Airsoft

[Cowley]

Right, so i've been getting into this lots lately! Its a brilliant sport too, good excerise, not to expensive (compared to paintball) and it really gets the heart going when your stuck 1 on one against a P90 noob!

I've been buying loads of kit lately, so once its all together im gunna post it all up so you can have a look. Airsofting would be a great idea for BsE meets btw.

Anyone else intrested in this? If you have some pics of your kit post it up!:w00t:

[Funbags]

its shit from when ive been

[Mazman]

Uh, what is it exactly?

[Funbags]

basicallly the same as paintball but with high powered bb guns which fire plastic pellets and its alot cheaper

[Weasel]

Weasel is intrigued by this.

[Cowley]

its completely different from paintball, the only similarity is that you shoot people lol.

Airsoft are proper replica weapons, and equipment, and if you go to a decnt site you play proper senarios, not just "capture the flag" and TDM which is all paintball is.

One game we had to set out to retrive an artillary peice, and then return it to the hill we started off at to fire it at houses (empty farm buildings) below. And yes it did actually fire pyros! or would have if we got it to the hill.

Most of the games we play, there are certain spawn points that change depending on how the battle is changing, or a designated medic can come and "revive" you

Its much more tatical, more relalistic, and a hell of a lot more fun that paintball. You dont have to wear a full face mask either, so no steaming up goggles or face masks! and it means headshots hurt more!

[Cowley]

Whooop double post, just taken some pics and annotated my kit. I will keep adding more to this post as i upgrade my rifle or take more pics. I have an M203 GL on the way, so ill post that soon!

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8974/assaultvestk.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8041/m4a1carbine1n.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9212/m4a1carbine3.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9931/m4a1carbine4.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4613/m4acarbine2.jpg

[RAGEMAN]

nice bit of kit. How much did it all cost?

[Mazman]

Coooooooooool!

[Cowley]

A list off all i've spent;

SWAT Full Finger Airsoft Paintball Tactical Gear Gloves
-- £8.69

New Black 100% Cotton Balaclava/Warmer
-- £1..49

DPM CAMO CAMOUFLAGE COMBAT TROUSERS RIP STOP
-- £12.00

DBOYS M4/M16 300 rds Magazines airsoft (5-pcs) Special
-- £13.99

SPECIAL GP 8.4volt 1300mAh AEG Airsoft Gun Batteries
-- £14.99

9.6V 1500mAh 2/3A NiMH mini battery AEG, Airsoft etc
-- £13.29

New Hi cap magazine 300 rd. for Airsoft AEG M4 M16 R85
-- £10.99

NEW!! MoD Army Issue BLACK SA80 Rifle Weapon Sling
-- £6.99

6000 Q bullet BB pellet 0.20g for 6mm Airsoft AEG
-- £10.50

TRIJICON ACOG clone red-dot sight scope airsoft/hunting
-- £44.99

Tactical Assault Vest British DPM, Airsoft
-- £40.00

Bolle Commander Goggles Brand New
-- £14.99

New Big Dragon 120R Cartridge M433 HEDP for M203 Gold
Quantity: 2
-- £44.00

M203 Full Metal Grenade Launcher
-- £64.99

Rip-Stop DPM Combat Jacket
-- £24.99

DPM t-shirt
--4.99

M4A1 Carbine (With all the upgrades pictured above)
-- £230 <Full Cost

Thats mostly everything that i can remember off the top of my head, but NONE of that includes postage cost, as i buaght most of my stuff from ebay. According to ebay the total i have spent is £234.73. Some of the things i still had left over from when i was in the army cadets. I could have spent less moeny than this, but i wanted top quality kit, and i wanted a full metal gun, whats the point having a plastic one, flimsy and dont look replica. I should be getting the grenade launcher next week sometime, and the other 5 magazines, so one i've got it attached ill post it up!

[Reckonage]

I officially wan't to have a go at this! Never heard of it before now.

[RAGEMAN]

nearest airsoft place in nottingham? Also Do you have to go with a set amount of people?

[Mazman]

What happens when you get shot then? You have to wave your gun in the air and stroll off to the safety area like in paintball? Or can you basically soldier on until you can't take any more pain?

[RAGEMAN]

I like the idea of no armour and the one who can hack the most pain wins.

[Source]

I went Paintballing last week. It's basically shooting randomly and adjusting your aim according to where your last bullet went. It's great fun though, and hurts a bit. My cousins and I bought a M24 Airsoft rifle with a scope and a few shit guns, we always mess about with them, building makeshift bases and such.

[RAGEMAN]

Can you link me the site you brought your gun off. I would like to Buy a cheaper gun.

[RAGEMAN]

sorry about double posts but are this any good cowley:
http://www.airsoftworld.net/airsoft-guns/two-tone-guns-no-vcra-ukara-registration-required/two-tone-budget-range-of-guns/springer-delux-pack-with-multi-choice.html

[Cowley]

Maz - it depends what game you are playing. In a normal rambo skirmish when you get hit you have to shout "HIT" and raise your hand, you then walk to the nearest alive player and count to ten loudly to revive yourself and then you can play aain. Thats called a life in the field, and normaly you get two of those, then you have to go back to the respawn point, which changes depending on how far the attackers/defenders have moved.

Scenario games, there are designated medics, when you get hit you shout "HIT" and lay on the floor(Dead), and all your aloud to say then is "MEDIC" or use hand signals to communicate with other alive people. If a medic gets to you he has to stop firing and count to ten, medics and other lvie players are aloud to drag dead players out of fire. If a medic can't get to you, then you have to go back to the very first spawn.

Rageman - Nottingham is not a bad placeto be for airsoft! Theres only a few sites around me near cambridge which are less than an hour away, more than that is a bit of a treck at 7 in the morning lol.

You can turn up on your own, or two or three mates like i normally do, and lots of other people do that so you end up ith a group of around 60ish, the most ive had was around 80, and the teams get split in two. Below is a map of all the UKARA registerd sites in the UK.
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2964/airsoftmap3zzz1.gif

I didn't buy my gun of a website because you have to have a UKARA license to buy an imitation firearm. Someone at the site i go to who had a license baught it for me and upgraded it all and then sold it to me for a little bit extra, getting in with the right people helps ;) UKARA is a lot of piss arsing about just to buy an airsoft gun, Link below is to their website if you wana read how to get one, because its to much to post up lol.

http://www.ukara.org.uk/

To be honest the guns your looking at are most likely not very good, as they are so cheap, for a decent powerfull airgun your looking at £130 plus for one. Also those multi-tone guns look gay! G36 series are really good guns for the price, Wether you get G3, G36K or G36C. Also DO NOT BUY FROM THE UK!!! The guns are SOOOOOO overpriced because their not manufactured in the UK, so your not just paying for the gun, your paying for all of their duty tax's, import tax's, profit mark up and all that other stuff. Buy from America or China. Or if you go to your local airsoft site, they will more than likely have a big range of guns that they have got in from USA/Chine tax free because there UKARA registerd sites. So you can pick up great guns for around 160-200 (L96 Sniper, M16, M4, Spaz12, P90, AK47, MP5 etc)

[RAGEMAN]

thanks for that might look into this. Seems like a good thing to do in the summer when you have like 13 weeks off. lol

[gtafreak47]

been interested in this for a while and i want to get into it since summer is coming up. i live near nottingham so we could all meet up if you want. i plan on going regulaly so i can become a UKARA member and buy weapons without the stupid colours on them.

then i can buy this: http://www.wolfarmouries.co.uk/airsoft/bb/product.asp?page=product&id=TMCHRMDE
and this (and customise the shit out of it): http://www.wolfarmouries.co.uk/airsoft/bb/product.asp?page=product&id=M4A1TM2006

but yea, im very interested and im looking for people to go with. i love modern day combat and firearms (more like an obsession really), so ill feel right at home with this.

[RAGEMAN]

gta where about in nottz do you live?

[gtafreak47]

gta where about in nottz do you live?

now that would be telling, i live close enough, so its no bother getting there :P

[RAGEMAN]

lol. Do you live central etc. ?

[flixy]

web tex


LOL

[Cowley]

web tex ftw flix! I dont know why everyone laughs at it, because they do great bits of kit. I could have got a VIper vest that was a fiver more and litrally the same vest just with a diffrent logo :S pointless.

GTA DO NOT BUY FROM WOLF ARMOURIES!! seriouslyyyyy, what a rip off site, if you do buy them then look into some American or Asian sites. http://www.socomtactical.net/ is quite a good UK site ith good prices, but limited range

[flixy]

web tex is poorly made gucci kit for walts/the like

if you are into airsofting (which i am not) then army surplus is your best bet

you get what you pay for..

[Cowley]

It's not poorly made, just not made to military standards. Im using it for airsoft games, not service in Iraq lol. Plus they should cost a lot more than 40, i jsut got a bargain on ebay lol! Im sure i paid around the 70-90 mark for the same modle when i was in cadets. The holster inside the vest is proper shiyte though i give you that lol!

[flixy]

Plce/mlce >

[RAGEMAN]

I have all my old cadet shit still. So this would put use to it. lol

[Cowley]

lol yeah i sold all of mine, only to find myself buying it all back again 4 years later lol

[gtafreak47]

http://www.socomtactical.net/m18a1-remote-control-claymore-p-302.html?cPath=87

lolololololololololololololol

[Reckonage]

That would hurt if they actually fire them hard lol.

[RAGEMAN]

lol @ the claymore

[Cowley]

Claymores are the tits!! The first time i went some bloke on my team had one. Every round we played as defence he placed it down basically on the objective, and when he went back to it at the end of the round it was always empty, so he doesnt know who he killed lol! 20m range seems like a lot but its not, so te remote is pretty limited unless your really gunna camp lol.

Look at videos of them on you tube, it doesnt look like they hurt to much tbh.

[Recoil]

my baby!!

http://fightingfiveoh.com/pics/shifterdelta1.jpg

[Cowley]

Silenced MP5? Where does th battery go on them, there so small lol, mine was in the stock, but yours hasnt got one.

[XUnit]

It uses solar power fields. :P

[RAGEMAN]

grip under barrel ??

[Cowley]

Im going tomorrow, so if i remember a camera i'll take some pics!

[Recoil]

i use real bullets

[Cowley]

Thats poor, because then you can't shoot anyone for fun! lol

[Recoil]

Thats poor, because then you can't shoot anyone for fun! lol

but killing people is fun

[Cowley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B2Q0JaWLTo

Shot my mate with the noob tube!!

[Fusionz]

I used to play airsoft.. still play it abit, but i'm definetley more into Paintball, or speedball atleast. Nonetheless, airsoft is still awsome, and especially with how cheap it is!

[Ninjizmo]

it looks awesome