TheFull9

That's gone way over the 5 maximum allowed attachments in the loadout editor.

I've spent a fair bit of time on ranges and in games with stock peltors, there's no one ideal solution. The gels I've got hold in more heat and collect a lot of sweat in the trough at the bottom, but have cuts for the arms on your eye pro, put less pressure on your head and won't compress down to nothing over time like the stock foam. The gel certainly wins when it comes to cutting noise, I've had some painful gunshots come through gaps between my eye pro arms and stock foam pads.

They do offer a grey/silver finish on the slides on some guns. But it is a Glock and in the US at least there is literally no limit to the colour/paint/modding/aftermarket parts you can get for Glocks.

If that happens I'd try and find someone with some skill on a sewing machine or do it yourself if you've got one, you can just hand crank a decent needle through a couple of layers of webbing. It's as easy as a sew job comes to fix that kind of issue.

Ta 👍 Unfortunately it's been changed a lot since those pictures and that aspect has largely gone because the stock and grip are just plain FG now and it's getting an M-LOK rail for which I can't find proper FG panels, but it's far lighter now whereas with the stock handguard it weighed a ton for a short barrelled AR.

I don't really get this kinda thing tbh, I mean correct me if this isn't what you're doing, but people have this habit of putting you in a box/category if you publish videos/blogs etc. I'm literally just a gear guy, for any purpose or usage. I skirmish occasionally because that's what I did before I joined up, I've also spend a good few months in sandy places (far more time than at airsoft games) and it's been mildly spicy on occasion so I care about 'real' stuff too. I try to cover all potential uses in my content for that reason.

Nah my stuff is terrible, nobody watch it. To be fair I often wear some gloves in video where my hands will be seen close up, but usually I've torn back the skin around my nails on gun parts during the week and I just don't think people wanna see it. I sure can't stand watching videos when the subject can't even spend £2 on a nail brush to clear all the black shit out from under there when they wash their hands. Maybe if you're a chimney sweep or like work in an actual steel foundry and you're getting filthy all over every single day, but my hands get filthy from carbon and OX-24 all the time and I get them clean so I don't think there's an excuse for most people.

Load bearing kit won't really play in to that as much as your clothing, though obviously any rig will not allow sweat to evaporate through it unless it's like a vest that's mostly mesh. Primarily don't wear anything with cotton in it, cotton fibres love soaking up water, go for pure synthetics (poly and nylon) especially on the base layers so you don't have a moisture sat next to your skin, but this applies to all layers. Almost all camo uniforms are poly/nylon and cotton blended together, if you really want to stay dry get a cheap UK mil issue t-shirt (they wick and dry as quick as any gucci kit if not better) and wear a non-insulated softshell of the best quality you can afford (the fleece insulated ones hold on to sweat and makes it take far longer to be transported from the inside to the outside of the jacket). If you add in a mid-layer make sure it's highly breathable and lets air through, not something thick and dense that'll hold on to that evaporated sweat.

Depends what you mean by help, any sort of PC, Armour carrier, vest or large chest rig will inherently hold in heat. It's just a couple of layers of thick, non-breathable fabric - physics. Technically speaking when you don't need to protect your vital organs from bullets and frag a belt rig and layering with some jackets is better overall because you control how you layer up or down (and adjust heat retention with zips), whereas a piece of load-bearing equipment on your torso just retains a fixed amount of heat and sweat with no capacity for adjustment. Which layers to wear on your torso all depends on activity levels, ambient temp and precipitation/wind, plus it's also kind of a personal thing depending on how hot you personally 'run'. If you're always red and sweaty and rarely stand still then probably just a wicking t-shirt with uniform shirt/softshell jacket. If you're cold blooded and lay on the ground a lot then a long-sleeve insulated base layer followed by mid-layer (PCU L3 thick fleece, PCS issue 'buffalo' etc) with a smock or softshell over the top might be good. That would be a super simple breakdown of the bare bones for a typical UK autumn/winter day.

As mentioned by hitman, they did, muzzle energy with 9 is 'more' than 22 but range would still be similar (i.e. very little, 2-300m range tops and with extreme arc) whereas you could push a Minimi to over a K in the right circumstances. Muzzle velocity on 556 is a whole different league as you know.

Given the Hughes Amendment came in in '86 in the US then barely any (if any at all) would've made it in to civilian hands that could fire automatic, meaning it's a self-loading .22 that has the same potency as a Ruger 10/22 with a drum mag. Sure .22 kills people but it's a super weak-sauce weapon compared to a military light machine gun. It might've scared ignorant people as often happens when firearms with large magazines and 'scary' looks are sold, but that's just dumb sheeple. Even now we can own self-loading .22s in the UK with no mag limits I'm aware of.

YouTube ad money has gone waaaaay down, how d'ya reckon full-time social media people keep the lights on? Charging for their promotions of stuff, it's not a rumour believe me. Airsoft is small fry, big guns channels in the states charge thousands for 'reviews' then ask you for Patreon; the price list for IV8888 is floating around out there somewhere, used to be anyway, all of them are at it. Subscribe to a bunch of them you'll see reviews for speicfic guns and Olight all weirdly publishing on the same day at almost the exact same time.

Been a good time recently for acquiring interesting camos.

As with firearms, airsoft is super heavily restricted in NYC. I can't remember the specific laws exactly but I have a very close friend who's a shooter and airsoft player who lives in the city and he doesn't have any of his kit with him, all gets left at his parents' house back in Texas. Obviously it's a great tourist spot in many other ways but probably one of the worst cities in the US to visit for anyone who wants to see anything gun shaped (speaking to all readers here).

You can't judge whether something's perfectly parallel or aligned in a photo anyway, that's purely the nature of how most common cameras capture what they see. I've taken many images myself (and seen many more) of rifles that are 100% built properly with straight barrels but they come out looking bent in that exact manner in photos. Long established phenomena.

As much as people on the internet would say they want it, you'd just not get the same efficiency, winter performance and/or recoil from a GBB Evo3 given it would hold about half the gas per mag. I remember the G5 being insanely popular maybe 3 or 4 years ago (at a rough guess) but that seems to have vanished now. I don't know of many more practical GBBr designs (if any) but I get the distinct vibe that HPA replaced gas-in-mag as the popular 'thing' for much of the community now; along with very practical AEGs like the ARP. A shame in a way but understandable in ways too.

Get what you're saying, but when you think 80s SAS you think Iranian Embassy (well most people do) and which gun gets all the headlines in media related to that? As per usual MP5s and specifically ones with gigantic-massive lights attached to them.

I don't think US military adoption is necessarily all it is, but that is a factor. I think the BHP is troubled by being super generic looking to the vast majority of people out there and for some reason it just never gained any notoriety in general. Even though is was seriously advanced and miles ahead of its' time when initially designed and manufactured (pre-WW2) you barely see it featured prominently in films or games (especially compared to more popular pistols) and if you do its' looks will cause most people who only know a tiny bit about guns to mistake it for a 1911. It is odd because some of the most elite units of Nazi Germany used it as well as SF and Airborne elements from the commonwealth on the Allied side, then it was our standard issue pistol until the Glock came along in the mid-2010s so it did many decades of service. However it did become rather obsolescent in the 80s once the M9, P226 and similar started hitting the scene and obviously the entire internet and FPS games and airsoft didn't take off properly until the 90s. An awful lot of the guns that are cemented in to the popular parlance these days are designs that were all the rage in the late 80s-early 90s. The BHP sits in the awkward middle ground where its' WW2 service isn't much known or documented, yet its' popularity had faded come the golden age of action movies and the birth of our modern shooting games (virtual and real). It also kinda suffers from being too good in a way as there's nothing that stands out about it, it's mostly a boringly effective handgun and even worse its' plain looking to most folks as I mentioned. It's not a big .45 with chunky rounds, doesn't have a crappy single stack mag capacity like the P-38, no weird action like the Luger, no crazy plastic-fantastic like the Glock (that blew people's minds in the 80s). Mediocre triggers and sights on most of them as well, so while it is pretty good it's not an amazing performer either and didn't have the best rep for reliability in some military circles. Never had any really large community/industry around it doing modifications either. There was a little bit when pistols were still legal and there was more competition in the UK/Europe, but obviously the 1911s and Berettas would have been 'the thing to have' for civilians in the US.

Were those combat shirts issued? I've not seen much about them online.

Just had a picture back from FMJ with the cerakote work I hired them to do on an LM4 I started customising years ago. It'll frankly be a relief to finally finish this build off.

So the goggles are legit right?

Modified yourself or purchased? Also battery type info would be handy please. It's something I've been considering doing for a long time and I want to get the low-down on a few different builds before I commit given that all my TM EBBRs are SOCOMs.