Colin Allen

A good guide is that an essentially "as new" gun should be priced at about 65-70% of retail. If you do not know what the upgrades are, you cannot factor them into the price.

You are overthinking it. The power rating is what it will produce in a typical (probably V2), well set up basic gearbox. Other variables are far more significant than the length of the spring, such as the barrel length and diameter, the cylinder type, the presence or absence of piston head or spring guide bearings, and the quality of the airseals. Once you have a starting point of a known output from a manufacturer's particular spring, it is easy to adjust upwards or downwards.

Welcome aboard. We have a board specifically for that: https://airsoft-forums.uk/forum/151-appraisals/ You will need to provide full details of the upgrades.

Stop worrying about the length of the spring and focus on the power rating; that is what matters.

Why would anyone buy one?

A BB in an ear.

That is a beauty!

That path does seem somewhat exposed to public view, which seems rather lax. £29 is pretty high for what sounds like a pretty average site. As to the plant, that sounds like wild garlic, which is incredibly pungent.

If you shorten the spring by 17mm, the power will drop immensely. Take off a coil or two.

That is an entirely different question.

I suspect that they would not be able to put that information in a public forum without the explicit agreement of the companies they provide procurement services to.

The food looked pretty good. There was also a vending machine with bottles of cold drinks for reasonable prices. https://driverwoodactivitycentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DriverWoodFoodMenu.pdf

They have described it as an airsoft gun, but it is not something that you could use to play airsoft at any level. It is an extremely cheap toy.

A logistical dilemma caused by the convergence of the last rehearsal before our 25th Birthday gig and the London Marathon means that I am spending tonight in a Premier Inn in Woking. However, every cloud has a silver lining, so this seemed like a good opportunity to spend the afternoon at Driver Wood, a site about which I have heard and read a lot but have never visited. So, this morning, in addition to my video mixer, projector, video loops etc, I loaded my airsoft gear into the car, including the lad's C7, which I had done some work on last Saturday evening as it seemed to have lost power. Arriving at Driver Wood was a bit of a culture shock; there were paintballers, kids' parties, airsoft beginners' sessions and about 60 airsofters. This actually seemed like a proper business! Checking in was straightforward; I got my wristband and I was in. I found a table, chatted to the players on the next table, one of whom admired the C7, and chrono'd the C7 (1.04J and great range). The safezone was well organised, clean and had WiFi! The only negative aspect was a number of signs stating that no food or drink could be brought in. I then sorted my own stuff out, remembering to ensure that barrel socks were in use in the safezone, chrono'd my rifle and pistol, and set off for balancing of teams, distribution of us afternoon arrivals to teams and a mercifully short but complete safety and rules brief. Immediately after this, we set out for the game zone, passing various areas full of kids having great fun shooting paint and BBs at each other. The first game of the afternoon involved collecting a downed pilot, getting them on to a stretcher and transporting them to one of the helicopters. Each side had a stretcher and, if the two players carrying it were killed, they had to drop it; the opposing team could then try to prevent them recovering it but could not steal it. However, if the pilot was on it, they could transfer him to their stretcher if it could be brought alongside. I teamed up with a few players who decided to try to work around into the enemy's left flank and rear; this went rather well until we encountered an enemy force who had decided to try to work around into our right flank and rear. This resulted in some great fights; I found a spot in a ditch under a bush from where I could control the convergence of two paths that the enemy were using; it was what WW2 U-Boat crews called a Happy Time; a target rich environment and a hidden Colin with a very accurate rifle. Ultimately, as for the U-Boat crews, the Happy Time ended and I was sunk. Regenning, I encountered the two chaps from the table next to mine and we fought our own little war against a group of enemy who were continuing to try to push into our team's tactical rear, holding them off until the end of the game, which our side won, getting the stretcher and pilot into the helicopter after a stand off. Hurrah! After a short break, we started the second game of the afternoon; a three point domination. The targets were the green tent, the six wheeler and one of the helicopters; whoever controlled each of them at every 10 minute interval got a point . I have no idea what happened at the six wheeler or the helicopter, as I was solely involved around the green tent, which the enemy grabbed at the start of the game. This was a really good action, with people flanking all over the place, hiding in bushes, and generally popping up where they were least expected. Despite us pushing hard, the enemy held the green tent for most of the game, with us only capturing it for the very last point. My first impressions of Driver Wood are positive, despite the signs about not bringing your own food and drink. The playing area reminded me somewhat of Battle Lakes, albeit without that site's bottlenecks and choke points. I will definitely be going back. After the game, I stopped off at Surplus Store UK in Crawley, with the possible intention of buying a JG T3 SAS. However, the size, or rather the lack of size, of its battery compartment, put me off. Armband watch: Bright green (I thought they were yellow!) and purple. Weapons used: SRC T-91 ASG Commander XP18 (CO2)

Bloody humans! They always try to spoil everything.

Holding the spring with a pair of pliers, heat up the cut end and, when it is glowing orange, press it down against a metal surface.

Yep, that is exactly the filter that picks it up. I am working on educating those who do the sifting about airsoft; I thought I might invite them to a game so that they can see what a bunch of nerds we really are.

We have reasons to, although I keep arguing that we are too strict. I was one of the first people to get tagged, which highly amused the Vice-Chancellor.

Random room inspections can and do happen. I have been in the slightly awkward position of having to run a disciplinary case against a student whose RIF was found in his wardrobe. I am my faculty's Prevent officer, so I have to check up on students who have been accessing websites and content on university WiFi or via university PCs that could indicate that they are at risk of radicalisation or are potentially a risk. Recently, a Chinese Year 3 direct entry student was flagged for accessing a number of airsoft sites. I called him in, as I am required to, and asked him in particular about an airsoft site whose website he had repeatedly accessed. He explained that he and his friends were looking for sites to play at; I asked him if he had played at that site and he said he had. I asked him when and, when he told me, asked him which team he had been on. When he told me, I mentioned that we might well have shot each other. We then spent a great hour talking about airsoft. The moral of that is that you should not look up airsoft related content using university PCs or WiFi, including Eduroam.

From their Residential Terms and Conditions: "not bring into the Premises anything which in the University’s reasonable opinion is or may become dangerous, noxious offensive, combustible, corrosive, inflammable, radioactive or explosive including, but not limited to, firearms, air rifles, pistols, cross-bows, or any other weapons (including replicas or deactivated weapons), gas cylinders or oil burners."

I am an airsofter who works for a university, with a son, who is also an airsofter, studying at another university. I do not know of any UK universities that allow airsoft guns to be kept in halls.

That does look very wrong; the bearing should really not interfere that much with the selector plate. Unless you are building a super high speed gun, good quality bushings are probably preferable to the cheap and nasty bearings usually used in airsoft guns.

UKARA is a good concept but, as you have probably noticed, some players and retailers still attempt to find ways around it. Laws tend to be written without such fine delineation as that would result in unnecessary complexity and inconsistencies.

Welcome and no, there is no way of bypassing it.