Jacob Wright

Sorry for the repost.... 
But since I've just had the L129, model 604, 701 etc added to the collection. Was time for an updated family photo. 

You just need a tube that's approximate the same inner and outer diameter as a hop unit feed tube, i.e. when you push it into the top of the mag, it moves the latch and BBs can feed up it.  A piece of inner barrel works, or any 6mm ID tube with about a 7mm OD.  As a random discovery, I noticed that the purple inner plunger from a small Calpol syringe is hollow inside and has the right dimensions. So I cut the front off one of those and use that now - you can hold your thumb over the end and press it in to release a few BBs at a time, or direct it into a bag or bottle if you're emptying the magazine.
 

Real Steel day today...  I think Airsoft is having a severely detrimental affect on my pewing ability though - having large slow moving targets and fully automatic weapons.  So the less said about my score today the better.  My other excuse is that every time we go, they are having a competition shoot so all the stands are fiendishly tricky.  Usual faces and doggo from last time having improved his need to chase clays down field.   Gorgeous weather too after the crazy storms and rain the night before.  Always amazing to see my ol' man (orange cap) hit anything with his combination of floating black spots and shyte vision in general, plus photochromic glasses and severally arthritic right shoulder.
 

 

 

 
Back to BB wars for the next few months though.  Will see how low it can get my RS scores 
 
Anyway if any of you have your own shotguns and are near Horam, then this is a great place to go in a beautiful E Sussex setting.

I don't comment much on here anymore but as someone who's built and sold many Glocks at a massive loss, this did leave me chuckling at the gall of this ad. His breakdown of costs actually includes a £65 labour charge (that he's invoiced himself!?). Then he's asking for the total new price + "labour" + £20 postage.
 
Why didn't I think of this when I sold this one which had a Guarder aluminium slide, steel outer barrel, nylon fibre frame, metal piston head, 150% recoil spring, uprated hammer spring, Flamingo bucking and Guarder lightweight mag for £175 posted!? 🤔
 
Also don't get me wrong, the Gen.3 is still a solid platform but if he wants even half of what he's asking (plus billing this as a "sleeper build"), then he really should have based it on a Gen.4.
 
Possibly he's not bothered about selling it, which is good because the chances of it going for anymore than about a third of what he's asking, are slim.
 

It’s not even got a Guarder frame and slide on it 😂

Saturdays expedition to apocalypse airsoft went like this:
Deep lovely warm sleep.
Beep beep beep.
"Bogoff"
Shower.
Shave.
Gear.
Car.
Rain. 
Motorway.
Rain.
Boots 
Mud
Rain
Gear up Mount Everest 
Money.
Rain.
Bacon.
Tea.
Blah blah kill the blues
Rain
Mud
Tactical walking in mud
Steam
Mud
A Few comical kills
Mud
Win.
More bacon.
Tea.
Blah blah blah kill more blues
Mud. 
Battery dead. Feck.
Trudge. 
Safe zone.
Battery replacement
Mud kill mud kill dead
Respawn
Dead
Respawn
Dead.
Hilarious "shit, didn't see you, point blank dead" moment. 😂
Trudge.
Mud
Car
Steamed up windows
Motorway
Home.
Cleaning toys.
 
Very good day all in all. Proper muddy but lower numbers meant battles were intense.
 
Beer. Fire. Food.
 
😂👍😁

I bought a stick battery to sacrifice just for this particular gun because I knew front wired MP5's are shit regarding battery space. I soldered it to mr30 and then I made a deans to mr30 adapter so I'm able to charge it. I ditched the tamiya to mr30 adapter straight away and even after that I have to pay attention not to snap battery cables but I put a magpul handguard on mine which offers even less space compared to the stock one.

Saw the MP5 with Wolf Armouries for a reasonable price, so took the plunge and it arrived today 🙂
 
First impressions really good, amazing build quality as expected, although I'll have to wait a while to try it because I have no Tamiya wired batteries 🙄
 
 

Saw the MP5 with Wolf Armouries for a reasonable price, so took the plunge and it arrived today 🙂
 
First impressions really good, amazing build quality as expected, although I'll have to wait a while to try it because I have no Tamiya wired batteries 🙄
 
 

Saw the MP5 with Wolf Armouries for a reasonable price, so took the plunge and it arrived today 🙂
 
First impressions really good, amazing build quality as expected, although I'll have to wait a while to try it because I have no Tamiya wired batteries 🙄
 
 

Once a month with the team for me. Occasionally we will do 2 games a month and we tap out for December and January just cause they’ve all got family commitments. 

Saw the MP5 with Wolf Armouries for a reasonable price, so took the plunge and it arrived today 🙂
 
First impressions really good, amazing build quality as expected, although I'll have to wait a while to try it because I have no Tamiya wired batteries 🙄
 
 

Thanks, I’ve already damaged by hearing during my army days. Have been living with a tinitus for the last 30 years. So I know how damaging loud bangs can be, that’s why I wanted to check at what price level you can get decent protection.  

From the sounds of what you’re looking for, I’d say Earmors are the least of what you’d want. Depends how much you value your hearing but I don’t think I’d trust a £20-30 headset. 
 
 

Raided the dusty back shelves of 3 different shops for my weird old-man preferences (a lot of it is in foliage green).

Start with a basic action camera, then learn what works for you.
 
GoPro carries the name, and does have the right features and specs which come with the price to go with them 
 
Alternative action cameras are up to the job - all in recent years exceed the ‘quality’ of anything you would be showing them at - YouTube etc 
Old YouTube footage from 15 to 10 years ago which looks like it was filmed with a potato gets highlighted with much nostalgia value and 
 
 
You are dependant on the sensor and chip set. If you’re going in and out of buildings then the ‘better’ cameras will cope better with the change in light conditions - but anything current should cope in a reasonable time frame
 
 
Most important is what you want to do with footage.
Are you making a full film of all your awesome actions, telling the story of your day?
Are you making a click bait kill cam video?
Are you making training feedback footage to review what happened?
Or do you just want to film some stuff and see what you get?
 
The ‘best’ footage is of multiple angles - but means lots more editing.
eg barrel cam - which mostly shows the ground and air, but gives shooting footage
Reverse barrel cam - films you 
Sight cam - which gives zoomed in ground and air
Head cam - which shows where you were looking, but can make people sick when you keep looking left, right etc, and will also show the tree or brick wall that you were hiding behind
Body cam - similar to head cam without the left/right twitching but more bouncy (check the stablisation specs)
Back cam - Strap a pole to your vest and mount a camera that films a 3rd person view 
 
 
Combine a few of those and you can edit a story - for the extra cost of multiple cameras and mounts plus edit time

 
Alternatively forget all of those, get a generic action camera with case and an assortment of mounts.  Try it in different positions and see what you get
 

 
Note that a scope camera is ‘better’ when accompanied by another camera giving a wider view

Paint pen.
 
For full allyness, use a lovely shade of pale blue. Or an Edding 751 for full on civil service shite.

Slap me harder daddy.

FINALLY got my hands on an MP5 and four spare mags. Found a solution for mounting a scout light which works really well, and allows use of the original TM forend for maximum battery space. The claw mount is the wide TM version. You can mount an optic towards the back, with room to spare for a Surefire offset mount in front of it. 
 
The Scout light is long enough that shadowing isn’t an issue, but short enough that ambidextrous handling is still possible without having to change the forend and use a vertical grip. Pressure switch is just taped neatly on the top, as I like to shoot thumb over bore / C-clamp.
 
Got a night game coming up soon and can’t wait to try her out. The suppressor is the TM pro tracer, attached to the adapter which comes in the box with the MP5. Looks good enough for me.

I have one with a spare battery as but never really use it with my loadout. Essentially they are just a normal Baofeng in a new suit! 
 
The size is samller than a PRC 152 but for looks they arent too bad

Next piece of the British collection puzzle sorted. 
G&G L129A1 
 
Got a few bits to do like sort correct trades and some modifications here and there. 
But will get there. 

Yeah,
After I posted, I watched a couple of reviews on it.
Seems to be the exact same as the uv-5r just in a Harris “style” outer but with a much larger capacity battery.
I suppose the good thing is that it is also compatible with all of my current comms accessories like ptt, antenna , headset etc
 

Loaded up my Plat Peacekeeper with 8 magazines, some Mk5’s and a speedloader - once I’d tightened up the straps (lost some weight) it sat really comfortably at didn’t slide around at all. Definitely worth the money and I’d happily recommend one to anybody. 
Was achieving first time hits with the A1 out to about 60m, and with a bit of elevation even some out to 75m. Really happy with the rifle, but having a 16” barrel it’s not ideal for CQB. I could just take the barrel extension off .. or sell the MK18 and replace with an MP5? 😂
Was thinking of building a battle belt for a couple of extra rifle magazine etc, but the one I’ve got just didn’t sit well with the chest rig so I’ll probably sack that plan off. 

ShadowFoam, finishes off the Cams quite nicely I think

Well, gotta have somewhere snug for the Sig and the 416 backup to rest
 

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