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I think my 2nd should be arriving in the morning.
Opscore Vas on order.
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I love that gun!
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thanks for the tip:) still trying to decide if I want to modify the ICE belt or just sell it on.
Anyone require a 44" battle belt?
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Ivan, are there access channels for sub-loads on the UR?
I bought an ICE tactical belt on the forums but didn't clock that it was xxl at the time (didn't read properly) it is huuuuge. I'm trying to replace my old old old china battle belt and pick a second to run a different loadout on.
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http://www.ebairsoft.com/battleaxe-midcap-magazine-marui-recoil-shock-p-5325.html
Hoi hoi, clone mags £10 a pop
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I also bought http://www.ebairsoft.com/plastic-mount-helmet-rail-p-4921.html when I ordered my Helmet. The butterfly mounts are nice and firm but the rail mounts are rather loose and have a fair amount of wiggle. I would worry about putting anything too heavy on there (contour perhaps) but i have enjoyed the last 30mins running around the house pretending to be a predator (GF getting stroppy now
)As my peq is the only thing I have to hand it has been entertaining me.
I think this cold is affecting my brain :s
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mine arrived this morning too:) in an envelope and bubble wrap bag too.
Entirely the same helmet as the rest of you guys. I have a Bert face and most helmets look stupid perched on top of my head and then spreading out a mile or two either side so am happy with the fit of this one.
am slouching and have a disgusting cold so not a great picture but it fits and follows round my head well.
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try CR2's slightly smaller than CR123 and depending on where you shop cheaper too.
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Guess the GBBR's were right out of play for that event. What does the cold do to your batteries!
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Looking at the adjustment of those straps you really could do with a thinner pad set or a larger harness. How is the finish on around the holes, looks a little scrappy under the nvg mount.
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Arrived in the post yesterday. It's been over a decade since i bought a new bergen, and while both my old wyvern and para bergen are still going strong i fancied something a bit snazzier.
As they were on sale at UKtactical for £139 i thought it'd be rude not to.
It is a heavy bag even unloaded it is weighty but i tend not to ever have to do more than 5-10 miles at a time so that doesn't worry me much.
The colour is more light CB there is a LOT of blue light in the picture making it seem greener than it is.
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do you find the shoulder straps on the JPC clone to be too far apart to be really comfortable?
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I think I have had mine since 09 and it is still going strong with regular wear at work (outdoor education and festivals) and year round skirmishing. The only thing that has gone a little are the cuff velcro tabs. I have a lot of goretex gear that I re-treat regularly so this has been regularly maintained. for the money at the time there is no way I could have bought anything similar in the UK so all things considered this has been a great buy, especially as I think I bought it on sale for $36!
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aaaaaaand ordered. Darnit peoples, especially you Appslapp with your pdw rig! I had told myself no more new kit.
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Been out with mine today
love it to bits. chrono in the morning said 410fps with .2 (variance of +/- 7fps) will chrono tomorrow morn with .4's also as i was running late for the briefing today.At my local site semi only rifles are allowed to 420fs with a 60ft MED (large woodland site) this was bang on using .4s everything i shot at within 55 meters was generally hit first time or in the case of heavy foliage a double tap made it through. not quite as accurate at long range as my vsr but that has 80fps over this gun. a tight bore would be a great upgrade but i'd have to meter down the fps to stay in site limits.
Need to get me some bigger mags!
as a scout rifle i think i have found the best gun this side of a tm m14socom. damm good job KJW
i am not a total ruger .22 fan have this and a pair of silenced Mk1's to terrorise the airsoft world with.My KC02 in scout rifle setup, aimpoint nice and far forward gives great balance and pointability, peq box behind has green laser and light (because i can and i give a lot of fire indications to my team)
need to strip and restain the stock and possibly find a sling.
my mk1 just for kicks
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Good fix there Kalashnikov_kid, my chrono died (charger failed battery pack went up insmoke taking chrono withit) while on loan to a friend so am not doing anything with mine till i get a new one.
I did manage to pick up a beech stock on ebay for a whopping £17.5 posted
our local 99p store has 200ml(high content too not just vapour) cans of duster gas in atm for, you guessed it 99p
shooting test put this rifle at AWESOME with all my rounds from .28 thru .4
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Picked mine up today 2nd hand never skirmished with 3 mags £200
Not put any rounds through it yet, will be off to the range in the morning. Tying to find a nice cheap 2nd hand RS stock in the UK is proving hard, only one on ebay for such a popular gun i was surprised by the lack of parts and high cost. Anyho first thing to tinker with is find a slightly weaker hammer spring and a stock.
Happy boy.
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i'm a dedicated VSR man myself, well that and my pistols. I look at this gun as being a carbine length hicapa gbb. People fear my hicapas as much as the Rugers so i think i'm onto a winner.
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Dammit Aitch! while i dont allways agree with your thinking i do respect your experience and for you to be glowing about something must means it's pretty darn good.
I've been debating this rifle since it's release was announced and i have only been reading good things about it. 30th birthday pressie to me i think.
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HitmanNo2, WA combat special extended mag?
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finally got her together been trying to do this for aaages.
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I'm not here trying to slag anybodies events.
I'm Sure Stirlings combat missions are awesome if it is military force on military force.
Redwing was not a force on force situation.
The Taliban are unconventional forces, they do not fight or present themselves as an army in open view of the US forces. Therefore they should not have been expected to behave as soldiers, hell even the ANA struggle to comport themselves as conventional soldiers and we are training them.
I personally have no issue with how the Polish players played they seemed to be a wasted potential dynamic enemy that were hampered by unclear objectives and an overbearing command structure. Even though their mission brief was simple in the event outline it would seem that they were restricted or at least hampered by unclear guidance on the particulars of their missions.
The Polish players should have been given a list of concrete objectives.
eg:
saturday 11.00, Elders meeting @ village
saturday 15.30, collect weapons drop @ grid
saturday 23.55, disrupt all patrols on msr to allow transport of opium from --- to---
The rest of the time the brief for the taliban was simple, obtain intel on US forces, disrupt operations in the area, locate and eliminate SF team, Protect principal.
past that they should have been left to it and the US forces would have had a truly organic combat experience.
Incase people feel i am just board heroing, i am more than happy to talk directly to Stirling to help them avoid issues with opfor such as they encountered. Anybody that runs airsoft events is doing a good thing and i heartily encourage people.
I think Stirling have a great reputation and i'm sure most of their combat missions go off perfectly but this event did not show them at their best. I hope to return as opfor in september and expect to have a completly different experience as we will not be playing soldiers and will deffinatly not comport ourselves as soldiers.
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I was with the ranger team for this even and have a few pennies to place here.
Having done it i know what the real thing is and yes for the rangers this was pretty spot on for a millitary operation (good and bad parts)
As an experienced larp event operator i am also well qualified know what makes a good event for 'players'.
From where i watch the weekend from my team saw most of the action take place. Stirlings plot seemed to either fail or just not happen. Not really their fault it is murpheys law but with the added complication of 'players'. what they did not do was have enough in the way of contingency plans and alternative routes to their final encounter set out.
I have heard varying arguments via my team liaison as to why things did not work and i was highly surprised to find out about the events on saturday night. NPC (staffplayers) going off plot and killing 'player characters' is a huuge event nono, if you are a member of the staff team you job is to facilitate play not knockoff another team in their beds.
Having spent the day in the sun on the side of a hill i'd rather not have stagged on for 3 hours on the saturday night but it is part of the role and we did it (hallucinations and all). If the taliban wanted to sleep thats their prerogative. The RL taliban unless they have bombs to plant like to sleep at night too. They are an unconventional force they fight an unconventional war, why was anybody expecting them to do anything other than ambush/ied/kidnap their way through the event?
When my team stopped the unarmed afghan team on the hill we knew they were up there as spotters so we checked for intel (checking photos, maps copying pmr feq) thats how we knew that we were about to be bumped. The 2 people that were arrested were taken off the hill because a:we had eyes on their armed patrol heading our way and b:3-5 were in a tight spot and were about to be rolled over by another patrol being talked in by the 2 spotters we arrested.
The 2 players we arrested were very fun and chatty all the way down the hill and played their characters well and with good humor. All the afghan players my team met (not too many of them) were on good form and highly entertaining. As a deadpan combat mission perhaps this was not too fitting but it was a bit of 'fun' which i believe is the object of the 'game' we play.
I enjoyed myself over the weekend don't get me wrong it was great to stretch the legs and think about an area bigger than a skirmish site, to be eyes on and calling intel as and when. If i were training to go into a hostile area to perform a job then it would have been a valuable refresher or taster before moving into a more focused course of training. But at the end of the day we are playing a game and this event didn't play out like a good game or story lined event should do.
I fired 10 rounds the entire weekend and that was in response to a spray'n'pray attack by two taliban who hightailed it off into the night while i was trying to eat my grub. The only member of my team to be shot was shot by a member of 3-5 after the sunday morning assault on the fob, not a problem blue on blue happens. I formed a team of 4 men 2x500fps sniper rifles and 2xsupport rifle, we were never going to be an assault element i still feel that as a unit we could have been utilized more effectively (ie:not watching a friendly village most of the day because the information about the alliance had not been called through) and as a team the entirety of the rangers 3-1 thru 3-4 were poorly deployed and spent a great deal of time achieving nothing much. Textbook military operation i know, but when compacting a weeks worth of scratching ones *albartroth* in an OP and guarding an FOB from an unpredictable foe into a single weekend i just feel there needed to be a whole lot more 'in' the weekend.
other elements:
Drone, no use to man nor beast nice toy but mostly useless.
Thermal imaging in FOB, i had first stag on saturday TI operator was alseep before me and the system went into standby/ran out of battery before the end of my stag.
vehicles, saw them potter out down the msr a few times not really seeming to achieve much.
This is not personal but meerly an observation form somone who has been to more larp events than you can shake a stick at as a player and organiser/staff member.
From the moment 3-5 arrived on the friday and started issuing ###### orders with poor admin i felt very much like the remainder of the US team were forming the setting for stirling and the rest of 3-5 to play out thier own combat mission.
Pretty much all the major contacts were domintated by 3-5 and the seals team, and predominantly ballsed up by the lack of direction, co-ordination and though about how to enter and extract oneself from the situation. 3-4 to 3-5 even though you got captured we're not angry, just disappointed.
None of this bothered me and my team too much we were up on the hill overwatching for 3-1 thru 3-3 which was our job and we came down to cut off rear actions if needed.
Like i said nothing personal just some observations as an experienced eventing customer and organizer.
I had fun and fully intend on returning with my guys in september to play a very different kind of game.
feel free to pm me if you want any deeper thoughts so this thread remains relativly clean of arguments or banter.
Declan 1ic 3-4 Ranger recon.
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tbh i run my regular leather belt for most applications, keeps my essentials at work druing the day and at the weekend it hold my trousers up and has strenght enough to support my pistol and associated pouches. the rest goes on my chest rig/carrier, i had a blast belt for a while but it was just too much molle and was too tempting to load it.
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The helmet i ordered from JK still has not arrived and the tracking number doesnt seem to work either with royal fail or HK post office. have emailed them.
Druid, that helmet cover looks badass good job.