Airsoft_Mr B

You say that but my mate when suffering with ptsd had an incident with a hand gun and intimidating a civillian while he was a serviceman. (I know he wasnt himself at the time) but all people are wired different and just because you serve doesnt make you any more or less responsible than any one else in a given moment. The ukara although floored at least has a "one rule for all" point to it. Which in the long run is fairer id say.
 
That said it is as mentioned daft when you think of buyin a knife, crosbow, airgun etc

I get the sentiment, but fortunately one thing this country isn't turning into is a free fire zone
 
Def agree that anyone with real firearms licenses (and that these should be more easily available to those who've served) should be able to use this as a defense for RIF too.
 
In terms of buying lethal stuff, the big inconsistency is archery, for air-rifles you still need proof of address and ID. I was able to purchase a crossbow capable of nailing someone to a wall without any proof of address/ID or any recording of my details, and this is the norm. I'd need more to buy a knife, but a crossbow featuring arrows that could be used by hand more lethally than a knife are all good it seems, even arrows with a blade rather than point on the end!!!
 
So tell your mate he can buy a bow and arrow and go Rambo at his local sheriffs without any pesky bureaucracy

Despite the fact that I principally play with one company now, I am opposed in principle to having to play with the same site organisers three times a year to keep my UKARA valid.
For all their other alleged faults, BAC did try to address this but it all got very political.
 
I have no real issue with UKARA but IMHO it should be transferable between sites in any 12 month period. After all the requirement to play three games shouldnt be site specific.
 
 

The law is inconsistent really, you can walk into a gun shop today and buy yourself an air rifle or air pistol that can seriously hurt someone and do so with a basic age declaration and a fake name/address. Yet to buy a considerably less harmful toy gun you need to prove you use it for the right things and wait two months.They both look like real guns but only one of them is actually dangerous and yet its the safe one that is covered by the requirements. I do think that is inconsistent, especially the fact that we associate more harm to the look of the item than to its actual capabilities and danger level. That is all based on histeria of the public, they do not like guns despite the banning of them hasn't actually reduce gun crime as a percentage of crime, its just reduced the legal uses of them.
 
Personally I am for basic handguns and shotguns for personal protection and I would like to have available sport shooting with automatic weapons at gun ranges. But I am a gun nut and I love shooting. For now I limit myself to bolt action 22 and 7.62 like the rest of the sport shooters in the UK.
 
That aside beyond the basic distortion of the sales market caused by the UKARA requirements I don't actually think they are overly cumbersome. I would like to see a change to allowing people to validate across multiple sites for their first games and that would solve most of the issue I have with the current set-up that overly promotes bad behaviour by the retailers associated with airsoft sites (like wolf armouries and bunker 51 and their hire purchase schemes).

I tried telling him we weren't in 'nam anymore... Wouldn't listen haha

Yeah but they dont get to take the lead throwers home with them ! lol
 
I take his point and it does seem strange that people with firearms certificates cant be trusted to own a toy airsoft gun unless they attend three games, but the law-making in our country doesnt have a lot of consistency or balance.
 
As I said in another thread, at least we have the freedom to own toy guns.
 
Ive got mates in other countries who love it when they come here and see the liberties we have.
 
Some of those are scared of getting shot by their police when they play airsoft, have to pay two or three times what we pay for airsoft guns or just cant play legally in their country.
 
The Aussies call us whingers - quite rightly so I think (except they are bigger whingers lol)

As with any airsoft gun you hear the difference between when there is / is not anything being fired.

Sorry, just did a bit of research, seems it should be fine! I'm an Nvidia man so I'm not terribly up to date on Radeon GPU specs.
 
Give it a go and see how it does. There's a lot of fancy visual effects in ArmA if I remember correctly (it's been a while since I played it) that can be turned off to help out the GPU (things like motion blur and bloom which don't actually look very realistic anyway).

It should work but the graphics card might be a bit low spec. If you don't try and run it on the ultra high settings it should be do-able though.
 
ArmA was developed by the guys that wrote Flashpoint originally as part of Bohemia Interactive. When the developers and the publishers split a few years back the publishers continued to make games under "Operation Flashpoint" (Dragon Rising and Red River to be precise) and the developers went on to do ArmA. To use an appropriate set of comparisons ArmA is Milsim, OpFlash is an objective based skirmish, Battlefield would be your average Sunday skirmish and CoD is paintball. If you've played the ORIGINAL Flashpoint games then the almost vertical learning curve for ArmA will be somewhat familiar!

It's not cod that makes someone an idiot.

I think if nobody ever came across from FPS games to airsoft... there'd be no airsoft. Certainly nowhere near its' current state. Plus it took a lot of lobbying to get our VCRA exemption, if the sport wasn't as big as it is (/was back in 06) there wouldn't have been the people to do that lobbying and all we'd have now is paintball.

My thoughts exactly. 
Airsoft is all about relaxing and de-stressing for me. Growing up and living most of my life as a yank I miss being able to own and shoot guns as freely as I once did. Airsoft fills that void somewhat.
 
Oh... and I love some BF4! :-)

Hmm both.
 
They're good because it makes people go out and have fun with the mindset of playing a console or pc game in real life.
 
Also bad because you get a tonne of 10 year olds who claim they've fuked your mom, turn up and expect to go on a 20 kill streak with a orange sniper rifle and 360 no scope everyone.

Back working again as of today, Joiner.

Im a sparky. Paid for my car addiction for a good few years lol, but now iv bought a house with the gf all the cars have gone and airsoft is my new hobby. As is our house/project lol.

I work for BT global services in Global banking and financial markets.
 
I essentially deal with -
 
Networks/Cisco
Voice recording
Telecoms
Project management
Traders
etc.....
 
Lets me travel the globe ( 6 weeks in sydney was a high, 4 weeks in saudi arabia was a low LOL )

Your qualifications are only ever going to get you your first job. After that it's all about what experience you've gained.

Mates rates for forum members?

A set of repro Vietnam Tigerstripes (badged) - £20 on eBay! Also arrived with a boonie hat not mentioned in the listing. Top marks all round.

I have two of these; one short and one long if you need any info on them.
 
As already said, they arent RIFs so no defence is needed.
 
They look like flare guns really.

to be honest it seems like you have some kind of mental deficiency, and calling duck a "fuck" is out of line he is trying to help you.

Wow.
 
This is just.....wow.

Stock internals will be fine with a 7.4v lipo, to run an 11.1v you will need to do some internal tweaks and personally I think if you want an AEG which is going to last a good amount of time without having to replace various parts of the gearbox every now and then, I'd stick with 7.4v.
Get yourself a decent smart charger such as a turnigy accucel 6 and check out the manual before using, in certain circumstances lipos can explode/combust (but they're pretty safe really).
Component shop is a good source of lipos + chargers and all that electrical stuff.
 
Would recommend a non-active braking MOSFET at some point as well, even a 7.4v causes quite a bit of arcing which in the long term damages trigger contacts.

Don't be a dick for fucks sake. You could've just waited a bit and got it legitimately. It is not hard nor does it take a long time to be able to acquire a valid defence.
You can't just 'borrow' a UKARA number anyway which nobody is willing to do because you're clearly being a nob about it.

Don't be a dick for fucks sake. You could've just waited a bit and got it legitimately. It is not hard nor does it take a long time to be able to acquire a valid defence.
You can't just 'borrow' a UKARA number anyway which nobody is willing to do because you're clearly being a nob about it.