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This. Also one man's niggle is another's deal breaker, there's just a ton of variables at play here. Apart from QC being loose ... consistently inconsistent is pretty much the mission statement of airsoft QC. Personally I've been lucky enough to not have any first hand "don't buy xxx" experiences, probably due to taking heed of good advice - long may both continue!

Saturday.....My game has changed somewhat and i seem to have ended up as a marshal... Saturday is the under 18's game day and is a good laugh. The kids are great. They have that "sod it, lets get stuck in" mentality and other than a few technical issues with RIF's all went well. Took my sons friend from Ukraine who's family are over here avoiding the war (trust me here, i had a real mental debate with myself on the morality of taking him!) but he had an absolute scream and was teaching us ukrainian swearwords in the car on the way home. Boys will be boys... Test hits were all taken and called. I've been shot less on actual game days though...LOL. Wearing a hi viz is great but i had to check mine didnt have a target painted on it...

This was literally a mate of the organiser was opening a club & sent a bird down with flyers to drum up interest. Have you been to an airsoft site lately ? , look around at half of the overly hairy sweatbag walts, the only woman most of them get near is their mum ?

So true about CSW. Also, marshalls weren't afraid of calling out poor play. Glad you mentioned the food too, which was always welcome. Interestingly I've got a mate in the throws of trying to set a site up. He went to CSW a few times so he's using that as his model.

Sunday game day at F&O the Base. Jolly good fun was had, but there are some caveats. Two of the guys I went with are relatively new to airsoft and they both said that they thought the safe zone and the policing of things like mags out was a bit slack plus the "we provide a chrono but it's up to you to make sure your RIFs meet our limits" was odd. Personally, my M14 was hot by about 30FPS despite my own chrono having said that it was OK. Not sure how mine was so far out so that's going to be a fun one. Of course, the lack of chrono tags does mean I could have just run it all day without bothering to chrono but that's just not me. Running my M4 instead did mean I got a bit more stuck in and to be honest, it was the first day in AAAAAGES that I've played right to the end of the day (my advancing decrepitude usually cuts play short). I was on the red team and we seem to have been more aggressive in general than the opposition, the blue team shrunk a bit at lunchtime so the teams were rebalanced but I think a certain lack of morale had crept in. Good day all in all, still think the safe zone leaves a lot to be desired but I've been spoilt by sites like Red Alert, Gunman Bravo and Ironsight.

So this is a fun toy to use? For all its Brutalist and sci-fi vibes it is on the 'list' Thanks I am one of those really annoying players that sticks to the times given, I'll load up and bomb up at appropriate times, I'll loudly look at my watch (Airsoft days are the only time I wear one) and 'we good for game brief' After lunch is another fun instance, The hearding cats thing, well, I think some of that is the site staff not want to be seen as riding the players HOWEVER, we pay good money to shoot people and I would like more site managers to focus on that.

Great day at ucap green ops. Marshalls and staff were on top form. I, especially,had a good day because I have adopted a dmr role and the gun that I used,purchased from this very forum,(thanks @cyanide14k),performed faultlessly. I was surprised at how much more range I could get with .30. The scope made so much difference to target finding. Total of ten good hits although I have to admit to two home kills? Not a large turnout,about 45,but good, honest play all round with no player fallouts and lots of complimentary calls. I think I have found a style of play that suits me now that I am getting older.More relaxed and laying in wait from good cover. I will still switch to assault play on good days when the bones aren't shouting STOP! You maniac lol. Tired but happy?? Regards

If you're a WWII inspired player - go have a look - https://www.facebook.com/Raresoftuk I purchased a WA 1911 a couple of years ago from them.

I saw the video of it and you didn't miss much. From what I remember she would've made more getting paid to put her clothes on

I have been to events like this, though those kinds of things were reserved for the players party etc One particular event would have undressing ladies. A more preferred event has had performing ladies who keep their clothes on. One year as the clothed ladies were being announced on stage as some of our guys rushed off I did try to point out that they are rushing off to join a sweaty crowd desperately trying to push closer to ladies at a distance on a stage behind barriers - in the rain …… whereas currently we were dry under a shelter in a group with real life ladies willing to drink with us and talk with us, and would be willing to see us again

Err which site was that? ?

Me too, game time is for playing, if I want to socialise or talk bollocks ill go to the pub (or come on here?). Think I've mentioned it before but one site I played, end of lunch started getting ready to head back out, next thing music starts playing & a "lady" starts taking her clothes off, stick I got for turning my back on here to get loaded up. Then when I got home & the missus says "how was the day", I get more stick as if it's somehow my fault some slapper was stripping off?

Urgh, airsoft. UKARA is meant to record site membership, as per the 2007 defence memorandum, and it's a site number that's assigned. But there's nothing stopping sites from having multiple types of "membership". It's entirely up to the boss geezer. Best of luck.

Amen, picked up a D-Boys spr, got it for £130 new (at the time), completely stock & running at 370 fps, my son was about 12, was hitting a clothes peg first or second shot from at least 130 feet, & a light switch at 200 feet, thing was a frigging laser. Until I tinkered with it ?/?

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.

There'll always be someone with more range, and a higher RoF. And if there's not that, it'll be one of them pesky sniper chappies dressed as a tree, or a pre-schooler hidden in a dark corner to zap you. But the main thing is, those are the words that always precede "I'll just open the gear box" which often ends in tears - or an ever-widening opening of the wallet until you're living in a cardboard box under a bridge... So unless you're struggling to shoot out to 40-45m (which will probably be fixable with a new hop rubber and nub, and maybe a new barrel), I'd honestly counsel you to concentrate on improving / changing your play-style so that range becomes a secondary issue. If you're static on the front line, trying to trade shots with a bunch of other guys there will always be a Long Ranger in there to spoil your fun, it's better to find a way to close the range on a flank or through smoke, or encourage some proper covering fire from your teammates so you cancel out that range advantage. It's easier said than done, I admit, but you give yourself more chance of making a "hero moment" of breaking a deadlock. I had mine at the last skirmish when I took advantage of a well-placed smoke grenade someone else had thrown to push forward 10 yards and take out the two guys who were completely holding down the rest of my team. (I'm still waiting for my medal, it must be coming) That's so much more satisfying than just having a gun that happens to shoot 2m further than your opponent.

Essentially punishing players for their loyalty, that's pretty fucked up. It probably takes less than 10 minutes to renew, even at £10 that's a nice little earner for someone, but £30 ffs?

I've always said, anyone who wants to open a site could learn a lot from visiting the top rated sites, copying snippets from everywhere & incorporating them in to their own business model, you mentioning CSW is a great example of such a site. Thing is, CSW was 140 miles away from me, the fact I'd be prepared to do those miles was testament to the knowledge I'd have a great time, hell even the food was top notch & plentiful ?. But GZ, no, not even if it was half the distance from me, other than its size I've yet to hear anything good about it that would change my mind.

Robbing B'stards?

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.

SRC are crap. I wouldn't wrote Nuprol off completely. A local site uses Defenders as hire guns. A problem here is partly that QC is so loose in airsoft that one person's nightmare is another's quality buy. That said SRC are seriously crap. I'd be interested in who actually honours a warranty, rather than tries to wriggle out of one.

On mine I simply replaced the barrel and hop rubber and nub. Slightly better consistency/accuracy than standard, a few yards extra range perhaps. I set the hop and tightened the screw on the adjuster arm. Were I not a lazy toad, I would have changed the nozzle as this is key to repeatable shooting, but since mine shot OK I didn't bother. You can bugger about with them in a million ways, but passed those mods it's diminishing returns in terms of cash for positive improvements I think. That said, this is airsoft. Yours may really need a metal hop unit to get the best out of it. You may need to reshim and grease the gearbox etc. Test it beside another CYMA AK and see what it performs like in comparison perhaps. I test my modded G&G M4 beside my lad's standard one.

Like @Speedbird_666GZ is my local site - no more than a 5 minute drive. I've played there since 2018 when I started and, after popping my cherry at Combat South Woodland, which was run superbly, GZ was a major disappointment. I've never been chronoed there, ever, which is just ridiculous. I remember a couple of lads asking what time chrono was when they checked in, and the look on their faces when they were told "oh, we just spot check though the day" was a, WTF-type expression. Again, never even seen a chrono at the site, let alone any checks done in the game zone. The site is huge but is really thick with rhododendrons, and the structures are pretty tired. To be fair maybe I'm just a bit too familiar with the site now, especially as they haven't used the better, more open areas of the site the last few times I've been. I have had some decent days there, but with the increased walk-on fees, the lack of cover and frequent dry-firing in the safe zone, shit facilities, increasingly dick-ish behaviour from other players (smoking weed in the car park - you're hard) and a general lack of care from the staff means I'll now only go there if I have no other options. Even then I'm likely to spend more time on the range. As for the NAF, no thanks. The gameplay just seems to be an absolute cluster. It also looks to be a collection of the types of players I dislike intensely, but on a much larger scale.

In his defense if its a cheap eotech clone the reticle is probably clearer and more visible from the front.....

My only criticism, and this seems common to all sites I've been to, is the fannying around in the morning. IMHO gameday always seems to be 45 minutes later starting than it should.

My wife accused me of achieving nothing so I told her, 'Well I won the Leslie Nielson award at school.' 'What's that?', she said. 'It's a big building with kids in it.'

Bloody hell, even an MP couldn't say that with a straight face. In my experience cunts and cheaters are attracted to it like flies to a fresh dog turd Careful, you'll give the guys at Killbox ideas

"Take one out while the other's not looking" - Some guy in a video game circa 2007 I'm so happy this is working again. 55psi on the regulator has it firing between 1.112J at the lowest and 1.137J at the highest on .32s, so it's mega consistent and just where I need it for no MED shenanigans. I've semi-locked it, despite not being a "DMR" as it's meant to be an m21 sniper rifle, and the m21 was semi-auto only. Stubby mags are feeding flawlessly now, which is amazing as it means I don't need to run a chest rig as I can store 3 spare mags in a medium utility pouch (and they don't rattle around) and an Odin speedloader in another pouch, plus it makes it look very sniper-y and unique. I still have half a bag of .4s though, so I might rattle a few shots at 1.64J on the range (my local site's DMR limits) to see how it shoots there, but likelihood is I just keep it at 1.14J and keep the ability to point-blank, especially with how close we are to my local site growing some thick foliage through spring and becoming woodland CQB As the weather warms up, I might revert to my longest standing weapon combination: m21 sniper rifle and 1911 pistol is what I used to run when I played in Spain, because it's what I ran in CoD4 as a teenager

Is it worth pinning a reccomend not to buy list in here following the recent trend of I've bought a (for example) Raven model XXX and its new out of the box and doesnt work? In my case stuff I wouldn't touch under any circumstances without trying the exact item Im going to buy in the shop first. (Source I've been playing airsoft since 1995 I have a reasonable of experience in buying kit) Raven (any) Nuprol (rebranded WE with slightly more QC than Raven) Vorsk

Had a good day at Skirmish Wycombe again. Same games as usual but the varied terrain and good size means that you can try different tactics and approaches. Good food. The fugly (GSG G14) I got from @Shamal performed really well so thanks again mate ? My only annoyance is their charge of £30 to renew UKARA ?

SRC.

I think @heroshark raises a good point; people will generally make their mind up to buy something, come on here and say "Is a XXXX a good bit of kit" be told they should save their money, but then they buy it anyway. I've been fairly lucky on the RIF front, but, from personal experience, wouldn't touch anything by Armorer Works. Gear-wise, I've had Nuprol, Viper and 8 Fields back in the day. 8 Fields was fine as a starter brand for the money but the other two can shit off.

I've had varied experience of the games not all good and not all bad. All down to the players ime. As said I like the social and seeing old friends. Good for business for me too. Hadn't been in a while but went last year and hope to make this one.

No body would take notice of it in my experience. I know people who have come directly to me to ask what I thought of things and I've said don't buy it. They still go buy it and then it breaks after 2min like I told them it would.

Iirc throwing airsoft parts inside a Deact is reactivating....... Id rather not be the legal test case, especially if the spring is a bit "spicy" or in this case if the police lab playing with the regulator makes the fps go up..... Definitely regard as playing with Fire

I’m intending on going Along with at least 6-8 of my chums Some of whom are willing to make the journey from Inverness!! Im of the school of “suck it and see for yourself” I might not play, I’m up for a road trip, it’s my 50th so sitting having a beer and a laugh is up my street I’ve attended some pretty shitly run normal days, so what’s the worst that can happen? ?

To be fair to site operators thats kinda linked to the "herding cats/inability of airsofters to understand safety briefing in 5 game on in 15". Don't get we wrong I remember trying a new site locally (run by company whose name rhymes with "burst and lonely") who thought naming and giving origin stories for each of the marshalls followed by a round of applause was an integral part of the safety brief to paying customers (see also taking the players out of the safe zone into a literally sub-zero temperature area to give a 45min brief).

Don't get me wrong its an okay pissup/camping weekend with dogshit airsoft thrown in...... however for the same money there's at least 1 local festival which does the weekend camp/pissup/goodtimes with mates better and costs the same.

Well I'll put a good word in for the national Airsoft event. I've been going there since 2016 and will go again this year(god willing)because,in my opinion, it's a good,well run event with bonuses that aren't offered at any other Airsoft venue.(correct me if I'm wrong). It's fine if you have tried it and decided it's not your thing but if you have never gone then it's a bit like the argument along the lines of 'I hate prawns,I've never tasted one myself but a friend said they are disgusting' It's a good,fun getaway,in my opinion, with the chance of finding some good bargain gear. Oh and the gameplay is pretty good too ? Chrono is pretty strict and diligently enforced. I have been in game checked.

Pretty much. If I'm going to sit in a field getting pissed for the weekend then there's no way I'm paying 100 odd quid for it That's about the standard for the NAF and it gets worse on the Sunday afternoon. A highlight for me was the kid who I shot in the chest from about 10 yards with my 8mm shotgun. He then ducked into the ferns (I could see them moving as he moved) and when he stuck his head up again I gave him the good news, at which point he started bitching about overkill. As for the marshals, I got the impression they were more interested in struting around going look at me in my hi vis vest, I'm important than doing their job. The last part which really put me off returning was the number of idiots walking round the safezone with a finger on the trigger and the safety off. Combine this with I hardly saw anyone actually make sure they didn't have one up the spout and I'm surprised nobody lost an eye

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.

It sounds like a great site to visit ?.

Yeah, but it is Bucks, so it must be good crack. No branding on the holosight...

Man is on some crack.

I run 9.9v LiFe batteries in anything that has a solid stock; anything with limited battery space runs on 7.4 LiPos, while the VZ58 and the AXR 160 use 11.1v LiPos because they run better on them. Like Tackle, I almost always use semi; I am not sure when I last used full auto.

Great day at ucap green ops. Marshalls and staff were on top form. I, especially,had a good day because I have adopted a dmr role and the gun that I used,purchased from this very forum,(thanks @cyanide14k),performed faultlessly. I was surprised at how much more range I could get with .30. The scope made so much difference to target finding. Total of ten good hits although I have to admit to two home kills? Not a large turnout,about 45,but good, honest play all round with no player fallouts and lots of complimentary calls. I think I have found a style of play that suits me now that I am getting older.More relaxed and laying in wait from good cover. I will still switch to assault play on good days when the bones aren't shouting STOP! You maniac lol. Tired but happy?? Regards

I think you had the filters on . ?

Fun day at AWA, bit chilly, plenty of puffer jacket clad rentals not taking hits, another cluster fuck with guns not working.... But was genuinely fun. Touching cloth to start with (aka capture the flag) our team was trounced by time, but at least I kept up my average by being the one to get the flag for our team. Some how managed to bend my thumb back on itself too which is now v sore. The boy's M16 shit itself on chrono, so we have decided to make it my "learning to tech" gun. My newly returned (as in yesterday) Rapax M7 managed two shots on chrono before the gearbox locked up. So we were stuck my new Honey Badger and the boy's L85. The latter performed nicely. The Honey Badger was great apart from being incredibly fussy about the spring tension in the mags. Several occasions saw me lying in my back behind a tree taking fire on all sides trying to ferry bbs from a duff mag to the least fussy. Best game of the day was a rolling retreat, then counter attack, but sadly I got caught short with the battery dying at the end of the first round necessitating a 20 minute round trip to the safe zone. The Badger's accuracy is a little sporadic but then it was never going to be a sniper. Got more than my fair share of kills when I found a nice hidey hole behind a tree Marshalls were fair and kept things flowing once everyone was out of the safe zone. For some reason, two dappy old codgers decided to meander through the game area on their bikes at one point. Last time out it was a dog walker. You'd think the sound of explosions and 70 adults dressed in military gear brandishing assorted automatic weapons would have been a deterrent. But hey ho ?