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Getting stuff out of Russia. Bullgear etc
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DrAlexanderTobacco
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Tl;dr it depends on the seller and how they're running things.
Some vendors are sending everything to a non-sanctioned country first, such as Kazakhstan, and using a shell company to ship that onto customers. Some aren't, and are denying orders to Western customers
Druid799
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- Sep 9, 2015
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Even if they’ll take your order I wouldn’t risk it no matter how ‘reliable’ the seller was before all this started . Think there’s a VERY good chance if your order goes tits up you’ll either have to jump through hoops or just be shit outa luck getting your money back .
Adolf Hamster
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- Feb 1, 2018
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have to say i agree here.
at the risk of opening a can of worms I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be continuing to buy stuff from Russia given current events.
I might like their kit on a technical level, but I don't want any part in supporting the present actions of their government, no matter how indirectly.
Jacob Wright
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Have you checked eBay? Not sure if mine came from source but I’ve bought a couple off there in the past for my M249’s.
Enid_Puceflange
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Try this place for weird parts bud
Is it this?
https://airsoftspareparts.com/en/m249-parts/bullgear-cnc-hop-up-m249
Druid799
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Funnily enough is also my feelings on the topic just didn’t mention it as I can’t be arsed to get in to it today with some knobber and their inevitable snide comments ! ?
Oneshotscott
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If a percentage of the money you pay for goods will be used for putins war i think you need to have a quiet word with your self.
I would not advise you purchase anything from Russia purely based on common sense.
Bleed the fuckers dry.
I would not advise you purchase anything from Russia purely based on common sense.
Bleed the fuckers dry.
Hard agree with the posters above. I'll not purchase anything from Russia or Belorussia now, most likely forever.
As someone who mostly does Soviet WW2 airsoft, that does make getting good kit difficult as the main suppliers are either in Russia, Belorussia or Ukraine.
But WW2 airsoft is a nicety that my friends and family who live under the Russian bombardments wish they could go back to. War is much nicer with toy guns.
As someone who mostly does Soviet WW2 airsoft, that does make getting good kit difficult as the main suppliers are either in Russia, Belorussia or Ukraine.
But WW2 airsoft is a nicety that my friends and family who live under the Russian bombardments wish they could go back to. War is much nicer with toy guns.
colinjallen
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Some Ukrainian guys that I know went home to fight when the invasion began; they are all still alive and doing their bit to defeat the Putinist fascists. I will not buy anything that even slightly benefits Russia until the country sorts itself out.
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Floperator
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Funny that people don't feel the same way about sending money to American or Chinese companies whenever their respective governments gun down a minibus full of kids, assassinate some journalists or harvest organs from prisoners. Nor for that matter did anyone seem to be all that bothered about buying Russian kit in the aftermath of Georgia and Chechnya. We've had a hand in demolishing a few countries ourselves in the last few decades.
Let's not get carried away with framing this as a moral choice, or implying some kind of treason or direct contribution to whatever misery the Russian government is inflicting at this moment.
If people want to draw a line with where they spend their own money then fair enough - personally I don't buy anything from Amazon, but I'm not going to judge people who do.
On a practical level you'd have to be nuts to try and mail order Russian replica firearms parts at the moment.
But it sounds like some people are a few newspaper headlines away from burning their cyma ak74s at the moment and it's all a bit silly and hypocritical imo.
Let's not get carried away with framing this as a moral choice, or implying some kind of treason or direct contribution to whatever misery the Russian government is inflicting at this moment.
If people want to draw a line with where they spend their own money then fair enough - personally I don't buy anything from Amazon, but I'm not going to judge people who do.
On a practical level you'd have to be nuts to try and mail order Russian replica firearms parts at the moment.
But it sounds like some people are a few newspaper headlines away from burning their cyma ak74s at the moment and it's all a bit silly and hypocritical imo.
Tactical Pith Helmet
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I received a gorka from Russia a couple of weeks back. It was listed as UK stock.
I ordered gear from Moscow in January and have had to raise a paypal claim as the seller reckons that the invasion in the last week of February has stopped it arriving. Bollox as it was supposed to be posted on the 16/01/22, five weeks earlier. The parcel was stopped in Kiev.
So a bit of a lottery in my recent experience.
As @Floperatorsays, if you try and avoid any state that occupies other states, you best make sure not to fill up any with Saudi petrol, or buy Turkish electronics, Moroccan herbs etc etc. Probably best to get an allotment too tbh...
I ordered gear from Moscow in January and have had to raise a paypal claim as the seller reckons that the invasion in the last week of February has stopped it arriving. Bollox as it was supposed to be posted on the 16/01/22, five weeks earlier. The parcel was stopped in Kiev.
So a bit of a lottery in my recent experience.
As @Floperatorsays, if you try and avoid any state that occupies other states, you best make sure not to fill up any with Saudi petrol, or buy Turkish electronics, Moroccan herbs etc etc. Probably best to get an allotment too tbh...
I have a electric Mag loader from Bullgear..arrived a month before PootyTunes screwed his country over by sending his Army into Ukraine. I doubt very much you will get anything sent from Russia these days and not for a very long time.
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Groot
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While it is important to support the "Current Thing". Until everyone stops buying oil and gas from Russia. Me abstaining from spending £40 with a small independent airsofter is not going to make fuck all difference.
I truly hope you have not driven, heated or cooked anything since this War started. Otherwise you're just virtue signalling.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/uk-russia-oil-ukraine-war-greenpeace-b2066346.html#:~:text=The UK has imported around,at the end of February.
Adolf Hamster
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- Feb 1, 2018
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there's a difference between doing things that are required for day to day life, like driving to work, cooking, and keeping yourself warm and spending money on frivolous luxuries that you can absolutely go without.
we should be incredibly grateful that the cost of this war for us in the uk is being charged in pounds sterling and not blood.
individually maybe not, the point is when done collectively all the little slices of fuck all add up to make something of substance.
every Russian factory/shop that shuts down due to lack of sales is a crowd of disgruntled workers who won't be fans of how Putin's government has messed up their lives.
Davegolf
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Exactly, just like the covid 'heroes'... its only me it wont make a difference... yes but theres millions of 'me'
Not saying the individual Russian airsoft store should be the one at loss from all this, but its all these little losses that may add upto a change for the better.
Not saying the individual Russian airsoft store should be the one at loss from all this, but its all these little losses that may add upto a change for the better.
Oneshotscott
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I cycle to work and we have been using our log burner for years (we have too much kiln dried wood).
Regards food: my home is 100% electric (latest outdoor heat pump) and solar panels to 'top' it off. Yes the car does get used (100 miles a week max) and guess what, its an eco car (70 mpg/£0 Road tax).
Good return shot but you missed.
Honestly, just buy your kit from Russia. Buy as much as you can.
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