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Probably 4-5 times a year or so (which is actually more than I was a few years ago).  Opportunities where I actually have good access to my own gear and there's a site nearby I'm enthused to play at aren't super common.  And honestly, I am lazy, I don't want to have to do my normal washing/ironing/shopping/cleaning one day of the weekend then add on loadout prep and then spend the sunday night washing/airing out/de-prepping airsoft stuff.
 
If I'm honest with myself, I never deliberately 'got in to' airsoft per se even when I started, I just wanted the M4 from a video game I was super in to as a teenager and to have the different barbie accessories for it.  At some point in the researching and acquisition of said replica I found out about skirmishes and it only seemed like the logical thing to go along, but the first few I went to were pretty 'meh' experiences overall.  Not bad, not amazing.  I'd say I force myself to go out now and again to breathe fresh air, run about and actually use all this stuff because if I let the little gremlin in the back of my mind win and I acted like the hermit man it tells me to be, well then it just wouldn't be a good thing overall in my life.

Probably 4-5 times a year or so (which is actually more than I was a few years ago).  Opportunities where I actually have good access to my own gear and there's a site nearby I'm enthused to play at aren't super common.  And honestly, I am lazy, I don't want to have to do my normal washing/ironing/shopping/cleaning one day of the weekend then add on loadout prep and then spend the sunday night washing/airing out/de-prepping airsoft stuff.
 
If I'm honest with myself, I never deliberately 'got in to' airsoft per se even when I started, I just wanted the M4 from a video game I was super in to as a teenager and to have the different barbie accessories for it.  At some point in the researching and acquisition of said replica I found out about skirmishes and it only seemed like the logical thing to go along, but the first few I went to were pretty 'meh' experiences overall.  Not bad, not amazing.  I'd say I force myself to go out now and again to breathe fresh air, run about and actually use all this stuff because if I let the little gremlin in the back of my mind win and I acted like the hermit man it tells me to be, well then it just wouldn't be a good thing overall in my life.

Got a current issue AMCU chest rig and 35L "medium" pack coming from Australia, wasn't cheap but super happy.
 
 

I've mostly never bothered with adjusting airsoft optics tbh.  The target is either close enough that I just use instinctive aiming, or it's far enough that an airsoft gun can't print any sort of useful group at said range in order to zero.  A very coarse adjustment to get the wide area of spray at 50m+ roughly kinda midde-ish within the actual glass window (optic type dependant) is all I bother with and you can often do that just pre game while making any necessary hop adjustment for the bbs you've got that day.  Then once in game you simply put the baddie in the middle of the glass, spray, and pray.
 
When I have zero'd a RIF it was at around 10m, 15 max, as I only have the TM bb catcher that's got a target area roughly 9-10" square.  The one time I used it to zero (was shooting a KWA GBB) I had to be very much sub 15m in order to shoot groups that were actually small enough to clearly define a mean point of impact and then be able to make any sort of useful sight adjustment.

Super chuffed,  seen this bargain on another forum and at a price I had to get it.

In the centre ( around the black dot ) was a 10 shot zero at 40mtrs with a .177 air rifle .
 

 
all the bb strikes was a 40mtr zero with this 😛
 

Have a look at some of the AATV clips on YouTube for an idea on what to expect on group sizes with different weight BBs. 
Exactly. It's people not knowing the difference between maximum effective range and maximum range. Also, 70 airsoft metres is usually between 40 and 50 actual metres. 

Mk23 from Action Hobbies boneyard for £17 - just have to remove the franken-jobbed mp5 stock. 
 
And a set of 3d print furniture for a Mk23 bought on ebay for £31. 
 
So gives me something else for an opfor loadout for not a lot of money (once I scrape the glue and stock off)

More ShadowFoam arrived! Just have to figure out how best to cut it so that I can fit both rifles and the Glock in there!
 

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Machined/TiG welded a buffer extension, for battery and some cheek weld.
 
Shortened outer barrel, modified silencer & machined out the rail.
 
 

It's funny, because it's true.
 
 
 
 
Side note - when I was younger and I got my first credit card, I managed to rack up £27k of credit card debt. You know you have a problem when the letters from the CC company stop being "you've gone a bit over your limit, so we raised it", to "you've gone over your credit limit, GIVE US BACK OUR MONEY!!!!". Fun times.

1 X Magpul (real) CTR Carbine Stock - Mil-Spec (Flat Dark Earth) 
1 X AngryGun MK16 M-LOK Rail 13.5 Inch Gen 2 Version (DDC) 
1 X AngryGun SOCOM 556 Silencer Tracer Unit. (Flat Dark Earth) 
1 X Angry Gun Airborne AMBI Charging Handle (MILITARY-URGI) MARUI MWS (DDC)
1 X Angry Gun Marui MWS GBB Outer Barrel Adapter Ring.
2 X ANGRY GUN Metal QD Sling Swivel.
1 X E&C KAC Metal Front Sight. @ 
1 X Tokyo Marui G Series G-19 Gas Blow Back Pistol GBB 
1 X Tokyo Marui G-19 Gas Blow Back Magazine.
1 X AIM T1 Red / Green Dot With QD Mount & Low Mount (Black)
 
Opened up firesupport and starting spamming the add to cart button 😅

That made my wallet wince!

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Setting hops on these WE GBBR this morning , the mk12 has surpassed expectations , semi auto locked & 350fps on .32 it’s shooting very nicely indeed  
 

changed the lower over on the mk18 for a trade marked version so gave that a good run and it’s equally ticking my boxes . M4a1 / m203 upper for S&G
 

If only every big business would suicide itself by making the 1927 sub-variant of a sub-variant of an air training pistol used by a Belgian scout troop I once heard of in a story my grandfather told me in the 90s.

 
 
Sorry man you don't get to complain and simultaneously be literally exactly the reason for the thing you're complaining about 🤣
 
 
I'd say hundreds of thousands to get the production line going for a whole new gun, the injection mould for just 1 plastic part can cost many thousands.  I've only just been noticing recently that some of the original all-plastic AEGs from around the turn of the millenium have been disappearing.  I'm frankly shocked they've kept as many different models alive even in batch production for as long as they have.

Not seen anything, it might be a bit niche for PTS, maybe, fingers crossed.  From what I've seen generally there's (comparatively) not a ton of different types of mags out there for any of the normal AEGs even less so any of the GBB MP5s.  Don't think there's a clone of the gun itself yet?  That'll be part.  RS wise the standard HKs mags are the only widely known style I'd say, with the old straight 30s a fair bit behind, then maybe a few know of the clear ETS ones.

I kinda want to do either the 'M4A1' or AK-47 from MW2 2009 and while the AR is pretty easy to closely replicate the AK seems a lot harder.  I found a picture of a really well done effort:
 

 
In the game (remaster, but it's accurate to the fuzzy model in the original):
 

 
I cannot find a 47 with a side rail though, which makes sense in terms of replicating real rifles but given the random non-existent variants that do get made I was initially hopeful.  I don't want to do an M as a base.
 
I did learn basic riveting long long ago, but I'm yet to see a home-applied AK side mount on an airsoft gun so I'm sceptical of that tbh.
 
This is probably more a thought/discussion exercise than anything tbh, but if anyone does have any thoughts I'd be interested to hear them.

https://www.308-sniper.co.uk/mk5-thunderflash-104758393.html - 47 in stock.
 
https://www.justpaintball.co.uk/collections/mk5-thunderflash-flashbangs - a few different bundle sizes. Not sure about availability but they're not showing out of stock.
 
I'd just Google them and ring/email and ask about stock and the cost of shipping.

Yeah, good point. I think I've spent too long on the Internet  and I'm becoming too precious 😂
 
It's an interesting point about niche weapons. I think I mentioned it further up the thread, but TM have models from anime and video games in their range as they know their audience will buy them. I'm not sure a KS-1 would.
 
I'm off to have a word with myself and stroke my MWS until I find my happy place 🤣

Cyma platinum DDM4 , first impressions are very good
 

G&G made a variant with a side scope mount. The build quality is probably quite dated for the cost.
This model:
https://www.guay2.com/en/product/detail-233