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To be pedantic - ‘most trade folk persons’ do not carry offensive weapons that they call tools of the trade ……. They carry tools of the trade with good reason, of which could be an offensive weapon if carried in public without good reason Certain items are automatically an offensive weapon - and there is no good reason for tradesmen etc to carry them Other items have perfectly valid use and are not automatically an offensive weapon - but are an offensive weapon if carried with intent

Posting and dropping into windows (plus doors etc) can be subject to very different interpretations by different people I would interpret the bad thing of ‘posting’ to dropping something into an opening without looking You could of course poke your head in the window to look - but I did that once and don’t recommend it I met a barrel coming the other way Everyone within earshot heard my expletive reaction, and courtesy of a VOX microphone so did the safe zone

See here for a starter FAQ on HPA: As per the above posters, converting an airsoft gun to HPA would generally be: AEG - Designed to operate an electric motor that runs a piston to create a small quantity of compressed air into a chamber to launch your BB Convert an AEG with an HPA engine, which is fed from an air system. The AEGs magazine only contains BBs, which means you can still switch magazines as required Gas - Designed to operate with a small quantity of gas released into the chamber, typically pre-filled in a pressurised compartment of the magazine allowing you to prefill your chosen number of magazines and switch as required Converting these involves replacing the magazine fill valve with an HPA valve nipple then running a feed from an air system while you play. As GBB magazines contain their BBs and gas, which gets replaced by the air feed then you can either just use one magazine (which would be the norm) or need to detach & re-attach the airsource if you change magazine for more BBs Of course you could use a sealed HPA valve and pre fill an amount of compressed air enabling you to fill and swap magazines - but it won’t be capable of holding full HPA pressures and would have limited HPA shot capacity as the stored air decreases pressure with each shot (other typical gases generally go to a liquid state when filled under pressure in the magazine, expanding in their gaseous state as released to the firing chamber Dedicated HPA guns are designed from the start to operate with compressed air, and can have their nipple feed in a ‘convenient’ location These may have integral regulators embedded in the gun allowing for the cylinders standard output to be fed into the nipple, or as seen on most airsoft HPA systems in the classifieds need an inline regulator as well ensuring a lower operating pressure is delivered to the gun

Forget the tinfoil hat, to resolve your YouTube data harvesting you need to make a tinfoil faraday cage phone case. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Faraday-Cage That’ll fool them But on topic, as above an impact grenade with underarm throws in woodland is less likely to go off. Regarding a potential greater use of smoke over bangs, it’s generally down to the ‘effectiveness’ of the different forms of pyro. Even if a smoke cloud turns out to be ineffective (due to wind or just watching instead of using cover) it is at least pretty and gives an ‘atmosphere’. In the woods a general haze will hang in the air for longer Bangs just make a noise, and unless there is an elimination rule within a radius, or room/bunker clearance (and acted upon) then they are just noise. Noise can be a distraction, but often only truely an effective distraction in fairly enclosed areas - often just another noise in the woods among all the other skirmish noises Pyro can be fun though. If you’re enjoying (safely) playing with it then that’s what can make it worthwhile

Mounted on the top rail ….. with a rail mount In a similar manner to mine in the thread here: (The topic was about cameras but the pictures show both my camera and my light / push switch) The light is on a rail mount, the switch ended up as a combination of being ‘stuck’ with a Velcro command strip and an elastic band. I was planning on using chopped up bicycle inner tube but it was tight and the elastic was available Beware of over using your light. The light is best used while it is turned off Any switching on should be: 1) momentarily whilst being aware that it will attract shots 2) not silhouetting team mates - such as me when I sneaked into enemy HQ before being displayed by my team 3) to search a room for objects - when known to be safe 4) walking into / out of the game zone before / after the game

Whereabouts in the UK are you? A friendly neighbourhood member may be near enough to lend an hand (and become a new airsoft friend) For the cost of paying a tech to do the job, you could manage to buy a ‘good enough’ drill to do the job and still have it for future tasks (above members have highlighted the benefits of better tools, and extraction can be a worry - but care and some familiarisation with videos and ideally a practice run on something else will usually get the job done) There could be a local group such as Men’s Shed which are workshop facilities and could have someone willing to give the help to do something like this — complete with many ranges of tools and experienced problem solvers https://menssheds.org.uk/find-a-shed/ PS - Do of course think ahead about not just turning up with a gun looking thing ! Try contacting to ask, and then bring it in a case etc!

This was in the UK (Entrance hall of Army HQ) .. among a few different displays and was being demonstrated as an alternative to range time, being a lot cheaper, safer etc than the real thing and also cheaper than many of the other alternative trainer systems available to armed forces. The only key problem I saw for some would be the difficulty of use in numbers as a squad etc due to the sound of adjacent shooters Otherwise for singles or with spacing out / fine tuning microphone sensitivity can be a winner

The correct answer is no - as a general player you may not use P2 products Category P2 other pyrotechnic articles are pyrotechnic articles, other than fireworks and theatrical pyrotechnic articles, which are intended for handling or use only by persons with specialist knowledge. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1553/schedules/made#:~:text=Category P2 other pyrotechnic articles,by persons with specialist knowledge. Use as SFX by suitable persons under suitable circumstances can happen - but certainly not generally thrown around at a game A team mate had a ‘faulty’ Mk5 detonate immediately on striking, due to factory contamination * of the fuses & payload Luckily his glove ended up as the only casualty Pyrotechnics are explosives * Small print for those who know who we are - this was not one of our sponsors products

You may be joking, but it’s not very far from the potential of games like this There’s a card game that’s been worked on for a while by Paintball magazine, which has been in the works for a while ….. these can be played in many ways such as the dedicated PBM team vs team card game, as Top trumps etc Always good to see people coming up with ideas to build upon our hobbies https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02bPaoBgXqxKL8FkyPTgDTFXeEnexKsb6zu58G8b3MVZxGt9uR9kYw599ekYQNw2xwl&id=100063673315473

I had a go a short while back on demonstrations of the MantisX dry fire system. It worked fairly well demonstrated on airsoft, though it didn’t manage to pick up every shot and misfired from background noise - they were running a pistol, rifle & prone sniper rifle and with two or three people shooting at once we were triggering each others microphone sensors To run it you need your chosen weapon, the app, a smartphone and a mount to clamp the smartphone on the gun Specialist mounts can be used but other phone clamps can be found https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mantisx-pistol-rifle/id1050791268 https://mantisx.com

Youngster BTEC diploma & certificates in Business studies at Salisbury college of technology between 1984 & 1987 I don’t recall Nietzsche on the business curriculum …. Though that didn’t necessarily mean discussions in college and random parties didn’t involve ‘philosophical’ pretension in order to ‘impress’ Wig & Quill bar staff

Depending on your specific location, Super5ives in Portsmouth ought to be within 2 hour. They have just relocated to bigger premises https://www.facebook.com/Super5ives I don’t think that they have posted up their ‘full’ relaunch date yet, which should be in the Spring - when that is fully there should be more to cast your eyes over in the showroom.

There are a lot of factors that have an effect on the physics of a ball being propelled out of a barrel FPS is the velocity in ‘Feet per second’ of the projective, normally measured at the point of exit from the barrel Joules are the measurement of the energy, and are calculated using the velocity and weight of the projectile (Chronographs measure the velocity and particular chronographs can be set to display a joules value based on set weights of BBs Beginning with the initial force imparted in the chamber from the spring and cushion of air, the projectile then accelerates along the barrel but also has friction resistance along the way. It seems to be common sense to assume that as the energy being put into the BB is the same, that a heavier BB would be slower (taking more force to push the heavier weight) and resulting in the same energy coming out - but in reality the combination of everything can vary the results - and ‘joule creep’ becomes a term - that by changing one factor (the BB) can result in a greater resultant energy as the BB exits the barrel ……….. Loose (overbore) / tight (underbore) / matched bores all have their own effect inside the barrel ……. And then even the flight can have different experiences My world is paintball, and we have those who swear by all of over/under/matched bores - and then we have different circumstances on how the paintball itself acts in the barrel - With overbore a paintball could float on a cushion of air or bounce around - some of the air is ‘wasted’ but still contributes to how the ball flies With underbore a paintball could be squashed (and if excessive can break) - when the paintball squeezes its way through the barrel all of the air behind it contributes to the energy imparted ……. No matter whether it’s a plastic BB or a gelatine paintball, the initial muzzle velocity is just the start (and is the metric that complies with the rules) The remaining velocity / energy upon impact varies based on its flight along the way. Which can also depend on how it went through the barrel and anything such as a hop up. The energy could be maintained in flight, or it could quickly drop. Optimum spin could maintain a ‘straight’ flight that hits (almost) where you pointed up to a set range then quickly drop, or you have a predictable curve that you need to compensate for at the targeted range - or it could just spray wildly in various random directions

You’re all mistaken, as per the original Rogers & Hammerstein version around 2:30 - 3:35 the word is cuss. (I’m a lucky cuss) It’s very unfair on the reputation of one of our highly respected Raymond Burns who has a career of almost 5 decades He’s 69 years old you know, a fine elderly gentleman who would never have had such a terrible word come out of the mouths of his generation ….

We have those helmet / respirator hooks as well, but she puts a different style of helmet on them …… and a clearer picture of a ‘corner shelf’ from someone else’s setup, being used to top for extra stability

Just because @Scubasteve89has discovered the desktop fittings, I’ll point out a couple of other options for fitting display systems …… I use grid walls at shows etc and we build them into various different setups. Outside in a gazebo we’ll use tall grid walls and zip tie them to parts of gazebo, inside we’ll have them both on the ground with feet and also mounted onto tables. For added stability we’ll make corner arrangements ziptieing and clamping grid walls to each other I can’t find a decent photo at the moment but also use ‘grid shelves’ which then get used to add stability around corners etc We don’t do this at shows, but if you have a fixed area and you can drill holes then there are hangers (combine hangers and feet if there’s space) A couple of traders have ‘door hooks’ that can be put over a display wall to hang grid wall The ones on the tables are about to be assembled and stood up, the wall hanging is a buddies mobile airsoft shop which some members may recognise

Exactly These things are good fun, the only problem is people

The third regulator that has been referenced is the existing tank (cylinder) regulator. You have: Cylinder filled to 3000psi or 4500psi Cylinders regulator default output in the region of 600psi to 850psi A dual splitter should go in at this point Then two seperate airsoft regulated lines feeding each RIF. For @snuffthese would be at 60psi and 80psi to suit each RIF If the player is using two RIFs with matching pressure then it could be cheaper to rearrange with only one airsoft regulated line before the splitter. But this would need to be tested to ensure that regulating down to the operating pressure before splitting does not ‘starve’ either RIF during refresh when firing If you’re shooting only one RIF at a time then it shouldn’t matter, and if you’re shooting single shots or small bursts with a pause then it shouldn’t matter If you are shooting on a sustained basis or shooting on a dual basis then both RIFs would be drawing upon the same air for regulated line (though drawing upon a larger capacity due to the added length of the split. In this case you are relying on the refresh rate of the last regulator to sustain the operating pressure as quickly as required for the pair of RIFs It will either operate without any issues or it will risk starvation when insufficient pressure has been restored for the next shot

This links into something that sparked a conversation recently. We play a game and therefore don’t have the real life worries of being wounded or killed - we just pop back up again following respawn I played CQB a couple of months ago, and the end result was a battered body with a large grin. During one of the games I was lasting a matter of seconds - running in the door and mostly getting shot, turn around back to the door, compose myself, gather a handful of players and repeat with the objective of trying to get a couple of us through Contrast this one extreme with the other extreme when I first played events over 15 years ago Respawn was at either end of the field: Game on Two teams meet in the middle You get eliminated Walk all the way to the back of the field, then return to the middle I quickly became very adverse to being shot, and unless needing to reload etc via the safe zone then there’s the temptation to walk back a bit then turn back in game Put in appropriate game rules for spawns etc and I think that takes away one motivation for cheating (some people will cheat anyway) At one of our events we tried out a medic rule with punch cards Players had the choice of putting their hand up and walking to a respawn point (a marshal within a reasonable distance) Or laying on the ground calling for a medic Instead of most medic spawns I’ve seen with the medic staying close enough to combat but trying to preserve themselves I was watching medics crawl almost to the brink of a ridge to punch the card of eliminated players We found it successful and a useful tactic for faction leaders, but something we have only used the once to keep it for certain circumstances

Anyone can use any name they wish, the only legal issue is an attempt to deceive A waiver signed is just as valid whether signed in your birth name, an alias or as Mickey Mouse

We had a tree surgeon on the team - butter, but with the common sense not to climb up trees to play shooting games When working he would be wearing the safety gear, harness etc, but if needed would shimmy straight up a tree - which was needed more than once when some clever dick would throw an objective prop up a tree. He did once nip up a free as a favour for the site with saw and without harness - the expected happened when he fell out but only resulted in bruising and a limp ……….. Stating the obvious, but players should not be up trees and anything other than screaming from staff to get down now is calling for a public liability case

EN166B is likely to be acceptable, but is a lower level of impact protection than EN166A ….. but if you run down the thread as below you may not be able to get lenses at that standard

But I’m still jealous that you saw a live one

Exactly this For function over form in airsoft look at the speedsofters. The general gun look is inspired by looking like guns. The existence of stocks and their standard position in real guns is there to minimise the shift caused by recoil - following the line down to the barrel, and snug in the shoulder This offsets your line of sight and has an impact on how you can move the gun. An ergonomic paintball gun retains a form of stock via the air cylinder as the point of contact still provides stability and grip. But it doesn’t have to be a classic stock wedged into the shoulder. A curved fibre wrapped cylinder allows it to be ‘rolled’ in the shoulder and also the gun angled over in front of the face - making you a smaller target and putting the point of aim to in front of your eyes instead of needing to lean your head over to the point of aim The grip pretty much remains as is - this part of a gun is designed around human hands, but specific grip types vary. An obscure paintball grip angled forwards, which was partially novelty value and partially ergonomics - but it didn’t take off well as it was different than the ‘norm’. See the example below with the extreme of the Z frame and a ‘kick up’ ‘drop backward’ (similar to a ‘drop forward’ but reversed - a drop forward would allow a cyclinder to be fitted, lowered down and pushed forward which give a ‘better’ position making the combination shorter and easier to angle in front of the face) As with bull pups the trigger grip doesn’t have to be physically behind the chamber. It doesn’t even have to be a trigger, a switch will do - see also attached This was ‘easy’ to point and shoot with a button - but he found it very tiring holding up his arm with the 100 round Qpod also on his arm, though the air source was via a remote line. An airsoft edition would be more compact, could be all one unit and much lighter - but still involve holding your arm up most of the day - handy for a sneaky assassin type

Full face means just that - cover the full face. In airsoft there isn’t an established eye protection standard, in paintball the standard is full face protection Paintball began with random eye protection (most commonly workshop goggles, but also snow goggles etc) and a gentleman’s agreement to not shoot at the head. When losing teeth players attached an extra cover The accepted paintball standards are for eye protection (the lens) with appropriate impact protection, plus a seal around the eye area. Added to that in the goggle standards are full face cover (subject to head size), ear cover plus chin strap Site insurance & accompanying risk assessments/mitigaions specify full face goggles, to international standards and unmodified (Chin straps get discarded, but for up to one year the requirement was enforced at tournaments due to a set of goggles being flipped and a barrel stabbed into the players face just below their eye —— and then were promptly forgotten) The general minimum airsoft eye protection is based on impact, and it’s common to see glasses style eye protection. For under 18s the insurance etc require full face protection, and permit ‘responsible adults’ to decide by themselves Its a matter of site policy whether two part upper & lower are acceptable or a full goggle I recommend a full goggle - and I’d prefer the same for adults. No single goggle is suitable for all. They should be tried on for fit and comfort There’s no need to spend £££s on the ‘best’ premium goggle. My favourite & most comfortable goggles that I have put on are a unique design but are not legal anywhere and have never made it to full production My favourite goggles that meet standards are VForce grills, and I have a few pairs My second favourite goggles are the very basic VForce Armour which disappeared when on loan and the Sly/Valken annex - they are cheap with hard plastic but they fit my head just right and are very comfortable To keep things simple and acceptable at any site a paintball style goggle will comply, whereas an upper plus lower may or may not be accepted by different sites