Psilosylum

Touché.. a lot has changed since i stopped playing 😅 Obviously a large dose of common sense is needed.. if your in a garden which isn't over-looked with a sufficient backstop it shouldn't be an issue is kind of what i was getting at.. Though in that case i guess there wouldn't be much chance of a complaint being made in the first place. I guess i'm still kind of frustrated at the laws which have been introduced to give the public the illusion of safety whilst only actually penalising law abiding hobbyists. Though unfortunatly i guess there are idiots who are the reason these laws have been enacted in the first place 😪 (woops, sorry for reactivating a dead thread too.. haven't used a forum in a while 😂)

Pretty sure you're allowed to use toys (RIF's are toys if they're under a certain power?) within 50ft of a road.... the only time i've heard that law apply is when people are shooting shotgun or rifle on private land?? If the police come round to tell you off for plinking in your backgarden, file a complaint against them for wasting police time lol

"You'll see a lot more players at a skirmish weekend now; back in the day a busy day might have been 25 - 30 players at my local site, but now a busy day is knocking on 90 players" Not sure how i feel about this... I used to play on a 23 acre site with the most attending being about 20-30 people, part of the appeal of Airsoft over paintball was that you had more time and space to use "tactics" rather than purely running and gunning! "a cheapo Cyma AK out of the box will hit 45m consistently and without any real issue" That's also a bit of a mind f*ck! lol, From the little research I done i was genuinely surprised that the cheapest of the cheap crappy chinese clones (CYMA) seem to actually be half decent now! haha What confuses me is that now instead of dedicated brands manufacturing their own equipment it seems like some airsoft brands just buy equipment from the same manufacturer and put their label on it (i noticed this with some ASG pistols). When I was around G&G, G&P, CA and ICS all made good, metal / metal & wood replicas (with JG later hitting the ball out of the park with pricing and quality). Any recommendations on which brand to go for if i'm after a full wood & metal AK or Sig 550?

I started airsoft when I was about 14, and played most weekends at Predator Combat Games in N.Ire. I stopped playing airsoft shortly after the VCR act was put in place, this was beause alot of my guns were broken and I moved away to Uni so didn't have as much time or money to participate in the hobby / get my kit in working order. Since then i've done a bit of actual target shooting, however, with all the regulations and costs surrounding firearms licensing i've put this on a back burner until i'm more settled somewhere! In the mean time I do still have a .22 air-rifle and a couple of .177 pistols which i occasionally take to my local rage, but it's just not the same as Skirmishing!. I'm hoping to find somewhere around Norwich to restart the hobby and get registered with UKARA. I'm not a fan of the whole two-tone situaltion as i feel it takes away from some of the immersiveness of the game, so i'll be patient and get registered before i start buying my own kit i think.. Good to be here, and I look forward to seeing some of you in the field at some point! If anybody can suggest some decent sites around Norwich / East Anglia which aren't too expensive for rentals please let me know!