TheFull9
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Long term, the 'best' kneepads are the ones that go in to your trousers I've found. Either foam inserts or Crye style, all works and is 100% guaranteed to never ever fall down because it's physically impossible; also removes any requirement for straps going round your leg (which personally I never liked).
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The belt has a strip of loop along the inside and the MALICE on the mag pouches are kept in place with these which have corresponding hook:
http://www.first-spear.com/product.php?productid=17527The loops on the dump pouch also have some velcro. The keepers don't because I bought them in a rush and all I could find in this country were somewhat old-school ones that are more aimed at police use, but that wasn't an issue. Given the thickness and rigidity of the belt and how tightly I had it adjusted, it wasn't shifting around anywhere.
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I've been using padded PALS/Warbelts for 4-5 years now so I'm going to try out the direct attachment method that's popular with a lot of civvie shooters in the states. This is the sort of transition setup, doesn't get threaded through the belt loops (use keepers instead) but doing away with any padding or modular attachment.
Worked fine in the game I tried it, though the 4 layers of webbing and 2 layers of plastic going through the holster was functional but forced the belt in to an awkward shape that was noticeably (when not actually in game) digging in after a while.
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The main point to my mind is that torso hits are not the thing to worry about, they're comparatively the least painful (if painful at all) the vast majority of the time. As mentioned, normal/slight over sized clothing will take all but the tiniest bit of sting out of most hits, it's the ears, teeth, fingers etc that are the concern. Worry about getting the right protective gear for the head area and extremities, a vest is really not a big issue at all in this context.
Also a paintball is a very different animal, a BB will realistically just sting for a couple of second most of the time.
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I think you'll be well catered for:
http://www.uktactical.com/c-349-elite-ops-a-tacs-au-mag-.aspx
http://www.uktactical.com/c-342-elite-ops-a-tacs-au-mag-pouch.aspx
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It's fairly bright green, so best used for sites with a grass covering and/or a lot of light green coloured foliage. Not much in the way of dark brown in the pattern, so not very suited at all to the sort of woodland with a lot of exposed earth and tree trunks with little plant life at low level. But if you're playing somewhere with a ton of bracken/ferns, evergreen plants and the like it makes sense; similar to MC Tropic overall. It's all about analysing the general 'palette' of the site if you're playing outdoors, for the darker areas with more brown than green there's lots of options like temperate MARPAT, flecktarn, solid coyote and some of the darker arid patterns (obviously soil will change colour a fair bit throughout the course of a year).
Not that it has to matter even if it doesn't blend in that great where you are. Don't think anyone was ever killed by a 6mm plastic ball going 300 FPS.
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I am left eye dominant but right handed. I find that it works quite well to have both eyes open. The eye dominance cancels out my view of the actual sight but the bright dot is still visible. The red dot sight needs to be quite close to my eye for this effect to work though.
Glad it works for some people because personally I will not see any of the dot at all if I don't close my left eye and it's a royal pain. Not only is it annoying and a tactical disadvantage but I constantly have to explain the fact to other people. But I guess there's different degrees of the imbalance, my eyes are clearly f***ed from spending a ridiculous number of hours avoiding the sun and playing C&C as a teenager.
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Did you go for a UBAC or combat shirt ?
Just as an FYI, the CS in UBACS stands for Combat Shirt. UBACS is just something the MoD made up and the yanks carried on using the term that Crye originally coined.
#TLAFTW
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That's a great philosophy if you're not cross dominant, doesn't work for toffee for me. All I'd see is the left hand side of the outer casing of the optic. This is something they made us all check in basic and obviously it wasn't a scientific cross section of the population, but at least 20% of people across the 2 flights had the issue.
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Ha, nice. I might well use that, I can see it catching on.
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Something roughly in the region of $210 from a custom tactical sewing dude I know in the states. Obviously that's the base cost before the usual shipping and taxes and it'd be more with a cummerbund.Last try for quoting, how much did it cost you? and where did you get it made?
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Nobody was making quite what I wanted, so I had a custom PC made up. Just the plate panels and shoulder straps here obviously, the cummerbund is a stock product.
I've built it up with pouches etc since this picture, not taken a shot of that just yet though.
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Took a little while but compared to the shipping from the big gear retailers in the states it was substantially more affordable for sure.
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Few bits from a company called Whiskey Two Four, who seem to be a bunch of paintballers but they design some really good and innovative stuff.
The hypalon straps do the same job as MALICE clips but they're much lower profile, removing the potential to jab and dig in to you. The multicam loop pieces I didn't actually order but they dropped them in anyway; they slot between any PALS webbing so you can have velcro absolutely anywhere on your modular gear. The smaller bits are hypalon zip pull replacements, again I only ordered the two plain ones but they chucked in a set with UJs. My main interest are the MALICE replacements, if they work when I try them I'll be ordering a LOT.
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To say there's a million variables would be an understatement.
IMO, teach 'em young, with highly stringent 100% supervision. Everyone's brain is different so nobody can say for certain what any given stimulus will output in terms of behaviour, so it's all a fudge factor. I know personally my parents hate 'guns' and 'war' but they're entirely ignorant of anything to do with either subject and constantly cause me to face palm hard. I was banned from having any toy guns until I was at least 14 or so then eventually got a springer airsoft gun when I was about 16, also completely banned from any first-person shooter games until about 14; guess what I really like now? Heck I ended up thinking that joining the military as an armourer would be the best plan, can't go much further the other way than what they intended. The stuff my parents tried to push me and my brother to do we ended up hating, the stuff I was banned from I'm massively in to.
I guess the question about when they can handle a RIF is whether they can be trusted to take safe handling seriously and be trusted absolutely to keep the weapon pointed in a safe direction at all times if instructed to do so. If the answer's yes then nobody's going to get shot, if the answer's no well then obviously that's a different matter.
Personally I say take away the mystery and any false ideas they might develop in their minds. I think children taught properly and strictly early on are more likely to be safest in the long run, long as it's all entirely supervised until they're much older, substantially more trust worthy and able to comprehend the consequences of their actions fully.
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Not to worry, not a big deal. I don't think people should be branded or judged by the fact they wear certain camo to play at soldiers on a sunday, but on the other hand there's no denying there are unfortunately some real t*****s out there who give everyone a bad name. I get where you're coming from in the context of those particular individuals in the context of your site, though I'd have hoped if a specific bunch was that bad the organisers would've done something about them?
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What defines a multicam warrior? I wear MC all the time, but am also the complete opposite of a warrior.
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Is the WE the exact same size as TM? I've heard conflicting reports.
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Decent holster, but it probably won't work with the light the OP has. The one Lozart linked will because it's open at the back; will have an odd draw to it but it would still be faster than a nylon holster and much less likely to leave you combing the skirmish field looking for lost magazines.
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The novelty of the expressions on peoples' faces will never wear off. Especially if you go to a variety of sites.
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The safety is a great honking bar of steel going all the way through the gun, the fact the triggers are usually a bit wobbly when hanging free doesn't matter at all. If you've taken that TMH completely down to individual component parts you'll understand why (and why it's wobbly).
Ergonomics; you get used to with enough time behind the gun, as with reloads. There's not much of a flare to the magazine housing compared to an AR but it's not an insurmountable hurdle. Fact is you get a rifle the length of a 14.5" M4 with the barrel length of a 20" M16 and the muzzle energy to go along with it, which is quite important to 5.56mm. The more you cut down that barrel, the more you hinder wounding potential down range (all based on using the exact same ball ammo of course). That's a big part of the reason the original M16s were the length they were, it worked with the applicable round. When US SF these days carry those piddly little 10.5" carbines they're basically PDWs in many cases, they use bigger stuff for the proper outdoor fighting because the range and kinetic energy those M4s put out is massively decreased.
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You won't find a mass produced holster in any sort of plastic for that combo, so basically any adjustable nylon holster you can find that's designed to take a pistol with a light on is the way to go. If you want a wider range of holster compatibility you'd want to look at buying a clone of a Surefire x300, Streamlight TLR-1 or Inforce APL.
Personally I'd buy condor over viper if they're the only options you've found, but that's just me.
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