darkchild130

Ha ha i know, i was doing it on purpose to scare the enemy!!! The whole "BOP BOP, im Gonna bust a cap in YO *albatross*!" was part of it if you noticed Did you see me Dual wielding 1911s when we stormed the nest? that was the most uncharacteristic moment of my entire airsofting career! there is a reason for the utility pouch though, i carry my camera in it, that pic was taken with my camera, the camera then went back in. Darkchild

indeed, i want to replace the rig with a green one and change my droplegs to black (im soooooo over tan gear ) Darkchild

Not many pics of me at the GZ weekender but here's one in action Note my open utility pouch, it stayed open for about 2 minutes. This is poor drills. Darkchild

This is about half of our team at the GZ weekender this morning.(a fair few couldnt make it this year) DCLU. Im the one to the right of the man mountain in the ACUs. Darkchild

strange, guess some people just have absolute faith in their electronic gizmos! (not sure if i would tho) Darkchild

Is it me or does the guy in the first phot have no back up irons? Darkchild

Nothing is really "hanging" off my belt, I have my droplegs really tights so the belt only acts as stability to stop them swinging around. I reload back into my mag pouches, i dont like dump pouches. I'd carry one in real life but ive never felt the necessity in Airsoft. Darkchild

couple more of my Battalion in Afghan at the moment First one is the Sniper who i mentioned in the DPM thread has 47 (at the time of writing) confirmed kills. Second is one of the American snipers they have working with them My boys are the scruffiest badasses ive ever met. Makes me proud to be a GreenJacket. Darkchild

Ditto, i wasnt allowed to fire a weapon with gloves on at all during training (including live firing in Brecon in November) its a safety thing. Once i got to battalion i could do what i want ( i always fire with my SOLAGS on these days, train how you fight and all that) but in depot gloves were a no no. Darkchild

yeah, they were *suitcase*. Piece of material between thumb and fore finger way too tight, cut into the web of your hand, wrist too short, couldnt tuck them into your smock in the rain (sorta defeats the point of goretex). Apparently the next batch will be vastly improved. Darkchild

Dont worry about it, i despise pretty much all issued kit bar the L85A2. Thats why im on the infantry trials team, to try and make the ###### they bring into service a little bit better. Darkchild

Ammo. And im not a guineas pig, they are the trial troops. I assess the kit as part of the trials team (and steal as much gucci kit as possible) Darkchild

Why would you need tape to secure the velcro? My Osprey used to weigh about 60lb in Iraq and the velcro held up fine. You should just cut the collar attachments off if you dont like them digging into your neck, a lot of our guys do that too. But feel free to ignore me, its your rig Darkchild

As Angel Stated im in 4 Rifles. SOPs on purchasing kit varies from unit to unit, but we were Greenjackets so we pretty much do what we want Incidentally, the infantry role has become more special forces "esque" in recent years as UKSF have released a lot of their burden onto us in the form of Strike ops (direct action if your a Yank). So we undergo a lot of specialist training. Im not special forces, i always try to make that very clear, but i have done a tour as SOF (a US term, we just say we're attached to SF) and have been trained in a number of techniques that would be classed SF.

It would be an M3 (or clone) and would be mounted on a RIS like this 1911 RIS mount Darkchild

Question for you 1911 experts. What model of Safariland would i need to buy if i wanted to mount a Tac light on my TM MEU? And Do they make them in coyote brown? Darkchild

Here's another one for Parsley. Reference your PM, he's the one in the green dpm trousers. and the dude in the background wearing full green dpm is "crazy Irv" Irvine. He is one of our snipers and is the most mellow person you will ever talk to. Confirmed kills way into the double figures. Darkchild

We use whatever we can Aqcuire Darkchild

More of my platoon in Helmand, as of last week. They are fighting every day but morale is high. Darkchild

Without trying to sound big headed, after nearly 10 years as an infantry section commander/sniper/jungle warfare trained/covert recon trained/regular recon trained/armoured recon trained/airborne trained/advanced cqb trained etc etc soldier, i can assure you im not doing it wrong. I simply change mags faster without magpuls. Even more so with the pmags, as the little lip on the bottom plate gives my fingers extra purchase when yanking them from their pouch. And i dont actually think my rig could get any simpler without removing something i need. Again, i dont want to come accross

I keep my chest rig low profile for crawling. I like leg rigs. I can draw and load my mags faster without magpuls of any kind (took me a while to figure that out but i can). The only reason i kept using them was to stop the elastic slipping from my open pouches. Then i thought "Why not remove the elastic?" So i did. Darkchild

Thanks. Popeye rocks. Hard.

but, he looks like popeye.... Darkchild

My team always plays delta so i guess i will too. Darkchild

That's good, they sound like decent instructors if they are willing to make it a 2 way process (i like teaching my grunts that way too, you never know when the youngest rifleman is going to have the best idea) What kind of history do they have, SF? I have a sudden interest in Magpul gear as i just got a KA M7A1 and some PMAGS,(and 10th anniversary skull patch ) might have to give the DVDs a watch. Darkchild