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Like a lot of hobbies, you decide your level of engagement and how expensive you want to make it. You could get kitted out from scratch for <£200 and go out and have a fine old time. Not that fools like us do this of course, but we *could*...

I wear a pair of mid-height Merrel walking boots and they've been perfect for comfort, support and durability. They also do a good job of not making your feet smell. My boss was talking them up for years and now I'm a total convert to the brand.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3jFqhjaGh30

I've got a ghost ring rear sight on mine, it's pretty nice and more solid than the stock sight. Works really well with a fibreoptic front sight. It's worth putting some mild threadlock on the top rearsight screw; it has a tendency to work itself loose, especially if you're using higher power gases.

Just a bit of fun. Feel free to play on your next game day.

I use hi-caps just because I can't be arsed to carry around 7/8 (or 10!) mags, in fact I might reduce my loadout from 3 mags to 2 because I rarely go through even half a mag in a single game. The vast majority of the time I keep it in single shot mode, in fact on Sunday I only switched to full auto once.

The sight of a poor creaking plate carrier being pressed into use as a girdle may be even worse. At some point a chap needs to do the decent thing and just put on a gillie suit for the sake of the rest of us. Ive gradually come to the opinion that while many people *want* a plate carrier, what they *need* is a chest rig.

Ooh, linky?

One of the site regulars had an impromptu car boot sale today, lots of bargains to be had. I picked up the following lot for £50-odd: that's 2 moscarts and a launcher, battery bag, hi capa piston, m4 stock, mesh mask, rubber knife and a scope extension with honeycomb shade. Bargain I think. I've tested the moscarts already, can't wait to use them in anger...

I have headed off any incidents with my own HW airguns before they happen by immediately stripping them down, fettling and relubing. Prior to 2016 I would order them direct from Germany along with an export spring, thus avoiding any problems with Hull Cartridges ham-fisted gunsmithing. Though their QC is on a downward curve (as attested by the off centre front sight dovetail on my HW30s) HW airguns are still mostly well designed and extremely easy to strip down and work on yourself, no reason to get into sending them off to anyone if you are even slightly mechanically capable.

No, the connector of the sky charger is xt60 MALE and your battery cable is mini tamiya female, so you need an xt60 FEmale to mini tamiya male cable. (I get why its confusing because they both have male/female aspects, but it's the outer plastic part rather than the inner pins that define whether it's male or female) I believe this is what you need: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143993734576?epid=1078020355&hash=item2186b205b0:g:LZgAAOSwgApXC677&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA8C6PFyZ5V7ohTvgcFYrzSJyx9wjRQPvjQ2RKZNjzR6LafjlvpIlBWVm9On8vAPXDRnvQKuI9hJRnuoEtAPuYgHStpMezN%2FD6fU9EDPmN%2FS%2BaCjbCclPb0qDAkxXPL%2B4CkB06MHLverilFVEbWbILx3O8oh0z%2BXw%2BvmaXIf762mKZXeBdLzG7U%2F%2Ba6cXSONT8%2BmXzNLW%2BXIE8ITbXyUp%2FtDOTd7j6P5iza58LmrVoE7kC7lJxQste0Ue9XwjYuKTpfTM694XTveFa1glWbIkYUwsHgrSwwHlRx2C7fM%2Fy%2B47Tl1pUztyRVOHy0Qi49%2Ft1CQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBMqI2Z081g Edit: No, I was wrong about the xt60! But this is the cable you need. God my head is spinning now lol

Which one is that, out of interest?

I am aware. I am also aware that up until quite recently they would just angle grind off the ends of mainsprings when respringing import airguns for the UK market, without collapsing the end coil or grinding it flat. More than one person has fired half a tin of pellets through a brand new gun, only to open it up and find the inside of the piston torn up to fuck because of the sharp point left on the spring. Anyone who would do that to an airgun is a know-nothing cunt that I wouldn't trust to service a nerf gun.

The cable you need is xt male to tamiya female (assuming your battery leads are male - could we see a pic to be sure? The standard is female). The socket on the sky charger is female.

DPM as above literally designed for the UK/western Europe and I still think its an effective camo, more so than jack of all trades but master of none MTP. If the DPM guy in Rostoks pic was lying prone at the base of that tree on the right he would blend in very well indeed... If you wanted something a bit different I've recently been looking at the Finnish M05 camo, not quite so many accessories available as yet but it looks like it would blend in well in heavily wooded (particularly coniferous) sites. Field craft is your friend though. Stick to the shadows, don't silhouette yourself and keep still where possible, and you can get away with wearing whatever within reason. Personally at the moment I'm wearing a jack pyke mesh leaf suit over tracksuit bottoms and a long sleeved t-shirt, which is a great summer set up that suits my quasi-Designtated Marksman role, though I do have a goretex DPM loadout ready for the autumn/winter.

Try ebay, when I bought my xt to mini tamiya adaptor from there they seemed to have every permutation possible. As above I did have to swap the wires over at the tamiya end but this was a 2 minute job.

I have strong feelings about Hull Cartridge

Not sure I'd trust Hull Cartridge with it, they don't exactly have the best reputation in the airgun community. Find a good airgunsmith.

If you are considering a chest rig rather than a plate carrier, I can thoroughly recommend this one: https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/odtmb2nx.html Very comfortable and practical. I've been through a few setups of plate carriers and battle belts, and this is IMO the perfect compromise between the two if you like to run relatively lightweight.

Sounds like great fun, I'll definitely try to make it to the next one

Just imagining how much less fun skirmishing would be if you were bothered about marking your gun.

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It's reasonably easy to get a shotgun cert., criminal record checks notwithstanding (and social media! If they go on your FB page and it's all punisher skulls and "I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6" shite, then you may well get a knockback). It's also quite easy to lose a SGC. If you're investigated for other offenses you may well have your guns temporarily confiscated, and a conviction may well mean the temporary or permanent loss of your SGC. Not just for violent offenses either. I know a guy who lost his due to a drink driving conviction. He has it back now, about 15 years later. Thomas Hamilton was going to have his license revoked, before one of the paedophile politicians he was procuring children for put political pressure on the local authority to return his guns.... But the overwhelming majority of the time, the licensing system works as intended. Interestingly, US gun law is insanely complex and counterintuitive in comparison to the UK, and it's very easy for the generally law-abiding citizen to fall foul of the law just by e.g crossing state lines. And falling foul of those laws might earn you a serious prison sentence or a fine that will ruin you financially. The consequences are much more dire than in the UK, where you're probably looking at 5 years max for simple possession.

Believe this was the thread:

There was someone on here a month or two back who dyed a couple of FNX slides. Believe it was pretty straightforward but some care was needed not to have the plastic slide touch the bottom of the pan or whatever container you're heating it in.