TheFull9

I'd go DA myself as I say, but check out Templars Gear too for their options and Begadi: https://www.begadi.com/outdoor/plate-carriers/begadi-value-plattentraeger-plate-carrier-set-mit-5-taschen-pencott-greenzone.html Breathability will be 98% the same with any of these options because PCs are 0% breathable so if the surface area is the same between 2 designs the amount of sweat you can evaporate will be the same. A spacer mesh lining is nice if you find one with that, but it's not a game changer. That said actually, the DA rig with hollow fake plates will be better than the others if you cut a load of holes in said fake hollow plate.

Good softshell fabric is bloody invincible, I once trampled *in to* a fat reel of barbed wire (i.e. I was stood in the middle of a literal doughnut of death) that was laying on its' side in some woods (fogged goggles) wearing PCU L5 i.e. softshell trousers, couldn't even see any holes afterwards, apart from a few little ones in my ankles. OPS is decent stuff, but it's airsoft kit whereas DA is real kit and it is just better overall; to put it very overly-simply. Is it a pencott pattern you're after or US woodland?

Personally I have expander bases/options for all my many micro rigs (couple spiritus, couple custom and a haley). 3 Ferro chesty wides and a Spiritus Thing 2, but there's various other options out there. If modularity is what you want or you'd like to build that sort of setup over time it means you can basically always configure a chest rig to carry exactly what you want. The harness and back straps are all the same whether you add the extra width/pouches or not, only takes 2 seconds to swap between configs, not to mention of course the PC cross-compatibility. Just an option. If you need to carry lots of fat/big/weird mags and the popular micros don't suit because you don't want a belt as well, then there's no shortage of standard all-PALS chest rigs out there to attach any pouch your heart desires on to.

Those mags are what I'd go for personally. However, spend money on the sling first if it's not been.

It's flipped outboard in the pics, will line up fine. Definitely interesting; have to say all 3 of my TM SOCOMs which are all very old at this point (and all my airsoft ARs in fact) use single point slings at the base of the buffer tube so I don't think it's necessarily endemic if you just treat the airsoft gun the way you should treat an airsoft gun vs dropping it so the sling catches it and takes all of the weight, but no denying that spreading the weight across 2 areas does halve the forces imparted on each.

pff No thank you.

The TM sling point at the base of the buffer tube should be fine but good lord buy a better sling, you've spent a fortune on that gun total and the cheapest thing on the entire list is the one thing that's stopping it dropping and getting utterly fucked by a paving slab. 1 or 2 point is all preference, just buy a quality one, nothing from nuprol is worth a 2nd glance but 'real' slings (anything you can get on tactical-kit) are one of the cheapest things you can get in airsoft that pay huge dividends in return. Any Magpul Industries style magazine you can get at retail now is of unlicensed chinese manufacture, but maybe you can find the PTS EBB PMAGs 2nd hand. Some chinese stuff will be fine ofc but the PTS EPMs are the best quality I know of in the realm of airsoft bb feeding devices. Depends if you want the more realistic look at the possible cost of some durability and reliability. Every SF guy and top end competition shooter or otherwise legit knowledgeable person I've ever seen, heard or spoken to puts their red dot optics somewhere right above the magazine. It's all a balance; further back means more view through the optic but more of the housing and less of your surroundings - further forward means less view through but less of the housing and more of the surroundings. Most people with enormous amounts of competitive and combat experience are all in agreement and all go for roughly the same place which is in the region of 2-4 rail slots further forward than you have it right now; not that it matters at airsoft distances but whatevs. If you are using the magnifier of course then you just have to set that wherever you can actually use it depending on its' eye relief and where you set your stock, then obviously bring the dot optic butted right up against the magnifier, no way around that.

2005 called. 😂 I'm impressed honestly.

Have you tried it in a game/worn it yet so we can get a picture? Because I've seen guys wearing two minimaps like a PC but I always presumed that was just to really emulate the floaty feeling of a GMR person high on both drugs and instagram adoration as they get themselves kicked out from yet another milsim.

I've read a lot of threads that are basically this over the years, I'd imagine others who've been on multiple forums for long enough are in the same boat. What always happens is exactly what's happened here and we learn that actually despite the initial supposition it turns out there are a LOT of different niche little ways that people choose to enjoy an already super niche thing, which is the beauty of the world we live in at the moment when you look at it in the context of all of history. Still productive to keep having the discussion though given the way a lot of the player base churns through the hobby. Rationalising your (speaking generally) position through this sort of talking and being exposed to all the ways of thinking and points of view you've never considered previously is important. Helps decrease general instances of douchebaggery over people doing things a different way to the way people think they 'should' be done. Snobs, reverse-snobs, not-milsim-enough, not-speedsoft-enough etc etc. And the former will probably always stay wealthy and the latter always stay poor. Not super relevant but I have to say it; getting in to any debt over airsoft is stupidly bonkers. Realising you have a problem is the first step. I heard a very intelligent person r.e. this topic recently say something along the lines of 'nobody's addicted to anything (alcohol, sex, shopping, gambling, social media), everyone's just addicted to serotonin', which I think is good info to know when trying to break any bad habit you deem necessary to break in your life. Doesn't fix the problem but more understanding is always better. Personally I have a pretty deep-running passion for financial management as essentially a hobby and that in itself dictates basically everything I do and that includes airsoft, which is why I hugely prioritise quality and more importantly reliability along with protecting and subsequently maintaining what I do have. I'd recommend anyone putting just the tiniest bit of money in the stock market, or even just signing up for eToro (free) and playing the simulator with fake money to start - long as you take it seriously. Once you realise the possibilities and start learning more and following the right people online it has a good potential to affect the way you do everything else in life, even health and fitness.

Not that far I don't think. You'd have to read in to it, I've heard some very colourful tales about supposed fuck-ups while he was in; and his entire persona now is the most absurd cringe bs of any tactical celebirty going imho. Born in Vietnam and uses all the over-done Ninja/Samurai bs cliches going on social media. Every product design is a rip-off.

Reddit's just another social media, it kinda looks more like a forum style at a glance, but the format of comments with multiple branches vs the single line forum thread makes a big difference. Also it's all about upvote and award farming, just like FB and IG are about react farming. Both great big seas of essentially faceless and far-more-anonymous people making lots of much shorter and less substantial additions to each given thread. Also both are much more deeply infected with politics than any forum I've ever been on. Problem is you can get 'famous' and make money on social media, probably if you're big enough on reddit too (though I'm not on there much other than for stock market stuff) and that's never a good thing.

Flimmuur via British Tactical and Luminae are some quality ones made here to take a look at; imho. Interestingly, the US never really seemed to all agree on a general naming convention for these, despite that they seemed to originate there - though I don't know who sold the first one other than the fact it definitely wasn't that Ronin fraud. The closest they got was probably Micro PALS belt but every brand over there I've looked at says something different. The UK brands seem to have agreed on Shooters' Belt as a naming convention though which is handy for gooling.

Is your gun empty and the bad guy pretty damn close? F**k retaining the mag, drop it like it's hot, get the gun fed and do your best to live, think about picking the mag up if and when you have the chance. As distance and available cover increases you've got more time and opportunity to retain the empty during the reload process. With an exception to be noted momentarily, dropping empties has never been official UK doctrine afaik whether with rifle or pistol, even doing CQM for deployments (not that I've seen every service/unit's range SOPs by a long shot), but the fact is it's fast so do what you gotta do if that time comes is my stance - which for me it almost certainly never will but I sure hope I come through if it does. I don't know the details during the SLR days, but basic evolution of british ammo feeding the last 100 years (primary rifles only) has been Lee-Enfield 5rnd clips -> FAL 20 round mags -> RG 'disposable' paper thin aluminium 30 rounders -> HK Steel very-much-not-disposable 30 rounders -> Magpul 30rnd EMAGs. As mentioned we tried to copy the US in the 80s but bureaucracy caused an issue with the L85A1 and those cheap, weak mags were a large factor amongst the many problems that rifle had. The magazine is one of the most vital links in the chain of reliability for a firearm. Dump pouches have never really been the most popular thing for stashing empties for militaries anyway if you take a holistic look at things. I've never personally seen one that was standard issue for us, the yanks, canada or anyone in Europe, I'm sure they exist but I've never seen one on anyone on ex, in theatre or in a deployed picture anywhere. I'm quite sure there's various exceptions, but it's not the norm. They're pretty good for airsoft, they're good for just stashing 'stuff' you need to shove somewhere right that second, saw a good bit of use for 'SSE' in the middle east for some cooler blokes than me, but they have a lot of drawbacks and aren't all that necessary. I'd call them more a result of the 2000's explosion in more modernised and high-speed shooting courses available for civilians in the US and the gigantic growth in the tactical gear industry that was going on at that same time.

I'd have to say BB capacity is low on the list of what I'd care about in terms of the construction and characteristics of a GBB mag. Quality of the seals, valves and gasket is the main thing; and I've got TM mags over a decade old with no maintenance that are still gas tight.

Can't remember if I posted this here recently, but anyway, the BCM is best as either just a hand-stop using a c-clamp or for the thumb break method. Something that short and fat is gonna suck for most people if you try and broomhandle it as per top right shown above. As a general rule, the shorter/smaller/fatter a thing is on your 6 o/clock rail the less hand you'll probably want to actually have on it. Longer/thinner = more of the grip surface area. The exception of course is a tac-sac.

Certain Crye stuff is always collectible, but you can't just say 'crye' as a catch-all because the price difference between something that looks exactly the same externally but has a different label can be astronomical. I'd be a tad doubtful the uksf cosplay crowd want Gen 1s because I've never personally seen a pic of our sf in them and what they've mostly been pictured in over the years is ACs and other custom gen 2s then just regular G3s more recently.

Supply? Non-existent. Demand? Not really all that much overall tbh, which is wrong imho but 99.9% of people don't even know the provenance and huge amount of history and lineage these things have which did/do influence basically all uniforms to this day. Also most demand is in the US and eastern asia, tiny bit in Europe and essentially none in the UK so it'd about reaching the right audiences. If you only list on UK eBay you'll be hampering yourself, definitely need to get in the big crye groups on facebook as well.

Let's just clear this up a tad because weirdly it needs it - as Dr said the (airsoft) GHK G5 is based on the (firearm) CZ Scorpion Evo 3 in terms of general look/style. The actual firearm has been around and known of for a very long time, long before it got popular in airsoft and video games. GHK probably just went off pictures when they designed the G5 with 556 style mags since, iirc, the G5 was around years before the ASG Scorpion Evo AEG. GHK were already making a fair few GBB 556-style/size mags at that time and obviously they hold more gas, which logistically would explain the design choice. As some old salts might know - The gun being almost all plastic made it cheap to manufacture and well performing in all weathers; when it came out in the earlier days of gas-in-mag GBBRs everyone raved about it as being better than all the WA and WE M4s that were the popular thing in GBBR world back then. The real CZ is relatively cheap, simple and reliable so with that modern look it's prime hollywood fodder. Also an ideal candidate for blank conversion since it's a straight blowback operated firearm with a non-locking breech/bolt, so double points there in the film industry's eyes. Since films now do often use airsoft paired with CGI however it's pretty likely you'll see both the G5 and CZ Evo on the screen in future and given the similar looks, fast cuts, long shots and motion blur I can see how the two would get mixed up.

Thanks for all your continuing efforts man.

You can get the US issued parkas on eBay UK, they need a bit of tailoring to be vaguely practical for anything other than their original purposes though. If you don't mind importing there's a fair few brands that make shirts and combat shirts in the pattern now.

Accidentally actually used some of my kit.

Generally holsters grip trigger guards and they're probably different shapes in this case.

Given the big ol' difference between quality ballistic rated goggles and the same goggles but with a fan, I think there's a huge need for simple ready-made kits (or at least the plans/links grouped together online) based on some common and popular goggle types in order for people do to these mods themselves.