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yes, there is no age restriction on the manufacture of a RIF, only sale and purchase.

I generally tend to aim for legs arms or faces, even with full face protection a whack in the boat race is enough to make most people call it.

leafgear.com are worth a look too, probably won't do much in the way of multicam black/atacs LE but they have a half decent range of stuff.

SOPMOD batteries are shite, the gun itself is awesome. Get someone with a monster soldering iron to put a deans connector onto the contact bars in the stock (it's very simple with a powerful enough iron) and just use standard LiPo batteries. I use these: http://www.componentshop.co.uk/7-4v-1300mah-25c-continuous-discharge-lipo-battery-101mm-long.html They're a bit of a squeeze to fit in the tube down the side of the stock, but they definitely DO fit. I wouldn't advise getting any of the battery adaptors, they're all really expensive for what they actually do.

cleaning rod with a bit of lint-free cloth on the end, first couple of pulls soak it in some kind of alcohol (I use cheap vodka if I can't get hold of proper rubbing alcohol). Just keep pulling it through until the cloth comes through clean.

Might as well get a replica, the tritium light sources on all the real ones are dead (or extremely close to dead) now anyway.

tightbore won't necessarily help with accuracy, I'd change your hop bucking and nub first.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__10904__Soldering_Iron_230V_80W_w_Spare_Tip.html LOLOLOLOL.

a new soldering iron is likely to be cheaper than a replacement switch.

just open it up and solder it back on, it's only 2 wires!

Bio shattering more than plastic is a bit of a myth, you're in no real danger with mesh. That said, if you Dremel the lens of some ballistic glasses you'll be damaging them significantly, probably not enough to allow a BB to break them but who wants to take the chance?

Oooooh, I love a good bitchfest, name names!

There's no 'rank structure' in airsoft, it's grown men and teenagers shooting at each other with BB guns for fun. As for awarding yourself a couple of stripes.... get a grip, rank in the military (in most branches at least) is EARNED with hard work and merit, not simply having been round the block a few times. Imagine how much of a tit you'd look if someone recognised the unit badge and rank slide and asked "oh, you're in 2 para, do you know L/Cpl Smith, his mates call him Smudge?" and you have to reply "sorry mate, just thought I'd give myself a couple of stripes since I think I've got some leadership skills".

no, because the plastic BBs we fire tend to bounce about like buggery when they hit something hard, whereas lead pellets just deform and hit the floor. If you want to zero your sights etc you don't need a range you just need a 25 yard open space and a couple of sheets of A4 paper.

Yep, quite often do. Means you effectively get a long day game, then a night game and then another long day game afterwards, without any real break! Obviously everyone gets a bit of sleep, but not all at the same time

For reenactment purposes and in the right scenario it'd be perfectly acceptable to wear an SS uniform. To your local skirmish site for a Sunday walk-on? Very bad taste, you're asking for trouble, I'd certainly think you were a bit of a dick.

Was that Andy's OP: Node Hammer? It's been rescheduled for October afaik, might be worth getting back in contact.

Milsim is a very broad term, you've got the sort of stuff that gunman and ambush adventures do where it's essentially a well organised skirmish with team kit colours all the way up to stirling and tier1 games where you start at midnight with a full brief followed by a dawn assault to take your team's 'FOB' (if you're on the good guy team that is) followed by 36-48 hours of game without programmed breaks and no safe zone. The former I would say is eminently suitable as a starting point for any airsofter, the latter normally takes a bit of working up to as the kit requirement is normally a bit more substantial (Bashas, ground mats, cooking kit, a couple of working guns in case your main one breaks, night vision, etc). That said, the only elitism I have EVER experienced in airsoft is reverse snobbery where guys have had a good old chuckle at the idiot who spent £2k on night vision to play soldiers. Each to their own I say!

Couple of years back I sold a marui M870 online for a profit. There were none available to buy retail anywhere in the world at a reasonable price so I put it up intending to make a quick £50 over what I paid for it (didn't really get on with it for skirmishing, not my sort of gun it seems). Someone bought it within a day and I thought to myself, I could have made more there. Supply meeting demand, if the 'close the thread if it's over priced' rule existed, I couldn't have done that. In short, if the asking price is too high, people won't pay it.

Anyone who laughs at a 14 year old for having a 2-tone isn't worth knowing anyway!

When painting guns I just put screwed up newspaper in the magwell and the end of the barrel and crack on. The gearbox is pretty well sealed up and the hop unit can't get paint inside it if you seal the magwell and barrel. Complete disassembly and taking gearboxes out etc is massive overkill.

TMC and Emerson are definitely different companies. Both pretty cheap and cheerful, there's no way on earth I'd ever pay £100 for anything made by either company when you could spend the same amount on Warrior or Condor kit that's borderline indestructible.

can't go wrong with an issued UBACS, cheap as chips too.

Now with added gigantio-suppressor! Makes a super cool 'pewwwwwww' noise.

Failing that, get a kydex one made for your exact setup, shouldn't be much more than £35 ish.