JamesAirsofterAgent

First game in 2 years last weekend at Spartan airsoft CQB, went with a group of 6 friends from school, one of which was his first time. Overall good day, as always the stairs acted as massive chokepoints in games where there was a lack luster objective but other than that the marshalls & games were good. 

[rant ahead]
One massive peev I have though is the fat fuckers who love to mouth off at the back ranting and raving to rentals, kids etc that they need to f'ing push up more and stop pussying around, while they sit at the back catching their breath from walking 2 feet. I can understand a bit of encouragement, most people usually give some and it is helpful for pushing out a choke point but when its the same tards with about 3 teeth and as many braincells all day, arguing with marshalls and saying they'll wrap their 'rifle' around someones head, throat punch this that and the other it gets annoying as fuck. Hit taking was alright, apart from one classic SAS patched black multicam warrior who obviously thought his plates were real as it took about 5 bursts for him to stop shooting other people (If you're going to wear a bulky set up and can't feel hits, for the love of god take it off). The whole thing seemed to have way more agro people than I remembered with a couple of out bursts through out the day from people who forgot we are running around with toy guns for a bit of fun.

Other than the aforementioned rant, a good day and everyone came away happy in my group and wanting to go even further with upgrades and such, especially the new guy who's first time it was and is now saving to buy his own kit. He did mention a couple of times he people weren't taking hits but that was part and parcel sadly. Was also really fun to put the radios to use within the group. Now to get me ukara back in time for that fal

First game in 2 years last weekend at Spartan airsoft CQB, went with a group of 6 friends from school, one of which was his first time. Overall good day, as always the stairs acted as massive chokepoints in games where there was a lack luster objective but other than that the marshalls & games were good. 

[rant ahead]
One massive peev I have though is the fat fuckers who love to mouth off at the back ranting and raving to rentals, kids etc that they need to f'ing push up more and stop pussying around, while they sit at the back catching their breath from walking 2 feet. I can understand a bit of encouragement, most people usually give some and it is helpful for pushing out a choke point but when its the same tards with about 3 teeth and as many braincells all day, arguing with marshalls and saying they'll wrap their 'rifle' around someones head, throat punch this that and the other it gets annoying as fuck. Hit taking was alright, apart from one classic SAS patched black multicam warrior who obviously thought his plates were real as it took about 5 bursts for him to stop shooting other people (If you're going to wear a bulky set up and can't feel hits, for the love of god take it off). The whole thing seemed to have way more agro people than I remembered with a couple of out bursts through out the day from people who forgot we are running around with toy guns for a bit of fun.

Other than the aforementioned rant, a good day and everyone came away happy in my group and wanting to go even further with upgrades and such, especially the new guy who's first time it was and is now saving to buy his own kit. He did mention a couple of times he people weren't taking hits but that was part and parcel sadly. Was also really fun to put the radios to use within the group. Now to get me ukara back in time for that fal

Mixed bag at Driver Wood yesterday.. to say the least.
 
First off my personal woes.  Get to the point my phone is saying 2 minutes to arrival, get to the roundabout to turn down the road the site entrance is on... building on fire at about 8am (only 16C out) fire serv spraying it and road closed, so being outside the M25 that's a 10 minute detour that makes you question if you're ever going to find a way around after a while.  Get there, set my bags down, begin tooling up.  I made sure to properly and fully charge 3 batteries the night before, that's MORE than enough, test fired both guns too.. did I charge and bring the right batteries to actually fit inside the storage compartment of the gun I want to use?  Of course not.  So the backup rifle became the one-and-only all day.   This is what happens when you don't play often enough to actually be suitably familiar with you own bloody equipment, combined with generally being a dunce.
 
On the site:
No pot holes on the short road to the large, smooth hard-standing car park, huge thumbs up. Best setup of check-in I've experienced by far. Biggest safe zone with the best facilities I've personally experienced by far.  Most seating I've ever seen and all actually nice, usable and clean.  Highest standard of toilets I've seen by a long way, widest range of food available, pretty decent little airsoft specific shop setup, drinking water tap etc.  Had a pagoda spraying out mist by the game area entrance all day.. bonkers. Really great props in the airsoft game area, which is a lot of the reason I went actually.  Couple of military helicopters, plane, double decker bus, decent wooden towers etc, but for me all spread out too far and not nearly utilised enough in the games.  The paintball fields we walked past looked like a ton of fun. Safety brief was short which was nice, but the marshal talking had all the force of character of a wet paper towel, many weren't tuned in (this bloke was my main issue all day really). Boundaries/area not explained at all in first game, was clearly just assumed you were a regular. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, get the 'Meal deal' when booking your space.  I know the café could put out some really quite decent food because I saw many other people carrying it over to their tables; the menu is frankly a great, wide selection and well priced.  But the 'meal deal' is a burger/hot dog and (get this) chocolate bar and can of coke... absolute fucking garbage idea of a meal when conducting physical activity.  Long as you add the salad and sauces which are available the burgher is absolutely fine, not greasy, I've had better foods at sites, but it was fine.  However the 'deal' is £5 extra, whereas various other better looking options available on the day only cost 4 somehow?  Where's the package deal there, surely that's not how it should work??  Not pleased. Ability to book just half a day if you want is great for many people in terms of having that option, sounds brilliant especially if you live close. Flip side to the above is that the problem marshal couldn't herd the cats at all and teams weren't balanced anywhere near properly post-lunch when at least half left and only a handful turned up.  My side was both larger and more experienced. Game just after lunch was a white wash of epic proportions.  One single objective area that we locked down the entire time due to team advantage and far more/better cover our side. When I asked for a clarification on the brief of said game, instead of anything even approaching a professional response I was patronised and condescended to like a fuckin idiot; would've loved to kick off an argument frankly given that said brief contained blatantly incorrect info and the insanely simple thing I asked was not in the slightest bit hard to clarify. Final game was quite possibly the worst I have ever played.  Problem marshal gave the laziest, most lacklustre 'ugh it's warm and I can't be arsed to do my job' brief I have ever seen.  Lasted seriously less than 30 seconds, couldn't believe it.  Layout made no sense, no boundaries explained, teams still way unbalanced, didn't work in the slightest, wasn't a game.  I basically just knelt by a wooden wall for 45 minutes. I could hear the paintball marshals in other netted off game areas loudly shouting games on/over, music playing etc, happened most of the day.  But there were multiple times I didn't even know we'd started playing airsoft; never an issue I've experienced before. The other marshals seemed like decent blokes really, pretty good actually overall.  The owner clearly loves the places, you could literally watch him all day cutting wood and building new structures.  Place has a ton of potential, many brilliant aspects, just thoroughly tarnished by one lazy, meek, uninterested and unsuitable lead marshal (and the shit meal deal).  If I thought there was a chance of getting a refund I'd ask for it and this is the first time I've ever felt that way.
 
Gear observation - young lad wearing one of these (that I 100% guarantee most of you see at least one of at every single game), was complaining all day because the wire from the quick release had broken through it's sheath and was poking straight in to his side.  If I could get every new player to skip that phase and get a BULLE MLE to start off I'd be one happy man.  Can't imagine how many of those end up in landfill after 2 games, shocking waste of plastic and of people's money.

My first night game at Reforger last night, had an absolute blast.
First thing about night games is that it all hits a bit different when you've already done a days work, I got there about 5:30 (half hour early!), and left at half past midnight, and this morning now I'm back at work I feel like I've gone 5 rounds with Mike Tyson. But in a good way.
Humidity was very high for the first part of the evening and I sweated more than I ever have in a day game, but luckily it cooled down a bit and a breeze picked up once the sun had gone down.
Was interesting trying to put into practice some of the tips I got on here, mixed with my own bright, and not so bright, ideas.
First thing was that, yes, red filters on your gunlight are good for preserving your night vision, but not so useful if every other player is running very bright white lights... I'll be taking the filter off if I do it again.
The little trick with the glowstick taped to the acog fibreoptic worked a charm, but I didn't seal it off as well as I could and there was some bleed through from the edges, which may have accounted for one or two of my deaths.
Very glad I bought some Bolle Pilots to use rather than my usual mesh goggles, I would have struggled to see anything at all through mesh. I did try wearing my prescripition glasses under the Pilots but it was just far too humid for that and they steamed up completely before I'd even left the safezone.
I had an idea to take some cheap cob stick lights and put them forward of our position to silhouette the enemy, but this was a bit of a miscalculation on my part; it just meant that the other team avoided that area completely, flanked us and shot me in the back. So I used them in the wrong way but the principle is sound, just use them to funnel movement rather than light people up per se.
Identifying teammates was perhaps the trickiest thing - for the last game we decided on a call-and-response so that if you saw someone and weren't sure you could confirm if they were a teammate, with some attendant risk to yourself. I still had a shameful amount of teamkills over the whole evening though.
The night itself was run very well, no dramas or misbehaviour at all, hit taking was good. We played some new and different games - one an equivalent of that 'wink murder' party game, we also did some 3v3 and 1v1 in the village killhouse, winner stayed on.
Overall would definitely do it again, with the caveat that I had to leave work two hours early to get there and this may not always be possible, saturday night would probably be a better night for it.

I run 120’s, purely to take account for the number of shots I miss/get stopped by foliage. 
 
If I practiced my aiming I could actually probably get away with 30’s 😂

You can't believe what most people say on airsoft forums about camo, they're emotionally invested in their purchases, same as phone OSs and everything else.  Most of the advice is regurgitated from being read on other airsoft forums and passed on through 10 gens of players with the original info coming from kevin down the pub who was gonna join the TA but 'decided against it' (too fat).
 
Look at your site pics in summer and winter, wet and dry, find the dominant colours and match as best you can; assuming you don't just wanna wear MC Black or whatever.  Over the years I've come to a very rough rule that if you can have 4 uniforms of the common military style you'll be fairly well sorted almost everywhere you go in Europe, these are some reasonably obtainable/practical examples as of 2022:
 
Dark green (very heavily vegetated woodlands with little floor vis) - US Woodland, Temperate DPM, Tigerstripe, MC Trop, Ranger Green
Light green (ground is most covered in standard grass plants) - Multicam+family, AOR2, Concamo, Tropical DPM
Dark brown (probably most common, soil is brown) - Temperate MARPAT, Flecktarn, Coyote Brown, Concamo Brown
Light brown (dead leaves on the ground when dry) - Desert DPM, AOR1/Desert MARPAT/NWUII, Desert Tigerstripe, US 3 Color Desert
 
Obviously there's a billion caveats, there's in-betweens, variances in batches, variances between mil surp and commercial stuff like mil-tec, there's at least dozens if not hundreds of variants of just Tigerstripe and none of this takes in to account different garment types like softshells or GTX etc etc etc...
 
I always liked this image I got at a game as a good example of the 4th category.  Typical English woodland but DPM would be shit here.  I looked up pics from the site's facebook page in advance and chose accordingly; should've gone full AOR1 if anything.
 

 
I think GreenZone and ATACS-iX could maybe be considered quite well rounded as multi-area patterns for UK woods much of the year and the design technology advancement in them vs the '80s movie' families (US Wood, DPM, CCE etc) is clear.  But Multicam has the most consistent results all around in my observation, which obviously lines up with its' mass adoption around the world - part of that is because it's cheaper to issue 1 set of course.

I stopped myself from railing about this earlier, but I might as well now: that seems pointless, because you won't know that they've ignored it until the reputational damage is already done.
 
You can't trust a rental, visitor or newbie to honour it, and you don't need a regular to sign it.
 
It's about the people, not the processes.  Which gets me back to my usual rant about how great airsoft would be if sites stopped wasting everyone time with long briefs that the majority don't need to hear, and the problem minority aren't listening to, and just kicked the gits out.
 
Which is why this thread brings me such utter delight.  

It's not airsofters that watch them though, it's people like my brother in law who have absolutely no intention of ever playing but think he's hilarious. Ladbible has a lot to answer for.
 
A good few sites have banned "cheater exposed" type videos already and some have outright banned cameras. All because the YT algorithm pays out more to clickbait fuck-knuckles like KM than to anything "sensible".

You can fit an adjustable flow valve into the nozzle .
 
I've got mine on order and I can't wait. The G3 is awesome 

Release date is 24th August according to VFC on Facebook.  2 days before my birthday!! Just have to hope that WGC fulfill my order now

Genuinely not sure. Will investigate. We have an axe throwing place in the city centre. Do you think it would be worth asking them also?
 
Edit: I asked them anyway. They said no because of insurance. Oh well. Don’t ask don’t get and all that. 🥲

Sorry sir, but you have a lot of incorrect information here. 
1st. Our Constitution is Law. COTUS (Constitution of The United States) protects our right to arm ourselves from any Gov't intrusion.  It doe NOT grant us any Rights, it protects them. 

We also do not have any licensing requirements for ownership. We do have a background check if you are buying from an FFL (Federal Firearm Licensed Dealer). 
Not only does it check for criminal flags, but also citizenship. Which makes a LOT of sense. We do have many States that require a "permit" to carry on your person. It is technically a violation of Law (COTUS). 
Private sales are not a "loophole" it is EXACTLY how COTUS is written, so, I will say politely, you have it backwards. 

I do like how you lay out "civilized world". This is a political term that is basically saying "non poors".  We also love keeping data. For good or bad, we just keep too many records.
Far too many countries have either Gov't killing the citizens, or killing each other. In almost EVERY country, Gov't has a monopoly on violence.  Think about that.  

I will ask you to please, for all things decent, stop getting your information from the media. They are 90% liars, and our population is far too gullible to to do our own research. 

That said, do we have a gun problem, no sir. We have a really shitty legal system, along with some terrible social systems that are....how can I say..... oppressive . I dont mean racist, I mean oppressive.  We have a multi tier legal system based on social pressure. Not kidding, and it is not only sad, but infuriating. 

I dont claim to know it all, but what I do know comes from someone who, if my home was ever raided, would read like a guy ready to go to war with a small country. Funny thing is, I am a small player in the massive group of people I know, when it comes to the number of guns owned. Having 30-50,000 rounds of various ammo is a bit embarrassing to be honest. 

 I really cant beg enough (and I hate begging) PLEASE stop listening to the media. 


EDITED TO ADD: We do have a few States that have a FOID (Firearms Ownership I.D.) card, and may have you list the guns you own. 
This is also a violation of law.   


 
I like the way you think sir. 

Very level headed and honest. 

Which is why I've been very careful to talk about shotgun certificates.  Very few people here choose to get one, but very few people couldn't.
 
 
 
No, how many?
 
 
 
I guess that depends on whether you consider Brazil and Mexico to be civilised or savage.
 
In any case, I'm not arguing that point.  If I could Thanos-snap away all guns, everywhere, forever, I'd do it (to howls of approval from lions and tigers and bears, oh my).
 
Given that I can't, I'm more interested in a dispassionate comparison of the systems.  To be very clear, I'm not arguing in favour of the US situation, or its system.  I'm more concerned with ours, and how it demonstrably doesn't stop wrong 'uns from getting shooters.
 
It's actually surprising that more career criminals don't get their hands on shotguns here, directly or through a mule.  Perhaps they think that it's harder than it is.

i don't necessarily disagree, i'm just saying if we start going fully down that rabbit hole it's just gonna end in a row.

If you want the truth and not what the media publishes, I will tell you what "boots on the ground" (like me and like minded) see. 

We do NOT have a gun problem. 
We have a criminal problem.  
When violent criminals are released within hours or days of either killing or shooting, that should say it all. 

As for the guns: 
No one really knows how many we have out in circulation. Estimates are between 3-12 for each known citizen in the USA. We have approx. 350 million people. 
That is close to a BILLION guns. So, if "guns" were the problem, we would be reduced to 20 million people in no time. 
We also have a pharmaceutical problem. People are on "personality" drugs as that is pushed more than actually helping those with mental issues. 

In a nut shell, our law makers are not interested in "bettering"  society, but profiting from it. 

I really did want to get into the politics at all, but we are no where NEAR as bad as the world is shown we are. 
We also do not have a real "justice" system, but a "legal" system. 
Our lawmakers want to do the natural thing and be our Lords, which is why we shot the British in the face in 1776. 

As you say, nutters do get guns, they also get knives, bats, hammers, etc.. Not only here in the US, but in other nations as well. No one is ever truly safe and you have no other option but to live with the fact there are evil people out there. 

I would say we have less than .005% of "nutters" that show up, the rest of the country is law abiding people. 
Our shitty media knows that dirty laundry pays better than rescuing kittens from trees.   
P.S. if anyone has any questions on what things are really like (non airsoft related/ politics) feel free to message me, I will tell you what I see. 
I would rather keep it in a private message or in an off topic area. 

 

🎵here we go again🎵🎵 🤣

guys, dude's new to this place, tempting as it is we don't need to jump straight on him just for being from a country with a different take on civilian firearm ownership.
 
@truckinthumper don't take it personally, as i'm sure you can understand American firearm culture is as confusing and controversial to us as i'm sure British firearm culture is to you.

Black and white you say ?
 
 

For sure, people always ask where I got my taste in music from and I had no idea until scrolling through some old posts on here that I realised. 
 
 

Good to hear I've had a positive influence on the youth of today! 🤣
 
Let me know if you're ever in Glasgow and we'll grab a pint in Waxy O'Connor's!
 
A few of my favourites:
 
 
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEk37t4LWp0
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqr1Ge8Z5w
 

I still blame @AirsoftTedfor my taste in music that has meant I find myself dragging my friends to more Irish pubs than clubs, and that my spotify consists of the Dubliners, Clancy Brothers and John Edmond.
 
 

I know you're listening to it because of the film but I find the Peter Gabriel version needlessly maudlin and far inferior to the original:

Airsoft cherry popped and loved it!!!! Had a great day out with my son, who loved it too. Bloody hard work though, need to shed a few pounds and get some sort of fitness (currently at sloth level lol).
 
A big thank you to everyone at Groundzero and players who were friendly, helpful and welcoming.
 
Can't wait to play again !!!!!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sounds like GearGrindr.
 
Nope, I pay to go to an airsoft site to play airsoft, not to talk about playing airsoft. I can do that here free and without travelling.
 
Still, I am grateful for their honesty that the actual play (if any breaks out) will be a completely chaotic whangfest.

Thanks Shamal
 
Got the eye and face protection, gloves and boots sorted as don't fancy losing and eye or teeth (difficult one to explain away bringing my son home with a gaping smile lol) and it's my son's birthday so made for easy presents lol.
 
Yes going to rent to start with but been looking at shiny things (oh so tempting !!!) and before I jump head long in to the rabbit hole, getting a general heads up on what's good and what's not would be very helpful.  We both like the look and feel of the M4 platform and I believe it's the best for upgrades and add ons.
 
Thanks for your help and maybe meet you on the field one day!