Egon_247

TBH I thought the same thing.
I was in 5th year when this was in the charts & a schoolfriend persuaded me to be lead singer in the band they were forming (inspired by Bad Manners), I was shite but looked the part.

Ok, so before I say how my game day went... what the hell? Like, that is one of the worst things I've ever heard at an airsoft event, and I used to play in Spain in the late 2000s when there were no sites, no rules, no health and safety and we never did anything as stupid as throwing a goddamn log over a wall! I will say that of all the sites down near me (Driver Wood, Worthing Airsoft, Southdown and Dogtag), Dogtag is the only one that I've been to that I will never make any effort to go back to as my experience of it, while not as bad as yours, was pretty awful.

Anyway, for me today at Worthing Airsoft was simultaneously glorious and horrible conditions for sniping with my lovely gas guns; schroedinger's airsoft?
 
I brought my m700 and mk12 MWS with me today as those were the guns I was planning on bringing to Shift Your RIFTs next weekend and wanted to make sure they were working well. Weirdest thing with my m700 was that the scope was off and all my shots were going to the right. Easily fixed by... rotating the rear scope ring 180 degrees? So now my lovely 3.5-25x56mm overkill scope is nice and straight again, but having one scope ring with the bolt one side and the other with the bolt the other side is doing my head in a little, but I can suffer the asymmetric nature of it since it's shooting lovely and straight now. The mk12 MWS is not coming with me to Shift Your RIFTs because it was not happy hopping .45s, even at 2.32J which seems to be their DMR limit; it was only going to be a backup gun anyway, so I'll just swap it out for my m14 scout instead. I plan on using the m700 anyway, and that was shooting like a dream, so no drama there.
 
In terms of the gameplay, I only played in the morning. Lately my heart has been acting up (the symptoms are very light at least), so I didn't get as much sleep as I would've liked last night as it kept me up until 2am. I went out with the m700 and it was glorious. The weather was amazing! 18 - 20 degrees all day, barely any wind and lots of sun. Perfect airsoft weather! The thing that made the conditions horrible was just how much Worthing Airsoft has bushed up. Using anything with an MED right now is just difficult and a lot of the site is just impractical with a 30m radius of "no shoot". It's even more bushy than last year and it gets more bushy with every year it seems because it's largely uncontrolled. We have a lot more bushes sprouting up everywhere and it's making sight lines impossible, especially when firing from prone as I tend to do when sniping. I still managed to get into a spot where eventually one of the marshalls just told the enemy team where I was and I got hosed, because I was singlehandedly stopping them advancing through one part of the site. I almost ran out of ammo, and with 4 mags with me that never happens at a skirmish day as I'm very disciplined with my shots (still only about 100 total as each mag is about 25rds, but I tend to only shoot if I know I'll hit). Very pleased with the new belt kit setup and extremely pleased with how well my new £97 ghillie cape and boonie setup worked. Taking that next weekend for sure!
 
All in all, very good day. Would've played the whole day, but I was pretty tired and I needed to make sure the m700 was shooting well (only fixed the off-centre scope after lunch) and had to test the MWS, which was lucky I did or I would've taken that to Shift Your RIFTs and it would've been dead weight. I need to pick up some .43s for it at some point, but I just don't want to spend the money yet.
 
Looking forward to Shift Your RIFTs next weekend. This was weekend #1 of 5 consecutive weekends as I have Worthing game days every 2 weeks, and in between I have Shift Your RIFTs and a Vietnam filmsim weekend. Roll on next weekend, and I hope the weather holds out!

I'd like to thank the 2 members of the opposite team that revived me at Team Black Thistle in Dunragit yesterday!
Mistaking me for one of their own, they took their hits well afterwards.

I'll cross that one off the list then!

Well that was one day of airsoft that I don't want to repeat. 
By lunchtime I'd packed my gear up and was no longer shooting as the locals appeared to be made from Teflon and were impervious to hits. 
 
Play was stopped after some numpty threw a LOG over a wall, shouting grenade and nigh on knocked some poor unsuspecting bloke out. 😱
I laid 15 rounds into a guy (3 shot bursts) every single one bouncing off him, including a few off his noggin with a marshal watching and nothing. Nada.
 
To prevent fatalities I gave up. Went back to the safe zone and grabbed a coffee.
 
The Marshalls couldn't give two shits if you complained..unless you were a regular. 
 
If a 13 year old comes back to the safe zone telling me he doesn't feel safe out there, then there's something wrong.
 
Genuinely never going back.
Sorry dogtag airsoft in Crawley, unimpressed.
 
 
 

Well that was one day of airsoft that I don't want to repeat. 
By lunchtime I'd packed my gear up and was no longer shooting as the locals appeared to be made from Teflon and were impervious to hits. 
 
Play was stopped after some numpty threw a LOG over a wall, shouting grenade and nigh on knocked some poor unsuspecting bloke out. 😱
I laid 15 rounds into a guy (3 shot bursts) every single one bouncing off him, including a few off his noggin with a marshal watching and nothing. Nada.
 
To prevent fatalities I gave up. Went back to the safe zone and grabbed a coffee.
 
The Marshalls couldn't give two shits if you complained..unless you were a regular. 
 
If a 13 year old comes back to the safe zone telling me he doesn't feel safe out there, then there's something wrong.
 
Genuinely never going back.
Sorry dogtag airsoft in Crawley, unimpressed.
 
 
 

No, my shift pattern for work means I don't get many sundays off so I have to travel around to play

I think the thread is the important bit. It's v small, in a fine pitched m6 kinda size. I thought the gas valves were imperial (may be lack of sleep doing that though 🤣)
I'm trying araldite just in case, you never know .. 😁
Failing that, I'll plug the hole and drill n tap a new one, if I can figure out the pitch/sizes.

I said something very similar to that...🤣
Even the dog looked at me, like "wtf was that" 🤣🤣

So there I am, in my tellytubbies pyjamas, asleep in my bed when at 4am I'm woken up by a sharp loud hiss noise.
My brain went "that was a mag vent noise".
Out of bed, had a look at the mag rack, nope, all is well. Ah, probably just my brain reacting to that cheese from under the fridge that I ate.
Back to sleep.
 
Only, I'm getting my gear ready for tomorrow and check my storm 360 grenade is all good. Which it isn't. 🤔
 
It appears that the gas inlet valve has had enough and has bailed out of the grenade in a very grenadey way. 
I cant find it, I was half expecting it to be embedded in the cieling 🤣🤣🤣
 
The threads have stripped and left a very clean exit hole 🤣🤣
 
Damn. Not sure araldite is man enough for it....
Any suggestions? 

I said something very similar to that...🤣
Even the dog looked at me, like "wtf was that" 🤣🤣

Horlicks?

So there I am, in my tellytubbies pyjamas, asleep in my bed when at 4am I'm woken up by a sharp loud hiss noise.
My brain went "that was a mag vent noise".
Out of bed, had a look at the mag rack, nope, all is well. Ah, probably just my brain reacting to that cheese from under the fridge that I ate.
Back to sleep.
 
Only, I'm getting my gear ready for tomorrow and check my storm 360 grenade is all good. Which it isn't. 🤔
 
It appears that the gas inlet valve has had enough and has bailed out of the grenade in a very grenadey way. 
I cant find it, I was half expecting it to be embedded in the cieling 🤣🤣🤣
 
The threads have stripped and left a very clean exit hole 🤣🤣
 
Damn. Not sure araldite is man enough for it....
Any suggestions? 

I decided to bite the bb and paid them a visit last night. I've put a post on the 'how did your airsoft day go' thread so I'll keep it short here. A nice little site which is well run. The only negatives were that they don't allow bangs and some of the dead players giving people's positions away. I'd definitely visit again but I don't know how often they change the layout as it could get a little boring if they don't 

I know. Unfortunately irony/sarcasm doesn’t come over too well in print/black and white… 😂

Used to slosh it around on all sorts as an apprentice....I'm amazed I'm still alive...🤣🤣🤣

airsoft magic.

1,1,1-Trichloroethane or GTFO!

It's a cheap high though! 😵‍💫

That stuff is evil! Somewhat pungent too!!! 😱😱😱🤪

The blokes in Medway. Explains a lot.

Let's see of this will work now....
 
Some pics of my loot...

Two posters, which I then got autographed and authenticated. Now I just need to get them framed...  Almost everyone signed in black,  but had a laugh with David Hewlett who asked what colour I would like his autograph done in, and I said I would leave it up to him to choose...   so he went with gold and joked that it was in character for Rodney.
 

Some screen-used props with certificates of authenticity...
 

Group photo from Saturday with all the cast and me in SG1 gear (and my Tokyo Marui P90, then solo photo with Joe Flanigan from Sunday when I was in my "what if" cosplay
 

And finally some pics of me posing in front of the stargate props on Sunday in my "what if" outfit.  Unfortunately I didn't gey a chance to pose on Saturday in my SG1 outfit due to crowds and the significant delays with the autograph lines, which I'm pretty annoyed about,  but oh well....
 
Ah, we did meet briefly on the Friday, and I did look at the collector cards, and I was tempted.  It's very possible I was the guy you thought...   I was wearing a Sabaton t-shirt and was weighed down with several bags containing mead I had bought that day as I was heading back to the car.
 
Lol.   Luck you XD
Yep...  =P

We're doing a lot of maintenance right now. More bridges to come, some structures to be torn down and replaced, some repaired, some new ones.
Woodland with a few knackered barricades just doesn't cut it. 
 
 
The decking will be gritted and painted, for extra grip. Think skateboard grip tape, on a larger scale. 
We've had 6 of us jumping down on this one. My welds hold 😉
20240425_150829.mp4 Oh, and I added this today. 
YARRR!

Mine and my sons setup for now.
 
MWS + Glock 26
 
GHK G5 + 4.3 Hi-capa