Nixon

What battery are you using? 11.1? If so try it on a 7.4 and see if the problem goes away.

Both my walking boots and playing boots are the same, worn them for years and are still as good as the day I bought them, Altberg defenders. You can find them new for sub 100 or super grade 1 surplus for around 45-50 quid. Full leather boot, great ankle support and meaty tread.

I run a mkii crb as my primary weapon. I too thought the same as you regarding upgrading straight away, but several months down the road and a lot of use, I can categorically say that I really wouldn't bother. I stuck in a Prometheus 6.03 barrel, maple leaf bucking/nub, from there on I experienced a serious drop in fps, averaging 275. Don't get me wrong, it was accurate and had reasonable range, but upon putting the stock barrel,bucking/nub back in and putting a wrap of PTFE around the bucking, it now happily sits around 340. All I've now done is change out the stock spring to an m100,and clip half a coil off. From playing on Saturday I'm extremely happy with it's performance now. Stick an 11.1 in it and away you go.

Admittedly it's not cheap stuff, side by side the Digi flora gear is very comparable, pricewise though, we know the winner 😄

DPM is probably the most widely used camo pattern in the uk, along side multicam which has been done to death for a long time,yet blends awfully in our woodland environment. One of my team-mates wears pencott greenzone, it's been a long running joke that he's never in any event photographs, purely because no-one ever sees him. If I was setting out to buy new playing gear I'd certainly be looking at the pencott.

I run a warrior plb belt, in conjunction with a velcro inner duty belt on my trousers,it's got hook velcro lining the outside which marries up to the loop velcro panel on the lumber part of the warrior belt. Solid and doesn't budge at all.