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We need more Powerrrrrrrrr! (No apology to Scotty)

What is it with this obsession with power?   In particular, why are so many people messsing their boxers over this, admittedly quite nice sounding, Chinese L96 replica?   For some, sure, it's the fact it's an L96 replica (sort of), but many are saying "Cor, it does 540 fps for sure", "No, no, it's 560!", "I heard it was 750 with .12gs!".   OK in some places in the States, you're duty bound by the Constitution to hurt your fellow airsofter ("I'm gonna make you squeal like a pig. Weeeeee
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AEG Realism

It remains cold and difficult to test airsoft, but that's not stopped me posting up a few new reviews on the justpistols website.   I've also been photographing some of my current guns (some for review, some for fun as they're already reviewed) with my lovely new digital SLR and you'll find a lot of these shots are in the picture threads and/or my gallery.   One of the guns not yet reviewed is my ICS MP5 SD5 AEG. As I don't skirmish, an AEG is an indulgence, but I've been enjoying the AEG
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The end is nigh...

Well, we now have a definitive date for the introduction of the part of the Violent Crime Reduction Act that will forbid the import, manufacture or sale of airsoft replicas (As RIFs) to anyone without a valid defence.   There is a suggestion of a defence for skirmishers, although how it will applied (in terms of will you get an ARU raid and THEN have to spend months getting your stuff back by PROVING you are a skirmisher?) and how it will be defined (Exactly what do the LAW see as a skirmishe
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'Living' in America II

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&
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Topics guaranteed to ###### me off!

There are a few topics that crop up over and over which are guaranteed to strain my usual inexhaustable patience   These usually follow one of the following trends :   1)I hate f*ing Customs - This whine always comes from someone who's strayed into WGC or Den Trinity and wet themselves with excitement over the prices. They think they have a bargain and then get annoyed because they have to pay more than £5 for postage from Hong Kong (If they work out it IS Hong Kong). Then they go into whin
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Airsoft Vs Real Steel

I was recently in the US and went to a shooting range.   Last time I did this, some years ago, I hadn't even heard of airsoft, so it was interesting to compare real steel with airsoft.   I fired a SIG P226, which I've also handled in airsoft form.   My experience of handling airsoft handguns was pretty useful in terms of handling, operation, grip and general confidence with the gun.   There were, however, a few notable areas where the real thing deviated greatly from airsoft.   1)
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Paypal

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
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'Living' in America...

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,
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Goodbye to all that?

Some of you have probably noticed I've got a big sale of some of my airsoft possessions going on (If you haven't, try this link...) )   I was getting a degree of grief at home at having these dangerous guns around the house (actually they're always kept hidden safely away in the loft, but that's beside the point) and I decided that, with the looming threat of the VCR Bill (much as I hope it doesn't happen, I fear it will), there was really not much sense keeping so much money tied up in toy
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Pretty warm recently and, as my collection and most of my testing gear resides in my penthouse suite (That's a loft to you and me), I've not really been doing a lot of airsofting recently.   How you lot running around in combat fatigues and coveralls are coping when it's 30C+, I can't imagine... I'm a Deckchairsofter at the moment!   Recently I picked up a Crown S&W M29 springer revolver, an Academy P08 Luger springer, a Maruzen VZ61 (after trying one out at the Phoenix meeting at Bisle
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Pah!

Decided to test shoot some guns I've got but haven't yet reviewed.   First off was my WA Beretta Tactical Elite - Damn thing wouldn't cycle with its Elite mag (I later found it was fine with another, standard, mag I have, so obviously a wierd mag fault of some sort).   Second up was my MGC Glock 18C - Seemed OK, but then started double feeding... Oh well... I'll come back to that - Maybe try it with more BBs in the mag or try the long mag I have.   Finally I gassed up my Tanaka Browning H
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Bruised...

OK - Back from Paintballing.   Went to the Fort Bravo complex near the M25/A3 junction run by Delta Force.   Most things were run quite well and the complex seemed reasonably well set out, although a number of very cool things on the website didn't seem to be there when we arrived (A Bus, for instance), but that might have been our confusuion.   8 of us went and we ended up spending £265 on EXTRA paintballs (which I thought was quite a lot, but wasn't horrendous).   You don't really get
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Flavour of the Month

I never cease to be amazed how the next gun from company X is 'gonna be the best airsoft eva!'.   Sure things evolve and the TM 1911 WAS a big step forward for quality and price, but was their rather lukewarm Hi-Capa? Or the SIG P226?   Don't get me wrong, neither's a bad gun and the market was crying out for a good P226 (I can't see there's a huge demand for another Glock 17, though, TM-san...), but they really weren't THAT great.   However, for months before (and for months after) the fo
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Long Time, No Blog

Is it me or is it much quieter on Arnies this time of year?   It's not just Arnies either, I mooch around ASCUK and AirsoftRetreat a fair bit, too, and they seem very quiet.   I guess airsofters aren't that hardy a bunch, they're all waiting for it to warm up before getting out their kit and going off skirmishing or maybe it's something to do with the VCR (Violent Crime pR stunt) Act?   I've noticed a lot of big sell offs recently, always with seemingly good reasons, but I wonder if the
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Quick update

I've bought a few bits and pieces over the last few days.   First off was a KSC STi 5.5 Hybrid, which will be interesting to compare with the WA SVIs I'm more familiar with. It certainly look good and seems a fair bit heavier (at nearly a kilo) than the older (but broken) STi, I've owned for a while.   If anyone has a KSC STi scope mount (or knows of a retailer with one), I'd be very interested in it.   Next was a set of Hogue finger grips for a Colt 1911. I've not decided which of my s
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Rate of Fire

For a while now I've been including Rate of Fire (ROF) as Rounds Per Minute figures on the reviews I do of select fire guns.   The way I do this is documented somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it, so I'll describe it.   Basically, I connect a microphone to my PC and fire up the excellent freeware program Audacity, which is available on Linux and Windows (probably Mac, too, if you must ).   I then load up the gun and, holding the slide lock down, rattle out a few seconds of sho
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Musing on my Paintballing experience...

... I got to chatting with James Kenton, the Technical Editor of Airsoft International and a man who knows his way around a skirmish field (which I'll make no pretence to do so myself).   I was saying to him how the seemingly unlimited amount of ammunition made the whole event rather dull.   Someone had said to me beforehand that they'd been paintballing and had to attack fort over open ground. They sent in a wave of attackers (they said) as sacrificial lambs and then waited until the defe
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Where do they go?

Having been mooching around the forums now for a few years, I notice a definite pattern.   Some people are extremely active on a forum for some length of time and then vanish.   Some, like HissingSid, go involuntarily, but others just seem to fade away.   GhostRider and HardcoreMitsuko fall into this category. There was a time where a day didn't pass without a flurry of postings (usually quite interesting - A feminine view, especially, was a novelty), but they seem to have moved onto ot
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Watch this (or rather THAT) space!

My recent real-steel experience inspired a bit of a revival in my enthusiasm for airsoft and I've picked up a few new items to review.   First off, I got a Tanaka SIG P226 - Having just fired a real SIG P226 and having seen one of these beauties only once before, it seemed more than coincidence when this appeared for sale on the forum and just down the road from my home, so I had to have it. With a WA Magna Blowback system and HW material, it makes the stock TM gun look rather ordinary, but I
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My Blog

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.   To get you
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What am I up to?

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
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Boring weekend again...

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
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Mk23s

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
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Football and stuff

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
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The Book for me!

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.
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