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TM MK18 NGRS from the wife

We bought my eldest a Glock pistol and a grenade along with a dummy knife for CQB, he’s stoked. The Mrs bought me KWA Skorpion with additional larger mag, leg holster, grenade and a large gun case. The eldest bought me a dummy knife too. I’ve done bloody well!! Now trying to plan my ‘pluck’ foam interior layout.

This is my new pew. Doesn't fire very far though.

A friends order arrived 🤪

Careful, your tin foil hat is slipping

So, come on then, who got new pews or pew related kit for Christmas ? I got a WE M4 GBBR and loads of bits towards a long L119 A2 build from my lovely wife 😀

Yes!! Result!! Two tm mk23 mags and a Daniel defence g shock stock. 😀 Gord bless ya Santa baby🎅 lol. Regards

The Mrs bought me a new toy, KWA Skorpion with a larger mag, can’t wait to try it out! She also got me a gun case (and a few other goodies) so I’m planning out the ‘pluck foam’ layout.

...and the RMR? 😉

Happy now ? 🤣 Weighs a bloody ton !

Got any sources for that pile of bollocks?

18000!!! trigger happy are we? 😂

All the data shows that vaccines work to reduce the risk of infection and transmission of the virus. Does it give 100% protection? No but it significantly reduces the chance of infection and if you do get infected the chances of being hospitalised are far lower. All I'm hearing from the anti vaxx crowd is that it's a attack on their freedoms and other such nonsense. Nobody is being descriminated against or rounded up and its worth remembering that your rights end when your actions affect others.

I take it that was an over 18s only event? If not the organisers could've got themselves in serious trouble with child protection laws Gimmicks like some bint getting her tits out make me wonder how good the site actually is if they have to use cheap stunts like this to pull in the punters. Concentrate on making sure the games are well run and you'll get players wanting to come back.

Shame, I'll keep looking for now, and then may be, I'll tackle a bit off fettling.

You might struggle to find one, consider an alternative maybe ?, little bit of fettling it'll probably fit

That's a top tier missus you have. I had the same RIF as my primary for about 2 years. Stonking fun

My son is well chuffed with his DE M906C... but more importantly I can now muck around with his G&G Firehawk and fit a GATE Titan. His best friend got a Lancer Tactical LT-04 GEN2 with battery / charger / red dot, and he's over the moon with it, primarily as they can now skirmish together (I so need a "Dad Taxi" sticker for my car).

Its not a pewpew its a twangtwang 👍

You could swat the bb’s back to the opposition though 😁

Should last you until lunchtime.

Merry Christmas all you flingers of plastic. Let's hope that the airsoft Santa brings all that you desire.

Why does Santa always enter through the chimney? Because it soots him

Some things that are grossly overlooked with Omicron. Sure it was South Africa that thisd appeared in, however, the Chinese community in Africa is numbering 20 million and most are regulars in travelling between the major cities that were responsible for the initial outbreak of Wuhan Flu which the CCP objected to because they are over sensitive about and that the WHO obliged and gave it a name that hid the origin... This SA variant was like all these world pandemics and like the annual flu outbreaks, came from the same place as all pandemics originate, China. The main reason being that their glitzy cities, travel less than 20 miles out of a major city and you have stepped back in time to a period that is more like the early years of serfdom in the UK, peasant farmers living with their livestock in horrendous conditions and easy transmission of viruses that break the zoonotic barrier. China pushes out an image of a modern society when nearly half of the people in china are still living in a level of poverty that makes their peasant farmers earn less than an illegal miner does in a day in South Africa. Also note that in the last 10 years, China has been gearing up for war, who with, I D K but they are amassing tech that they never had 10 years ago, so like a bunch of kids are itching to try their toys out that were intellectual property of the west. I am not about to venture down the growing body of evidence that Wuhan Flu aka COVID was a leaked bio-weeapon that the CCP were working on... I am just waiting fore that fact bubble to burst. Evidence of this research was discovered but quickly covered up and people disappeared. A couple of youtubers who spent a combined 20 years living in and have Chinese wives, commented on a number of things given their network of people that they are still in contact with, have better intelligence than the USA's NSA and what the Five Eyes collaboration brings to the table. So for my end here, Omicron variant of Wuhan Flu came from the same place the original came from and weas trucked in via an executives or their family or family members coming over to stay with relatives escaping the outbreaks that keep on happening in China but news of is suppressed and the WHO has its woll pulled again because Tredos is a bought and paid shill and member of the CCP, evidence was presented to that fact as were tow other members of the WHO board sitting on this COVID committee in the WHO. This is no conspiracy as all the evidence has surfaced and been presented by many people who have picked up on these investigators having direct links to the Wuhan research lab, previous work for the CCP... so its to me is just a cover up of another outbreak they worked so hard to cover Wuhan flu up that they missed evidence that was leaked by people and the discovery by the Chinese Doctor that got admonished for "Disrupting social harmony" was arrested and made to sign a retraction... So remember to look up in future, how many Chinese citizens and if that country is part of the belt and road initatives, then they will have a huge chinese population like Africa has over 20 million chinese there at any given moment... so its not hard to work out that the latest variant may have come out of Africa but it was trucked in from the usual suspect aka China. Food for thought.

Thank you, she really does look the part now. potentially your right as the site I am going to is closing down soon, they are looking for a new site but not sure if they have found one yet. If they close before mid February, I wouldn’t have been able to get my UKARA through them anyways so I am glad I found out about the MVT.

Looks good Here's a thought. With all the sites that have closed in the last year, there's probably quite a lot of long time players who now don't have site membership. I wonder if this is pushing impatient players to buy a defence and retailers to be a bit more open to other defences. I'm not saying it's OK, just that it might be a factor

I freely admit I’ve a penchant for dodgy paint jobs (hello kitty cannon and don’t carebear Bizon to name but two) BUT some of those paint schemes are just f***king horrendous ! Look like a low resolution unicorn barfed over them ! 🤢🤢🤮 so welcome to the madhouse ! 🤪

Anyways, let’s step away from Defences at the moment and take a look at my full black M4PI. I am buzzing now and can’t wait to play on Boxing Day. The tactical torch and red dot just blend in so nicely now.

Great work, only a matter of time before someone does it with the real steel counterparts to reduce the weight 😏

Yeah it's always struck me as super-easy to piss someone off with a high p&p cost. Amazon have made a whole business (Prime) out of selling us the ability to get things 'fast and free' because it makes the purchase so painless. Of course we've paid £70 (or whatever it is these days) up-front for the privilege, but damn, it works. Human psychology is a blunder-ful thing! You can see some higher unit prices on eBay too, but again they'll often capture my business even if the total is the same or slightly lower, along with the 'free p&p' wording. Ant Supplies will always get business from me because they'll do anything p&p included, though I feel guilty when I'm buying cheap stuff and the costs must surely be destroying their profit margin. One day I'll buy something more substantial, just to assuage my guilt! Anyway - JD's charge of £11 for my F2000 and 18,000 BB's and other bits'n'bobs in a hefty box was fair.

Merry Christmas all. Hope you all find BFGs under your trees.

Have a merry Christmas, you moody mares, I hope you all get exactly what you deserve. I've rattled Mrs Borg's box and reckon it's some wire strippers, so I'll be rewiring all the things while watching a Die Hard marathon (or maybe just Die Hard five or six times, same difference). See you when we're all sober again.

I'm the other way around. Even with waning efficacy of the current vaccines versus omicron and beyond, it seems clear that they're continuing to offer protection. Although the HSA (and BioNTech) are implying that we're looking at re-doses every 90 days or so, which comes with a moral hazard[*]. Masks, I haven't found any compelling evidence for community efficacy (as opposed to careful use in clinical settings). I mean, "it's just common sense", but my common observation is that many-to-most are being worn performatively rather than diligently. For context, I bought and used a box of FFP3 respirators in early March 2020, "responsibly stockpiling" before the panic buying started. I have no problems with measures that work, my issue (as with chrono!) is performing ritual safety theatre without any real benefit. That's an argument in favour of better mask wearing, but it's probably a futile one, given that the same talking heads exhorting us to wear them generally don't even bother when they think they're off camera. Coronaviruses mutate rapidly, that's why they're so successful and tenacious. We've never had a vaccine - or persistent herd immunity - for the common cold, as the several coronaviruses that cause those symptoms keep tweaking themselves just enough to escape immunity. SARS-COV-2 is likely to do the same, vaccines or not, and the significant difference between 1 and 2 is asymptotic transmission. That means variants are likely to spread because they'll already be out of the country before they're recognised as existing, or novel, let alone been sequenced and having a specific test created. [*] Out of interest, what's your thoughts on the WHO's position that richer countries should be sending doses to poorer countries rather than engaging in universal booster campaigns? If it was an either/or, would you prefer to get your third or fourth, versus a rural South African community nurse getting her first or second? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/who-head-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-admonishes-countries-with-blanket-booster-programs/vi-AAS4mkw

This should be the default at sites. You could skip most of the briefings, just point at the board and say "Read it, no excuses." The eye-twitcher for me is when you ask a marshal (e.g.) "Oh, do gun hits count here?" and they go "Uhhhh..."

ahh the bane of many an airsoft argument. "headshots don't count".... on a site where they did.... "he didn't take a bang kill"..... at a site with no enforced bang rule..... "gun hits count".... at a site where they didn't..... even worse is when a site can't even be consistent within itself, had games where the initial brief was X zone was out of play, except when the game bogged down the owner told one team they could use that zone, leading to a lot of "i hit you!" "yeah but you're out of bounds so it doesn't count" arguments. sites should really work out exactly what variants of rules they're going to enforce, put them up on a board, then consistently enforce them. for example i don't care if a bang rule states you have to take them, if you take them voluntarily, or you never take them, so long as i know exactly which variant i'm playing to and wether or not to be prepared for folk trying to pull a john wick.

Rate of fire on some rifles and pistols are ridiculous. High rates of fire spoil game play, turns players away. HPA is a menace in CQB, I have seen 20 or so new players come and play once and call it a day, the comments I hear are often centred around "I can't hit anyone because I keep getting hit" or that they can't return fire because they are unable to break cover because the bb's are coming in thick and fast. From my observations in game, HPA's ruin game play on indoor CQB, it is more suited to outdoor use than indoor. The main issue IMHO is that there are too many sites where there are varying rules and this leads to confusion on new sites and why rules get broken and people get pissy with people not taking hits, one site I know says that kids are not targets and your hits on the kids don't count... well great, teach cheating to the young. There needs to be a set of standardised rules that can be agreed upon that is a guide and also those setting the rules need to have insurance companies onboard as they are the guys that have to cover sites for liability cover, so a site can't stipulate different rules that are dangerous to players as the insurance company would be on the hook. Players that want higher rates of fire and power should hire venues and advertise it as a free for all and go shoot yourselves up to your hearts content, leave airsoft to those who want to enjoy game play and not get beat up in a game, there is a certain thing that is called enjoyment that can rapidly diminish and the sooner players recognise this (the ones insisting on high power and rates of fire) wake up to this fact, the sport might improve to attract more players. As I say, if you want higher power, go airgun or powder round shooting or clay pigeon shooting...

You could try reporting him to ebay first. That might delay things a bit at least. Next time specify 'Tested working', 'No returns' in case that helps.

defo a spam week

I had someone twerking at me last game day from a long range (about 75m ish), right in the middle of the path. Clearly he didn't think my VSR could reach out that far... He was wrong

RIP, buddy, fliing hi wit de angles now. I guess we didn't get a Christmas miracle from either seller? I got a small one of my own though. The solid stock that rattled around inside Chyna, apparently got returned to sender there (twice!), then sat in UK Customs since November 26th got put through my letterbox yesterday. No sign that Customs had opened or inspected it, it seems it just sat on their desk for weeks for no apparent reason while they stared at it and regretted their life choices.

Heard this one the other day: Q: Why is Santas sack so big? A: Because he only comes once a year!!

Shit my nana said she was at knitting club.....fine figure of a lady there.

Poor lass, by the time she got the party favours out, everybody had already lost interest. Reject degeneracy, return to reloading.

Some of my proudest collections. Took some real efforts to find stock and get into my hands: Umarex full size G36 VFC AEG M27 and GBB HK417 20" G&G M14EBR limited 22" silver version NPOAEG SR2M (Could have been the last one available in the world) Ares L115 gas sniper E&L AK74M with a real Soviet 1P29 King Arms R93 LRS2 gas sniper (not the ordinary springer one) Also got a VFC Mk20 GBB stuck at customs due to Christmas and covid...

Are they the same guidelines that our government adhere to. 🤔

If they wanted to sub an out of stock item they have to agree it with you before they do it, unless it's in the t&c. If you don't want it as uts not the ratio you ordered make them pay to get it back or take it up with PayPal etc.

I'd send them back and the retailer would cover all costs. Bloody cheeky of them.

Tbh I tend not to bother prepping the surface more than a quick wipe down, but that's because I like the worn look. Also Krylon OG and Halfords green are the same shade, as I found out when painting my M4

What's your budget? You have companies like FPR, ALC, Nova putting out steel 1911s, 2011s, Glocks and Desert Eagles but we're talking fairly hefty price tags. http://www.fpr.hk/index.php?route=common/home

It's a good question I pondered myself for years, because all you had on the market for a long time was 'standard' TM, WE and KWA etc costing in the 100-150 region, or super custom limited batches of steel guns costing more like a grand and usually aren't much use. More display pieces than anything. The main way to get a more realistic and higher quality (but still useful) Glock for example has been generally to take a TM base and add many and various upgrades yourself both inside and out. I'm no expert in that field though as you hear many, many a tale of woe from people attempting to go down such a path. The best candidate in this arena right now is the GHK Glock 17. Costs about as much as a real G17 in the US but I don't know of any other GBB pistol in the ~500 area you can take out of the box and comes as close to the real thing. May be some others I'm not aware of but the GHK is the only option I know of right now and it seems very compelling from the reviews I've seen. I think if you're a VT AR fan it's the kind of sidearm you'd probably like.