TheFull9

I was going to say "whoa dude, airsoft girl" looking at that second photo, but experience has taught me it's never a girl. It's always a 17/18 year old lad who's in that stage of life where he thinks long hair is dead cool wearing a hat and full face pro. Anyway, it's a nice loadout nick, well put together. I couldn't run a shotgun sling like that myself but if you find it comfortable enough to use then more power to you, at a site like the outpost I've no doubt at all it'd come in very very useful indeed. Next thing on the shopping list has gotta be a UBACS?

They're not the cheapest item just for something to hold your patches it has to be said, plus they're a bit on the large side considering they'll easily hold about 300 or more. There are however a few companies now selling big velcro mats with metal eyelets so you can hang them up on your wall//doors/inside a cupboard etc which would do just as good a job for less money.

Forgot to add in my desert night parka in my previous post in the gear thread: Quite literally as old as me, made in 1988 and never issued so it's still in top nick. Also got orders in from Mil-Spec Monkey and BritKitUSA within hours of each other on thursday, so it was Morale patches all round. Even without the patches I have that aren't picture there I've got a long way to go before I ever fill up the MSM Mega patch book.

Unfortunately I've sort of lost touch with the UK retail scene over the last few years, F-S and LWA don't have it and they're about the only ones I know of who stock some TM GBB pistols; mine came from WGC (as with most of my purchases that aren't tac gear these days). Mags are a similar story. Performance.. well it's a TM, no more need be said really. I'm actually waiting on my holster to show at the moment, G-Code had a massive back log when I was in the Falklands and my uncle over in the US only just got the order there, so it's still gotta be shipped over the pond. This is what I'll be using though: http://www.tacticalholsters.com/product/SOC/SOC_Holster.html Safariland make models that would fit, no idea about IMI or Frontline. BH only do SERPAs that fit their own weird looking weapon light. Not a massive amount of differences in the E2. More grey than the P226Rs' all-black externals, much more matte finish on the E2 where the R was a bit shiny. The grip area of the frame is much nicer and lower profile (good for tiny girl hands like mine) and the plastic is a fair bit higher quality; TM have had a long time to refine their methods since the original came out. The E2 mags are updated and more robustly built, but they are interchangeable with the old type (and vice versa).

Cheers. Here's the next one: TM P226E2 with Streamlight TLR-1.

TM SCAR-L CQB RS RVG + XTMS Inforce WML G&P T-1 on Dytac mount

The comment just seemed relevant to the chocolate really, not intended to move in to anything political/philosophical. Simply; I like my country, that's why I don't mind being in job where any time day or night they can say to me "pack a bag, you're off to some unpleasant land full of unfriendly locals for an indeterminate amount of time" and I'd be contractually obliged to do as I was told.

Mmm, delicious patriotism.

Cheers. If you're interested in the 6/12 stuff I'd recommend checking out the FS website to see their new low-pro chest rig and watching out for it at retailers. Not sure if it'll ever make it across to the UK, but it's about $70 which is an awful lot more reasonable to most than the Strandhogg at $400, heh. Yeah fair one, that picture does make it look like an awful lot when you lay it out flat like that. I've actually got more kit that's not MC at this point though, it's just older and far less gucci.

It's called PODL wherever you go, at least that's the acronym we always use regardless of theatre. If you thought I was implying I'd just got back from afghan then I can only apologise for the mis-understanding, I just used the terminology I'm accustomed to. Your butlins must've been pretty physical though, because doing 18 mile bergan tabs with the army and munitions disposal at a holiday park in Skegness sounds quite extreme?

Right then, been away from the gear for a while, so here's the actual gear segregated from the great big stack pictured in the 'Just bought' thread. Stripped out all the guns, mags, optics and knives and here's what's left. Couple of accessories in there, but hopefully you guys can let those slide just this once. Arc'Teryx Talos Half Shell/Combat shirt Crye Gen 3 Combat trousers Propper ATACS-FG TAC-U/Combat shirt Tac Research Khyber Combat boots FirstSpear SAPI Cut Strandhögg Plate Carrier Blue Force Gear Vickers Combat Applications Sling (padded version w/ polymer hardware) Salomon EXIT 2 AEROs Source 2L WXP Hydro RS Rail Vertical Grip 2 x Under Armour Heatgear T-Shirts Patrol Incident Gear 2L Hydro pouch BFG Helium Whisper Medium Vertical Utility Arc'Teryx B.A.C. ATS Warbelt Insert Tac Tailor Fight Light Battle Belt Tac Tailor FL 4-Point Battle Belt Harness Pantac 15m Paracord bundle RS XTM Panels 2 x Under Armour Heatgear Blackout gloves Magpul MS3 2 x HSGI Pistol Mag pouches 2 x BFG HW Smoke Grenade pouches Tac Tailor FL Roll-Up Dump pouch BFG HW Double Pistol Mag pouch SKD Tac version HSGI Universal Drop Holster Platform Pantac cordura wallet Camelbak Vent gloves Inforce WML Streamlight TLR-1 BFG HW Triple M4 Pouch Bridgedale Coolmax + Bamboo viscose Crew socks Not pictured - 5.11 Neoprene knee pads and FirstSpear/American Apparel T-Shirt. Any questions/queries/'wtf are you doing you mentalist' comments anybody has please do fire away. Getting military discount with FirstSpear and finding the Crye G3s brand new for less than half the retail price helped quite a bit.

Heh, yeah my room here at home is pretty much a building site right now because the wardrobes I used to have were completely over-flowing. Had to rip them out, then remove the chimney breast to get a couple of extra square feet of floor space and my entire collection is currently sitting in massive cardboard boxes, waiting on a bespoke 3 x floor-to-ceiling double door cupboard installation going in with plenty of gun racks, hanging rails for rigs and shelving for all those little bits like mags, gloves, helmets etc. There will eventually come a point where I'm actually going to have to sell a gun or a rig every time I want to buy something new just to create a space. Unfortunately there isn't actually a massive amount to do to the SCAR, purely because of the construction of them. You can't change the stocks or receivers and you're stuck with the supplied pistol grip on the TM version. You can thread on a barrel extension, but then you've probably just chosen the length you wanted when you decided which to buy between the standard and the CQB. The RS extension rail systems aren't compatible and there isn't an awful lot of rail space at the sides or underneath for mounting. So yeah, little bit limited but the main thing end of the day is just that it's a really high quality EBB rifle, definitely more of a kick than the SOPMOD family rifles as well which is really nice.

Todays' arrivals: Because: Continuing to use my mothers' compact was getting a bit ridiculous with the amount of pictures I take The KJW takes all my TM mags and I don't care how worn out/scratched up it gets because it was cheap, ideal for practising drills without worrying about causing wear to my more expensive 1911s A leather wallet just isn't nearly tacticool enough for an airsofter You can never, ever have enough paracord in your life

No, none at all, that was the worst part!

Heh, well I put a fair bit in the savings too while I was down there, plus all the beer money (about the only thing you could get hold of easily at mount pleasant), but there's.... hmm, you know actually I've no idea of the total value of that lot, but you eat for free when deployed and get an extra couple of hundred quid each month on top of your normal pay packet which is pretty handy for increasing the old armoury. I've not yet compiled a list of it all but everything you see there will be appearing in a more detailed, focused fashion in the various appropriate threads around the forum.

Well, 4 months of extra pay and bugger all to spend it on.. Though I'm currently still waiting on a large order from G-Code, as well as other kit from Mil-Spec monkey, BritKitUSA, WGC Shop, Bitter End Airsoft, VZ Grips and Hardpoint Equipment. But what you see there is pretty much everything I purchased while in the Falklands.

I bought a few bits from RSOV literally about 2 days after the website launched a few years ago, and they were pretty good overall. Last time I used them however (needed a madbull DD barrel nut spanner that nobody else had) after many years of not, they took bloody ages to dispatch it, literally weeks (pushing near a month) to send out one tiny little item. Whether that was in isloated case I don't know, this was about 6 months ago and the only time I'd used them in around 2-3 years previously. EBairsoft have really turned themselves around recently though I've found, massively improved comms and dispatch times. The non-ACM-focused sites like WGC, UnCo and 'soft global also carry a fair mount of budget level optics and they charge just the same kind of prices on shipping as the likes of RSOV and Gunner.

Gotta be the A&K? If anything purely because there are hardly any other VN 60s available on the market.

Apart from a very small number of the first prototypes, Magpul never actually produced the Masada/ACR. Bushy/Rem bought the rights to the design once it was finalised and they're the only ones who ever mass produced it. Top shelf taste you have sir. Money well spent. I'd wager you'll find yourself dropping one or two of those accessories once you've played a game or two because I did the exact same thing for a while, but a great choice of rifle none-the-less.

R.e. The RS ACR (just for those interested in it) you'll fairly rarely see them on account of the fact that Remington/Bushmaster took the Magpul shell and filled it with shite components. The barrels in particular use a twist ratio in the rifling that is well known for giving w**k range/accuracy and they're not chrome lined as any decent barrel should be, which leads to excessive wear and unusually high corrosion. Combine the poor construction quality with a ridiculously high retail price (purely because of all the hype) and you've got one unattractive firearm.

Good looking loadouts guys. Marksman - Your MC is blending in brilliantly, I think if you were to swap that black t-shirt for something in a pattern you'd be on to a winner. Add some kind of baseball cap for a bit of camo, sun protection and BB protection and you'll be well sorted. HSGI make one which is about 80% mesh material that's awesome for the hot summer months.

Who's that aimed at? The rank and corps badges are somewhat dubious to my mind, but other than that match_man's load-out is very good.

Uber late reply, my apologies. Been very busy! Helped blow up 13.5 tons of plastic explosive this week.. Anyway, wouldn't say 'easter egg' as such but the photo needed censoring to conform to the rules of the board, and it just seemed the logical move to leave the initials really, heh.

Well, it was Foliage Green, and I like mint choc-chip ice cream but not on guns. Heh, unfortunately I played at the mall today, ran the RIS in the morning then swapped for the plastic in the afternoon and I've discovered that the rail is 90% pointless weight, ah well! I mainly put it together so I'd have the full set to photograph anyway, so no great loss.

Oops, double post I'm afraid, ah well! PTS ACR: Option 1: Option 2: When I had a random fit of thinking I was some kind of pro photographer: