John_W

I'm sure they've got a job for us 🤣

If the MoD are reading here goes
 
Improve pay, make sure buildings on bases are suitable and fit for human habitation and stop putting soldiers in court for doing their jobs.
 
Can I have my £120,000 now as these would improve recruitment and retention levels far better than letting joe public fondle a couple of toy guns

We're not talking about P90s.

Cut to a meeting in Whitehall where someone with hentai cat ears and a HRC discord mod give a presentation on why VFC is better than a TM.

Wait a second..
 

 
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Oh, we're going to be sensible about this now?  
 
Is the WE the only GBBR L85?  Given that we're moving towards the L403A1 / KS-1, I wonder if they'll just skip straight to an Assault-Rifle-15 GBBR.

"Defence chiefs are seeking airsoft industry experts"
 
That'll be us then 🤪

This has got be joke. Does the MOD really want an army full of Autistic obseives?

Or approximately three "starter set bundles" on usedairsoft.
 
There does seem to be a core of sense to this, although how it actually translates to recruitment is quite another matter. I can see £120,000 being blown on mouse-mats, mugs and biscuits without a single visit to an actual airsoft site to say "Hey, do you want to try a really hot gun?"

If they recuit players that don't call their hits we'll have an amazing advantage when enemy bullets just bounce off them! 👌🏻

£1700? Those are rookie numbers. Remember when RA-TECH were selling an M14 EBR GBBR for £3k? And it didn’t even work out of the box 🤣

I think anyone who played before and through 2007 would agree with you there. If you want to play like this, why not just play paintball? They've been doing this for ages

The draw from Paintball back in the day was the realism of the toys used combined with almost losing them back in 2007 makes this stuff almost sacrileges for me. 

I thought it might be fun to share the blasphemous, cursed and downright wrong things we've seen on gamedays, websites or elsewhere
 
While searching for an SVD supressor I came across this
 
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/tool/magazine-adapter-svd-dragunov-to-m4-bolt-action-airsoft

This is why I write "EN166B" on my home-made eye-pro, to ensure that it meets all safety standards.

Latest purchase, Zoxna V2 mini launcher.  The barrel diameter is pretty much spot on for the pulse rifle underslung. I'll need to mount the front part of the underslung differently as at the moment it opens to allow battery fitting. Then mount the Zoxna . Will require some faffing about but will be worth it to have the pulse rifle launcher working.

Round counter functions ! 
 


Done a bit of paint on the underslung too, gone for the Halfords camo black on that.

With the clone wars stronger than ever I thought it might be an idea to have a thread based on how to spot what’s real and what’s not , to be clear this is not a clone bashing thread , but simply a way to hopefully help you get what is advertised , be it parts , optics , lasers/torches or maybe even RIF’s themselves . just because it says Aimpoint/Eotech/Magpul/Surefire doesn’t mean it is , even the packaging is being cloned to a high standard so don’t get get duped . 
 
I’ll start with a simple Magpul CTR stock in FDE  , there will be better clones than others and I’ve picked a “Tak Tak” variant which retails at around £15-£20 in the UK VS a Gebuine CTR which retails around £75-£80  , the clone Says Magpul on it so in passing looks legit , the biggest tell is usually going to be the colour but as we know everyone’s photos and lighting looks a bit different and if you have nothing genuine to compare to when it arrives you are just taking the sellers word .
 
heres a few comparisons , and highlighted differences between the two which should be easy to spot , 
 
Genuine is CTR is either Top or to the Left .


 
main points to note -
 
Genuine will have black tabs where the stock pad locates NOT TAN
Genuine will have a molding mark on the underside , oval shaped .
Genuine stock pad will have an “F” in the lower right hand side “pocket”
Text spacing , the Genuine will be bolder and spaced correctly 
Length , generally the Clones will be a touch longer .
Extra Text , the genuine will have extra text in the lower frame , plus batch / manufacturing numbers just above the locking lever .
 

 
Hope this helps , as time permits I will add more comparisons .

Wow, i haven't seen a ROFLcopter for years.

I managed to find the post that got me banned from Arnies for "Trolling" back in 2005 😁

I believe this is/was standard practice of the (in)famous Special Airsoft Supplies...

Really annoying when dealers state items in stock, you order and pay, then wait, only to be told they actually have to be obtained from a wholesaler or some other excuse. 😤

The UK airsoft subreddit is basically
 
- "Do I need UKARA?"
- "What's better, a Specna or Cyma?"
- "Do i need UKARA to buy a Specna or Cyma?"
 
The big airsoft reddit isn't much better. Its a bit circlejerky and people say that their friend's sister's dogsitter did this thing once and it worked, so therefore must be gospel. I had someone argue with me that an TM NGRS 74 mag would fit an AK storm because they did it with their arcturus AK, when I literally had both guns and mags in front of me showing the opposite.

One of the first forums I joined twenty odd years ago when I started. Lasted longer than many of the others.