Dan Robinson

But I like shooting puddles. 

Actually learnt a few things in that video - I didn't realise you were supposed to weave the straps on the pouches for one.  Wonder if I will have time tonight before tomorrow to re run it all on my rigs.

I sympathise with the need for a system of defense such as UKARA, but to be fair to the OP, my son's  situation would mean that if he were 18, it would be incredibly difficult for him to maintain a UKARA defense, and once I leave the UK,  it will be the same for me.  We'll only be back for a month or two at a time with lots of family visiting responsibilities to fit into a limited budget when it comes to car hire, fees, ammo, and possibly having to rent an air BnB for the duration.
 
Hence, as discussed in other threads, I maintain an album of site generated pictures of me and him participating in the hobby to help us form a defence of our own should we ever be pulled over by the fuzz with a car full of RIFs.  Which I know doesn't help with retailers...  but then this is the reason for this thread I suppose. 
 
Mind you the OP didn't do himself any favours by not at least trying to explain the situation.
 
Just playing devil's advocate. 

I sympathise with the need for a system of defense such as UKARA, but to be fair to the OP, my son's  situation would mean that if he were 18, it would be incredibly difficult for him to maintain a UKARA defense, and once I leave the UK,  it will be the same for me.  We'll only be back for a month or two at a time with lots of family visiting responsibilities to fit into a limited budget when it comes to car hire, fees, ammo, and possibly having to rent an air BnB for the duration.
 
Hence, as discussed in other threads, I maintain an album of site generated pictures of me and him participating in the hobby to help us form a defence of our own should we ever be pulled over by the fuzz with a car full of RIFs.  Which I know doesn't help with retailers...  but then this is the reason for this thread I suppose. 
 
Mind you the OP didn't do himself any favours by not at least trying to explain the situation.
 
Just playing devil's advocate. 

I sympathise with the need for a system of defense such as UKARA, but to be fair to the OP, my son's  situation would mean that if he were 18, it would be incredibly difficult for him to maintain a UKARA defense, and once I leave the UK,  it will be the same for me.  We'll only be back for a month or two at a time with lots of family visiting responsibilities to fit into a limited budget when it comes to car hire, fees, ammo, and possibly having to rent an air BnB for the duration.
 
Hence, as discussed in other threads, I maintain an album of site generated pictures of me and him participating in the hobby to help us form a defence of our own should we ever be pulled over by the fuzz with a car full of RIFs.  Which I know doesn't help with retailers...  but then this is the reason for this thread I suppose. 
 
Mind you the OP didn't do himself any favours by not at least trying to explain the situation.
 
Just playing devil's advocate. 

I sympathise with the need for a system of defense such as UKARA, but to be fair to the OP, my son's  situation would mean that if he were 18, it would be incredibly difficult for him to maintain a UKARA defense, and once I leave the UK,  it will be the same for me.  We'll only be back for a month or two at a time with lots of family visiting responsibilities to fit into a limited budget when it comes to car hire, fees, ammo, and possibly having to rent an air BnB for the duration.
 
Hence, as discussed in other threads, I maintain an album of site generated pictures of me and him participating in the hobby to help us form a defence of our own should we ever be pulled over by the fuzz with a car full of RIFs.  Which I know doesn't help with retailers...  but then this is the reason for this thread I suppose. 
 
Mind you the OP didn't do himself any favours by not at least trying to explain the situation.
 
Just playing devil's advocate. 

I watched the original Alien film when I was about 4 or 5.  My dad said I absolutely loved it.  No nightmares at all.  Then a few years later Spitting Image did a take off with Maggie Thatcher:
 

 
 
Now that freaked the absolute shit out of me for years apparently - had to check under the bed, no cuddly toys around, just in case.
 
That was nightmare fuel.

I watched the original Alien film when I was about 4 or 5.  My dad said I absolutely loved it.  No nightmares at all.  Then a few years later Spitting Image did a take off with Maggie Thatcher:
 

 
 
Now that freaked the absolute shit out of me for years apparently - had to check under the bed, no cuddly toys around, just in case.
 
That was nightmare fuel.

I watched the original Alien film when I was about 4 or 5.  My dad said I absolutely loved it.  No nightmares at all.  Then a few years later Spitting Image did a take off with Maggie Thatcher:
 

 
 
Now that freaked the absolute shit out of me for years apparently - had to check under the bed, no cuddly toys around, just in case.
 
That was nightmare fuel.

Some creative ideas of what you spent the night doing with caller's mumn tends to rile them up in amusing ways.
 
Maybe something involving a rubber glove, a pound of agitated insect larvae and a Brian Adams CD?
 
 

We have a special word in German for trash like this cockwomble. Der ist ein Missgeburt. 

I can’t believe his channel hasn’t been deleted yet. Despicable. 

We have one in Scotland too... C$%T

So my glasses have finally arrived they are very quite you can hardly hear the fans and i think once playing you wont notice them at all. 

Depends how long you spend pulling it in and out I suppose.  I tend to stop when it starts to hurt/go numb.

Depends how long you spend pulling it in and out I suppose.  I tend to stop when it starts to hurt/go numb.

Depends how long you spend pulling it in and out I suppose.  I tend to stop when it starts to hurt/go numb.

To combat the numbness I tend to change hands when I get to 99 😉

Depends how long you spend pulling it in and out I suppose.  I tend to stop when it starts to hurt/go numb.

But....Custom Spring!

Or the more available and Mack's appropriate "Bubulum Stercus".

But....Custom Spring!

that's wonderful news.  The flat little boxes are a godsend.  90% of the orders I have can fit into a Large Letter box, this allows me to keep the fee for Tracked 24 to just £3.30 (Royal Mail price rise imminent) plus you don't need to be in when the post arrives.  I could save a buck or 2 by going down the jiffy bag route like most other retailers but nah keep it boxed....

Was back at Worthing for a cold one this weekend. We had to leave very early because the guy who gives us a lift was asked to help sort the car park, which is usually pandemonium, as it was going to be a very busy, very fully booked day today. He says it's the last time as they really need to get a marshall to sort it out, as he used to do it when he was a marshall, but stepped away from it a year or so ago so that he can play more as he's getting older. Anyway, I wasn't sure if he was bringing his grandson along, but knew he was bringing the wet weather kit, so I only took one rifle bag today (well, two, but one was going to a tech), as I didn't want to take up too much space in the car. This meant that the m700 came along, as it's my favourite gun and I was still riding off the high of last weekend when the weather was nice. This was potentially a mistake, but I'm undecided on it. Also, the reason it was fully booked was because it was one of the ongoing narrative game days, which is a bit like a blend of skirmish and filmsim. There were two teams, traditional cartel and another not-cartel who work with the government, but there was also a third element out today which was a press crew; two guys in press gear with two guys and a ghillie sniper as protection. They only fired if fired upon, or if the marshalls told them to shoot at one team that was doing too well, and when hit they would go down to a knee for 30 seconds before getting back in the game.
 
After standing around the safe zone for a long time because we arrived at 7:30am (left my house at 6:45am, and the other two were closer to 6:30am), we went out into the game. The first issue of the day was here, as with this game everyone who was wearing a loud, Hawaiian style shirt were put on the cartel team. The issue here is that a LOT of the regulars came in costume and so the teams weren't very well balanced. Me and my friend were on the not-cartel team and it was going decently for about 30 mins. Our team pushed forward and were doing well. However, then when people got hit and respawned back in, they stopped pushing up. I very quickly found myself as the front line, which with a bolt action sniper rifle wasn't the best. Manged to stay hidden and pick people off, including the leader of the enemy cartel, but eventually I had to fall back because the pressure was getting high and I was starting to get surrounded. Moved back to another position and dug in, but again I quickly found myself being the front line again. One guy on the other team ran up and killed off about 6 of my team who were just huddled behind a building doing nothing and while I took him and another who pushed up out with my mk23, I was eventually overrun by more players as I was alone again. It felt a bit like I was pushing a stone up a hill as none of my team seemed to be doing much. Headed back to respawn and even though by this point there was only a few mins left, I went back to try and cause some havoc. Crawled up behind a low layer of foliage, using it to screen my advance along a flank and taking out the enemy player watching that flank (I love how quiet the m700 is...) and managed to get into a position where I managed to take three more players out with the mk23. However, at this point the morning was over and it was lunch time. Our team had zero objectives and the enemy team had crushed just about all of their ones. The game continued after lunch, but I can't comment too much on that as I decided to not play the afternoon. The forecast was wet and running a gas m700 in this temperature is already enough of a challenge, so I packed up. Was definitely the correct choice to get my wet kit off and put my warm kit and waterproof jacket on, as the wind picked up and it started to rain, getting heavier over time. Definitely did not want to play in that today. I heard that the not-cartel team continued to get their asses kicked through the afternoon.
 
However, that was generally my only criticism with how the game was run; the team balance was horribly off. Outside of this, the game was well thought out and was fun to play and while frustrating at times, I still had fun. The multi-objective, full-site gameplay was good and I way prefer these sorts of games to the simple attack and defend type games that are prevalent at skirmish days across the country. Hit calling, from what I saw, was generally pretty good and I only had one instance of a guy very obviously not taking his hits, because I hit him in the face (that was all that was showing!) and watched him recoil back from the shot, but then he just retreated back behind cover. Every other player I shot took their hits and I didn't observe anyone near me not taking theirs, so the sportsmanship was top notch! The issue with players not playing and sitting about 90m away from the other team and trying to shoot at them is just an inevitable part of airsoft, but they were almost all on one team today and that team got royally thrashed  
 
The other issue was my gun. When the weather is this cold, the gas bolt actions just... drop in power. With every shot. Which throws your hop up setting off. It was a pain in the backside trying to adjust for it and was one of the contributing factors why I didn't play in the afternoon; I just couldn't be bothered to deal with it any longer. I love my gas m700, but for it to be consistent it needs about 15 celcius. 10 - 12 celcius is okay, but 6 - 7 celcius like today is too low. If it's cold next game day I'm just going to take my SR-25 and run that.
 
Anyway, I'll leave it there. Amazing day that was only marred by poor team balance. Everything else was great!

Whilst there are plenty of registered users,  there are only a few tens of regularly active contributers. 
 
That's not to say we can't be of a positive influence within the hobby.   It active social media groups brainstorming and lobbying their industry contacts that have pushed forward some rapid modernisation in our industry rather than the self appointed "organisations".

Whilst there are plenty of registered users,  there are only a few tens of regularly active contributers. 
 
That's not to say we can't be of a positive influence within the hobby.   It active social media groups brainstorming and lobbying their industry contacts that have pushed forward some rapid modernisation in our industry rather than the self appointed "organisations".