Am I getting bored with airsoft?
I've had airsoft guns for a few years now, but somehow my interest seems to be waning...
Maybe it's just the cold weather discouraging me or the fact that most of my recent buys have been speculatives 'fixers', which don't seem to want to fix very much, but I'm struggling to get excited about airsoft the way I used to...
New releases only pique my interest and I find myself posting in off-topic almost as much as the technical threads.
I've a M
My website features reviews of over 140 airsoft guns, the vast majority airsoft pistols.
When I review them, I often wonder how popular a specific review will be and I've been doing some assessment of 2005's figures (thanks to Marcus' excellent stats package - Big thanks again to Marcus for hosting the site!).
The top 22 reviews are :
Model____________Pages_____Brand___%age
HFC Hi-Capa_________3,434_____HFC_______9.1%
HFC M9 190__________2,710_____HFC_______7.1%
TM Desert
Still here in Cincinnati OH.
I visited TargetWorld, one of the local shooting ranges and gunshops, but wasn't able to use the range.
It seems it is possible for non-US citizens to rent and shoot at ranges, but only if you go with a US Citizen (or legal resident with a hunting permit - at least, that was the story from TargetWorld here in Cincinnati), which was a shame, but just looking around their store was interesting - Tanaka's S&W 500 is stunningly realistic, but the real H&
Well, here I am stuck in the USA for 9 days.
Now, I've been to the US before. I've skiied in Vermont (Quite nice, but a little run down on the whole) and visited California (LA - YUCK!! - and San Francisco, which is lovely) a few times on business and pleasure trips, but at the moment I'm in Cincinnati on the banks of the O-Hio (and it's business again... ).
It's a funny old place, but, I suspect, more like the real America than SF or LA. People seem to be blimp huge or skeleton thin,
Nothing airsoft related, but I saw this on Amazon and it really made me laugh.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...5Fencoding=UTF8
Sort of sums up my outlook on life
(and if you want to moan about it being non-airsoft related, I've already done one that is today )
Cheers.
I just thought I'd recount some issues (good and bad) I had with Paypal recently.
I sold a Tanaka Ruger Super Redhawk here and the buyer sent me the payment via Paypal. He wrote (not unreasonably) "Money for the Ruger", but this seems to have set off alarm bells at Paypal.
I went in a few days later to pay Den for some stuff and found my account was 'limited' due to violating their Acceptable Use Rules. An e-mail arrived a few hours later explaining it was the 'firearms' element I'd vi
Just had to say that, despite not being any kind of football fan, I really enjoyed the England-Argentina match on Saturday - Real end to end stuff played in, generally, good humour and with plenty of drama and excitement - Pity they'll stuff England if we play them in next year's World Cup.
Anyway, away from that diversion, I took another look at my SIGPRO and, sure enough, that Marushin Beretta recoil spring is too long, when compressed, to let the slide notch reach the slide lock, so it w
I'm very partial to KSC's Mk23 GBBs.
To me the KSC Mk23 is one of the top 5 GBBs and I'm constantly amazed by the level of criticism aimed at the model.
I like their massive size, they're impressively accurate, powerful and the big slide gives them an impressive kick (in heavyweight and metal slided form, anyway).
My first was a HW one, which the original owner tried to buy back off me for more than I paid, but I wouldn't sell, it was so nice.
I never thought I'd sell it, but
Well, it's been another boring weekend at Snowy Towers.
Had to get home early on Friday to take my daughter riding, only to find out it was cancelled.
Then, Saturday morning was spent at the cinema. Sounds good, doesn't it, until you realise I was there to see a Lego Club screening of the new Bionicle 3 movie...Sadly, it's the worst of the 3, but my son (Who is 8) thought it the coolest movie ever, so not a total waste.
Wifey was away yesterday afternoon, all night (drinking for
Some of you will know I have a website - http://www.justpistols.co.uk - where I review, mostly, airsoft handguns.
At the moment, I'm writing reviews on the TM Steyr GB NBB and the KSC SIG PRO 2340, both of which will probably be out at the weekend, all things being equal.
I've got an Airsoft Innovations flow restrictor (which I've actually had for ages), but I keep bottling cutting the floating valve down on the gun, but I think I've sourced a spare, so I should be reviewing the flow r
Having moaned about other Arnie's Blogs being non-airsoft related, I better be strict with my postings.
I'll be posting stuff here which doesn't really justify a posting on the forum and/or isn't really in the nature of the stuff I post on my website - http://www.justpistols.co.uk.
Expect to see comments on items I've spotted on my trawls around the web, experiences testing and reviewing various airsoft handguns and just general views and musings on airsoft in general.
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