Colin Allen

Hopefully, the FAL offering will include an L1A1. As for the East German AKs, from a purely selfish perspective, I would rather they did not; I like having a couple of AKs that are so different from 99%+ of those on airsoft sites.

It is possible that you have a dry joint where you have soldered. Using the gun once a week for six months would be unlikely to seriously damage even the rather poor G&G trigger unit.

The staff may not have known. However, given the resignations of directors, it seems that they were aware that it was going south in September, so taking a booking that late is pretty poor.

Nail bars.

"When I pull the trigger several times now out of 30 pulls it will cycle..." What do you mean? Do you mean that it cycles on every pull or that it is only cycling on some pulls?

Painted by Stevie Wonder after someone cut his fingers off.

Given the provided dimensions, the first of those will almost certainly not fit in a buffer tube. I have pointed you at one (Rebel 11.1v 1150mAh) which will fit. As for the Rebel 1450mAh, I will repeat that I have the 1300mAh version of that, which is slightly smaller in cross section than the provided dimensions of the 1450mAh but possibly the same nominal dimensions, and it cannot be shoved into either of the two buffer tubes that I have access to. Li-ion batteries are overpriced and not ideal for airsoft; there is no way on this planet that one is going in your buffer tube. I and others have tried to help you, yet you seem to be ignoring whatever anyone tells you and are just throwing up different batteries at random. This is my last post on this thread.

Those are great for AKs if the gun is ok on a 7.4. This is one in my only M4 with a buffer tube; however, it is a G&G and the screw plate is a long way up the tube. It fits perfectly in the lad’s M4 though as that has the screw right down the end of the buffer tube.

I have that battery. The dimensions given on the website are correct; there is no way it is going up a standard buffer tube. This will definitely go in a buffer tube (I have just tried it): I have the 1300 mAh version of that, which has a smaller cross section and will not fit in my only rifle with a buffer tube.

Possibly a silly question, but have you charged the battery? If anything, removing the fuse should have improved trigger response slightly, unless your soldering is very poor.

ARPs are very dull. I have a rather fun King Arms 9mm PDW thing with a somewhat extended barrel.

I quite like them if they are done well.

I will ask have to ask him if he is happy for me to go into details, but some of his key concerns were about a somewhat cavalier attitude to safety and mains wiring issues that he described as turning the place into a potential death trap; he now sometimes works on high power systems in major venues so knows what he is talking about.

I played there three times when I was getting my first UKARA registration many years ago. My eldest son worked there for a while a few years ago; he had some utter horror stories about the place.

No, they used to use it, but it was owned by a different company.

Part of the problem with checking messages seems to be that the system logs you out even when you click "Remember me".

I don't know if this has been flagged up before, but Bunker 51 in Charlton went into administration on 1st December and is now closed.

Super!

How long will that one last?

Nothing at all really, unless you manage to lock it up, in which case the fuse comes into its own and protects the gun.

The part where the wire has disconnected is the fuse, not a mosfet. The mosfet part of your ETU is the other item by your little finger. I would replace the G&G mosfet with the Perun ETU++, which just plugs in; it is a much better unit. You could just get rid of the fuse, which would give you a bit more space. Alternatively, bin the lot and install the far superior Perun V2 Hybrid; that would leave you with just wires in the stock tube.

If it is a G&G, the mosfet and the ETU are both required for it to work. Can you post a picture of the mosfet?

Wow! Have they got glass doors?

Today was Airsoft Plantation's Christmas shoot; Just over 200 players turned up, some dressed in Christmas themed fancy dress (unlike the rest of us who were mostly in Army Man fancy dress). Having prepared everything I needed for the day, I went out to set up the second hand Double Bell P90 that I bought recently. The stock hop unit struggled to deal with any of the aftermarket hop rubbers that I tried to fit in it, only working with the very thin stock one; a Prowin hop unit that fortuitously arrived on Friday solved that problem. The gun ran beautifully, pushing BBs out to 60m at 1.05J, with the Perun P90 mosfet making it a joy to shoot, in contrast to its previous spongy self. The first game involved our team starting in the village, with the aim being to clear the enemy out of the mortar pits and grab the Christmas presents that five of their players were holding; these contained gifts that would belong to whoever was holding one at the end of the game. We had infinite regens on a 30m fallback to a teammate, while the defenders had two lives. A group of us decided to take the long route, jogging around through Swaziland at the far end of the site to approach the mortar pits via the comms truck area. We met stiff resistance there, but eventually broke it down, sweeping along the berm that protects that side of the pits and taking out the remaining enemy in that area. At the far end, we encountered some of our teammates who had taken a different route; both groups were surprised to see each other and there were a few blue on blue hits before we realised that we were on the same side. The game then ended. After a pleasingly short break to mag up, which I did in glorious isolation while sitting in the mortar pits, we swapped roles. I took up a position behind a short berm from where I could cover one of the approaches to the comms truck and one of the routes from it into the mortar pits if the enemy took it. The L1A1 scored a lot of hits at range before I was hit after the comms truck was captured; I fell back to another berm, where I spent rather less time before being hit again. The other team completed their mission just over three minutes more rapidly than we did. After another short break to mag up, we went out to the village for a variation on that staple of airsoft sites, infection. Both teams started in the village, except for those foolish souls who were in proper fancy dress. Starting at the Border, they had to attack us; when we were hit, we had to go to the Border and have our photo taken through an inflatable picture frame before returning to the fray. I took up a position on the left hand side of the village, where the fighting was quite fierce; a group of us worked well as a team, but were gradually depleted as attackers' numbers grew. Eventually, I was hit and went to have my picture taken by the site owner. I returned to attack the area that I had been defending; defender numbers had decreased significantly by then, so it didn't take us long to clear the village. It was then lunch time; the catering van provided Christmas dinnner for those who wanted it, serving the vast majority of the 200 plus players and marshals. After lunch there was the draw for the raffle prizes; these varied in value from around £50 up to a brand new TM Saiga-12 SBS GBB; the chap who won that was a very happy chappie! Having got that out of the way, we went back out to play another game; as usual, I changed guns at lunchtime, putting the L1A1 away and taking out the Real Sword QBZ-97. The next game centred around Mr and Mrs Santa, who were sitting in the bus at the mortar pits. We had to grab Mr Santa and get him into the plane at the DEA Base, while the enemy had to grab Mrs Santa and get her to the town hall in the village; the teams started at the location where the enemy had to deliver their Santa and we all had 30m regens on a teammate. At the start of the game around 95% of our team went off to grab Mr Santa, leaving just five of us to guard the village; we soon started coming under pressure, with small groups of the enemy pushing on the village. Fortunately, their attacks were not coordinated, so we held them off. Our numbers started to grow as a few of our teammates drifted into the village to regen; at the same time, the enemy's attacks intensified. One of our players told me that, before being hit, he had seen some enemy players in the woods behind the village. I set off to look for them; moving into the woods, I heard voices, so hid in a friendly bush. Four enemy players appeared; I let them walk past me before shooting them all in the back. As no more appeared, I moved back into the village, joining in holding off enemy attacks until the shout of "Game over"; the rest of our team had got Santa into his plane, which was probably an upgrade from a sleigh pulled by magical flying reindeer! We finished the day with the ambush game; we had to walk along the main path in the village in column of twos and were not allowed to shoot or leave the path until the enemy, who were allowed to deploy anywhere within 30m of the path, opened fire. Our aim was to get one player into the building at the far end of the path within the time limit. Our regen was at our start point, while the enemy had two lives. Fortunately, an enemy player opened fire early, so those of us further back in the column were able to dive into the woods and undergrowth and start outflanking them. I am not sure what happened to the left of the path but, on the right, we had a hard fight along narrow paths until the enemy defence began to crumble. A player set off at a run for the target building, but the game ended a few seconds before he reached it. Thus ended an excellent day of airsoft; the site is big enough to absorb around 200 players without feeling crowded and the standards of play and of hit taking in the well designed games were high, with the games being played in a good spirit. Weapons used: Ares L1A1 Real Sword QBZ-97 ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)

The whirr of death