Speedbird_666

And there was me, less than happy giving GZ £13 to do mine. Sounds like I got a steal compared to you.

Yeh - it's a fantastic venue and well worth a visit. Best played 'light' IMO, i.e. minimal gear and with 3-4 mid-caps, I would leave the plate carriers at home (a cheapo Viper Vx Spiritus clone chest rig works well) and avoid belt rigs altogether because you'll make a lot of noise bashing into cell doors etc. If you can keep quiet and resist the urge to shoot every target of opportunity, you can do some epic flanking moves on the other team. And more importantly; Greggs is only a 2 minute walk at lunch time.

Shame - although can't complain too much, we have quite a few sites within about an hour's travel radius (UCAP Valiant, Bunker, Ironsight, Spec Ops, Ambush, Bravo Romeo, South Coast CQB, Camouflage and GZ off the top of my head).

Interesting - is it local to the Dorset/Hants area?

And hills. And narrow tracks. And the box-mag heroes that lock down said tracks from the top of the said hills who are almost completely invisible because of the said rhododendron bushes that basically stop gameplay completely dead. I miss the Sopley Urban GZ site. Much better value in terms of trigger time, gameplay and excitement. And they were strict on the chrono too. Good times.

I have played GZ maybe a dozen times over the years since 2005. Never chrono'd once. Ever. I don't play there anymore - even though it's my 'local' site 15-20mins down the road.

Yeh - there's no such thing as a 'stock shimming' other than what's bespoke to your particular gun at the point of manufacturing. You could buy five identical guns from the same manufacturer and not one will be the same when it comes to the number of shims in the gearbox. It's not a dark art, it just requires a little patience and you don't need to be absolutely perfect for UK power levels and relatively 'standard' out of the box performance (High power and high speed performance setups obviously need more care). Gawd knows how many Chinasoft guns have arrived in the UK with barely any semblance of shimming that have spent years being abused by punters as site rentals and are still going strong. Too tight= bad, too loose=bad, but the band in the middle allows for some wiggle room. There are people that take genuine pleasure in getting the gear meshing absolutely perfect - fair play - but I'm not one of them and I have yet to strip a gear. But I also don't any desire for a 400fps DMR or have any interest in 35+RPS burrrrrrrrrp guns.

Yes I have - some (older style) buffer tubes fit - the receiver extension is quite long so many newer style ones won't work because the screw plate is too far forward inside the buffer tube (to maximise battery space) so you can't tighten it up. The PDW stock is actually pretty good with an extension. I disliked it at first but have grown to like it quite a bit, very easy/quick battery change. I'm not planning to change it now.

This. 7 Years ago - when I finally realised that I was in real trouble - I was £23k in debt with Credit Cards. Luckily I was (just about) paying the minimum payment on time (so no late payments or defaults), but those minimum payments were skyrocketing, interest free offers were ending, and I was struggling. Thing is - my Wife had no idea I was in debt. It was when she found out that I had to confront the issue and acknowledge what an idiot I had been - all to buy the shiny newest thing and get the dopamine hit of receiving parcels in the post. I was deeply unhappy with my job which compounded the issue as I would sit at work browsing for stuff to buy rather than...y'know...working. It was all the more galling that I had literally nothing to show for it - I would buy stuff then sell it before I even used it (that includes Paintball and Airsoft gear). The proceeds of the sales would just get frittered away on more random and pointless crap - and never to tackle the Credit Card debt that was steadily accruing. I was very lucky. My Wife didn't divorce me (but it was close) - I don't know where I would be today if she had. I was able to change jobs and dramatically increase my income. Every spare penny went into repaying the debt - and it took 5 years - but for the last 2 years I have not owed a penny to anyone and I am determined to keep it that way. It can be done - I would also suggest taking a look at the 'Debt Free Wannabe' section of the Money Saving Expert forums, it helped us to identify the best course of action for the circumstances I landed myself (and family) in.

More like trying to bait someone into some kind of scam....

Those mags look great in the UTR45. It was the chonky mags that put me off the gun, but MP5 mags are much more practical.

Lovely gun - but that Red Dot is gopping.

That's....a big step up from something like an Ender. Be prepared to learn Klipper/Mainsail and spend a quite some time tuning for best performance. Voron-based designs don't necessarily print better than cheaper printers, but they are a whole lot faster - and that's where the tuning and testing come in with factors like input shaping and resonance compensation etc. I was considering a Voron Switchwire conversion of my Ender 3 V2, even built out and used the Voron fan duct assembly for some time. Once I did all the costings of the linear rails, belts and other sundries needed, I kinda lost interest because I could buy another printer for the same money. I know the print are is smaller, but have you considered the Prusa Mini+?

You could trim the broken spring end and bend another coil out with needle nose pliers as a stopgap. I've done that before. It will put a bit more tension on the tappet though during cycling.

You must be the same RM29 that messaged me on the AirgunForums. Glad to see you registered. Anyway - welcome.

Slightly OT, but related. Eotechs look great on '416s in newer games - here's a setup I like to run in Ground Branch:

HPA player aims for guns and equipment rather than heads and faces. Still complains. 😏 Same site? did you report it to the staff? Did they chrono-check person responsible? Perhaps NERF would be a more appropriate pastime for you to undertake?

Well, as the front sight (where it attaches to) is the same part number between the older MX5 and the newer CES-P, I would say yes - it should be compatible.

*Ahem*....

TM 'Old Skool Plastic' or NGRS? Are TM NGRS magazines even available on our shores at the moment? Personally, I would go ICS purely because a) With exception to TM, they have been producing MP5s longer than any other manufacturer in airsoft, B) spare parts are doddle to get from Fire-Support. C) The CES-P has a stamped steel receiver D) it has the SSS V2 electronics (hair trigger) and finally D) it's £200 cheaper than the TM NGRS. I've seen so many cosmetically broken Cymas (Mag releases, cocking handles and stock arms) now, that I would never bother with them. Something aint right with that Cyma one in the classifieds - The plastics have been resprayed at some point. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

Umarex owns the rights to H&K Trademarks for Airsoft and Rimfire stuff. It means that they can in theory pursue any retailer selling H&K Trademarked Airsoft guns that they did not 'produce'* themselves. It's also why anything other than officially licensed Glocks are not available with most retailers in the US - the outline of the very pistol itself was also copyrighted - so manufacturers produced 'G type' guns that sort of look like a glock if you squint a bit from a distance. Tokyo Marui stuck the H&K logos on their guns anyway...because they can - there very little in the way of copyright enforcement in Japan and TM only really produces guns for their home market. Rest of world is dealt with by wholesalers and intermediaries that, depending on which the retailer uses, will keep or remove the trademarks. *Umarex produce nothing themselves, instead using S&T, Ares and VFC as OEMs to produce their H&K models with trademarks applied, and pass the juicy markup for doing so onto the consumer.

Did you not open the box to check? I mean If I received a £500+ gun I would be closely inspecting it and using Distance Selling rules if it was anything less than perfect to send the fecker back. Anyway - I would send the entire receiver to be cerakoted if you want a 'factory finish'. Otherwise - break out the krylon/halfords camo and DEVGRU/CAG paint the thing for cool kid points.

I'll have you know that I was victorious! - Gonk's SnotHunters defeated the evil forces of the Black Assassins when Snotgrass the Green (notice a theme here?) caused catastrophic damage with his longbow whilst Gonk and his cohorts rushed in to the fray with their melee weapons. Seriously though - my son loved it. Being able to create characters and a simple, but scalable, set of rules meant that the games were fast and more importantly - fun. It might not suit more advanced players, but for kids and their (non gamer) parents it's a pretty good place to start, especially with the YT videos that the author posted. I've ordered a rolled Terrain mat and my son has started scribbling ideas for scenery. He's been watching loads of YT vids on making various ruined buildings and rocks etc. As someone that does a bit of model making (of the static but mostly the RC Plane kind) I've got a few XPS foam sheets to hack up, roll tin foil over, texture/seal and then paint.