Cheeky vimto Posted December 3, 2013 Author Posted December 3, 2013 Stopped by combat south today and they do sell the exact shotgun primers that ohshiboom sell but for £3 less and obviously no postage. So basically 2 for the price of one on bangs Now I have a new problem! How am I going to carry these things into a skirmish that's; A. Easy to reprime the grenade with gloves on. B. I don't drop the box and I'm left scrambling for the primers.
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 3, 2013 Supporters Posted December 3, 2013 get a little bag, I use an old sunglasses bag for carrying blanks, works well.
Supporters NickM Posted December 3, 2013 Supporters Posted December 3, 2013 I use a small Maglite box that I glued some sponge into a thick bit on one side, and thin on the lid, then I melted some cross shapes 10 of them into the thick side, not quite all the way through. It fits into my admin panel, doesn't rattle and no chance of bbs hitting them or them being squashed if I roll on them. I'd love to get a mag that would hold them but I use the 9mm ones and they have a lip round the bottom so wouldn't fit very well. There was a guy using a clipper strip type arrangement, the ones that hold rounds for speed loading mags. Was thinking they could be mounted on the front of the vest perhaps.
kejot Posted December 3, 2013 Posted December 3, 2013 Really? I'll have to get down there then. The cheapest online was from ohshiboom for £9.20 delivered but they're all out. I found another site that had them for £14 delivered. see they are £5 per hundred now, been a while since i brought my last load
kejot Posted December 3, 2013 Posted December 3, 2013 You mean one of these? i use these on my bfg's, attached to belt, so can pull pin single handedly
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 3, 2013 Supporters Posted December 3, 2013 image be broken i use these on my bfg's, attached to belt, so can pull pin single handedly
Cheeky vimto Posted December 3, 2013 Author Posted December 3, 2013 see they are £5 per hundred now, been a while since i brought my last load I bought 2 boxes. If I were to get non-reusable bangs it'd cost me £500!
Cheeky vimto Posted December 3, 2013 Author Posted December 3, 2013 Thinking of keeping them together in a bag together but is there no chance of the rattling round and accidentally going off in the bag?
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 3, 2013 Supporters Posted December 3, 2013 no, absolutely zero chance, unless you hit the bag with a hammer and even then it's a pretty slim chance.
Cheeky vimto Posted December 3, 2013 Author Posted December 3, 2013 no, absolutely zero chance, unless you hit the bag with a hammer and even then it's a pretty slim chance. Cool thanks. The warning on the box makes it sound like they're really sensitive.
Supporters NickM Posted December 3, 2013 Supporters Posted December 3, 2013 Hmmm my thoughts are better to be safe than sorry hence my current stance of keeping them in a box when not in use. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqQ4ff2VqZY
Cheeky vimto Posted December 3, 2013 Author Posted December 3, 2013 Hmmm my thoughts are better to be safe than sorry hence my current stance of keeping them in a box when not in use. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqQ4ff2VqZY That's with plastic BBs?
Supporters NickM Posted December 3, 2013 Supporters Posted December 3, 2013 He does say air rifle but also says a BB is being fired not a pellet. I realise it is a point blank shot from probably a higher powered gun than we use but in the interests of not wanting to be the test case I'll keep them in something sensible. You are all welcome to think I'm over safe about it but I'll stick to my system. Might even try a tobacco tin perhaps if the Maglite box breaks
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 3, 2013 Supporters Posted December 3, 2013 it's bird shot from an air rifle... considerably higher power than an airsoft gun!
Supporters NickM Posted December 3, 2013 Supporters Posted December 3, 2013 If I'm not mistaken the bird shot was in the shotgun shell. And the hole in the shotgun primer is about the right diameter to be a 6mm ish size bb. The first bang in the slow mo is not the air rifle. When someone has a Sniper they don't mind writing off and does some videos of it hitting blanks I'll revise by opinion, until then with limited data I'll stick with safe rather than sorry.
two_zero Posted December 3, 2013 Posted December 3, 2013 smooth bore air rifles can shoot metal bbs. they are generally either .177 (approx 4.5mm) or .22 (approx 5.5mm), the mentioned bird shot definitely refers to the shotgun shell.. I doubt an airsoft gun would accomplish anything like that (yes.. I know someone will prove me wrong). The rifle looks like an air rifle and it also look like a lower end one, which are likely to be smooth bore. He does mention both pellet and bb and might just not know the difference. Stopped by combat south today and they do sell the exact shotgun primers that ohshiboom sell but for £3 less and obviously no postage. So basically 2 for the price of one on bangs Now I have a new problem! How am I going to carry these things into a skirmish that's;A. Easy to reprime the grenade with gloves on.B. I don't drop the box and I'm left scrambling for the primers. B: cut the plastic part into a section with 10 and made a small cover for it, so you push and you get two primers. also I usually have a few lose in pockets/pouches. I try to never have more than 1-2 in each pocket, just in case. I'd take a picture but I dont have it here.. but if you look in the top row, of the molle on the right: http://imageshack.us/a/img90/435/p1060557a.jpg
Supporters Ian_Gere Posted December 4, 2013 Supporters Posted December 4, 2013 I can believe that one of our BB's could set a shotgun primer off, but probably not through pocket cloth. I'd be flabbergasted (literally, I will be gasting with flabber to completion*) if the compression wave could be sufficiently powerful, without a casing or barrel, to set another one off. I'm also convinced that the worst injury you could sustain as a result is a slight bruise with a blister on it, although I dare say it could be slight leaky bum bum moment... * and someone can bloody film it!
Cheeky vimto Posted December 4, 2013 Author Posted December 4, 2013 I keep my guitar picks in a Kendal mint cake tin, so I've used that. I've lined the tin with the foam padding that the ohshiboom came in. It keeps the primers loose so they're easy to pick up with gloves on and the tin protects it from shots. I now need a new pouch for the tin!
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 4, 2013 Supporters Posted December 4, 2013 or, and this is just a suggestion... you could put it in a pocket?
Cheeky vimto Posted December 4, 2013 Author Posted December 4, 2013 or, and this is just a suggestion... you could put it in a pocket? But that's not tacticool!
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 4, 2013 Supporters Posted December 4, 2013 really, why else do you think Crye combat trousers have 11 pockets!?
Supporters Ian_Gere Posted December 4, 2013 Supporters Posted December 4, 2013 Because yanks can never do anything without going over the top and short of putting an extra leg on them, 5 more pockets it is...?
Cheeky vimto Posted December 4, 2013 Author Posted December 4, 2013 They work well in the leg pocket. My belt covers the top pockets. I'm leaving in an hour, hope the ohshiboom is as good as people say!
Cheeky vimto Posted December 4, 2013 Author Posted December 4, 2013 Had about 6 throws with it tonight. It's brilliant, never faulted once. I wish I could say the same about my throwing skills! The pouch was useless, it fell out about 4 times. Lucky the lanyard caught it before I either lost it or the pin fell out.
Cheeky vimto Posted December 5, 2013 Author Posted December 5, 2013 This looks promising http://www.flecktarn.co.uk/ustop4nx.html
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