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They came in to stock about a week or so ago, bought one soon as the word spread. Think all sold right out again fairly soon after.

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Good old rash, impulse purchases. Where would the airsoft business be without them?

 

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Can't i just use heavier BB's or weaker gas?

Yes to the second, no on the first.

 

In gas guns, as you increase BB weight your muzzle velocity goes down but muzzle energy actually creeps up and despite the urban myth it's not the velocity that really matters the most. Sites always set their FPS levels "when chrono'd with a 0.2g BB" for that very reason, they're actually checking your muzzle energy but nobody ever phrases it that way.

 

Energy = Mass x Velocity squared, and all that jazz.

 

i'm using .20's and was thinking of upping the stakes to .25's, which, to my knowledge is the max the magazine can hold.

Could you elaborate? I've never ever heard of a magazine that was incapable of holding a certain weight of BB. Actual ammunition can feature numerous weights of bullet, but the dimensions of the round (and therefore the capacity of the relevant magazine) stay exactly the same, that applies to airsoft too.

[face/eye protection]

It's a tad hard to suggest something without knowing your budget.

 

For me personally some high quality, full seal eye pro with a lower face mask of some description is the minimum (particularly for CQB). Any less and you're risking teeth shot out and ricochets to the eye, very small chances yes but that's all down to your personal choice of course.

 

I started off with a paintball mask which worked just fine and obviously gave buckets of protection but is probably a bit OTT for airsoft. Used ESS ballistic shades for some years in woodland which was lovely and comfortable but in retrospect I wouldn't do again because there was (comparatively) lots of room for a ricochet to get in behind them and they got knocked off my face a couple of times even with proper adjustment and the head band attached.

 

A common setup these days is a combination of goggles (be it lenses or mesh) and a lower half mesh mask. I'd specifically recommend avoiding any sort of non-sealing eye pro with a mesh mask because there's more than a couple of softers out there who've taken some really nasty eye hits as a result of a BB bouncing up off the solid edge of the mesh and inside of their eye pro; taking in to account that a lot of the time no matter how tightly you adjust any sort of kit on your person when you run and jump around enough it will move about.

 

Realistically most people try a dozen different combinations over the years and it's trial and error before they find the best setup. At this point I'm sure I've got at least 8 different sets of goggles/glasses dotted around my gear and more than a couple of lower-face pro items sitting around, just from experimenting. The best setup I've found (for me, everyone's different) is some ESS goggles with the foam around the edges removed and the plastic lower half from your average rental mask zip-tied underneath.

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It is. Should say something along those lines on the label I think.

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I suppose the indicator will be the location of the place you bought them from.

 

Wouldn't personally recommend anyone trust their eyes to knock-offs (or even potential knock-offs), but obviously that's not my decision to make for anyone else, just putting it out there for the lurkers.

[Gun picture thread]

TM SOCOM No 2/3m. Used to be all Olive but with the 10.5" barrel it's the best of the lot for CQB so I went with the FG to (sort of) go with grey gear.

 

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With S95 gear, there is no such thing as 'New'. It's not used anymore. There is only Grade 1 or Grade 2. Grade 1 is stuff in perfect condition, Grade 2 is stuff with some wear and tear. More often than not, Grade 1 stuff from britishmilitarysurplus.co.uk arrives still in it's original packaging. The reason it's cheaper is that other army surplus stores would be buying from these guys.

 

As you say, the grading system must've changed. 7-8 years back when I was looking at surplus kit before I joined up I recall all the sites listed stuff as New -> Grade 1 -> Grade 2. You learn something new every day though.

[Load-Out / Loadout Picture topic]

As we can see, what you throw out in the t-bar/naafi/mess and is deemed perfectly acceptable comes across just a tad differently in the actual real world.

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Yeah 'Grade 1' surplus is definitely not the same as brand new and the price difference is very much to be expected.

 

If you just want some really cheap stuff that's of a decent level of resilience to get wrecked at airsoft then grade 1 should be more than fine to do the job in most instances. But if the individual wants new stuff (each to their own) then that's a different matter.

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first thing that came to mind:

*meme*

Please let us know what you think of the drac, I'm after something to replace my very worn PCU

 

It depends what you want out of a jacket really, A't will no doubt have something in their line to suit your criteria but I'm not sure how the PCU is put together exactly. Either way I recorded a video overview yesterday so that'll be up some time soon.

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An awful lot of moulded holsters are entirely open at the bottom anyway, far from uncommon.

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-4 x CR123a's for all these lights I seem to keep acquiring (eBay's great for batteries in case anyone's wondering, much cheaper than the supermarket)

-Drac softshell jacket in Crocodile i.e. fancy-pants khaki

 

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The good old Night Warrior with some Magpul grips and a black outer barrel + barrel bushing for dark/indoor CQB and to go (eventually) with a grey loadout.

 

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Pretty sure either philosophy is acceptable in a game of pretend-soldiers...

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"Those thingys"? As in, the original Knight's Armament rail panel? As in, the panel first made by the company that invented 20mm rails? Come on now.

 

IMO, on an old-school 7" KAC RIS they look really good.

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-Arc'teryx NAGA hoodie in Wolf

-KWA LM4c

-AngryGun threaded outer barrel w/protector for the VFC M&P9

 

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There is nothing illegal about the possession, the act does not state that and whoever told you that it does is ignorant of the facts.

 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/36

 

"A person is guilty of an offence if—

 

-a he manufactures a realistic imitation firearm;

 

-b he modifies an imitation firearm so that it becomes a realistic imitation firearm;

 

-c he sells a realistic imitation firearm; or

 

-d he brings a realistic imitation firearm into Great Britain or causes one to be brought into Great Britain."

 

The bad behaviour (imho) in this instance comes from the unscrupulous seller, someone clearly just out to make money and to hell with the rest of us. Absolutely nothing to stop the police coming on to these forums end of the day, I think the VCRA is utter BS but as a niché hobby seen as fringe with a tiny player base (comparatively) and far more people in the Uk against gun-shaped-things than for them, I think the only sensible solution is to eat the sh*tty sandwich and do our very best to ignore the taste.

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Daymn!

Got more rail than the Great Western Railway.

Like it a lot!

Cheers mate, nice of you to say.

*snip*

Ha, now that's some quality meme right there.

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[Ed, Let's play a game]

Well... they say that, fact is given what they are and the low value you could export them perfectly legally if you could find a retailer that'd jump through the hoops for you (which is a rare thing).

[Ed, Let's play a game]

The pump on a shotgun is just furniture far as I'm aware, same as a stock or pistol grip, no laws against importing it to the UK or having such a part for airsoft if it is just furniture; the only trouble is getting it out of America. US Amazon wouldn't ship anything here at all last I tried, though that was a long time ago.

 

There's a great thread in the Arnies Legal/VCRA section that very clearly provides all the info one might need about the legality of having various types of RS parts on RIFs.

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nice engraving - see you like your guns to look good

like the hozelock cqb one as well

seriously - nice attention to detail on all your stuff

Thanks. Lost me with that middle line though, unless you've been on my photo storage? I deliberately don't link to that tbh.

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Not exactly a thing I've purchased in the usual sense, but the latest wallet emptying takes the form of getting the core components of my LM4 cerakote'd with some engraving and lathe work on the barrel.

 

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End of the day, VAT is VAT, 20% is a fixed value, customs can't change that.

 

There is some lee-way in the Import Charge code they use but not very much, few quid either way. If anything they're more likely to be looking for 'guns' inside packages from HK because that's where the vast majority of RIFs will be coming in from, there's not going to be much difference. I've had RIFs from HK stopped and had maximum charges whacked on, same as I'm getting with a RIF from the states right now. Personally I'd say the main reason not to buy airsoft from the US is the general xenophobic attitude to sales that so many stores over there exhibit and the fact the prices are quite often worse.