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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.

Bolt action long range rifle by Desert Tech. Nothing to do with the AUG select fire carbine made by Steyr. http://deserttech.com/guns/dta-srs-sniper-rifle-chassis.html

Well obviously they vary a lot by organiser and location, but I think if you boil it down end of the day it's just a skirmish that's snorted a mixture of gunpowder and roids. It's sort of like everything's magnified, the only real downside is you'll get the massive d-bags amongst the players who are even worse than the d-bags you get on your standard walk-on day. I never had anything more than a very mild, temporary disagreement with anybody throughout the event but I had to overhear a fair bit of shouting and BS both in our camping area and out on the field. But it boils down to grown adults who, like tiny toddlers, are unable to recognise when they're tired and tone down their response to things when an incident riles them up far worse than it should have. There's nothing specific to milsim about that though, anything I've ever done in the military where people have gotten tired they started being d***ks at inappropriate times because they lacked the maturity to control themselves. Luckily my squad was a really good bunch and we got really stuck in, but made sure to take plenty of rest whenever the opportunity arose as well. You're still playing with a bunch of untrained people and no plan survives contact with the enemy so it's never going to play out like in the movies, but the teamplay I experienced was overall far more cohesive than a skirmish day, which is the main thing you'll get out of a milsim. Tons and tons of pyro and wacky weapons systems floating around, so when things do kick off (and you'll spend very large amounts of time slowly patrolling and hiding in the undergrowth) they generally kick off big time. Never seen so much smoke and so many bangs. Realistically I could write pages and pages, but those were the things that stuck out to me. The Warzone Battle Sim guys certainly seemed to be a good bunch, I'd go to another of their events.

Mostly shirts. Kryptek custom jersey Kryptek combat shirts Patagonia L9 combat shirt FirstSpear AGB sleeve + t-shirt Tac Distributors t-shirt Princeton Tec rail nav light HSP Keymod light mount Magpul MOE light kit, M-LOK tape switch mount, M-LOK cantilever scout mount, M-LOK -> MOE adapter kit Outdoor Research softshell

I used patch-craft a while back, not sure if Keith Brown is still running that since he moved over to making the Alpha-Tec grenades. The stuff he's done for me has always been good, but I'd caution you to google him with regards 'Airsoft machine shop' and some previous other businesses. I'll leave you to make your own conclusions.

Erm, nooo... if that were the case, there'd be NV Go-Pro footage literally everywhere. I've not looked at pricing just lately, but I'm sure if you go over to amazon you'll find it all out easily enough.

Hm.. another BFG I think, maybe one of the Alpha-Tecs (big maybe). Actually no it'll probably be another storage cupboard so I actually have space for all the airsoft shit I can't stop buying for myself.

Yeah go with what Greg said. You won't get an action cam with night vision without spending thousands though, so check that one off.

Loadout that's rather different from usual skirmish gear at some milsim over the weekend. Blanked out for awful, awful grin I was pulling.

Interesting, that'd explain it, cheers. Guess they're getting a new colour in.

Final prep and stuff arriving for my 'don't knock it 'til you've tried it' foray in to a milsim this weekend. FAK (pretty pleased with the contents in this one, if anybody's after an outdoors/car kit this seems to be a good brand) Wash bag Jetboil + fuel Waterproof/insulated gloves Dry sack/bags Shower in a bottle Compact 8x21 Monocular US Issue Woodland gore-tex and softshell MC trousers Beyond Clothing PCU Level 5 (softshell) trousers Rite-in-the-rain pad, cover and pen 0241 Tac softshell gaiter Princeton Tec remix pro Magpul MOE offset Scout mount Arisaka Defense M-LOK Scout mount Paracord TK-4 Tourniquet Various ITW Buckles Med Shears VLTOR AR sling plate FirstSpear Slim line AGB sleeve Mil-Spec Monkey Tac-organiser pouch MSM RAW cap (softshell) ReFactor Tac flexfit cap Had some other stuff come in in dribs and drabs I've not pictured. LOWA Zephyr Mid-boot, GTX Gruppa 99 (russkie SF kit) L5 Softshell jacket ESS Goggle insert and prescription lenses Source Helix bite valves Also for some unknown reason UK Tac chucked a triple AK shingle in CB in to the box that I didn't order. Don't think it was a mistake seeing as the invoice was also in the box with the correct items highlighted through (presumably as they were packed in the warehouse). £20 pouch, they're not on sale or anything and I've no need for it so I'll have to message them and see what the deal is. Interesting to take a close look at anyway, I've not bought much of their stuff in a while now but I'll still recommend them to most people so I like to keep an eye on their materials and stitching.

This week's deliveries. Some foul weather, medical and other load bearing kit from the states; big delivery from Go Outdoors for camping supplies for milsim and my KWA LM4 came back after getting a lot of TLC and nice machine work done by a bloke I know who's a serious whizz with both GBBRs and a lathe/mill. I'll break apart the packages and post it all later on.

I don't think I've even tried plinking it yet, let alone a game; I just wanted a realistic looking Gen4 in the collection. Never touched a WE Glock either, so I couldn't compare. Unfortunately I get asked these things a lot and my replies are always high on the chocolate-fireguard scale on account of playing maybe 2-4 games a year on average and when I do go, I'll usually take a stock TM for a pistol. I can tell you the first of my 2 'Cybergun' (which is VFC and therefore should also be Stark) M&P9s has seriously lacking range and gas efficiency, but the Stark Glocks do get higher praise than the M&Ps. If you were to press me on a choice I'd say WE because the Starks are kinda TM spec on some bits but not 100%, meaning there's only so much you can change parts wise (in the event you got one that wasn't shooting so great). Neither is the ideal base to build an awesome looking and functioning gat, so yeah... flip a coin tbh, heh. Though that said, I think Stark did a bunch of the 'premium' G19s with steel slides and generally better stuff throughout. Might be worth looking in to.