TheFull9

I never did a whole lot to my KC02, but I'm looking forward to seeing how that all ends up coming together. The Magpul stock always intrigued me and I'd not heard of the VSR hop chamber before but it sounds pretty sweety potentially. New arrival back home: -Leo Kohler Combat shirt -Combat trousers by some german brand who're keeping things on the down-low because they're breaking Crye's patent

Humans are humans, and there's all sort of different levels of simulation games with different rules and different types of people attending. There's this notion floating around that somehow you get a totally different bunch of folks at all milsims, but it isn't the case. You'll still get tons of guys with very basic gear who're new (sometimes brand new) to airsoft as a whole; you'll likely see a few more guys who've got all the gucci-ness and have been playing a long time, but it's not all that different end of the day. You've probably got a bit 'more to lose' as it were by cheating at a milsim game, but if you're the scummy sort of person who cheats, you're going to cheat wherever you are.

Belgian Jigsaw.

You only get these 'weights' in reaaaally cheap plastic springers, I had some in my first ever spring gun back in the day and found some in the stock of a clone L96. It's essentially manufacturing slag I'd imagine, a mixture of many metals, unwanted impurities and other junk that's been cast in to lumps to give weight to the really feather light sub-£50 springers. Most 'decent' metal airsoft guns are a very cheap aluminium/zinc alloy as mentioned; some use proper aluminium and steel for the receivers and barrels etc but that's a minority rather than the norm sadly. Not like it's even hard to make a gun with steel, JG and CYMA have done loads of them.

£800 is the price without warranty if you try to add it to the basket, £1050 with the warranty. How Systemas have gone up 50% in price over the last 8 years or so when other AEGs have, if anything, gotten a bit cheaper, I don't know. They were around a grand for a new rifle when I bought my first AEG in 06, now 1400-1500 seems the norm for a totally basic version.

I don't have a "problem" with it, sometimes you gotta do work. Still personally wouldn't want to have to do it all day while airsofting, but each to their own. Myself; I don't like realism even in the military, that's why I chose to be a uniformed civvie and deploy to hotels (4* minimum of course). These are the cheapest I can find, still about £8-9 (before shipping from HK) for 30. Compared to 30p for a midcap worth of BBs.. quite a hike it must be said. Maybe there's some others around and obviously cost is relative to the person, but if you weren't spending a lot of time picking the things up, that could sure be an expensive skirmish. http://shop.ehobbyasia.com/top-brown-plastic-cartridge-for-ultimate-ejection-blowback-m4a1-aeg-30pcs.html#.VmTEOvnhD1s

The TOP shell ejectors' been around for.. hm.. maybe 2 years now? Rough ball park. You never actually see them around because most examples are horrendously unreliable and get stoppages every other round fired. Also bombing up 30rnd mags is only 'fun' the first couple of times, once the novelty wears off it very much becomes a chore I can assure you.

I usually flag these things up on my page, figured I should share here as well: http://www.asmc.com/Gear/Military/Load-bearing-equipment/Body-armour/TT-Plate-Carrier-MK-II-multicam-p.html 85 euros down from 150 and the exchange rate is pretty decent to the £ right now.

No gas involved, you can see the mag, no valves. The odd high pitched noise is most likely just an unlucky combination of the room and the camera. There's another video on the GBLS site without said noise evident. If it actually made that sound every shot I wouldn't buy one personally, but I'm confident it won't whenever they release another video.

Piston and cylinder etc (or at least equivalents) are presumably sat in the area that the bolt would sit in on a real AR. Can't see any other way it could function. On a real basic (over-simplified tbh) level it's like a split-gearbox ICS or a TW except the upper GB/cylinder actually looks like a BCG and reciprocates. I've never owned a Systema but the magazines look awfully similar to my eye.

The relationship is convoluted and rather hazy at best, but essentially ARES is what came out of STAR, same line of guns at the time they diverged. If you've got a good, reliable STAR gun put it on display over the mantle because you have something truly unique.

What is it you do in airsoft that's so much more hardcore and damaging to your kit than the stuff actual soldiers and SF types do? Honestly I am curious because a SEAL (or whoever) does get through a set of Cryes every few weeks on deployment given the things they go through, but we're talking a combined total of many days worth of time kicking in doors and taking names, whereas actual time spent shooting during a skirmish day is probably between 5-7 hours at a rough guess. I've met a fair few army blokes and other guys who're at the pointy end, talked about their experiences when 'away' and they'd spend days upon days in the field, often involving a lot of fighting, but they weren't getting through even the crappy issued trousers at anything like the rate you're describing. - On a different subject, for anyone interested, here's the more typical pricing on the Drac trousers: https://www.nightgear.co.uk/en-UK/ArcTeryx-LEAF-Drac-Pant/5195365ng.htm?colour=Wolf+Grey If anyone here wants a real heart attack look up the Arc'teryx Alpha line. The current EB pricing on the Dracs and Talos is well below usual RRP and you won't find Crye combat trousers new in Europe for under £200 (and Cryes are made of just the same fabric as a lot of Tru-Spec and Propper apparel).

The Arc'teryx trousers just have strips of webbing as reinforcement on the knees to protect the main fabric from abrasion against the ground/walls etc. You can put their knee-pads inside to give actual padding in front of the knee, but they don't have an external pad like Crye.

Have done.

You'd definitely struggle to get a price that good on the Talos trousers elsewhere and that pricing is an absolute steal for Arc'teryx, I was tempted to buy a second pair when I got the e-mail from Edgar Bros even though I've already got some. I think I got my MC versions for about £100 on ebay but that was a really lucky find. Not to mention the Talos is out of production so any stock left is all that's ever gonna be available. If anyone out there reading is even thinking they might want to do the Armed Met/CO19/whoever they are loadout at some point, now's the time.

Well I sort of presumed that was taken as read within that standpoint, but fair enough.

Amazingly, it turns out the inanimate objects aren't the problem, it's always the people and the environment within which they live. Which is weird because that never usually happens... Personally, for the UK, IMHO we should start with a program of assessing and subsequently training current armed police and armed forces personnel who already competent (though, if you've been on a military range you'd probably laugh at this in a lot of respects) to concealed carry when off duty; seems like the most logical first step and would be the most palatable for the public. After that, see how it goes, then look at ex forces/police, then maybe expand in to certain areas of the general citizenry with good provision of training. Personally I fully believe in absolute personal liberty in all regards, I've zero interest in doing drugs or smoking cigarettes for example, never tried them, not planning to, but my opinion is that people should be allowed to do what they want without bans or certain government restrictions. But that just will not happen, so you have to look at what might actually be feasible. Signed the change.org petition a few days ago, but I find the wording 'grey' and lacking definition in terms of how it may or may not affect airsoft. If it went through and reclassified RIFs as firearms, I think the British government would either say fuck the po-lice and ignore it completely or ban all IFs entirely to get round the cost and hassle of implementing and administering a system of registration and licensing for mother-fucking BB toys.

How long you gonna keep this one for sam?

I was wrong, the SCAR thing is an airsoft product after all: https://www.facebook.com/SRUgbb/ If they can do that for a SCAR I'd imagine it's fairly easy to do on a fair few other rifles that can have their stocks removed and still function.

That conversion kit just adds a trigger linkage from the position of the normal trigger up to the 6 o/clock rail. Not very ergonomic for chaging fire mode and releasing the mag by modern standards, but then the L85 is just the same (apart from the safety). I think that's brilliant to be honest, just take off the stock, clamp on that weird shaped adapter kit (seems to be all one piece).. you're done. I can't really read anything on the kit apart from 'MAG' so googling isn't much use, but that looks like it could almost be a commercial product, be interested to see if it's for sale. If anyone with a WE SCAR-L GBBr could get one of those kits, it'd quite possibly work.

I can see why you'd ask as that seems to be the way an awful lot of people go, but personally I don't have 'loadouts' and I don't work from reference pictures. To fully explain why would take a long time but for me it boils down to 2 key points. 1. What works for real combat is never going to be the ideal in airsoft. 2. The stuff that armed police, special forces and military personnel in general are issued (and buy for themselves) is never the best stuff available on the market. Even the ever-worshipped SEALs do not get issued the all around 'best' kit that exists in the world today. Not far off in their case, but still not 100% and in airsoft (unlike the military) we have the freedom to pick and choose whatever gear we like. I don't get that luxury in work so I make sure to fully exercise it in my hobby. Overall, cherry picking your gear to best suit the game we play makes by far the most sense from a practicality standpoint. It won't get you 10k followers on instagram for how leet speshul forcez it looks, but it'll still look cool, cost less and work better than verbatim copying any real operator. Personally right now I have this lot in grey: -Arc'teryx Talos combat shirt and trousers -Velocity Systems long sleeve BOSS rugby shirt -Craghoppers trousers in a colour that matches -PIG FDT-Alpha gloves -Arc'teryx BAC (cap) -Salomon outdoor/hiking style trainers, can't remember the exact model right now but most of their general-style outdoor footwear is good for airsoft -Off The Grid Concepts custom kydex holster That lot covers the base layer, might get some Arktis trousers. Planning on getting a mission-spec EOC for the upper half and a velocity systems belt, then BFG and HSGI pouches most likely.

Not surprising in the slightest. Wanting potentially useful buildings to sit there slowly rotting for no reason pretty much sums up government organisation in a great analogy. I'm pretty jealous of players up north really. I've seen videos of various sites up around Liverpool way set in huge old buildings and warehouses. Big old places with huge windows/glass roofs so it's always light, but no matter the weather you can rock whatever gear you like comfortably and get in some good CQB any time of year. There's nothing even vaugely like that near london I'm aware of; closest would be the mall which can be great but I usually find to be over-crowded for the size of the place. Red1 in Watford was pretty damn good when they had access to the old 'science block' but once they lost that the actual square footage went down fucking dramatically (to put it mildly) and the last time I went it was the most absurd 'get in door - die - repeat' sardine fest I have ever experienced. Made that footage of the french forces attempting to swarm the shop door following the Hebdo shootings look positively free-range.

There's really no 'surplus' of grey gear... unless you're buying WWII Wehrmacht. Off the top of my head, the following tactical brands do various bits of apparel in grey: -Arc'teryx LEAF -Velocity Systems -Arktis -Tru-Spec -LBX -5.11 -Vertx -Triple Aught Design -Patrol Incident Gear Then for rigs, pouches and other bits you've got the following: -HSGI -Blue Force Gear -Haley Strategic -Grey Ghost Gear -LBX -Magpul -Vel Sys -5.11 Between mil1st and tactical-kit you'd be able to put together a loadout without importing if you'd rather not do so. 5.11 is the best value available in the UK for airsoft I'd wager, though don't rule out outdoor brands as I got some nice Craghoppers in a grey that matches Arc'teryx wolf bang on for £20; no tactical features of course but they worked just fine for skirmishing. I'd recommend these probably if you were going 5.11: http://www.military1st.co.uk/74369-092-5.11-stryke-pants-storm.html http://www.military1st.co.uk/72415-092-5.11-rapid-response-quarter-zip-shirt-storm.html Best middle ground of the available options, would make for a good set to skirmish in. If you have any more questions gimme a shout, I've been looking in to grey kit and slowly building my collection of the best bits I can find from the limited selection out there over the past 2 years or so and I've done a lot of searching around in that time.

Went along once, certainly unique. Got a bit bored of being in pitch dark 95% of the time though, nice to have a bit of that when you wanna sneak around and make things a little more interesting (like the mall basement) but I do like being able to.. you know... see.. when airsofting. Definitely an intense site though. I'd sure like to know what else they're going to do with it, the lights down there were running on a proper jury-rigged generator system and there's no running water, power plugs or anything else that I could see. In this day and age where we don't have the spare money to be constantly ready to survive the nuclear apocalypse, underground tunnel complexes like that can't be in huge demand. I like the mall generally and x-site outpost is decent too. UCAP bunker is only 90 minutes and that's from almost-watford (though I've not been just yet). Apart from Red1, the Wolf site and that new place underground in central London I can't say I really know of any other CQB sites. Land's much too valuable in any county that butts up against the M25.

The Fortis grips (which that design copies) are fairly 'unique'. End of the day it's the sort of thing you need to either buy and try or handle in a shop to know one way or the other for certain, everyone else's opinion is specific to them.