Tactical Pith Helmet

Second hand set of clubs from the charity shop £15, bag from same £5, and practice on the school field after the kids have fucked off home, £8 a round at my local ancient uncared for site... OR £2K on clubs alone and £100 per hour lessons, sky's the limit club fees etc. I use the same DAM rod that my grandfather bought me for my ninth birthday, along with the tacklebox and seat that my dad got me for he same event. £150 a year ticket at one of the county's best waters. Or you could do marlin in the Caribbean and pretend to be Hemmingway for Christ knows. Anyhow, airsoft. Like George I play once a month but March to October filmsim or milsim (350 mile round trip so £80 diesel plus £75 ticket). Skirmish a few times in the winter. Much prefer to get away properly once a month and truly unwind, but then Mrs TPH travelled a lot for work in her earlier youth, so family hols are not required, and since we play together with our lad, and sometimes our daughter, it is family time. Leaving the heavy theory out of it. If you decide to learn new lessons when undertaking the same task, you'll get more out of it. Apply it to hobbies and they don't get stale. Complex airsoft games employ so many skills that I doubt I've enough life left to exhaust them even if I did develop them.

'King Penguin. A particularly annoying penguin.

Paid £80 each for two in my last TG pre-Brexit mega purchase. £50 for six mid-caps from HK though.

I bought a £10 single shot DE shotty from TG. It shot about 400fps on a .20. I unscrewed the body, held it apart with a stick (the front was glued together) and cut two coils off the spring. Dead on 340fps first time. Shitty self tappers just about held on putting it back together. Still have it years later as a back up, back up rif in the gun bag in case the lad forgets to pack my gnu for a post work night game again... Don't think I'd charge £40 odd quid for doing so...

My girlfriend set fire to all her outstanding bills. Her name's Bernadette...

I've had a set of this for years and years. I actually have two large packs for mine and thus equipped use it for hiking/camping etc. You need to get the inner, padded hip belt to make it comfy. The plastic tags inside will hurt like billy-o otherwise after a days game especially if it's a touch loose. I scavenged my extra pouches from a set in Hooper's Surplus in Norwich. They are very helpful, give them a call and see what they have left. Flecktarn UK also had a decent selection of bits, but these are no longer sold by the German govt. as they feared the diplomatic fallout from Kurdish militias buying them and issuing them as kit. A German filmsim team snap up what appears on E-Bay quite often, but dig and bits can be found.

My Wife says I am putting on a lot of weight. In my defence I've had a lot on my plate recently

I think that UKARA 'proves' that you skirmish and therefore qualify to use a realistic imitation firearm. You can prove this in other ways too, provided that the seller of the rif that you want to buy from is reasonably certain that you are genuine. That is of course 'reasonably' convinced in the legal sense. The seller may be your local site, who know damn well that you have played there for years but do not have UKARA. If challenged by the plod, they could show bank statements showing that you have paid for games, and attest that you played them. My son does not have UKARA. I could sell him a rif based on the receipts for games paid for by me for him, and numerous pics of him playing at registered sites. How I understand it anyhow. Possibly wrong. Too pissed to be near a PC tbh, but we'll see in the morning.

I hear that Manchester is being demolished and rebuilt seventy miles south. It's cheaper than finishing HS2...

I had a great joke about inflation last year. But it’s hardly worth it now.

This annoyed the fuck out of me when I first played, then I adopted Shamal's attitude and enjoyed the game much more. In milsims/filmsims etc, you'll get a much higher standard of play, but not necessarily much squad work; that tends to come with teams. I've played with a couple of teams that have rolled up the opposition all day long, and it's still been a good game. What milsims and the like do though is increase comms a lot. That tends to get you into squad work territory, and squads will work within them. Spot one and join in if you can. In airsoft, basic leadership and direction will often win. Well lead fireteams are a miracle. Most games I play are filmsim and I use an LMG. Mrs TPH acts as my rifleperson. Obviously, we know how to communicate between each other! We play as a team of two within a main team of however many. We attach ourselves to players that we know have a clue as a squad. Good game pretty much guaranteed.

Just visited Argentina. No where as hot as I'd expected. Close to Chile to be honest.

'My local football team are off the the south of France this weekend. ' 'Toulouse?' 'Probably, they're bloody rubbish..'

Just tried to change my password to beef stew. My PC said it wasn't stroganoff

Jesus wept Dan. 🤣🤣🤣

A lorry load of Vics has crashed on the M25. Luckily it's not caused any congestion

What's 'lightweight' to you my friend? Lightweight elephant gun is different to lightweight airpistol... My lightweight go-to is a G&G M4 Combat Machine. When I fucked my back up a couple of years ago, I couldn't even think of playing with the LMG. The old back up G&G came into it's own. I even bought a CQB version for with magwell grip for an even shorter hold. Hi-torque motor, rotary hop and ML, with a tightbore barrel and away you go and go, and go and go... No longer a bargain though with the DE being much higher spec!

I used them once and had an issue with a rif. I haven't bought anything from them since and won't ever again.

Can anyone remember that joke that I told you about the chiropractor? I told it about a weak back...

The new VW Passat can go from Berlin to Warsaw in just one tank. Nothing to shout about really. My Great Uncle Hans did the same thing about eighty years ago!

My lad uses a 45deg red dot rather than the irons that he fucked around with. TBH, at true CQB range, sights are hardly needed. It's point and shoot purely IMHO.

Whoever said technology will replace paper has obviously never tried to wipe their arse with an iPad.

We can only hope that some tit doesn't decide to play in a Wagner loadout hoping to claim some kind of theatrical/themed game defence and a bit of public notoriety. 'It's a character in a game, I don't support them in real life,' type thing. There's sometimes idiot willing to engage in puerile edgelord shit. A separate point is that there are quite a few Chinese cheapo skull, and also crossed daggers patches around. Fail the attitude test and an officious copper could make a case that you were representing the logo minus the writing. I suppose it's another example of needing a single well briefed airsoft organisation to speak to the media in case of individual idiocy. I'm not a fan of this type of law. I'd rather fools outed themselves to social ridicule than expose us all to the risk of legal sanction/restriction.