Ian_Gere

It's great, Geoff! For an old skool 2000AD reader like me Judges should have the massive shoulder pads too, but it still rocks

^^CKinnerly, have you ground the receiver to get your fire selector to fit? I took a little off the lever itself as well as the receiver on mine. I haven't noticed that mag catch before though. It doesn't look the same as the LCT one I have on my to do list, what make is it?

^^I'd be tempted to stitch a few loops around the closed zips, Sam, to stop them from being able to unzip all the way and prevent accidental spillage. You could always cut the thread and pick it out if you want to use the pouch in a different position.

Not really mate, it's like pro cells, they're just consumables and I'm not responsible for the actual transaction. Whatever brand Studio Care sell has never given me any cause to wish it was better. ^^lol hang on i'll have a look inside a roll ok so i've got a couple of Scapa, one unbranded, and some Ceders white

I quite like your MP5, two_zero. Can't say I'm a fan of silver duct tape tho - black gaffer is the way forward (i've got some on the stock of my tac AK holding a steel bar on for balance weight since I put a metal barrel base assembly on her.)

Looks like a Glock in my hand.

I love my drop leg dump pouches. I can't really imagine choosing a loose one hanging from my belt. Sam, is that utility pouch a double zip type which closes where they meet? Whatever, do let us know how well it works out, please. I've been trying out some lower-drag options recently. To get stuff off a vest/etc but still handy I'm considering putting a pistol holster on a drop leg platform so i can fit an/other pouch/es next to it where I can get at it/them quicker and easier than behind me on a belt. I've been looking at various 2-molle-wide water bottle pouches to hold things like pyros.

Madbull add metal powders to their heavier BBs to make them denser.

James... James... Say it ain't so!?! my contribution I salute your skill geoff, but I can't say I like the look of Emma. The 'law giver' is so good though... best use of an AR15 platform i've seen so far.

Let's have it right though, 2 BB's is hardly a statistically significant sample size. You should do a series of experiments with a couple of hundred each from a whole bunch of manufacturers. Hmmm... maybe I'll start wearing my Soviet Colonel shoulder boards so I can look down my nose at cadet-rank players and tell them to otvali.

A Milan rocket sock makes a great rifle bag once you sew a 70cm chunky zip to close the end cover - it's about 12cm longer than needed for my L1A1 or SVD so you could get some gear in there as well. Personally I put my gear in a bergen and the Milan sock carries my AKS or G36 too - in fact I think I could probably just get all my guns in it and, with a bit of thought, most of their mags as well... I know you're not going to do this, I'm just saying you could, and somebody else might be interested

Well I wrote PIRA because it was the Provisional Irish Republican Army who did the deed to which I was referring. Had it been the "Real IRA" or some other drug dealing extortionists masquerading as a political organisation, then that it what I would have written. I feel it's generally good to be precise when discussing such matters, because, as has been noted, they often involve strong feelings and issues concerning which many people have adopted the polarised simplistic opinion/s espoused by those who proselytise/d the credo of a "side". I think that in this case the point which I was mainly making also required such precision because I did intend to refer specifically to the organisation which viewed itself, and was viewed by the majority of Irish Catholics regardless of whether they lived in Eire or Ulster and also regardless of whether they practised religion, as the legitimate armed forces of The Provisional Irish Republic, the existence of which superseded the acceptance of the treaty conditions which created the Republic which exists now. The point may seem trivial, however it is far from it. The PIRA managed to operate extremely successfully right on our doorstep, where surveillance would have been far, far, easier than in, say, Saudi Arabia, and at a time when Political Correctness, as it became known, was still just a twinkle in progressively minded individuals' eyes, hence mainland British police did arrest and beat/torture people for nothing more than having an Irish accent. To my mind that sets them apart from the generalisation of 'terrorist' which today is glibly applied to any armed person/group/country whom/which are/is dissatisfied with the Pax Americana, so long as they originate in the Muslim world. Thus a loadout consisting of black and DPM, including a black bally rather than, for eg a shemagh, and armed with an AK47 which reminds me of the soldiers of a genuine realistic enemy of the UK Govt circa 1980 seems to me to be worth pointing out and distinguishing from a loadout which could have been worn by, for eg, in other circumstances than those for which he is infamous, some bell end who failed to set fire to his own underpants... Frizz, 15 is a lot older than many of the combatants in the world's most protracted conflicts.

Well I take your point, James, but 408 years is a lot longer and I'll bet he knows who tried and failed to do pretty much the same thing back then...

wtf? See that's amazing to me. On so many levels. I mean sh!t, it's just as well that whomever/whatever actually is Al Qaeda, they're not as good at it as the PIRA was, yet somebody who comes across as an intelligent young person didn't know the name of those responsible for blowing up our government!

I was thinking PIRA. Don't want to mess with their mothers...

^^That's got to depend on how much sh!t, surely? And what %age of the bill pays for the sh!t too, right?

Ah yeah, that usually pisses me off too. I put the box together without the trigger, which allows me to keep the anti-reversal latch in place enough that i can use something like a bent paper clip or a thin sliver of steel which I have made into a specialised tool for really awkward gearboxes, to poke it into the right hand half of the shell. Once it's all together, I prise it open just enough to get first the left side, then the right of the trigger mech in there - bit more poking and everything goes in the holes properly eventually. You just have to make sure you hold the halves together tightly so nothing slips any further than can be helped. That is for V3 gearboxes anyway. Dunno about others much, except the M14 box looks a doddle to reassemble.

What's your issue?

Unknown Metal AK47 Receiver and pile of AK spares - £49.99 posted ~ fleabay ICS Aluminium Piston - £11.49 Unbranded Aluminium Piston Head w/ Bearings - £6.50 Systema Precision BS 6.04 x 229mm Inner Barrel - £15 Shipping - £4.75 ~ fleabay 10 x 3mm diameter x 15mm Hornby Steel Compression Springs - £3 posted ~ fleabay (for the bolt cover rod slot of an AK receiver) Edit: just won the auction for a pair of Motorola XTR446 radios.

Hmmmmmmmm, Baz. I'd like to see how well somebody could keep a RS assault rifle on target for the actual shot/s before I form my complete opinion of those sights, but my instinct is that they're way outside the spirit of the sport...

6 Metal AK47 Midcaps from our own dear Finius - thanks bro. 16 Crossman 12g CO2 Bulbs from our own dear Qlimax - thank you too. Anglesight, Baz? One of those things that look round corners? Boo hiss!

You'd probably be surprised at how ordinary most of the talent are. Obviously there are a few that believe their own press, but they're not usually the ones who'll be around for long. Being a star is a small part of the job, laying down vox is another. You know when somebody will be around in some capacity for time because they know that their performance is just raw product. Ke$ha got her contract the same way as anybody else - somebody who could afford to pay the likes of me thought that she could be shoehorned into the white dancer/singer package, as created by Madonna and pillaged by Britney Spears, that would sell. Simple as. They were right. Does she spend her time off camera strutting about self consciously aggressively flirting with her bare flesh, but still managing to lead with her lip gloss? Does she bollocks! She's a dancer, she lopes about in sweats with her hair tied right back and battered comfy trainers on her feet, probably some kind of lip balm to make sure that dehydration during run throughs doesn't do anything to her lips that'll make her make-up artist tell her off... It's the same with anyone. Think of whomever you consider to be someone whose recording contract was a foregone conclusion due to sheer talent and i could show you somebody equally talented whom you've never heard of despite them having been around for the same length of time and having had all the self belief and perseverance to keep plugging away in the hope that they'll get a deal... and who knows, they might... The bloke who could have been Tom Jones if there wasn't one already, but writes his own material too, may get a gig singing his heart out at a piano... if demographic and economic projections suggest that middle aged women will see on average a rise in disposable income within the next financial year. There's a superfluity of white 'family friendly' boy/girl bands reaching an age at which the spotless character is starting to wear a bit thin and they are branching out into slightly more risque material in the hope of developing a new market, say. Time to get some new sparkly young wholesome white virgins on the job? Don't panic, there's a never ending supply of them in the pipeline. No, time to call that kid whose voice became really distinctive as they grew older until they got quietly dropped even from backing vocals, b/c the bv's aren't supposed to upstage the talent, because you can bet your arse that the boy/girl bands cannot help but look a bit plastic as they "grow artistically" - time to unleash the "real", the voice of da street... the Rolling Stones to their Beatles.

Barter? Like what, I'll master your vocal demo for 5 bj's a week for 3 months?

Liverpool, lads. i'd only been living there four days when a woman offered me a blowjob for £15 - I got the feeling she was expecting me to haggle so maybe a tenner was the real price...? Oh yeah, and that wasn't back in the days where one would pay one's tailor in guineas, but one's helmet polisher in shillings, it was fcuking 2001!

Frizz you could save your change for a Brummie girl...