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    weaponary to dream of (beware pic heavy)

    Okay then! First, my main Airsoft dream, a Luger P08. I'm not fussy about brands. I just love the style of the thing. It'd also be fun to get a snail mag for it, just for laughs. Coming in a close second to that, a Mauser M712 - the full-auto version of the C96.. One day I MUST have a...
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    girlfriends/wives/boyfriends/husbands

    I have a fiancée, soon to be my wife. She likes to see me enjoy myself playing airsoft, too.
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    Battery Life

    This post is totally anally retentive, but I'm like that. These batteries are rated in mAh, specifically, not MAh. The reason for this is that the case of the 'm' indicates the scale of the rating. mAh (lower case m) means milliamp hours, or the duration of the battery when drawing a...
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    Battery Life

    A battery with greater capacity (mAh) is always a boon, but when buying you have to be careful that it will fit into the available space. The ones on component-shop.co.uk have dimension info. Also, be careful not to over-volt your motor.
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    Nicknames

    I'm known as Wizard, hence the choice of forum name. It came about on my first time out, because I have long hair and a goatee I think. One of the guys I was playing with said I looked like Catweazle (see my avatar), so tried to give me that callsign. One of the others reckoned it was too...
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    Both eyes open while aiming?

    When I started, on those occasions when I had time to take aim, I'd close one eye and look down the sights with the other. Recently I've started keeping both eyes open, because of the advantages cited above. In my case, I think the monocular method was a hold over from computer games. The...
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    Greetings and salutations

    Hello all, I've been airsofting for a few months now, mainly at games run by Airsoft Essex. My first time out I acquired the call sign of Wizard, so I thought it'd make a good username here. I'm quite keen on this sport/game/hobby and hoping to build up a decent collection of equipment over...
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