project... The writing of this thing would take longer than the trip onto the roof. So I decided to have some fun and wrote all sorts of things in there along the lines of "shall access the roof paying all due care and attention to ill tempered low flying seagulls and the urge to take a running jump". It was obvious this was never read as I got the go ahead; and was ironically nearly knocked out by the heavy roof hatch as one of the gas struts had failed and it fell on my head. Something I didn't mention checking LOL.

Box in that position purely for photography... inside though is 3 of the boy's old school shirts so nothing gets through.

Here's mine with chrono shelf...

I have actually made a box for test firing and chrono work. This was a slightly different situation.

Thought I'd lost a couple of pieces....turns out they had worked their way inside the pew during transit (I'd put them in the case after they'd come lose on a game day). Wasted an hour of Google, then made thos post, stripped out the washing machine filter and the cab of my van. Still all back together now LOL

I was trying to make a set of grips and slides fit with a mag in the well (because the mag was catching on the new grip) and the safety is really weird on the Auto 9. I am planning on a big tidy up at the weekend when I install a new monitor and monitor stand. Old 4 monitor stand will be available to reasonable offers 😉

I did have eye pro on. 🤣

Pah.... The less said about what I did to one of my monitors the other day the better...

Well I feel a bit of a dick. Lets leave it at that 🤣

One would guess that people would be within their rights to use "reasonable force" to end their false imprisonment, but how far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? No organisation/person has the right to detain anyone without good cause (see section 24A again), and I doubt any of the examples above would constitute a good cause. Your casino would probably have justified their actions solely because of the police being en-route, but ultimately they got away without trouble from the people because of the nature of crowds (very interesting video on that recent on YouTube - link a the bottom). Also the security people there would have been licensed and therefore trained in what they can get away with, but they have no more powers than you or I and can only detain someone for a "reasonable" amount of time using minimal force, and specifically relating to a crime. No airsoft site would get away with it unless they caught the thief red handed.

Well the site could be in some big doo doo's. Even the police have limitations on what they can do in terms of detention, and I doubt that extends to holding 80+ people in an area on the say so of some rando. It's all under section 24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, and I doubt very much the casino would be covered if anyone expressed a desire to leave.

Yep....the balck taxi next to the bus. Apparently they are moving loads of the vehicles about.

Made it to Driver Wood yesterday, and have to say it is one of the best Safe Zones I've seen, clean, plenty of covered tables, decent food and toilets too. Chrono was effective - my new G36 was too hot, my L85 needed a few mags run through it to calm it down too. The game zone was pretty damn good too with plenty of vehicles to play around and in (including two Sea King helicopters and a London bus. I was rather miffed to discover that the non hit taker I was about to call out was in fact stood behind a fully rolled up window, and there was now two hicaps worth of BBs sitting in the back seat of the open window I was shooting through. LOL. Show's it's worth checking before making a knob of yourself and complain unnecessarily (see story below). Sadly I just couldn't get into the feel of things apart from the last game of the day. Not sure if it was me having a lot on family wise at the moment and not having the boy with me, or if it was the worry of my knee giving up (which thankfully it didn't). Certainly not the fault of the site. Games started off with a TDM, then various item acquisition and domination games. One criticism I do have though is that the attitude to spawn camping by the marshals was rather soft. Our team seemed to always end up pinned down to a certain extent, but to be fair the green team were much more organised and pushed forward much harder than our team at the beginning of each game giving them the upper hand. The best game of the day for me, was the Escort the VIP. Said VIP had to reach certain locations and stay there for 5 minutes before moving on. We had one amusing incident where I was helping him through the CQB area and we were firing as we moved. A guy (who was on his third day in a row thanks to NAF and possibly "tired and emotional") was rather upset that he thought we were on full auto whilst slot shooting him. We (then a marshal) politely pointed out that we were both on semi, and that shooting him through the slot he was hiding behind was perfectly OK, as well as the fact we were in the open at the time. His whining then went on to rate of fire, seeing as he lost all other arguments; and that the slot shooting rule was not explained to him properly. At which point the VIP and I just wandered off to have fun elsewhere. Especially ironic as his team were not the greatest at hit taking and we had been taking full auto hits all afternoon without moaning; plus there was some very dodgy hit taking and a lot of blind firing from one of his pals who was holding the big tower in an earlier game. For what it's worth the slot shooting rule is the same at every other site I have played, so why he thought it was any different here I don't know. My new fan-equipped eye pro, courtesy of @mightyjebus proved to be very effective. The only issue was the unavoidable "raining" on the lenses when the sweat was really pouring; but no amount of anti-fog is going to help with that unless wipers are fitted. A gentle draft across the lenses kept them nice and clear, with no problem of the eyes drying out. Pew of the day was the DE 904 - whilst a little short on range, the accuracy and shot consistency more than made up for it. Specna and L85 were working well, although for some reason BBs were veering off more than usual once they got past 30 metres or so. Shame to have missed @ASP383and @Asomodai, maybe another time? Will certainly try and get there again as it happens to be just off a short cut I take when I drive to my dad's house -so I have been driving passed it unawares for years LOL. I know the boy would love it because of the vehicles. One last amusing occurrence was a bunch of guys doing an paintball stag (judging by the outfits) do came up to me and asked if us airsofters were on some kind of military training - my reply was "nope just like you guys but with more realistic guns and better value for money" which is when I noticed their surprising collection of deactivated weapons for a picture - including what looked an awful lot like an AT4 rocket launcher and a Mauser anti tank gun.

Hence my qualifier "ask nicely". Be a tw@t and you'll be treated accordingly. It's a horrible balance to find, but ultimately social responsibility goes both ways.

Think you got the best game of the day TBH. Sorry your lad couldn't carry on....I'm gonna post in the the How's Your Day thread later 👍

Doubt it's a right that can be revoked simply. Personally I wouldn't have a problem having my gear searched if asked nicely, but you'd be doing very well to stop me from leaving when I deemed it time to go.

Forced Imprisonment is a big no no.

I'm set up just by the entrance If you're about....on the orange team that just got slayed in TDM 🤣

Either we've been very lucky or you lot need to play different sites. Anything dropped or lost has been found and handed back to us... even pistol mags in 70 acres of woodland have found their way home.

Do you live in a hard water area? If so, get a proper salt based water softener. Electronic or magnetic ones are pointless. SWMBO gets itchy skin within hours of ours running putnof salt.

Welcome to Airsoft How about the Sofa, dining table, dining chairs and a whole wall of my office? When SWMBO comes back in the new year I'm screewed 🤣🤣

Just thinking differently, but, i don't really know your condition... is there some topical cream you could apply to reduce the effects like Aloe Vera or E45?