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What type of boots out of interest? Presumably surp? I could imagine either the military stores pers or perhaps the contract folks who deal with surplusing things just slapping numbers on like that in the lowest effort/quickest to read method they could come up with. Like to hope that wouldn't be a retailer defacing their own stock like that anyway lol, best of luck getting it cleaned off.

I'm sure the majority of orders do make it and it was PF that sent my stuff to the wrong address end of the day (though 6mm did zero to assist/rectify). Just use Paypal at the very least and remember you have to go to the Help tab along the top to find the Resolution Centre button, open a case, submit everything and then you have to go back in to the case to Escalate it manually in order for PP to review and you get your money back. Wouldn't recommend anyone use the place generally but in this scenario it's a different matter.

If we assume that the majority of players are at least decent and mostly honest (which I'd say is the case) then I'd reckon standard pre-game chrono makes the most sense to highlight any excessive energy shooting that people genuinely aren't aware of and will put lower level cheaters back on the straight and narrow. The ones truly determined to gain some pathetic non-advantage and risk a greater chance of actually hurting people in the process will of course remain undeterred and can make use of the myriad workarounds out there; only diligent marshalling and good player reporting during the game has any chance vs those knobs.

'The standard' is to turn your hop fully off then just go from the front. Long as you're not using anything abrasive and are careful/gentle/don't go ham fisted at it then it'll be absolutely fine, nothing adverse is going to happen.

Paypal sided with me, got most of my money minus what I paid for shipping, which obviously isn't ideal but a lot better than nothing.

*appears from a smoke screen of multicam black* I'm going from memory and my photo cloud storage, but far as I can see @hitmanNo2 is right. None of my NSPA G4s (either MC or MTP) have the black tape, but my US produced MC G4s have it. I've never really sat down and done a list of like 'GX from Y country on Z year has A tape or B label in C position' etc because honestly I'm not sure even Crye has a master list like that which every item adheres to faithfully. Personally, I've never actually seen a single item so far which was trying to pass itself off as genuine Crye that didn't have typos in the labelling or really badly printed CP logos on the black tape along with other telltale giveaways. For me the pic in the OP is a real item for sure.

Far as I can tell (their english isn't great) they've accused me of lying, but it's ok the case is escalated with paypal now, just awaiting their review. Worst case if paypal don't side with me I'll go through my credit card. Can't emphasise enough how strongly people should avoid this business because they won't even make the slightest attempt to remedy any issue that may occur; they certainly haven't for me I've had to get in contact with parcelforce myself.

Used 3 times, only gotten worse with each order. I love the selection but I'll never be using Sixmm again personally. First 2 orders took forever to dispatch, totally mess of a system for dispatch notifications and tracking numbers, seemingly sending multiple small parcels but not providing the details amongst various other little issues. Placed an order for £300 worth of bits about 2 months ago, took weeks to dispatch and again apparently send in about 5 small parcels but with only 1 tracking number. As of now not a single item from the order has arrived, the ParcelForce tracking says delivered but the evidence photo is not my house; lord knows where it is, not any house on my street I can recognise. Contacted sixmm many times and I've never been more royally fobbed off by a business. Nothing but the most pathetic weak-sauce answers to my requests they actually provide me with the goods I paid them for. 'Here look at the tracking, it was defo delivered' 'Check with your neighbour' bla bla bla. I paid through PayPal using my Amex and I'm confident enough that if one of them doesn't get me my money back then the other will.

You'll have to just launch the entire gat right in to the sea at this point mate, sorry!

The SGR is definitely an outlier and not a good one to bring up to debate the general worthiness of TM as a brand I'd say. Like I don't think there's a lot of the original line of bog standard TM AEGs with plastic bodies from the early 00s (ish) still in use, but years ago I can remember meeting a few people who were claiming to have left them stock and fired obscene amounts of bbs through them with little to no parts breakage at all. Also with decent range and accuracy for the low power. I can't say personally I've ever seen someone online regretting buying any of the common NGRS, GBB pistols or rifles, leaving them stock and just using them roughly in line with the way they were designed. They're not perfect and there's a few products that are more complex and more prone to issues, but they're the exception and not the rule for sure.

I don't know exactly what the deal is with/between VFC and the Maruyama name, given the way the airsoft business seems to work probably just coming out of the exact same factory at a guess; but that is just a guess. https://www.wgcshop.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/mrym-my-smg-fmg9-bk Personally I've always been far too in love with the ACR and FMG, they were the hottest tickets for a good couple of years bracketing the 2010 timeframe. I had the original PTS FPG kit when that first released and put a KWA G18 inside it but that whole thing failed and broke in more ways than I care to write down here; right now it's totally in bits in a tub and I think I'll keep it since it was the OG and I think I can rebuild the externals but I'm sceptical I'll ever get it firing again. When the Aegis kit released more recently I was honestly really surprised and snapped one up to house a TM G18. I'm hopeful that, given the externals seems much higher quality than the PTS and the insides are TM compatible, it should be a good, usable skirmish gun. Given that VFC GBBs have (according to all reviews) come on a long way, this release seems like a possibly strong option for folks who want an FMG but don't want to have to buy a Glock separately and assemble from a kit. A 1-pt sling attachment is included at the pivot which is nice as you had to buy one of those separately on the PTS and Aegis, they both lacked any sort of conventional way to attach a sling in stock form. If the overall quality is decent then this should be pretty good, given that all-in it should come in cheaper than buying the Aegis kit and a Glock.

'Screw holder' is a good way to describe a Zenitco handguard you're quite right.

Most likely that's what's happening, you could look inside for white marks.

Good looking setup mate, which insert do you have in there?

The only people (person? speaking dog? sentient rock monster?) I can think of who might have a rough number of active players would be UKARA. Except far as I'm aware we still have zero real clue who holds this mystical database with (presumably) 10s of thousands of people's information on it. I'd honestly love to be wrong on this one though. Actually just had a quick dig, not sure if it's been mentioned before but the random-af address linked to UKARA's GDPR reg is just a totally bland wood block on the Cornish coast right next to a GCHQ site. Said site has a stronger fence line that any MoD establishment I've ever visited and is bristling with radar/radio dishes.. tinfoil fully deployed 😂 The first google review for the site is just stunning lol.

I've mulled over one of these many a time over the years, ultimately went for an ACOG for my M16 carry handle upper because that's what the Bad Company 2 M16 in BF2042 has and I love it tbh (early 2000s aesthetic). But I've never not been able to find airsoft clones of the retro Colt scope clones in stock somewhere any time I've looked, I have to say. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006287579209.html?spm=a2g0o.store_pc_allItems_or_groupList.0.0.197c1c55QbPYS5&pdp_npi=4%40dis!GBP!￡41.64!￡41.64!!!51.45!51.45!%402103846917172473533577324ea631!12000036620160530!sh!UK!0! https://www.amazon.co.uk/SPINA-OPTICS-Hunting-Handle-Reticle/dp/B0C5CXQRP4 (Same product at these 2 links I'd guess) https://www.octagonairsoft.com/product-page/fcw-4x20-scope-with-colt-marking

Stick to camo clothing, nylon kit etc. I have no idea what your tastes are but somewhat as was said above, US surplus costs peanuts there but the postage is of course a lot; easy way to save on whatever you fancy (I like woodland camo kit from the early 00s myself). This may not be relevant to the offer you received, but tons of surplus stores in the US are literally owned by some crusty old vet who hates tech, doesn't want to use the internet etc etc so their stores don't even have websites. From what my mates over there say a lot of the bargains require shopping the 1980s way.

Yeah, but they're not interested, as the recruiting numbers show (and various retention numbers reinforce). Understandably so in a lot of respects I'm sure. Which I'd guess is at least partly why they're considering just forcing people; election theatrics aside. I don't know what the minimum service time is for most jobs outside my own, but it's probably not much longer than the national service idea except with better pay and prospects, so yeah maybe the plan is make the NS look less appealing and just corral recruits that way lol.

It'll get easier and cheaper over time. Give it long enough and if they stay popular and someone like G&G will release a ready-to-go AEG replica right out of the box. But by then the novelty will have faded and it won't be impressive anymore since anyone can just buy one easy as that. And just like the L119A1 and A2 before it the impression crowd will lose interest and move on to the next fashion trend. So yeah just be prepared to really commit if you want to be an early adopter, I'd guess the incoming HAO kits will be.. £1200+, without base gun, then you still need the optics.

At first I was very surprised to hear this, but then remembered the election is coming lol. Glad to not see any predictably emotional way-OTT rants in this airsoft forum thread. 😂 It's all public knowledge that the MOD has been closing/selling bases and shrinking on pers numbers at a steady rate for decades, though as with anything if you're not serving in the affected branch then the majority of the population naturally won't be aware of everything. Physically we are.. tight on space, i.e. physical barrack blocks on stations (all 3 services), even for the current cohort. Same story for instructors; lots of legal boxes to tick for being allowed to train young people, as mentioned above. I presume back in the 50s there were tons of camps with thousands of Nissen huts left over from the war to shove folks in for their 2 years; the war time military was just sort of stretched/dragged out a big. Definitely a challenge to just go back in to it now, but when you're looking at a very decent possibility of an election loss then I guess the 'big ideas' suddenly all come out. The wording is that the kids in the military would be full time so they'd have to get paid, and as with anything in life that significantly challenges you most folks come out the side overall better for it and it's not like they'd be on the front lines having a really bad time. You'd at least come out with some skills, experience and more interesting stories whereas the weekend volunteers presumably wouldn't be getting paid given the use of the word volunteer. Seems iffy to say the least in a lot of respects, since you're just forcing these kids to work for free, they won't add much value most likely given the minimal training they'd get and the inevitable risk aversion to giving them any responsibility. Plus they'll need to be trained and managed and the overall scheme is actually going to cost tons of money even though the 'volunteers' aren't getting paid. Yeah that'll kill most of the youth vote for the Conservatives big time, so presumably they're banking on the older turn out, probably pretty standard battle lines there.

Don't mean to sound funny here but if you're shooting right handed then left side sling loop is the default, assuming you're looking from the butt end of the rifle down the bore, lol (i.e. same side as the mag catch). If you google image 'L85 airsoft' though there are indeed plenty of them on the right side of the weapon i.e. same as the ejection opening, which would of course not work out. ETA - looking through a small portion of the search results, seems that the ICS and G&Gs get it correct to the real rifle, but a lot of stock/retail pictures of the WE, Army and generic springers have it 'wrong'. Which as someone who's always been anti-WE gives me a weird little buzz in a bad way 'cause I'm just a bad person like that.