[Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread]

27 minutes ago, Dan Robinson said:

 

What would you call a gun modified to be shit?

Nuprol.

[The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread]

19 minutes ago, Impulse said:

 

I would've understood it more if I was like... singlehandedly ruining the enemy team, but the reality was I had spent the entire morning doing bugger-all because other people on my team decided to spawn camp, which then wasn't dealt with. Also combine the fact that me and my friends have been singled out and split up for months now I'm just starting to feel like they actively don't want me there. And of course, as you said, it's a woodland site that allows people to use ghillies with bolt actions or DMRs, which is what I was using so I'm not breaking any rules nor going against the spirit of the game.

Even if you had been single-handedly ruining the enemy team, there would no excuse for him to behave that way.  Far too many sites are run or marshalled by people who should never be doing so.

 

Maybe it is time to find another site?

[Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread]

6 minutes ago, gavinkempsell said:

What's a race gun???

 

 

Per Wikipedia: A racegun or race gun is a firearm that has been modified for accuracy, speed, and reliability.

[Suspicious, maybe unfounded]

21 hours ago, novioman said:

Would a guy from HK now living over here still have a PayPal account that converts £’s into HK Dollars

Very possibly.  Many HK and mainland Chinese in the UK have bank accounts back home.

[The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread]

54 minutes ago, Impulse said:

I'm going to have to be critical today, or I'd feel like a fraud, so it's a bit of a spicy one today; I will always be impartial and call it like I see it, even if I'm friends with a lot of the staff at a site. I went to Worthing Airsoft today and the weather was fantastic; very little wind and it was about 14ish celcius, so almost optimal conditions for gas gun sniping. I said I would use my mk12 MWS, set up as a DMR, until I ran out of .4s and then I'd switch over to my m700. Took a while to get the power where I wanted it, but between 1.8 - 1.83J was where I got it, so right up near the limit and pretty consistent. I wanted to play all day today as it's been a while since I have for a variety of reasons, so I gassed and filled my mags and headed up for the safety brief. First point of criticism here as I got split up from my friend again. We like pairing up and linking in with another pair and usually try and be on the other side to the rest of the regular players to make sure there's a bit of balance, but then we got split up again and I'm getting really pissed off with it. The other, large group of regulars who tend to stick together basically never get split up; it's always the four of us who get split up instead.

 

The morning game was a mess. They put the spawns far too close to each other and then gave different messages to each team. Our team was told that a part of the site was off limits, because if we pushed into there from spawn we'd end up on top of the enemy spawn, but the enemy team was told no such thing so they pushed through that part of the site. Then our team started doing it as well and it was a messy spawn camp that my friend said went on for ages. They did eventually break out, but by this point we had largely done all the objectives. We had found the mad scientist, (a guy dressed in like a fancy dress hazmat suit), captured him, escorted him all the way around the site and brought him to the tower where he had to "heal" one of the marshalls. By the end, the blues had just given up on trying to push out and a lot went for an early lunch. The only two deaths I had were from people going out of bounds, one sneaking through the area that the yellows were told was out of bounds, and one guy was waaaaaaaaay out of bounds when I was on the other side of the site. The marshalling in the morning game was essentially non-existent and it never should've gone the way it did. Furthermore, one of the marshalls decided to have a go at me after I set up to defend the tower area after I got shot from out of bounds on the other side of the site. On my way to respawn I saw our team bringing the scientist to the tower, so when I respawned back in I took up a defensive position that I like. The marshall had a go at me, saying I'm always there and how ghillies ruin airsoft and how he's going to run games where no ghillies are allowed because I was ruining the game. First, I had only just got there as I spent the rest of the game to that point taking an overwatch position on the area around where the mad scientist was, then sneaking around the other side of the site and shooting blues in the back. Second I had actually done very little all morning because of how the blues were being spawncamped relentlessly, and not by ghillies as we were all out trying to find stuff to do and having an uneventful morning because we didn't want to spawn camp; especially with how overcast it was today it's very easy to remain concealed even wearing regular DPM. And thirdly, with how the site is set up, combined with how much it bushes up, there are large swathes of the site that are quite simply unplayable with a 30m MED, so I'm limited on where I can go as it is.

 

Anyway, after the relative shitshow that was the morning, the afternoon games were a bit simpler and worked better. The spawns were put far away from each other, though the blue team spawn was very close to three of the five bases that had to be captured in the first five base domination game. Somehow we managed to capture the base that was just down the hill from their spawn, which the marshalls were surprised at and said we shouldn't have taken that, but they had 3 of the other bases, so they won the game. There were some great firefights and I managed to get some great long distance shots with the m700, as I swapped over at lunch time. The next game was an old school attack and defend on the tower area and we were attacking. I crawled on my belly behind a bunch of knee-high foliage to a spot I knew would have a good angle into the tower itself, covering both one of the main doors and also a crawl-space style half-door a bit further back. From there I got a LOT of hits and nobody had any idea I was there; I've missed using the m700 with how quiet it is! Anyway, the next game we swapped over... both sides and teams. Me and a friend got balanced onto blues, because at this point quite a few blues had gone home, so we had round #2 of attacking. I did exactly the same thing I did to the blue team to the yellow team and it worked just as well. It was a lovely, filthy little spot and I love attacking the tower area from that side because I can get to it undetected as long as I low crawl for about 80m though or behind some foliage.

 

So that was me for the day. Played all day for once, so that was nice, and very much enjoyed the afternoon. Didn't enjoy the morning game like I usually do and didn't enjoy getting moaned at by a marshall for literally no reason, but at least the afternoon was good fun. I think I'll be using the m700 for a while as I don't want to get .43s for the MWS yet because I recently upgraded my PC's video card and that wasn't cheap; I've still got a bag of .45s and then an unopened 1kg bag of .48s, so sniping is going to be the way I play for a while, especially since the warmer weather makes the m700 so much better. Hoping next game day is a bit better than today and hoping the weather holds up now that we are in May, but I think the site is really getting difficult now to play with an MED as it's bushing up a lot with how wet it has been and now how sunny it has been the past few weeks at least. I will keep using guns with an MED because I like the challenge, I like excuses to use my pistol more and I like the long distance shots, but it's going to get very challenging for the next few months.

It sounds like that chap should not be a marshal.  However much I might agree with him, he is there to do a job; berating a player for acting in a way that the site allows is completely out of order.

[The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread]

Having recovered from the band's 25th Birthday gig last weekend, I set off to Airsoft Plantation for a day of airsoft.

Around 140 players were present.

We started with a rarity for AP, a capture the flag game.  In the first iteration, the defenders (blue) were protecting a flag that they had positioned in the mortar pits, while we (red) had to get a hand onto it.  The defenders had two lives while we had infinite regens by moving 30m back.  This was a fast paced game with us working as a team to break down the defence, which we did very efficiently and effectively.  The SR47, despite being a little low on power, was reaching out and touching heads that appeared over the berms.

After we had achieved the objective, the game was turned around; again, our teamwork and communication paid off and we put up a coordinated defence, which the attackers struggled to break down, taking 50% longer to achieve the objective.

After a return to the safe zone to mag up, we set off for a two stage game in which we were the defenders.  The blue team, who started at the border, had to get into the village, find a case containing a smoke grenade and then transport it to the DEA base, where they had to get it inside the plane and set the smoke grenade off.  They had infinite regens on a buddy 30m behind them, while we had two lives in the village and two anywhere the other side of the firebreak.  The fight in the village was epic; I started near the pond and, again, was part of a coordinated and communicative team that held the enemy up for a long time until we were eventually overrun.  Pulling back to the other side of the village, I engaged in another fight against the attackers before being hit again, whereupon I headed for the DEA base and concealed myself in a favourite bush from where I got a lot of hits, including a fabulous one on a chap who was just about to throw a grenade and promptly dropped it at his own feet, taking out a couple of his colleagues :).  However, after shooting one lad, I heard him telling those near him where I was as he walked back to find someone to regen on; I was then quite quickly taken out after a short firefight with a couple of attackers, although one of them also had to go back and regen.  I fell back to join my few remaining colleagues who, having been pushed back from the plane, were trying to prevent the enemy reaching it.  Despite rapidly diminishing numbers, we held them off for a considerable time until they managed to achieve their objective in a time of 52 minutes.

After lunch, the two stage game was reversed.  Working well as a team, we stormed into the village, taking out the defenders fairly rapidly despite them putting up a hard fight.  After locating the smoke grenade in its case, we launched what developed into a three pronged attack on the DEA base, with the strongest group, of which I was part, taking the case and its smoke grenade by the longest route via Swaziland.  Pushing rapidly towards the DEA base, whose defenders had already been whittled down by those who had taken more direct routes, a small group made a sprint for the plane and set off the smoke grenade inside it.  Our time was considerably shorter than that of the blue team.

After another return to the safe zone to mag up, we set off for another flag based game.  We started at the border and had to both defend a flag located in the casino and get a hand on another in the DEA base. The blue team, who started at Swaziland, had to defend the flag in the DEA base and get a hand on the one in the casino.  Each side had five medics, who were the only people who could regen casualties.  We decided to split the team into two groups; approximately two thirds of the team, including three medics, would set off for the DEA base, while the rest of us defended the casino.  A group of us positioned ourselves in the village so that the enemy could not move through it.  However, they never came anywhere near it so, eventually becoming aware of some fighting to our left rear, we moved towards that, intercepting some of the blue team as they attacked the casino.  Just as we fought them off, our attacking group penetrated the DEA base and a player got a hand on the flag.

It was a really good day of well organised and well played airsoft.  Despite losing every game, the blue team players played really well; however, we played as a team, which made the difference.

Weapons used:
Hurricane/G&P SR47
DBoys AKMS
ASG Commander XP18 (CO2)

 

[The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread]

13 hours ago, Lozart said:

 

It's one of the few good things with their name on! I have several of the pmag style and the stanags.

I have both and they do seem to feed well in everything, particularly the stanags.

[JG Works MP5K]

7 hours ago, Jmason98 said:

I didn’t stipulate it was or wasn’t, I said it was a private seller. I don’t get the point you’re trying to make?

The point I am making is that you originally stated that you used a debit card and then stated that you told your bank it was a bank transfer.

 

The one time I use a debit card, I get done like this mate, lesson learnt, will see what they say

Lloyds, I made sure I said private seller and bank transfer.

 

One or other of those statements has to be incorrect.

[JG Works MP5K]

On 21/04/2024 at 22:45, Jmason98 said:

The one time I use a debit card, I get done like this mate, lesson learnt, will see what they say

Yet now you are saying it was a bank transfer?

[Loss of an Airsoft Player]

1 hour ago, gasman said:

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I have played airsoft for many years having been introduced to the sport by my son in-law Les Greaves who I am sad to say passed away this morning. 

I will miss him greatly as a friend and player and for his sense of Humour.

He leaves behind a wife and several children the youngest only 2 He will be sorely missed.

 

I will soon be 70 years old and have decided that now is the time to cease play and sell everything.

in the coming weeks you will be able to purchase my excessively large collection of guns and other airsoft gear.

 

 

I am terribly sorry to learn of what must be a devastating loss for all of you.

[G&G rebuild - protruding bearing!]

That is a good outcome.

[DMR rules in airsoft]

1 hour ago, Rogerborg said:

My other local disallows them entirely, and only allows sub 1.2J auto guns, and bolt actions up to 2.2J, nothing in between. I actually agree with this.

I rather like that idea.

[G&G rebuild - protruding bearing!]

9 hours ago, DanBow said:

Yes, I do tend to do that! 😒

We had noticed. 😉

[Don’t know what to seek for]

Stick it in the appraisals thread that I pointed out to you.

[Don’t know what to seek for]

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.

[G&G rebuild - protruding bearing!]

17 minutes ago, DanBow said:

But how can you focus on the power rating when that changes as you compress the spring to fit it? Rhetorical question really, ill just buy lower power springs until I get it where i want it. 👍

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.

[Don’t know what to seek for]

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.

[G&G rebuild - protruding bearing!]

On 21/04/2024 at 18:12, DanBow said:

Ok, I heated the end of the spring and compressed about 15 mm ish. Put it all back together and it was totally dead!! Stripped it apart, and slipped, it all went flying all over the floor! Bollocks!!!!! So reshimmed, rebuilt, reassembled and it shoots lovely but stitting at a reasonably consistent 305fps on .28s so 1.2j. Still a little spicy. It was around 320fps on .28s - 1.3j.

I've had a look but can't find a spring thats 160mm so I'll probably just heat/compress a little more. Not today though.

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

[Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread]

50 minutes ago, Galvatron said:

https://www.usedairsoft.co.uk/rif-s/mystery-box-brand-new_i60171

 

£200 mystery box - M4 or sidearm but no springers apparently

 

Bulldog or HFC special?

 

 

Why would anyone buy one?

[The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread]

2 hours ago, Skullchewer said:

Say what now?

A BB in an ear.

[The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread]

That is a beauty!

[The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread]

1 hour ago, TheFull9 said:

Ace Airsoft War Games is literally 5 minutes from where I am currently, but until recently I thought the site was just a place that did paintball/kids parties/axe throwing etc.  If you look at the spot on google maps with a wider perspective you'll see Warped Sports which is the aforementioned type activity centre, but if you carry on zooming the marker for Ace appears.

 

It is very much.. a woodland airsoft site.  It's fine.  I certainly wouldn't tell anyone to avoid by any means, but I don't think it needs to be on the top of any must-visit site lists.  More on account of the physical size/shape of the game areas than anything, they're all fairly long but pretty narrow, which even with only around 25 per side just made most of the games very stalemate'y.  In a way, if you just want to shoot all day it actually works out, because it's a short walk to regen then you're back at it and it wasn't massively overcrowded, there just wasn't much movement.  Nothing to be done as the borders were set as wide as they can be within the land.

 

Track from the road to the car park somewhat lengthy and a bit bumpy but they'd put a lot of work and material in to filling the holes so could've been far far worse.  Decent amount of safe zone cover and table space, not a lot of chairs but equally there wasn't too much sitting around in there either.  I didn't make use of the shop or food facilities myself, looked alright though.  Staff were pretty good overall I'd say.  Works out to about £26 for military, £24 for members or £29 for pre-booked walk-ons.  No lunch included, but that seems about a fair price for woodland in the west mids.

 

Definitely some 'chatty' characters but I guess every day has that, everyone seemed sound overall which combined with the basically perfect weather did work out nicely.  The one event that kinda pissed on my morning's play was standing up from my cover spot after the staff all shouted game over etc and catching a full auto burst all across my head and torso; couldn't spot the culprit but oh well. 🙄

 

 

2 other issues I had.  The first that really won't matter to most people is that one of the game areas is thick with some kind of plant (and I mean thick, it's a carpet of the stuff) which stinks to high heaven.  Someone near me said wild onion.  The entire area has a sort of dank smell to it an my boots stink now even after being scrubbed immaculately clean in the shower.  Maybe I've just got a sensitive little nose but it was pungent to me personally and I'm worried as to whether it'll ever come out of my boots.

 

 

Secondly, this pic was taken on the path that leads from the SZ to the afternoon game area.  There's maybe 6m between it and the M54 with absolutely no screening for a portion.  Now, I'm assuming it's been this way for years with nothing untoward happening so fair enough, but I certainly made sure my gun was held down below the waist when going by.  To me, just the lightest bit of sparse visual screening would be fine here since it's a dual carriageway with the usual 70 limit, but I was surprised by this uncovered area tbh.  I'm sure nobody would be stupid enough to ever just fire BBs at a car......

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.

[G&G rebuild - protruding bearing!]

On 20/04/2024 at 11:44, DanBow said:

Only got one bearing.

 

 

Would removing a mm or 2 make that much difference? I'm looking at shortening my spring by about 17mm? I need to drop about about 20fps.

 

Really grateful for all of your input too. 😁

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

[Game Changer- Every second counts]

39 minutes ago, Jez_Armstrong said:

Then what's the point in posting at all 😂

That is an entirely different question.

[Game Changer- Every second counts]

24 minutes ago, Jez_Armstrong said:

Like who?

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.