TheFull9

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.

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

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.

Needs more red dots mounted on to the rails.

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.

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

It is a well known fact I can't hit the broad side of a barn with a sniper rifle.

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.

Ha, nice. I might well use that, I can see it catching on.

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.

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.

Took a little while but compared to the shipping from the big gear retailers in the states it was substantially more affordable for sure.

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.

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.

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?

What defines a multicam warrior? I wear MC all the time, but am also the complete opposite of a warrior.

Is the WE the exact same size as TM? I've heard conflicting reports.

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.

The novelty of the expressions on peoples' faces will never wear off. Especially if you go to a variety of sites.

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.

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.

Can't seem to see where you picked up the GLM there PT, was it in the UK? ICS came out with a TAG specific version more recently (maybe a month or so ago) and I've not seen them stocked outside of the HK stores yet.

Nicely done man, that's a sweet batch of stuff. What's your feeling on the construction of the GLM? Seem like it's built to a good standard?

Hence why I said "The firearm itself has some shortfalls but it does the job it was designed for despite the long list of restrictions and limitations". I specifically didn't argue the idea that it's got 'cramping' issues, but that wouldn't stop the firearm being effective as a PDW. Indeed, it would be massively more useful than anything in a pistol calibre, let alone 9mm, when the other guy probably has 762x39. The point of the post wasn't to say its' perfect, not at all, just that it makes a great deal of sense for the very specific purpose it was designed for. If you've poked around inside the cockpit of a fast jet, Apache or armoured vehicle (which I'd imagine you will have at some point) you'll know where the issues come from in terms of having incredibly limited space to store personal weapons, hence the extremely compact overall size of the rifle. Craft such as those are bad enough when viewed empty, once you add a crew in all their body armour, helmets, kit bags, comms wires, O2 lines, ejector seat straps, maps, night vision etc etc etc.... the problem is made even worse. I can only speak for myself after handling the airsoft version that yes it is on the small side, but personally I really did not find it uncomfortably small and wouldn't have any problem using it. All I'd say myself is for the tall and long-armed to not buy the airsoft version (if they happen to find one in stock), but that's a really specific situation given how few are left floating about for sale now. Personally, I don't really like the overall ergonomics of AKs because the receivers are on the long side compared to a lot of other modern rifles, as are the stocks too generally. With an AR I never extend the stock past the first click and the fire control hand is almost touching my chest; horses for courses.

Whoo.. speculation central. Gotta love dem airsoft chinese whispers. As is the story with so many carbine variants of issued rifles created throughout the last 100 years or so, there was a need for a compact weapon for aircrew, armoured vehicle crew etc. Something that had better range, accuracy, handling characteristics and magazine/ammo compatibility & capacity vs a 9mm pistol or sub-machine gun, while also being super compact (even more so than a 10.5" barreled M4). Funnily enough this is something our military has done well at over the years, many aircrew used to be issued the HK53 with the sliding stock which does collapse down extremely small yet being 556 with 30 round mags actually gives you a fighting chance against people with conventional military rifles. Then of course there's the L22 which has a much longer barrel than the HK53 (meaning better accuracy and muzzle velocity), is even more compact and takes the same mags as everyone else around you would be carrying. I'm not sure whether the DoD actually put out any sort of contract or initiated a competition or set of trials for crewman PDW, but Magpul Industries unveiled the PDR back in 2006. Uses the conventional NATO standard for magazines and ammo in an extremely compact rifle which still maintains a long enough barrel for the 556 round to develop an effective muzzle velocity (along with numerous other advantages compared to an SMG). Magpul Industries stopped working on it around '11 (probably no military interest) but as with the FMG/FPG before it a couple of employees carried on with finalising the external design, working together with PTS to bring the airsoft version to market. Personally I think they f'd up by coming out with the PDR-C rather than the PDR-D because the latter has some 20mm up front for modularity, a proper pistol grip and a physical selector/safety switch (one or the other). Aesthetics... well that's about the most subjective thing in the world. The firearm itself has some shortfalls but it does the job it was designed for despite the long list of restrictions and limitations. Airsofters mostly live in a world based on guns dreamt up in the 40s and 50s, and for some reason despite most people being obsessed by 'the latest thing' in pretty much every aspect of life we're entirely stick-in-the-mud about weaponry. Not saying it's wrong to like AKMs or whatever, you can shoot BBs through whatever shaped toy you like on the weekend. Just saying that technology has moved on and when you look in to current design work you'll see the PDR actually doesn't look like a space raygun, it looks like a gun from 'today', perceptions are just skewed by the prevalence of very very old systems. A laptop or tablet would look ridiculously futuristic if everyone still had a dedicated room full to the rafters of whirring reels of tape as their home computers, but they don't, so it doesn't.