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Night Evolution do a really good replica of a surefire X300 that's painfully bright. That'd be my first choice.

I don't do anything, just put it in a closed top pouch, haven't had any issues yet.

He is lucky to have not had a much more serious injury however, given how close the hit was to his iris; one which could have compromised his eyesight to some degree permanently, and given what he does for a living, i'm pretty sure that would have spelled an enforced major shift in career direction at the very least, but perhaps being let go. Would the Navy keep you on in your current role if you had a permanent floater in the middle of the vision from one eye, for as long as it took to be able to get whatever operation/s needed and recovery time? Thankfully the RN are a pretty good employer in that regard, so long as I could meet the medical standard required (e.g. deny the floater existed!) I'd be able to carry on, recovery time wouldn't be an issue either. There are people I know who have been off work or on light duties with injuries for literally years waiting to be back to 100%. Wholly didn't see that one coming, Batman! WTF? HTF did that happen? Stupid mistake back in 2002, me and a couple of mates were shooting targets in a corridor in our accommodation at university (no eyepro for us either) and at the end of the corridor was a locked door. We didn't hear the lock open and my friend Alex walked through the door at the exact moment I fired a BB and it hit him square in the centre of his eye. Queue panicked phone calls to ambulances and armed police arriving (several minutes after the ambulance had already taken him away!). 3 days in the eye infirmary for Alex, followed by a cataract operation. He's regained full sight in that eye, but has to wear glasses now. I now take my eyepro pretty seriously, but not so much as to think that only full-seal meets the safety requirement for airsoft skirmishing.

While this guy was unlucky to get hit in the eye (clearly crossbows don't fit his face properly) he's not 'lucky' to have kept his sight. I have personally shot someone directly in the eye from 15' away, no eyepro, hit them in the middle of the lens full force and while it was a bad time for everyone he can still see. Albeit having had a cataract operation to replace the lens of his left eye. Granted, if it were a 500fps bolt action rather than a 300fps AEG things may have been different. Eyepro is a personal choice, I wear shooting glasses most of the time as I find them more comfortable. I chose my frame and lens shape specifically to fit my face with the proviso that at no point around the edge of the lens should there be a gap bigger than a BB. In CQB however with the reduced engagement ranges I tend to favour full seal or even full face.

E2 has a more robust magazine design too.

ABS for a pistol to play with since it won't let you down in the cold and will perform really well. Metal slide for a holster filler, the noise of racking a nice metal slide on a well put together pistol is sublime.

FMA Maritime helmet or TMC Airframe, both really sturdy for repros.

Running a GBB on HPA has it's own set of downsides... tapping all of the magazines to accept HPA, MUCH slower reloads, etc etc. GBB on it's own has down sides: smaller magazine capacity, less-good performance in cold weather, cost of magazines. There are up sides though: GBBs are FUN, the noise and 'recoil' you get from a GBB makes everything better, your playing style would need to adapt too, having fewer than 2-300 shots available for a whole game means that you'll need to be much more conservative with your shooting and much more accurate. I find the challenge really rewarding vs spray and pray with a hi-cap.

You joke, but the reason shooting sports still exist in this country at all is because of vocal lobbying groups. If there weren't that counter-point to the anti gun lobby then you wouldn't even be able to buy a bright orange water pistol. As for the UKAPU board raking in profits... I hardly think that's likely, I'd be very surprised if they have any money at all and lobbying parliament is certainly not cheap. In 2006 when the VCRA was implemented the only thing that saved the sport was a retailers association fighting for their livelihoods, the next time parliament wants to win a quick bit of public approval by 'being tough on guns' airsoft will need a vocal proponent to state our case, I believe that UKAPU is the only credible group at the moment and the more members they have, the louder their voice is. As for BAC, it was a moneymaking scam invented by a retailer that didn't want to pay the fees to join UKARA, it's been proven a fallible system and has all but disappeared. If they were to be the voice of airsoft in the UK any lobbyist worth half their salt on the other side of the fence would have us looking like a bunch of unregulated sociopaths roaming the streets with RIFs we've been sold illegally by retailers who aren't in any way compliant with the law. The 'skirmisher's defence' would disappear pronto and we'd all have to start using two-tone guns.

My GBB MP7 has a 110mm barrel and it's without doubt the most accurate gun I've ever owned. Barrel, ammunition & hop quality are far more important than barrel length.

The self heating tinned foods are really tasty I agree, the curry one is especially good and they do get the food piping hot. They are still quite expensive and a bit bulky though.

Sandwiches, pasties, haribo. Don't overthink it, you're going camping and playing BBwars for a weekend not spending 6 weeks on exercise in the desert.

Jedi_master, the human eye can determine more shades of green than any other colour, as a 'covert' light green is probably the worst possible colour you can use! i3666, I wouldn't recommend a laser, really they're not all that useful at all in 99% of situations. Get a decent bright LED torch with pressure pad (ultrafire make really bright ones for very low prices) and a tracer unit, B&T make a pretty servicable one, but Tokyo Marui make arguably the best tracer unit available. For Strikeforce the B&T one will be more than good enough as you can't go fully auto anyway.

Shooting without a stock is surprisingly difficult, combine that with the distance you need to hold the gun from your face to aim one and it's actually easier to have a stock in CQB than not. I'd recommend he leaves it on.

bahahaha, this is gold. what a grade A spunktrumpet! Your white belt in Tae Kwon Do does not qualify you as 'having experience of combat'. Neither does the occasional airsoft skirmish in rural wales.

UKAPU aren't an alternative system, you are required to be a member of UKARA in order to join UKAPU, it's more of an organised lobbying/interest group like an airsoft version of the NRA to allow airsofters a collective voice when any new legislation etc is discussed in parliament. I'm a member, not because I want to take an active role in the running of UKAPU but so that their membership figures are healthier if/when it does come to the point where they need to start harassing MPs. More members = more potential voters!

there is no legal limit (well, 12ft/lbs... but you will NEVER build an airsoft gun that can get there), anything you've read is a recommendation by ACPO and not defined by actual law.

We're well off topic now but that's a player problem not a rules problem. Having a joule chart for all of the popular weights (or even ALL weights of BB) attached to the site chrono isn't a massive ask, if a player is thought to be attempting to cheat the system they could be asked to have ten of their BBs weighed before loading them into the magazine for chrono, although I agree that is a little heavy handed. If someone wishes to cheat chrono, it's REALLY easy to do so.

I could argue that he's glorifying race hate, which while not a crime per se is cutting pretty close. As for not having the right to be offended, of course I do, I find the wearing of that particular uniform hugely offensive and I have the RIGHT to feel anything I want. Do I have the right to force him to change his behaviour, no of course I don't. Do I have the right to think he's a massive bell-end for wearing it, and to tell him so, yes I do, especially since it's clearly a statement piece. He's not wearing it for historical accuracy (because it's not, unless he's re-enacting herding innocent people into gas chambers in auscwitz!), he's not wearing it for practicality, it's a statement; "look how edgy I am, I'm wearing the uniform of the most despicable aspect of one of the most despicable regimes ever to have existed". It's not a massive jump away from turning up to an airsoft game dressed as the Grand Dragon of the KKK, which I'm pretty sure no one would advocate.

it's only 4 inches, but it smells like a foot!

BAC died pretty much immediately, one of the members of this forum signed up with a bunch of fake details and was approved immediately with no checks at all... completely discredited the entire scheme and about 90% of retailers refused to accept it afterwards.

won't be from santa but I'm seriously considering selling a bunch of stuff to buy a PTW and see what all the fuss is about.

They don't fit in the real one either, they're M4 magazine pouches!

Either you were unaware of what this weekend represents to a lot of people, or you just don't care... either way, posting your shiny new SS Totenkopf brigade kit on remembrance weekend is such poor taste I can't even begin to explain how much of an utter cunt it makes you. As for ImTriggerHappy's comment, there's a difference between someone wearing a kilt which is traditional scottish dress, and someone dressing up as a war criminal. Do a bit of reading on what the SS did during the 1940's and you'll see why wearing that particular uniform is so unpleasant, I'd honestly rather see someone wearing a pointy white KKK outfit than that one.

Pretty much the same as it's always been. 50-60m reasonably with a decent gun firing at <350, another 20 metres for a well set up gun shooting at ~500 Anyone who claims significantly more is talking shit.