LMKipper

Disappointing day for me at AWA Herts. Hadn't been before but thought I'd give it a whirl. It was their 'Big Skirm' where they run the whole site. In the morning there was a vague objective of 'collect some things from around the site' but the brief didn't say where they were, offer us any maps or suggest what the other team might be doing. The result was just some vague bumbling around an incredibly overgrown woodland, where I saw three or four players from the other team at most and the one chap I did hit didn't take it. At no point did we know how we were doing but we did know the result was supposed to influence the afternoon in someway (although it was never mentioned ever again). After lunch it was a giant two+ hour fall back game, again with no real objective other than either attack (reds) or defend (greens). I called it quits a few fallbacks early as I got smashed in the face with the hardest airsoft hit I've ever had. I was lying a fair way back across open ground, so it hit me with a lot of force from a decent distance (50m+). I mentioned it to the marshal and he replied "Oh yeah the other team has lots of regulars who run DMRs. I bet I can guess who it was. We call his gun the C*ntcannon." Lovely! Hard to know if it was outright shiftyness, or someone taking advantage of the fact they chrono on FPS, not joules but it's the first time I've had cause to think someone was actually using a hot RIF. Needless to say, won't be returning...

I bet at some point someone didn't have a tool to take off the barrel nut, so they just whacked the RAS with a hammer until it came loose.

I’d be interested to hear about this, especially if it holds zero. Seen these myself and it always seems like a gamble.

Ah what a lovely thing? Is it the steel or ally version?

With the storm grip, KAC front end and cut off bayonet lug it's halfway to an L119A1. Bargain!

Ah gotcha. Similar names and Imperium is a decent drive from a main road, never mind public transport! What I've found the London area is missing is a good FIBUA site, like Anzio. It either seems to be pure woodland, or CQB but no building to build stuff but I guess that's just a space in the South East issue.

Do you mean Imperium? Invicta Black is about a two minute walk from a train station.

I was there and it was a slower start than usual - not really sure why. Brief is always 9:30 for 15ish minutes, then game on at 10ish. I think they had less vehicles running, so it took longer to bus everyone to the start with a few round trips. The actual play time ended up around the same as they pushed lunch back, made lunch a little shorter then ran the day a little later. The bigger issue was that the afternoon game was a bit of a stalemate. I was on Blue and it was our objective to recover a downed enemy pilot, then return him for questioning. It was Red's objective to recover him to their FoB, then collect some items from his intel on the other side of the site. Unfortunately, they either never got told the second part of the objective or forgot, so their whole team just hunkered down in the FoB near their regen for two hours making progress impossible.

I always assumed the bit where you sign away your rights was rubbish. Same as when you sign 'I am fit and able to participate in XYZ' - any lawyer would shred it in seconds.

I can appreciate that. I was always a Tanaka lover way back when and regret not buying a PCS bolt version when they were common.

Ooh let me know how this goes. I've had my eye on one for a wee while.

Eh? The sling loop is on the left for righty shooters to sling it crossbody.

I recently noticed that quite a few airsoft companies seem to have a questionable view of the law. I saw one advertising a 'boneyard' item as no returns, no refunds. Fair enough, don't want people having a go at fixing it then sending it back but surely it goes against distance selling regs?

I went to a 'battlesim' or whatever at Imperium on Sunday. I enjoyed the more mission based stuff as well as slightly tighter rules but I was equally happy that was about where it ended. There was a guy attempting to take charge but his ideas were a bit too 'over the top and walk very slowly towards the enemy' for my liking.

Yeah the parts are out there, but you might be ordering from here and there. Last time I looked Emperion had loads of stuff.

I've got five for my M4 (hold about 40 rounds each) and that seems alright. I just pick my shots and let the hicap aeg types around me throw all their ammo away 😅

I was also at DogTag yesterday. Crap start for me when I got ten minutes away and released I'd left my boots at home! Quick nip to the services to see if the petrol station had anything for truckers. Lo and behold they did, and I played with the finest boots available (for £35 from Pease Pottage services). Morning games were alright with the castle, a part I've not used before. Less alright was when a chap on my own side with poor awareness/muzzle/trigger disclipine, shot me in the side of the head with a 2.3j rifle from about 3 feet away & it lodged in my ear (photo of offending item: https://ibb.co/4gMJk2F). He was very apologetic and I know accidents happen, but it wasn't brilliant. Ended up with claret on my kit/RIF. The afternoon was a struggle. About 70% of the field seemed to go home, so there was only 20 or so people left by the end. I gave up around 3:30 when it was basically 5-a-side. Is this a common thing now? I've never been to another site that empties out so much at lunch, to the point where I'm not sure I'd bother paying for another full day. That said driving nearly an hour to only play for three doesn't seem worth the effort.

As above it's ASG, so uses KSC/KWA mags. Mags for this are a devil to find - I have a KSC Glock 17 with two mags. I've looked recently and had zero luck finding any. You might find some with some HK retailers but I've not spotted any.

That's the even bigger fear really isn't it - a rental turning up, getting hosed by a rhododendron repeatedly seconds after respawning then just heading home and never bothering again.

Ha! Same. In fact, I bought my APS2 of one these guy as I remember the hunteering word.

Yeah I think just enforcing ghillies as a DMR/Boltie thing would be the simplest and fairest solution. I'd really welcome it if I saw a site advertise it. A game last week ended up a bit of a stalemate quite quickly as there were a pair of ghillies armed with full auto HPA set ups that made advancing nearly impossible.

I missed an entire between game reset break trying to find my way to the safe zone the other week. "Oh yeah it was left at the FOB mate, then there's a gap in the netting..."