Colin Allen

Pull your head in, old boy; your angry man syndrome is showing. AI legislation and firearms legislation are two completely different situations. The former is a new and rapidly developing area and all governments are looking at its potential impact and how to prevent it growing out of control; it is not a case of "follow my leader". Do you really think that a US requirement to have markings on imitation firearms and some form of testing programme for the same is going to impact your right to own a firearm in the UK? I did NOT say that nobody needs a firearm; I said that, outside a few legitimate reasons, nobody in the UK needs a firearm; if you are going to argue with me, at least try to argue with what I have said. I stand by what I said; there are very few people in the UK who need a firearm. Your car argument is utterly infantile; cars serve a useful purpose in transporting people. As such, they are useful tools. In the UK, firearms are only useful tools for very, very few people. Comparing airsofters with Dietrich Bonhoeffer is utterly ridiculous and massively insulting to someone who had the guts to stand up to one of the most vile regimes in modern history. Give your head a shake.

I cannot quite see how US regulations regarding imitation firearms will impact shooting hobbies in the UK. I expect new legislation will make ownership and use of firearms more difficult; given that we still have incidents such as the ones that you describe, that is almost inevitable. To be honest, outside a few legitimate reasons, I cannot see why anyone in the UK needs to own a firearm.

That is neither a ban on imports nor a requirement for them to be either transparent plastic or non-real looking colours. A 6mm orange band on the muzzle meets the requirements. As for the testing regime, a "reasonable testing program" is required but what constitutes reasonable is not defined. It is up to the manufacturer or "private labeler" to certify that the product meets the requirement of having the required marking. This would probably not be an onerous requirement.

The part that I highlighted is incredibly simplistic; it is the classic argument that guns are not the problem and that "an armed society is a safe society". Guns may not be the whole of the problem but they are a very large part of it; having an armed society hasn't worked out particularly well for you, has it? Has it created a safer society? I don't think that there is anything that ordinary Joes like you can do; the situation has reached the point where you just have to accept that dead schoolchildren are the price you have to pay for an obsession with owning guns and a devotion to every word, comma, full stop etc of an outdated constitution that prevents people from accepting that the conditional clause of the second amendment is now obsolete, thus voiding the right to keep and bear arms.

Most of the developed world moved way beyond that incredibly simplistic view a long time ago. Unfortunately, I suspect that there are so many guns in circulation in the USA that you are truly fucked. You have created an armed, aggressive and fearful society with appallingly poor education and mental health provision, resulting in a situation where a reasonably large number of schoolchildren are going to be killed in mass shootings every year. But hey, that's a price worth paying for Billy Bob to own his penis extension.

Excellent! I have been wearing mine today. I only own one pair of shoes, which are for when I have to wear black tie. I own 17 pairs of issue boots.

1000 mile socks are great. As an alternative, I have been using these for walking, airsoft and everyday use for years and have covered an awful lot of miles in them: https://tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/product/tuc141251954

Best desert boots: Iturri, by a very long way, but they are not good in the wet without sealskinz socks. Best patrol boots: Iturri. Light, comfortable and pretty much waterproof if treated properly with waterproofing wax.

Don’t! They are very old fashioned boots; awkward and uncomfortable when worn over any length of time. These are quite similar to the YDS boots; old fashioned, awkward and not particularly comfortable.

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Oh god! Those things! Awful boots; heavy, uncomfortable and very basic. I bought a pair once; they went back whence they came very rapidly.

The ankle support on the Iturri desert boots is good; they are great boots as long as you keep them away from anything that vaguely resembles water. I would not use the issue AKU Pilgrim for anything more than everyday around town use; they are very comfortable and reasonably supportive but are not particularly well made. They are also not very waterproof and are quite narrow. They are very popular in my eldest son’s reserve unit because they do not need polishing for parade. Just to throw another option into your considerations, the Meindl black Bundeswehr boots are excellent; really good soles, goretex lined, comfortable, supportive, light and quite wide.

They are not unduly heavy, but I guess it depends on what you regard as heavy. Given your feet, you might struggle with them as they are not the widest boots. Karrimor SF cold wet weather boots, which you can pick up on eBay, are quite wide.

Yes, Sports Direct took over the civilian Karrimor brand, while another company, Karrimor SF, made some very good cold wet weather boots for the MoD; I recently sent quite a few pairs of the latter to Ukraine, where they are very popular. The Sports Direct Karrimor walking boots are very poor; the Iturri desert boots would be better or, ideally, Iturri Cold Wet Weather boots, which are the best boots I have found in more than 40 years of wearing issue and commercial boots over various gnarly bits of the UK and beyond. My son describes them as: "Incredibly comfortable and have what I am calling "the down duvet effect", despite not being too hot at all when tabbing or doing platoon attacks, I also didn't have cold feet the whole weekend, even when it started snowing." However, you do need to go a full size up on them; for example, if you normally take a 10L, you need an 11L. The Iturri patrol boots are very light and very comfortable but, as I wrote earlier, do not provide as much ankle support. On reflection, I would not use them for airsoft.

Iturri desert boots are excellent; very comfortable, very supportive and they have the superb Defender sole, which is now replacing the Vibram sole on the main British army issue boots, the Altberg Defender, as they provide better grip on hard surfaces, while being as good on softer surfaces. However, they are definitely not in any way waterproof, even after being properly treated; even mildly long wet grass is a problem. The Peruana jungle boots are nice, but the soles do not provide adequate grip on hard or solid surfaces; they are designed for muddy conditions where they can sink in. However, they are somewhat iconic. I have to admit to being a military boot geek!

Welcome to the forum and a hobby that will drain your bank account.

Yesterday, I took a trip down memory lane and went to Battle Lakes in Kent, a site where I used to play and marshal but have not visited for a few years after it went a bit strange. It is now run by Gunman Airsoft and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that Tony, who was the site manager when I marshalled there, was back managing it. After registering and checking out the small but rather well stocked shop, I sorted my gear out and went to the chrono. The safety and morning game briefs were brief but complete and, as ever with Tony, rather entertaining. The morning's game was a domination style one, with the blue team holding three points (the village, the comms tower and the fuel dump), which we, the red team, had to try to take. In addition to the main regen, each team had a forward regen that they could position wherever they chose once the game had started, There was also a third team ("The Americans"), who were carrying out their own mission, which was to kill VIPs in both the red and blue teams. We decided to split into three groups, one going for each objective. My group set off for the fuel dump, which was the most distant; it soon became apparent that I was the only one in the group who know the layout of the site. We quickly located the blue team's forward regen and neutralised it, which meant that they would have to take it back to their main regen before it could be taken back out again. Circling around the fuel dump we attacked it from the rear, took out two or three defenders and replaced the blue team's flag with ours. We then got into a firefight with some blue players and ended up going back to regen. From there, a group of us set off to attack the village, which we took fairly quickly. However, instead of pushing on to attack the comms tower, we settled in to defend the village, from which we were eventually expelled. This was about the end of the morning session. In the afternoon, both teams were issued with a vast amount of money, which could be used to buy weapons from an arms dealer at the far end of the field, whose shop was only open at specific times. The Americans, as well as hunting the VIPs, were also out to recover the weapons, which both teams could store in their chosen FOB, ours being in the village. After much collecting of weapons, including a large and very expensive nuclear device, a sniper and I decided to go and prowl around near the Americans' base; we did not encounter them but we did take out a fair number of the blue team from well concealed positions. Returning to the FOB, we helped defend that against attacks by the blue team, only to be overrun by the Americans right at the end of the game. It was a very good day and I will definitely return. Thanks to Jez and Ollie for the recommendation. If you want lightweight boots, have a look at Iturri Patrol boots on eBay. They are light and very comfortable, although not as supportive as I like.

The question was about three wire mosfets. I have replaced a three wired mosfet with the AB++ by connecting it to the existing cables; it is a simple soldering job.

Maybe try the Perun AB++; it has three wires https://perunairsoft.pl/products/ab_plusplus/ Burst control, AB, precocking, ROF control etc.

Welcome, cowboy! Enjoy your first day and remember that age is a state of mind.

This one from the chap that SSPKali mentioned is very helpful for shimming: Try it with a fully charged battery; that one appears to be very low. If it is fully charged, something is preventing the geartrain/piston moving freely. It does sound like something is rubbing. What power spring is in it? Have you tried it with a motor that you know is ok? It looks like you are getting semi auto lockup; this happens when the gearbox stops in a position where the cutoff lever is still engaging the trigger trolley; it can be cleared by shooting in full auto. This can be fixed by fitting an AB mosfet or a Gate Titan/Perun Hybrid type.

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Think of a plastic toothed piston as a mechanical fuse; it is better to strip a plastic piston than to have bits of metal detaching themselves at high speed. Pistons don't fail very often, unless they are made by Ares, but it would be worth checking the angle of engagement (AoE) and for premature engagement, which is what happens when the gears catch the piston before it has travelled the whole way forward after being released..

They aren't quite so budget now, but then nothing is. However, they are still very good for the price.

Another vote here for a stripped piston or gear. You are going to have to open it up to find out.