Tactical Pith Helmet

I have an astigmatism and suffer from the dreaded hyperhidrosis too. Contacts for astig are a thing and work fine. I actually tried non-astig (read cheap) lenses and the difference is minimal as long as I don't want to read/focus up very close. Certainly fine for airsoft. Worth a punt if you order them online. I have to use mesh, as even the best goggles with Cat Crap applied and a fan get covered in sweat even if they don't fog. Sweatbands do work. Take at least three, dry them/hang them on your mirrors as you drive home as they start to stink. Instead of a beanie/cap etc, wear a crocheted prayer cap. Seriously, they come in khaki/OD/black etc and camo the head whilst being really cool. Cost a couple of quid on Ebay. I use webbing, but you can get plate carriers that use water carrying plates that can be cooled and used as hydration bladders too.

I'll be running an RPK and PAVN kit. Sniping as VC is brilliant. Harassing the US is great fun. I usually run as support in a two riflemen, one support and one sniper fire team. All depends who shows up though. Shame you can't stay for the evening. The beer fuelled game post-mortem is a real laugh.

Get the NGRS and a TM sidearm. You only live once. Why fuck about with enjoying yourself? Since you don't actually need a pistol; choose what the hell TM you like. I use a 1911, but my lad has a G18C that he neglects horribly and never cleans. I've scraped the gunk out of it once since 2016, and it still performs spot on. You can get a £100 rif to perform wonderfully, but you need a real affinity with tinkering, or a good tech. The CYMA M14 for example can perform magnificently, but the V7 gearbox is horrid.

I agree. Which game are you going to? If you are off to Luton give me a shout if you like. Plenty of room round our campfire.

I enjoy those filmsim games immensely, for exactly the reasons that you give. I enjoy skirmishes but do like a bit more complexity. I enjoy milsim but a lot of players move with all the grace of an elephant and the speed of a sloth with a broken leg. They can end up a bit larpy tbh. Signing up for a 24 hour game and the opposition all bed down for six hours is crap. Doing the full immersion bit during the day, a few beers round the campfire at night and then go again next morning is the perfect mix; for me at least.

Thanks fellas! Tazball looks like the one to go for. Four hours round trip is a bit much for tiddlers, I may have to go on my own. Oh well...

Anyone recommend a site within a couple of hours drive of Glencoe? We are staying there in October, and will be equipped with two young nieces who would love to play their first games of airsoft. A slower paced woodland site would be preferable.

Funny old day today. Went for our usual run around Tuddenham for Filmsim, which is my favourite type of game tbh. We were assigned a chap who I have milsimed with in the past at cold war games. He certainly knew his stuff, and set out a clear game plan and assigned people tasks if they wished. The game was fairly simple and based on some console game I think. At least the kids all knew what the teams were supposed to be about any how. The standard of gameplay was brilliant, the scenarios well briefed, the marshalling was excellent (what little was required) and bar someone with the mother of plate carriers being truly oblivious to being hit, there were no problems at all. I loved sneaking through the scrub and finding the enemy, got some hilariously lucky shots through bushes and got some good long range shots walking the M4 in like a mortar. Having a contact lens fall out as I ran full pelt (lumbered quickish might be more accurate...) was weird. My shooting was well off with one eye seriously short sighted. What was strange was the lack of aggression on our team. Breakthroughs were unexploited, pushes fizzled out and a few times the three or four players that did push up were friendly fired. It didn't dampen the day for us at all, but I expect that it may have done if someone were ultra competitive. Odd as the onsite team were full of energy and the other side really enthused. Really glad I went despite the crap weather. Don't think I've ever had a bad day here tbh.

A very good book for mental health is De Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy. Kabat-Zinn's stuff is very practical meditation work, complete with CD practice guides, that has been clinically tested. Very cheap second hand.

Good precise info! I can't offer the same, but I can vouch for Blitz Bio BBs. I accidently bought four or five bags a couple of years ago. The boy left a couple of packets open and in sunlight. Not his fault in part as the ziplock had come unglued. But leabing them out of the drawer was bloody silly. Anyhow, I found them again and used the incorrectly stored ones today. Not a malfunction, jam in any of the RIFs used. They shot as consistently as anything else too. I had written them off after all the horror stories but they performed fine. I didn't see one deformed/swollen BB at all.

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy_files/files/publication/120322_Zhao_ChinaAfghan_web.pdf Decent read on China and Afghanistan. Kenya? The Mau Mau were defeated by a brutal campaign that saw up to 300,000+ Kikuyu in concentration camps being brutally and systematically tortured. Elkin's Britain's Gulag and Histories of the Hanged by Anderson are essential works on the subject if you are interested.

We are simple creatures. Try and find a way to reward yourself for getting out of bed and achieving an exercise goal. For example, if I get my arse out of bed and exercise for three mornings a week, I eat a stupid amount of chip shop food on a Wednesday lunchtime (minus the chips) as I have time off. I mean about two portions of fish, fishcakes, sausages, spring rolls, onion rings, mushrooms, pickled eggs, curry sauce, cod roe, mushy pea fritters etc. In terms of calories in and out I am well ahead, but having avoided crap all week, my complete stuffing my face with a couple of glasses of red and a snooze is well enjoyed. Indeed, I am so rammed that I sometimes next eat Thursday evening. I dare say that you are not as gluttonous a bastard as I, so perhaps something else will tempt you from the fart sack, but essentially find a carrot as it were. Secondly find a stick. I think of a relative that died from complications from diabetes. It helps get my arse out of bed. Third set goals. Small goals each day/every other day, plus perhaps a final goal. Fourth, get support. Having others around you who back you up is priceless. Fifth, find an exercise you like. If you enjoy something, the carrot, stick, goal and possibly support is there all at once.

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/dramatic-moment-police-shoot-paedophile-135300824.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sb2dpbi5hb2wuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIzK_EKvgQUv38p2jDuDeaqCVhoqC59nAcmbt5Gsywsm9bK0okVC7kn2ErKMmnvvZt-6JAv21ky2a81VeVedh9x745YG93sP702J6Z-ks2IojHvMGiYWLruh8TThqZOrQYFb6dRFcAVvE2K80tN00h4ubzvFX4kIjDE92ZP4h3mD Hats off to the firearms officer.

Stella on your cornflakes and a nice eye opener of scotch and the world is a better place... 😂

Absolutely cream crackered the past week. Still training every day, but by fuck, the willpower needed is not easy. One reason that airsoft is so good for you is that you don't realise the sheer effort involved in throwing yourself about like a loon. Press ups whilst morning coffee brews are far harder...

There are belt mounted shotgun butt holsters designed for 8lb guns. They do work. They shouldn't mind, and I expect that clay shooters are a bit less active than airsofters. https://amspro.com/product/long-gun-holster/

Some shitty little weasel from UPS rang me once, and asked what UKARA meant in my address. He explained, as though conversing with a re-tread, that their driver had become confused by the 'UKARA bit of the address.' If my parcel did not arrive, 'it was down to incorrect addressing.' I enquired why UPS seemed to have a monopoly on UKARA imports if the monkeys in the office were unaware what the UKARA number signified. A few minutes of back and forth ego fuelled bullshit ensued from said over empowered millennial followed by a declaration that the UKARA number was superfluous, 'and should be ignored and henceforth never added to an address ever again, 'if I expected the parcel to be delivered.' ' UPS then, having the address info as requested, delivered the parcel a few doors down. Since the parcel was being delivered to my work address, and I was exporting gear to oil drilling exploration sites in the middle of nowhere in North Africa, I was unimpressed. Pre-2012 Libyan customs made the UK look Neanderthal... I don't think it's got much better TBH.

It needs cocking for each shot. It's a waste of time. Personally, I wouldn't purchase anything from that place ever again. Have a search on here for beginner rifles. Plenty of advice as it's a question that's often asked!

A lad who worked for me had to put weight on for health reasons. He used full fat milk, Mars bars and avoided fibre. I think (it was a while back) that he had an issue with a rapid as fuck metabolism, so may be a very different case for your good self. Usually if people want to gain they use bulk up shakes/high protein diet and high weight low rep circuits/weight routines. Seriously though, don't fuck about with big weights if you haven't had an instructor tell you how to lift correctly. You can seriously damage yourself for the sake of a £20 lesson. If you have the dedication, time and no money, get Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson from the library. Whole body strength routine with no equipment.

I used to export to Asia and North Africa. The hurdles grew ever higher. Anyhow... talking to old mates in shipping, you are not far wrong. The hang up of refrigerated shipping in south America doesn't help either. A hell of a lot of shipping is stationary and someone has to pay.

Get an Eaglemoss pocket watch for less than a fiver. Brilliant timepiece and bb proof in your pocket.