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Airsoft relies on people taking their hits, otherwise it'd devolve into a sadomasochistic event where people just shoot each other until someone uses the safety-word or has to change their underpants. In my experience, everyone who plays airsoft regularly has the right idea about taking hits and how to behave in their mind. However, many people aren't used to adrenaline, or any shade of combat, and many people can behave in a manner they're hopefully embarrassed about once the juices get going. People can get trapped in the moment, and the most common kind of non-hit-taking i witness is those who don't acknowledge the hit until their current purpose has been completed (like the person they're shooting at taking the hit). Then the logic side of the brain takes back over from caveman and order ensues. There's nothing airsoft can do to stamp it out other than turning it into laser-quest, or making everyone use tracers, or have 1 marshal per person like in some those mental Japanese tournaments I've seen online. The best thing the community can do is to make the process of taking the hit seem easier and more enjoyable. This is achieved by all those good-sporting types who congratulate people when hit and cheerfully skip back to re-spawn. Kudos to you all, I try, but sometimes barely able to squeak 'hit' let alone any kind of congrats (the arm goes up with a raised thumb on reflex now, I've beaten the paintball urge to check my clothing for marks finally hehe)

I often let out little farts during a fire fight just to see if I get away with it.

If I do shoot a kid I try and follow it with a Nelson "Haw Haw", so they fully appreciate the situation. Did have one jump up and scream 'don't shoot' once after I burst round a corner and shot his mate. I asked but he didn't have any lunch-money so i shot him in the foot

Mine is losing my temper at the Mall a month or two back after seeing my tracer BBs bouncing off someone and their not taking their hits....lost it so bad was pulled from the game and talked to by marshall. Right enough the marshall was a patronising wanker but thats beside the point.... When will people realise that tracer fire means I can see you not taking it?

Twice I've caved in and bought an M4 - not proud of that. Thankfully I have usually come to my senses and have sold them not long afterwards. I've also shot out someone's helmet camera lense by accident. Was in a woodland game and I was running my sniper rifle. I happened to see this little red light off amongst the trees so I carefully aimed two feet below it so I wouldn't hit the camera... or so I thought. My rifle had been shooting fine/straight all day so I don't know how this happened, but when I pulled the trigger I watched as my shot drifted ever so slowly upwards and then there was a very expensive sounding "crack" noise. Apparently the camera had only been used twice before I shot it out - it's owner wasn't at all happy so tried to get me banned from the site when I pointed out I wouldn't pay to replace it and was even more annoyed when everyone listening in agreed with me. Lesson learned: don't buy cheap cameras or at least buy a protective cover for it when airsofting. Still niggles at me to this day though. There's also the time I went around shooting people with my ASG MK23 with stock silencer on below the minimum engagement distance for a weapon firing at DMR levels. I honestly didn't know the stock silencer boosted the stock FPS of 300 to around 430 instead. Now I know better but still feel sorry for all the players I shot on that day with it.

So my UKARA is sort, first gun bought and pimped (would like some feedback). And over excited for the guns first outing at Holmbush, Crawley on the 28th

Externally it's finished for now. Once I figure out where I will use it, I will probably add more camo.

No grooming on the forum.

That's no excuse. If you can't feel it, you still can hear it.

Swearing after being hit somewhere soft isn't a sin, it's an expectation. I took a bad shot right in the cockpit on Saturday from a sneaky bastard hiding in a dark room, and boy did he hear about it. Even if you've been knifed by someone, I'll usually call them a sneaky fucker, but it's more a compliment at how food they were at catching me off guard than derogatory

So is this like Catholicism? Will the OP be telling us how many 'Hail Marui's' we have to say for each sin? Been playing in the chaos-pit of the Mall for a year so think I've made my way through most the i-spy book of airsoft-regrettable-behavior; mistakenly shooting people; - in the face - kids (they may be armed but still...) - after being hit already - more times than necessary - on my own team my own poor conduct; - sworn a few times ("f*ck! right in the cock" etc) - shot someone already hit in the back of the head with a full-auto burst deliberately (they'd sworn few times at me and tried to shoot me in the nuts before storming-off) - told people they'd been hit rather than telling marshal - almost kick-off at someone recently; http://www.airsoft-forums.co.uk/index.php/topic/26732-the-mall-reading-thursday-night-june-18/#entry202347 Only cliches of airsoft bad-behavior I'm confident in not having sinned in is; - nicking kit (I've even been sad enough to hand in a small bolt that looked like it came from someones stock or similar) - hit-taking; I'm confident in being good at taking hits, I've only ignored ones from people I've hit a decent amount first (the turn and shoot you back kinda scenarios). Never done a cheeky "Ahh they can't tell" or "Sure I hit him too, I'll keep firing and take my hit once he does". Far too paranoid about it really, if anything i take far too many hits that didn't occur, simply as it's quickest, easiest and most satisfying for all (no-one believes they could have missed point-blank, and it's only luck they did miss so fuck-it!)

My confession is I sometime haven't walked all the way back to a respawn to respawn as Its sometimes a really long way to go. Not proud and I won't do it again honest. Also threw a grenade back at someone Killing about 6 people. Never owned up to that one.

i must confess my sins: yesterday, after having feeding issues with my new gun and after a few tests, identifying my PTS magazines as the cause... ... I used a high-cap i felt dirty with every shot, and winding the mag only made the feeling worse i had to caress my 30rd G5 mags for a full hour before i felt better enough to clean my guns before putting them away

Looks to be a JG, the colour of the plastic body seems to be identical.

I don't personally find I have an issue with people not calling hits. Now I have a scope with 4x on it I get to see where my BBs are landing and most of the time I am missing, its either just falling short or the spread at maximum range is a bit too wide due to the wind or whatever that just forces them to miss. Just occasionally you do hit someone centre mass and they don't call it and I strongly suspect that is the gear. I don't think I have actually met a "cheater", all of them have been accidental due to plate carriers and such. When your moving you just don't hear BB strikes, it doesn't take much movement to obscure the noise of an impact and its the main reason I don't like wearing anything on my chest. I don't find at the sites I play at that hit taking is an issue, what I find is that where there is an issue is usually just too much gear and noise.

What grip is that?

Sniper/bolt action rifles are a useless bollocks 60% of the time

My wife thinks I only own 2 guns,m4 tm1911 it's more like m4 Tm1911 We 7" dragon Another 1911 Mp5k Mp5 L85 Tri shot shotgun And I just purchased a l86 a2 off a mate Oops

More likely the exchange rate....

Its too late. You've gone and fed ikle troll and now it keeps coming back for more treats.

what, the principles of capitalism?

It's a G3. Probably JG. Lipo FTW. Imax b3 or Imax b6ac are good chargers.

No he was taking the piss, I was taking the shot.

Sorry groverner I'll put the troll treats away

I was a twat at first game - still am but a few like was that a hit, dead man talking etc...... mainly due to being so pumped up & excited at my first time Please be gentle with me - I was a virgin.... After a very nooby ar$ehole first game I got it sussed and understood the basic guidelines etc.... Also helps though it ain't an excuse, if you turn up for morning briefing rather than like me when I just showed up for afternoon walk on with little time for a run through on it all The biggest lie as usual is me telling missus - this is deffo the last gun I need to buy (along with the other lie - yes I am gonna sell the other one soon)

The biggest reason for non hit taking is the amount of gear people wear. Some people have so much kit and protection on they just dont feel it. I am sure there must have been times when someone has hit my mag pouches and I havent felt it but others take it to the extreme with thick plate carriers and even backpacks and dont get me started on the hard shell crowd. If people would just thin down their gear it wouldnt be such an issue.

I'm sure you do son.

Be hard to draw the line, even if you said nothing above retail value, it'd just turn every £200+ M4 sale into a big argument of the OP listing every single little bit they replaced for 30-50 a time. Agree that you just have to leave people to make their own mistakes or apply their own sense of worth. Zero In should let people reply to sales threads perhaps, think over here the current rules, monty's eagle eyes and occasional troll back-up does the required job swimmingly

Using the word 'gay' to describe somebody who is homosexual isn't an insult, and is actually a word used to describe a persons sexual orientation, as used by networks and communities to describe people who are not heterosexual, i.e. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender). Using the word 'straight' to describe somebody who is heterosexual shouldn't be taken as an insult either... Using either expression shouldn't be considered hate speech either. I will add this regarding the usage of the word 'gay' - as pointed out, gay referred to somebody who was carefree, happy, or 'showy', as in 'what a gay day' meaning 'what a happy day', (a phrase which became a catchphrase of the entertainer Larry Grayson). The word was later used to describe a homosexual person, quietly replacing the original usage in modern language. 'Gay' is also now being used to describe something rubbish or stupid, especially among younger people, which obviously causes some issues as some observers draw a connect between the current 'accepted' use of the word. Often, to avoid word filters or accusations of homophobia, the word is written as 'ghey' especially online, and has come to be accepted as referring to something that is 'lame'

I think that could be an extention to teh Smooth criminal game, the night before wash a kerbab down with lots of Guiness & start the day with 6x raw eggs. hmmm toilet fresh !!!!

Holding his gun muzzle to your face deserves a shot to the nuts IMO, no need to be physically threatening/intimidating about things. I'd suggest it's behavior indicative of small-manhood but you still managed to hit it so...

I don't think there is one when I tried to find it If you've had an email stating your on the data base or have a membership card with your number (usually game site initials with 5 numbers) not much you can do until you get the email But if you've got the membership card, you can go on ukara site & do a self check, if some of your details come up then your covered

Can't fault what your saying mate I think probably the latter, it's just the principal of it that pi$$es me off.

I've watched "Tears of the Sun" too many times growing up and last night I had it pointed out to me by my friend (whilst we were watching it at her house) that I had most of the gear seen in the movie but not the combat fatigues. She was surprised I wasn't intentionally tying to emulate that look - it was just stuff I'd picked up over the years haha. Now the ideas stuck in my head so I have to go for it. This is a big deal since I'm not usually a fan of Western kit - 90% of my stuff is Russian/Eastern European. Anyway, what sort of style you going to run yours as? The era from the movie or something more modern?

I have no background in airsoft and still dont know that much about the internal workings of AEGs above a cursory understanding. I got a very quick run through on my first ever game where I had a rented M4. They briefly mentioned about the need to wind the high cap but not how often or how much. It took me a little while for me to realise that I was engaging in firefights and no BBs were coming out, because I hadn't wound on enough.

I bought a gun before I was 18 *small smile

I bought an orange double eagle ak47 with a plastic gearbox I broke it within a day I bought a set of proprietary gears, which didn't work and gave off a tonne of metal shavings I bought a Cyma metal hop up, which didn't fit I bought a Cyma metal gearbox, which barely fitted Then, I bought a G&P body with a madbull handguard, didn't fit Bought a G&P specific barrel nut for the madbull... right... ok... Damaged G&P body Sold G&P body A week later... the barrel nut came..... fookin useless now Ehhh my life story, but hey! At least, I picked up a free Dytac M4 magazine I found on the ground at a skirmish!

Yup - if playing with different barrels n buckings - it is wise to get another hop unit whilst you are at it if your old barrel/hop is ok-ish then just remove it and leave it, quite easy to tear the bucking/hop rubber if removing get the other barrel assembled with another hop up and bucking - simple swap over if results are crap you still got the old complete barrel/hop to fall back on all still ready to go Tight Bore Barrels can alter - well they usually add 15 to 20fps some hop ups work better than others in some guns and not so great in others buckings - new improved ones can get fitted badly and tear when you strip to re-assemble again hence a wise consideration is to mess with a new setup perhaps before stripping and making a mess of old kinda working ok-ish stock barrel/hop

Looked at my photos and there are 78 guns from here that I will one day need to buy...... Better get saving....

Wtf.. That works really well

I took photos of nearly everything today because I've just unpacked most of them so why not. My very much WIP A&K M249. Got an MAG 2.5k box mag for it and a rail as well as a new barrel, dust cover and flash hider (not fitted). Daytona kit will be on its way soon too. My new, very old TM M9 with Zeke full metal kit and walnut grips for which I think there's a part missing* *Somewhat amusingly, the photo was taken ontop of a vintage HMRC crate, whilst the missing slide is stuck in customs at Heathrow. TM M1911 with a Hurricane Kimber Tactical Entry II kit My very old, very bastardised L96 that has so many parts from so many manufacturers that I can't really give it one brand G&P WOC TM G18c

another gun added to my "When I'm worthy..." list

Typically crap photo, but this is brilliant

Cheeky upgrade slide.

Bit of recoil porn for you guys. 18+ only...

Was a good eve mostly, very good standard of play, wasn't sure if i spotted you or not as was a few people (as usual) sporting the swat-ish loadout, but weren't in the section of the safe-zone i was dwelling in so didn't have much chance to say hello (and interrupt the briefing) Don't worry you wont get a reputation, you'll get banned well before that happens lol. Doesn't sound like you intentionally committed a crime against airsoft or anything, if anything reporting you sounded a bit sore-looser-ish. As for the guy getting banned, that was prob someone who called me 'a f*ck' for shooting him twice accidentally. Him and his team mates were trying to push down a stair-case, I shot him, and then managed to shoot him again when trying to hit his teammates legs further up the stairs. He swore at me right in front of the Marshall, i tried to step in and apologize to the guy in the hope we could make peace there and then and he wouldn't get punished, but he was still very moody and missed that opportunity. He got dragged off and didn't see him again, maybe he got a mulligan and re-offended or someone else kicked off not sure but seems likely this is the referenced incident Level of good-sportsmanship was quite high indeed, I accidentally used full auto on someone in a corridor, they started taking the hit and walking off, i called over that it was full-auto and they shouldn't take the hit, wait a couple seconds and carry on. Heard their team-mate ask what was happening and he told them 'well there's one very nice yellow team member down there!'. Then later encountered the same guy and hit him with a ricochet, again he started taking the hit, so again i told him it was a ricochet and to wait a couple seconds and carry on, he must have thought i was an airsofting saint lol. However for me towards the end of the third game it went horribly wrong for me and if i hadn't had to leave early to catch a train i might have gotten myself banned for abusive behaviour, certainly felt like it would have been satisfying to do so at the time! Same staircase outside our teams respawn; a group of guys were camping the top of it, i lay down on the floor at the bottom and edged forwards until i could see them at the top (top was lit, bottom pitch black). Managed to shoot all three of them and this provoked some mutterings from them. Turns out they believe it's entirely impossible they could have failed to hit me when they can't even see where the bottom is, or the shelf in the stairs that means it's not a straight line down. My assumption is they thought i was actually on the stairs (as that would have made not getting hit less likely) not laying down at the bottom. So I push up the stairs and encounter what later turned out to be the same group of guys, they had decided they didn't need to go back to respawn as them being hit without hitting me was clearly impossible. Shoot a couple of them, get hit and go back down the stairs respawn and repeat. I did this 3 times, not really realizing it was the same guys and they weren't going to respawn as all dressed in same camo, just waiting for me to go back down the stairs and carrying on. Until the last time i did this i realized, most of them were in same camo, but one of them had a hoodie and he was the one i'd shot first out of them each time. Foolishly rather than call for a marshal, I said 'come-on mate, it's been 3 times now', he replied that i hadn't hit him this time, i said 'indeed not this time, but what about the other three times?'. Stopped myself there and went back down the stairs, the kid shouts down the stairs behind me that "i guess you didn't get hit on the stairs when there's three of us either' (how i know this was their motive to cheat). Respawn and go up the stairs one last time, they've moved on from the room at the top, but not far. One of them is stood in the corner of the concourse outside this room. I didn't spot him and walked straight out. I hear a burst of full-auto-fire from his gas smg from about 5 metres away but feel nothing, number of shots fired means i'd def have felt at least one, dont wear thick clothing or anything. I assume he's firing dry, turn round to him and say 'sorry mate but you must be firing dry, nothing hit me' and shot him in the foot. He kicks off and says 'no it's f*cking gas mate, it stops firing when it's out of bb's' so i reply 'well in that case you're just a sh*t shot then, but don't worry, i miss people point blank all the time, but at least i've got a tracer so i know when i've been sh*t. tell you what i'll take the hit anyways!' and i start walking off. Then the same little turd in the hoodie pops his head out of a shop and gives me a burst of full auto in the back and says 'you taking that hit then?' 'no i'm not, i've already taken a hit and walking back to respawn, you just shot a dead player deliberately with his hand up' Fortunately for me the alarm on my phone then went off (although i did get shot few times while trying to take it out my pocket due to hand being down lol), and i went straight to the safe-zone and packed up. I def should have gone looking for a marshal in the first place, or at least found one to tell before i left, this i definitely regret. the marshals are very good at the job, i should have taken the time rather than suffering in silence until it f*cked me off. definitely a good thing i was leaving early as if i'd stuck around i was prob tired enough to have kicked off myself if i encountered this group of twats again, regardless of any marshal punishment In my mind this was a prime example of the most common form of bad behavior at The Mall though, people assume it was impossible for them to miss a moving target at close range or similar and then use this as an excuse to cheat themselves. As i said to the guy with the smg, I have a tracer so for my own peace of mind i know when i'm being sh*t, it happens often lol. would recommend one for anyone playing regularily at the mall for this reason, keeps you sane and helps you improve. it's very very hard to see normal bb's in there due to the lighting.

I always buy from UK stores when possible because I am a firm believer in supporting the uk economy.The problem is its very difficult to get a lot of high quality upgrade parts in the UK. If you do find them half the time its bedroom sellers who buy from abroad in the first place an sell it on and dont pay any tax on their sales anyway. Tried finding a Firefly flat nub this week ended up having to order from abroad, only two UK sellers neither had it in stock. Maybe if UK stores got rid of all the madbull crap and stocked what people really want they would do better.