Tactical Pith Helmet

Our local bakery is expanding and hiring more staff. They have many roles that need filling.

Amazing game again at Diggers Namsoft themed game in Kent. A little down on numbers perhaps this year and a small decline in green machine players. A shame that work and weddings seem to clash with the important things in life! Anyhow, arrived on Friday feeling wiped out due to lack of sleep, but soon felt good relaxing with mates old and new. |Met a few new faces at their first game. I did wonder if a whole weekend of airsoft would stagger them but they were young and full of vim as they used to say. Bloody good relaxed night around the campfire was a good way to start a game weekend I think. Day one and each of three Aussie squads were put together. Each was given a particular mission. Ours was to patrol an area and search for VC. This was a win on their part as we never found them and they completed their objectives. We did keep busy and tbh, we needed the time to get into the swing of things. A shake up run was important to get people into roles within the group. It took a few minutes to get us all in order of march and to work out who was best point or tail end Charlie. The odd firefight with rapidly disappearing foes kept us alert to say the least. After three quarters of an hour, we were rushing out to fights on the Land Rover, being RPG’d, ambushed, and counter ambushing. It was spectacular fun and pretty exhilarating. The vehicles and array of weapons was excellent. I realised that I had a good kill to death ratio at one point, only to get marmalised for the next few fights. The afternoon was started with sounds of rockets and large flames as a simulated plane downing took place. Now we had a race to the crash site with the VC arriving first and putting up stiff resistance as they withdrew with both black box and pilot. Won the battle but lost the fight… A break for evening meal, and we were back in base at 7 o clock. As darkness fell, we had been frustrated by countless /VC sqauds appearing and having to be chased and (occasionally) engaged. The whole damn lot of them then attacked. Seriously, the night games at this event and Arclight have been the absolute best I’ve ever played. Really pulse pounding stuff and only luck denied the VC victory. A couple of grenades a few feet further and they would have overrun us easily. As it was I was not taken out until someone jumped atop the bunker I manned. Not sure if they did get my shirt sleeve with their pistol, but the audacity and speed that they showed were impressive and I took the hit whatever, sat back and watched the fight unfold as best I could. The landmines hidden at the base entrance gave couple of players a loud surprise. Another night under canvas and one of the best things about airsoft was evident. I had a few beers with a chap I would never have normally met, but which revealed a similar life in similar family and work circumstances a mere continent away; eye opening stuff and another face to add to the people to have a beer with. Swapping home cooked food was good too. Went to bed full of single malt, aged brandy, fine cigars and top notch grub various corners of the world. Sunday was a raid on the VC camp to retrieve both box and pilot. A most intense firefight that lasted almost two hours left us exhausted and hot but victorious. It also left us embarrassed as several people had left and the VC were only about a third of our number… I’ll resist the temptation to bang on any more. I had a seriously good weekend again, with top notch players, no no hit calling, arguments or any other unwelcome bollox. A full twelve hours or so full on airsoft with vehicles, fireworks, mines, RPGs, a tight rule set and good playing standards, and had good time after game pigging out with friends. Top quality and I can’t wait until the June game at Eversley. I prefer a top quality game weekend once a month with the odd day skirmish to the fortnightly skirmish that I did for years. More sites, better playing standards and a great social.

Bought several things over the years. Always top notch.

I drag a fucked leg around. Given enough meds and willpower it can still work-ish. I can sit at home in pain or get out and enjoy life. As to eyes... when motorcycling or airsofting I have double+ eyepro. Glasses, tinted visor plus actual visor on the bike. Double lensed full seal goggles and contacts for airsoft. I figure that BB shrapnel is better embedded in a lens than my eye if the lenses fail. I still enjoy martial arts, boxing etc, and a detached retina is a risk in many of the things that we enjoy. I wear eyepro sparring these days. No real reason not too. Take it sensible and do what you love. If it helps I can recommend Uvex goggles. . I drilled a series of holes in a pair of ancient Uvex goggles and put a 40 Mike into them at 6". I then shot them with a bolty at 480ish fps. The sniper marked the lenses but they held up 100%. Fucking tough and inexpensive. If you are worried about cheek strikes a fencing style mask may be the thing. Good luck finding your personal solution!

The window cleaner is outside the house swearing his head off. He's completely lost his rag.

If it's any omen, my wife fell in love with my v-twin tourer immediately. She never quite got the cafe racers funnily enough...

The original Drunken Master is a good flick. I spent a few years doing silly amounts of kung fu. Jackie Chan was genuinely good in his first film. Wish I was the same shape now as when I first watched it...

From memory of most of the older design Dukes from that era had the same probs that they always had - crap electrics, poor finish, flimsy plastics. The multistrada was a bit of a change in Dukes attitude to quality though. More modern design that shook off a few of the old problems. I know that SS models of that era still ate reg/recs and had a general aversion to water. A colleagues 900SL went through black boxes quicker than it wore out the tyres. The newer designed bikes had a far better reputation but still need regular maintenance as said above. A mate was told by Massimo Tamburini himself that regular oil changes were the key to long engine life in Dukes. They don't stand neglect. I'd be interested in it. But then I have an Italian bike in my garage already. It's worth the odd issue for the riding experience alone IMHO. You have a lot of fun for your money there if its been looked after.

Sad news that a young chef has been admitted to hospital after accidentally rubbing herbs into his eyes. Poor chap is now only parsley sighted.

I bought a less than a tenner spring shotgun from TG. It shot at about 400fps. I literally cracked it open (broke the glue) and it fired bits all over the place. Once we'd collected the bits the lad and I had a laugh reassembling it all together again and cutting the spring. It was like doing a 3D jigsaw puzzle in a half open matchbox. We got it shooting dead on 340fps and really consistent. Silk purse from sows ear as it were. Good luck with the pistol.

Slightly less shit and more informative pic. The lead is plugged into the top right socket as per the two cell setting on the diagram. Dig that classic B6 action.

You need different balance leads for batteries with different numbers of cells. You have I assume a two cell battery, so you need the littlest plug socket which has three metal prongs in it. Put the tiny arrow shaped things on the plugs lead into the slots provided in the socket. Here's a shit pic of mine plugged in properly: If you take a pic of your charger, someone will no doubt tell you where to stick the leads in etc.

Saw a really good radio at a bargain price today. The man in the shop said that it was half price as the volume switch was stuck. 'I can't turn that down,' I thought.

If they're sold as airsoft lipos you're fine. I found a big lipo for my support weapon and didn't realise that it was wired 'wrong' for aegs. I got bloody confused with my new charger at first. I found that the manual over complicated everything. Youtube vids made much more sense and showed how simple everything actually was.

Be careful buying batteries as I got caught out and confused by RC batteries when I first used Lipos. I did not know about swapping the connections round.

You not at Diggers on Saturday?

I went to the doctor today. The issue is that I can't pronounce the sounds F and TH. 'But I do my best to get by,' I told him. 'You can't say fairer than that,' he replied.

Sad news that a woman has died after an accident involving her obsession with taking her own picture alongside boiling kettles. Psychologists claim that she may have had serious selfie steam issues.

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

My clone B6 has behaved impeccably for years. I can get a whole day out of a 1000mAh LiPo no worries with the gun set to single shot burst. Stick with 7.4s. I use 1500s for most games, the cheapest on Evilbay. I tend to charge everything in a lipo bag, in my line of sight. Standard NiMhs are shite in comparison.

Canapé: a term describing a bankrupt Scotsman.

A sports therapist who lives near me has just been arrested for drug dealing. Just goes to show that you never really know a person. Five years I've been going to see him and I never even knew he was a sports therapist.

I've used security flathead bits as valve keys before now. Used very very carefully, but it was possible.

Bulldog are rebranded SRC I do believe. I think it's only the ETU model that is full auto only.

Cheers for the info. More food for thought. They always say 'don't look through a scope that you cant afford.' Sounds like the same may be true of milspec earpro... I'll add that I've an unused Zeiss scope in my wardrobe that I could never afford again, but have never put on a rifle. The minute I get rid of it I'll inherit a H&H from a long lost uncle though.