Mack

Quality of gear/looking the part does not make you a good airsofter. Playing hard and playing fair make you good. Can the hate.
 
I would however agree with everyone that you will find more support on international/US forums. ArniesAirsoft have a strong US membership so I'd recommend you try there...
 
I was going to close this to avoid the inevitable 'UK site u n00b' posts that are sure to follow, however I'd be interested to know, you mention using airsoft to bring your community together, specifically younger group, what sort of things did you have in mind?
 
Here in the UK, most people are like 'DERP. GUNS R BAD CUZ DEY KILL PPL. BANBANBANBANBANBAN' so if you have any ideas that could be applied over here that would be interesting!

Oh, sorry, my mistake! it has a nice blowback function (not recoil)

Little bit dirtier now MARSOC on a budget
 

Ahh ok then, I bow to your superior experience of 'customised' 'upgraded' guns shooting further and more accurately than stock ones.
 
I've not been doing this long you see.

There already on show

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I registered on this site after I saw some hits coming to my webserver from this specific URL. I saw the discussion and wanted to put in some input.
Anyway, that youtube video and the URL to http://www.ocabj.net/use-bone-not-muscle-rifle-shooting-and-photography/ was recorded and written by me a few years back.
 
With regards to how you should shoulder your stock, there are variations on which to do this, depending on the rifle platform and depending on what kind of shooting you're doing.
 
The skeletal support method I demonstrated in the video is meant to provide the most stable support for a standing shot with no other support (e.g. sling). If your only concern is consistent and accurate shots from the unsupported standing position, then the way described in that video and article is the most ideal. This is what you will see in what we in the United States call "High Power Rifle" matches, also known as "Across the Course", where one stage of fire is 200 yard unsupported standing, 20 rounds in 20 minutes slow fire with a 7 inch 10-ring and a 3 inch X-ring. In those matches, you're trying to put 20 rounds into a 7 inch circle at 200 yards from standing.
 
A little tidbit on how high the stock is on the shoulder, what people need to understand is that the AR15/M16 platform we use in High Power is a "Service Rifle" and has to follow strict rules with regards to the configuration. One being that we us the A2 stock with A2 sights (although the sights are competition grade). The most consistent cheek weld with the A2 configuration is always going to be nose to the charging handle, and the best way to shoulder the stock is to get the sights to the eye, not the head down to the sights. Getting the rifle to the eye will keep the head and neck straight. This improves balance. For most people to do this with the A2 service rifle, this means getting the toe of the stock really high on the body. Fortunately, the AR15/M16 recoil is little to non-existent. Also, it helps when A2 competition service rifles are heavily weighted (we add lead weights to the gun, often increasing a standard A2 rifle which usually weighs ~9 lbs up to 18lbs or more).
 
To give a better understanding of what I mean by keeping the head and neck straight for balance, here's an experiment. Stand on one foot, close your eyes, now tilt your head slightly to one side. What happens to your balance? I'm going to bet that you start to fall towards that side and you're body will instinctively try to muscle counterbalance. This is what you don't want happening when you shoot slow fire standing in High Power Rifle competitions. If you tilt your head to the rifle sights to get good cheekweld in standing, you mess up your natural balance and are introducing 'muscling' into your position, which leads to instability over time as you fatigue in the position.
 
That being said, in a combat or dynamic scenario, shooting like this isn't practical. You're going to be moving, engaging multiple targets and various distances and directions, so the competition "slow fire" stance really isn't going work. So what do you do? Change stance and holds. Instead of blading the body to the target, you'll square up more to the target, bring the stock more into the pectoral muscle than in the shoulder. This it style that you'll see being currently taught by various weapons manipulations instructors (e.g. Magpul Industries, Haley Strategic, Costa Ludus, Vickers Tactical, the list goes on).
 
I advocate using the type of stance and hold for the situation at hand, whether it be competition - High Power Rifle "Across the Course", 3-Gun, etc, or combat/dynamic.
 

 


 
Self by ocabj, on Flickr

Can you point me to where it says this (highlighted red) in uk law? because I can tell you now it doesnt. Thats a ukara guidline, not a law.

Can you point me to where it says this (highlighted red) in uk law? because I can tell you now it doesnt. Thats a ukara guidline, not a law.

Point them to this
 
(1)After section 24 of the 1968 Act insert—
“24A Supplying imitation firearms to minors
 
(1)It is an offence for a person under the age of eighteen to purchase an imitation firearm.
 
(2)It is an offence to sell an imitation firearm to a person under the age of eighteen.
 
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/part/2

I'm not entirely sure where to begin, so I'll start with the biggest obstacle you've got here;
This is illegal and cruel.
 
You can't get a section 5 FAC to shoot foxes with .22 rimfire, needs to be minimum .223 because wounding an animal is unacceptable, needs to be a clean kill if you're going to shoot one.
 
Go down this route if you like, but it don't think it'll be effective. It'll also mean you're a massive cunt.

My wallet lost a lot of weight today
 

I've been doing Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-Ryu now for 4 months and love it. Has given me much more flexibility as I used to be stiff as a board.

What do you want advice on? Even if they were good quality 0.12s they are far too inaccurate. Best weight is really 0.25g. Also it wouldn't be worth importing pellets from Asia.

I know lol Might go out for a roll around in the garden get them worn in a bit as they only arrived this morning.

Mack its looking far to clean
 
But nice loadout though

Why would they? they are owned by zeroone. You dont go into mc donalds and see adverts for BK whoppers on the walls.

We have indeed mate. Have not been up in quite awhile becuse of GCSE's, but now that is over I plan to get back to it!

Personally I would have taken it. The whole reason I got into airsoft rather than paintball is the realisim. Realistic weapons, realistic scenarios, the gear and tactics we try to emulate. In real life guns don't run on batteries or vent gas when it's cold
 
I know other people play for different reasons so really both sides have a point.

E3 is NOT just a gaming convention.

I've been doing Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-Ryu now for 4 months and love it. Has given me much more flexibility as I used to be stiff as a board.

This cant come soon enough
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fewc0ddX0wE

Personally I would have taken it. The whole reason I got into airsoft rather than paintball is the realisim. Realistic weapons, realistic scenarios, the gear and tactics we try to emulate. In real life guns don't run on batteries or vent gas when it's cold
 
I know other people play for different reasons so really both sides have a point.