Tactical Pith Helmet

Good on you. Glad you had a good time.

You're too old when they nail the lid down. One chap won gold for his shooting at the 1908 Olympics, aged well over 70.

Indeed a highpoint that we have never again reached. Since the Esbjerg ferry is freight only post-Brexit, perhaps this provides inspiration for your route Jacob? Don't worry about all the pettifogging detail with papers etc. Just flash 'em your Union Jack Y-fronts and land where you damn well please.

Obviously if armed with the correct grade Coleman moustache, one could indeed go all Bulldog Drummond and simply thrash some respect for the Queens subjects into the blighters.

So... This is (I think) the form that you have to complete and submit to the local authority of the area of Germany that you enter the country through. This means points of entry both in and out. https://www.bva.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Buerger/Ausweis-Dokumente-Recht/Waffenrecht/Einzelerlaubnisse/antrag_mitnahmeerlaubnis.pdf;jsessionid=D8B3B602DD4F0D6F5D756BF54DA7466C.internet281?__blob=publicationFile&v=2 The areas are listed here: https://www.zoll.de/SharedDocs/Boxen/EN/Fragen/0049_waffenrechtlich_zustaendige_verwaltungsbehoerden.html?nn=202352&faqCalledDoc=202362 You will need flight numbers, travel times and your passport info. Looking at other peoples experiences of attending, you can expect to get pulled up to 130km of the border by the border police. I expect the lurid headlines make airsofters an attractive arrest. Slinging rifs in the boot and hoping is an unwise move. Apologies if these end up being wrong, my German is poor schoolboy standard. One could replace the spring and get power down to sub .5J but if they find the replacement spring and it is changeable 'within three operations' then you are screwed. Avoiding Germany by land adds 600 miles and about 12 hours travel time.

Do the paperwork and the road trip still looks possible. https://www.zoll.de/EN/Private-individuals/Travel/Entering-Germany/Restrictions/Weapons-and-ammunition/weapons-and-ammunition_node.html?fbclid=IwAR2k5h7Ydw9g4oqExMq4az8z97pppM1DWSVUyfFk592uuXATfHDKoM4qybE Softair waffen need an F-mark. https://www.tag24.de/nachrichten/regionales/nachrichten-bayern/waidhaus-neun-franzosen-muessen-softair-waffen-der-polizei-uebergeben-bayern-a6-kontrolle-1646840?fbclid=IwAR1gIG6jZ4AkWMdTiUtzgPbmY-yCFZMfJfUmc6rZpdrkdizVFS5R2tuY-0A

You're right mate. Its NVG only. TBH, much as I love thermal, I have more experience with NVG.

Googling theT10 and 12 I came across this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/10043027458?iid=184934494754 Seems to have limited range, but then so do we.

We had to rearrange a trip to Poland a few years back as we were travelling with 12ft-lb airguns for a competition (6ft-lb limit in Germany). The German plod had warned us that they were fully aware of the world championships being held in Poland and that they would be looking to stop coachloads of competitors. The coach firm developed cold feet about the whole deal too. No-one fancied being nicked for a firearms offence understandably. If you look at it from Herr Constable's point of view, having 40-50 people per coach casually carrying unlicensed rifles through his patch is a bit of a piss take. Having said that... I expect that UK orders from Poland often arrive via road. Belgian police certainly have a reputation for stopping 4x4s in shooting season and having a look at your paperwork. Although if you're dressed for a day in the field and have your gundog with you I suppose you stand out fairly easy.

https://shop.nvuk.co.uk/nightvision-spotter NVUK are legends in their own minor way. Their kit is cheap and sturdy. You can build an NV kit for abut £80 if you have a parallax adjustable scope. Using the illuminator is not always necessary depending on light conditions. In any event, I wouldn't think to much about running.

Looks a cracking game. I've sent the link to mates that play. Driving would make sense and fill the van up at TG if it were not for having to get across the German border.

Minute of urchin is fine accuracy for airsoft but alas, slotting the lumpen proletariat with a 5.56 is another casualty of the namby pamby nanny state that we all live in these days.

The chap above beat me to making the same comment. On another note. That's one well proportioned car engined trike if thats what I can see in the tiny thumbnail.

Electrolysis did have a moderate effect for me, but botox injections every six months were an incredibly painful improvement. Beta blockers help.

The FLIR is an amazing thing to use. At night you can see just how much life is around you without you usually noticing. It allows you to track and spot animals that you can then locate visually. It's great for spotting blood from game animals. It's great for spotting squirrels and rabbits that you don't suspect are there. Zeroing with a thermal is fun. You have to heat a nail with a blow torch as the target! I expect that you would use it the same way for airsoft ish. Certainly you could light up a sniper otherwise well hidden.

As long as they're quality BBs such as Bulldog piss yellow .12s you'll be fine.

Shoot the heaviest BBs your hop lifts and you can/are prepared to afford as a rule of thumb. Nothing wrong with any of the previous advice, in fact it's damn good, but I find it comes down to this in practice. I use .28g in most stuff and .30 in my DMR. Then again I am lazy...

I bought some unbranded things from e-bay a few years ago. I simply bought the cheapest listed. They still work fine. I use mine each game with no probs touch wood. If they had been complete dogshit, I'd have sent them back. Several times I've bought plastic items from China for peanuts, only to have them arrive bearing an expensive brand name.

'It can be a dangerous place...'

As a purveyor of airsoft tuning bits that actually knows what the fuck you're on about, I would say 'almost uniquely odd' at the very least. 😜

Very true! Not sure how I didn't think of those. I only own four of the things and got another one today...

TBH you don't really know what you want until you've played a bit. You also need a back up rifle. If you buy a cheap basic starter rif, you can learn the game and have a play with other people's rifs in game. That will probably tell you what you want to buy as a 'serious' rif. You can then keep the starter as a spare. Be warned though. A proper big boys rif will probably be twice the weight of a basic Combat Machine, four times the price, and only be half as reliable. TBH, I only know one airsofter with only one rif, and he is a seriously odd dude.

Watch yourselves. That's Salma Hayek right there...

That would be useful. It would give an idea of how much work goes into getting different finishes. Top job.