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I never really bother with elbow pads, I always find my self spending more time adjusting them then doing anything else. The helmet might be a good idea. or maybe a full facepaintball mask that goes all around the head. Getting teeth shot out has happened a fair amount to players. But usually I just keep my lips sealed tighter than the asshole of a con in the showers. On a side note, if you play bunker 51, you may see me at some point. Looking to start going there this year as I want an excuse to get some use out of my pistol.

Been shopping a lot this week ready for my 1st taste of Airsoft. Most the Paintball gear has not seen action in 20 years and fair to say I put a few pounds on (Not to mention the few stone) since then so had to start again. New woodland camo jacket New woodland camo trousers New black Mascot trouser from work (Thanks to Ian_G for that great idea) New olive baseball caps 1 lightweight and 1 heavy also from work so cheap New Tactical shirt with padded elbows so I don't hurt my arms when I collapse in a heap as I am soooo unfit. New goggles and wire face mask (my hooter just fits in it) New gloves (Paint on the old ones had eaten them) New Scrim scalf Will use an old pair of boots for now as my feet are the only thing that's the same size Will add pic later when wife wakes up and I can get to the camera (She on night shift not lazy) Anything else anyone can think of I forgot? Thinking I wont need a vest the first few games as I on hire gun or will I?

Trust me, TPI, you'd soon get sick to the back teeth of it. No matter what it is, anything involving lawyers takes absolutely ages to get done and to get this Law repealed or rewritten by a Tory Govt. would take nothing less than a European Court directive, which they would appeal... Meanwhile you have "Firearms Offence" stamped indelibly on your Police Record, which is a bummer for the old CV, but potentially far worse is anytime you happen to be questioned by Police walking home late at night, or perhaps out and about town in the vicinity of a contretemps involving the traditional harsh language and black eye, let alone what may happen if you actually are involved in something out of which they just can't keep their noses...

Sorry, all this sear stuff gets me confused. The piston sear and the spring guide stopper both fit, the 1st sear doesn't. If you scroll through all the comments then most of these questions have been answered with photos or links attached as clarifiers. This is my first ever spring rifle, so you can't expect me to get everything 100% correct. Take everything with a pinch of salt, back track for clarification and ask if you can't find anything and I'll do my best. Mine is still shelved at the moment, until a full set of internals have been made by PDI or Laylax, or even ASPUK, I'm not going to bother touching it.

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The 20mm rail I drilled into the hand guard myself which was easy enough but I haven't moulded anything on. I wanted a grip but also a bi-pod , I couldn't make my mind up so I got both the silencer makes the rattle when firing on full auto quieter and more of low pitched thud instead of the thwacking of metal on metal which personally I think sounds better, apart from new bush bearings and a custom fit tight bore barrel instead of the old standard barrel everything else is stock.

I think full length AK's look daft with a suppressor and the front sight pillar still on. Can't say I like those grip-pods on anything either, not even L85A2's. I would take the front sight and cleaning rod off and add either a top cover with rail or a side mounted rail for a red dot, or just do without the suppressor. For a grip I'd go with something folding.

Swords? Knuckle dusters? Really? I'm going for the semi-auto 12 bore and some 42 gramme BB cartridges. They'll make a BIG hole at close range, and will slow pretty much anything down out to about 30 yards. And yes, it is another weapon that you need training to use effectively in a stressful situation. Try sticking a solid slug into a charging wild boar for stress, zombies don't even come close!

"just out of interest, i take it you practice sword fighting? (this is no way intended to come across as i am having a go, i am just interested if you do)" Not really, not in the same sense as Ian does wherby I'm following a specific art form of it at least, though i have recently begun doing some training in Eurpoean medieval style weapons (primarily spear, kite shield and axe based stuff - though this is generally fighting in formation and shield wall rather than one on one). My structured experience is all in unarmed stuff. I've been an MMA instructor for about 11 years now, but spent time as a British Combat Association instructor back in the day when RBSD was all the big thing there for a while, so I've done some weapon based training through that. My interest in weapons is primarily collecting, reading about and playing with them, and I've amassed a ridiculous amount of them over the years! The difference, to a degree, is that I keep a pell to use in my back garden and did (before my son came along) have a pole with a big spike sticking out of it for attaching things to and practising cuts on or destruction testing weapons on. From my experiene I would say the problem with saying "anyone can use a sword" is that it is as true as saying "anyone can throw a punch;" it is true, but anyone who actually knows about throwing punches will tell you there's a lot more to doing it than simply throwing your arm out with your fist clenched, it takes timing technique and (particularly in a high adrenaline situation) the sort of muscle memory that only comes from a lot of training. Despite my limited explerience with swords, I'd have to say that they must be regarded in the same way; it's more than just swinging the lump of metal. When I've done cutting tests with swords (and I'm talking about cheap stuff as well as using my good expensive katanas and my Albion made European swords) I've found that I'm not all that bad and killing fruit, veg and lumps of meat - as long as they stay perfectly still and I can line them up nice and slow and really concentrate on a good cut. But would I feel confident in a 'sword fight' as a result? No! I'd start swinging like a mad man and probably hit with the flat of the blade more often than not (I end up doing that even on the fruit!), and I know I'd get tired fast. That said, I'd still rather have the sword than not when faced with zombies! Lastly, I have nothing against the idea of trapping things in a doorway - it's not a bad strategy at all - I just don't think that a katana is the right tool for the job since (unless you were good enough to drop it in one solid cut) you'd have to be significantly far away from the door to swing the sword at anything coming through several times (and the thing would have to be through the doorway before you could hit it with any meaningful downward strokes) so I just don't believe it would fall into the door as you would hope. Personally, if I wasn't going to have to drag it around with me afterwards, I'd take a large shield in that scenario, something like a Roman scutum, stand in the doorway with my body behind it allowing the undead to build up, and then take a short/medium length, relatively light straight-bladed weapon like a Roman gladius, and stab away at any heads you see. That would guarantee your protection behind the shield, the pile of bodies blocking the door (as you're now actually killing them in the doorway itself) and eliminiate any danger of hitting walls, ceilings and doorframes that you're inevitably going to face with any weapon that requires a swinging motion.

Well, in that case PUG... I'd just stand no where near a doorway with one of my large metal poles with a screw driver on the end, after having extensive, weapon specific training! (Officer, problem?) Ain't no zombies getting through around that area then! Airsoft guns vs 28 Days Later style rage-zombies? You are fucked my friend. Walking Dead style, been rotting for a few months, you'd probably have a fair chance against them. Though, not as fair a chance as you might get from, say... A hammer. Or really, anything else. W... Wait a second... I think there's a glitch in the Matrix! D=

I did some bo and jo training when I was a teen, but with my current sword all I've done is chop up wood for my fireplace. It's quite an odd instrument - guard like a katana, double handed varnished wooden grip riveted with brass like a massive steak knife, heavy bar of 316 Stainless Steel which is straight and single edged - it's not that sharp for most of its length, only the tip and 6" or so down is properly sharp. So its legal... its main problem is no ferrule. A good sword does cost a lot, but it depends what you need it to do as to whether the job takes a good sword to achieve. Cutting rotting flesh wouldn't take a good sword. The point about getting the edge caught in bone is a good one. Not in my case however because most of the length isn't sharp enough - it would just shatter any bone under a good swing of it, like a 'kin broadsword lol! Bear in mind too that light-ish imitation katanas and fantasy swords are not made from folded iron and steel, just any old mid-carbon steel tempered more for spring than hardness, even if the surface of the blade has a pattern resembling a swordsmith's hand placed mud stippled edge or a grain like a damascus steel blade: they are just patterns stamped/etched onto the metal. It would turn after the 1st cut that hit bone, but thereafter it would still be sharp enough to cut rotten flesh but not to jam into bone. The problem for most of these blades is, like mine, they have no ferrule, so if you did stick 'em with the pointy end and ran the blade even just halfway through, it could be very difficult to pull back out, because flesh sucks tight against a blade unless it's flat sides have a trough or raised hollow ground peak so that air is sucked into the wound as the blade is withdrawn. My sword was made in Pakistan - it has no frills, it's just a bar of steel made for fcuking people up by chops that crush muscle and shatter bone. Decorative swords probably wouldn't last chopping through more than a handful of zombies - you'd be better off with a machete, parang, or bill-hook, or maybe a full size kukri. James is right about 28 Days Later stylee zombies though, except I've never seen a zombie film where the survivors have used Molotov cocktails. You'd have to imagine that burning saturated solution of sugar in petrol with a dash of washing up liquid for that extra splash-ability would put paid to the gnash-ambitions of pretty much anything...

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This all just further compounds my earlier point about people who own swords (read: shaped pieces of metal, because as Tariq points out they are not the same thing) thinking they know how to use them when they clearly don't. You think you would "stand in a doorway with a katana," a katana being a sword which is primarily designed as a slashing weapon and which requires long slashing motions (and therefore space) to be effective, and even then requires a hell of a lot skill to (a) angle the blade correctly and strike with the right technique to achieve the cut and ( not just end up with the blade lodged into your opponent (who in this scenario would then just see you as some some of treat on the end of a long metal stick and eat you). Have you ever tried to actually complete any kind of cutting exercise on a solid target with one of these swords? Or will this skill set just materialise magically? Moreover, since most of that skill set comes from watching movies, have you ever seen any movie where anyone 'stands in a doorway' whilst effectively wielding a katana? Even Hollywood suspends the suspension of disbelief when an idea is that bad. And what kind of magical doorway is this anyway? Surely after you somehow completed the amazing space-defying cut that fells the first zombie it would just collapse into the room, rather than somehow floating all over the place and blocking anything at all. At best it would cause a lump on the floor that the next one would just walk across. Moreover its fall would likely just further push you into the room, thus defeating the whole object anyway and possibly trapping you in the room, and all of this is if it didn't just yank the sword from your grip as it fell. I'm sorry for the rant, but If you need training to see how the 'tactics' you've described in utilising such a sword in that way to aid you aren't ridiculous then you'd have to have been immensely dense beforehand.

I'd just stand in a doorway with one of my katanas. Ain't no zombies getting through there then. Airsoft guns vs 28 Days Later style rage-zombies? You are fucked my friend. Walking Dead style, been rotting for a few months, you'd probably have a fair chance against them. Though, not as fair a chance as you might get from, say... A hammer. Or really, anything else.

I probably could to be fair, but there's no guarantee that the same set of parts would work as well in the Ares. Plus, the best thing about the ICS for me is how easy it is to take apart for tweaking. The Ares is the most pain in the arse AEG ever to take down, arguably even worse than dismantling a Version 2. The way the hop, barrel and gearbox are fitted together is all different too, so I'd probably not get the same results. Also, the trigger is really nice on the ICS, they made it entirely mechanical to better replicate the feel and pull of the real one, apparently. But I really like it. Lastly, all the parts for the ICS are stocked at Fire-Support and everything is an easy drop in replacement for any time anything breaks. So that maintenance factor alone gives the ICS the win in my opinion. I can keep mine up and running for years. I could completely replace every single internal component that has a part to play in the firing mechanism for less than £150.

You do realise these people read forums, mate? Next time you want anything Famas-related... Kerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-CHING!

Hi guys. I posted a thread on General Discussion regarding using AF-UK's loadout pics for my Sunday Airsoft feature on my FB page. If you have any loadout pics, reviews, events or anything airsoft related to submit, I will consider them for the page. Email is [email protected] Thanks!

While not the whole loadout, SADF M83 vest arrived Very good rig, so much better than the cheap copies! (apologies for the crap phone pics) There's also two names with soldier numbers written in it.. I know Claassen is an Afrikaner name, but no idea on Lesmit, can't find anything on google about the name

Another victim falls to World of Tanks! I can only apologise mate, if you're anything like me, this game will take over a ridiculous amount of your time. I've finally reached my first tier 10 tank. FV4202 British medium. I'm now also bankrupt, so can't afford to buy ammunition for it...

Hey guys, so I bought a PDI VSR piston sear.......and........installed it. It works fine as far as I can tell. No hang ups or anything. I ant speak for other brands per se, but the PDI one fit with no problems. Now that said, who can say they are 100% sure the trigger sear is VSR 10 compatible?

I was thinking of entering that AI thing, the post about it on their website that they linked on Facebook was posted in 2011, so I don't think there's a deadline. Which is good news, because there are still a few minor things I'd like to add to my loadout. I can't think of anything worse than being captured in a magazine showing off my loadout when it's not done. No one else would know, but it'd eat away at me lol.

I run .25 blasters in everything except my sniper (.3 blasters). .25s are great in the CM16 as its what I used in mine when I had it, more than anything I noticed a tighter grouping at max range than with .2s.

theres nothing wrong with the combat machines... I use .20g in my cm16 raider L they work fine, accurate/good range anything heavier may make it slightly more accurate but will reduce the velocity and therefore range also 0.20's are so much cheaper than heavier BB's