Ian_Gere

Join the dark side: get a CYMA CM.028U, give her a girls' name, and masturbate furiously while stroking her. Not that I do that with mine

Football has been banned in the UK several times in our history. It was not uncommon for people to be badly wounded or even killed during games as well as major property damage. There's a lesson in there somewhere, although for the life of me I can't imagine that we'll learn it any time soon...

No, that would be you buying it from them. Just rent 3 times and get your own UKARA registration. Airsoft is not a cheap sport and if the difference in cost between walk on prices and rental (which is usually £15) is going to prevent you from getting back into it, you'd probably best give up now.

This is not a 74 but probably fits the bill better than anything else we've considered... Edit: oops there are 2 74 varients - i just looked at the top 1 and thought of you.

Yeah, I was thinking, "Real your neck in, mate." I mean, when something happens and you immediately react, that's one thing, but after the first step of walking over to somebody that's surely time to think, "This is not going to end well..." One time somebody used a bunch of dead men walking as cover to walk right up to a bunch of 3 of us - it was a night game, we were standing behind netting which, for the purposes of the game, was considered hard cover and, since they seemed to be bimbling along in the general direction of their regen, but in a night game you can never be too sure, one of us shouted to ask if they were dead men (I forget: could have been me, could have been a couple of us) and a few shouts in the affirmative came back... so we go back to our tactical discussion (and for a change I use the word correctly as we were discussing tactics). Out of the corner of my eye I was aware of someone walking towards us, but I wasn't concerned because dead men are no threat and at least one of the 3 of us was looking in that direction so I assumed that if we had anything to worry about he would alert us. So to get to where we were without lifting the net this person had to move completely out of my sight and perhaps that is why I turned around and took a couple of steps towards him. I wasn't thinking about it, even though in hindsight I realised that I did know he was the opposition, because Tris is, by even the most charitable assessment, one of the most rotund players currently active in the UK, so it's not as if I could not notice even out of the corner of my eye... so he bimbles up, produces his pistol from behind his back and pops me twice in the belly from about 2.5-3m away, gets both my mates and takes a 50/50 from one iirc. I was fucking fuming. I mean, apart from the cheating, it hurt. So I lost it for a sec, stepped up and shouted in his face, "You fucking arsehole, Tris!" It was aggressive and, subconsciously, I spose I did mean it to be. In that moment, if he had given me some lip back and it had not seemed funny (and to be fair, coming from Tris, some aggressive rejoinder could well have done), I may have shoved him over/thrown him to the floor. It's unlikely I would have punched him, because that's not really my modus operandi, even when I've been assaulted, but that's not the issue. The point is that I can't be certain that I would not have initiated violence in the heat of the moment. But from the shots in the UBACS covered belly to the syllable "Tris!" took no more than 1.5 seconds, if I'd had to walk over to him, I know I'd have had my shit together and, no matter how egregious I considered the offence or how annoyed I was, I would never initiate violence without first, at the very least, yelling at someone. I consider that my behaviour was out of order and if the marshals had excluded me from the rest of the night's play (since booting a non-driver off site in the middle of night would not have been much of an option), I would have understood and not complained. I would have gracefully accepted a month ban even. However I would have insisted that Tris was also censured for his behaviour. This did cause a storm in a tea cup a few days later when he attempted to lie his way out of his part in the whole debacle, but this was pure keyboard warrior stylee an ting. On the night in question I apologised to him maybe an hour after swearing at him, at my first opportunity, and the 3 of us told him that we considered what he had done to be not technically 100% cheating, but definitely borderline and totally against the spirit of the game, to which he replied that he understood. A few days later he claimed to have not understood what we were talking about, to have thought what we said "weird", and that his 'sneaking' over to us had nothing to do with our challenging the dead men walking... yeah, obviously that was true... my arse. TBH I was actually more angry with him for impugning my honesty later than the original offence and, rest assured, within the letter of the rules (in exactly the same way as he behaved), at some point I will have my revenge on the lying shitbag. Anyway, no action was taken and, despite the fact that rules were broken, I don't believe any was needed. I spose that since I do intend to make Tris rue the day he called me a liar, we could take the view that some intervention by marshals and a definitive conclusion brought about would have been a better outcome, but since he lied his arse off later, I have no reason to doubt that he would have lied his arse off at the time, so what could a marshal have actually done? Well, 3 against 1 is usually to be believed, but honestly, even though I know what did happen, I would not be comfortable with bans being handed out on hearsay and what else can a marshal do that does actually mean something? I often think that we should use a sin bin approach, so that minor infractions of the rules can be punished without marshals having to make a decision that really pisses players off, in which case people would be a lot less willing to bend rules or break minor rules, acting in ways which do provoke people to genuine anger, and if that were the case, we would not see as much bad behaviour as a result... But when I'm considering what, if any, measures need to be taken over someone's behaviour in game, this is the incident I compare it to. I don't just think about the incident itself though, but what happened after and how I, being culpable, would have reacted to the kind of pitchforks and torches stylee an ting which we've seen around this subject. If I had been banned from airsoft in the UK for life over this, if it had got worse, Tris would have a reason to be genuinely worried, whereas as it stands, unless he sees me kitting up in the safe zone, he probably never even thinks of the incident.

You'd have hoped that if the spelling was to avoid any trade mark litigation they'd at least have a bit of fun with it: Aunty Terror or summat... For me: Turnigy Nano Tech 1300mAh 11.1V 25-50C LiPo stick battery - $21.74 posted ~ hobbyking.com

As M_P said, they can be a bit tight. Basically if the pouch holds a STANAG mag tightly you will struggle getting a 74 mag in and out quickly, but if they are a bit loose, yeah no problem. Open top pouches should be fine.

Felix Sanchez has been doing it all wrong...

Hold them gently with pliers and use a sharp knife in a guillotine motion.

Who, me? Yeah - basically you are not going to get tip top performance out of any stock gun, no matter how much money you spend on it, so why bother? Just get a decent body (or a 2nd hand gun if there isn't a body kit) and put the internals you want in the barstid (I'm watching Micky Flanagan - can't 'elp it).

LCT AKS-74 body kit PDI 6.05mm inner barrel Maple Leaf 60 deg* / Prometheus Purple hop rubber RATech hop cushion PDI Palsonite cylinder Magic Box double O-ring piston head SHS/Super Shooter pretty much everything else CT-2 Teflon grease BTC Chimera V3 MOSFET** *Going on recommendations - I've just ordered one so i'll soon be able to compare them to Prometheus Purple which are the best i've tried so far, better than PDI W-hold. **If you can find one, if not maybe the V3 ASCU although I haven't read the specs yet and what i'd be after is pre-cocking, so if not that, a Burst Wizard BW3.

Yeah, that is my take on it. Ban them both for a month or two at most. On the subject of shields: I don't believe they should be allowed at all unless they are as heavy as something that would be real steel rifle bulletproof. If that is the case, fine, do whatever you like with it - there's no need for any further rules, but 'blind firing' should be strictly enforced, so if you peep round an opaque shield and then pull your head back before pulling the trigger, that's cheating.

Great job, Chock! I'm sooooooooooo tempted... BTW, that screw in the bottom of the motor cage of V3 gearboxes does not adjust the motor height, it just holds the pistol grip on. The motor adjustment is done by a grub screw with a hex key.

I've just heard rumblings of possible cancellation and, since i'm not allowed to drive myself, my absence may be enforced by recalcitrance beyond my control... otherwise, yeah I'd be happy to team up. BTW I have a brand new, unused, Turnigy Nano Tech 11.1V 25-50C 950mAh LiPo which would fit in a Honey Badger (actual dimensions: 71.5mm x 25mm x 20.5mm) - I bought it thinking to try it in my Skorpion but the advice is that the motor will definitely burn out if I do, so it's for sale. Cost me $20.99 posted / £10 F2F gets it and, since it comes with some weird RC connector, your choice of small Tamiya or Deans connector fitted using appropriate heat shrink where necessary... And now it's certain: the driver has pulled out so unless i can find another lift (which may be possible) I'll be absent.

Maple Leaf 60 Degree Hop Rubber - £10.55 posted from MilspecSolutions.co.uk

Thanks mate - nice spread of prices there - socomtactical wanted £19 posted £8.50 flat rate ahahahahahahahahaha! Went with milspecsolutions.co.uk - £10.55 posted signed for / can't say fairer than that

Anyone know who has a 60 degree Maple Leaf rubber in stock? My googlefoo is weak...

dualdealshop on fleabay is the cheapest at £37.50 posted, iirc. The spring in it will be too hot - around M125.

I bought 2 from Chris. They arrived very quickly and were neatly made. Unfortunately neat I don't do and glint is no good for a sniper, so I put heat shrink on the clips:

Welcome to the forums: you're in good company - another old git me... 46 and 1/2 dead but still up for a game of soldiers

Jetta my SRC G36KV - needs painting with urban camouflage, but also needs a 556 on top of the scope first - the 551 I have doesn't fit properly.

CYMA CM.050A

There was a discussion on fb about this the other day: people thought maybe they were having webby issues - good to have the exact info.