LMKipper

Perfectly legimate tactic.

Eyyy you finally got it!

I don't think they going to be so sought after that people will be paying over (or possibly even around) the RRP, but then people do mad things all the time. You can buy G17 Gen 5 MOS GHKs for virtually the same price as the TM now - I did about three weeks ago, so I'm not sure the demand is really there. Price it how you like but be prepared to appear in Macks...

Got a little RMR for the GHK

03457 877 877 Press the numbers for the customs team, then go from there. I think things are slow at the moment though. My parts were stuck for nearly two weeks.

There was a guy in the room playing the VIP (who was part of the organisation team) who saw the whole thing. He seemed entirely disinterested by it - in fact when I tried to bring him into the conversation, he remained resolute in his silence. I spoke to one of the proper marshals later, who agreed touching other pyro a no-no and was quick to point out he'd mentioned it in the brief but by this time I'd forgotten what the player who did it looked like. "I dunno mate, camo trousers with an M4..."

I was recently astonished to learn that it can also be used in IT security - short for 'number used only once'...

If he'd thrown a bit of old shit in the door, I'd have been less bothered and obviously not taken it. It was the fact it was an impact, and it made a decent bang when it just hit the floor that I assumed it had gone off - like it had a little 209 primer in or similar. I think what also narked me more was that this was a battlesim/filsim/milsim-lite job and I expected better, but I appreciate this is on me. I know there's only so much realism you can cram into toy guns, but throwing a spent grenade at an actual enemy IRL would not result in them keeling over due to a misunderstanding ?

I went to a filmsim/battlesim at the weekend and mostly had a good time but came up against a ‘tactic’ that I thought was a bit pants to be honest. However, I’m interested to know if I’m being overly sensitive. I was defending an objective, which was in a room in a house. It’s very noisy – shouting, loads of grenades etc. Generally hard to hear what’s going on. Suspecting some OpFor in the neighbouring room, I popped an impact grenade around the doorframe. Pop – no kills. About 10 seconds later, an impact grenade comes back around the doorframe into my room. I hear a loud bang as the impact hits the deck (I’ve got ear pro in) and take the hit. Bloke charges in, fair play we’re all done. He then loudly exclaims to his mates that he threw my own dead impact back into the room with me and starts laughing. I said ‘oh well I’m not dead then’ and knife kill him in return, and he says ‘no you are, you took the hit’ and it’s my own fault for not recognising the bang didn’t go off. I said this is stupid – for a start you shouldn’t touch other players pyro, but also next time it encourages people to not take grenade hits in case they were fake. He said he'd seen it on YouTube. I just took the hit and walked off, because I didn’t want any more aggro. Thoughts? Is this a legit tactic and I should shut up, or is this completely pants?

Well my supplied speedloader just jammed up and broke on the first proper attempt to load the mags. I've got some pistol adaptors for a TM speedloader, so I'll see what I can get to work. Otherwise really great pistol and enjoyed runnin it for the first time this weekend just gone.

Went to an evening game at the Invicta Black Site with @VictorFourTwo as a bit of a warm up ahead of an urban battlesim this weekend. As mostly woodland players, we just wanted a bit of a shake down. It was little bit of a mixed bag from my perspective, entirely because of one player, but we had a pretty good time anyway. Games were quite simple: first two games were domination with illuminated coloured beacons. Turn red on if you're red, blue if you're blue etc. Second game there were red and blue beacons dotted around the floor, and you had to retrieve them then bring them back to the spawn. From the outset, I was worried the traffic might be one way. Black site is a small, tight CQB arena with no lighting and lots of dead ends/cut throughts, so knowing your way around is huge advantage. All of the regulars set up on one table, then they all got put on the red team. But of a dud move from the folks running it in my opinion. The domination game did end up that way, with all the regulars knowing the sneaky little places to hide and pretty much locking us in the spawn for 10 minutes, but the second game that involved more movement was closely matched. There was also one regular who accused me of not taking my hits twice, which was a bit lame to be honest then whinged I was 'slow' to take one later one. In the penultimate game of the evening, the same player did the nonchalant dead player style walk past a few of us then shot us in the back. Again, just a bit lame really - genuinely never seen the point of doing that and it just tempts other people into shooting everyone they see just in case. It was only my second time there and said player was there both times. I think I'd give it another go but if that player is there again, acting the same way, that would be it for me.

Nice to see this joker is back.

Just received an email saying it arrived with HPA yesterday and they shipped it today, with expectation it will arrive tomorrow. Turns out I will go to the ball/battlesim.

The issue you will have is that you'll often need a fairly high pressure for the rifle to cycle consistently. Airsoft green gas/propane is around 140psi at room temperature, so that's a good place to start with a reg setting, then see if you need the NPAS to bring it down to playable limits.

I also forgot there's Octo8 - they run events in the south east and they're a nice halfway house. It's two non-stop back to back eight hour days, but you spend the evening relaxing.

Generally speaking, filmsin tends to just mean restricted ammo counts and semi-auto only (except support weapons) to stop complete drum mag on an M4 hosefests. This is about as 'hardcore' as a regular airsoft site will run, as in the grand scheme of things milsim isn't that popular. If you want sleeping in the cold, firing two rounds all day after lying in a trench - then yeah, go to a Sterling game or one of the more hardcore Defiant ops. Going to any walk-on game and hoping for this will always leave you disappointed.

Do you skirmish it? Very cool if so!

Not sure if that makes me feel better or worse! On the one hand, DAMN YOUR EYES MAN! But on the other hand I wish they'd said 'another batch came in and out but you're next' rather than what they actually sent me, which was: I'll be honest, I nearly said 'forget it, give me the refund' after that but I've already ordered some spare mags from elsewhere now.

After hearding nothing, I emailed HPA. Said they've not heard anything from the supplier themselves, and might be able to give me an update by the end of the week. Not currently holding out much hope for getting mine before my next game on May 10th ?

Well this has turned into a right saga. Filled in their little form, got another text saying I needed to submit more info. Went on the form and lo, it didn't work and I had to email them instead. Sent the email, then received further requests for info but nothing more I can send. Next I get an email saying it's cleared and I need to pay the fees, so I pay the fees and it says I need to provide more info again! Having sat in the warehouse for another two days, I rang up the customs team at UPS today. They said it had cleared and if I needed to book a delivery I should speak to customer services. After a transfer to customer services, they said it still hadn't cleared customs... After much department passing back and forth, they've booked a delivery for Monday. Let's see if it turns up eh!

If you're the South East, I'd recommend getting along to a Defiant game - there's a battlesim on May 10, then plenty after. The sort of people you're looking to join in with go to those games, so you should find some folks in no time!

I've sent them a message too - I've not really found the hop in my GDR lacking in any way but I'll be interested to try it if there's a noticeable gain.

"Bang off the limit"

Finally sorted and got round to painting the Tanaka I bought just before Christmas. Looking sharp now, if I do say so myself...

Gosh I made that terribly unclear didn't I? What I was trying to say was my first order sailed through with no customs or RIF declaration (also only parts, similar value) but my latest one has been picked up for both.