Category: Features and Opinion

  • Supporting the Cause – Patreon

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    Hope you’re either enjoying the blog, or finding it useful. I’ll keep writing and throwing up guides, articles, ideas, reviews and reports on the full spectrum of airsoft sniping and camouflage, and am always available to chat one-on-one if you need any more help or have any more questions. I’ve never set out to profit…

  • Introducing UKAL

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    I like to see people doing the right things for the right reasons in Airsoft. UK Airsoft Ladies was founded in early 2022 by Drew (Ghillie Sniper Girl) and Alex, a teammate of mine; “To bring together female airsofters around the UK and build a community for them to feel comfortable in as well as…

  • GSG Airsoft – Why I Wear The Kit I Do

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    An interesting look at GSG’s kit (guest article, click to read) Stip – I’ve seen this kit in action quite a few times, and it’s very different to the one I run myself, but is very effective in terms of camouflage. It’s a very versatile kit and one that is probably familiar to most airsoft…

  • Stepping it Up – Moving up from Skirmish

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    A few thoughts on building a kit suitable for battlesims, milsims and weekend events, from a skirmish setup. This isn’t a sniper blog, it’ll be for those running as part of a team with an aeg. Which is always fun from time to time. Following on from the England vs Scotland game (report and intro…

  • Stepping it Up – England vs Scotland 2021

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    “Without a doubt the best England performance in the history of this event” “The best Scottish and English Performance over the 14 years Land Warrior and Stirling have run this game” “I have never seen such relentless determination from an England team” Some high praise indeed from the organisers as England vs Scotland returned to…

  • 12th Airsoft Players Choice Awards

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    Just a quick one… This year’s awards are up until the 6th of December. Being a small and rather niche blog, I’ve never been shortlisted, but obviously I’d love to (although nowhere near winning because there are some really big sponsored blogs out there), but if you have found this blog useful at all or…

  • Springs and FPS

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    Honestly, the majority of emails and messages I get about upgrading that start with “how big a spring should I put in first” is scary. Power first. In the UK, our upper limit is 2.3 joules (j) of energy, which roughly equates to 500fps using 0.20g bb’s. The most common mistake for anyone beginning upgrades…

  • Hop units and Hop Rubbers

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    The hop is everything to airsoft, snipers twice as much. For those new to it, the hop bucking or rubber is a rubber or silicone mound in a window on the inside top of your barrel, that the bb brushes past to generate backspin. Without backspin, the bb wouldn’t travel very far at all. But,…

  • High Speed, Low Frag

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    The downtime afforded by covid has at least given a lot of time to sit, think, analyse and reflect. I’ve picked up a great many projects surrounding airsoft, both internal and external too, which has kept me extremely busy and perhaps a little off the path of my own kit. Yesterday someone asked me how…

  • Ullswater Wild Camp

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    2/3 June 2021 With a big increase of interest in camping during the ongoing covid period, comes an increased interest in wild camping, which is basically camping away from a proper campsite. I thought it’d be a good time to go away for a couple of days and write about the experience, in the hope…