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Current UK airsoft limits are limited by the Police and Crime bill, providing you are within the limit your RIF / IF is fully exempted from firearms legislation Previously, though there were Home Office guidelines (which I believe were similar to the now legal limit) the legal limit was under firearms legislation for air weapons at 6ft lbs and 12 ft lbs (pistol type and rifle type) Note that there have been legal arguments that the lack of a rifled barrel can make the 6ft lb rule applicable 6ft lbs = 8.13 joules 12ft lbs = 16.27 joules The higher 2.5 joule allowance is 1.8 ft lbs UK airsoft has a nice and simple set of limits which is reinforced by legislation and explicitly excludes (compliant) airsoft from firearms legislation In paintball however, we remain in the murky world of firearms legislation (6/12 ft lbs), case law (max 300fps) Home Office guidelines (with a good working relationship with the UKPSF), and varying interpretations of placement under the VCRA

A PS …. Aim to practice reloads from either hand, which means you can keep the left pistol on the left and the right on the right Alternatively if better at reloading in one particular side then you can swap pistols over as they empty, that can mean you always know which will run out before the next and can reload from the optimum side

Limited options such as pistols change the dynamics, and as such are typically a limiter when up against others with higher capacity. However they are fun, and with the limitations when you get the kills then the payback is higher To be effective twin pistols need to have their reloading managed - not just having a holster to deposit one in order to release your hand for magazine changes, but avoiding them both being empty at once. It feels great to hold out both arms alternatively firing one shot per side, but then they both need reloading at once rendering you ineffective. Start the game favouring one side (eg right hand) until it’s probably half way ahead of the other. Then use them together When you’ve either counted it to empty (or more likely you notice that nothing is coming out) then it’s time to change magazine, but you still have the left one ready to shoot. Practice reloading so you don’t have to holster one - it helps to have big hands and long fingers If in a stable position you can drop a magazine, but it’s most likely that you want to stash it - pull it with your fingertips, drop into a dump pouch or down your shirt. Again with fingertips pull a fresh magazine and insert - your right pistol is now full and your left is half full If convenient move the dumped magazine to a pouch (and remember to manage what pouched magazines are full / empty) By keeping both pistols out when reloading you have the ability to shoot, a holstered pistol can’t shoot anyone (except yourself)

On eBay you have two core options, 'simple delivery' and 'custom postage' ’Simple’ is all managed by eBay, you set an appropriate size/weight range then pack and label it or use a QR code to drop off - the buyer chooses the carrier ‘Custom’ is the classic, you put up your choosen carriers/methods and set the postage price to be charged. Then you buy the right postage for the method/size/weight and post it I've only enabled ‘simple’ (the default option) a couple of times, and it looks like the buyer pays a set price per option, which is either the ‘right’ amount or could be "overcharging" due to less options. In a couple of cases buyers should have had a saving from combined postage but paid for both (that may have been them buying and paying then buying and paying) For 'simple' you can wash you hands of it once dropped off. I still prefer "custom" with which I specify the postage options, and I can offer as "free postage/seller pays". My preferred methods are Royal Mail 2nd class for letter or large letter, and Evri for bigger / heavier things. (Perhaps RM small parcel) These also have the convenience that the garage near me has a Post Office counter which takes both RM & Evri Yodel can be taken by the corner shop, and is cheaper than the equivalent Evri, plus has longer opening hours than the post office counter. (But they don’t like weekend drop offs as they don’t get picked up until Monday) For expensive & fragile I'll consider what is most appropriate. Currently if I am not giving RM I will list the postage option as "other courier", then I can decide as appropriate I have been stung a couple of times when using Evri that a NI buyer ends up costing a fortune, but Yodel stays at the standard price. By choosing "other courier" I can then pick pretty much any carrier based on the item and the address. I use online generated postage, therefore even if the service used is not fully tracked it does have a reference number and confirms the delivery, complete with ensuring that the delivery is flagged on the listing.

Fold it and / or roll it Pull out inserts if applicable first, stack them and fold/roll around them Wrap in bubble wrap, brown paper etc If you have sizeable plastic packet envelopes then use them, if not then cut open a black bin bag or two and wrap with that Finish with an abundance of tape, ideally brown parcel tape but sellotape will do Check the final dimensions and weigh it You probably have an awkwardly shaped large parcel that gets in the way of your scales display, two solutions are: 1) put an object on top of the scales, reset to zero and then balance your parcel on top 2) alternatively, put your parcel directly on the scales, reset to zero and take off your parcel - the scales should then show a negative value indicating the weight

I was reading the posts as in jest (along with the rest of the thread) But since the first post had been intending to drop in a word to avoid the potential of someone one day reading posts in the manner of a downer (((( I was also in a bit of a grump this afternoon with lots of people interrupting my day today, and not achieving my planned stuff )))

I’m going to back up this guy who is filming, it’s minimal cringe up against anything else in airsoft - and particularly if he’s filming for personal use rather than running a YouTube channel he is not inflicting his footage on others Cameras are the lightest things that ever get put onto a gun. Try going back to head/gun cameras in the 90s, assuming that you don’t have rails taking weight with no attachments, nor light, laser, reactive / optical sights @Gunboat Diplomat If he is looking at hours of footage of shots dropping low, then he is seeing where his shots go and is using his footage to learn - unlike all those players who call out ‘cheats’ when their shots are falling away We are (mostly) grown up adults who like to go out and play games shooting each other Some like to dress up, some slap every gadget on their gear, some take a battered old gun dressed in t shirt and jeans For the multiple cameras, people generally start with a head mount (it’s actually the most stable mount as our body stabilises the head & brain) When you watch back head mounted footage you find two problems: A lot shows the tree or wall that you are peaking around, otherwise you discover how much you are moving your head around looking here and there (or you discover that you are blinkered staring ahead only and keep getting shot out by someone coming from one side) Next comes the barrel / rail mount (though some start with this) This shows what you are shooting at, but the rest of the footage is the sky and the ground A kicking mustang / YouTuber adds a barrel cam claiming that it gives close up footage, but they want the crosshairs & zoom to then edit on the hit effects For a third camera a reverse mount goes on the gun to show you as you aim - these get added by the YouTubers for edits, but may also be added because you’ve seen someone else do it Bodycams may get tried, but result in a blurry image of your gun blocking all views A occasional sighting back in the day was a third person view mounted on a pole coming out of the back of the players vest - these tended to be quite novel as if you were not dedicated to editing a third person story view then you would immediately discard it when you realise how inconvenient it is getting caught in branches, bushes, doors etc

One day it was alledgedly being awarded to Plantair, the next day Euan Blair Bearing in mind that Euans company Multiverse is a training company, and that all these so called contract awards are straight after the intent being announced the supposed reports could be a load of bollocks, and in this case just a convenient nepotism outrage headline based on being the son of the last Labour PM to propose an ID scheme

Note: I have had an association with Enola Gaye for many years, and they have sponsored our events, so I do have a bias towards them which is based on both their quality and their ethos They conduct a lot of product development, Dr John of Enola participated in the drafting of many of the EU standards, and we’ve seen / taken part in his batch testing (One of our guys was also blown up on camera by a different brand without the same level of QC on the production lines - no serious outcome thanks to his glove and eye protection) I’ve never used their ‘new’ ball grenade of that type, and had used the early types of pineapple BB grenades - they weren’t anything special, but ball grenades perform a function (that I’m not interested in - I prefer a flashbang with suitable rules such as CQB room kills, though as @mrtea notes - ball grenades are rollable (the early models I used back in deepest darkest history were not rollable) My real love is smoke. It’s pretty as well as effective (when used properly - which can get expensive) You would like the CM75/SD75 - everyone would, but they are not for the general public and are not suitable for normal people’s wallets The WD40s and the EG18/EG18X give the right level of smoke for normal people. Their baby brother the EG25 gives just enough in a small package, not really for cover in a game but a nice amount of smoke in a tighter area that won’t disperse too much or as a small signal colour Bangs do some very clever stuff in the range, without needing to go to silly amounts of bang just for volume. The mk5 as standard and some clever timing / packaging can make them perform very differently The main problem with pyro is the size of the wallet governing how much you can have

Are you sure that you can confirm that ? My team mates don’t need the Mrs to go out for that …… which reminds me of the head cam CQB room clearance footage we received on the team chat as he worked his way through the house tracking down his tango, and the look of disdain on her face when he found her sat on the sofa watching her soap

Waivers can’t stop a fraudulent claim, they show a signature that there is an understanding of the activity and agreement to comply with instructions

Risk assessments (and accompanying method statements), waivers and insurance all go together. An insurer will sell you an off the shelf package, but priced based on their risk assessment of the answers you give them Check out the series of videos that accompany this part one, it refers to paintball but covers multiple activities and gives the guidance of an insurer who is also a site/event manager. Bear in mind that blocking BBs from the neighbors is more than a barrier, you need to have distance plus barriers / netting etc - people will have BBs flying over the netting Ideally you need to have a buffer zone far enough to exceed BB range, then the net, then play a distance away from the net

Youve only gone and bought a goggle classic. There are obsessive collectors for the Flex/ProFlex series, and it’s a goggle design that the company have tried to develop & improve but players kept pushing back to older editions because it was a design that had been ‘right’ for a long time

Those funny Scottish people in skirts keep going on about their ‘fweedom’, but evey Orcadian knows that we would just have to fork up 100,000 crowns to pay back the King of Norways debt for which Orkney was handed over…… Less than £10, unless we’re generous as he was king of Norway and Denmark at the time, so if we use the Danish exchange rate its less than £15

The electrics are inside, and some electronics are coated these days (I don’t know whether any of the branded airsoft electronics benefit from coating) Unless your equipment is soaked it will be fine Wipe dry at any opportunity during the day, and make sure it’s dried off before storing afterwards

Quite interesting On an independence slant, don’t necessarily disregard the IRA - providing you look at the first Irish Republican Army which was the origin of the Free States army, then with Eire and now the Republic of Ireland - now known as the Defence Force Into the 90s they kept with simple olive green instead of migrating to disruptive camouflage patterns - largely due to the troubles avoiding border confusion with the British army, but have moved onto DPM - but with a different paddyflage colour pallette (The Rangers went DPM earlier in the 80s) Now they would be seen in their own variation of multicam ITMP - which has FF embedded in the pattern …. Worth a Google for general interest, but it’s not your target era, you could consider for a later 2020s ScotCam) In the 90s most army’s had a mix of plain green and camouflage patterns depending on the order of dress for what they were doing. Today the camouflage scheme is typically used for most forms of dress (there is interest in reverting to a barracks dress but MTP dominates all but dress uniform - and if your regimental dress code formally retained the green wooly pully as at the right date then it remains permitted but other regiments / corps it’s MTP with no wooly pully) Ireland and Scotland have very different histories with England Both have been subject to historic occupation with brutality, the handling of Catholics and migration (potato famine & the highland clearances being of note) But they have been on very different levels - it would depend on your alternative history backstory With a lesser ‘hatred’ level, and geographic position I would feel that an independent Scotland would not have remained neutral for the world wars - not just for the different England / Scotland situation but with close historic ties to France and constant ties with the Scandinavian countries Scotland was (and still is) essential to the UKs naval strategy, in the 1900s still had a solid ship industry - this declined post war and was reinvested in around the 60s/70s I could see a period of things being rocky after independence depending on how your story covers the seperation, but there’s scope for some time to WW1 and a definite alignment to their international allegiances for WW2 The North Atlantic situation would not allow for a neutral Scotland very long (I’ll mention Orkney & the other islands up there - us Orkney folks have a different mindset, an independent Scotland could have triggered a Norwegian realignment seoerating Orkney to its own independance, and if staying Scottish would have leapt in to support the Norwegians even if Scotland maintained neutrality - the Shetlanders are even more mental than Orcadians so would do the same) Going back to uniform schemes - starting off plain with a style pretty much the same as the British (units most likely to be the former British Scottish regiments with fresh badges) The situation could depend on whether it was a clean independence or a demarcation split such as Eire / Northern Ireland - but Scotland does not have the equivalent “English/protestant colony” - if there is a clean independence it would both ease the situation for a WW1 alliance and mean there is no (or minor) ongoing revolutionary action so may not be a need for border forces to be clearly distinct Into the 90s that could mean an adoption of a Scottish DPM - perhaps the same as the British, perhaps a JimmyCam colour scheme They may align with the Scandinavians for a pattern, all had some form of disruptive pattern (which could also differentiate from the British if necessary). Some in their own blobs, some in splinter or spots. Colours tended to aim towards their forest colours, which differ from Scotland’s environment I would still think of British DPM for the right environment other than a heather colour palette If allied with England then their expected Cold War field of battle would be Western Europe which keeps DPM / JimmyCam, but you could come up with a background story to ally with Norway etc and adopt theirs as a Cold War battle ground - but i think that it’s too bright for Scotland For weapons they would begin with the Lee enfield But moving on they could easily adopt Norwegian styles - both are hardy environments, Norway went down the HK & FN routes FN gives a choice between going British with the SLR or to not accept the single fire variant but the full auto FN, and an excuse to bypass the SA80 by rejecting to adopt it with early issues (Including or excluding the SA80 could tell quite a lot about the attitude on change to independance as to how friendly ties remained) To build a load out it is clearly a lot easier to adopt a base uniform and create your own badge designs Mix and match allegiances (I’m inclined on British DPM plus Norwegian accessories) The SLR edition could still make sense on doctrine of the single shot option due to the common English/Scottish military’s Have a look at the Irish Defence Force for differences / commonalities with the British for a bit of an independence story, and then look at Norwegian vs British loadouts of the 90s

You won’t want to read this about the ABA/UKARA player licence scheme proposal accepted by the Home Office resulting in the skirmisher defence https://www.popularairsoft.com/news/ukasgb-ukara-aba-proposal-vcr-bill

In that sense ‘it works’ Anything works if the seller accepts it Another retailer as above (no longer trading) had a tick box for buyers to declare their intent to play airsoft at insured sites - at least that related to the actual defence of playing airsoft There is no legal requirement that defines how a defence qualifies (the UKARA is in line with the proposals that the airsoft industry raised during VCR bill consultation, though airsoft never made it into the VCRA itself but as an add on via Statutory Instrument - it is up to the seller to satisfy themself in a manner that they would be happy with if they were ever subject to a VCRA prosecution Those behind JustCos have actually produced prosecution evidence themselves

Reserve cleats for good ground - they aid grip on the right surface but can grip too well and turn an ankle (Ive seen people run, turn and left their foot grip in place trying to go in a different direction) For variable surfaces it must be something with good ankle support, chunky soles help but as Lyndication noted deep sloppy mud is sloppy mud In my tournament photography days I wore astro football boots for astro turf (chosen by a football mum and turned out perfect on good turf) For grass I would use dedicated paintball cleats (actually close to golf shoes) with a range of changeable studs - they included asto studs but I never fitted those as football mums know best These were great on the grass and mud but the studs stabbed into the soles of my feet on the gravel paths For anywhere else boots are the right answer * I would not have spent money on those cleats, but a copyright infringement when a manufacturer publishes an advertising campaign using an uncredited meme of your photo works wonders for copyright compensation 😉

There is a shout out deserved by the bobbies involved Based on the date and proximity, the idiot will have been on his way to London AnimeCon at the Novotel, which would be a 45-50 minute walk from Chelsea & Westminster Hospital as referenced in the call, and Fulham Broadway not being on the shortest direct walk about 15 minutes from the hospital That 15 minutes has to have time deducted for the caller to have seen, mulled it over, thought that it’s not a real threat, but it does need to be reported - then call in, and for the control room to despatch, put the call out, CCTV to find and track etc They are not an armed response team, so unlikely to have been directed by CCTV (but may have had updates on the radio) With the match day they may have been crowd control, and acted either on other reports such as football fans telling them “there is a bloke with a gun over there” or just on sight themselves Perhaps also working on the principle that it looks like a dickhead dressed up, but still in need of controlling the firearm fast They put me in mind of the armed response officers body cam footage when he chose not to shoot when called to respond and a teen pulled an airsoft / BB pistol from his waist band and pointed it in the face of the police officer - with his brain fighting over “danger shoot now / it’s a kid” https://winter.londonanimecon.com

The point of JustCos is well established to be nothing to do with Comicon - the comicon that they listed as partnered bans RIFs The point of JustCos is to add an income stream and claims to provide insurance for claims of ‘scaring people’ - on that basis this individual would have a claim

Those are designed for the game, but don’t have any particular groin padding etc - just combat trousers etc I’d still recommend going for loose and baggy, once you’ve got some games in then you’ll have an idea what features you will want for your style Too many layers just add weight and heat retention, with the knock on effect of not knowing you’ve been shot Take away the layers and you’ll find that hits don’t hurt, and if you’re hit up close then it doesn’t last long The best protection from groin shots is to keep your groin away from barrel height, if you’re outside most shots are from people standing or knealt which should put hits from belly up - once at a distance when the BB drops over distance it’s losing velocity and energy

It does turn out that they have gone off to history like many smaller brands They would be worth it on a second hand buy (I sold mine, and though they were well abused they did the job and should be serving the new owner for a good while) The in thing has become skinny for those trendy young things The benefit of skinny is that there is less area to hit, which is more important in airsoft as a hit is a hit, whereas in paintball a non broken bounce is not a hit (unless in specific game types where bounces count) The thicker / soft padding in paintball being primarily to absorb energy and try not to break the ball, rather than avoiding pain The main brands remaining, unless the brand really focuses the ‘trendy’ fashion victims does tend to have at least one thicker option in the range — but will need checking out the photos and specs An option I forgot to mention is something like Anthrax paintball that sells theirs with your own design options, with off the shelf designs, partial custom (generally off the shelf with panels you can have printed) and fully custom (design your own colour scheme) I have a jersey from them in our own custom camouflage pattern, and their pricing doesn’t kill the wallet too much - if you do your own artwork there is no design fee, noting that some manufacturers have a set up fee which works out very little when kitting out a whole team but pricey for a small number https://www.anthraxpaintball.com/custom-paintball-pants

I don’t think that the most ‘modern’ designs go for as much padding with some trends towards ‘jogger’ style, and in some cases they may be less likely to advertise features as ‘padding’ due to some of the more serious tournament rule wording on clothing, eg you can wear two layers of clothing which includes counting the bounce vest and/or slide shorts - if it’s a thick quilted materiel on the trousers then that’s just hard wearing materiel and not extra soft padding to promote bounce rather than bursting paintballs My ‘best’ ones don’t appear to be on the market anymore, and at the time a few years back were highly pricey at £200+ or even more- but I didn’t pay that - I won a pair in a raffle. I also would not have chosen the colour scheme which was (supposed to be) very white but for me was promptly stained by dirt & grass They were low slung in the crotch, combined with thick quilted material plus a extra front panel to clip across and another internal crotch panel of foam like materiel Thick all over for general padding, extra layers at the crotch, stretchy in areas and didn’t let in the wet when Knealt on wet astroturf or muddy puddles No endorsement on any of the following but a search of the Laysick name should show a few similar looking designs with extra crotch, Angel can cover some old school designs, Dye, Empire & exalt have some handy ones but beware of too lightweight and joggers Anthrax can be useful, and if you can handle Photoshop you can get fully / partial custom design prints (Ask for templates, do your own design and unless you use their consultancy design they don’t much different to just buying new off the shelf https://www.anthraxpaintball.com/custom-paintball-pants