BrightCandle

20 v 20 is pretty packed for a place that small with very short games and a steep price. The initial enthusiasm has left me. I might try it once but all in all it sounds like its actually worse than Bunker 51. That is quite special.

I just went out a few years back and found a very friendly bunch of people and now I know a lot of new guys. I team up with some guys I play with regularly but I still make an effort to say hi to all the new guys, help them out, talk gear or whatever and have them tag along with my group. I have never had an issue turning up to a site on my own and finding some guys to show me the ropes of the game and the site, not once in 1.5 years.

I would love to see a milsim calendar. Getting the various companies together to produce it and start jointly advertising might help all parties increase the number of milsim players. Finding milsim games is mostly about knowing who puts them on and checking where and when they are. The events section of Airbana isn't really used today and its likely not the best place but right now the visibility of milsim games is really quite poor.

I think mine was from military1st.co.uk but my flecktarn kit is a combination of them and flecktarn.co.uk.

I travel through London wearing camo and a big bergen often, I don't really have any problems. Occasionally people swap carriages on the tube but that is mainly when I am on my way home and I suspect I stink from all the sweat. But I have never had any issues, I have played with kids on the tube kitted out before and watched their mothers laugh as what they think is a solder messes around with their kid. Honestly people have such a low view of others, its not my reality at all.

I also do real steel shooting and when it comes to vermin shooting and such there are defined maximum ranges (minimum energy levels) that air weapons can be used for because they aren't lethal to the animals being shot at. For an air pistol against a rat its something like 6metres, and for the guys that hunt rabbits with 12J rifles its less than 30m. Considering these are such vastly higher numbers than the consultation paper you would expect they would be a lot more lethal than they actually are.I wouldn't want to be defending myself with an air pistol, I'd take a knife any day of the week, no way an air pistol is going to take down an assailant. The numbers in this are far away from reality of genuinely lethal, we are back to could it harm someone rather than actually being used to kill at any reasonable range.

Having read through Chapter 2 there is a general fault in the logic of defining lethality on the basis of muzzle energy. As they quite rightly point out a dart (designed to penetrate) will be lethal at 1J whereas airsofters get hit with >1J BBs all the time and they don't get injured let alone die from the impact. Lethality isn't just about muzzle velocity, its also about penetration and that is about pressure. Its somewhat amusing actually because we already have a basic test for lethality involving ballistics gel. If you cloth a ballistics gel dummy and you still get sufficient penetration to kill a human then you have yourself something that is potentially lethal. If it can't do that (and airsoft weapons can't even at 2.5J) then its not going to be lethal. Its only a consultation but I think I ought to comment on the lethality section and the definition based soly on muzzle velocity is severely lacking in basic understanding of the physics involved in bullets penetrating and both sides need to be addressed.

They do have quick switch springs although in an M4 that isn't exactly quick because you still have to crack open the entire gun and remove the gearbox to get to the spring replacement. In my Tar 21 its pull a pin and open up the rear hatch and then you can directly access the rear of the gearbox. But in an M4 its not so simple.

300 m^2 is just 17mx17m. That is pretty small, smaller than Bunker 51. B51 has at most about a 40m shot across the angles and its also got the area across the top, so by square footage alone this has less than Bunker 51. If its 5v5 or 10v10 then its got a chance but not 30v30.

Krytac when they make them target a little under 400 fps, around 385 IIRC. However most of the UK retailers crack the guns open and replace the springs and put 328 fps ones in there, so it'll be and around those levels. LWA I am certain has changed that spring.

+aircon, really need it to be a bit cooler than B51's 40C blast furnace!

Ah that is a lot smaller and sounds pretty similar to bunker 51. My interest just turned into disappointment.

In the past I have tested 130 round PMags in a combat machine and a T4-18 and concluded they just don't work. However the EPMs seem to work just fine in my T4-18.

300m x 300m is excellent for a CQB place. Considering the quality of the other airbourne sites I am actually pretty hopeful.

That is great news considering how awful the choices are in London right now! Still initial pictures makes it look quite small, really hard to know at this point but if its opening in a few weeks time I'll definitely go out there and try it as soon as I can.

Well seeing as how currently I can't even see the contents of the petition I am not going to be signing anything. Other than removing the UKARA requirement what else would airsofters possibly want? To walk the streets with the RIFs in hand? For children to have access to RIFs? About the only thing I think is worth removing is the UKARA requirement from RIF purchases but honestly its a minor inconvience nothing more. You wont find me voting for children to be buying IFs and RIFs, they are dangerous if not treated with appropriate caution and frankly I think that ought to push an amount of adult supervision at all times, in the same way I think any firearm ought to involve an adult when being handled by youngsters. But the contents of the petition isn't clear (just a link to the vote, seriously you got 4 other people to sign it without seeing the wording?) so I'll wait until I can see what it is your asking for.

This is one part of the current Airsoft legislation I don't really get. Having gone through the requirements of VCRA and also the firearms legislation I personally think that airsoft weapons are classed as firearms. But they aren't treated as them by general retailers because all airguns must specifically be sold face to face and your name and address must be entered into a local registration. Given that we don't do that with airsoft kit I would suspect that they don't fall under the the definition of an air weapon in the UK, because if they do then every single retailer is breaking the law. So on the one hand I don't understand why they aren't classed as airguns, they quite clearly meet the requirements to be classed as a gun yet no one acts like they are anything but toys and so on that basis in practice I don't believe a firearms ban prohibits the ownership of airsoft imitation weapons.

I have tried 3 different M4 style speedloaders and frankly I haven't had a lot of luck with them: King arms - Garbage through and through, barely feeds BBs at all. Tokyo Marui - Works great for ammo up to a weight of 0.25g, infact its flawless. However on heavier ammo it gets stuck and wont feed the ammo so you have to keep shaking it and its made of weak plastic and the feed lip snapped on me. G&G - Stronger plastic than the TM but it has troubles both feeding BBs down for the next press and the press sometimes sticks and you have to really jam it down to get it to go. The problem is now I am using EPM magazines with 0.30g BBs I am finding that none of these speedloaders worked well at all. Does anyone know of an actual good one I can get hold of?

What I did was do some accuracy tests at paper indoors from a prone supported position. I fired a variety of different ammo out of both the Tar 21, the G&G T4-18 gen 3 and the transparent combat machine and looked at the actual spread across 20 shots but only at 10 metres. I also do .22/7.62 rifle shooting as well as air pistol so I have an idea of what my accuracy which helps. My own experiments showed that 0.25g was quite a bit better than 0.20 and 0.30 out of the tar is even more accurate still. What I did not do is a nice controlled experiment so I don't really want to publish the results, too much human error involved. But personally I saw about 3 inch groups with 0.20g and 2 inch groups with 0.25g out of both the G&G guns with the Combat machine being maybe 2/16ths better than the T4-18. The tar 21 now its been upgraded seems to put out 1cm groupings with 0.30g ammo. But the thing is all the guns like different ammo weights and types in these tests. The G&G T4-18 for example shoots much better on blasters than bastards whereas the combat machine doesn't really care, both prefer 0.25g over 0.20 however. Then the Tar 21 overhops anything below 0.28g's and its accuracy is vastly better than either of the other two guns but it also can't use the same ammo in the same test.

The heaviest BBs the hop can lift.

No its not programmable, just a basic mosfet that defends the trigger contacts. Because of how it goes in its not actually easy to replace, but I guess a burst wizard or something else in there wont do any harm and would get DMR without modifications.

The Airsoft tech has a breakdown of the parts in a Krytac ( ). The TLDW is that the parts are the best you'll find in a stock gun, its shimmed pretty well and basically is great internally. Its those internal parts and the great external finish that makes the Krytac guns what they are. They shoot really well out of the box, have really good trigger response especially on 11.1V lipos (which they are designed to run). What they don't have is any special parts at all. Its 95% normal M4 stuff and is widely compatible, so its easy to upgrade everything but the mosfet and gearbox shell. But because of that you don't get functional bolt release, lock back, recoil and the other things that make some of the guns that are just a little bit more expensive.

The actual requirements for PMR446 are actually really restrictive unfortunately, not only does it have to be 0.5W but it also has to have a fixed antenna and only be able of using those frequencies. In essence PMR and licenced radios are never going to be in the same device. I personally think that is a bit short sighted especially for our uses where you find people with both but that is the law. PMR is just 446Mhz (ish) and that is well within the range of a Baofeng radio so they can certainly be programmed to it. On low power they will output ~1W, with a stubby antenna you should be able to drop that to more like 0.5W get to the "technical" requirements without the legal ones. Would still be illegal. Personally I think you are better off going with the licenced radio. The range advantage as well as the radios themselves being very cheap is just a bonus. The licence takes about 2 weeks to get, its just a name+ address etc and about 2 weeks of time and £75 for 5 years. You might still want a PMR radio on a pickup game day if that is what people are using, I know the sandpit has a mix of both on there as does Billericay so I suspect many sites where radios are useful likely have a mix of licences.

I think the answer is no one in the community knows and the organisers aren't telling anyone. An event like this ought to have a complete breakdown of when events start and end and the times for the site. Can you imagine trying to run Okto without telling people when they could arrive and set up camp and when they must leave by and what time the games run? It makes no sense why they would try and organise an event this big without this. It looks like its incredibly poorly organised at this point and that is not a good sign at all.

Its just "festival" like activities on the Friday? If I turn up at 11am on Friday what am I going to be doing on that day? Just vendor stalls or is their organised activities?