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I had a hot and sweaty day at Tower Airsoft in Essex.  This was one of the days run by Camo, who always put on a great day of airsoft with solid but relaxed marshalling and games that make good use of the site and its structures.

I went on my own today as my second eldest is away having far too much fun in MTP, some of which involved an L129A1 and a GPMG.  I am not at all jealous (honest!), but it was quite scary to think that my first shots with a GPMG were 40 years ago; where did the years go?  However, the site had its usual quite large number of experienced and sensible players and I had a great day sneaking around the site turning up where I was not expected to be:).

Unfortunately, the heat seemed to get to people and both numbers and energy levels dropped off a bit during the afternoon, which was not really surprising.  However, the games were still good, just slower.

Overall, another very good day at Tower; many thanks to the Airsoft Plantation and Camo guys, the players and the catering staff, who had a good supply of ice lollies.

Yep; you are.  Like most stupid cunts, you are too thick to realise that you are a stupid cunt.

You are a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action.  Keep it going; you are rather entertaining.

Perhaps you should fuck off to somewhere else then; watching Bruce Lee movies does not make you the hard man you think you are, unless you have a mancrush on Bruce, but that is the wrong kind of hard.

Yep; you are.  Like most stupid cunts, you are too thick to realise that you are a stupid cunt.

You are a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action.  Keep it going; you are rather entertaining.

Perhaps you should fuck off to somewhere else then; watching Bruce Lee movies does not make you the hard man you think you are, unless you have a mancrush on Bruce, but that is the wrong kind of hard.

Yep; you are.  Like most stupid cunts, you are too thick to realise that you are a stupid cunt.

As I said, the Dunning-Kruger effect is strong in you.
Sorry, I ain't that sort of guy; if you are after a "stroke" you might do better on Grindr than here.

It's like one of those films, guy comes to town, does his best to become everybody's friend, while at the same time stirring up shit with his ignorant outspoken ways, pretty soon people get wise to him & before you know it there's a mob with torches & pitchforks chasing him off the edge of a cliff, end of story. 
 
But is it ? 
 
Years later an enigmatic stranger comes to town, tries to fit in by sharing loadout pictures etc, but pretty soon starts to show his true ignorant colours, & comes out that he's the thick as shit illegitimate son of the guy the town hounded out, intent on avenging daddy. 
But it always ends the same way lol😏

Yep; you are.  Like most stupid cunts, you are too thick to realise that you are a stupid cunt.

0 fucks given 

Perhaps you should fuck off to somewhere else then; watching Bruce Lee movies does not make you the hard man you think you are, unless you have a mancrush on Bruce, but that is the wrong kind of hard.

But don't burn the patch!!!!!

But don't burn the patch!!!!!

But don't burn the patch!!!!!

But don't burn the patch!!!!!

But don't burn the patch!!!!!

Having driven up to Keele on Friday evening to collect my son from University and driven back down on Saturday, including a  diversion to our favourite surplus shop, my son and I decided that a trip to Dragon's Lair would be a good way to spend today.  For those who do not know Dragon's Lair, it is a small woodland site in Essex; the terrain is undulating, with a village, a fort, lots of small structures and, as of a few weeks ago, a CQB labyrinth.

It has a good safe zone with free tea and coffee and a small shop run by Airsoft Zone.

The site is run in a friendly and relaxed manner and the marshalling is pretty much on point.  We play there a few times a year as we like to play at a variety of sites in Kent and Sussex.

Today, there were around 90 players, with about 12-15 being rentals.  Despite the small size of the site, it did not seem crowded; strangely it never does.

As usual, the games were simple, but provided some really great gameplay, with good hit taking and good sportsmanship on both sides.  It was a really fun day of what a friend once described as "good, old fashioned, dumb airsoft".  There were no high tech props, no vehicles, no gimmicks; just a bunch of like minded folk thoroughly enjoying shooting each other and getting shot, although being shot in the head from about 1m by one of my own team was not the most enjoyable part of the day.

As to the CQB labyrinth, I cannot really comment as it is not my thing, so I did not go into it; my son seemed to take up residence there and enjoyed it.

After a rather "meh" experience a couple of weeks ago at a site I really used to like, this was a refreshing change.  We drove home feeling very satisfied with our day out.

What a weekend; Namsoft is incredibly fun. Went to Operation Boogaloo at Gunman Eversley Alpha as VC with two friends and we caused havoc. Myself and one of my friends were a pair of VC snipers who harassed the US forces all through both Saturday and Sunday. We would shoot a few, then bug out before they could organise a counter-attack and we basically did this all weekend. US forces kept leaving their radio masts unguarded, so it would've been rude of us not to constantly take their radio masts down through the weekend, which sent their morale-o-meter into the gutter (which was our objective as VC and PAVN). The other guy in our group spent the entire Saturday playing as a farmer, ditching all his military equipment and walking around the site with a rake, watching the US forces and their movements, then getting somewhere quiet and radio-ing in their locations. They were getting very jumpy, but to their credit they never shot him as he played the part of the scared farmer very well.
 
This continued into Sunday, where we kept going with the same tactics. Our farmer changed out into a French uniform and played the part of a French mercenary HVT for the Aus forces to hunt down and kill, but they never got him. We even went on a stealth mission as two snipers (my friend was also marked as a HVT by this point), our French HVT and a PAVN soldier to take out one of their radio masts, but we managed to sneak past the US platoon in the area, do the objective and then bug out. Our HVTs never died (though the Aussies got very close to the French merc) and it was a fairly dominant performance by the VC and PAVN. Numbers were 55 US/Aus vs 22 VC/PAVN on Saturday, down to 25 US/Aus vs 15 VC/PAVN on Sunday, so while outnumbered we played to our strengths really well and the VC/PAVN guys I played with were all absolutely knackered by the end because we had to fire and fade so much over the weekend and Eversley Alpha is a pretty hilly site...
 
Only my 2nd Namsoft game, but I'm definitely going back. The VSR performed amazingly and I think all bar two of my kills were 60+ metres (with most of those being 70+ and one of the less than 60m kills being with the pistol) and I thoroughly enjoyed the filmsim experience. I'll never get into milsim, as when I tried that I didn't really enjoy it, but filmsim is an absolute blast and I encourage people to give it a go. 
 
Also, especially considering how annoying we were being, I didn't have anyone get mad and square up to me this time (that group wasn't there, funnily enough), but I did have someone moan to me about a headshot I did at about 60m. I'll always aim for the chest and tried explaining how long range shots work (like how the hop up makes the BB go upwards towards the end of the trajectory, how a slight breeze will take the BB on a magical mystery tour, how a leaf will knock the BB out of the park and get a home run), but he wasn't prepared for me to speak and clearly just wanted to have a go at me; I tried explaining my side of it, but he wasn't interested in listening, only venting, so I gave up. Otherwise my experience was fantastic and I loved the whole thing. Some of the special forces guys shook my hand after the first day and said how impressive some of my shots were. Playing as a sniper can be pretty uneventful sometimes, but when you have one of these games where you feel like you're making a silly amount of impact on the game, it makes it all worthwhile. Haven't had such a good game in a long time!

It's amazing how many guides and techs don't mention this.  The c-clip on the hop unit only holds the barrel in approximately the correct orientation and I've become mildly obsessed with making tiny rotations to get the mound centred.  Hop off, rotate the barrel a smidge, hop to full, eyeball, and repeat until your OCD is satiated.

I Have bought a few things from them and have always found them to be good.

The "VAT exempt" means that you do not pay French VAT; you will end up paying UK VAT on arrival in the UK.

The "VAT exempt" means that you do not pay French VAT; you will end up paying UK VAT on arrival in the UK.