Strangely Walmart of all places;) I was looking around for a toy or something interesting last week when we were in town. I saw some backpacks with toy guns and I thought that was a little lame but alright. Started looking for squirt guns and things like that he would get a kick out of but couldn't find anything I thought he could run well etc. Since he has a bit of trouble with the trigger pull or how much pressure it takes so I was looking for something decently built with a light trigger but didn't find much. Well making another lap near the backpack/gun combo's in ACU I saw behind them an OD plate carrier type of rig with a backpack as well;) And at that point I knew it would be his, since it was just too cool;)

The mag pouches are too small for anything but maybe pistol mags in real life to give an idea of scale. But it came with a little rubber kabar knock off and two grenades as well. The grenades fit in the pockets and I might make a sheath for the knife for him to mount on the strap;) I'm thinking about making a small 3 point sling setup for the gun, as well I'll likely take and mask the muzzle so it stays orange and paint the rest of the gun with an OD base with some camo on top of that just to make it cooler;)

He's also got a 1911 that I had as a kid which is like 60% scale and just clicks the hammer on each trigger pull DAO like. Which he's got a holster for out of my misfit items from the shop, and once he's a little older I've got an anniversary NRA BB pistol revolver that is the same size as a Colt Single Action. But it's going to wait until he's older and capable of handling it, not that it shoots hard enough to be very dangerous but still.

One thing I'd like to find and haven't looked for is what I think of as the genesis to airsoft. I had little BB pistols as a kid they were orange and the BB's came on a sheet with little connecting pieces. Basically you tore the BB's off the sheet and they were shot/thrown from the gun with a little spring loaded arm basically that physically hit the BB to fling it out of the barrel, they were accurate to about 4 feet but they were really not dangerous and would be a good start to him and his cousins playing with projectile firing items;) I thought about nerf but I can't justify the expense of the darts with how many they will loose. If I can find some of the little guns like I had I'm pretty sure they will fire airsoft BB's, and dirty or not won't matter with the way they were built. So they could run around my yard and shoot any of the thousands of BB's that are all over around the house and have virtually unlimited ammo;)

Luke

Guys if you notice you don't have mod status say on a sub forum that you did have before just shoot me a note and I'll fix it. We've gone through and done most of them at least with who is active still but I'm sure there are some that I missed here and there so if you notice your missing your mod status in some portion of the forum you had before I can fix it for ya.

Take care!

Luke

Just didn't notice and no one asked;) So I just fixed it for ya, if you run into other stuff like this just post it here since I've got it bookmarked so I can see when someone posts and I won't miss it;)

http://www.miairsoft.org/index.php?topic=60.0

Take care!

Luke

I'll take a look tomorrow on the computer and see what I can figure out for ya.

Sure planned on doing that when I build the next version which will be prettier version more of a final version.

Looking good sir;)

Luke

Another update of experiences. My Sniper rifle bar the spring problem I mentioned in another thread is shooting very consistently at up to around 100 yards now I'm quite happy with it. Though I did tear things apart and work over the hopup area again and managed to correct a hooking problem. I had a little burr of rubber on the rhop that started hooking right after a while. I might not have broken the edge of the patch well enough before installing it. Either way that corrected and with little wind it's working very well.

One thing I've noticed that I don't recall if I mentioned above, the effect of rhop seems to be a more gradual hop effect. With an ordinary bucking I find when you overhop that it goes over a short range very high up. With rhop it's more gradual and as a result I'm finding a touch of overhop will gain a fair bit more range than how I used to adjust hopups in the past. Just a touch, not jumping up high and dropping just a gradual increase above line of sight. It also allows me to hit longer shots without huge amounts of hold over.

My m14 still isn't consistent enough for me, mostly because my m4 with nearly the same barrel length is significantly more consistent. I believe it's the barrel though, I have an unknown 6.02 steel barrel in the M14 which I think is causing the inconsistency. One of these days I'll swap it with the M4 barrel and see if the groups tighten up accordingly. Right now the M4 is able to fairly consistently hit the 75 yard mark on the chair and the groups with .25's are surprisingly good. The amazing thing about that to me is that the sniper rifle really almost requires the 43g's to reach out well to those ranges but the M4 seems capable even with the lighter weight cheaper ammo. I'm going to have to test allot more to see what's going on exactly but it's interesting.

So currently I'm a bit of an rhop believer in the sense that I do see some things that it seems to do better than a standard bucking. It's got quirks though as well, right now my m4 for some reason will overhop like crazy once in a blue moon. No idea what's causing it at the moment, once it starts shooting properly it stays that way for a long time. Seems to be more when it's cold bore just starting out lacking a better term. So I'm going to have to look into that and see if maybe the patch has come loose from the barrel window or something.

Either way I'm seeing longer range consistency than I've found with other options and after much trial and lots of error I seem to have mostly figured out the installation pretty well. I'm still planning on installing some rhops in shorter barreled guns just haven't had the time to fiddle with them much lately. I will say my results say there is no reason an rhop can't work with light weight ammo. I've got all of mine to where no hop is no hop, and I can run any normal weight .20g or above without adverse effects. So it's all about making sure the patch doesn't enter the barrel to insure it doesn't overhop lighter weight BB's. I will say it's touchy getting just a very little bit of hopup on lighter weights since they overhop so easily but it does work fine once you get it set.

Either way thought guys might be interested in hearing how it's going so far.

Take care!

Luke

So guys I've got a fairly simplistic question I've never owned anything MOLLE based so no pouches or anything. Back in the day I ran my Blackhawk Omega one vest that I've had long enough that it was still made in the US:) Problem is that it's black and while it's functional it's very easy to spot and always has been. When I bought it OD wasn't available so it was the option that worked at the time and I got a great deal on it. Now though years later I'm looking into getting some of this newer modular gear. Likely I'll buy a little at a time until I have a full setup that works for me. But I'll admit I'm a little bit leery of what I'd like to do since I've never had the flexibility of putting things where ever I'd like so I don't have a good grasp of what I want where.

So the other thing is as always I'm looking for bargain basement pricing, unfortunately my airsoft budget just isn't what it used to be years ago with all my other responsibilities and sometimes I'm just trying to buy enough BB's to keep playing;) So I'm looking for bang for the buck and something I'm not going to be disappointed in the quality of the rig. Could be a plate carrier, or a chest rig I'm not really sold one direction or the other but reasons to go one way or the other to help decide would be appreciated. From what I gather chest rigs are a little lighter and more nimble. Also the field I've been playing at lately is more close quarters it's outdoor but the engagements are typically 50ft. or so and the rounds tend to be much shorter than what I'm used to. So I'm finding myself carrying a couple mags out rather than a full vest worth of gear, which is another reason I'm thinking modular might make more sense right now, I can scale up or down depending on needs.

So here is one I've had my eye on, http://www.evike.com/products/46979/

Reason primarily is price, as well it looks fairly solid and from my eye the pouches are removable. So I should be able to change things and remove things to switch it up along with adding more pouches if I need to. I do have a question though, what purpose does the buckle in the center do? I can't seem to figure out if it actually serves some purpose or not.

So input on all fronts would really be appreciated, I've been reading reviews and digging into things some but I get the impression that the vast majority of the stuff I've read is "this is the best thing ever because it's the first vest I've ever seen!", rather than a good review of how the gear stacks up against what else is available particularly in the price point. I'm willing to go up some on price, I'm sure I will but I'd like to stick with gear that I can keep on using on pouches and whatnot.

Also color, right now I'm planning on swapping over towards OD on everything, in my mind it should work with just about any camo pattern I'm likely to use which makes allot more sense than the black I've got now. Since I do really like swapping camo patterns frequently. I'm not looking for any particular impression, just something functional more than anything that will go fairly well with my guns/gear.

Thanks guys input is very much appreciated. Also if someone has a good link to a primer of sorts of info on this thing I'd be more than happy to dig through it. For whatever reason my google skills are very much lacking in digging out the type of info I've been looking for.

Take care!

Luke