Lozart

Last week at F&O the Base, running Gods Plaid and a DPM Peacekeeper MK1 I picked up from Ebay! Lovely rig, nice and light and holds pretty much everything I could want it to (including M14 mags).

Too true! Lowest bidder and all that. I think he was more miffed that I had a pair of Lowa Zephyrs and he didn't! He was saying that pre-deployment nobody could get hold of gucci kit because airsofters had bought it all!

For some reason I now have this in my head as your loadout

IIRC Direct Action Gear is an offshoot of Helikon for their "high end" products. All I'd say with regards to WAS is that friends of mine that have served have said that it's better than what they were issued with.

Weight loss (and the subsequent regaining of it) has made an enormous difference to my knees etc. I need to get back down to a sensible weight though, back to nearly 18 stone!

Hey there fellow creaky knee 'softer! I literally feel your pain so I would say that while a battle belt and a chest rig will distribute weight differently belt kit is widely regarded as better distribution for your body as a whole. By moving the load from your shoulders down to your hips it helps with mobility etc. That being said I tend to run almost exclusively with chest rigs. I have both a WAS 901 and a couple of Mayflower copies (UW IV and V) so in terms of reducing your overall load I'd stay clear of the 901. It's quite a bit heavier than either of the Mayflower rigs, plus it's just MOLLE so you need to factor in the weight of all the pouches you'll want to add. The UW IV is good if you only want to carry 4 mags and a few bits, the V is probably easier to load up with everything bar the kitchen sink (you'll need a rucksack for that). I'd suggest that maybe keep the belt for your pistol and pistol mags and shift the rifle mags etc to a chest rig just to help spread things out a bit but the basic issue is just trying to cut down on the overall load. Additionally, if you've only just started getting knee pain, maybe go see an osteopath and see if there's any exercises that could help alleviate the issue. My knee pain comes from years of cycling when I was younger which has pulled the knee cap out of line. There's exercises for it though and if I remember to do them regularly it does really help minimise the discomfort! Good footwear cannot be overemphasised either.

Cleaning. Everyone knows you need Bollinger for lubrication.

You can see quite a bit of it in recent footage on the news. The Ruskies had a bit of a penchant for WAS...

Hi there, the only adjustment you will have is on the rear drum sight. There's a screw on the top at the rear for elevation and one on the side for windage. Or like you say, wait until you get your reflex and zero that instead.

Nothing really. They're not very original with their designs (some of them are just different enough to avoid being sued) but it's perfectly reasonable kit for the money.

I'd say that won't work as the DE one has a battery hatch in the rear of the upper receiver. That said, you might be able to get the hinge pin out and swap the actual stock part over. Can he not just run it with the stock folded?

Many years ago I was dating a young lady with some German ancestry. I was warned that her grandfather was coming for dinner and would always order German wine partly so he could mention he he used to fly over the region during his time with the Luftwaffe. My mention of how my grandad flew over the same area did not go down well. I may have said he was dropping bombs at the time...

Yeah...that's fucked.

It's possibly driven by people using them in Escape from Tarkov

Sunday game day at F&O the Base. Jolly good fun was had, but there are some caveats. Two of the guys I went with are relatively new to airsoft and they both said that they thought the safe zone and the policing of things like mags out was a bit slack plus the "we provide a chrono but it's up to you to make sure your RIFs meet our limits" was odd. Personally, my M14 was hot by about 30FPS despite my own chrono having said that it was OK. Not sure how mine was so far out so that's going to be a fun one. Of course, the lack of chrono tags does mean I could have just run it all day without bothering to chrono but that's just not me. Running my M4 instead did mean I got a bit more stuck in and to be honest, it was the first day in AAAAAGES that I've played right to the end of the day (my advancing decrepitude usually cuts play short). I was on the red team and we seem to have been more aggressive in general than the opposition, the blue team shrunk a bit at lunchtime so the teams were rebalanced but I think a certain lack of morale had crept in. Good day all in all, still think the safe zone leaves a lot to be desired but I've been spoilt by sites like Red Alert, Gunman Bravo and Ironsight.

I reckon they'll use the "as long as you follow orders, you won't be harmed" thing as a get-out clause.

Operative word here is "seems".

Pretty sure that was when all the subs turned out to be politicians or high court judges and the whole thing went away, wasn't it?

Technically, technically - cotter pins are the tapered pins with a thread on the end used for holding cranks to shafts. Like pushbikes used to use. Them darned colonials are the ones that use split pin and cotter pin interchangeably. Bastards.

That specific holster is made by Serbu for that shotgun and I think it's out of production. UTG made a Paintball Tactical holster so maybe look for paintball pistol holsters. They seem to be open ended and adjustable so may just work for an Auto9

But it really ties the room together.

This might work for you... https://www.rifleworks.co.uk/Super-Slim-M-Lok-Handguard-7-Inch_p_3193.html

Airsoft =/= precision engineering. Although that is pretty poor.