TheFull9

Custom built MAS 36

Christmas is over, I know, and as always I'm either too early or too late
 
Anyhow, I have just ordered:
1x Vector Optics Mustang LPVO;
1x repro Unity LPVO mount;
1x LPVO killflash;
1x 40mm killflash for my Swiss Arms 4x40;
1x MP5 insert to go into my Ammo Hub;
1x M4 insert, same as above.
 
A few days ago I ordered dis monstrosity and dis monstrosity feeding apparatus because when the question is "how many RPS do you need??" the answer is always "yes".

After stagging on all of christmas I've got this week off, which is probably just about the worst one of the year for games but I had to make sure I got one in at least.  Took my life in my hands and drove through the biblical floods (some puddles) down to Zed Adventures last night.
 
I think it's probably fair to say there aren't a ton of indoor/urban regular sites in what I'd call 'central south'; not a huge number of sites in general really considering population.  You've got loads of sites in Essex/Kent, a blob around Portsmouth, couple of CQB places in Gloucester then the map is a little sparse if you draw a circle around Oxford.  With me generally living life around/between NW London, Oxfordshire and Shropshire; Zed was the least-worst place to get to during the evening this week.  I'm really not sure if it was worth the trip in the end though 😂
 
There's a cheap multi-storey (cost me £2 to park) that's well lit and you come out maybe ~15m from the site entrance.. and that's about all that's really positive I could say.  In theory you're totally under cover, but the old shop has so many leaks now I got mud on my trousers.. 🤨 (doesn't matter, just funny).  The crowd that showed up were all really nice, chill players, but obviously that's a positive reflection on them as people not the site staff.  Said staff weren't bad people per se either, but I felt like I was just tagging along at a private speedsoft game night for the marshals, all of which were playing pretty much all of the time.  Not a feeling I've ever had at a game before.  Also the shortest game briefs I've ever had playing airsoft, by a large margin, one of them took maybe 30 seconds and the guy in his SpeedQB get up delivering it didn't exactly show much enthusiasm.  When I say speedsoft players I'm talking HPA guns that were so far removed from any actual firearm I couldn't tell what they were in most cases; looked like Milwaukee power drills.
 
I've been to Zed before something like 3-ish years ago, I think Negative Luke was running it at the time after the Mall and I liked it, had always been meaning to go back.  I don't expect an airsoft site to be gleaming by any stretch but none of the SZ tables had had so much as the briefest brush off, the SZ detritus was all just pushed in a corner as apparently a dustpan was a step too far and despite being inside and rarely used the toilets were in a pretty damn wrecked/filthy state.  Oh and not only was there a christmas tree up and other decorations, but fake spiders and webs stiff clinging to things from Halloween.
They had rigged up sheets and water collectors for the points where the roof was badly leaking, they've also some rigged up the shops' speaker system to an aux lead and put in some funky lights which was cool, but the amount of straight trash in various places definitely counteracted that.  I just wanted to play a game somewhere to iron out those niggles in equipment that never raise their head until you're actually in play, but at £27 for an evening game it's very much not on the top of my priority list for the future.

Got the vfc mp5 flashlight handguard mounted on the A4.
 
had to do a tiny bit of dremel work for the back tab that goes into the upper receiver. The part of the outer barrel under the cocking tube (where there’s a Phillips screw) comes into contact with the top of the tab so I sanded it down some. 
 
the holes for the retaining pin is oblong. The stock pin will still stay in place but I opted to use the handguard pin that came with my Magpul SL mp5 handguard as the flashlight handguard won’t need to come off anyway. Figured this way, the pin (which has a screw threading into it) locks the handguard into place. 

After stagging on all of christmas I've got this week off, which is probably just about the worst one of the year for games but I had to make sure I got one in at least.  Took my life in my hands and drove through the biblical floods (some puddles) down to Zed Adventures last night.
 
I think it's probably fair to say there aren't a ton of indoor/urban regular sites in what I'd call 'central south'; not a huge number of sites in general really considering population.  You've got loads of sites in Essex/Kent, a blob around Portsmouth, couple of CQB places in Gloucester then the map is a little sparse if you draw a circle around Oxford.  With me generally living life around/between NW London, Oxfordshire and Shropshire; Zed was the least-worst place to get to during the evening this week.  I'm really not sure if it was worth the trip in the end though 😂
 
There's a cheap multi-storey (cost me £2 to park) that's well lit and you come out maybe ~15m from the site entrance.. and that's about all that's really positive I could say.  In theory you're totally under cover, but the old shop has so many leaks now I got mud on my trousers.. 🤨 (doesn't matter, just funny).  The crowd that showed up were all really nice, chill players, but obviously that's a positive reflection on them as people not the site staff.  Said staff weren't bad people per se either, but I felt like I was just tagging along at a private speedsoft game night for the marshals, all of which were playing pretty much all of the time.  Not a feeling I've ever had at a game before.  Also the shortest game briefs I've ever had playing airsoft, by a large margin, one of them took maybe 30 seconds and the guy in his SpeedQB get up delivering it didn't exactly show much enthusiasm.  When I say speedsoft players I'm talking HPA guns that were so far removed from any actual firearm I couldn't tell what they were in most cases; looked like Milwaukee power drills.
 
I've been to Zed before something like 3-ish years ago, I think Negative Luke was running it at the time after the Mall and I liked it, had always been meaning to go back.  I don't expect an airsoft site to be gleaming by any stretch but none of the SZ tables had had so much as the briefest brush off, the SZ detritus was all just pushed in a corner as apparently a dustpan was a step too far and despite being inside and rarely used the toilets were in a pretty damn wrecked/filthy state.  Oh and not only was there a christmas tree up and other decorations, but fake spiders and webs stiff clinging to things from Halloween.
They had rigged up sheets and water collectors for the points where the roof was badly leaking, they've also some rigged up the shops' speaker system to an aux lead and put in some funky lights which was cool, but the amount of straight trash in various places definitely counteracted that.  I just wanted to play a game somewhere to iron out those niggles in equipment that never raise their head until you're actually in play, but at £27 for an evening game it's very much not on the top of my priority list for the future.

New headset - thanks @Cr0-Magnon 
 

 
Looking forward to trying these out in CQB, in the meantime I can use 'em as hearing aids 

Feed lips add extra length over a RS 1911 mag , hence why they don’t fit properly in RS mag pouches. 

A few months back now iirc, I reported it and deleted the chat after I sent the proof to Jedi master.

Damn, I should have gone to specsavers 🤓
I've now got rid or the right wrongun, Jedi will reinstate the wrong rightun 🤔
There's a lot of dodgy mofos with positive feedback, weirdly usually from fellow new members who are equally as dodgy

There are multiple bits of the chat going back and forth so I'll give you all the TL:DR version.
 
He offered me 3 guns. 2 of which I was interested in.
 
I asked for additional photos and videos. The asking price was £900 for the pair which would have been at the very top of the budget, so I wanted to make sure they were in the very top of condition.
 
All new photos were photoshops of previous photos. The videos were indistinguishable as they were in the dark, shooting tracer.
 
After confirming my suspicions, I called him on it and he confessed.
 
Be wary boys and girls.
 
Happy new year to you all.

Pretty much, some type of sheet to catch little falling parts.  Majority of sites I've been to have benches with the standard slotted top surface which are absolutely perfect for helping with losing small items/anything that rolls.

Welcome. This is a good website for finding somewhere to play
 
https://playairsoft.uk/

The amount of times I’ve witnessed a spring jettisoned across a safe zone is many
or a tiny item popping out and falling between the slat on a picnic table
Fek that
 minimal tools to allow fitting optic batteries or swapping accessories is my limit
(and a leatherman )

I'm gonna go to hell for this. 🥺

Starting to realise why I started playing Airsoft.
 
1. No disembodied insults
2. Fun
3. Many other things because online stuff is shit.
4. I'm getting old and not getting hold of gobshities physical is frustrating.

super light , very pleasant indeed 👍🏼

For gun room/armory interior design, it seems there are generally two common styles, either you go 1. grid mesh/pegboard/slat wall for a utilitarian look, or 2. fancy cabinets
 
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/03/25/top-100-best-gun-rooms/
 
You might want to think about coordinating a colour theme for the room (e.g. grey pegboard with grey wall and not just random colours) and designing your lighting for wall displays, i.e. spot light bars on the ceiling
 
(Best lighting are found in museums so you can get some ideas from museum lighting design)

Needed a gas block to replace my front iron sights, got this from airsoft world.net and they gave me a free patch and a bounty!
 
Thankfully I don't mind a bounty, controversial topic 😂

Getting ready for my first ever indoor cqb event on Hogmanay
Quite looking forward to it 
 

eBay definitely the best source of MTP uniforms I've seen.  I've not really looked at MTP but you can get surplus DPM trousers or shirts for under £5 each pretty often; surp MTP seems to be a smidge more money but not by much given there's so much of it out there.  It's an order of magnitude better value than any of the commercial copy stuff out there.

Those protectors are very sacrificial, I've seen them cracked and therefore useless.
 
Better off with the Red Dot Engineering ones off eBay 

Just taken delivery of the BAR, and it was so worth the 6 years wait to find one and have the money for it 😂
Sadly the stock mounting screws seem to have shitted themselves in transport so it's holding on for dear life but that seems to be common anyway. Can't wait to use it next month.
 
 
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And in typical fashion, I buy an LMG and then find something else I've been after. Found the only ICS M1 Garand in stock in the UK (I believe), one left... Not any more. My bank account is going to hate me 😭

Cheap new chinese kit with iffy knock-off quick release buckles doesn't fit in the 'realiable and hassle free' category, I'd say the opposite frankly.  It might be fine, it might break after a game or when a bb hits one of the buckles; you roll the dice.  
 
There's various Warrior kit on eBay right now that's bomb proof, plus some arktis as mentioned.  Or there's the venerable BULLE options which have always been solid and yet still real cheap:
https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/odtmb2nx.html
https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/odtav2nx.html
This'll be way better made than the invader gear kit at about 40% less money.
https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/sdtav3nx.html
 
Just some of the examples out there.

Cheap new chinese kit with iffy knock-off quick release buckles doesn't fit in the 'realiable and hassle free' category, I'd say the opposite frankly.  It might be fine, it might break after a game or when a bb hits one of the buckles; you roll the dice.  
 
There's various Warrior kit on eBay right now that's bomb proof, plus some arktis as mentioned.  Or there's the venerable BULLE options which have always been solid and yet still real cheap:
https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/odtmb2nx.html
https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/odtav2nx.html
This'll be way better made than the invader gear kit at about 40% less money.
https://www.flecktarn.co.uk/sdtav3nx.html
 
Just some of the examples out there.

"I use a chest rig because they're smaller and lighter"
 
His chest rig:
 

 
(Not aimed at Tackle, it's just a funny trope)