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Ask him what the police would do if they had a report about a man waving a shotgun around. Would they check if the address had a valid shotgun certificate and then not bother to turn up ?

Here’s a piece of history - the original modified jumbo holster ….. The donor leg holster was destitched and wrapped around a ‘pocket’ The ‘pocket’ was a sheet of acetate folded around the pistol, shaped & reinforced with black nasty gaffer tape and wrapped in a DPM off cut An extra strip of Velcro on top to secure over the grip Looking at the proper stitiching on the bottom of the DPM for the extra para cord thigh tie strap it looks like it was cut from DPM trousers and the para cord threaded through the ankle tie This was probably my last use of a drop leg system due to the addition of useless weight on my thigh. I quickly went to waist holsters

190/120 has potential …… now all you need to do is find some It could be the largest for some items but can go to 200/128 etc in others

The issue kit is sized to NATO specifications in cm with jackets Note that the size isn’t necessarily the dimensions of the garment but of the person it’s meant to fit, and what we would call a shirt in normal life is a light jacket and jackets are smocks. The shirt/jacket is worn over a t-shirt / under shirt and the smock is worn over the rest. So a smock will be bigger than the ‘matching’ shirt/jacket Shirts and jackets are sized as height* / chest Trousers are sized as waist / inside leg / seat (backside) * note that ‘height’ is the average persons height that it would go with rather than the length of the garment, and tends to dictate the arms and how far down the pockets are etc There are soldiers of various shapes & sizes so the range available in surpluses can vary - sometimes you get lucky on odd sizes ended up in surplus shops as new because it’s sat in a QMs store For those inside who can’t fit the range, or with a tailors modification there is a custom request form - so you could always sign up and get a set made Have a nose around on this to see if you have any prospects of being in the standard range: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/948535/s_1-6.pdf

There are quite a few versions of the ‘paintball’ holsters about at varying price ranges. Many of them come from the same factories with different brand labels, I’m not endorsing any of the specific links, but this one is the general type with a tan option which should go with MTP/multicam : https://amzn.eu/d/9QwOYER I’ve ended up acquiring a few over the years, beginning with a generic one when I began in paintball which I cut up to insert a plastic ‘pocket’ making a holster for the old style giant paintball pistols like these: I cut the stitching open, shaped it to size and then stitched it back up This type can ‘easily’ be modified for a shotgun etc, depending on your dexterity and strong needles An alternate is this style which wraps around in a ‘one size fits all’ style: https://amzn.eu/d/gpnuEE9 I was looking around for options as I plenty of shopping during Covid expanding my revolver/pistol collection and ended up with the wrap around style which will let me adjust rather than having just more and more specific customs for each combination: Edit - I didn’t realise that one would animate ! I’m now reminiscing more over the wasted CO2 for the slide action ‘feature’

Most sites around the country are woodland Back in the olden days there were ‘off world’ games going on trespassing in genuine disused buildings, but illegal and dangerous. You don’t need to these days As the emergency chimp says you can now legally play in both ex MoD sites and current MoD sites - it’s definitely much better to play in a current MoD training area with the facilities actually in use Current sites are leased by game organisers (at some expense!) and can get canceled / rescheduled if training needs change Airsoft has had ‘easier’ access to MoD sites as BBs can be swept up, in paintball it pretty much began with Swynnerton with the organisers paying for the additional time before and after for set up and clean up, but more sites became available when clear paintballs could be manufactured and there was a surge. With events in Afghanistan their were a few cancelled games and the novelty wore off a little There remain a couple of organisers still doing the odd MoD site paintball games Former sites are easier as a site can be established with regular games, and these last until the development market hits the right time for that location This gave us the Mall in Reading until it was developed and they have since taken on an alternative site Long standing players will say how much better it was, but these alternative locations do come and go, you just need to keep your eye open in the forums and be prepared to do some travel for the right game

It’s not only ‘education’ on financial awareness but situations can change, eg credit is perfectly fine at a manageable level until the pay packet is taken away or even with no credit commitments an emergency can break finances When the spiral occurs for whatever reason then it’s very easy to rapidly decline a mental state. Even with spiraling debt their can be a rush from spending on a nice shiney thing which you know is better spent on digging out a tiny step forward I’m comfortably off, am debt free other than a credit card which is the months diesel bill and sometimes hotel stays which gets cleared every pay day, and I’m usually ending up with more money left over than the previous month But there have been times that this hasn’t been the case I’ve had dark times which haven’t gone anywhere - it’s good to talk You need close friends that you can tell anything, but sometimes it’s a stranger that you turn to I’ve lost friends that could still be here today if only the right time happened, and I still have friends around that might not have come through to the other side

Safe zones are ‘safe’ Game zones are not ‘safe’ Appropriate eye protection is to be worn at all times outside of the safe zone, and not removed until in the safe zone All guns are to be made safe before leaving the game zone —— or the guns stay outside of the game zone. But people are dicks, whether there are 200 or 20 someone is going to shoot at ‘nothing’ Safety briefs belong in the safe zone, game briefs are best given in the safe zone, any ‘staging’ area brief needs to be very brief

UKARA is a central register of site membership. Im aware of a university airsoft club who were able to establish a recognised UKARA scheme for club members attending club games/events at multiple sites In theory management with multiple sites could be running a cross site membership scheme, which they could in theory track for UKARA status Playing at different sites with different management would be recorded seperately by those sites and would not qualify for UKARA purposes https://www.incursionairsoft.co.uk/epsom-cqb-bunker

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

It’s most likely ‘just’ the hose was originally slipped onto a nipple whilst warm and when cooled There should not be air getting all the way up the ‘ribbed nipple’ to arrive at the arrow mark There won’t be much to be done other than cutting the hose shorter and making another connection - which is bound to be too short and also less likely to get a good seal If it’s new then go back to the retailer, the line may get exchanged Whats the pressure range at that point? HPA isn’t to be sniffed at; but the ‘high’ is relative and the risks relate to the incoming and outgoing pressures. eg airsoft / paintball cylinders fill at 3000psi or 4500psi Have a leak at that pressure going to skin contact is nasty, and a sudden burst can send cylinders flying (there’s also something much more dangerous when shortcuts are taken when filling) Old school cylinder regulators dropped pressure to 800psi to 850psi More modern ones could be half that up to around 600psi/650psi You still don’t want that on bare skin and the cylinder can still be sent off spinning Inline regulators then come down to the lower hundreds of psi It still needs respect If it’s not new then consider buying a replacement hose or if confident about constructing a replacement hose A potential bodge is to ‘aid it’ with some heat shrink Cover the joint as well as you can, then warm the hose in warm water. Press it forward and then cool it (The hope here is to get back to the best seal) Make sure it’s fully dried Get some heat shrink, long enough to go back up the hose and onto the fitting - but not so far enough to effect the join Gently warm the heat shrink evenly Note that you’re trying to hold your original hose well rather than gaining any extra seal, but the shrink helping to hold in place as you guide the hose around your RIF (((Note that you lose any warranty and it could fail again later)))

Pictures would be needed The tubing/hose is factory fitted to foster components in a number of ways which are not generally user repairable. The Foster type of connection is metal to metal at the male/female connectors, and through the ‘working parts’ can have leaks resolved by taking apart and investigating / cleaning / replacing the seal But the hose itself can be on the back of a Foster component in many ways including a push to fit bayonet, a more complex crimping etc These usually cannot be ‘repaired’ outside of a workshop which would include cutting away the hose and redoing the connection - a whole new hose will usualy be cheaper and easier Don’t glue or wrap anything around it Put up some pictures and arrows to the problem area

It’s been many many years since I’ve been doing any of that running stuff. Back then I was able to do a warm up and would be able to keep going on water and perhaps some chocolate In more recent years I’ve found that if I power my body a bit better, hydrate and have some good electrolytes etc then my body isn’t broken after exercise …….. Onto the relevant part …. I tended to go for SiS products, usually making up the powder drinks from either a packet or the giant buckets For convenience I’m more likely to use the tabs dropped into a bottle of water Sometimes I’ll use gels for an easy booster - I prefer drinks due to the water, but gels are convenient to carry High5 do good packs, with a range of drinks & gels with packs aimed at runners, cyclists etc Part of the difference is the type of bottle, with a ‘running bottle’ that fits into your hand ‘better’ - but is smaller in capacity Have a look at your local Halfords, they will tend to have the cycle packs but have had often had discount prices It depends on what you prefer, but carrying gels while you run and grabbing water from ‘stations’ might work

No matter what you do with painting patches, even if you get a precise colour match with exactly the same original paint then it will be visible that it’s been patched Either go for a full respray (of at least that piece of the body) even if that means a couple of light coats on the patch and an overall top coat, or just over the patches as lightly as possible with a black of a similar ‘sheen’ An alternate is to go for a field expedient camo respray, in which case the current paint/patch become irrelevant Personally I prefer field expedient camo sprays over perfect factory finish patterns

You must be gutted ?

(And for the record - mine was by courier) Regarding the boxes Rocket…… Did you choose ‘box’ or ‘no box’ On the theory that perhaps ‘box’ means a phone style box and that you just got packaging boxes

An update from me I let @rocketdogbertbe the first Guinea pig then ordered after his update It’s journey was: Despatched 14/1/23 UK arrival / customs clearance 22/1/23 UK sorting centre 22/1/23 Local depot & delivery 23/1/23 I was out, but I received the delivery confirmation and promptly forgot about it until this afternoon Checked the status to see if it actually was confirmation or that it was on a van Found the photo, so had a peek in my glass recycling box Packaging remained fully sealed, indicating it just went through the motions at customs (perhaps with an X-ray) Unless it was a bulk delivery through customs and repackaged by the UK arm, but the timeframe points to it being a single package My box appears to differ from rockets I have an iPhone style box (so what - but it’s a nice storage box) The phone pistol, shells with integral springs, projectiles, and a ‘reloading’ press I used to collect ammunition components for someone I worked with, now I have my own reloading press 1)slot in empty shells 2) top that with the middle and slot in the projectiles 3) press on the third piece and have one failure Pop out the gun A top ‘rail’ slides back to open the chamber, the grip folds out Loading: two empty chambers insert two shells note the slide on the side, this slips the shells back & forward slightly Note the two recessed pins - they are the hammers for each chamber Shoot one - pew Shoot again - misfire shoot shoot shoot The hammers alternate Crawl on the carpet to find the second projectile Verdict - it’s not airsoft or paintball (strictly speaking with the far gone history of airsoft it’s similar to some of the predecessors I had back in the day) Its a novelty piece of fun Don’t be a dickhead and shoot someone’s eye (And for the record - mine was by courier)

Thingverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=Airsoft&page=1&type=things&sort=relevant

‘Young man’ may not be a suitable description when my dementia forgot Oracle Those will be worth a pretty penny, which I always think when I poke my nose in the attic seeing my Spectrum, QL etc boxes …… and then close the attic again as I won’t want anyone else’s sticky fingers on them

True certified digital signatures have been about for some time, but as the EvilMonkee says isn’t yet widespread on a personal basis - though I was using my personal one 15 years ago, and doubt it’s been put to use for much less than that, definitely more than a decade Old people may remember Ceefax, which was a form of internet on your TV, two way communication versions such as Prestel were used for some industries and dated back to the early 80s. Prestel didn’t pick up well here with dial up Bulletin Boards being preferred by British geeky types In France Minitel home terminals were distributed by a phone company as an investment to save on updates to printed phone directories, and stayed popular with its various online services. This lasted about 30 years in france, well into the internet age Faxes gained popularity about 10 years before Ceefax, Prestel, Minitel etc and has lasted for longer. Generally we won’t see faxes and will think to email instead but their value in transferring a tangible duplicate remains, complete with legal recognition where applicable I can forsee that even when personal digital signatures become widespread, that faxes will still have their niche areas for some time Before covid there was still a real fax in my office, but with a steady change across to personal Skype numbers we still had desktop phones. During Covid the phones left the desks, and only a handful remain as fall backs. I’ve still not even noticed whether or not the fax is one of them

The fax machine example here isn’t necessarily an airline clinging to old technology, particularly with this being Japanese airlines as fax machines remain prevalent in Japan, and that’s not the only country or industry A fax is a very good proven technology that makes a piece of paper physically arrive at a destination You don’t need a fax machine to send a fax, computers still have fax as a printer driver, and I still remember the day in the early 1990s that the IT systems manager ran upstairs with excitement that he heard the servers fax board kick in because I had discovered it as a print driver…… and my confusion - “Why wouldn’t someone use the fax driver? I don’t have to walk across the room to pick up a piece of paper from the printer, over to the other office to the fax, and then downstairs to the shredder room” (Though I do still love a good shredding session and it’s very sad to have less paper) A piece of paper popping out of a fax happens straight away, is visible and makes a noise You know it’s there and can pick it up instantly or you can leave it until you feel like grabbing the pile If it’s an email then someone has to look and act, they might open it not act and then it ends up forgotten, it could disappear into a junk box etc

….. yes, hopefully just unnecessary pedantism, for the benefit of the randoms who may find the forum without a common sense portion of the brain

Just a little comment about the term ‘disused x’, as a word of caution Back in the day there was a fair bit of paintball, airsoft (probably before it went 6mm, not sure of the 6mm era) and also other shooting such as airguning in ‘disused’ locations around the UK - trespassing and potential firearms offences. A few old hospitals were known to be used by trespassing players Other countries may vary their laws with regard to abandoned locations There’s very little of the UK that isn’t owned by someone Today the ‘disused’ places where you can legally play are ‘actually used’ - eg I would guess that the ‘disused Debenhams’ is actually the ‘former Debenhams that’s used as an air soft site’ in Reading These types of site are generally the landowner getting some income pending future development As opposed to a ‘disused Debenhams’ such as we have in Salisbury for which was broken into last year by a drug addict who subsequently assaulted a friend of mine in her shop when trying to find a way through to the back of her shop to get back around the other side of the disused Debenhams This closed Debenhams is pending it’s next life Many if not most of the Army/Defence training areas that air soft can be played at are actually still current in the Defence training estate - event organisers hire the land to run the event eg Swynnerton, Sennybridge, Copehill Down. The major benefit is you play on the ‘real’ facilities, and (most) continue to be invested in and further developed. Defence gets income and can buy new toys Their contracts include cancellation clauses in case military training takes the date off them Some are sold as annexed areas beside active sites. Bought by sites or landlords and leased to site owners. Others are entire former camps The benefit being that your date doesn’t get cancelled, but taxpayers aren’t updating the facilities anymore

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Tell us more Did it just come as the standard random Hong Kong post, and slip thorough easily or anything flagged for question etc?