Colin Allen

Welcome back! I am not local, but I play reasonably regularly at Airsoft Plantation and Tower Airsoft, both of which are in Billericay. Both are great sites that pull in a good group of players, Airsoft Plantation generally getting 150ish and Tower about 40-60. I am not playing this weekend, but am planning to try Skirmish on 12th March.

Sorry to learn about the heart problem; I hope it gets sorted out very soon.

After a very good day with the lad at Airsoft Plantation last weekend, I took myself off to AP's other site, Tower Airsoft, today. I was rather laden down with guns as I had the two AEGs that I was intending to play with and the lad's AKS74U, which I wanted to test as I had stripped and rebuilt it on Friday evening as it was underpowered and suffering from midcap syndrome. It was a typically good Tower day, with well organised games that worked with the numbers present and the nature of the site. I teamed up with three chaps and we formed an effective little squad of an LMG, a sniper and two assault rifles. However, the high point of my day was in a fall back game; having potted a few players from a favourite well concealed position, I let the opposing team advance past me and then stalked them from behind, racking up a number of kills that delayed their attack. My newly built LR300 was on the receiving end of some admiration, which was satisfying; it has been a long time in the making. I am now deciding where to play next. Guns used: A&K/G&G/E&C LR300 Ares VZ58 Milbro Classic M1911 CO2 (I really must get a better pistol!)

G&G’s parts service is very good; Apple is very efficient.

I am not sure if they still do it or not; we stopped going there because of a range of issues, culminating with the management allowing a "friend of the owner" to keep a mag in his Scorpion in the safe zone.

Sportsmanship from both teams was good during the gameplay but there are some things I find rather annoying and unprofessional. Don't really think it's a case of "being a professional". Which of the two do you mean? Again, the real problem is people removing their eyepro in the game zone; even the most dim witted airsofter should be able to work out that is not a good idea. As much briefing as possible should be done in the safe zone; then get the players out and get them started. I know of one site that encourages, or used to encourage, players to take their eyepro off in the playing area between games.

The real problem that you raise is people removing their eyepro outside the safe zone. Of course people are going to pull the trigger while waiting; they are NOT professionals, so should not be expected to behave professionally. However shooting and arsing around during the briefings, in particular the safety brief, should be an instant "pack your stuff and go home".

He hasn’t whinged for a while, has he?

Favourite: Ares L1A1, because it is an L1A1. Best: Real Sword QBZ97; it just does everything right. Worst: SRC MP5, although it became excellent once I got rid of all the SRC internals.

I may have to get down there again.

Very interesting; where did you get them from?

Donation made! Good luck with it. My eldest son does marathons and Iron Man events. You are all bloody mad!

Have you considered that you may be pursuing a hobby for which you are not suited? Playing airsoft seems to be very stressful for you; in particular, getting shot seems to really upset you. Perhaps knitting would suit you better.

Excellent! Well found. AK2M4 ships out very quickly and has them in stock as well (https://www.ak2m4.co.uk/internal-parts/misc-internal-parts).

The nozzle certainly does not seem to be moving properly. It could well be a tappet plate issue; it might be sticking in its groove, rubbing on the sector gear or possibly catching somewhere. It is probably time to take the gearbox apart again.

Welcome to AFUK. It is probably the best airsoft group on t'interwebs, with a very knowledgeable bunch of people. How new is new?

Following our recent adventure oop north as described in Weeble200's post above, I spent today at Tower Airsoft, one of my regular sites in the sarf east. About 50 people were present to indulge in shooting each other with little plastic balls. For a change, the games were organised by the team from Airsoft Plantation, Tower's big brother at the other end of the wood. We started off with a simple ambush game which, as the name suggests, involved one team ambushing the other as they patrolled along the road through the site. The patrolling team's key rule of engagement was that they had to stay on the road and could not shoot until engaged by the ambushers; once that had happened, they were free to return fire and go wherever they wanted. Patrollers had infinite regens on a marshal, whereas the ambushers only had one life. I was dubious about the game at first, but it turned out to be rather fun, with both teams getting a go at being the ambushers and the ambushees; the team that cleared the ambushers out in the fastest time form the first shot being fired were the winners, with a one minute penalty for each ambusher still alive after the area had been declared clear by the patrollers. After that, we played the first leg of a longer game using the whole site. The concept was that the attacking team had been parachuted in ahead of a seaborne invasion with a mission to destroy a road via which the enemy would receive reinforcements, a comms centre, and a vital bridge. In order to destroy these, the attacking team had a designated demolition specialist, equipped with electrically triggered smoke grenades (no bangs allowed at Tower due to the proximity of neighbours), an electric detonator and a remote control. They could attack them in any order they wanted but had to start dispersed across the site out of sight of each other as a result of the drop. The defenders had to start around the road. Both sides had infinite buddy regens at the start; however, once two objectives were destroyed, the defenders were down to two lives as no further reinforcements could get through. We were the attackers and the group of about five of us who banded together after our dispersed drop decided to try to draw as many of the enemy as possible onto us rather than onto the team with the demolition specialist. This was successful as we spent a lot of the hour engaging much larger groups of the enemy and all targets were destroyed. After lunch, we played a fallback game, defending the road, then the castle area and, finally, the church. The enemy captured the road and the castle, but not the church. This was then reversed and we captured all three. We then played the reverse of the paratroopers game, with us as the defenders. I will draw a veil over this game, except to note that, despite some great play, we got walloped. It was a good, fun day with great play from both teams and no significant issues apart from my M4 deciding yet again not to feed from most of the magazines that it had happily fed from on Friday evening; it seemed to only like the PTS PMags. However, I have now modified some other mags that should now feed perfectly in it, although I suspect that it will still find a way to reject them. I also bought a cheap Double Eagle shotgun from the site shop and got a kill with my third shot from it; it shoots at 1J and has excellent range; great fun. Weapons used: Lancer Tactical M4 (upgraded and being used as a testbed for the CHiLUN mosfet) Classic Army ISSC MK22 (who the heck decided that the world needs a .22 SCAR?) Milbro Classic M1911 CO2 Double Eagle shotgun

If it has a G&G mosfet, then it probably needs an 11.1v battery, One bleep per second is the mosfet registering low voltage and cutting out to protect the battery; they are generally set up for 11.1v, although my son had one that worked perfectly with 7.4v.

A beeping sound suggests that it has a mosfet fitted and that the mosfet is not happy about something. Some mosfets bleep in particular ways to indicate particular errors. Do you know what mosfet is in it?

With the SRC it is best to replace the gearbox and it’s contents and the awful hop unit; with a bit of surgery, the much better CYMA hop fits and works very well. Allegedly, the receivers are made on presses originally used to produce MP5s in India.

Ares recommend 11.1v.

Bolle Trackers definitely take inserts; I have a pair as my reserve goggles. For genuine Revision stuff (there are a lot of fakes out there), have a look here: https://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/revision-eyewear-79-c.asp

Ladbrokes have stopped taking bets on "exaggerating".

New year will not have caused a delay stretching back a month. HK customs are being a bit weird lately for a variety of reasons.