jcheeseright

woah, those things are awesome.

ITAR is a US law that forbids EXPORT only. As far as I know Magpul handguards aren't ITAR and are completely legal to own in the UK, finding a dealer in the US willing to export one may be a challenge though!

yeah, the students will be paying for that water, as well as the council tax, electricity and gas bills. doesn't change the fact that buying bottled water is daft!

If you're a student living in halls then tap water IS free. For those of us who pay water bills though; if you could drink enough tap water to affect your monthly bill by the cost of even 5 litres of bottled water I'd be amazed! A cubic metre of water (1,000 litres) from southwest water (most expensive in the country) is £2.05. Tesco value bottled water is 19p for 2 litres, a cubic metre of water at that rate is £95, 2 litres of tap water is £0.0041. Tap water is effectively free if you're drinking it.

bottled water?!? bloody rich student, what's wrong with the tap?

oh right, paint what you want, no requirement for serial numbers or trademarks to be visible.

Colt can't touch you unless you're replicating their intellectual property for financial gain. Also, they've got bigger fish to fry, do what you want!

Yeah, find a site local to you and just turn up and play, don't need to go with friends, I didn't for my first game. Just turn up and chat to people!

One thread at a time eh!

I think the word 'imitation' covers all those bases; 2. a thing intended to simulate or copy something else. "an imitation sub-machine gun" synonyms: copy, simulation, reproduction, replica; More

Both tier1 and stirling do hard routine weekends, they're site dependent though, STANTA isn't the place to be doing that sort of thing as eastmere village is kinda small :-) Stirling did a 4-day op:red wings style game a couple of months back where everyone carried everything they needed for the whole time. Apparently it was a pretty good game, lots of recce and CTR stuff!

take it back then.

you'll have plenty of down time for eating and you won't be expected to carry rations out 'into the field' as it were. Last time I went on a 36 hour game we had cake and hot dogs and I know quite a few guys who just fill a tupperware box with sandwiches. Like I said, everything you'd expect to keep you comfortable for a night out camping except the tent. If you can do that on crisps and biscuits, you can do a 36 hour milsim on crisps and biscuits (wouldn't recommend it though!).

You've obviously not been using the stuff they're handing out these days... all the good flammable content seems to have been replaced with hair gel or something. Doesn't burn anywhere near as hot as the old hexi since they've made it all COSHH safe by removing all the good toxic stuff.

well yeah, like you said it's non blowback. all it needs to do is get a .20-.30g BB out of the barrel at 270fps. Shifting 40-50g of plastic or 100-120g of metal 50mm takes a bit more energy! With a WE M9 getting through the whole magazine is pretty good, getting through a mag and a half is exceptional, it's not broken.

hexi is wank, 4 blocks to boil half a litre of water and a massive great scorch mark on the floor 99% of the time. Jetboil is the way ahead.

STANTA is very much an urban site, so you won't be expected to carry all your stuff all day, just what you need to fight. If you're blue force you'll be setting up a FOB in one of the bigger compounds on the south east of the site, red force is anyone's guess but you'll still be under cover and able to put your kit somewhere safe. Take everything you'd want to keep you comfortable for a weekend in the woods, except the tent. Carrying a notepad and a map with you when you're out on a job isn't going to slow you down unless you've festooned yourself with so much other unnecessary crap you can hardly move anyway!

That and there's no standardised way to measure lumen output of a torch, only the theoretical maximum output of the emitter: normally when you see 1200lumen mega bright torch on ebay it means the cree T6 LED they're using can in theory output 1200 lumens if you rig it up to a car battery. In reality you'll be getting substantially less. Reflector quality and glass quality are also significant factors, a crap reflector will leave you with a dispersed beam which will spread all those lumens out over a big area. Instead what you want is a nice focused spot with a bit of flood on the outside for peripheral vision. Will allow you to dazzle people when you point or straight at thwm but should also prevent you from getting tunnel vision using it. Avoid lights which are listed as 5-mode or various other shit, you want it to be BRIGHT and on/off, if you need a light for navigation or finding things in the dark it shouldn't be attached to your weapon. Strobes are as disorienting to you as they are to the person on the receiving end (which really isn't that much!).

yeah, but it's £8k of night vision kit.

at that budget point, only light worth it will be an inforce WML, you can pick them up on eBay relatively cheaply and they're OMFGMYEYESBURN bright.

I'd say the opposite is true, plastic is a much better insulator than metal. While the initial temperature will be marginally higher than with a metal magazine the plastic will prevent heat from reaching the liquid in the magazine, the metal in a gas mag works as a reverse heat sink... Plastic wouldn't be anything like as good.

Hiya Nick, I'm an ex janner myself, have moved up to exeter now though (to be closer to civilisation). In your local area there's only one site; Mad Mommas Airsoft - they're in Trematon just past Saltash and do a game every few weeks. Only way to keep up with them is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/airsmurf?fref=ts It's a nice site for beginners and everyone there is very friendly, the rules are a bit unusual though, and quite often players get a bit of a culture shock when they go to a different site where people aren't wrapped up in cotton wool so much! Venturing a bit further afield (and I would recommend it, Mad Mommas is good, but it's a very small site) you've got Skirmish Exeter (https://www.facebook.com/groups/skirmishexeter/?fref=ts) which is a VERY large paintball place in stoke woods near Exeter, they run a game every 2 weeks on Sundays and generally have a much bigger turn out, as well as more involved games. Going down into pointy head land you've got Cornwall Elite Airsoft (http://www.cornwallseliteairsoft.co.uk/index.html) and KGB Airsoft (http://www.kgbairsoft.com) - neither of which I have played at but I've got a few mates who've played both and their impression I get is that Cornwall Elite Airsoft is the one to go to. Outside of those there's a few paintball places that do private/invite only games in and around exeter / newton abbot but generally you'll need someone to vouch for you as well as your own non-twotone gun to go to those. Hope that's helped, any questions let me know

ok, well in that case yes, that's EXACTLY what pre cocking does.

yeah, I think you need to define your terms a little better. as far as 'features' go with the scorpion (e.g. bolt stop, electronic control of the gear positions, in built LiPo alarm etc) the only thing 'out of the box' that'll do it all is a PTW (or cheap clone) which limits you 100% to the M4 platform. The scorpion is a really new product that's got a lot of features which are also completely unique in the AEG world; if you want something that does everything the scorpion does but in a different shape that's not an M4/AK etc then you're gonna have to do a lot of custom work.