ICS Airsoft have been taunting people with a photo of their prototype of their upcoming BLE-Vulture pistol. These look like standard grips and not the ones seen in the advert from their catalog and you can’t see the compensator yet. Not quite the American Tactical MOXIE, nor the Punisher’s personal pistol but somewhere close.
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Evike have posted a review of the EMG Kel-Tec RDB17. Now to be fair EMG is their own brand and they are a retailer, that’s not a suggestion of any issue just keeping things open! The EMG branded RDB17 is made by ARES so you know where the quality comes from and the licensing and legalised markings are via Evike.
Kel-Tec’s products (and their replicas) are often a diversion from accepted conventional design and quite desirable. In the case of an Airsoft AEG, bullpup designs make a heap of sense.
The RDB17 is due out at the end of March and currently on pre-order fr 319USD.
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SavingAirsoft.ca has launched as a portal to help everyone as a portal for all Canadians and those with a vested interest in preserving Airsoft in Canada. If you’re over there it’s obviously worth your time and effort getting involved.
Our goal is to work with the government to find a way to protect our hobby and our community. This site intends to show all Canadians how incredible and diverse the airsoft community is in the hopes of removing prejudice and misconceptions about our sport.
We also want to serve as a resource for those looking to contribute to our mission. We provide resources and tools to aid supporters in conversations and appeals to the government.
SavingAirsoft.ca
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OhShiBOOM have a multi-shot base available for pre-order now that works with their primer based blank firing devices, it’s priced at 29.95UKP.
SKU: OSB-MSB
OhShiBOOM
Category: Accessories
Tags: 209 primer, Base, Multishot base, Ohshiboom
Product ID: 2441
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We have a strange error with the forums that’s currently being worked on. Apologies, it’ll be fixed as soon as possible.
Update:25/Feb I’ve managed to fix the issued. Technical babble, but it was due to a wrapper and a binary being out of sync due to a server software update resulting in things going awry! Coffee drunk and helped solved issues!
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Military 1st are offering 10% off all Viper Tactical products with code VIPER10 until midnight on Sunday 28th February 2021:
We offer 10% off all Viper Tactical products with Discount Code VIPER10.
Combine knowledge, skills, and customer feedback, and you’ll get the best military and outdoor clothes and accessories. With over ten years of experience, you couldn’t expect less from Viper Tactical.
Visit our website today and save on Viper Tactical apparel, footwear and military rucksacks, as well as combat gear and accessories.
The UK customers: https://mil1.st/ViperUK
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Hurry up: this special offer ends 28 February 2021, midnight.
It applies only to the Viper category and excludes already discounted items.
Enjoy free UK delivery and returns! We offer swift shipping to the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and across Europe.
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Courtesy of Thumpy (Thumpy’s 3D Airsoft News) there’s news that Airsoft in Canada may well end up completely banned under the proposed bill C-21. Please do share and get involved. The specific addendum will kill all Canadian airsoft trades and ownership by the look of it.
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Warhead Industries have posted a teaser of their upcoming app for their motor system allowing dynamic control of their kit.
We are very excited to give you a bit of a glimpse of what we are working on currently. Very soon we will be delivering the first rendition of our fully integrated Bluetooth app as an upgrade to our motor system. This will also have shared functionality with an ecosystem of airsoft products that we are currently developing to work in conjunction with each other. The app will offer all of the functionality you would expect of a high end mosfet and we are pushing to give you guys even better features and functionality.
We will be doing a full reveal of this app soon. In 2021 we are looking to really drive forward the development of airsoft products and supporting technology, which gives the end user unmatched function and performance. We are very thankful to those people who have pre-ordered our motor. We understand we are not a known force in airsoft currently and thank you for your trust. We look forward to applying some of the technology we have in other businesses to airsoft and are really looking forward to landing some of our new products with you guys.
The Warhead Team
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There’s a new issue of Airsoft Action out which you can find over on their pages. It’s free and full of content to read.
The pandemic isn’t over but it hasn’t stopped the Airsoft Action team putting together another superb issue of the Number One Global Airsoft Magazine!
In this issue we review FIVE guns… G&G’s PCC45, EMG’s Falkor Blitz, LCT’s “Baby” AKs, Chiappa’s Rhino and Modify’s PP-K2, while Red Cell look at TWELVE PDWs, plus we “Reload” the MP5K and see what Specna Arms have been up to!
Elsewhere, we are delighted to take you “Inside Airsoft” with Evolution Airsoft in Italy, a company with airsoft at its very heart and if upgrading is your thing, don’t miss our coverage of Master Mods from ICS and Warhead Motors brushless motors.
With masses of Kit & Gear and all our usual features, you can see why we say: “If its in airsoft, its in Airsoft Action!”
As always, Airsoft Action is FREE and you can read it on the Airsoft Action website (www.airsoftaction.net), plus all of these digital publishing platforms.
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WE Airsoft have added a bunch of photos and a quick video of their just released Galaxy G model just before shutting down for Chinese New Year. At first look there’s a few different colours, it’s semi/auto, uses CO2 mags and it looks a lot like the AAP. It’ll be interesting to see what it is compatible with and how it performs.
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Military 1st are offering 10% off gloves with discount code GLOVES10 until midnight on Sunday 14th February 2021:
We offer 10% off all gloves with Discount Code GLOVES10.
No matter the task at hand, wearing the right pair of gloves is essential.
Explore our vast and growing collection of tactical gloves and work gloves from such renowned manufacturers as Helikon, KinetiXx, Pentagon, and Mechanix Wear.The UK customers: https://mil1.st/GlovesUK
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I bumped into Tactical Coffee not long ago and placed an order for their Alpha blend beans and thought I’d give them a go at work. I’ll post my thoughts once I make a brew with the new delivery. After placing an order I thought I’d give Darren a bell and ask him to introduce their company to you guys on here.
They do a bunch of blends which are available as beans or pre-ground. The principal blends Alpha (BIG | SMOOTH | CARAMEL), Bravo (SWEET | BALANCED | CHOCOLATE) and Charlie (SWEET | COMPLEX | FRUITY) but there’s a whole heap more to chose from including products that support various charities:
Darren, the owner and founder of Tactical Coffee joined the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1989 and after completion of basic training in Woolwich was posted to 17 Corunna Battery 26 Regiment RA in Gutersloh, Germany.
Darren served as part of a Tactical Observation Team that directed artillery fire, he worked as a Ferret driver, 432 driver, Warrior driver, signaller and as the assistant to the Forward Observation Officer. During his time with 26 Regiment he deployed on three tours of Northern Ireland, Two tours of Bosnia and a tour of Kosovo as well as countless exercises in BATUS, Poland, Germany and the UK.
It was on his tour of Kosovo in 1999/2000 that Darren had his first introduction to real coffee, while on duty in the Multi National Division Headquarters (on Millennium Eve) he was offered a cup of coffee from a cafetière and developed a passion for real coffee since that first cup.
In 2001 Darren was selected to be the Photographer for the Royal Artillery and the Gunner Magazine, photography was a hobby since school. Darren returned to Woolwich as part of Headquarters Royal Artillery and travelled to the Falklands, Brunei, Dubai, Gibraltar, Norway as well as the usual exercise areas around the world.
During his time as a photographer, Darren came runner up in the Army Photographer of the year competition and was awarded Licentiate to the Master Photographers Association and the British Professional Photographers Institute and won several competitions in the civilian sector.
In 2007 Darren was posted to the Royal School of Artillery in Larkhill to work as part of Media Services Team, the civilian lead team of photographers, Videographers and Graphic Designers. As the only military employed member of the team Darren didn’t fit in well.
On deployment to Larkhill Darren soon spotted a gap in the Military Clothing and Accessories market, there where no shops in the area that supplied equipment to troops on exercise on Salisbury Plain, Phase Two Recruits based at the Royal School of Artillery and stationed troops within the Larkhill, Bulford and Tidworth Garrison.
Darren and his wife Joanne soon opened a succession of shops in Larkhill, Bulford and Westdown Camp. It was during this time that Darren also established BombG T-Shirts, printing his own military humoured t-shirts and hoodies.
BombG T-Shirts was very successful but caused a lot of controversy with some of the designs being banned from sale within the shops that where located on Military owned property and even they even got Darren and his family a few death threats.
The success of the shops and the online T-Shirt business soon meant that Darren could leave the Army after 19 years’ service.
In 2008 Darren sold his three shops and online business and with the proceeds of the sale Darren and Joanne signed a tenancy agreement on a pub in Upavon, Wiltshire, but after just over a year the business venture failed, mostly due to the lack of support from the brewery with who they took on the tenancy and the fact that in Darren’s’ opinion he was on the wrong side of the bar.
In 2010 Darren joined the Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) part of the Adjutant Generals Corps (AGC) it took Darren two years to realise that standing on a gate, opening a barrier was one of the worst things in life.
After leaving the Army for the second time in his life he started a career in the Private Security Industry and had several jobs including, Security Escort, Door Supervisor, Operations Manager, Instructor, Penetration Tester and even the dizzy heights of Close Protection. It soon became apparent that there was no security in security and spent a lot of his time searching for contracts that tended not to last very long and getting paid correctly and on time was becoming a full-time job of its own.
In 2015 Darren and his family moved away from Wiltshire back to the West Midlands where Darren had joined the Army 26 years earlier. Not happy with the normal pace of life, he wanted to start another business and try to make it as successful as his chain of shops and the online T-Shirt sales.
Darren took his love of coffee and tried to encompass this into a business and began to learn all he could by reading and watching videos, in late 2015 Darren took a course with the Winchester Coffee School and learnt the basics of making the perfect cup of coffee with the insight to opening a coffee shop, this idea soon turned into a mobile coffee van. It didn’t take long before he realised that both options were out of his finical reach, so he began to think of other ideas for a business that could incorporate his love of coffee and entrepreneurialism.
In 2017 Darren stumbled upon an online business selling bags of coffee to the military community in America and began to do his own research into the possibility of starting a UK version but found that he had been beaten to the post by a Company formed by a couple of serving Royal Marines.
Not letting this deter him he carried on with his research and found that every time he looked another UK online coffee company would pop up.
“We spoke with several coffee roasters and attended a few Coffee Expos and conventions across the UK before we found the perfect roasting partner, the company we found is also run by a veteran who employs veterans which matches our company ethos, we didn’t want to white label their own coffee and pass it off as our own, we wanted coffee blends that were unique to us. We took our first three ideas for our blends (Alpha, Bravo and Charlie) and the roasters agreed to do them exclusively for us”
In January 2018 Darren decided it was time to jump on the band wagon and launched Tactical Coffee. Since its first sale in January 2018 several other coffee companies have emerged and disappeared but Tactical Coffee has gone from strength to strength, Darren puts this down to his genuine passion for great coffee. We now have 15 coffee blends along with a Coffee from Australian War fighter Coffee.
Darren Gray, (Tactical Coffee)
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Femme Fatale Airsoft has posted a new video and unboxing of the my hyped (and quickly selling out) KWA Kaiju47. Check it out and like and subscribe to her channel!
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Tokyo Marui have added photos of their URG-I (aka URG-I Sopmod Block 3) to their website with a release date of the 18th of February noted on their cover image.
Marui list this as having a 14 inch upper, M LOK rail system, recoil system, ambidextrous controls, folding sights, 82 round magazine (stamped metal) and a removable muzzle (14mm reverse thread). You can see the rest on the translated page here.
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Don’t worry if you find blank pages or error messages in the news or forums occasionally, upgrades are currently in progress at the moment.
We’ll be online while the work is completed, so the odd thing will look odd while the updates are completed.
So far I’ve updated the core software to the news system which has prompted a complete rebuild of the site design. The old front page theme used deprecated code (old) which quite simply doesn’t work with the new core systems. The forums are completely rebuilt and should be working just fine.
There’s lots for me to tweak and get how we would like it and now we are finally running the new software I can get upgrades done that I’ve been meaning to do for ages. Do bear with and if you spot anything you would like changed, is obviously broken, or just feel the need to send me us email!
UPDATE 1500GMT: I’ve got a working shell up and running but we’ve got a long way to go so do bear with me. I’ve also been digging out old artwork so I can make a start on the new images for the new layout as it develops. The updates are being applied to the site whilst live to keep it all working well for everyone.
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