Colin Allen
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1 hour ago, Ulmocuk said:
I understand that the UK has specific rules, whereas the EU has no regulations in place. When I used to live in Sweden, I had no issues purchasing airsoft equipment from the US-based store, Evike. Our team members from Germany and Turkey also order their airsoft gear from Japan and China without any complications. Recently, I bought my WE M14 GBB from a manufacturer in China and had it shipped to Germany. I only had to pay the border tax and asked the company to label the box as a RIF with a pink flash hider.
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I think having a UKARA is a good thing also I am of the opinion that implementing firearm laws is imperative. However, I also believe that these laws should be designed in a manner that differentiates between hobbies and other activities and international players who intent to stay a bit longer in the country like me.UKARA is a good concept but, as you have probably noticed, some players and retailers still attempt to find ways around it.
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23 minutes ago, Ulmocuk said:
Greetings everyone!
This is my first post here!
I've noticed that the prices for attending regular airsoft games in the UK, particularly in my area (RG9), are quite high. As a non-UK airsofter who has recently moved here, obtaining UKARA registration is proving to be extremely costly. I'm required to attend three games, with gear rental costing £60 each time, which is already the price of an entry-level airsoft rifle.While I completely understand and respect the country's rules, I've played airsoft in Germany, Sweden, and Turkey numerous times with various teams, where game attendance typically costs around 5-10 euros. Renting gear is an additional expense, but none of these countries require a license number for purchasing a RIF (Realistic Imitation Firearm).
The airsoft scene here seems more serious, which I appreciate, but as a non-UK airsofter, I've brought all my gear with me except for my RIFs, which I had planned to purchase locally. However, to do so, I must first obtain UKARA registration, which entails spending at least £180 to attend the necessary games.
My question is: Are there any alternative options for experienced airsoft players with a proven background to obtain UKARA without having to attend games?
Many thanks.Welcome and no, there is no way of bypassing it.
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1 hour ago, Hudson said:
Oh wait, it comes with a spare ambidextrous mag release.
That explains the price!
Which comes with the gun when bought new.
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20 hours ago, The_Lord_Poncho said:
Decided to roll out the AAP (TTI) carbine for the first game at Driver Wood on Saturday - now sporting a 310mm new maple leaf inner barrel, and running on mini MP5 mags via an Airtac mag adapter. Accuracy and range were now pretty good on 0.36 BBs - with the HPA reg set on circa 110PSI/1.8j. The odd flyer, but got some good hits, and the clack clack of the bolt+ slight feedback was great fun. Second game I switched to the Noveritsch SSX303. I've never been that happy with the accuracy from it, but I'd recently swapped in a new silicone MR hop bucking, and a mini TDC screw+ CNC hop arm from Tridos - and, wow, what a difference they have made! Again, running an airtac adapter (this time taking 30rd shotgun shells), the gun was getting incredible range on 1.8j, good accuracy, and is super quiet. At the start of the second game I legged it , and spent the first ten minutes of the game taking out the their team as they advanced past the side of me - not one of them had a clue where they had been shot from, enabling me to to achieve the same results in the second wave until I got bored and moved off.
The Driver Wood game play has become so much better now they have moved to roving spawns and ditched the 'medic' arm bands - marshals seem to be able to equalise game play a little by moving the spawns from very dominant teams back a little further to the rear, game play is more fluid around the playing area, and hit taking seems to have dramatically improved - no doubt as there is no longer a 5 min trudge back to spawn.
I might head down there for Saturday afternoon this weekend; I will be staying in Woking that evening and it is on the way.
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9 hours ago, Majestyk said:
Definitely a dreamer.
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8 hours ago, RostokMcSpoons said:
Mine went well then a bit shit.
Too skint to go to Spec Ops Cqb, so I instead spent some time with my Old Skool TM AK47-S. Got a new dust cover a couple of days back from Hutt Armouries (cheers) so trying that out was a good reason to fling a few shots down the garden. It's still impressive. Hitting 320fps on 0.20s and very nicely accurate... The impact point bang on to the iron sights. A bit slow on the RoF with a 7.4v lipo, but usable all the same. Good ol' TM.
So that was all good!
The shit bit was when I was packing it away. I put the gun on top of a stack of toolboxes, damned thing slid off onto the floor - barely any height, and onto carpet - but enough to shear the pins inside the stock release catch/attachment to the receiver.
Bugger.
So I now need to find a replacement folding stock, or at least the catch and its fitments. Not much luck so far (remember I've already been on this journey because I was trying to replace the just release button when that went walkies)
Looks like I'll have to pay Chump Tax and buy a whole Cyma stock ($30 at Evike USA)
That is a shame; the old TM and CYMA ones are rather vulnerable. A friend of mine broke his and replaced it with a much better quality Real Sword one.
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56 minutes ago, Tackle said:
I used them a bit back when I worked in the square mile, so easy to jump on the tube at lunchtime & grab what I needed, plus at one point I was getting trade discount there via a site owner/teammate, which was nice😁
BUT
On ALMOST every occasion I visited I found staff, including the owner, to be arrogant, borderline rude, & very much up themselves.
Only reason I went there as often as I did was because:
1. I was getting very good prices
2. It was local, & being an old fart I hadn't fully embraced buying on the net, needed to "feel" the kit.
But once the discount had ended & I'd stopped working in london, not felt the need to even consider them for online shopping.
Yes, on the occasions I went there, staff were unpleasant.
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10 hours ago, Tackle said:
Thanks, I'd always heard they were shit, didn't know they'd improved a bit, & now they're shit again.
Never considered making the trek to twa, definitely off the radar now, that Marshalling is appalling, its amazing that it's lasted as long as it has considering its rep.
It is rather disappointing as it did seem to be getting better, albeit always with a bit of vagueness about rules and boundaries. Since the sad demise of Tower Airsoft, which was a cracking little site, it was the only site that opened on Saturdays within what I regard as a reasonable travelling time. Rehearsals and recording sessions tend to eat into my available Sundays, so being able to play on a Saturday was quite useful. I am just about to head off for the penultimate rehearsal before our 25th Birthday gig and the lad is going back to university today, which is why we went there yesterday.
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This morning, the lad and I set off for a journey across southern parts of London to spend the day at Tactical Warfare Airsoft, a site where we have had a few good days over the last few months.
As usual, there were a fair number of rental players present and, before the morning safety briefing, the lad twice removed magazines from rentals' guns in the safezone.
After the usual safety brief, which included the usual talk about eyepro, no magazines in guns in the safezone and no dry firing in the safezone, we set out into the game zone for the first game; turning around to talk to the lad, I was shocked to find that the marshal who was with us was not wearing eyepro in the playing area; I immediately pointed this out to him and that there were players with loaded weapons and that some were shooting. He argued that it was not a problem but, after some persuading, put them on.
As we assembled for the first game briefing (60+ players with loaded guns), I noticed that the same marshal was standing 2m away from, and looking at, a rental player who had removed his eyepro and was making no attempt to get him to put it back on.
Both of these incidents were reported to the head marshal, who stated that he would "have a word" with him.
The first game was a fairly straightforward capture the flag using the village and part of the wood; this turned into a stalemate with some very dodgy hit taking.
This was followed by a fallback game; as the defenders we had one life in each of Badger Base, Jungle Base and the Pit. This was mostly a good game, except for repeated concerns that an HPA user on the other team was running a hot gun; experienced players were reporting that hits were hurting far more than they should. When the lad challenged him on it, asking what weight he was using, he claimed to be using 0.20g BBs. The lad then mentioned it to the head marshal, who responded that it had passed chrono. Another player suggested that it be spot checked, but this was rejected. There was also massive confusion about the boundaries for each stage; at the Pit, several of our players were hit by opponents who were out of bounds, as no information had been given to them as to where they could and could not go.
When it came time to turn the game around, we found that more than half of our team had disappeared, either going back to the safezone or leaving. Despite this, we made a gallant attempt. While attacking Badger Base, I asked a marshal if a couple of enemy players were out of bounds; his reply was that they probably weren't as that was where they were firing from, which made no sense. We then asked how far we could flank round to attack them and were told we could go wherever we wanted; I checked whether this included flanking around behind the Pit and was told that we could not do that, so I asked again where we could flank round them. The marshal replied that we could go anywhere that we wanted, so I again sought clarification on what this meant with regard to sneaking up on them by flanking around behind the pit. The response was again that we could not do that. Apparently, anywhere that we wanted was not anywhere that we wanted. Utter disorganisation!
Lunch followed, during which the lad again had to remove a magazine from a rental's gun; unlike every other site we play at, TWA does not check that players returning to the safe zone have removed mags and cleared their weapons. On several occasions, triggers were pulled in the safezone, with no response from the marshals. After one player had twice fired long bursts (no BBs fired) with an SMG, I raised this with the site owner, who went over and told him not to do it again.
We discussed leaving but decided to give it another try after lunch. After the sides had been rebalanced and afternoon arrivals integrated into the teams, we set off for the next game. This was a game in which we, as the attackers, had to fight our way into the village, collect six barrels and get them back to our start point; we had infinite regens on our start point and the defenders had two lives.
After a stiff fight and some hilariously bad hit taking, we fought our way into the village, whereupon the 0.20g HPA guy inflicted some serious damage on a couple of players, drawing blood; he also hit my webbing, the impact leaving me in no doubt that he was not using 0.20g BBs.
Once this game finished, we decide to leave; we will not be returning to Tactical Warfare Airsoft. Unfortunately, it has reverted to being the shit show that it previously was, with the added bonus of little or no apparent concern for players' safety or even marshals' own safety.
Weapons used:
Me
CYMA G36C
King Arms PDW
ASG Commander XP18 (CO2)
The lad
G&G C7
G&G Modernised M4
ASG Commander XP18 (CO2)
Dynatex Grenade (x2)
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It isn't so much the price or the misidentification as the 350fps on a 0.28g BB.
https://prefired.co.uk/ads/ak-74-with-folding-stock/
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1 hour ago, Badgerlicious said:
Well, Worthing went through with the new limitations to ghillies. Nothing below a viper hood (shoulders) with 1.14j full auto. DMR and bolt actions only for anything longer or a full ghillie. However they have upped their DMR limits to 1.88j so we're in line with most other sites now, which is nice.
At least I now have an excuse to finish my viper hood and buy some better combats.
That is a step in the right direction.
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I have the DBoys one; all I have done to it are the standard things that I do to any AEG:
Change the hop rubber and nub.
Clean the barrel
Reshim, regrease, check the airseals, fit a mosfet.It is very reliable and shoots well.
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14 minutes ago, davidf said:
Thanks mate. stick to an M100 then
Should I take this as that the items mentioned will operate well
I would ditch your suggested hop rubber and barrel and replace them with a 50 degree Maple Leaf Macaron with a red nub from AK2M4 and one of his XT barrels as well.
I would also replace the Aster with a Perun Hybrid.
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50 minutes ago, Pseudotectonic said:
Can it slide freely with just the piston in the gearbox and when you shake it? I suspect the piston side rails are too wide (horizontally or vertically) for the gearbox so it is catching
Solution is sand down either the piston or the gearbox so when you shake it, it rattles freely
That is also possible but, if it is going nearly all the way back, it is more likely that the motor and/or the battery is not powerful enough.
1 hour ago, Shamal said:Not doubting your diagnosis but how have you determined that the battery/motor don't have enough oomph?
I realise that your question was not aimed at me; however, my answer would be that I have seen exactly that happen.
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35 minutes ago, Cannonfodder said:
I can see where you're coming from but it's also the prerogative of anyone who isn't in-game to make it clear, whether that's by a hand in the air, dead rags or shouts of "dead man walking". Not doing these tells me the player is a legitimate target
Agreed! If you aren't making it clear you are out of the game, you get shot.
- Cannonfodder, Impulse and Leo Greer
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2 hours ago, ARC Fives said:
The piston in this old G&G gearbox (I don't think the piston or rest of the internals are) locks back after a few shots.
I think the solution is to shortstroke by a couple of teeth (1 from front and one from back?) to stop the piston from moving all the way back and catching on the spring and spring guide. There isn't alot of space.
Or is this amout of space completely normal and I just need to try a different spring?
I don't have the tools to shortstroke the gear myself, so any low cost solutions would help.
it is very unlikely that the piston is catching on the spring and spring guide, although this is airsoft so anything is probably possible.
The usual cause of this is that the battery or motor lacks the muscles to push the piston all the way back against the heavily compressed spring.
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It is horrible!
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25 minutes ago, DanBow said:
My daughter bought a box, of 5, Valken branded M4 mid cap mags for her Valken AEG.
Ive just got a G&G GC16 that takes a stanag mag.
I tried one of her mags in mine but there is some fabrictypestuff on one side of the inside of my mag well so it wont go in with out a bit of force. Obviously, i didnt do that but that leads me to the question . . are M4 and stanag mags different or do i just need to buy the specific G&G mags?
The “fabric” is probably there to prevent mag wobble and possibly improve feeding.
Stanag mags and M4 mags are essentially the same thing, although the reality is that not all mags work in all guns.
Remove the fabric and see if the Valken mags fit and feed. We use Nuprol, MAG, PTS and unknown brand mags in G&G, SRC and Lancer M4s.
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University airsoft
in General Help
Posted · Edited by Colin Allen
I am an airsofter who works for a university, with a son, who is also an airsofter, studying at another university.
I do not know of any UK universities that allow airsoft guns to be kept in halls.