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Been trying to sign up for the last few months but it looks like the email side of it went pear shaped 🤷‍♂️ Been playing airsoft for the last year at a local site in essex, For some reason i cannot even remember why i bought a 2 tone airsoft gun, Since then done the ukara and the collection has now grown to 2 gas pistols 1 gas gun 3 aeg m4 variants 1 sniper rifle Ronin conversion kit Still trying to work out which loadout suits me best depending on which game is being played and losing the odd bit of kit here and there running around like a Blue arsed fly in the middle of forests on an early sunday morning is quite entertaining Definitely hooked on it and started bringing the grandson along aswell to get him to have some sort of "normal" day at least once a week which doesn't Involve TikTok or being stuck in front of a Pc all day, He seems to be taking to it quite well 👌😊

Tbf, neither is anyone else in this thread.....

Latest purchase Had it out yesterday for an inaugural test run whilst marshalling Got it used and a reasonable deal Seems to be completely TM standard fps, but with a stainless barrel Am I right thinking from factory they have a brass barrel? Needs a new hop rubber, but happily placing .28’s just past the 50m

I was about to delete this thread and never acknowledge its existence but realised I should probably just add the new section.

Elvis my pet mouse has died. He was caught in a trap.

let this be a lesson kids. generally we understand 2-toning is a necessary evil to allow us to have our hobby still, and mostly we don't care if you turn up with a generic m4/1k painted in bright colours. but if you 2-tone something nice we absolutely can, and will, judge you for that.

1) It’s the bastard child of EDRL and MERDC. 2) ‘merica! 3) Mr T loves it. If you don’t know who Mr T is I pity you, fool. 4) It technically the third best camo in history. After Brown and Green. But it’s better because it’s got both in. 5) It was created with one function. To skull f£&k ruskies in Central Europe. It’s still there, waiting in the forest. 7) In 1978 four elite commands escaped from maximum security detention. They were located by Aerosmith and the subsequent classified debriefing resulted in three things. Woodland camo and two things that have yet to be made public. 10) It was still being issued new in 2015 to guard units. Probably never gone out of inventory in the Armies of the US since introduction. It will not die. 11) Today’s programme was brought to you by the number one and the letter ‘merica. 12) Few things say the eighties like and getting out old painless. 13) I you’re wondering where number 6 and 9 is…. It’s wearing Woodland camo so you can’t find it. 14) Get some! Our next episode will be on Alice - the US Forces ex-girl friend.

I have six for my MWS; three in my PC, two on the belt and one in the gun. Spreading the weight with a belt as you said will really help. Good luck with the brave new world of GBBRs!

talk to Frank at fire-support. he can order from TM but it won't be quick (usual TM slowness)

Tiger stripe baby mama got penetrated by Rhodesian brush by the looks of it.

Did have 7 ordered but took few off because I realized I had no way of carrying the extra ones. After feeling how heavy my chest rig is now with everything on I'm.glad I choose only 5.

When poor dolphins die they're given a porpoise funeral.

Bought a second hand Tokyo Marui MP5K to go with my Tokyo Marui MP5K High Cycle, so I can John Woo indoor arenas over the winter. The stock will be coming off.

I was intending to publish my book about the "Black Death" until I got accused of plaguerism

Peekabooo

Astronomers got tired of watching the moon go around the earth, after 24 hours they decided to call it a day.

Actually weapon 762 had something that'll do, thanks c-diddy.

Tbf ive had no problem with PB, but I only use them for cheap gear for my son (funnily enough a set of 8 Fields body armour.) I'd never use them for RIFs. Too many horror stories. Pisser about Weapon762. Anything on Ali Express?

Fuck, and I say this with all seriousness, patrolbase. I was only going to buy it from them if I had literally no other option. Out of stock 🤷🏼

17) So good it even works on hippies . 18) So good it even works on dress down Mondays. 19) So good it’s worn by sneaky bastards. 20) That’s not Mario Van Peebles. 21) That’s Mario Van Peebles. 22) Highway gives a f@ck.

15. M81 is so cool you can run your optics backwards and still be the ultimate skullf*#*er

I do think team ID would be better on the players head or weapon fire end so they are all round visible. Doesn’t need to be that brightly coloured. But this isn’t always practical. If a site has a rule on it should be applied to every player equally. If you change your clothing/layer up the band needs to be moved.

Do love running ICS L85A2 and M249 Para.

My army armament g36 arrived today the magazine's my god they are heavy gotna feeling ill be losing a fair bit of weight on Sunday lugging around those on my kit.

Stuffing as much tactical bacon into the magwell as you can fit is not "tech work" 😉

Hello & welcome 👋 Glad you're enjoying it, nice to have a pew to suit every mood. What's next on your shopping list? Can't wait to get my eldest into it and then I can use him as an excuse, he's itching to come but not quite old enough yet.

My 416 had a brass barrel, so I assume this would too

Should be fixed now. Please post here if not.

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Back in my Mountain Biking days I used to remove anodising from components using oven cleaner If I left them to soak for too long they would go a great Matt dark black colour It was a pain to remove , so it’d be a very durable finish

Welcome 🖐 Yep, gear and gunz will accumulate 😄

Ahoy and welcome, great to hear that you're infecting the next (next) generation with the bug.

Might be worth giving it fresh lube and working it into the moving parts to see if that helps.

While we're on the subject, anyone here ever tried their hand at magnet fishing ?, I've seen a lot of the vids when mooching around YouTube, contemplated getting some kit as I'm only 15 minutes up the road from the Royal military canal.

Just got back from Worthing Airsoft's annual Halloween night game and it was a whole heap of fun. Went down with my spring VSR with a red dot instead of a scope, as the rules are nothing over 1.14J as we don't allow NVGs or any of that at Worthing night games so MEDs are a big no-no. Having that level playing field is one of the things that gets me down every year, even though I'm awful at night games since I've only played two now and I steer clear of milsim events for more reasons than just not wanting to play against NVG gang with my naked eyeballs in the dark. So, what went well? For starters, I had 100% accuracy. Literally every shot I took I hit. Using a bolt action at night is great because it's quiet, but it's a challenge because you really have to make sure you hit because if you don't they're swinging around powering on their torch and lighting you up both metaphorically and literally. Every shot was probably no more than about 15m tops because at Worthing Airsoft it gets absolutely pitch black levels of darkness, especially when it's overcast like it was tonight. All I was doing was shooting at silhouettes, tracer units and torches when people had them on and for the most part people were really good at taking their hits, though at those ranges you really hear the impact as well. The games themselves were good fun, basically skirmish type games that you'd see on a regular game day but played in the pitch black and only with about 25 players all in. Lots of sneaky shenanigans were done, getting lost happened more than once and many laughs were had as most took it in the spirit of the game. My friend was just going around knife killing everyone in the darkness until they finally clocked onto his silliness 🤣 So, what didn't go so well? Marshalls allowed full auto. With most engagements happening quite close, this caused some issues and they eventually just said semi only, which was definitely the right call (though it should've been semi only from the start). Also, there was some absolutely laughable levels of non-hit taking at times. I lined up a shot at about 10m away, heard the very audible noise of it hitting the guy, only for him to flinch, scurry forward and start calling out to another person asking them what team they were on. He took the second that was aimed a bit higher up. Also, there was a bunch of milsim-ers there and they were predictably milsim-y. The team play, the callouts, the tryharding I didn't really mind, but they moaned a LOT and were party to some of that laughable hit taking I mentioned earlier. Me and another guy were set up watching a path, they walked right in front of us about 5m away and we lit them up as they approached, heard the BBs hitting them and they kept pushing forwards. They eventually took it when a third person started rinsing them as well as us, but she was using tracers that visibly bounced off them so they couldn't exactly not take those. Will I go next year? You bet I will. However, I'd hope to have my SR-25 or one of my m21s all set up for it and I'll run those. It would've been really nice to have something silent and semi-auto rather than having to slowly pull that bolt after every shot while trying to not be heard. I was planning on running my HPA m21, but when I took it to the range last week it started jamming again, so that was a no. Oh well, these things happen

Cheers Nick, I will try that tomorrow as it has been put back in its case in disgrace!!!

His and hers hi capas

Seems reasonable, having it inflicted on you at work is one thing, having to put up with it in your own time is another. That said, the statement from the OP about "It's saved my accounts many times" isn't a great sign... I could bore on about this at length (but thankfully won't) about why it's great and you should turn it on for everything you can (Amazon, Insta, etc.) Suffice to say, password managers and a hardware based MFA method like Yubikey are the way to go, if your system supports it.

Not sure you can really draw a link between the implementation of multi-factor authentication and a mass password reset. The blog post I found on Invision about implementing this suggests that it's optional (or can be set as such). Is there any reason you wouldn't want people to have the option to enhance their security?

Forcing everyone to change their password to something new, once, would be less intrusive, and have much the same effect. I'm not going to swipe right on my phone to log in here.

So an update. The British collection so far. Law 66 L115A1 (Aw338) L100A1 (G3A4) L85A2/L123A2 l85A2 TES L128A1 (M1014 shotgun) L74A1 (870 shotgun) L91A1 (MP5 SD) L7A2 GPMG L108A1 (MK1 Minimi) L1A1 SLR Colt model 715 (C7) L119A1 SFW L119A1 CQB L92A1 (MP5 A3 embassy seige) L131A1 (Glock 17 gen 4) L105A2 (P226R) L9A1 (Browning HI Power) L85A2 (3 Para 2008) Colt model 725 (C8) L105A1 (P226 non railed) L22A2 L86A2

The Mancraft SDiKs upside is that it is a simpler design, no batteries or electrics. Its purely mechanical action from the bolt that cycles the HPA. Downsides is that it has to definitive way of internally regulating the air volume, its mostly stable but highly dependant upon the pre bolt regulator. It does work with CO2. Wolverine has a HPA system yes but it requires a battery, it has a solenoid, electrical contacts and wires. However the upside is that the solenoid does allow for very precise air volume, hence why all the best HPA systems use Solenoids. Mancrafts simpler design also means its cheaper, but his quality of work is very good and has gotten better over the years. Plus they operate from Poland which means getting spares will be easier, quicker (if they have stock) and in Metric. It used to be a lot cheaper as the UK was in the EU so we didn't have to pay import taxes but now do. Currently the SDiK for the Cyma 701 is £132 for just the bolt and £176.73 for the high end regulator, these two are the minimum you'll need to run a Mancraft SDiK with CO2. they will ofcourse be subject to taxation (damned brexit). Wolverine is from the States which will take longer and in Imperial measurements, try getting a 5/32 inch hex key, its not hard but in all likelihood most hex key sets you have will be in metric. Also if buy States side you will be subject to import taxes. In general the wolverine kit is about 1.3 to 1.5 times more expensive than the Mancraft stuff. Stocks wise: Mancraft - If it isn't in stock or you order an SDiK from him, likelihood you will have to wait a bit, he makes the product to order Wolverine stuff is dependant upon US stocks and those being shipped to the UK. Shops wise For Mancraft use the Mancraft store For Wolverine use High Pressure Airsoft (UK) or Amped Airsoft (US). Personally i would use the Mancraft stuff, i have used it before (Mancraft SDiK version 1 and CO2 regulator version 1). I found thee SDiK damned good, with a proper HPA tank (13CI tank) and decent regulator (Redline one) it was solidly consistent shot to shot and with a 13CI i never ran out, it was also quiet AF. The Version 1 Regulator using CO2 at that time was lacklustre, it never bedded in properly and always leaked CO2 liquid into the bolt chamber causing FPS fluctuations. I can only assume that the newer regulator has addressed those issues. I also used his HPA pistol lanyard on TM pistols and whilst great as it was a savings to use HPA over Green Gas, mag changes took longer but also it meat I had to carry two 13CI tanks (one for rifle and one for pistol). Now he has an inline regulator where you can run both rifle and pistol from one tank. This means Primary Regulator on Tank stepping PSI down to 800PSI, then secondary regulator to say 120PSI for main rifle, with an inline regulator for the pistol to bring the PSI down further

It will copy the MWS in every way.... except for materials, dimensions, tolerances and QC Update: Back on sale: $455 shipped

Just seen this post, will get it ammended Wednesday when I'm back off holiday 👌

I don't know the answer to the first question...