TheFull9

Interesting idea, but I'd say there's not much chance you'll find anything of reasonable price to just drop in; I've never seen anything anyway. I think there are some RS aftermarket handguards which mount to the barrel nut in the classic military M16 fashion and have skinny 6 o/clock sections but they aren't cheap (look at some of the offerings from Midwest Industries), especially since you're just not using 75% of said handguard you've bought. This is going to be a dremel/hacksaw/file job, but if you don't have those tools they're cheap to get and simple to use and the process won't be hard, you just hack chunks out of the sides as per the pic.

Those holsters are pretty poor, I'd say get a kydex one from one of the airsoft specific makers in the UK but if you want the look of the radar then all you can try is a lot of heat and/or sanding inside it. Identify where it's sticking most and go at it, long as you're committed to keeping it of course.

GL + pistol is definitely interesting though I presume you've chosen munitions and know the rules of the site/s you want to play? If you can't use TAGs or don't want to spend a fortune shooting them then all your launcher is is a big shotgun, except way less useful than even a cheap spring/pump tri-barrel and some sites have MEDs that make standard 'shower shells' a pain to employ given their range and spread. But then again, a fun experience cracking the tube to reload and satisfying when you do tag someone. If you want to use TAGs, get whatever you like the look of that has a tilting barrel, i.e. not the M203 or anything with a sliding barrel. Sling mounts don't matter just buy paracord and you can easily make any sling attach to anything and some of the most popular slings used for legit guns use cordage as attachment for its' silence, versatility and strength.

I'd say under 35 for the day is alright, at least in SE england, I've paid more for CQB with no lunch and that was years ago. I think The Mall was at least that much before it shut. I don't like to say it, but unless it's gone down a rabbit hole or lost in the deepest undergrowth then somebody would definitely find an entire pistol so if it wasn't returned.. not great. I'll say I don't recommend pistol lanyards, 100% totally unnecessary if you just get a decent holster and it's a lot better to buy a decent holster than spend the same on a cheap holster + lanyard combo and drag your pistol through the muck. Even if it's not damaged, a lot of GBBPs can choke pretty easily if anything gets inside in crucial areas, given the low pressure of the gas and comparatively super low momentum of the slide cycling. It's a decent rule overall, I'm still on the fence but a bit about it but certainly one effective method to keep a lid on some issues and super easy to enforce. As I say my selection of guns just really didn't suit that rule and I'd have picked differently if I'd realised, but only had 4 lock-ups all day max out of my usual 4-500 BBs slung and only when I got spammy. As long as you have something that's a "real world machine gun" you can flick the switch, but one guy just had an RPK and I don't know where they'd draw the line on ARs with belt fed uppers etc so personally I'd change that one to some kind of weight requirement but again pretty minor issue there were only 2 on site.

Yeah I know painting guns is a thing lol. Had a couple of tins of Krylon camo brown here for years that I've used for painting a couple of RIFs and other bits of gear in all-around schemes, but I don't want to change any of the aesthetics of my current collection (which is what I meant to say by my caption). I've been mulling over what to buy as a specific candidate for a brown dom paint scheme given the prominent colours at so many woodland sites. The reviews on the G&P DD Mk18 in brown are all bad that I've seen unfortunately as I like DD ARs, but when it comes to spray paint obviously it can go on literally anything so there's too much choice frankly. 🤔

Me. Is that allowed?

Alright, well I don't worry much rest assured, but it slightly irks me hence asking the question.

How do you mean early days? This system only got added within the last year or so.

If it is possible, is there any chance we could either get the badges retroactively or just do away with the system? I'm not saying it's the end of the world and if it's a lot of work then it makes sense to just ignore it entirely, but the fact it says I earned the 'rookie' rank in July this year does cause some minor dissonance in my brain.

This is why I want a brown gun.

First time at Gunman Bravo yesterday since it was the closest thing to getting a game this weekend just gone and @Asomodai rated it highly. Overall, not an undeserved reputation; I struggle with giving fair appraisals of sites as I was pretty spoiled by the places I went to when I got in to this game and probably judge things overly critically as a result so while I didn't have the *best* gameplay there per se that's probably no reason to think negatively of the outfit. I was very surprised indeed by the semi only rule throughout the whole site, definitely an interesting approach and something to mull over given the conversation that's ongoing in the ROF-related thread. Unfortunately I'd brought two TM NGRS that are now by modern standards pretty old school, one being dead stock and the other with just some extra FPS and as some of you will well know those guns don't mesh well with trying to fire quickly in repetition, so a few lock-ups reared their head. Luckily the visceral satisfaction of doing the reloads was a saving grace. The TM M45 would've really struggled if I'd actually used it which was also surprising as it was almost 10C, but it was also the moistest skirmish I've ever done which may have been a factor and I barely saw any pistol use all day from anyone. Also learnt that the Revision desert locust fan goggles have enough extra stand off from the face to cause some minor eye relief issues with my replica ACOGs, though again it was so damp that the optics were fogged fairly often anyway. Lessons learned for future and I think my new Holy Warrior magnifier might actually have further eye relief so it could all work out. £25 for the walk-on is certainly decent, very good safe zone maybe the best I've seen at a woodland site, but £8 for the lunch did shock me slightly. On the one hand you're in the middle of the woods with no connected utilities and the lady doing the cooking is lovely and quantity was good and quality at least average, I certainly didn't dislike eating it. Then again quality wasn't amazing either and orders seem to take ages for some reason. Luckily I'd arrived just after the gates opened and got my order in but a lot of guys were only getting their food after the lunch break had finished and I was back out in the game area. The thing that was best and worst at the same time is I discovered my Blackhawk Omnivore (non-light model) doesn't protect the 1911 mag release sufficiently from my thicc ol' quads and after about 14 years of not having it happen I had the absolute classic 'oh that expensive GBB pistol mag isn't in my pistol where it should be' moment. But then the small size of the main play field really worked in my favour and by the will of all of the gods I almost stood on AND actually spotted my small, thin, black painted, dirty 1911 mag on the dark, mucky forest floor while wearing tinted goggles on the walk back to regen. I can only presume I had some good karma built up because as I'm sure most of you know the odds on that were fuckin slim.

Which ones? Just so I know where to avoid obviously.

I had this plan to put perforated fake plates in a Crye mairitime JPC to make the holy grail of PC that actually wouldn't be very hot/sweaty in summer, so I bought some hollow plastic medium SAPI dummies aaaaages ago and through sheer fuckin laziness I never got around to doing what I wanted with them until this week. Tried just using a knife and mk1 hand first but being about 4mm thick and 'sticky' when cutting I could tell I was going to lose a finger if I proceeded, so I swapped to a holesaw + electric drill. End result has the solid edges/outline needed to fill out any PC and looks exactly like a proper plate when inserted, but it weighs almost nothing and has just enough rigidity in the middle to support everything. I'm already working on a connect-4 meme never fear.

100% they will and I could always be wrong. But if you're willingly entering in to a recreational activity the probability is that you have a desire to engage in the game within the rules set down by the organisers and I think that applies to an especially high level in your average weekend skirmish given there is no prize to the 'winner' (if there even is an announced winner). That's probably why the most competitive players who for some reason really want to win the fake Sunday battle and run around with a HPA'd drum mag Hi-Capa are often perceived to be the most likely to cheat and be dicks - whether they are or not I have no evidence to say. Maybe if we got rid of all other rules and just upped a walk-on fee to at least £35-45 and sites became a lot happier to boot people we'd see a big improvement? Maybe not though if someone was further financially invested in their game than usual. But then if more marshals could be hired and they were better compensated for their time... swings + roundabouts. End of the day safety actually is the number 1 priority and not over-shooting is very important in that regard. The one thing I don't think is the answer is just to say 'fuck it nothing will work or change' and not try anything. I'd go as far to say I'm confident in that regard, but some folks will say the problem isn't large enough and that is purely a personal perception matter and impossible to reconcile for most people.

Tbh, I think in the game of airsoft which is literally 100% based on honest hit calling by players on themselves, saying that something in terms of a rule is a fruitless endeavour is a pretty bad logical fallacy. Everything aspect of every action that every player takes on the field is constrained by (first) governmental laws then there's a thick layer of rules set down by the skirmish site layered on top of those. Yes some are harder to enforce than others but there's already loads that are common and accepted yet are hard to enforce. The vast majority of people follow them the vast majority of the time. I've also played a site that had an ammo limit at all times and when it came out in the safety brief I watched a lot of hi-caps go back in bags. Was one of my favourite sites that I re-visited quite often (by my standards). Would people break the rule? For sure, but unless you think a simple rule like any mentioned in this thread will make the gameplay worse then I'd propose there's not a strong case to object to it within the framework of this hobby.

Haven't been made since the 90s apparently.

Disregard females. Search for fill valves and winding wheels.

Ammo limits are the way, imho, on account of the fact you can literally use any type of RIF under the sun with any mechanism for propulsion but if you run out of beebs half way through the game and aren't allowed to re-stock you're going to watch your weight of trigger finger. Is this easily enforceable? Absolutely not, same as any other methods suggested, there's plenty of arguments against it. There's no way you're going to have marshalls checking every pouch and pocket for sneaky hidden mags and bags of bbs. However it's a rule I'd think most people would follow and a lot of the time it wouldn't be too hard to spot offenders. Also it just generally adds to the quality of the gameplay in general in all key respects I find, but I have no delusions that that is subjective and some won't agree with me. Just an idea I've held for a long time and like to put out there now and again.

I'd suggest scrounging up any cheap piece of pic rail you can that, like an unused KeyMod segment or something someone's removed from a G36 handguard or KC-02, anything like that. Use one of the holes, then, given that the other probably won't align, just drill the rail segment then counter-sink and bolt it on. Easy tools to get/find, if you don't have them.

I've done this to my ICS, but can't exactly recall how.. First thing is to establish how it's attached, then figure out how to break that bond without wrecking the body; real ones are spot welded. After that, you can just just any piece of pic rail, drill holes in it and the body then thread the body holes and as long as you only use nice light optics that little bit of thread engagement will be enough.

I don't think I've ever promoted it here for various reasons, but it got to a point some time ago that I'd been a customer of Roman for so long and purchased so much that we worked together on a variant of the G3s he makes done to my design spec. I make something like 2-3 euros in what amounts to store credit if someone orders an item in the 'F9' cut from him. If anyone's interested feel free to DM me I won't clog this thread with self promo. Before that partnership became a thing though, I would get people messaging me on social media fairly often with questions about his stuff, so to answer the FAQs I put together a video. The jist of the video is, essentially, you need to be *mega* specific if you want to order anything from his business. This doesn't just apply to him though, there are people all over the world that make custom gear to order and it's a process I've been through many, many times over the past decade and the very first time doing it I learned just how specific you need to be if you actually want to get what you're picturing in your mind when placing an order. I think to the average person who lives a normal life and hence doesn't have an intimate knowledge of the production of military type uniforms and other tac gear they'd probably find the level of detail needed quite OTT. I make no excuses for his customer service, it's lacking... end of. His stuff is 'less' custom than what is offered by some businesses in that it fellows a template, but it is custom made tactical equipment none-the-less and the same rules apply to his uniforms as to any custom sew business; they can't read your mind and it's basically impossible to exaggerate just how easily things get lost in translation. Not addressing this specific situation now just trying to help people avoid the same fate in future. To illustrate the point, I've collaboratively designed my own piece of kit for commercial sale being made by a company in the US this year and as incredibly simple as this thing is (and looks), it took hours worth of phone calls and dozens of e-mails back and forth adding up to many pages of descriptive text and other media after already drawing up dimensioned schematics, just to get 1 simple little item to be manufactured in the correct way I wanted. So on top of what I mentioned in the linked video, if you want to order from Roman the key is to make zero assumptions and when you think you're making none at all, make a few less. If you want buying kit to just involve checking out through the cart, don't try to get things custom, you'll end up dissatisfied; sorry if that's an unpalatable reality check for anyone reading. Ideally, supply him with the fabric yourself (he has a UK address you can just send it to) for the very best end result in terms of getting exactly what you want and what you've imagined. Or ask him for details and pictures of the materials he has to hand for the camo/s you're interested in. Anyone is welcome to @ me here or DM me on this topic any time. In the event you like the platform I have a facebook group setup that's for discussion of topics just like this and is aimed at spreading info; I generally ask that folks ask me questions in there rather than DMs if at all possible so that the answers are public rather than hidden to the world - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1609908462423146

Now I know what being mansplained to feels like.