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Is this the Burnt Umber TA? Or some other car? If its the TA more pics please. That car and color are gorgeous.

*repeat info*

This the same OU with Bong Hill? My how times have changed.

 

OU - Pot - Kettle - Black

There's another thread on this with alot of responses and information.

 

Aside from looking that thread up I'll second Akula's statement: DO NOT go for the $300 per eye shop. DO NOT go cheap on your eyes. $3000 is NOT too much to spend on your eyes. After all you get one shot at this.

 

I went with TLC and am very pleased. My sister, dad, and wife have all had it done years ago (me just last year) - best thing you can do for yourself ever. But for god's sake don't go cheap.

Cat's are Darwin's Special Agents.

The cat

 

http://www.livescience.com/061017_ap_dog_fire.html

 

Cats rule.

Validity: most of the guys who play are ex or current military, police, ems, security, etc. The Army often uses airsoft equipment to train when its MOUT or woods environment where the ranges are shorter anyway, the army just placed another order for 1,000 or more Classic Army M4s to augment their MILES training systems. For me its a hoot because being ex Navy I never really got a chance to roll around in the mud and get dirty.

 

Cost: Yep. Stock. But with the amount of upgrades and accessories such I've probably got close to 2 grand in it. But support guns aren't cheap. $900 isn't even the top end - Inokatsu and VFC M60s cost more. On the other hand, you can get a completely competitive M4 or M16 or AK for ~$300 and never throw another dollar at it. Overall its still cheaper than paintball. But like any hobby you can dump as much money into it as you want. Or you could spend $1,500 on one of those paintball daffy duck monstrosities. Oh and before an Einstein chimes in and repeats the obvious that you could spend $800-$2,500 and pick up a "real steel" AR15 or bushmaster; Thats not the point. Many of us (ex or current military, police, ems, etc) have real steel equivalents, and a good lot of us enjoy milsim airsofting more than shooting our real steel at paper targets at the range. At this event a good quarter of the participants were active military coming out for the weekend. A few even were deploying to Iraq the next week. The gear weighs the same, they look the same, feel the same, and you can *use* them in the manner they're intended.

 

Its always funs having shooting range heros come out and handing their asses to them in the field. "Oh I'm sorry, did you need a shooting station and a couple seconds to line up your shot? Sure I'll wait for ya..." heh. Likewise its fun getting our asses handed to us by the active duty guys.

 

Hits: with your gear on you don't always feel it. It depends on how hot the gun is, but even so you don't always feel it if it hits gear. But you hear it, its a distinctive sound. Usually, unless something loud is happening at the exact moment you're getting lit up. Its a game of the honor system. And while that has some drawbacks, I also tend to think it has a positive affect in terms of the demographic of the type of person that comes and plays this. You don't get the asshats you do in say paintball. Some of the best sportsmanship I've seen in any game, of any kind, football, hockey, rugby, you name it, is at airsoft events.

 

Come out and play sometime at a decent local event (not something done at a rented paintball course). Warning - its addicting. You'll soon find yourself passing on that new CAI for another MP5SD...

They're not just showing off - that's their mission profile, low approach. I saw some Tornados in there. Couple tidbits: they're often actually not stick-on, much of that the plane is flying itself using NAP capability (radar, altimeters + really fast avionics software). Check the guy looking at his map while the plane flies itself 10ft off the ground. Also they train in the southwest US alot, but fair good chunk of that footage is from DS 1. As cool as it is, the UK low level Tornado pilots suffered much higher casualty and plane loss rates than the US and UK sorties following high-profile flight path tactics.

 

Sweet video.

Thats Ft Knox. Its a once-per-year event. But other events are happening elsewhere all year round, local and national. That one, Irene, has gotten to the point where its almost invite-only, the slots go so fast. You pretty much have to be on a team thats already gone to get in (I was lucky enough to get invited by a team when their support gunner couldn't attend). But other events are wide open.

 

We were in constant radio communication. Our Squad at least. Can't speak for everyone else. I personally wasn't hitting the radio much since I was the support gunner and so was always in visual or earshot of my fireteam leader: just a grunt, tell me where to go and lay down suppression.

 

The people in green were side Delta, led by MSgt "Mad" Max Mullen (ret) who wrote the hand-to-hand combat handbook for the Rangers, the people in tan were side Charlie led by (ret) Colonel Danny McKnight (yes that McKnight, of the mission the movie Blackhawk Down was based on - he was played by Tom Sizemore in the movie). Both teams had to enter the city and accomplish certain objectives. Day 1 we were opposing each other as well as insurgents and indigenous. Day 2 we were allied.

 

Hit rules vary by event - it depends on the host. For this event: you're hit, you call out, sit down, put on your "death rag" (red rag) and wait 5 minutes. You can call for medic. You can be moved by a teammate to a medic. If a medic gets to you in 5 minutes you can be "healed" by them applying a bandage to your arm - they have a limited supply, 6 I think, when out they're out. If you're hit then again anytime later while wearing the bandage its immediate "kill" - you immediately leave the AO, go to your FOB or CP, drop off your bandage, and "respawn" and are allowed to re-enter the AO. Only medics can bring new bandages into the AO. Other events vary these rules.

 

That was the most fun $175 I've spent ever. It was also very draining. Even hydrating well (I drank almost 4-5 gallons of water that weekend) and eating like a horse I dropped 7lbs. Its was 48 hours of almost constant running with about 65lbs of gear on. ALOT of fun.

My cleared-for-release helmet cam footage from Irene 4.

 

About 30 minutes. No music, simple editting. Just combat and sounds.

Video is in chronological order of the weekend though of course with gaps.

Due to rain in the afternoon Saturday I stowed my camera for the later Sat scenarios. And I didn't capture night op footage.

 

It ramps up in action as you watch so shouldn't get boring. Tried to get a decent cross section of activity thru event. The town gets progressively more chaotic as it goes on, and the explosions get impressive (even being inside buildings during them). so put on some good headphones or crank up the speakers - especially around 20minutes in and on. Also, someone might notice I switched from an M249 MkII to an M249 Para halfway thru since I burned my MkII out and had to fall back to the spare.

 

Hopefully I'll get a hosting location for the file for folks to download and not deal with google streaming and compression.

 

Support Gunner Striker Delta footage - Irene 4

 

Comments welcome

You know - as much as I should want an OSU vs Mich title game I really would rather prefer an OSU vs USC or hell even a MICH vs USC title game. Why? Because I'd want to watch a midwest team kick the living shit out of those pansy ass California sucktard girliemen. And yeah I lived in CA for 8 years so I know what I'm talking about. West coast football is to midwest college ball as figure skating is to hockey.

There were some M113s, a couple M60 tanks, and one Striker, but no Bradleys, alas. Oh and also a blackhawkavan....

Airsoft Event. It was on Oct 1st weekend but the pics are just getting posted.

 

http://gallery.freas.net/list.php?exhibition=6&u=54&ee_lang=eng

 

There's some footage already getting posted, but its mostly lame so far, and I'll have my helmet cam footage (which is decidely not lame) up as soon as I get the release from Zussman staff at Ft Knox.

 

A kickass weekend overall.

apparently not quick enough

Just keep yourself cool in social situations and you’ll be fine. Find something else to do to keep your mind off of it.

Make bad passes at strange women. It gives you something to do to keep yourself occupied while your friends smoke and the slaps across the face are like a bonus distraction.

You can do it. My wife quit cold turkey. Ten years later and she hasn't had a single cig since.

 

You've got it right about the drinking: social situations will be the toughest. At those times just take it one hour at a time. Every hour is a victory.

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is in critical condition in hospital after a crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the program.

 

Apparently it was going 280mph and theres been rumours on some other forums that he's possibly dead, havn't found any evidence of that yet though, either way, not so good.

 

Full story here:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/5365676.stm

"Cats are half in, half out..."

RWD solid axle ftw

My godmother was Pearl Bailey. I did the third to last trap landing on the USS Lexington (in an A4 that was retired the same week). I've sat in the Commander's seat of the Columbia. I designed the first pass orbital approach plan to Mercury for the D.O.S. Amigos mission (cancelled). And I've crossed the international date line 7 times, which means I'm living in your tomorrow. Woooo. Oh, and I'm sure I've flown a lot more places than 10xworse, easy.

 

EDIT: I'm also incredibly immature for my age as I'm posting this here

Noses come and go... and still they're holding on to that butt ugly intake on the hood.

 

Hoover called - they want their design back.

Old. But she's still a moron. If you've only got 2 chains and need steering as well - one on driver's side front, one on driver's side rear.

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But the one from November '04 loses it's points in a week

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How's that?

Somewhere along the way here, I missed where, this changed from "I was speeding but so was everyone else" to "I was not speeding". What did I miss?

Re: the building to building thing. You people need to watch more Penn and Teller. They showed all this over a decade ago.

 

Angel is being suspended from a crane and everybody, *everybody*, from the camera men to the "witnesses" is in on the gig. Never, ever, trust something presented on TV. Everything you see is potentially staged.