Rogerborg

I agree with Lozart that 25mmx25mmx7mm won't be sufficient for a helmet. Fine for direct ventilation of eyepro, but the 50mm "turbine" style blowers shift a lot more air.

Eh. We're a very soft target, but this will be a very short story, at most. The thing about RIF crimes is that generally nobody bleeds, so it doesn't lead.

A fag constantly hanging off your lip would also be de rigueur.

I imagine they got whatever would fit in a a clapped out Transit van with ROI plates.

I'd imagine it was a choice between that, or them not moving at all. Failbook suggest that there's a notorious "campsite" nearby. Since it happened a couple of days ago and is only being reported now, I fear that means that Dibble didn't get boots in there quickly enough to recover any. Probably too busy looking for people speculating on what "campsite" really means. Sadly, this might indeed catch the #ScumMedia's attention. However, I would note that it's absolutely trivial to get or create a RIF, so this isn't really going to put more into the hands of wrong 'uns. But my God it's bad news for UK stocks.

Especially around the seams, I use a hair dryer to melt it in there good and proper. That's why I've never taken to new fangled boots with textile panels, I wouldn't know what to do with them.

Not bad for me, actually quite amusing. Sad for them though, they never seemed happy, and not so funny for the young rental that one of them physically grabbed when he went off the deep end. It's a tiny minority, not really a big deal, and I certainly don't mean to make a sweeping generalisation about folk who want to do training, I'm mildly curious myself.

Sure, I've bought from them as well. If you know exactly what you want, and why, they're no worse than any other online retailer. Plus, Sweaty Dom's product videos are legendary.

Well, the simplest way to git gud at room clearing is to John Wick in while shouting "You missed, you missed, I didn't feel it, gun hit, didn't feel it, missed." My very mild concern about actually paying for training to play pretend soldiers with toys is that it might - might, not saying that it does - indicate a predilection for winning the game rather than playing the game. I'm thinking of a couple of players I've met who took it all far too seriously, and ended up flouncing or being kicked out of the hobby. All that said, I would be interested in doing such a training day, if only to see how well it really works in airsoft versus fearless rentals and pre-firing speedy bois.

The first thing I'd recommend is playing with it. Specnas are perfectly decent out of the box, and we're talking about a few metres more range, under ideal circumstances, and ignoring puffs of wind, blades of grass or random airsoft physics. They shouldn't actually need anything doing to them. The only thing I would really recommend for any new airsoft gun is cleaning the barrel and the hop rubber, as they tend to ship with a light coating of protective oil inside them. 0.25g is fine, I'd shoot through that and then go to 0.28g (or maybe even 0.30g or 0.32g) later. And again, the difference is marginal. Again, you're talking about a couple of extra metres, and at that range you're relying on your target being helpful enough to sit still and wait for the BB. If you do swap out the barrel and rubber, it's a very simple process on an M4. The video below is as good as any, although your rotary hop is a bit different. It's actually easier to get the nub out, you just push out the pin holding the tensioning arm in place, and it lifts right out. It'll be obvious when you have a look. The only thing to be careful about is losing the small parts, they like to leap into hyperspace.

You'd think, but it's super hard to find. I mean, in the sense that I didn't turn anything up in 30 seconds and got distracted by something shiny, but I'd love to read something convincing.

But did you wash your balls? Nobrich says that it's very important to wash your balls before smacking them into someone else's face.

Only because I've just had a nostalgia replay through GTA: San Andreas. (Urge to cap some Ballas with a TEC-9 intensifies)

In that context, I've seen some anecdotal suggestions that some big boots can shift damage from the ankle up to more serious knee injuries. However, we're talking rigid MX and skiing boots, and big offs and oofs, I don't think that generally applies to airsoft unless you're jumping into trenches or off of castles and such. And at that point you want parachute ankle braces anyway, and note that study didn't find any evidence of shifting the damage. "Be like unto the ninja" is a fair point (fitness thread ahoy), but accidents happen, and I consider ankle support to be fairly effective PPE for a likely injury. It is an interesting subject because while it might seem like it's just common sense (like wearing seven masks) that ankle support reduces ankle injuries, but there does appear to be a paucity of detailed or controlled studies. I won't make the sophomoric argument that "The military wouldn't use them if they didn't work!" because it's quite possible that they've never actually done the studies themselves.

I'd respectfully disagree with the flasher pervert above and say that I think my ankles have been saved a couple of times by being well supported, although I've been getting a bit (literally) slack with my lacing recently. Must bondage better. Also, I wear army surplus GoreTex lined boots not just for airsoft, but for biking, office wear, evening wear, swimsuit competitions...

Not strictly on-topic either, but I've had another AliExpress order that looks like it's not even going to make it out of Chinaland. First a stock, now an M4 pistol grip, I'm starting to think that they're blocking assault-toy related parts at source rather than letting HMRC / Border Force have all the fun. I've had plenty of fans, motors, switches and such make it through without problems in the meantime.

EFA. BBgunz4u style sites are just dodgy market stalls with a web front end. CYMAs are fine, you can upgrade that gradually and end up with something as good or better than a Nobrich product, for less. Granted, the trigger on the SSG-10 looks like a smart idea, but everything else is just somebody else's internals put together, and you can put things together, right?

Indeed, they can get soaked on the outside, and it feels weird squishing around in them, but nothing gets through.

Mmm, indeed. I don't mind honest advertising, and if it's some ex Royal Marine or similar who's actually an airsofter doing it mostly for a laugh, that's another thing. But I'm thinking of one weekend in particular that was advertised as featuring training by an ex-SAS member, then you'd camp out and listen to his riveting tales of derring do. When I asked how they'd established the identity of someone who isn't supposed to identify himself, who can't be verified, and why he would be blabbing operational details, the advertising got quietly amended to "ex military". Even at that, I'd wonder. Still, we do this for fun, and if you enjoy the experience, it's all good. Another thing to consider is asking your local site if you could rent it out on an off-day for your team, specifically to practice tactics and set-situations against the marshals. They might enjoy that as well.

A more suspicious person would wonder at a new account bigging up a retailer as their first post. Not me though, I trust everything that I read online without question.

Waterproof socks. I've just been out cycling in lashing rain wearing trainers, and my feet at the only parts still dry. eBay for "SealSkinz", "Goretex socks" and similar.

Room clearing drill: pull, throw. Frag self, get mediced, repeat. The issue I have with these courses is: who's training you, and are they training you to play airsoft against rental chavs, or to murderise insurgents up a treat (and then you get rinsed by rental chavs). I've seen a few of these advertised on Failbook, typically promoted as being run by an ex-Delta Special Ranger SAS Force Operator. When I've asked how they've established said person's bona fides to be sure that they're not just some grifting Walt, it's been crickets, blocking, or the claim suddenly alters.

Well, that, really. 0.28g or above is the best investment in any 1J+ airsoft toy.