TheFull9

Our mil used/issued practice grenades. Be bloody careful they weigh a ton and there's a decent little blast out the base when using the issued fuzes.

In firearm terms, it stems from the differences between guns that hunters and sport shooters would traditionally buy vs military and police configurations. The lines are blurred with a lot of civilian firearms these days, but if you look back to around the 1980s and look at police/military models of the most prolific shotguns like the Remington 870 and Mossberg 500 series by comparison to the general sale models with no name suffix you'll see some key differences. Generally the civvie/hunting ones had wooden stocks and handguards, very basic sights and a mag tube that stopped at the end of the pump handle. Mil/LE guns would likely have ghost ring/aperture sights for greater accuracy and precision, maybe plastic furniture or even a pistol grip vs traditional stock depending on era and a magazine tube with greater capacity. If you're just blasting the odd clay or real bird you don't need any of that stuff, whereas if your life is on the line you want the best you can get. Similar thing; imagine a hunting rifle vs a police sniper rifle. Hunting will have maybe a 3-5 round internal fixed magazine, wooden stock, no back-up sights, sling points setup for carrying only etc. The police one might have the synthetic furniture, folding stock, detachable box magazine, more precise sighting options, a sling that's not so good for carrying but helps a lot with maintaining a steady hold etc. Nowadays the plastic furniture, bigger/detachable mags, pic rail/better aiming systems etc are all made in such quantity they're not special upgrades anymore they've become pretty normalised, but you'll still see these differences if you look at common guns in the US that are prolific enough to be offered in both hunting and police/defensive usage variants. I've seen similar parallels with airsoft nomenclature, but airsoft brands and stores rarely have a clue so there's infinitely less consistency.

My mate over the pond occasionally edging me with pics of stuff I won't get for months.

Just don't buy keymod in 2021, it's dead.

Weird, that's not the norm. Depending on gen and field vs combat crye lowers will be either true to the size or 2-4" larger than the label says. But if it works it works. This stuff is a really unusual outlier of the product line.

Long as there is something cheap out there vs paying a disproportionate price per ml for dubious claims, that's the main thing. I'd obviously never remove F&L from work so I should know these things but alas.

Above is correct. I've only seem them on ebay in huge sizes personally and very small quantity, never seen so much as a picture of a combat cut set as iirc correctly they were for some sort of LE organisation rather than military but I've never truly dug in to it. My wager would be that there aren't any combat cut items in this camo but I'd be very very interested to see pics if there was.

I've honestly never looked up what firearm specific oils cost commercially, but if I were to guess I'd not be entirely surprised if they've got an unnecessary markup. Fully understand the line of thought behind the above, but a lot of automotive stuff works fine I know for a fact, end of the day, steel is just a common metal and any mineral or synthetic lubricant within sensible limits will work. If you'd use it on a hinge or somewhere on a bike or car and if you've got any mechanical experience with anything at all, you can probably pick out something real cheap from a car parts or DIY shop that'll come in a can big enough to last the rest of your life as far as maintaining anything suitable in airsoft and will cost maybe £10 tops.

Work with someone and figure out how to 3d print most of it and put together a list of the TAG shell/co2 cart adapter/plumbing bits folks would need to finish the launcher and sell that plan set, or just parts packages, or even complete ones. Assuming you're not working towards this already. TAG ammo is mega £$, shells are fragile and even more £$ and the TAG GP-25 is big, bulky, big £$ and very heavy from what I've heard. Something that's small, light, a fair bit cheaper and makes it so that the only real recurring cost is the TAG ammo and the cheap co2 bulbs would be a real nice option.

Have people really still not seen this? lol, well alright. It's been going around for about a decade, but obviously it was damn close to being made in the 80s and it's having it's 30th birthday this year. Being made when the company was in it's infancy I'm not sure what folks expect. Japanese culture is also rather... different in terms of what they expect as acting goes, as I'm sure anyone who's ever watched anime will agree.

You in the states? Most folks here are UK and won't be familiar with the different selections that are often common over there. Either way, don't ever buy anything from APS is my advice and as mentioned both of those are.

Even 200 would make for a crowded game in my estimation (take that for whatever you deem it to be worth). Having no idea what the rental for the location and other costs are I couldn't possibly comment on whether this all makes sense, but not for me. At 100-150 it'd be something I'd strongly consider, but certainly not 400. Never attended the NAE/F for the same sort of reasons. They did one at disused theme park years ago which did look good, don't think it had nearly as many people in attendance (iirc) and I'd reckon the usable safe area would've been a fair bit bigger. Wish I'd done it tbh. Credit for securing a really awesome site to play, probably very hard to do.

Most camo printing pretty much looks like this (that I've ever seen). If you've ever said 'X does not work in Y wide-range multitude of environments' sorry you just did little other than prove you don't actually know much about camo patterns, using camouflage, fieldcraft and understanding terrains. DPM has a load of black and light tan in it (highly contradictory, not without reason but still not ideal), it's a camo designed in the 1960s when they had incredibly limited design and printing technologies compared to now. It can be fine in very dark environments, but by modern standards it is a poor camo pattern and colourway. Same applies for many of the iconic old pre-2000 camos that people get weirdly sentimental over as if nothing could've been made that's better since then. Basically the same mentality as people who cling to NiMh batteries.

Literally just the other day I was deeply in thought on how to do a nice replication of their brown 'Mk18' in airsoft form and found that same grip after a fair bit of digging. Real nice choices, was this the base gun? https://www.evike.com/products/27706/

Need to watch a bunch of InRangeTV. Ya tried just straight pouring BBs in to the TAG shell, putting a bit of cotton wool or whatever on top to hold them in then firing that? That's how blunderbusses work, it's a well established methodology. I'd try it with different amounts of BBs and patch materials and see what you can do. Seems infinitely more likely to produce a shotgun blast than the packet method you're mentioning to my mind.

@Speedbird_666's first post is by far the most important and relevant info.

Does that work with HMRC? Not something they'll have known about if I even I don't lol.

Was shipped with UPS so maybe that was pricey, but it was something I was just sent review so I've not got an invoice from the company in order to check. I've had the same thing too in the past where they've used the wrong currency, which is an entirely plausible human error to happen at a customs depot. Haven't heard back from the brokerage. The driver attempted delivery today asking for the £60+ total payment, I just said no thanks and informed him I'd contacted the brokerage. He just said ok and walked back to his truck, be interesting to see what the next steps are.

Looks like they'll attach to anything PALS compatible so they'd work, lot of plastic overhang top and bottom though. If your heart's set then far be it from me, but those are gonna stick out a fair bit compared to pretty much any nylon-only pouch through both the construction of the pouch bodies and the attachment system. You'll end up as quite a wide load and if you went to a more old school bigger/thicker belt to mount big, bulky pouches like those the problem will just be exacerbated. Personally whenever I've tried solid plastic pouches before I found they rattled against each other really badly, were very annoyingly bulky and a surprising hindrance to movement given the size and lack of flexibility in both their construction and mounting. If you look at the pros it's super game-y competition guys that use kydex and the like, military have tried it then always gone back, but obviously that might work if you're mainly playing a fairly open indoor site. Just thoughts.

Not exactly related, but UPS/HMRC being crap: Was sent some nylon kit to review last week, worth $119, get to customs and UPS tell me I need to pay £50.14 just in the 'government fees' part. Real interesting interpretation of the VAT law, have e-mailed their brokerage, can't wait to see how long it takes to fight them on it.

PALS: Tbh I'm not sure I 100% understand the question but all spacings and dimensions should always be equal and the same.

How on earth does the fact the paint doesn't change the flight of the bb correlate to there being, de facto, "'no drawback to them"? If you happen to personally be ok with IFs then in your opinion there is no drawback, that is not the same as there universally being no drawback. I can guarantee you with absolute certainty a very large proportion of this website's user base that absolutely sees 50% luminous green paint on their replicas being a significant drawback, to put it mildly.

Can't really see a way you can claim a 'need' for a RIF when so many practical shooters run funky coloured 2011s/Hi-Capas. Not that I personally agree with a citizen 'needing' something having to be the justification for not banning it, but that's how UK law is. The more realistic end of the dress up spectrum of airsoft is what's keeping RIFs legal (vs just IFs) and fewer and fewer people seem to be grasping that as time goes by.

If an Aimpoint T-2 is an instagram fitness model that occasionally posts lingerie pics that thing is the ginger extra plus sized alt girl that sneaks in to your recommendations and you think 'that's different.. probably has a couple thousand follows amongst the more niche audience' but it turns out she actually has over a million. Suits the vector pretty well tbh.