Charlie Sheldon recently purchased the WE M4A1 Black Edition from JD Airsoft, and I've had the pleasure to review the weapon over the last 48 hours.

The standard package is only £190, which puts this well made M4 against budget makes such as JG and Cyma. This actual M4 has had further items added (RIS and Stock) which took the price up to £280. The stock weapon arrives at 300 fps, but this one has had a spring upgrade so is sitting just below 350 fps.

It comes standard with a 300 round hi-cap...
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Reviews are usually about new releases, but I thought I'd bend the rules on this one.

My first ever brand new AEG was the ICS CXP with the plastic body. Purchased in 2010, it was a perfect CQB weapon with the split gearbox, which allows servicing and spring changes at record speed, in fact I still don't know why it didn't take off as it should have. In the first year it got hammered with a box mag on, with just a new piston being fitted after ripping the teeth off during a hefty sustained burs...
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We've been busy recently with the media, both intentionally and unintentionally!

A common question from magazines is 'how does your probationer system work'?

Well its not a system set in stone, however the basic principals of the system is to ensure when a new player is offered membership, its their honesty, their integrity, and their personality that matches what the team is looking for.

If it is an existing player turning up with skirmish experience, then the main aim is for them to play along...
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Hello everyone, so first the blog post got shared all over the place and the video from the day is now doing the same. It has been posted on Reddit, a site I have viewed a lot but never actually joined until now. I figured people might have questions so I will try and answer any you might have about what happened. Just as confirmation that it is me, the Reddit account I’m using is “Vanguard212”

 

Also standby for a full update blog coming in the next few days.

Alex

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As part of Shadow Stalkers sponsorship deal with JD Airsoft, we have borrowed a number of TRMR grenades, and have utilised them at Urban 6 and at Skirmish Mansfield. A number of us were initially sceptical of the use of BFG's, especially with the drills of retrieving them!
The TRMR is the same size as a 40mm grenade so they fit in existing pouches, which is a bonus with existing rigs. They are extremely well made, and come in two parts, the lower section which houses the charge, and the upper ...
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Under his new role as SSAS P.U.B.E. (Probationer Underage Briefing Executive), Will Price organised a newbie camp at our training grounds in Nottingham.
Joking aside, the Junior Mentor role is an important one, and the main way of bringing the youngsters through the team to ensure they understand their role within a tight knit framework. 
Will brought on support from Sam and Alex to ensure there was enough demonstrators for part of the teaching, and a member of committee was present at all time...
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First and Only ran a very good article last week on whether Politicians or Bad Sportmanship is the biggest danger to our beloved sport, and it did make you wonder.
As a team we have seen it twice at our local sites over the last couple of months, where visiting teams from outside the area do not play ball on honesty, and more importantly are frankly abusive to other players.
Last weekend was stressful with the injury to Alex, however the day was already marred by a group of players dressed up a...
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Man Down at Skirmish Mansfield

  The Shadow Stalkers deployed in good numbers and good spirits to the game day on the 2^nd March at Skirmish Mansfield. While the day started as many days of airsofting do, it will be one that the team and certainly myself are unlikely to ever forget.

   Skirmish Mansfield is a well regarded site within the team, we enjoy its varying game zones, its polite and friendly marshals and its great safe zone that means, even in the rain the site can still be enjoyab...

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