Tommikka

Not only do I like wood, I of course have got wood. Not to hand at the moment though 57 years and still pending getting around to growing up

I forgot this among my long ramble The GWOT - Global War On Terror was also previously referred to as TWOT - The War On Terror, which was clearly a crappy acronym, but it was a quick change from The War Against Terror, which I found to make a nice acronym, but apparantly some Brit had a quiet word with the US government

Thanks to drafting a post across a few hours between serving people at an event I managed to somehow post on a totally different thread, and now at McDs I can repost …. On the topic of ‘glorification’, we play a game, for many that includes dressing up. The underlying motivation of the majority will be unknown, in some cases it can be a little clearer. There is a degree of time healing, such as in the re-enactment world knights, Cavaliers, Roundheads etc are far away from memory, WW1 is pretty much out of direct memory but there can be ‘family memory’, WW2 can get close to the bone when someone appears far too interested in Hugo Boss Rhodesia etc is nearer in memory than the American Civil war, but they have parallels (and in parts of the US in recent years their may be civil war re-emergence as a closely hinting message) Overall I could not give a toss about someone’s political motivations (it may not endear me to them) Generally I like the underdog, so that often directs me towards the baddies for at least the latter half of the last century and this century so far. I am a major fan of wooden accessories, sadly my SLR is in black, but my AKs are wooden. They have all given me great pleasure, but I will not take out my AKs again for personal reasons which I will touch on below. As a side note, the OSS ‘advisors’ to the Viet Minh couldn’t roll off the Declaration of Independence straight off their lips, which could have changed a future direction. Uncle Ho as an intellectual in an occupied country of the French empire studied Marxism and formed communist parties - just like any of the ‘oppressed’. His Declaration of Independences version of “all men are created equal” was intended to have a US flavour, but his “American friends” couldn’t help him with that, and as time changed after WW2 the US changed their “anti colonial” point of view to the fear of the communist domino effect Their fears handed Vietnam (as well as much of South East Asia) towards China and therefore Russia As I live in Salisbury, and around a couple of corners from Christie Miller Drive, I’m clearly no fan of Putin To make things more personal Dawn as my ex PAs sister That kills anything Russian related to me, and I do wince when I see someone putting Russian kit into the classifieds, but that’s my personal issue As another aside, in a different forum there were known Russian trolls operating, all currently on bans - their presence has been tolerated to enable disinformation to be countered, with regular suspensions for line crossing. With their knowledge on my circumstances they have pushed my buttons more than once and been subject to extreme breaches of forum rules for which I have not been penalised for. I’ve clearly been given a lot of leeway on that subject

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I don’t know the area, but diving shops are an alternative ……. However this typically needs a customer supplied fill adaptor as well to fit the HPA fill nipple onto a scuba fill station **** Caution is required as some dive shop staff misread 3000psi on the cylinder and attach to a 300bar fill station resulting in a burst disk failure (or even worse - no failure while overfilling but a random failure later when least expected 3000psi is just over 200bar Specific fill rigs vary You would need to know how they fill, perhaps from a refilled scuba cylinder and then what fittings, eg a DIN scuba fill rig Shooting shops may have a PCP airgun fill system if you get lucky

I just have share there (or edit/share on my post) However I still have the “this is the old forum” message banner, so perhaps an interim thing pending completion of the upgrade ? I’m on Safari with an iPhone, getting the same with chrome etc and also if I select “get desktop site” to emulate using a PC

Sorry to link here @Jedi_Master I can’t see a report link for this spam

Correct - they all do, and they all have to by law Both due to pressurised containers and due to hazardous materials The carrier becomes liable for the unknown contents of their packages on our roads and airways People disregarding the rules and making false declarations are also the reason for ‘empty’ canisters being subject to the same rules. Even a dismantled HPA cylinder & regulator will be hard to find a willing carrier for a private sender - and once found will cost a few ££ (Some would try to defend themselves that UK postage won’t go by air, despite much of the internal mail going by air for speed, and then complained that packages became seized and destroyed) A starter is The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1348/contents Carriers pretty much prohibit private senders, and require business senders to use appropriate methods under contracts. Proper declarations, and appropriate methods cost money Search

You can try a scan of these https://www.sourcetacticalgear.net/source-virtus-soldier-system/ https://paradata.org.uk/archive/premium-content/documents-0/virtus-user-assembly-maintenance-and-care-instructions/4509231-virtus-user-assembly-maintenance-and-care-instructions-page-1? https://www.scribd.com/document/342330774/UK-Virtus-program-pdf

I like turtles

Rather than fear of arrest, the advice is the fear of attention. Pre-speed cameras we used to call it the ‘attitude test’ when stopped by traffic police. Failing the attitude test today could be the difference between a concerned person reporting strange activity that gets an inquisitive Bobby talking to you , and a night in the cell.

Carver Bks out near Bulford / Tidworth ish? That was where I first drove, and I returned at some time in the late 90s to 2000s for my niece & nephews

I lived in Durrington, in the early 80s, so our playground was ‘tankie’, officially known as Charlie crossing. There was a hill that we would sometimes sit on watching until training troops pulled out We found many things, mostly collecting spent blanks and link. Taking them to school for metal work class cutting the ends off the blanks and making belts to sell to the rest of the school. The general currency being Penguin bars. Live blanks would be fired off by doing something dodgy with an air pistol, sometimes the full blank, sometimes cutting open first for the contents and firing off the percussion cap via airpistol

I was born far away on a Scottish island, my sister in a BAOR hospital - but we ended up down here and I spent my early teens doing anti-social / illegal things on Salisbury Plain with discarded ammunition - but out of the way and unnoticed

Just another couple of irrelevant thoughts. One of our original three founding members of the team had just left the marines, therefore our original t-shirt is identical in appearance to regimental t shirts worn by service personnel. No particular problem as it’s just a green t shirt with a military style logo. However as we are situated around the Salisbury Plain area, and may be up in the morning at the weekend in combat trousers and team t shirt you can then add on one of us who gets short hair cuts but has no situational awareness, and on his way to a game day will routinely stop at the garage for coffee & a newspaper. There are certain types of people who have been hanging around the Salisbury Plain area for decades keeping an eye out for easy targets with no situational awareness. Add to that a few years ago a newer type of people who conducted an untargeted / random attack on an individual who was selected due to proximity, a camouflage style back pack and a short haircut Worst case scenario - you don’t know the current security risk and could be mistaken for what you are not. Easy case scenario - random member of the public finds you suspicious and a call is made, resulting in educational words Ridiculous idea - what landowner would ever think that any business use would be viable when it depends on people getting out of bed on a wet Sunday to dress up and run around the woods????