Colin Allen

If there is nothing in the stock tube and it is still working, albeit with a fault, buying one of those is not going to solve the problem. If you are not confident about opening the gearbox, you need to get someone to do it for you. Can you take a photo down the stock tube and post it here? When you connect a battery, does the gun bleep?

That may be the problem. Can you see any board in the stock tube? If not, you probably have an ETU, which might have been set up badly. If you are not confident working on it, you would probably be best advised get someone to look at it.

The closest CQB site to you is probably CAMO on Canvey Island.

That sounds rather cool! I would be interested to see how their insurance covers tree climbing though.

No; that and Eldorado were what the alkies used to drink. Belhaven Heavy was my drink of choice in those days, usually with the Blue Angels in the Scotia on Stockwell Street in Glasgow. When he was young and stupid our drummer would readily get through a bottle of Buckfast during a gig; he doesn’t drink now.

First post, first failure.

As the challenged party, I claim choice of weapons. My preferred weapons are blancmanges thrown at each other from baskets suspended from hot air balloons. You must be a haggis shagger in disguise.

Having lived in Glasgow in the distant past, I am aware that it is the contents of Ian Bru cans that are made from girders. I am also aware that it tastes even worse than Vimto, which, given what the latter is an anagram of, is hard to believe.

My balls were weighed. I did not witness the hot gun incident, which is odd as I suspect that I was on the same team as the person who wrote the report; having seen players removed from the site for having hot guns, I would be surprised and very disappointed that this one was not, unless their hop was under set and setting it properly brought it under limits.

1. I used both chrono's; they both seemed to be reading correctly. 2. I was chrono'd later in the day and saw other players being chrono'd at various points in the day. 3. These two statements are contradictory: Only shop-sold or approved pyros permitted (no Dynatec etc) 9mm pyros...are allowed 4. There was a very small amount of dry firing in the part of the safe zone where I was. I was not aware of a BB discharge; was it reported to a marshal? 5. The main woodland was used for the last game. I think I spoke with this player just after he had cleared the top deck of the bus with a grenade and at other points in the day; if it was him, he seemed to be having a great time. The one change I would like to see at AP, and all other sites that do not already implement it, is the compulsory use of barrel socks in the safe zone. My report is not biased; it reflects my experience of the day. Why do you assume that it is biased? No idea who it was then. Way back, Tony/Val's briefings at Battle Lakes used to include mention of a player who had an unfortunate habit of hitting trees with his pyro throws; he was definitely from one of the teams that used to play there regularly.

Is Tom the rather huge guy?

Metal Ops! Has Ben got any better at throwing grenades?

Today I was at Airsoft Plantation along with about 160 other eager players. My first task on arriving was to set the hops and check the power on two new guns, an MPi-KMS and a WellPro We06 PPK-20; the former dialed in at 1.04J and the latter at 1.09J, both with excellent range and flight. In the first game, we (the red team) started at Swaziland; we had to obtain a crate containing six smoke bombs from the DEA Base and take the crate to each target in turn and set the smoke bombs off. The targets were the hill fort and the Bedford on that side of the firebreak and the well, the Cock Inn, the casino and any of the border bridges on the other side. We had infinite regens on a marshal, while the defenders had two lives on each side of the firebreak. The defenders put up a good fight for the DEA base but we overran them and grabbed the crate from the Cessna; the hill fort was soon bombed and, after a short delay, a couple of us ran the crate up to the Bedford and smoked it out. There was then a delay so that the blue team could set up their defences on the other side of the firebreak. Once we were unleashed, I followed my usual approach of attacking the village from the far end; advancing through the woods, I took out a few enemy players before meeting up with colleagues; the enemy put up a hard fight for the village but we eventually bombed the well and the Cock Inn. As the enemy had lost so many lives defending the village, there were very few of them left to defend the casino and the border, which were bombed very rapidly. Following the usual short break to mag up, the game was reversed; we did not know what the targets were. At the DEA base, I took up a position behind the wrecked biplane, from where I was able to shoot some of the attackers from their flank, before eventually being taken out. I fell back to the mortar pits and scored a few hits before receiving a little present from either a sniper rifle or a DMR. Eventually, the first two targets were bombed and we reset on the other side of the firebreak; learning from the blue team's error, we divided our forces to cover both the village and the border area. The enemy pushed hard, but timed out in the village. Luncheon was then taken, after which we played Ambush Alley. As the attackers, we had to march up the main street of the village en masse, being unable to shoot until we were fired on by the defenders, We had infinite regens at our start point, while the defenders had two lives. Our objective was to get a live player into the building at the far end of the street. Once shooting had started, we could go anywhere. I assumed my usual tactical (ahem!) position at the rear of the column; as we marched (shambled?) forward, the marshals threw a large number of smoke bombs to add to the atmosphere. An enemy player opened fire early, before quite a few of us had even entered the village, which meant that we could quickly spread out to the sides while about 60% of the team regened. The fight through the village and the scrubland to the right was epic, with great play from both sides. Eventually, one of our players made it into the target building. In the reverse, we made sure that everyone knew not to open fire until the head of the enemy's column had reached the half way point, as that would give us a great opportunity to send them all back to regen. Unfortunately, somebody either did not get the memo or lost track of where the enemy were amid the thick smoke and opened fire early despite my repeated shouts of "Hold". Realising that the enemy were likely to try to flank us, a group of us moved to the left to prevent any of them pushing through the scrubland; we had a great set of fights between the bushes and along the little paths, trading hits with the blue team. Having taken one hit, I was hit again and wandered back into the safezone. The game ended soon after, with the blue team taking 27 seconds longer that we had, which was amazingly close for such a long game. It was now 16:00 and a fair number of players left. Those of us who stayed set off to play domination/capture the flag in the woods. Our flag was at the border end of the woods, while the blue team's was at the wobbly bridge. The twist in the game was that both sides started in the middle. At a count of three, we had to start moving towards our flag and, after a time known only to him, the site owner would start the game. Everyone had two lives. A group of us decided to run back to defend our flag while other team members moved back more slowly so that they would be further forward when the game started. Having taken up a defensive position, I spotted a blue player sneaking around our right flank; he had either skilfully worked his way around our forward players or had hit a few of them and pushed through. Either way, he had done really well. I shot him; he looked disappointed as he turned to trudge back to regen. As no other blue players appeared, most of us decided to move up and reinforce our colleagues; as we did so, we met increasing numbers of dead blue players heading back to the safe zone. Our arrival helped our colleagues to push forward and capture the blue flag. Hurrah! It was a typical AP day; the games were well designed, hit taking was excellent, play was good and the marshalling was unobtrusive but effective. I suspect that mrfoxhound would have enjoyed it. I cannot play next Sunday as we are in the studio working on songs for our first festival gig of the year and for the fifth album, so my next game will be at either Splatoon or Dragon's Lair the following weekend. Weapons used: Classic Army HK33 Classic Army HK53 WellPro We06 PPK-20 ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)

Of all their crimes, that is the wurst.

Tested this morning at AP; 1.09J and pushing BBs out to 60m.

Oh, the irony.

Yes, it has returned.

I have made a couple of really good purchases through AirsoftHub; however, on both occasions, I dealt with the seller face to face.

I ran one of these for a while several years ago; I found that it got in the way.

I bought this barely used Well Pro WE06 PPK-20 and five mags for a very decent price. All I have done so far is change the very basic mosfet for an AB++, fit a Macaron and omega nub, and fit an SHS high torque motor. It is very snappy and runs nicely on 11.1v.

Well, that will only have taken seven years! Perhaps after that has been done, they could sort out the PP19 100 round midcaps so that they feed properly; they have been a known issue for much longer.

If the site had identified a risk of people attempting to cheat the chrono and someone had managed to do so, the site would very possibly be found to be at fault as their measures to prevent it happening were inadequate. Anyway, I am out of this discussion; it is like trying to have a rational conversation with a flat earther.

You have my deepest sympathies.

Nice! Well done!

Which is exactly the same situation as at the vast majority of other sites. Intentional cheats will lie about BB weights, use different BBs to chrono and dial up the hop.