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The team at last year's Armed Forces Day:
..and some of us outside the Safe Zone prior to a game:
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My cammed-up Mk5 steel "turtle" helmet:
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Don't know if this is a serious issue I can fix or not... The spring release button inside the mag holder seems to be constnatly pressed down. I can't press it (it's solid, as if it's constantly pressed) and almost always when I fire I get this whirring sound after I fire a BB (as if I'd have pressed the spring release button, even though I haven't). The gun seems to work fine despite this issue but I don't know if there's anything I can do to fix it. I tried opening it to see if there was any visible errors but I couldn't see anything.
Sounds like your spring release lever really IS jammed in the "release" position. IIRC the lever depresses the anti-reversal latch inside the gearbox, thus letting the spring go forward if compressed. The whirring sound after firing, is the same sound and the same thing you get if your anti-reversal latch is broken or otherwise not working. Try holding the AEG upright in one hand with the magwell facing you, and then reaching up into the front of the magwell with an index finger. Curl the tip of the finger around the front of the release lever and under the top end of it, and try to pull it towards you, gently, away from the hop-up - the opposite direction to easing the spring, where you push it up towards the hop-up. The lever should rock up and down about 3-4mm. It is lightly sprung. I cannot recall how it is sprung but maybe your spring is weak, broken or disengaged. Hopefully if you pull the lever down it will disengage from the anti-reversal latch and allow it to work properly.
The Stealthbomber G&G L85 repair and modifications guide is a 'must have' for the G&G and AA SA80s. They are quite easy to work on. I did my own piston spacer work using it, couple of years back and use the AEG regularly. Before that, the piston kept stripping. Since then it has been reliable, although it fires full auto in semi. Some say this happens when the spacer piston mod is done, tho Stealthbomber posted how to fix it by filing some part of the mechanism believing it was due to wear, but it's a bit tricky and I can tap off single shots whenever I want. I have the blowback enabled have had no problems with it, except it is easy to lose the little spring if it falls out when you are stripping the weapon.
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"No, I'm not actually lost, I'm just temporarily disoriented."
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First days out at Foxtrot 58 with some of the new platoon (King's Own Scottish Borderers):
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For all those with L1A1s or FALs, what MOLLE pouches do you use for your magazines? I've tried various pouches designed for M14 mags, but they prove to be a bit tight.
-Piano
For L1A1s it's got to be '58 Pattern Webbing! Like this:
...or my own set here:
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Are you guys all ex-para 33lima?
No we're not paras! But site operator Sam and several regular players including myself are ex-forces (mostly local Army regts, Regular and UDR or TA, but including RAF Regt, R Sigs etc).
We did have an ex-3 Para guy up on Sunday for his first visit having seen our stand and display on Armed Forces Day and he seemed thoroughly to enjoy what he saw.
The regulars at Foxtrot 58 are organised into (currently) 3 platoons with an "SNCO" in charge (cadres rather than full platoons). Each platoon is "based" on an inf regt and wears its headgear - 1 Platoon Royal Marines Commando, 2 Platoon Royal Irish Regt, 3 Platoon, which I got allocated, the maroon machine. We emphasise team play and the sides on each day tend to be organised around the platoon cadres, with a trained soldier leading and able to provide a more realistic experience and helping people learn and apply reasonably realistic tactics, while still having fun. We're conscious that some people object to airsofters "wearing stuff they're not entitled to" but don't overdo it and think of it more as a respectful homage to the people who do it for real - as some of the regulars have done, and others still do.
Ivor
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It´s Leslie Nielsen with an attitude
Spitting image IMO...
Cheers
-Hessu-
Surely you don't mean that!
...and don't call me Shirley!
(yes I'm an "Airplane" fan; or was it "Naked Gun")
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Some pics from Sunday at Foxtrot 58:
"THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY...
"...so I'm going..."
"...this-a-way!"
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Another pic from Armed Forces Day. The crowd showed a great deal of interest in airsoft and the fire & manouevre display, which I was kitted up for when the pic was taken. Weapon is a Star SLR with real SUIT sight, combats '84 (aka '85) Pattern DPM, webbing '58 Pattern CEFO. Hope I remembered to do up that middle button before taking to the field!
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More in the field than in game, the Foxtrot 58 stand and display team at Armed Forces Day, Carrickfergus, yesterday. The airsoft kit attracted a great deal of positive interest from all quarters (a policewoman took the team picture for us!). Self to the right of the kneeling "enemy".
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Time for something altogether more soft and cuddly after all those pics of people doing warlike, agressive stuff. Me and Colm, Foxtrot 58's "senior soldiers", return to the Safe Zone for a well-deserved nosebag and brew-up after a satisfying Sunday morning shooting the sh*t out of each other.
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Trying out the new girder bridge at Foxtrot 58.
Ready:
Steady:
Go!
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My SLRs, from top to bottom:
Star SLR with real SUIT sight; King Arms SLR with the inaccurate carry handle replaced with a real one; King Arms FAL (bought before the other SLR replicas became available) modified to resemble SLR with several real parts including wooden butt & handguard & Hythe rear sight, other parts modified to resemble SLR pattern.
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When the article refers to Tokyo Marui, is TM?
Yes when the article says "replace the sector gear and piston with TM" it means Tokyo Marui or compatible. The different references to TMH mean the Trigger Mechanism Housing (=lower receiver).
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Lima you got some nice looking playing fields, very open and great variety, makes me jelous, nice photos too.
Thanks mate and yes we are lucky at Foxtrot 58 to have a CQB "village" with a Security Forces base and a field full of bunkers overlooking a river (well, stream) crossing as well as the open areas. To be honest it was a bit of a jolt at first, coming from the close country of the large wooded estate we used to play in. Great thing about the open areas is that there's greater elbow room for more realistic fire & manoeuvre type tactics, as in the pics. Not much chance of sneaking up on anyone out there! But being able to see the enemy deploy, and then come at you inexorably in good order, certainly gets the adrenaline flowing, a bit like "Zulu" but in DPM!
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Foxtrot 58's 3 (Para) Platoon watches from the high ground as the enemy, in the shape of 1(RM)and 2(RIR) Platoons, shake out into extended line and then pepper-pot forward to close the range; Sunday 26 April:
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The gears are good, is the piston was broken teeth, and left without firing replica
Here is Stealthbomber's repair and modification guide for the G&G L85, it also works just as well for the R85 clone. Mine is working fine, since I carried out the piston replacement, except that semi-auto fires full auto, not a big problem. Blowback is enabled on mine.
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Some lighter moments at Foxtrot 58:
No I haven't any questions. Now can we start the mission, please?
I don't know what effect they'll have on the enemy, but they terrify me!
Go on, have a look - No, you do it - No no, after you, I insist!
Funny how you usually realise you hadn't wound the mag, exactly when you least needed to make that discovery.
If Pigs could fly, I wouldn't be hiding behind this one, would I?
I wouldn't stand just there if I were you, sir.
Did somebody say, "Sassenach?"
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Time for a pic from an earlier era!
1968 Pattern DPM smock with hood, worn with olive green Lightweight Trousers (aka "denims") as was common in milder weather, 1958 Pattern webbing CEFO (Combat Equipment, Fighting Order) including respirator haversack on the belt and entrenching tool attached to yoke. Headgear is RM Commandos for a Falklands themed event at Foxtrot 58:
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Some more pics from shoots at Foxtrot 58:
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Some tense (and lighter-hearted) moments during a pistol-only mission at Foxtrot 58's urban area, last summer.
(The bulge in the smock is a gas bottle, not my belly - yet!)
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Op Balkan Backlash, the March weekend event at Foxtrot 58:
- British SF team prior to moving out for the Saturday daylight phase:
- and still attacking the Balkan SF base on Sunday, after a hectic night phase:
Anyone who hasn't tried a night-time milsim airsoft event, is missing the best part!
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A couple or three more pics from Op Warlord at Foxtrot 58, photography by Take Aim mag staff:
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A typical day at Foxtrot 58, for a change without the cam cream...