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There is a Bootneck airsoft team that play around Plymouth that have a drone. I haven’t seen them use it for dropping kit (I don’t think it has the lift capacity for it) but they do use it for ISTAR which is pretty cool/very frustrating depending on whether you are playing with them or against them.

If you want plates for your carrier the cheapest option will be anything ‘non airsoft’. I have a few different weights of plates for running/pull ups etc and I paid about £10 for one set, and £2 for the others. Search for ‘crossfit vest plates’, some will be ‘proper’ ones made by companies like Rogue and Again Faster are very expensive because they are powder coated and branded and are competition weight. LOADS of people sell carbon copies that they have made online on the cheap (my £10 set). Ebay is a good bet for these. What I would recommend is get down to a steel merchant and buy an offcut of 2mm or 2.5mm steel, get an angle grinder and cut it yourself. Just make sure you tape the edges with some black maskers so that it doesn’t rip the inside of the carrier. This will cost you about £2 for the steel and 15 minutes of cutting. Definitely your best course of action.

I am mate. Taking the Mrs on the 4th. I’ve booked for the 11th too because I know I will need to get 3 or 4 days in in quick succession to scratch the itch!

Open on the 4th April team! Tickets have just gone on sale. None of their indoor sites are up and running yet clearly.

Top advice thank you! Presumably that is a phonecall from UKBF? There is no danger of me coming in under that. New RIF means new mags, pouches, sling and a load of other gizzits that I don’t need but definitely want.

Are Taiwangun legit? Appreciate all of the gripe is with UPS (who are a terrible company, only Yodel are worse) about delivery but as I am in no rush I was looking at a JG MAC10 (a steal at £50) but they aren’t asking for UKARA... Appreciate that they aren’t a UK retailer but surely they will need this for import?

As the OP of the thread linked above... I read all the advice and decided that a sidearm wasn’t necessary with a carbine. And then clearly banged out and bought a TM GBB, four mags, a holster, and retention lanyard. It is very satisfying to shoot and cool. as. fuck.

I bet they were ‘gifts’...

That sounds like airsoft to me! Especially the ‘children’s sport’ because let’s be honest no one who runs round with a £200 toy can claim to be an adult.

But the best pair of combat boots you can afford. Rent a G36 or AK74 until you decide you want to blow it all on a TM GBBR. Ammo is cheap as fuck, so there is no such thing as too trigger happy. It’s ok to shoot people in the arse between games if they are your mates. Shoot and get shot. Don’t be a bitch when it’s the latter. Take your hits.

Unless you HAVE to have a plate carrier because either; i. You have worn one for 10 years and anything else feels like you are naked. ii. You are doing a pretty specific loadout that requires it to complete the ‘look’... I wouldn’t get a plate carrier. A yoke and webbing or even a buckle up chest rig is much more comfortable. A plate carrier will make you sweat like a bastard, makes going prone very uncomfortable and hard to breathe when you run (if you have steel plates in it). The primary function of a plate carrier is not to carry mags and kit, it is to carry body armour like osprey. If you just want somewhere to put 5 mid caps and a mag I would go for webbing or a chest rig with no back patch.

Ive got the warrior and have done a lot of jumping up and down/running up and down the stairs with it. The only time the mag released was when I was leopard crawling round the kitchen and I think that might have been because the wife kicked me to get me to piss off.

Ditto, SA E-07 that so far has only been used to seriously fuck up cardboard boxes in the garden on full auto! I have spent a lot of time getting it to shoot like a laser, it needs to do what it was born to do; pop rentals in the arse from 20m!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/20/outdoor-mixing-may-be-allowed-in-england-by-easter-reports-suggest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Site owners and marshals; does this mean we can get back to shooting each other dressed like a tree? Or do we need even more relaxations to be able to get away with it? (I can’t remember at what point last year sites re-opened after lockdown 1.0).

Agree with Adolf; seems like a pretty fucking pointless law if you can own and run around with an AR16 but can’t play with a toy one...

I don’t know many under 18s but having been one a couple of decades ago I couldn’t have afforded a vector!

There is another question unanswered here though; who the FUCK buys a Vector brand new, BEFORE they have got a UKARA number? I think most people (certainly on this forum where a lot of sense is talked) spend a few games as a rental, realise it is great and then go and buy something for £100-150 (maybe push that up to £250 if you have a disposable income and want to get extras). But the guy selling this decided his intro to airsoft would be some absolute top of the line bit of kit and was willing to let someone paint it pink so that he could have it before he even tried the sport out? Never mind the underhand nature of the sale, would you trust someone who was that stupid??

Monstrosity to beauty.

Also, feet in the photo...

Or someone who nicked them and wants to know whether they are worth flogging?

On the subject of reviews I think being sceptical is right. Having done a lot (I mean a LOT, watched every video and read every blog) before moving from rental to the lofty heights of walk on recently, I think I arrived at the following; 1. Reviewers say it is great because they were given it for free (for the most part) and if they don’t make it clear what their motivations are for the video they are almost certainly biased. Negative airsoft however does do pretty fucking good videos and I think his opinion is very fair and based on a lot more knowledge than the majority of reviewers that bang on about ambidextrous fire control selectors. 2. Some manufacturers are more reliable than others (everyone seems to have an issue with SA quality control) but ultimately it is a bit of a lottery. You might spend £100 on a belter that never jams, always cycles and shoots like a laser. Equally you could end up with a £400 GBBR lemon that works 10% of the time. 3. If it does need shimming/crap clearing out of the gearbox it is about £40 in Labour to your local tech and therefore not the end of the world if you do need to get it tinkered with. I bought a SA E-07 from the classifieds despite the possibility that there might be a QC issue from the factory and it is fine. Not skirmished yet clearly but I have put about 12k rounds through it in the garden and it never fails, shoots straight and feels very solid.

If that is a reasonable price I stand corrected and the seller is not a dreamer. I don’t know how rich I would need to be to spend a grand on something to carry £20 mags round in, but it would have to be Bill Gates levels of rich.

Ladies and gentlemen; I think we have a winner! £800 for a used plate carrier and some ammo pouches. I can only presume this was worn by Jesus himself or it contains a stealth jetpack that enables you to do the COD MW2 gravity jump think mid-skirmish!

Very true, but that would make you a twat/speedsofter...

SR2? I mean pretty useless in it’s true form but as an airsoft SMG it could look very very cool. You could incorporate a sliding stock too if you are pretty well making it up as you go along.