For varying reasons I am both happy and sad that I'll be getting a Marui M3 shorty in a day or two. If I'd said `another marui M3 shorty` you might guess one reason why I'm not so happy about it, and a further irritation is the fact that I bought it only so that I could bosh a Smokeys rear grip to it and have an actual nice-looking Shorty M3 So after trying to fit it onto my full-size M3 I can see its gonna need some bloody awkward drilling, but hey-ho; this is merely an inconvenience of technicality - the real aggrievance is one of immorality.

So after all this time (about 18 months) I can safely say a couple of things: one being that your airsoft stuff might (just might, if you don't watch it all the time) get stolen if you go to Combat South.

Much sadness of faces

But its true, my M3 Shorty was stolen when I went to CSU at Fort Widley and unsurprisingly I haven't been since. The Ironing (read: Irony) of this is that I once falsely accused CSW (Combat South Woodland of being full of cheats, only to be told later that I wasn't even at that site when I played that first time & saw the flagrant abuse of the honour rules.

In my defence I had no idea and the site under discussion the day before was in fact CSW and not the old Ambush place at Chobham; I was being driven somewhere, on a stinking hangover, with people who had been airsofting for ages and it was the first game I ever went to.

I had an excuse, I didn't know- I diiidnn'tt knnnooooooowwww!!!!

Now I will say this also, and that is that I wasn't watching that gun when it was half-inched (meaning `pinched` for all you non-wannabe-cockneys) but really, should I *fruitcage* ing have to??? Talk about an abuse of trust, and with such a small group as well it kinda limits it rather tragically to one of about 15 people, no more than that.

And in case one might think that one of the guys I was with nicked it - hah, no. I searched both cars we came in myself in case it had been chucked under anything, so no - another player had that away I'm afraid, and the rather lacklustre response from CSW further compounds the issue because I called them no less than 3 times about having a look for it and each time I was told someone would go to the fort and look for it. Each time I called to check afterwards they had failed to do so and failed to say why, so if you didn't want any bad press, lads, you should have done what you said you were going to do or just not have mislead a paying customer If you can't do it fair enough, but lying to me as well just makes the whole enterprise seem shoddy.

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But anyway, on with the good news This parcel contains not only an M3 Shorty but also my first smooth-cylindered revolver. Yay!! The Tanaka S&W (Yes, another one for the Smith & Wesson Collection) M629 Performance Centre Target Hunter SV HeavyWeight is one funky looking gun, I think you'll agree, and if the coolness of the gun is directly proportional to the length of it's name then I'm definitely in for a treat

This really should be enough wheelguns for me, I got this in lieu of the Colt Python which really will have to be the last one if I get it (and I hope by crikey that Tanaka release a midnight blue or, even better, a twilight chromium version so I can avoid the apparently slightly unimpressive silver finish) and then, yes, I've said it before, I know, but I really mean it this time, I have to slow down with the guns-buying. Really.

Honest.

Also arriving soon - a Desert Eagle with the conversely spangly silver finish that Tanaka would have done well to replicate on the Python, as I've seen these Chrome DEs everywhere and by god they am teh sechs, I mean really: can anyone think of any gun thats comes stock with more built-in pimpness??!?

I didn't think so.

That'll make my dual-fisted combos up to a total of about 8 or 9 now, matched guns at least if not the actual colours or finishes (or possibly compensators/silencers in one or two cases ) so thats pretty groovy to say the least.

The damn battery problem still plagues me, I regret to say; I've got 4 dischargers coming with that load of guns and it blatantly wont get here until Thursday - leaving me a whole 3 nights to actually charge and discharge about 10 batteries in time for Sunday. I have a sneaking suspicion it is all gonna go wrong, the damn inconvenient timing of confirming this order at 9:00am on Saturday meant GnG didn't send it until yesterday, and I simply wont have the comfortable amount of time to sort out the batteries in that I was hoping for. but hey I'll just charge mine and everyone else can flounder around all day

Only kidding......or am I? Is he joking? Is he? Ah you're too easy..

All I have to complain about now is that the mighty GnG can't customise the pair of KSC 93RIIs that I'm getting for a friend, so either we can have a go ourselves or (shock!! Horror!!) buy them from somewhere else.

Oh well.

Addendum:

My apologies if this post is both boring and mildly pointless by the way and you were hoping for something more entertaining, I'm really just using it as an excuse to not think about work for 1/2 an hour while someone else can take the stress on board for a while instead.

Toodle pip!