Tactical Pith Helmet
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The Healthy Airsofters Thread
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to PopRocket123's topic in General Discussion
I do internal style martial arts and have started boxing recently. I find that skipping and punchbag work are as good for cardio as running but a lot easier on the injured leg, whilst taiji keeps joints healthy and supple. High rep, low weight weight lifting is good stuff too, and dirt cheap if you get a kettle bell from LIdl or similar! Food wise, I'm on a low carb high protein diet with no sugar. I do enjoy a low fat scotch of an evening, but mix it with water rather than lard or cola, so it is basically an isotonic sports drink. The advice I would give is to spend on protective gear as you would in airsoft. Decent trainers if you run, decent gloves if you strike. I've too many injuries to list due to duff gear. The thing I find difficult is eating early enough. If I eat a huge healthy breakfast I'm set up for the day, but rarely actually do. I start the day with this ultra quick work out and then a few minutes with the medicine ball. -
Apparently, North Korea now has a missile that can hit New York. Frightening stuff. If it can make it there, it can make it anywhere.
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Had some new boxing gloves delivered today. Got some new hand wraps too.
Got home from work at midnight and went out into the back garden all excited to do some heavy bag work with the new toys. Got in about 2am, drenched in sweat, with not one neighbour complaining.
Given the bloody awful noise I made, I reckon that I can still visibly (and audibly) wallop things a fair old bit.
Seriously though, bloody good workout/cardio for airsoft if anyone's interested. No matter how good webbing gets, you need upper body stamina for milsims. Carrying an LMG/LSW needs strength over time.
Anyway, that's my excuse for tonight's antisocial behaviour.
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Must be secret squirrel level serious if the UKARA police can get involved!
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Good thinking. Cheers mate.
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All stuff to consider in most places to think about it. Miles of farmland to play on, but it is still of course commercial/a business premises. Even playing in a private garden could be considered to have a responsible organiser I am thinking? I suppose to some extent it concerns what we are prepared not to do on our own property, due to the possibility of something going wrong.
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What Have You Learned About Airsoft Recently?
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to Cr0-Magnon's topic in General Discussion
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Thanks, all stuff to reconsider.
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Four or five mates meeting up on land belonging to one of them, when the business is locked shut, and keeping well away from any machinery etc is fine I am sure. Airsoft in 18 acres of meadows and orchards in the middle of an isolated fen is hardly likely to raise much concern for anyone I hope.
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In contrast.... a lad I sometimes play informal games with at a local scrapyard ordered from TG just before they stopped shipping to the UK. No UKARA number yet straight to his door, much to my surprise. No requests for paperwork, no problem at all. Silly situation.
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What Have You Learned About Airsoft Recently?
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to Cr0-Magnon's topic in General Discussion
Can't beat a nice green tea with pomegranate and a well jellied pork pie with chilli relish; cold water pastry hard and almost shiny until you bite it in the summer. Failing that a beef and onion pie slathered in Colman's mustard and HP sauce. Quick two fingers of sloe gin in the winter and you've had the breakfast of champions. You'll be ready to take the world on. -
What Have You Learned About Airsoft Recently?
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to Cr0-Magnon's topic in General Discussion
For about four decades I was dead on 10 stone fighting weight, then injury (and enforced inaction) and age (sob) caught up and I ballooned. A high protein low carb no sugar diet has me back to normal(ish). Tonight I started back on the heavy bag... I'll be back in black in a few weeks. I feel far better now now as it is. Thoroughly agree Rogerborg! -
Love to know this myself tbh.
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What Have You Learned About Airsoft Recently?
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to Cr0-Magnon's topic in General Discussion
Sounds more like an episode of that Japanese game show Endurance than airsoft. -
The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to Skara's topic in General Discussion
Very true. I like to run as support gunner. I use a 7.4V lipo and chug through BBs. The gearbox etc is well up to higher speeds/voltages; but I don't see the need to send a solid plastic hose at the other team. Two or three round bursts that hit solid cover with a loud smack are usually better at keeping peoples heads down than spraying a solid wall at where their faces may appear. Even if suppressing, you can keep things sensible, sporting and friendly. TBH I usually run my rifleman rifles with the 'fet set to single or double tap and spam the trigger a couple of times if a burst is needed. Kinder to the gearbox than semi and all you need 95% of the time. -
A full weekend of airsoft, Nam style. Silly pyjamas, primitive weaponry, and up to your bollox in mud. Great stuff.
Sank a few beers with mates and dragged an LSW around, much to the detriment of my back. Hooray for Tramadol and gritted teeth.
Now back home clogging up the washing machine's filter with fern stems and mud, and drinking to another victory for Uncle Ho.
Du ban yankee! Vhe nha!
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Nice one, where was that?
I was so disappointed when a local site cancelled their Nam-film-sim. I had the rice hat and pyjamas all ready to go, specifically in order to annoy any "The NVA didn't wear those!" stitch counters.
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Sounds like fun ?
That's what I like about nae.
You are out all day walkin',stalkin'?and talkin' bollocks an shootin' every leaf and branch that dares to move accompanied by shouts of "contact 12oclock!", and " cease fire he's on our side"and "wanker! It's the bloody wind!"
Oh how we laugh till our bellies ache which is fitting as it matches our aching legs and feet.
Then it's back to main arena for drinkipoos and a bit of nosebag and stories of how we each wiped out the entire oppfor single handed that were hiding behind the shivering leaves.
Oh man I so missed it last year ☹
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Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to Mack's topic in General Discussion
I shouldn't think that mixing microdots and airsoft would work too well, especially the purple ohms. They mong you out like fuck. -
Best Anti-fog Eye Protection 2021?
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to BoneyT's topic in Guns, Gear & Loadouts
It was very much left handed screw driver type advice. -
Best Anti-fog Eye Protection 2021?
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to BoneyT's topic in Guns, Gear & Loadouts
You can buy them from pets shops for cleaning fish tanks. As said above, lack of pressure hinders them. When I rode bikes for a living, I often advised the new lads to wipe the inside of their visor with a raw onion. -
The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to Skara's topic in General Discussion
Went out with my serviced and cleaned AK, only to fall over a tree root 10 mins into the game. I was a pretty good gymnast in the mists of time, so controlling a fall is fairly easy, but... I managed to snag my free foot on something else too as I fell. THUD. Busted the rear sight, split the top housing in front of the (now displaced) dust cover, and the battery compartment bottom cracked. I hit the floor hard enough to dislodge a contact lens. I honestly thought that I'd broken my big (arthritic) toe, but it moved after a few minutes of laying still and therapeutically swearing. Rifle still fed OK and shot straight so on we went. Played OK too. First game damage I've inflicted on a CYMA. I doubt an all steel build would have been damaged, but I doubt I'd find one for less than £70 on TG. I'll have to get the gaffer tape and cable ties out I expect. If it's serious the Jubilee clips come out too, possibly the superglue. Bloody good day out mind! -
Had to clean the hop rubber in my CM.028u. The lad got a bit liberal with the silicone oil...
Bloody palaver compared to an M4, managed to crack the housing round the tiny screw that holds the underside of the battery compartment/dust cover holder/slide. Only needed a washer to make good, and probably could have got away without using one but still.
The wires are so damn short that the fuse holder sits under the cover too. Couldn't be arsed to get the soldering iron out, and no thin wire sitting bout anyway.
Not a lazy man's rifle.
Namsoft next weekend and the AKs have to be in prime nick. Dụ má mày yankee!
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yeah ak's can be fun to work with depending on how they're setup.
you get used to it though, whilst barrel access aint as good at least you don't have to have half the externals dissassembled just to get to the gearbox.
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Very true, the pinned models are very handy to work with. The CYMA uses cheaper screws, and for a sub £100 rifle its astounding. Pays your money etc...
I think that they make a good base for custom builds too.
I do have a habit of shedding mags though; I think due to using a mag grip equipped M4 a lot more. I must catch the release with my (gloved) thumb tip.
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the jg's/cyma's in the ak world are good shooters, bit of tinkering and they'll deliver the goods no bother when it comes to the fundamental task of slinging plastic downrange.
generally with the likes of the lct's/e&l's what you're paying for is the exterior quality.
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Well... fucking great day at Gunman Tuddenham. Good gameplay, really aggressive play from the green team and some hard pushes from the banded team too. Lots of BBs gone south. Positive kill to death count. New (to me) pew worked faultlessly.
Only thing was forgetting to take my pain killers at lunchtime. I took them when I stopped play, but depressing the clutch pedal was agony all the way home.
Picked up my M14 from the on site gnu guru. It now shoots supernaturally good. Seriously, give Theatre 1 Airsoft a look. As a former engineer, I cannot work the magic that Roman lays on what he plays with. I now have the best beastiest airsoft rifle I have seen in my gun cabinet.
Thoroughly recommend this site, and this very special tech.
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Hi @Tactical Pith Helmet! ?
Glad you had a Great day of Airsofting, will look into this site?
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Just remember medication for the pain! ??
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Jesus wept!
My thighs ache like fuck. I can hardly keep my eyes open, and I feel fantastic.
Great day at Tuddenham with Gunman today. Perhaps going for a long run yesterday to warm up was not such a good idea...
After lunch my painful back was feeling much better and my shoulders and neck were much looser. Airsoft is great physio. Hot shower and a walk of a couple of miles to warm down.
I'll do some bag work tomorrow, and a couple of rounds with the lad if he's not too tired after college.
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was absoloutley buggered by the point this pic was taken i face planted it not long after lol
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Yep, I can imagine.
I found myself not so much steadying myself against the trees but positively using them for support.
One of the reasons I love this so much is that you simply push yourself into physical action for so long. I don't mind squash etc, but you'd never play that for four or five hours, let alone a full weekend!
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Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread
Tactical Pith Helmet replied to Mack's topic in General Discussion
For an gnu that rare, with that perfect Halford's Own paintjob, and, unless God allows my eyes to be deceived, set of wondrous extras; the chap obviously states collection only. I can only hope that Securicor or Group 4 are insured well enough to carry such an article. There's fuck all chance of anyone driving halfway across the country for it, that's for sure. -
So... having moaned about the barrel support on G&G M4s, I did the obvious thing and bought another one (thanks to Shooting Aces!).
I have fitted a very curvy sculpted grip and a similar sculpted magwell grip. I really fancy a chunky round profile stock to complement them both and the big fat round forend. Something shaped like a flat bottomed tick that doesn't alter the standard cheek weld would be favourite.
Any ideas?
P.S. each pay day I'm buying stuff to fit to this. So far I have a load of marked shims, new bushings, SHS 12:1 gears, hi-torque motor, Perun mosfet, 16AWG wiring, lightweight piston and new cylinder/nozzle, ZCI barrel and hop unit etc.
