The 'What have you just bought' Thread

[team flex]

this from matey guv for 32 of the finest sterling

 

[Albiscuit]

The MP5K front end with RIS £55

A Wolfeye LED torch £50

Magpul RIS Handguard £22

RIS Sling Clip £8

Green / Black Shemagh (SP?) to use as a face covering as I dont like my mask anymore £10

BUT

As the front end attachment doesnt quite fit I am taking the it and the handguard back, and my £8 super bright LED torch I use for work does fit the attachment I got earlier in the week do the wolfseye is going back too.

Thats £120 towards a Combat Raider

 

[DX115FALCON]

Not really bought, but I've just won a Cold Steel Tomahawk

 

[Ian_Gere]

5.5mm brass tubing - This is for the manufacture of a brass pull through for my SMLE. Plan is to cut a length and fill it with epoxy and embed the end of a length of string. This is instead of having a cleaning rod. The idea is that you use the brass weight to pull the string through the barrel and the end of the string has a small loop so you can then pull a piece of rag through the barrel to clean it.

Brass coloured metallic Humbrol Enamel - to add weathering and detail to my scope so it looks more correct. Also to paint the end of the pull through so the epoxy doesn't show.

That sounds like a bad idea to me - you should try your best to minimise the chances of scratches to the inside of your barrel and, even though brass is soft for metal, the barrel itself is not tempered carbon steel - dragging metal through it will scratch it to some extent. Such fine scratches affect range and can affect accuracy since they have a slightly higher friction coefficient than an unscratched polished surface and this affects the stability of hop induced backspin, ie minute fractions more or less spin on either side of the BB.

As there is no combustion, you are never going to need to actually scrub the inside, so you do not need to be able to drag a rag up and down the barrel so many times that a string is sufficiently more efficient over a plastic cleaning rod for it to be worthwhile. If you do ever submerge your gun in muddy water you should disassemble it and soak the barrel in hot soapy water and rinse repeatedly until there is no chance of dragging fine sand through the barrel when you use a piece of rag to clean out any oily/greasy residue.

The best method is to use alcohol swabs on the end of those plastic cleaning rods with the slot in one end.

 

[Ian_Gere]

I have one of those vests, Flex. They are excellent. Lighter than PLCE, more versatile than SAAV, and more comfortable than a WAS RICAS. IMO £32 is a bit over the odds, but it does look to be in good condition, and those rocket pouches can cost more than a tenner on their own. The horizontal pouches for maglite and pocket knife are exactly the right size for speedloaders

 

[TheFull9]

TAG 'Starter kit' (one launch shell and 8 Reaper rounds) plus another shell. Fit nicely in my ARES EGLM, just waiting for an opportunity to test fire.

 

[jcheeseright]

TAG 'Starter kit' (one launch shell and 8 Reaper rounds) plus another shell. Fit nicely in my ARES EGLM, just waiting for an opportunity to test fire.

oh god yes.

 

[Cheeky vimto]

About time I got a proper bag for my guns and stopped using a rucksack. It's smaller too so forces me not to carry all the random sh*t I never use on a skirmish but bring anyway.

£18 off ebay

 

[Russe11]

That sounds like a bad idea to me - you should try your best to minimise the chances of scratches to the inside of your barrel and, even though brass is soft for metal, the barrel itself is not tempered carbon steel - dragging metal through it will scratch it to some extent. Such fine scratches affect range and can affect accuracy since they have a slightly higher friction coefficient than an unscratched polished surface and this affects the stability of hop induced backspin, ie minute fractions more or less spin on either side of the BB.

As there is no combustion, you are never going to need to actually scrub the inside, so you do not need to be able to drag a rag up and down the barrel so many times that a string is sufficiently more efficient over a plastic cleaning rod for it to be worthwhile. If you do ever submerge your gun in muddy water you should disassemble it and soak the barrel in hot soapy water and rinse repeatedly until there is no chance of dragging fine sand through the barrel when you use a piece of rag to clean out any oily/greasy residue.

The best method is to use alcohol swabs on the end of those plastic cleaning rods with the slot in one end.

I would need a 65 cm or longer cleaning rod. The metal isn't dragged through the barrel, it's just a weight to thread the string through the barrel. You would then pull the string through with the alcohol swab or piece of cloth on the end. I was going to use Brass as it would then look like the real steel cleaning kit, kept in the hole in the stock, which is a lot simpler than carting a 65cm cleaning rod around, if I could find one.

 

[Mack]

PRC-148 arrived

 

[jcheeseright]

I still reckon you'll do some damage to your inner barrel with a brass weight. Like Ian says, even small abrasions can have a big effect on small, light projectiles like BBs.

Might be better off using hardwood or dense plastic. Anything that's considerably softer than the material the inner barrel's made of, which is probably also brass.

 

[Lozart]

Pair of merrell sawtooth boots and a set of diamond plate pattern rail covers.

 

[Mack]

Pair of merrell sawtooth boots and a set of diamond plate pattern rail covers.

Where did you get the Sawtooths ?

 

[Lozart]

Where did you get the Sawtooths ?

Via the wondrous bay of e. Coming from the US.

 

[team flex]

My dad likes shooting, He has loads of cases and he has an aluminium one lying around he never uses. I asked him if I could borrow it and as he doesn't shoot anything other than grey squirrels (he hates grey, likes the home breed red, as should be apparently) with his air rifle he never uses it. He just gave it to me, quite pleased with it. Very tight fit so no movement when you shake it. Will take some pictures in a bit, can't identify what it is, its like this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KEY-COMBINATION-LOCKABLE-HARD-ALUMINIUM-DOUBLE-RIFLE-SHOTGUN-CASE-gun-box-/271425176353?pt=UK_SportingGoods_Hunting_ShootingSports_ET&hash=item3f32338321

however it has the brand name FRANZEN, which I believe do locks, and some gun cases although I have looked on their website and cannot seem to find it. Will upload pictures in a bit, sorry for rambling on.

 

[Russe11]

I still reckon you'll do some damage to your inner barrel with a brass weight. Like Ian says, even small abrasions can have a big effect on small, light projectiles like BBs.

Might be better off using hardwood or dense plastic. Anything that's considerably softer than the material the inner barrel's made of, which is probably also brass.

OK, might try oiling the tube so the epoxy doesn't adhere. That way I get the look of brass but can remove it when actually using it. The Brass tube will also prevent damage to the epoxy from the brass oil bottle that's also kept in the stock.

 

[Zak Da Mack]

TAG 'Starter kit' (one launch shell and 8 Reaper rounds) plus another shell. Fit nicely in my ARES EGLM, just waiting for an opportunity to test fire.

PLEASE make a video out of these. Id love to see a good review that ain't in Russian

 

[TheFull9]

Soon as I can go somewhere where I'm allowed to shoot them and take video. Unfortunately the air force brass frowns on folks taking pictures or video on base. Also on popping off airbursting pyrotechnic devices.

But yeah, probably going to a skirmish next weekend where I can sort it all out.

 

[JB72510]

Plate carrier, triple stacked ammo pouch and a dump pouch (all green) some blaster bbs and another speed loader, (i love payday)

JB

 

[Ian_Gere]

I have a 60cm cleaning rod and i have seen people using longer ones. They go in whatever you are carrying your gun in easily enough. You can also use that plastic coated spring stuff which is used to hold lace curtains up - the latest generation of SA80 cleaning kits use the same stuff with brass ends, one slot and one thread, instead of the threaded steel rods they used to use. I expect that you could screw the plastic ends of a cleaning rod into that curtain wire.