Colin Allen

Welcome back to playing. When you say that the open part of field one has been lost, do you mean the part to the right (as you walk out onto the site) of the track or the area between the track and the woods? Where have they moved the car park to?

The O ring for the valve is 8mmOD, 6mmID.

That brings back suppressed memories of a King Arms SVD. 🤬

For distance: ZCI inner barrel, yellow (60 degree) Maple Leaf Macaron and a red Omega nub, all available from AK2M4.

Is it a new gun? Has this just started happening? Possibilities include: The barrel being slightly twisted in the hop unit. The bump in the rubber should be at the top dead centre position, not slightly off to one side. The hop nub being slightly off centre or misshapen. The inner barrel not being utterly straight; take it out and roll it on a flat surface to check. The inner barrel being dirty. Your gun being an StG 44 with a Krummlauf.

Sprayed handguard and stock as well. British Army and "As new!"

I cannot offer any insights or advice, but I hope you make a rapid recovery.

I had a very normal day today at Tactical Warfare Airsoft near Croydon apart from two things. As usual, the games were well though out, fun and challenging for both sides; it is also nice not to have to have to go back to the safe zone after each game as they just roll from one game to another throughout the morning and again in the afternoon. Alternating between woodland and CQB games helps to keep it interesting. The two oddities: 1. Attendance dropped significantly throughout the day; apart from one chap who was on crutches, I have no idea why as it was a good, fun day. Humans! 2. A player got really annoyed with me after I shot him in the face at very close range (to be fair, it was about all I could target). Strangely, he was not annoyed at me for shooting him in the face; he became annoyed and slightly aggressive because I challenged him over not taking the hit. Humans!

I went through that a few years ago; to try to get through it, I marshalled for a couple of years, which nearly put me off airsoft entirely. I have found that playing at a number of sites and trying new ones stops it becoming too routine.

6 Rifles.

5 Rifles are a regular unit, not reservist.

Perhaps, not unreasonably, he does not want to inflame the situation and would rather wait until he gets his toy back in full working order.

Excellent! Paintball can act as a gateway drug for airsoft.

Today I wandered over to Tower Airsoft, one of my regular sites; it was an opportunity to test the recently, and not completely, rebuilt VZ58. On its first outing a few weeks ago, it had a range of about 25m and was shooting 0.25g BBs at 230FPS; it also performed the classic Ares trick of pulling the back off the piston. It is now shooting at 295FPS on a 0.25g BB and has a range of around 60m:). I also ran my MP5, which has crazy range. It was a typical Tower day; around 45-50 people and simple but challenging games that used the small site very well. I met some interesting folk and had some good conversations. There were two highlights. The first was in a fallback game, in the first stage of which we had to defend the village, where we had one life, before falling back to defend the bridge complex, again with one life. After a hard fought defence of the village, the attacking team declared it cleared and moved on to attack the bridge complex. After allowing a minute, I carefully crawled out of the bush that I had ended up in and cautiously followed them as they moved forward. As I cleared the edge of the village another blue player, who had also been overlooked, appeared. We had great fun shooting the opposing team in their backs, sniggering while receiving shouts of "Oi! We're on the same side!" The second was in the last game of the day. I was dug in behind the roots of a fallen tree, popping off opposing players as they appeared; after a while all went quiet until I heard movement behind me. Drawing my pistol and turning around carefully, I found myself looking at a deer that was about 5m behind me; it beat a rapid retreat. On arriving home, I found the real steel folding stock for the VZ58 waiting for me (Many thanks to @CzechMeOut!) and its new motor.

I have bought a few small items from him over the years with no problems.

You make really good points; consequently, I have edited my review from 26th September to name the site.

Thoughts on Negative Airsoft: A very opinionated chap who sometimes exaggerates (for effect?); the Ares L1A1 is not great but it is not THAT bad. Extremely good at what he does, very helpful and does not rip people off. I messaged him one evening a couple of weeks ago about an issue I was having with an AEG and, to my surprise, he got back to me really quickly and steered me in the right direction.

Define what you mean by "shit". Hopefully.

You seem to be doing a good job of demonstrating that you have a problem with women. Keep digging that hole.

It would rather help us if you were to define what you mean by "best".

I never stated that you were a right winger; I could not care less what your politics are. I do, however, apologise for not realising that you were using "snowflakes" as a compliment. I am sure that you get a kick out of mansplaining to those uppity women; I am sure that it gives them a positive view of you and opens them up to the arguments that you are making.

Using the term "snowflakes" is, in itself, an insult; strangely, it is a term that seems to be most often used by people who are offended by those who disagree with them. People have different values, standards and views; learn to live with it. If you keep breaching FB's and YT's community standards, people will report it, not because they are "upset" but because you have breached the standards. I have had a few FB bans in the past when I have been overly harsh in "discussion" with right wingers and racists. You just have to learn to play within the rules. Your comment on "feminists" is possibly rather more revealing than you realise; combined with some of your posts on here, it provides quite an interesting insight into the person behind the username.

Such a pity that you had to throw in a childish attempt at an insult at the end.

I have had a fair bit to do with firearms throughout my life, starting with a Lee-Enfield No4 Mk 1 and a Bren in school cadets through to the L1A1, the Sterling and the Browning Hi-Power. I have no desire whatever to own a firearm and equally little desire to live in a country where children have to do active shooter drills at school, where loons carry firearms to go shopping, and where losers parade around in camo showing off their weaponry and their obesity in support of, or in opposition to, some aspect of government. I far prefer the freedom of knowing that I and those that I care about are staggeringly unlikely ever to meet someone who is not a police officer or a member of the armed forces carrying a firearm over the "freedom" to own one. Fortunately, the vast majority of people in the UK share that view.

Now fixed; a modified SHS steel v3 cutoff lever did the trick. The Ares one was, predictably, non-standard and made out of the softest of soft cheese.