Ian_Gere

However if it is possible to get a 1TB console for the same money as some places are selling 500GB versions, then I'd rather get that and save myself 50 sheets on an external drive.

The reason I don't want a new computer is exactly what you have said above - there are so many options that i will end up getting my nerd on and spending more money than i can reasonably afford. But also I just don't want to build another computer either - that era of my life is over and tbh it's painful enough admitting to myself that i cannot airsoft, being reminded that i can no longer do my job as a sound engineer nerd is even worse. I want a console which i can plug in to my existing HDMI equipped TV, TiVo, and 5.1 Surround amp like a punter...

I've read in a review of an Xbox One bundle that came with a 500GB hard drive that you can get a 1TB hard drive edition for the same money - £300-ish, but the only 1TB one i can find is a limited edition CoD one for £395 - any help lads?

Nah, it's an HP Pavilion G6-1241sa.

Hi people. Tis a sad day, but i'm beginning to seriously fear that the state of my health may not allow me to airsoft at all this year. I'm not giving up hope and i'm certainly not thinking of selling up, or even reducing my tactical preparedness (tat pile), but I'm starting to feel the lack of trigger in my life... So I'm thinking of buying a gaming platform. I'm not going to buy or build a gaming PC, because I'm pretty happy with my lappy for general puter stuff and i'm probably shortly going to upgrade the processor for about fifty notes, so I don't see the point of spending a grand and a half, or whatever, just to duplicate functionality; besides i don't have the or the willingness to take on that much debt. But which console to buy: that, Mr. Hamlet, is a far more important question. So which do you recommend and why? My gaming experience is pretty limited. I didn't play any home-console or at home computer games, as opposed to arcade games, until about '98. Even then I don't remember I enjoyed Halo which i used to play when it first came out, on my Apple G4, simply because a mate had it and the graphics looked so much better than any game i had seen or played so i had to give it a go. I actually bought Myst (I forget which number - it was about 14 years ago) and loved it. A bunch of us used to have an intranet in a massive house i used to live in way back in the day and we had Unreal Tournament set up so we could play against each other - that was ok, although the graphics were shite, but the main problem for me was that a couple of the lads were gaming nerds and so good at it that i stood no chance. I'd say that my main interest is strategy games, but i do like 1st person shooters also, and they of course will be my trigger substitute...

Oh, hang on, I take it back... ...as you can see, there is some wiggle room. So if you did modify the mag's feed lips, you could get 9 or 10 blanks stacked so that each rim was forward of the one below it, utilising the difference in size between a blank and a complete round.

A 9mm BFG blank has a rim 10.6mm (0.417") in diameter, but a Glock mag, for eg, double stacks cartridges and, because the blank is shorter than a round including a bullet, it may well be possible to stack them with the rims staggered forward and back. You would have to modify the gap between the mag's feed lips to get the blanks in/out and you couldn't get as many rounds in as the mag is designed to hold, plus all the tension would be at the back between each forward stacked rim and the cartridge cases above and below which it pressed against, so they wouldn't be very stable inside. Although a mag spring is pretty strong so the main issue would be whether the instability down the stack of blanks would make the top one present at an angle which would make it slip out from between the lips without being pushed from the rear - I believe this would indeed happen and I doubt that the obvious first solution, to modify the mag follower, could be made to work. Nonetheless I suspect that it may be possible to design feed lips which could cope with wonky angled blanks, but the problem then, due to making the mechanism tighter, would be that those cartridges stacked with their rims at the back would not easily slide forward out between the feed lips, since the rim would be caught against the rim of the cartridge below and the only solution to that is looseness, play in the mechanism... In short then I'd like to see video of someone using a 9mm pistol mag to carry and dispense BFG blanks, but until i see it, i say bollocks.

I think i get the sleeve idea, and yeah to protect the top primer from being accidentally pushed out, it's a plan - but i don't see how it would work with a hole because then you couldn't get your finger at the primer to push it from the other side - 2 holes, to allow a push from the flange-held side of the primer might work for bare fingers, but in gloves I doubt it. Maybe just a simple sleeve (a piece of the original tube with a longitudinal cut) which is pulled down the tube to cover the ready-to-dispense primer and pushed up the tube to reveal it...

I use a little box which contained some fishing line accessories, with some PU foam to stop rattle, but it is fiddly - not at all gloves friendly. That's the problem with a lot of these solutions: there's no reason why reloading a .209 primer should require taking gloves off - the primer is large enough to feel even through Russian winter stylee mitts. But if you can't get just 1 out of their container, without spilling the rest, while wearing said mitts, the container is not fit for purpose. I like Hudson's tube and with a weak spring inside it could be rattle free, but it would need a bigger cap on one end to work with gloves. It also doesn't have any way of stopping more than one dropping out at once. We are back to the Hero Shark thingy then, but smaller... If you cut copper tube with one of those clamp-on-and-twist cutters it leaves the end circumference bent inwards - perhaps that effect could be exaggerated with a blunt cutter to create an inner flange (and if you must, gentlemen, go right ahead) which could be filed off on one side to leave space for the primer to slide out, but pressure from a spring inside the tube would keep them locked in place until slid sideways by hand. A token royalty please, but just get it done...

Went for some lo-res wire from Poisonapple Airsoft on fleabay and a Bulgarian AK sling, because it has black metal fittings.

Just placed an order for a PDI 461x6.05mm TBB ¥7,827 and a Palsonite full cylinder ¥1,526 from x-fire.org, so now i'm just waiting for the email with the shipping cost - if past experience holds true it should be about ¥1500 or £58, but by the time PayPal have had their grubby mitts on it, it'll probably be more like 60 notes. Off to find some SHS parts next... Edit: SHS STAINLESS STEEL ROTARY SPRING GUIDE V3 - £12.49 SHS UPGRADED AK V3 CYLINDER HEAD BLUE DOUBLE O-RING - £10.49 SUPER SHOOTER CNC ALLOY AIRSOFT BEARING DOUBLE O-RING PISTON HEAD BLUE - £10.49 -10% DISCOUNT £3.35 = £30.12 posted from bullseyecountrysport.co.uk

I'd tend to agree, but most of the stuff you hear bagpipers playing is utter shite and would be no matter what instruments were chosen, but if you ever hear a lament played on either Scottish style pipes or uilleann pipes then you'll know there is no better instrument for the job. That's an interesting point which puts the result of the election into proper focus - north of the border the vast majority of the population are of a determinedly more socialist outlook than those south of the border. For those living in south east England I suspect there is a tendency to think, "Fuck 'em, then - let 'em try to be socialists without the backing of the Pound Stirling!" and these days it is difficult to imagine from where the funding for the kind of public spending Scots have voted for will come. However there is another argument to be made: what happened to the wealth from North Sea oil? How much of that did Scotland see under Thatcher? But also, since it is now a matter of public record that Thatcher's government deliberately destroyed the UK's heavy industry in order to bring down the power of the TUC, which included selling publicly owned assets to the private sector at knock down prices (and the profits generated by Thatcherism ended up in the South East only), is it not time that said shift of wealth is redressed? Scotland have a parliament, Wales and Northern Ireland each have assemblies, perhaps it's time that the North of England has an assembly also. We are being told that 'austerity', ie massive reduction in public spending, to pay off the UK's creditors is good for the Pound. Well, perhaps Westminster need to add the North, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland to the list of creditors...

You clearly don't know what "mess" is...

^^wtf? The extent of my comic/graphic novel nerdage is quite restricted I'm afraid - pretty much 2000AD & spinoffs circa '80-88 so Dredd, Slaine McRoth, ABC Warriors, Strontium Dog, Sinister & Dexter even, oh and how could I forget, "The Ballad of Halo Jones" (years later I got to know the woman whom the artist used as the muse/model for the character "Life Sentence" which was a bit spooky, although tbh I can no longer remember her name - it was a mental time); although I do vaguely remember Planet Story and Mechanismo by Harry Harrison.

My G36KV is called Jetta, but that's just because it's a cool Germanic female name... no clue on the reference to which you are alluding, mate

On the subject at hand, if the Scots who voted SNP had voted Labour, in Westminster Labour would have 295 seats which still would not be enough to beat the Tory 331 seat total. It would have meant that, in the media, the Tories would not be able to claim they had managed a resounding victory, which is important because they can and will point to the result as 'proof' that the English have given them a mandate to continue with or even extend their austerity policies, ignoring Scotland as is their usual modus operandi. Personally I believe that this is the very reason why the SNP did so well. After the referendum the Tories in particular, but also the Labour Party if to a lesser extent, responded with "OK, carry on as normal", ignoring the fact that the "No Vote" got a huge boost by the promises made by Cameron, et al., regarding further devolution of power from Westminster to Holyrood. It's all very well people in England going "You've got a separate parliament, what more do you want?" but the truth is that Holyrood does not have fiscal independence and let's have it right, money is power.

No, it's in the off topic section and clearly titled, so nobody can wander in here not realising that politics is the subject matter. Adults can and do disagree vehemently but remain civil whilst doing so. So long as civility is maintained, the thread will stay open. However if anyone should get the idea that they can prevent themselves publicly losing an argument by provoking an uncivil debacle (the standard internet ad hominem approach), causing the thread to be locked, it will just be their post/s edited/removed and a posting ban for a number of days reflecting the egregiousness of their offence applied. I'm sure we have all met men known as "Paddy", "Jock", "Taff"... perhaps "Fritz", "Ivan", "Froggie", "Abdul", etc. and it may be the case that they don't mind, perhaps even enjoy the banter involved in having a nickname. However we are not in a position to know if it is just something people put up with without complaining, even though they do dislike being labelled with words which are often used disparagingly. It is also quite possible for people to have 2 or more opposite feelings about the same thing. And before anyone thinks or types it, this is not PC gone mad. This is a public forum, not a pub. Face to face we may very well be able to determine what is just banter and ok, but without body language and the context of RL friendships, etc. what we are left with is the words. Words which may make us seem like a clique, the sort of group in which people may say just whatever they think they can get away with, but secretly be hardcore racists/sexists/general xenophobes. There is good reason to fear that a bunch of military enthusiasts may indeed think that way, but I don't believe that is who we are, so let's take responsibility for what we post and make sure that we cannot be perceived that way.

^^I'll bet whoever did that thinks it's well cool too. What a bell end!

That's a lovely case full, Sp00n

^^Sorry to hear that, Russ. Good luck!

In the grand scheme of things "Jock" is not as offensive as some racial epithets, but it has been used elsewhere in contentious negative contexts, so let's just leave it out, lads, OK?

Rich people have/will not spent/d their rising wealth into the economy, nor do they deliberately invest the bulk of their wealth in British companies; what they do do is offer more for desirable property* and invest in funds which look for high returns from foreign companies' shares (because low overheads like wages and decent working conditions produce higher profits) and offset the risk by investing in primarily US based hedge funds. Poor people on the other hand do spend the bulk of their money into the domestic economy. In fact the poorer the person is, the more you can be certain that whatever increase in income they receive, from whatever source, it will be spent directly into the UK's retail market. The Tories plan £12 Billion of benefit cuts = taking £12 Billion out of the UK retail market. But the British public do not know this. In fact the UK electorate know very little about economics and how any of the issues at stake in any election are affected by the way our financial systems work. Hey ho, the truth is we are in a global economic system which still has a long way to fall before we can start to recover from the effects of the massive de facto secret devaluation of the $US started under Reagan (by simply printing/electronically creating trillions of $US with no regard to what the US domestic economy could back with real assets/potential GDP, in order to bring about the fall of the Soviet Union). Since there is nothing anyone in Westminster can actually do about this, it's a shitty time to be 'in power' as there is no way to fool all the people all the time and there is nothing like pretending to be effective when you can never be honest about what's really going on to get you busted as insincere. This Tory machine has another 10 years to run, at which point we will see another massive swing to Labour when people storm the polling stations with the thought foremost in their minds, "I don't care what the issues are, I'm not standing for another five minutes of these lying Tory bastards, let alone five years..." The only thing which can upset that prediction is if the British people forgive the Lib Dems faster than I anticipate and the left of centre vote is diluted in 2025. Fortunately a majority of 12/13 depending on how the last seat to declare goes is a piss poor majority and may prove harder to manage than the coalition. With any luck Cameron/Osborne will censor themselves in the hope of being able to trust some of their former partners more than they can trust some of their own right wing back benchers. *And the reason this does not show up in headline inflation is because the Treasury simply leave property prices out of the published figures.

Oh yeah - i forgot to mention: before snapping the turret off I had to de-solder the red wire from the interior and afterwards, obviously, i had to reconnect the red wire to the chassis, so i drilled a 1.5mm hole in the base of the turret and then used a diamond tipped grinding bit, similar to something a dentist might use, to hollow out the interior of the hole, so that when i melted solder into it, it could not come out (again 'obviously' the plan is that the solder should not become disconnected from the chassis and the hollowed out hole also provides more surface area to which the solder can adhere, but since it may get hit by a BB at some point, even if the shock does cause the solder to delaminate (or whatever the correct word is for a broken weld) it will not come out of the hole so the sight ought to continue working, if intermittently, until i can get the iron back on it.

The diminuitive reminded me though - i did name her: Valyushka!

It's a male name though, sorta like "Little Sasha".