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Status Updates posted by Rogerborg
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Local site: "You MUST wear boots that provide ankle protection. If you show up in trainers or unsuitable footwear, you will not be permitted to play."
Me: "Ruh-roh!" [Types a treatise on why their active voice has created liability for themselves where none existed, and wondering what they'll say when some ambulance chaser asks "So, what exactly qualified you to determine that my crippled client's footware was 'suitable' when it demonstrably was not?"
Also me: [Takes a deep breath, deletes]
They'll find out the hard way, or they won't. But I doubt they'll believe that trying to do the right thing can create a rod for your own back, until it's whipping them.
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For those of us that weren't 1980's metal heads, these were de rigeur footwear for anyone that was into thrash (before Stranger Things made it cool).
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Mini-rant about folk who book at a site then say "lol m8z nede lyft 4rm Central Townsville, wil sqaur up".
Followed by the site saying "SRSsly, y no 1 offar lyft???"
Stop being so poor.
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Got any dodgy tin jewellery you want to peddle?
https://www.thefsi.org/profile/emersonmarti77/profile
https://www.wow-pro.com/members/emersonmarti77/
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When you see the local site yet again spacking up their booking link on Failbook, and you compose a reply with the working link, then ask yourself "When has the day ever been better with more players who need spoon-fed?"
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AB++ fitted. Burst mode bursting. Pre-cock cocking.
Put back together. No burst, no auto.
Oh, snap, I've cleaved the ropey G36 selector plate clean in twain.
Ropey replacement on the way, superglue and cable tie reenforcement bodge in full effect.
I remain amazed that these things ever work.
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When your daughter asks "Do you have a pistol I can use in drama class tomorrow?" and at first you're
Then you remember that it's CURRENT_YEAR, and a school, and Scotland, and then you're more
Not without a contract in triplicate, missy.
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Have a merry Christmas, you moody mares, I hope you all get exactly what you deserve.
I've rattled Mrs Borg's box and reckon it's some wire strippers, so I'll be rewiring all the things while watching a Die Hard marathon (or maybe just Die Hard five or six times, same difference).
See you when we're all sober again.
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'Let everything that’s been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When man is born he is weak and malleable. When he dies he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it’s tender and pliant, but when it’s dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being, because what has hardened will never win'
Strugatsky
Merry Christmas!
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Well, I hope the Kenosha Kid has got his legally held firearm back now.
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Why do you keep bringing up the issue of the media during the trial? That has nothing to do with how he is viewed after the trial?
How many riot situations have you been in? Personally, in a career of over 20 years in one form of police or another I have been in several. And the last thing I would want in those situations is to have a loaded weapon. Absolutely reckless.
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"Why do you keep bringing up the issue of the media during the trial? "
Because that's the part that interests me, as it's most relevant to us. Anyone with a slightly outré hobby or outlook is ripe for being smeared by the media as an extremist, and it could happen to any of us.
I received a very light and impersonal smearing several decades back when I appeared in some stock footage in a piece on xenophobic extremist Scotch nationalist. That the footage was from a Historic Scotland reenactment of Bannockburn was neither here nor there to STV: it was enough for them to declare that my hatred for the English was so much that I liked to dress up and fight Englishmen with swords and axes.
Oh, and they actually showed footage of the English side, which I happened to be on that day to even the numbers. But again, reality is irrelevant to the media when they're selling a story.
"And the last thing I would want in those situations is to have a loaded weapon."
Colonial rules apply to this one though. Rittenhouse's first assailant was armed with a chain, his second or third with a skateboard (which are now habitually used as weapons), and his fourth assailant was armed with a pistol, and has expressed regret that he didn't shoot Rittenhouse, and was in the act of trying to do so when he was literally disarmed.
It comes down to whether we believe that him being armed was the cause of all that kicking off and him being attacked in the first place, and whether he'd have been safer being unarmed. It seems that another mostly-peaceful-protestor had just fired nearby and that both Rittenhouse and the deranged child rapist arsonist attacker (who had made repeated direct threats to kill him) may have believed that the other had fired.
However, the jury decided otherwise, and that Rittenhouse's provocation was putting out the fires that deranged-child-rapist-arsonist had started.
Given that, his only real choices were to go armed, or not go at all.
Funnily enough, it was following the publicising of the attacks on him that the National Guard was finally sent in to settle the situation down, so Rittenhouse did actually achieve his goal bigly.
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When you start unloading from Sunday, realise that ex-Workmate Eddy has filled eight magazines with a random mix of BBs, and you're so cheap you try to pick the tracers out.
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For anyone still looking for short Nam style M4/M16 mags, FireSupport has 2 boxes of 5x85 plastics in stock.
https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/king-arms-m16vn-short-plastic-magazines-box-set-of-585-rnd
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Random aside, does anyone know if UK army surplus waterproof trousers/overtrousers typically advertised as "goretex" are actually Gore Tex(tm) lined?
E.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/380578710972?itm=380578710972
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Fair enough. I ask because my surplus boots do actually have a GoreTex label, and I'm coming round to the ritual belief that "Gore Tex" and "waterproof" are synonymous, and if it don't have the label, it don't have the magic.
That said, I'm far too cheap to drop hundreds on actual branded gear, so will take a punt on the "MVP" sweat-pants anyway.
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Halp misters, can anyone point me at MP5K butt plate push pins, or the right magic phrase to find equivalent pins from a generic supplier?
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Sorry, I should have said "In the UK, and for less than £10 delivered for a pennies part."
I had a M6 x 30mm clevis pin in there replacing the original, but that's whanged off somewhere too. At £1.80 for another pair, I'll likely go that route again unless I can find the magic phrase to describe the proper take-down pins and buy one for around that money.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264617982686?ViewItem=&item=264617982686&var=564404907653
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Morning Roger. I have some spare ones you could have. I ordered some VFC pins recently for my gbbr mp5 but I only needed the long pin and not the 2x short ones. I've tested these on my JG mp5k and they do fit - they are about 0.5mm longer than the ones that came with the JG and they are a snug fit.
Yours for £5 all in if you want them.
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PatrolBase have 1-or-some short modern M4 (not Nam-style) mags in stock. Some folk might be after them.
(Full disclosure, I finally bagged 3 VN style short mags from Airsoft Supply Drop, but didn't mention it because I got the last three )
https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/battleaxe-110rnd-polymer-magazine-ar-15-m4
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"Had." I'm glad they went to a good home.
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The truth bomb that just got me kicked off a Warhammer 40K group when offered in response to yet another tiresome horny-teen post.
Clearly too close to the admins for comfort. 😆
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As promised, shouting out that PatrolBase have short VN style mags in stock again.
In tan.
And actually, mag, singular. They have one (1) in stock. 🙄
I'll pass, if anyone else wants to bag it.
https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/battleaxe-110rnd-steel-ar-15-magazine
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That awkward moment when an ex-workmate asks when I'm next playing, as he wants to get back into airsoft again.
Nice bloke, but very much Gen-Z / Facebook generation. Thinks airsoft toys should just work, has never even split his M4, won't do his own research, is constantly asking what he needs to buy and from where and how long it will take to arrive...
This is why I far prefer going alone, it can be bad enough just sorting out your own kit issues of a morning without feeling responsible for the guy who'll rock up at 10-to-briefing-o'clock with his hop rubbers dried up, batteries flattened, and gas mags pissing propane.
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I offer advice, but I don't parent them. I'll give friends my advice, but I won't coddle them and make sure they've taken care of everything (as you said, it's hard enough to remember all my kit, let alone someone else's. I always forget my hot sauce for my lunchtime burger!). Mistakes are a fantastic teacher.
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If the past year and a half has taught me anything, it's to just say it like it is and save yourself the time. If he doesn't like it then I doubt he'll be bothering you anymore, or he'll 'get it' and stop doing the bits that irk you (perhaps needing a nudge from time to time as a reminder). Either way, problem solved.
I get it's very easy to say, and awkward social interactions can be pretty painful... but don't let crap like this hinder your enjoyment of anything, irrelevant of what it is.
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Well, my lucky streak with Ali Express is over, a fixed stock has been returned to sender because "Exception parcel handling in sorting center". No, not by Border Farce: it never even left Chyna.
I wouldn't mind so much but Ali Express doesn't email any updates, you have to go and dig into order histories manually to see what's up, and it was knocked back 3 weeks ago.
And of course the sender hasn't sent it again, nor issued a refund, and I can't open a dispute until the middle of August.
I rather wonder if it was rejected for being assault-toy related, and whether that's going to be a problem for us.
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Today I learned that:
1) When making an s-hop, the silicone cannot extrude into the barrel even fractionally, or you'll sky every BB even with no hop on, or no hop arm fitted at all.
2) DMR naysays can say nay all they like, but I like DMR gameplay - with a working hop. Luckily I had spares to hand and sorted it at lunch, then it was all fun and games from there.
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Can anyone spot short / stubby / Vietnam style M4 mid cap mags in stock anywhere at the moment? E.g. the Battleaxe 110rnd metal or plastic ones. They seem to be out of stock most places
Fat Bobs have high caps at £13 plus £6 postage which would be the fallback option, but I'd prefer mid caps.
Bespoke has 20 round real caps which are a milsim too far.
I've currently looked on:
Patrol Base (the best selection and prices if they had any, which they don't)
Airsoft World
Land Warrior
Arnies
Bespoke
Fat Bobs
Bullseye
Ammo Drop
Zero One
Targets Zone
UK Airsoft
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STUUUURGEON! [shakes fist]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54631004
I know, it only mentions hospitality, but I'm inferring no change to anything. Sports only ever gets mentioned as an afterthought.
Looks like indoor airsoft is staying shut until at least November up here. I'd lay odds that it's not re-opening until next year. If ever.
I've tried to stay away from politics, but this puritan wee bism is loving playing the reluctant dictator, while criminalising more and more things that she doesn't approve of (i.e. fun). It's the Presbyterian way.
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@Excal1burUK I know people high up in the UKARA police, we'll never allow such villainy in our hobby 😂
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Torp quatily mortor arivvad!
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Phew, lucky guess. It's going in a JG G36, and I'm not fussed about ROF so much as semi-auto response and being able to reliably pull the piston past a lock-up: I've had a couple of lock ups where the spring was almost fully compressed and the stock mortor just wouldn't pull it that final tooth.
And yup on the diode, I already have an SB260 in all my mortors will be swapping it over.
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keep the JG motor (O-type pinion)
and if/when the 140 arm gives out
swap it all over & use the JG arm
which they say is a 22tpa
certainly has a little bit more performance
than std Cyma/G&G stock motors
it was just the weak ferrite magnets holding it back on lock up
when you just don't have the raw grunt the motor stalls
and fuses blow or there is a really BIG spark at switch contacts
when the switch re-opens
The spark or arcing isn't from the motor starting but flyback inductive energy when you release/open switch
on a stalled motor this spark really increases when switch opens
(on std non-mosfet setup or on mosfet this flyback can kill certain uprotected mosfets)
the schottky diodes snub the inductive spikes
but they nick 0.5v schottky to up to 1v for other diodes
so there is a trade off for circuit protection it seems
fucking annoying a little bit more thought isn't used in these peew peew's - but just slapped together and shipped out the door with no consideration at all.
in the geeky electronics world they would be mortified at running motors without a snubber diode & often they would lean to a capacitor & resistor method to quench the spark
I glanced at some of it & just thought it is way way too geeky for me
nah fuck it I'll just use the ICS method at some motors or splice it in on the motor wires on SHS/G&G types as close to motor as possible & leave it at that
Good choice as i said - best of the 3 BD motaaaaa's imho
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[Fits to gnu]
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That's worth £20, I reckon.
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"there is a really BIG spark at switch contacts when the switch re-opens"
Yup, I just had to clean up the contacts after what can't be more than 5,000 rounds, thus adding the diode.
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Finally, the Imperial Guard get the recognition that we've always deserved!
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Long suffering, but she knew what she was getting into.
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Played in woodland yesterday, had an OK time, but it mostly reminded me of why I prefer CQB.
Once you've lain in one flooded mossy ditch, you've laid in them all.
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That's a fair point, I enjoyed sneaky when I was sniping, but this site has a weird rule about playing twice before you're trusted with a 485fps / 2.2J (double weird) sniper. Not that they're enforcing it in practice, I suspect.
When you're out with a random AEG and all of the games are variants of "rush an objective" on a busy site, it's pretty much the start of Saving Private Ryan over and over again.
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Yeah, when I'm out with an AEG, I still play like a sniper (sometimes even with the ghillie on too), because I don't like rushing objectives when you know at least three enemy players will be sitting in a bush ready to light you up. People are often amazed when I use less than 1000 BBs in a day while out with an AEG, but that's just my play style and it's what I enjoy.
I think woodland is great if you have people with you, because you can do squad tactics and really dominate the game, however without coordination (which, let's be honest, skirmish airsofters aren't going to coordinate), woodland is... I don't want to say it's bad, but I think I'd prefer CQB if I wanted to play a faster, more rush-like style. Attacking objectives in woodland requires a lot of repeated aggression, or some sort of sneaky super-flank where one guy takes out half the enemy team (which feels amazing in fairness).
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I treat woodland a lot like cqb though. I find coming from a cqb background you have a few skills woodland players do not have, it was always evident when a woodland squad rocked up at the mall for instance.
I still rush, push forward and play a sneaky style in woodland much like I did at cqb. It doesnt always work granted, but players can be surprised by a lone guy rushing forward when they were not expecting it.
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Expensive day's airsofting at Biohazard today with my nephew: he lost one Glockazine, and dropped another and cracked the feed lips. Ah well, fun was had and nothing lasts forever except WuFlu restrictions.