Ian_Gere

Hmmm, dunno... I think he'd be a double Deagle man, meself. I mean, you'd have to have a bit of an ego to set about feeding 5000 people full stop, nevermind with just 5 loaves and 2 fishes!

You can tell us then... what would Jesus shoot?

I know that Sacarathe deleted this question, but I decided to answer it anyway, because it offers the potential for good advice on a topic that is relevant to many of us... 1st off, I haven't heard of any particular criticisms of the CYMA P90, so I expect that it is no worse than most manufacturers' efforts and, despite the price, probably better than some. However, it is a P90 and, yeah, I must admit to a violent bias here, I mean I fucking hate 'em, but that aside, I'm not sure many people, except Stargate SG1 fans, who go airsofting for the first time, would think of a P90 as cool looking. That leaves the only advantage as a loaner being its size and weight - it would be easy to drop in a bag as an extra gun and few mags to take along with your own gun, mags, and gear. But there are plenty of small assault rifles and SMG's with folding stocks, to mention but a few: AKS-74U/N, G36C, HK UMP, 4" barrel M4... With the exception of the UMP, the mags of those all fit into pretty standard, cheap, pouches (such as 90's era British Army gear) and/or cargo pants pockets, whereas a P90 mag is an awkward bastard even if you have the right pouches - probably easier for total noobs to deal with a standard underneath mag change too, regardless of where on their body they carry spares. G36 mags can be a bit of a ball-ache, with those side lugs getting caught on the cloth of pockets or pouches, but of course they can also be double stacked quite easily, so it's swings and roundabouts in terms of pro's vs cons. In short then, I would say yes, indeed, anyone would regret buying a P90, of any description, as a loaner...

This weekend gone was the first time in a long time that I have had the energy to do anything, but my g/f came over so i didn't get round to powering up my sight. I'm planning to use a hot glue gun to cover the contacts of the AAA holder once I've soldered the wires in place - that's gotta be a lot better than bits of LX tape at preventing short circuits...

Madbull do some 0.12g BB's - they're £5 in RWA's UK site holiday sale. I've mooted the idea of using coloured BB's to indicate that you're in your last few before, but nobody thought much of the idea. I still think it's worth checking out because I, for one, find it difficult to keep track of where i am in a mag once things get exciting. But yeah, 0.12g BB's would overhop like mad and, since the idea is to remind you to change mags immediately, you might think that's not necessarily a bad thing, but then again, you'd be about to be dry firing, which would make you change mags immediately, so actually all you'd have had is 10 less BB's that you could fire at targets... The idea would only work sensibly with BB's of the same weight as your normal ones.

I ended up ordering some of Giena Tactics' standard Field Trousers and a UBACS but in Izlom rather than SS Leto/Summer cos they gave me the option to pay for them only once they have been made, ie just before posting, rather than fully upfront, plus the 20% Xmas discount: seemed rude not to...

Indeed it is. Bit of an unwieldy beast, but at night creeping about slowly is the name of the game anyway, so that hardly matters. It's amazing how much the whole box weighs compared to the sight on its own, eh? Did you get a bunch of old-skool communist batteries in yours? Bloody Volta would recognise them! They would certainly add some weight to the scope too - thank fook for AAA's!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, fuck it, my credit cards are already gibbering wrecks, so may as well go the whole hog! Real Sword PSO-1 M2 Scope ~ $275.00 - $27.50 membership discount + $20 (10-20 day) Shipping = $267.50 posted

Russian Army Gen 3 'RATNIK' 6B34 Armoured Goggles - $80 posted (gonna go ahead with my plan to add a 25mm or 30mm fan to each side of these, depending on how much space is available when they arrive) HDMI Type A Female to Type D Male Adaptor - £1.02 posted (for the H.264 Sports HD DV cam I, and others, bought a while back)

My new CYMA CM.057S AEG Dragunov SVD with real steel NSP-3 night vision scope

Yeah James, but that pot is continually getting annealed by being heated and allowed to cool slowly - they put dents in it with a BB gun they say at the top of the piece... probably .177/4.5mm steel BB's, but nonetheless, bugger all compared to buckshot. I dunno for sure that Herosharks would withstand buckshot mind, nor would i risk it, but i would put £10 on it if someone had a shotgun and some spare HS to test!

Thanks BrightCandle, I will ask them if that's possible. Although I am also seriously considering trying to add a pair of 25mm fans, one on either side, to a pair of real Gen 3 6B34's. It turns out that those little fans built for electronic component cooling run on 12V, so they could be built into a pair of goggles with Deans connectors and share 11.1V LiPo's with my AEG's, since a fully charged Turnigy Nano Tech LiPo puts out about 12.3V...

Is that from Giena Tactics, Chris? I was thinking of having a UBACS made by them in what they call SS Summer, also known as Partizan, SS Partizan, by BARS as Frogskin, but originally SS Leto. In fact since i didn't take them up on their first quote they have sent me a 20% discount offer (not a code so i can't pass it on unfortunately), but from the sounds of it, it may be a site wide xmas thing anyway.

Ohhhhh, but what about those persons who walk about wearing golfing jumpers and Rockport boots as if they have seriously scaled the heights of sartorial excellence!?! TBH I've never played the game, for the reason that i secretly fear i would quite like it, but then i'd have to get to know golfers and that my friends is a burnt bridge to far...

You know why golf is called "golf"? Cos "shit" was already taken...

Except that, as we both said, it's a right ball ache to do... You are right though, Prof, 2 BB's have to pass that little rocker thingumajig in the outlet of proper speedloaders for the 1st to be pressed into the mag, which means the 2nd will always drop out - doing it over an open bag/box would seem to be the only way forward. I never even considered mixed colours, Trigger, but yeah, I bet that did look TDB... Thinking about it more though, specifically as a support gunner in near-total darkness, the random mix approach could trick the enemy into thinking they were facing more guns than just you...

Since the OP seems satisfied with the thread outcome so far, I thought it'd be OK to broaden the scope of discussion a bit and ask everyone this: has anyone bothered trying to mix tracer and standard ammo in the same mag, real world stylee, say 1 in 5 light up? If so, how did you do it and how did it go? I thought of 2 ways of doing it that would make the distribution accurate: 1) I have an old skool "speedloader", which came with my Ares L1A1 SLR - it consists of a 42cm long tube, with a slightly flared fitting on 1 end and a feed tube type fitting on the other, with a simple rod plunger, into which you stack BB's and then use the plunger to press them into the mag (which is why speedloader is in quotes above); 2) you could use 2 speedloaders, 1 holding each type of ammo - a light press for 1 tracer BB, followed by a full press for 4 standard BB's... Of course you could also roughly mix the right quantities of each into a single speedloader and trust to statistics that they would load on average 1 in 5, but unless you were in a support weapon role firing loads, i expect that there would be many instances where the average would work out as something like 2 tracers followed by 8 standard which could balls up many a 'creep forward for a better angle' type plans...

A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Lemon, the destroyer of taste." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. ~ J. Keith Oppenmimer

I would go with a Scrooge loadout, but then i'd have to play it as too tight fisted to fire any BB's...

Oh my gonads, where to begin...? Probably first on my list is to finish the upgrading of Ekaterina my Gen 1 E&L AKS-74M - I have nearly all the bits: PDI 6.05mm TBB, ProWin hop up chamber, double O-ring piston head, maybe PDI 100% spring depending on FPS from excellent compression, Prometheus Purple (soft) hop bucking + PTFE tape, SHS single O-ring air seal nozzle is already in, SHS High Speed motor, lo res rewire & Deans connectors, KK BW3 MOSFET, + might buy Kanzen ceramic bearings for the quiet & may adjust the gear ratio depending on how well the KK BW3 pre-cocking function works... Need a new hop solution for Svetlana my spring A&K SVD: she has a PDI 590x6.01mm TBB and the airsoftpro.cz advanced hop chamber; i was using a PDI W-hold bucking but it was really struggling to lift anything heavier than 0.32g so I tried a Maple Leaf 60° and a variety of 0.4+g ammo all of which was jamming in the hop chamber even with no hop applied; so i surrendered and replaced the W-hold, only to find that she was now jamming 0.3g Blaster Devils which had been my ammo of choice previously - i dunno what the problem is, so opinions would be appreciated (but i want to keep the 6.01mm TBB b/c high compression means weaker spring which makes for easier cocking from tiny & awkward cocking handle {even with the extension}), but anyway I have also bought... ...an AEG SVD by CYMA whom I am yet to name: her stock FPS is supposed to be 440 but my local, Skirmish Mansfield, allow semi-locked guns to fire at up to 500FPS with 0.2g BB's same as BASR's (you just have to leave 1 second between shots), so I expect I'll put a 6.01mm PDI barrel in her to get the extra 60 & may have to trim the spring a bit because gunfire.pl claim her inner barrel is 690mm long, which i think must be an exaggeration, but if it isn't, holy extra compression mucking up standard FPS calculations batman! They also claim that CYMA's clone of Real Sword is so good that the stock compression is excellent, which is a claim i'll have to investigate and, whilst i am a fan of CYMA hop rubbers in AEG's, I'm not so sure they're good enough for sniping, nor is their QC up to much when it comes to hop rubbers, so i may well have to replace it due to bad moulding anyway. No doubt I'll also end up wanting lightning fast trigger response, which may well lead to a pre-cocking MOSFET, hopefully another BW3 because it would be such a waste of money to end up having to buy a BTC Chimera (which can also do ROF adjustment by inserting micro-pauses between full auto shots, rather than slowing the cycle rate) for a semi-auto only gun... Then there's the new Meister Arms AKS-74UN I have just bought: at some point during 2016 I'll name her and do to her pretty much the same as Ekaterina. except for the ProWin hop chamber which i only bought because it was going cheap 2nd hand (not that they aren't better than the TM compatible design, they are, but E&L and Meister Arms have already copied that design very well, even though it does then limit you to a 1200mAh 11.1V LiPo under the top cover, at least the extra space allows you to put a MOSFET handily on top of the hop chamber which makes it easier to get at to plug in Deans)... ...and the massive pile of partially dismantled AK's I have lurking in the back room: of note Tatiana my AKS-47 needs a new gearbox inserting and her woodwork roughing up; Sabine my tactical AK-47 needs her GB un-jamming and a hand made FIMO ergonomic pistol grip; my franken-AK build needs completing and painting in snow camo; my Post-Apocalyptic/Terrorist AK-47/Type 56-1 hybrid needs her real steel stock fitting and a few internals; plus there's enough bits to make a couple of very good guns and a couple of bargain bin specials to sell... Oh yeah, and there's also Raisa my tactical RPK build: needs her Zenit style handguard internal file job completed and, oh weep for the heresy, possibly some kind of Crane stock, because i need extendible and can hold a battery, because the top cover is full of faux piston and bolt carrier, which will not come out and still allow the top cover to be latched in place at all easily, but i may experiment with some box section ali to make her existing stock extendible; plus she needs one of those grip-pods which split into 2 halves (rather than the ones which shoot the legs out of the bottom and look silly both open & closed even on L85A2's ); internally she needs the full Ian-stylee high compression/high cycle rate works, locking off to semi, and fettling for a UK-wide-ish DMR FPS of 420... And how could i forget? I also need to finish Vázlav my Vz 61 upgrade: from my bits pile he needs his SHS gears fitted; Kanzen bearings; Magnesium Alloy piston; 130% spring; and despite prevailing opinions and his PDI 6.01mm TBB, I am going to R-hop him (just to see); I also still live in hope of finding a neodymium magnet motor which will fit in his tiny gearbox... Loadout wise i want to complete my Soviet era tank crew scruffy mixed uniform; add authentic leather jump boots to my Soviet-Afghan war era VDV loadout; build a dedicated Smersh to go with Raisa consisting of 1 side PKM for a drum mag, the other side RPK pouches for long box mags, and the butt-pack modified with an elasticated post box hole in the top as a dump pouch; finish my ghillie suit; get a Partizan/SS Leto Gorka for bad weather... Also need to get my knee healed up so i can go to the gym and get fit again - I plan to be on form by March for the Balshoy Bolshevik Bash 4, but i expect to be fit for long range sniping quite soon... I feel like i'm still missing something...

I bought some Madbull 0.25g Tracer BB's but i have still not used them. I have seen tracer ammo used to great effect during night games though, ie being able to see exactly where your fire is going which is good for: 1) adjusting your aim to make hits on targets in partial cover; 2) accurately rattling someone's cover so they keep their head down while a team mate scoots up and pops them at close range; 3) preventing cheating. I have also been told that if you fire tracer ammo without a tracer illuminating unit in your faux suppressor, mag, or hop up chamber, if you are using an IR illuminator and NVG the tracer BB becomes visible to you but not those without NVG.

Yeah, I've had a fragment of BB get through my Heroshark Makos - it was just like sand in my eye at the beach - i went back to the safezone, resisted the urge to rub my eye, rinsed it with 2 handfuls of clean water, put the goggles back on and went back to the game... I suspect that had i rubbed it, i would have got a scratch on the surface of my eye, which if you've ever had one you'll know, is a real pain in the hole for days...

The main problem with mesh is the shadows it creates across your vision. If you haven't worn any, you will not know what I mean and unfortunately most cameras do not work the same way as the human eye so you cannot replicate the effect in pictures without some very expensive equipment. without any doubt Herosharks are the toughest mesh goggles available - they do not claim it, but i have no doubt that they would stop 00 buckshot. They also have the largest holes of any commercially available mesh - this is a two edged sword, because yes, they do let more light in than the common small hole perforated sheet "mesh" that many manufacturers use, but the bits of metal that remain are also amongst the largest... When you are wearing mesh, your eyes attempt to remain focussed beyond it, which means that whatever you can see of the mesh between your eyes and their point of focus is very blurred and, if it is small enough, it disappears completely. The threshold for this seems to be about 1.1mm, ie if any dimension of a shape of metal is longer than 1.1mm, then it will never completely disappear from your view and will instead leave a very blurry dot of shadow (and since they come in rows there will be rows of these blurry dots of shadow). This is where Herosharks fail - the quasi-triangular shapes left between the offset perforated holes leave about the worst rows of shadowy dots. You totally do get used to them being there and your brain adapts to looking beyond them, however another problem is that any sudden movement nearby, or if you attempt to glance down at your chest by just moving your eyes, even sudden noises that make your eyes involuntarily move, can all cause your eyes to attempt to refocus on the inside of the goggles. The larger the shadows, the more often this happens, plus, as Esoterick says, if they are unpainted or white on the inside, this makes it happen more often. So what? The trouble is that it takes a while for your eyes and brain to readjust to focus purely beyond the mesh again and not bother about the shadows, so basically the bigger the metal the more time you cannot see... Still, your eyes will refocus, whereas fully fogged/rained out polycarbonate is a trip back to the safezone hoping you don't fall over something in your path on the way. In my experience mesh made from interwoven wires, like those Kingrin's, makes the smallest shadows and they can completely disappear from your view. However, in the Kingrin's I personally bought from firesupport.co.uk, the mesh was pretty badly inserted into the frame - there are many of the last bits of wire missing so there is less substance actually holding the mesh in place than there ought to be, which does make me question their safety. The same style ACM ones, like these, have never given me any pause and i have been shot in the face full auto whilst wearing them at least 4 times. You could also consider doing what I did to a pair of polycarbonate lensed goggles which fit your face well - swap the polycarbonate for mesh you buy yourself. You can then bend the end of each wire to loop around the last wire it crosses, or a boundary wire, to form the edge of the mesh insert. This adds strength because it means that the wires cannot be pulled into the centre of the mesh by deforming pressure - if the wire cannot move, the only way to deform the shape of the holes and thus penetrate the mesh, is to actually stretch the wire - personally i do not believe it is possible for an AEG, BASR, gas or even HPA, propelled plastic BB's to deliver enough energy to a hit to actually stretch 0.7mm steel wire, especially when it is also supported by the friction between each crossover. I also added to the strength of mine by making the mesh replacement bulge out way more than the original lens did, which gives the shape more room to flex and spring back than if it was simply flat. Mesh Modified ESS Advancer V12's ...when I'm wearing these, it only takes seconds before it feels as if there is nothing at all between my eyes and the world. The mesh is #8 0.7mm SS316 and you can buy/blag sample sized pieces which are well big enough to do any twin lensed goggles and, from some companies, just about a ski mask type.

E&L AK 74 mid cap mag (brown) - €8.90 2 x E&L AK 74 mid cap mag (black) - €17.80 Meister Arms AKS 74UN - €189.90 +€19.90 Shipping -€50 Voucher = €186.49 (£135.38) from airsoft-entrepot.fr The voucher was going to run out on Monday, so something had to be done - I was hoping to spend the whole €50 on mags, despite their poor rep, because at least i can use the guts of them to fill some real steel (actually bakelite) mags I bought a while ago, but despite having only just restocked, they only had these 3 left. Hey ho, Phatima, my ICS AKS 74U, has got something dire wrong with her and although she was at one time my fav gun, my patience is very nearly expended, hence this new toy. Plus it was the cheapest Meister Arms gun they do...

Well then, yeah, the VLTOR would go in front of it attached to the barrel.