Airsoft kit that's just WRONG ?

[DopeYourScope]

Yeah I forgot about Landy's, when my Patrol got nicked about 10 years ago I thought about buying a 110, started reading the various Landy mags, of which there are many, & the general consensus was "don't buy one if you don't like tinkering", guys with 2 or 3 year old models having to replace parts that on the jap equivalents would last the lifetime of the motor, needless to say I went off that idea pretty quick.

you wouldn’t want to know the number of major engine components and driveline stuff I replace on cars that haven’t even reached a couple of years old. I can’t count the number of intake manifolds which also happen to be the cam cover on 3.0 diesels I’ve had to replace I’ve just finished one as I type this ?.

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[Skara]

You know what's wrong as well?

Any magnified optic over 4x for regular skirmishes.

I've heard countless times "reeeeee my gun has no range" because the guy had set his sniper scope to 9x and is trying to engage people at 100+m with a 1J gun.

They are useful for milsims (or our long range tournaments as well, they involve a lot of objective reconnaissance before assaulting them) for spotting purposes.

External knee pads.

Holy shit, how useless are they?

You either sinch them so tight they'll stop any blood flow to your feet ending up with an amputation or they just fucking slide down and become ankle pads.

Still on knee pads: low quality crye replica pads, you know, the ones you sometimes find around the field.

WARQ style helmets with integrated eyepro. This might be me being too picky when it comes to eye protection, but holy.. how bad do they look?

If I'd want to wear such a huge and useless piece of equipment I'd ride my motorcycle. At least the helmet is mandatory and is actually rated.

People showing up with brand new boots, all shiny and slippery. Those are the ones who end up quitting early because their feet hurt too much xD

Also, fuck you all, my ARP9 + drum is bae <3 lets me run as light as possible (see avatar)

 

[Lozart]

Before it all gets out of hand I'm just going to leave this here:

 

[Skara]

OH SHUT UP, YOU!

Let us rant

 

[Tackle]

Lol, thread not derailed much ?

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[Adolf Hamster]

Any magnified optic over 4x for regular skirmishes.

I've heard countless times "reeeeee my gun has no range" because the guy had set his sniper scope to 9x and is trying to engage people at 100+m with a 1J gun.

They are useful for milsims (or our long range tournaments as well, they involve a lot of objective reconnaissance before assaulting them) for spotting purposes.

see that's a tricky one, whilst i do agree that you absolutely do not need magnification to get a hit (look at rs where irons or open red dots are perfectly fine well in excess of airsoft distances) what a good bit of glass will let you do is track the bb, which if you are trying to do range work even at low energy is good because it'll help you see if you're on target or not, very useful when you can't rely on a dirt splash or someone dropping down dead as indicators of where your shots are actually landing.

i recently moved up to a 1.5-6x on my m4 for precisely this reason, but that's part of a whole system and the glass is just a way of making sure the bb is going where i want it to (and if not then what needs to be tweaked to acheive it).

External knee pads.

Holy shit, how useless are they?

You either sinch them so tight they'll stop any blood flow to your feet ending up with an amputation or they just fucking slide down and become ankle pads.

Still on knee pads: low quality crye replica pads, you know, the ones you sometimes find around the field.

knee pads are tricky, i agree on external ones, tbh the best setup i ever had was getting a family member to sew some pockets on the front of my dpm trousers and popping in a set of ones meant for work trousers, if it works it works.

these days i don't run them, although i must admit to wishing i did have them sometimes. maybe get the same thing done to the gorka.

 

[Immortal]

I always wear knee pads (in games...lol :lol: not everyday like going to Tescos...), have done for over 20 years since I played a woodland game and slammed my knee cap down on a hidden rock - ouch.

Bijan knee pads work perfectly well. Other pads I have I cross the straps in diagonals, they don't cut the blood flow and rarely slip.

 

[Skara]

GUYS.

Full Thrust.

We don't have enough proprietary shit in our replicas, we clearly need another one!

 

[DrAlexanderTobacco]

i recently moved up to a 1.5-6x on my m4 for precisely this reason, but that's part of a whole system and the glass is just a way of making sure the bb is going where i want it to (and if not then what needs to be tweaked to acheive it).

Scopes shine for me when I need to pick out a target. Bigger target = easier to spot teams if the site's running confusing camo etc.

 

[remus]

on knee pads I do loves a good slide and my knees would be wrecked without em. my latest set were full shin to knee. still spun round my legs mind. when I get back to outdoors I will look at solving that but for now not an indoors requirement.

I quite like a bit of fun to my looks/ loadout. more army of two/ umbrella corp. I don't like over serious  loadouts (milsimmers worst nightmare)

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Scopes shine for me when I need to pick out a target. Bigger target = easier to spot teams if the site's running confusing camo etc.

this is true, prevents the ol' "not sure if tree stump or....." issue.

 

[PopRocket123]

on knee pads I do loves a good slide and my knees would be wrecked without em. my latest set were full shin to knee. still spun round my legs mind. when I get back to outdoors I will look at solving that but for now not an indoors requirement.

I quite like a bit of fun to my looks/ loadout. more army of two/ umbrella corp. I don't like over serious  loadouts (milsimmers worst nightmare)

I've been after some knee and shin pads. You got a picture and a name?

 

[remus]

I've been after some knee and shin pads. You got a picture and a name?

nope to both as its been years since I got em. currently they are stored at my folks place til I get my kit all moved over but its something like this...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fincci-Protection-Bicycle-Skateboard-Tactical/dp/B07JLXZVBZ/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=long+knee+pads&qid=1575053217&sr=8-3

 

[Rogerborg]

this is true, prevents the ol' "not sure if tree stump or....." issue

This one time, at Milsim-lite camp, we had a chap in MTP standing about 20 yards away beside a tree.  Or did we?  Anyway, half a dozen of us sent a few desultory rounds at the MTP-or-tree, then wrote it off as tree.

Then, when we'd got all comfy and chatty, the tree lit us up like a barbecue.

 

[heroshark]

What bit of kit do you think has no place in the "sport" ?

 As we got off the kit element a while ago. And I think all kit has it's place even if I think its shit. Is often more the misuse/abuse of kit that tends to be the real issue. Like the commonality between hpa/super responsive trigger electric guns and being a trigger spamming, corner pre-shooting asshat. I think my main gripe (if were talking non kit gripes). Is people trying to melee kill you by waving a rubber/foam implement at you round a corner at you and because they touched you with it expecting you to take it as a kill. Essentially a blind touch kill where they don't have the drop on you.

 

[Cromulon1994]

 As we got off the kit element a while ago. And I think all kit has it's place even if I think its shit. Is often more the misuse/abuse of kit that tends to be the real issue. Like the commonality between hpa/super responsive trigger electric guns and being a trigger spamming, corner pre-shooting asshat. I think my main gripe (if were talking non kit gripes). Is people trying to melee kill you by waving a rubber/foam implement at you round a corner at you and because they touched you with it expecting you to take it as a kill. Essentially a blind touch kill where they don't have the drop on you.

Much more fun to drop a grenade round the corner tbf.

Thought of something else that's wrong: Those fucking mosfets that fire on pull and release. 

 

[Skara]

Much more fun to drop a grenade round the corner tbf.

Thought of something else that's wrong: Those fucking mosfets that fire on pull and release. 

Fuck you

binary triggers are the best thing after HPA'd ARP9s with drums.

seriously though, I have one in my arp and it's fun to use

 

[PopRocket123]

While I agree any magnified optic above 4X are utterly useless, along with those crap, wobbly spring loaded flip to side magnifiers I wouldn't say they don't have a place. After all anything that is a detriment to the guy shooting at me is a plus in my book

 

[Adolf Hamster]

While I agree any magnified optic above 4X are utterly useless, along with those crap, wobbly spring loaded flip to side magnifiers I wouldn't say they don't have a place. After all anything that is a detriment to the guy shooting at me is a plus in my book

fts magnifiers for airsoft are pretty terrible, you really need a good mount.

i tried a g&g one, didn't like the mount ended up getting an rs mount for it which at least held zero but the eye relief on the g&g magnifier is so incredibly poor as to be next to useless.

it's why i moved to a short dot and i must say i'm looking forward to giving this 1.5-6x a go tomorrow, although i did stack an rmr on there because it's not very good for up close snap shooting.

 

[PopRocket123]

fts magnifiers for airsoft are pretty terrible, you really need a good mount.

i tried a g&g one, didn't like the mount ended up getting an rs mount for it which at least held zero but the eye relief on the g&g magnifier is so incredibly poor as to be next to useless.

it's why i moved to a short dot and i must say i'm looking forward to giving this 1.5-6x a go tomorrow, although i did stack an rmr on there because it's not very good for up close snap shooting.

I did the exact same thing and now I swear by my BSA 1-4X short dot. I do want to try one of the clones of the RS Eotech magnifiers on my next build though