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Totally agree, it’s entirely nod nod wink wink There was much more credibility for the retailer who just put in a tick box of “I promise that I am buying this RIF for legal airsoft skirmishing” (and if I recall correctly is no longer in business) Any retailer that promotes a fake define is worse than one who just ignores the VCRA - and if/when an authority chooses to act they are likely to be an easy target especially as the judiciary are never happy with offenders that just take the piss Those of us who like our hobbies should be happy to condemn those who endanger them On the ‘theatrical’ slant of cosplay, that is the route that JustCos could have taken with a cosplay society insurance policy There was someone on the forum a few years ago enquiring about how to get a RIF for cosplay, first leading to the ‘no answer’, until it clicked with me on who they were and that I know them - an actual ‘paid professional cosplayer’, complete with full insurance etc with the genuine ability to lay claim to ‘theatrical’

You aren’t paying for the knock off DDPM, it’s the cocaine in the pocket National Stock Number 6505-00-619-8716 National Stock Number (NSN) 6505-00-619-8716, or NIIN 006198716, (cocaine hydrochloride) was assigned January 1, 1963 in the Federal Logistics Information System (FLIS). This NSN does not replace any other NSNs.

Every cloud has a silver lining … it didn’t fail at the 23:59 mark

Actually …. the washing machine is not an absolute no. But whenever I’ve needed to give vests, chest rigs etc a good clean I have dunked them in the bath after me, left them in the bath or over the bath to drip overnight and then hung up. For the washing machine: dismantle / remove any possible separate pouches Ensure every pouch, pocket, lining etc is empty turn it inside out and zip it up, buckle it etc (on the assumption that any dangly bits such as fixed pockets, straps etc will then be inside the main body) put it inside something (the something would ideally be a net laundry bag, but could be a pillow cover or other fabric bag - this aims to protect the vest from your washing machine drum and your drum from the vest) run the machine on a reasonable setting, such as not the fastest spin Be amazed at how pristine it is on completion and don’t complain to me if it gets ripped/your machine breaks down/you get caught by your other half

I’m not yet in that league, but have one totally screwed knee and as I haven’t popped it out for some time and the other has deteriorated I have to think about which one is my officially bad knee Hydrating properly and eating highly improved my recovery time from a few days to just enough to catch on sleep (If we don’t count the other weekend at a one day event, early start to setup followed by hours of standing - after packing down I could hardly walk and if I had been driving would have grabbed the first travelodge) I’ve used a few knee braces, from basic elasticated, more substantial elasticated with breathing holes, and also with entry level hinged knee braces. When most active going into stupid positions photographing tournaments I would use the hinged brace, at least on my worst knee, and if I didn’t think I would abuse knees then go for elasticated to just hold it all together Anything beyond that really should be looked at as to what support you need where, and to identify the right type of braces For pills it can be a matter of why that one was right for you - the active ingredients and I’m inclined to say it’s not necessary the pain relief but potentially the inflammatory elements etc If it really is the ideal then the scary part to your wallet could be looking at a private prescription My GP (who has just written to all patients to tell us he’s leaving) is excellent, which is attributable to his people skills (and one of the reasons given for leaving with the trend to online / phone interaction taking over from face to face) With any visit to him I’ve dreaded the advice to take things more easy, but he’s always given the opposite to keep playing but while listening to my body.

This could be the case. About 5 years ago GI Sportz did the same thing (and not long after a GV vs Valken legal case) Filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US as one of the steps along the way to being bought up by an investment fund. Keep your eyes out for any mention of Fulcrum investment and / or an umbrella company Kore Outdoor https://koreoutdoor.com/brands

They made you ‘sixy’

Vote Farage and he’ll do a Trump trade war on China to protect the UK airsoft market or not

https://youtu.be/Hlu-419vhX4

If you like that one then you’ll love the Trump rally playlist Americans aren’t known for their sense of irony

If you really are set on this, at great expense, it’s also available from Germany €72 on the German site, add postage, VAT and handling fees https://www.hornerarms.de/p/hkp-quick-detach-sling-attachment-sling-pin-large I haven’t used the German language for half a century, so you’ll have to check out their shipping policy yourself

UKARA central registration is valid for one year, but is based on your local sites membership scheme Ask your site about renewal

@Tinpotmartian When it arrives have a check for information of what details the sender declared on the customs label

Those pesky laid back tolerant bastards

Can, but choose not to There is either no legal requirement (unless the VCRA gets applied with no listed paintball defence) So for just an average random they can buy from a UKPSF member retailer for an extra £5, or go to a non UKPSF retailer (Edit - some sites / events provide a UKPSF discount, which has usually been the price of membership - two participating events and you’re quids in - or some sites / events charge a higher non membership price) If a ‘proper’ player, interested in being a member then it can be £15 for 5 years (Optionally if you can find it then pay a paintballers business to turn your digital card into a pretty metal card - or do as I do now and pay a few hundred ££ for my own sublimation setup and make my own - in a few decades that will work out cheaper) For a little subliminal advertising, the original UKPSF one man band provided player membership with public liability & injury insurance, with the membership fee going to the premiums. My original membership came as ‘free’ with a magazine subscription, so I was a member and insured for free. (The insurance wasn’t really worth anything for me as my employment sickness benefits were better, plus my other life/injury/sports insurance, so I would not qualify for anything but causing someone else’s injury) At a later date they added a free uninsured membership - basically to push up member numbers , so for a couple of years I did that. Numbers did go up, but didn’t really count to anything (such as Sport England recognition - on the list for decades, still not formal, but with the new-ish committee getting traction did get accepted for the Covid reopening - which then boosted numbers due to people seeing an outcome The free membership was scrapped for the current £5 1 year / £15 5 year - and insurance dropped, with fees now going to the UKPSF (no longer a one man band as he retired and handed the reigns over to a committee , which has gained traction) End of pointless advert of paintball membership to an audience of airsofters disguised as a history

@ruskitsellerhit the nail right on the head about the supposed death of forums ….. often cited that social media trumps forums, in the ignorance of what social media is and how long it has been around. Social media is suggested as beginning in the late 90s and taking off in the 2000s, but was preceded by 70s chat groups & bulletin boards A forum is a place for discussion, and internet forum software provides hosts with the ability to structure them They have evolved over time with numerous features beyond their origins, but remain as structured places Social media such as Reddit may be just a bulletin board system of today, Facebook is the current flavour of systems such as MySpace, these go in waves based on the population of those environments as a generation moves on and doesn’t want their day to day social media to be fully connected to their great aunt As these forms of social media lack a clear structure there sometimes becomes a misconception that the past is the past and has gone away, until a reminder of your night of debauchery a decade ago flags up in ‘memories’, which you can choose not to reshare - or even worse your friend shares their ‘memories’ involving you - it’s fine for a chat over old times, less so when you are now management and it flashes over your profile Forums do die, but they are the place that keeps getting visited, and I do like it when someone comes up on a forum to tell the community that forums are dead so come over to my new forum

UKPSF maintain player membership, but do not run a UKARA style playing requirement. Players just sign up & pay for membership. UKPSF retail members have adopted a voluntary scheme to sell only to UKPSF members, or sell membership with the sale

It’s quite a hefty read, but there shouldn’t be prohibition of private use/filling/transporting There are parts of the legislation that will refer to private use, but as you’ve found is a hard read The bottom line is your Pi is effectively the same standard, (there was a slight difference between Pi & DOT), and manufacturers aren’t making different cylinders for different regions, but manufacturing to meet/exceed all standards and submitting for standards testing to qualify for the markings I would be more concerned that a cylinder is in serviceable condition, in date etc - but when cylinder checking for an event I would look for the key points of UK legal, in date, no danger signs - and I’m not doing any events so won’t be comparing Pi dates Yes - those would apply to the importers & sale There will be cylinders on the shelves that had preceded the changeover, and also may be some imported post changeover in ignorance (Quite a few post Brexit standards regulations have established EU standards as valid, but they didn’t for cylinders) The bottom line is whether or not it will affect you in being able to use a cylinder on site at the fill station or to play, and potentially whether it impacts upon getting a hydro test (not particularly worth the cost for an aluminium cylinder) A UK hydro tester should not permit you to test a wrongly dated Pi as they are licenced, but I don’t know what level that sites are checking ………….. As per the original post with the flow chart (which I disagree with due to over simplification) sites have been made aware and staff ought to be checking cylinders before filling (they should do so anyway) Whether or not they do check, and whether or not the checker knows anything beyond what they usually see can vary widely (Note my comment about a player I know, that I first met at one of our events when I refused use of his US cylinder - and loaned him mine for the day - he more recently pointed out that only I and two venues ever checked him until he retired it) …………….. Back in the day when I began playing there was a blind eye turned to the use of US DOT cylinders in the UK. Partly with most sites running CO2 systems and players getting HPA, filling from personal scuba cylinders. (So if you didn’t use their fill station they ignored your cylinder) As more HPA fill systems spread across sites, blind eyes and bad habits occurred - including under age self fills This came to a head when there was a flash fill explosion on a site in the South . The knee jerk reaction was to blame the specialist ultra light design and it harmed a manufacturers reputation, but it was found to be an unregulated fast fill combined with an unknown players poor maintenance and oil contamination That sorted the tournament world for years, but they seemed to forget years later slipping in awareness when the scenario world adopted those standards of checking and awareness training.

That depends - if the joules don’t change the velocity also does not change The joules as per the muzzle velocity is different from the energy imparted in the chamber based on many physics things happening along the barrel The energy imparted onto a BB in the chamber remains the same irrespective of the BB (or actually it might, because force has to be exerted to begin the momentum and a heavier BB will resist more than a lighter BB) It accelerates down the barrel, and depending on the internal barrel size vs the BBs actual size could theoretically float on air, but will have friction or bounce around in the barrel, and also get some friction from the hop up before escaping into the open air These various factors are generally called joule creep when a heavier BB does not come out at the ‘right’ slower velocity to match the equivalent energy. The combination of different configurations / efficiency Joules do change - which is of course the whole argument over with regards to chrono checking After leaving the barrel different BBs and different RIF configurations can result in different performance in flight with some losing monentum gradually, some going further, some flying almost perfectly then suddenly dropping when losing backspin.

The main legislation is the ‘transportable’ one which covers the movement of compressed air cylinders. This covers both commercial and private use (eg in your car to & from a game would be private - but complicated if you are in a work van or company car) Parts of the legislation may not apply to private individuals, but that gets into grey areas with the odds being that a players cylinder would qualify as small / low capacity and exempt from parts of the legislation Other related legislation for filling etc is in the world of HSE and therefore not applicable to individuals (but applicable to the sites we play at) I discussed carrying cylinders with a firefighter neighbour with regard to the need to display diamond warning signs in vehicles - a commercial requirement, but not required on private vehicles with low capacity cylinders. His preference for dealing with a crashed vehicle is that markings are shown so that they know what it is when cutting into your car The references to ‘placing on the market’ are due to the timings of Brexit and the status of NI post Brexit, with the relevance being that a pre Brexit / transition Pi cylinder was fully valid and remains valid based on EU TPED regulations and related legislation. Cylinders with an early enough birth date sat on the warehouse shelf are still valid for UK sales and usage. Those with a later birth date are not - but as the UK is a tiny market in the world of compressed cylinders and even smaller for playing cylinders then it’s hardly worth the manufacturers going to the expense of certification and therefore it took a long time to get any to market Retailers should not have stocked and sold post transition Pi cylinders, but will have done so Its up to the site you play at as to whether they check and whether they let you use a cylinder - but they are liable under HSE legislation when it gets filled

Joules are a measure of energy Chronographs measure velocity Some chronographs calculate the joules from the velocity based on the entered mass

Don’t do it!!! Keep this forum going However, there are many Facebook groups This forums Facebook is linked below. That doesn’t have chat going on as it acts as a touch point for the forum and is likely to be used for the status of a major outage etc. It can be handy to have it anyway, for both its main purpose and for the Facebook algorithm to top up tour interest in airsoft, thus then suggesting others https://www.facebook.com/share/18gojAvwDN/?mibextid=wwXIfr A thing that Facebook compliments well along side forums is for sub groups - especially local region and/or site groups, that gets the opportunity to see what’s going on, meet like minded local people etc Next is the niche parts of airsoft - MilSim, speedsoft etc - good for like minded people and finding things further afield for your preferences (or discovering the local one that you have never heard of) It goes bad when the dispersed groups take the world away from the forums, which was the cause of the fall of forms, but followed when Facebook added more rules and people trickled back to forums (mainly for a sale) I suggest searching Facebook for local site names, sub genres and then seeing what else the algorithm comes up with I know that you say that you don’t use Facebook, but along with Reddit it is where chat happens Consider making a basic account just for airsoft that does not need to be your real name

All chronographing is by FPS Anyone claiming to chrono in joules are either a conversion formula within the chrono based on setting the claimed mass, or a reference chart of FPS to joules The ‘benefit’ of FPS chrono is that any weight can be chronoed without making changes to the settings Problems remain when chronoing with different BBs than playing, when not properly declaring the BB weight etc and especially when it is a lip service exercise

It’s a long time since I last read a site insurance policy. There will be ‘almost standard’ policies around the activities and a quote is based on the questions / answers on the quote applications and are most likely to be subject to a risk assessment (and ideally the mitigations and method statement) as submitted by the site The value of anything on those can vary considerably On a different tack I re-wrote a complete set of risk assessment, mitigations and method statement for my friend to trade at a festival. They asked for a method statement, I looked at the risk assessment that she had already submitted was a method statement - so we amended the title and resubmitted - that didn’t work. So at 11 at night I produced the full range and in minutes of the email without the time to read the content they accepted it all It is best practice to chronograph all customer guns before play begins. But if the sites risk assessment, mitigations, method statement, staff procedures, insurance policy don’t say so then that’s an argument for later when a claim is made This is an American insurer that has a good video series for site owners (it’s titled Paintball safety but covers multiple activities including airsoft) Their initial quote form for Airsoft does ask about chrono limits but does not ask about pre-game checks http://www.cossioinsurance.com/ https://youtube.com/@cossioinsurance1558?si=mLLlStU8w1OCFpqW Back in the day I regularly played at a rental site, and it was this site that we first ran events. On rental days they did not chronograph as a matter of routine as own gunners were rare. (and it meant taking out the big red chrono to do so) We were first checked by shooting at the magic chrono tree with the head marshal looking at how our shots fired Subsequently I brought my own chrono with me and grab a marshal to watch me use it When we ran events I rewrote the rules and disclaimer*, we used chronos for a full pre - check, tag and * the existing disclaimer was useless for an own gunner event. I was able to rewrite ‘all guns left on the rack before exiting to safe zone’ to ‘made safe, barrel blocker, turned off etc’ (exact wording varied). That as acceptable and did not breach their insurance terms. We were running the first ever game under a scenario organiser collective with a common set of minimum rules, which included air safety training & issuing air passes for self fill. I needed to do that to comply with the collectives rule set but the insurance explicitly required trained staff only to operate the fill station, so I could not allow self fills By the next year the site owner had the insurance policy updated, and we could fully run the air pass training & self fills (He based adding this to the policy using my documentation, such as revised filling procedures - having the paintballs recognised national body UKPSF logo may have helped. Perhaps his premiums were cheaper, or at least increase in premium was less than the income for more own gunners at events etc)

Shhh We have actually done that for events - particularly for hilly sites with no radio range unless you are all on hilltops