TheFull9

Glad to see someone's out there enforcing ukara loicenses. The epitome of a truly great profession.

What's the laws on importing RIFs there? Any different to the rest of the UK? I'm sure if you chuck someone a couple of quid they'll happily forward it on long as it's legal.

Given the trend for carry handles that's floating around atm it's something I've put some thinking time in to and it is the case that if you're not mounting a light/laser or only a light and no laser then you really don't need a freefloat handguard or indeed even a non-freefloat with pic, keymod or M-LOK. Especially with a high optics mount where the fixed front iron isn't getting in the way; though you do have 2 sets of irons now ofc lol. Freefloat is always nice on a firearm for shooting smaller things at farther distances but still not the end of the world and obviously makes no difference in airsoft.. maybe slightly to accuracy if you absolutely crank in to a wall/barricade but not to precision. Would have to say that sort of config is pretty close to being about as practical and efficient as I'd ever want for airsoft indoors while still looking like something that would actually work in any sense of 'reasonable' as a firearm.

Incorrect - climb a flag pole at any royal residence or military establishment.

Given the recent move of production of some optics to China by Sig and the comparatively high price of that for a 'replica' (not to mention that they hide all the trades in the listing pics) there's no denying it's a good possibility at least. Sig will do extra QC if this was the case and you'll have a higher lemon chance going straight to China, but interesting.

Buy a ton of high end gear and RIFs you don't need on a credit card, if your other half questions it tell her to go make you a sandwich, be a man.

Unless your outer barrel is barely held on or the it's made of cheese and you smash the far end of the whole assembly in to stuff regularly it won't matter in the slightest. Being non-freefloat wouldn't help either, free floating means there's a little less weight/force potentially being applied to the barrel, which would then in turn be applied to the upper anyway. Either way, the sort of long term drooping fatigue I'm guessing you're imaging is not a thing unless the parts are some unimaginably terrible material I've never seen in a RIF.

Yep, there ya go.

If you fog everything, go (Quality!) mesh goggles or fan goggles. Former is a lot cheaper even for good ones, fan goggles from ESS or Revision are big bucks (£100+), though an investment that'll pay huge dividends for years of playing. Best airsoft money I've ever spent.

Potentially, but another tactic used by sub-bar businesses and those looking to rip-off governments through contracts is to set the 'price' far far higher than necessary then 'discount' it down to the actual price where they're still turning a good profit. Can't say for sure, but one possibility.

If your company is genuinely top notch and the same applies to the product you put out along with the follow-up customer service, you don't advertise this aggressively. As with many of the above, ads are expected since the use of the forum is free, so I get it. That said, these specific ads are the visual equivalent of some drunk dickhead in a club with a 3" and no staying power that touches up random girls then calls them sluts when they slap him. Both in the subject matter and the obtrusiveness.

In a day this forum has added pedo anime and the equivalent of pedophilia in RIF form as one giant ad that is the background for every single page..

More modern looking mount but they're not usually mounted that way around it has to be said.

I've tried BAD levers and equivalents on a few NGRS and GBB rifles over the years, came to the conclusion there's only 2 times to use them: 1. On a standard AEG where it does nothing it's literally just a little aesthetic piece 2. If you have a gun that's exactly real AR dimensions and the bolt catch/release does work (GBB, GBLS etc) However every airsoft gun I've tried either lacks the power in the system to actually push the paddle out when the mag is empty due to the extra leverage caused by the mass of the extension, or (TM recoils for example) are wider than a real AR so the end of the lever you'd actuate with your trigger finger (if right handed) hits the lower receiver and prevents the bolt lock actually engaging. I've read that if you bend a BAD lever it can work on TMs, though I haven't tried myself. I have a couple of LM4s with 2 brands of lever and they took extensive mill work to the bolt catch and rear face of lever to even fit in the first place and clear the upper, then if the gun was tilted left at all the extra weight would pull the paddle out and lock the bolt back when it wasn't supposed to, which meant adding more spring pressure to keep the paddle in the normal firing position. Next the paddles were smaller/differently shaped vs RS, so we used some quik steel and a set screw, then finally the issue of the power lacking in the system still crops up to an extent. If you follow the path, when you're out of BBs the main spring in the mag pushes up on the lever in the back of the mag that then pushes up on the bolt catch extension in the mag well, which is trying to drawbridge the external paddle away from the upper except those few grams that the BAD lever weighs are magnified by various points of leverage and function can end up being iffy. I don't know about the GHK and TM GBB ARs, but if they have specific levers that have been designed such that their dimensions and weight allow them to fully function on those *specific* models of airsoft guns, that's the accessory you're going to want.

Just be as historically accurate as you personally want to be and let other people do the same. Don't be a russian-gear-forum obsessive crazy person, there's already too many of those. Years ago I gave some kid an actual heart attack by just commenting how I liked useful things like some areas of pic rail on certain parts of an AK.

Based on the recent saga, but also every time I deeply cringe when someone says they've bought TMC goggles.

They've sent me a few things the past few years, haven't purchased in many years to be entirely honest. Absolutely no idea why their CS would be such a brick wall.

I don't really know a way around it when chrono'ing can already take far too long as is and, being rudely but entirely honest, I know personally I have way more knowledge of eye pro in general than ~80-90% of the people I've seen employed as marshalls at airsoft sites. It takes a real truck load of experience to be able to recognise what's real and up to the job and what might be a pretty good fake set of ESS/Revision etc. Because there's about 100k options out there for things that cover your eyes but can still be seen through. The thing that worries me and I'm sure many others, is that I go in to games in full seal goggles that will stop shotgun birdshot from pretty close, but so many people want to spend £7 on some 'cool looking' piece of TMC turd or a big jet pilot visor with a giant gap (or both) and then I'll feel guilty if I shoot the bb that causes someone to lose half their eyesight forever.

Have to say, personally, I've never ever seen an eye pro check anywhere I've gone at any point in the past 15 years. I don't play often by any stretch and it's entirely possible they're just happening more on the quiet, but I've seen a lot of really shitty cheap looking rusty mesh goggles and a fair few 'visors' with absolutely gigantic cavernous gaps underneath actually out on the field.

mmm, cookies

Did they do just the 2 embroidered ones? Surprised they didn't have a higher minimum tbh that's very rare.

I get it, but objectively, publicly displaying a RIF is illegal and there are many instances of people getting seen like that and the police showing up not too long after. The vast majority of the time it's not actually ARU the normal ones just come knocking and ask to check the situation, but obviously there's the possibility. I know how it is on the patch and if you know all your neighbors fair enough, but it only takes one karen to make a mountain out of a mole hill ya know? Just something to be aware of is all, 99% of folks online will query it if they see pics of airsoft out on the street like that.

Don't trust your eyes to anything but the top brands that have been around for years in the eye pro game and are thoroughly vetted and proven - literally just do not touch anything else. That's all folks have gotta do, and you can almost always get mil issue eye pro of some kind on ebay for not much money. I've said it before, I'll keep saying it and it disappoints me that I don't see this said more often in various online places that airsofters frequent. It's so mind-bogglingly easy to just not get your eyes shot out by making shit choices.

Very much a badly needed thing after 'airsoft sitemap' decided to do PDF downloads and posters that'll be all be fairly useless within about 12 months. Airbana used to be extremely good and incredibly handy but obviously whoever was running it got bored/left airsoft and it's now a lot less useful. If you can spread the word enough to get some advertisers in order to bring in a little cash such that someone will keep it updated in perpetuity (be it yourself or someone you might hand it to if you leave the game) that'd really be a winner. I've seen a few come and go over the years, the current airsoft ranch one seems lacking in some details too.

It's like we like the same things lol. No better kit shop for most UK airsofters than Flecktarn imo.