me and my new gear

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This photo was taken on saturday, just at the end of our game. You can see here how the MP5K PDW with folded stock fits under my ALICE. If I think of a way of securing it there (to prevent from moving), I might carry it there all the time, while using another gun, i.e. M15. :)

As you can see I am dressed in a flecktarn parka and polish WZ50 helmet.

MP5K PDW tested today

The test went well. The replica shoots at similar distance as other guns, so I'm not disappointed. It fits nicely under my ALICE belt and left suspender. I fired about 200-400 BBs, the battery didn't make any troubles. The folding stock looks and works very nice, but when it's folded it's a bit difficult to handle the front grip. Especially in warm winter gloves... :)

The gun is short enough to hold it like a pistol, with one hand. It's to heavy to do it all the time, but I don't think I'll have to do this more frequent than once every quarter. ;)

the MP5K PDW at home :D

Today I went to work on 9.AM. At noon I called guys from Machinegun.pl (the internet airsoft shop I mentioned here), they gave me the directions to the place where we could meet. I went there, paid them, got the replica and went back to work.

Now my new, prescious, submachinegun lies next to me, on my desk. I like the replica very much, it looks awesome, though it has plastic, not metal body. I thought it's smaller and I can fit it easily under my jacket, but was wrong. It fits there, but the jacket looks weird then.

I must say that Tokyo Marui did a very fine job making this MP5K PDW. Tomorrow I'll test it in our 'christmas' asg game (actually it'll be in just 9:30 hours from now). And on sunday we are going to shoot at my favorite place -- one of old buildings of Ursus tractor factory. :)

The proud, but not happy, owner of 3 AEG replicas...

Today I went to a bank to cash my cheque from AdSense. I took also money from my bank accounts. I went home and ordered the desired MP5K PDW replica by Tokyo Marui. I phoned the guys from the internet shop, I'll meet them tomorrow and get the gun.

Yesterday started an auction on which I want to sell my M15A2 Classic Army replica. I want to sell it and buy G36 (CA) instead. Or some sniper rifle, I didn't decide yet. I paid for the entire set (replica, mount, second magazine, scope) a bit less than 300$, I want to sell it for about 400$. That's the starting price I set. If noone will want to buy it, I will then put it on an auction starting from 370$, 350$ and so on... So it will probably take time to sell this gun.

And half an hour ago a friend of mine called me on instant messenger to announce me that his colleague will not buy my old MP5 SD3 (ICS) replika. The guy has my gun, has paid me 30$ (I wanted 250$ total) and now says that he doesn't want the gun. But he's so generous not to want the 30$ back.

So on saturday I will probably have three replicas. On saturday I'll meet with that friend, he'll give me back my MP5 SD3. He said that he'll think about buying that gun from me, I guess he feels a bit guilty because of all this. I hope that he'll decide to buy it. ;)

So I might say that I'm now an owner of three aisoft electric replicas. Proud, because I never thought that I'll be able to have more than one AEG and one gas pistol. Not happy, because I'd prefer to have money instead of the second MP5. And want to change that M15 for a G36.

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Photos from visit in CHP Plant in Pruszków

Well, the place we went today is rather abandoned. It was left built in say 40% (few empty buildings and a stack) and now for about 15 years nothing happens there. The only person there is a guard at the gate. Friendly one. :)

We spend three hours wandering around, most of the time inside the building in which (I guess) boilers were ment to be installed. The building is about 14 floors high (each floor is 22 stairs high), the stairway has total of 308 stairs -- assuming one stair is 6 in. (15 cm) high, the building's roof is at a height of about 45 meters (150 ft.).

We wanted to take a look into the stack from the bottom to see how the top end will look like, but the stack has two large pipes inside for flue gasses so we couldn't se a thing.

You can see the photos from this exploration at http://lis.dyndns.info:45454/pliki/foto/pruszkow/moje/index.htm.
The site is hosted by my home Apache server, so sometimes (say...for few days in month) is inaccessible. Most of the time the computer and web server are online, this week I had to restart my computer after it was online for 14 days in a row, without reloading of the operating system.

To save you time -- if you can see here () a green dot, the server is online and accessible.

need money? get a job!

I like to visit my favorite internet airsoft dealer and putting to the shopping cart what I'd want to have someday. Yesterday I thought about buying a MP5k PDW replica. The gun itself costs about 280$ (including battery, I have three chargers so I don't need another one), but I'd like to have it made silent. Silencer (sound suppressor), silent set of cylinder and piston heads, tight nozzle, spring guide with bearings, motor with ball bearings, helical gears -- the same set I mentioned few days ago.

All the gear I'd like to buy costs about 650$. That's not the money I have on me all the time. Though if two of my coleagues paid me back the cash they owe me, I'd be almost able to buy it. But I don't like spending my savings -- I have better goals for saving money. I'll need to repaint my car next spring / summer, buying another replica is not the most important goal. :)

This semester I got scholarship from foundation "Power Engineering For It's Own And Future Good" (that's probably not the way it should be translated, but makes sense and shows what the foundation is about), a bit less then 100$ a month for five months. But I promised my girlfriend that I'll keep the money and spend it when I move from home to live with her. So I can't use this cash to buy anything in the next few years.

The only way for me to get money pretty fast is to get myself a job. Working is very distant idea for me, I'd prefer not working for my entire life, rather have some passive source of income. But in this circumstances I must find something... :)

I'll probably change my mind long before I will earn the money I need, so then I'll have to find some way of spending it. But that's better than knowing how to spend and not having the money. ;)

Every government has it's idiot(s)...

Our minister of national defence (something like secretary of defense in U.S.) decided that no non-soldier is allowed to wear polish military clothing. This way my field jacket mark 93 is no longer legal and I can't wear it in public, since I'm not a soldier. Now it's only a rag, though it costed me more than 30$.

There seems to be a good solution to that nonsense -- to alter that jacket a bit. Removing one or two pockets (I don't use all three pockets on the sleeves so two of them will probably be removed) and / or changing buttons to a different colored ones will make it just an ordinary jacket, that doesn't comply to "field jacket mark 93" description.

Our army sell much surplus clothing very cheap. Now they will have to do it even cheaper, who will buy a rag for more than 1$?

Some cool airsoft stuff to buy

Yesterday I went through website of best polish airsoft replicas / stuff supplier. I was looking for parts that'd allow my M15 Classic Army replica to shoot silent, e.g. silencer, helical gears, engine with ball bearings, precise barrel and "quiet" piston / cylinder heads. The set I'd like to buy costs about 300$. I paid for my gun about 220$, so I believe I won't buy that set in near future.

Unless my AdSense revenue will grow faster than I am afraid it'll do.

You don't need to stand...

...to fire a replica. You can sit as well. :)

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Photo taken today at Łomianki.

If it was saturday, we surely played airsoft

As usual, saturday is the day of our weekly airsoft games. This time we also visited Fort Chrzanów. The weather was very nice, warm 18°C (64°F), sun, light breeze (enough to cool you when it's necessary but not enough to change the BBs' trajectories).

I tested my new outfit, the parka in flectarn camouflage I bought about two weeks ago. This camouflage was developed by German army. Because Germany lies next to Poland and we have similar climates and vegetation, this camo does it's job nice in polish forests. I also have helmet covered with a cloth with the same camo and a piece of camouflaged in woodland net masking, which I use to cover my rifle.

On the right you can see how those three elements blend into surroundings. I am very satisfied with the results. We'll see how it works during summer or spring, when grass and leaves are green, not brown, yellow and red like now.

If you'd like to take a look at the photos one of us made today, I suggest going to my airsoft photo web server.

Fort Chrzanów -- where we played airsoft this saturday

I forgot to write something about the place of our last airsoft game. We met at so called "Fort Chrzanów", one of many ground fortifications that surround Warsaw. Well...they used to surround it, now they're inside the city boundaries. The place consists of few small hills, one long building, partly destroyed. This building has entries only from one side and many rooms, it's not much but better this than nothing.

I think that one image is worth more than a thousand words, so I'll show you few photos from the site. First of all -- take a look at a page from website about Warsaw fortifications. You can find there few photographs of this place (they were taken few years ago I guess, the place looks now...cleaner (now you won't find there so much toilet paper)), map of this fort (taken from Warsaw city map) and aerial photo. The latter looks VERY NICE, especially when you also take a look at this fort in Google Maps. I can't tell when they were made, so I don't know how to understand the differences between them.

A bit about marking "dead" players in airsoft

In Warsaw there is an agreement that a player that was hit by somebody is considered dead. For his own good he should mark himself properly, otherwise he can be mistaken with somebody alive and get shot again. It is also important for the gameplay, so the shooter will know that he shot him and he can find himself another target.

How the guy can identify himself as corpse? By rising his hand high enough and shouting "I'm dead" or by waving with a piece of red cloth. I wear the cloth on my helmet, makes no difference. On the right you can see how I look when I was hit.

Why I write about it? Because today one of my enemies shot me few times when I looked exactly like this. I have no idea what got into him, what thoughts shown in his empty mind. Of course I got so angry that I shot him with a series of BBs myself. He started to shout that I can't fire at him because I am dead. Of course he was right, but it was not him who killed me. After this I explained him with few short furious words what happened.

The guy is mentally handicapped. He shoots his teammates, cheats (doesn't feel hits or feels them but says that he wasn't hit) and now this.

Airsoft explained III - the Hop Up

In this episode of "Airsoft explained" we'll discuss the magic caused by the "Hop Up" system. HU is a part of most airsoft replicas, you would not want to buy one without it.

As you know, a stone thrown horizontally after a moment hits the ground because of gravity. The same goes to airsoft BBs. Hop Up was designed to somehow balance the gravity and allow the BBs to travel horizontally on a longer distance. This device uses the Bernoulli's principle.

What is the mysterious Hop Up system? It's a small device placed at the end of a barrel, next to the clip. It consists of a rubber 'gasket' and a mechanism to adjust it (which I'll describe later). This rubber 'gasket' has tubular shape, and in one place inside has relatively thicker spot. The rubber is placed on a barrel (the spot goes into the hole on a barrel). When a BB goes through the barrel it touches this thicker spot which causes it to rotate.

Before I write anything more I suggest opening the page airsoftclub.ru/FAQ/hopup in a separate browser window. I'll explain everything referring to images at the bottom of that article.

The first image shows the BB fired from a replica with HU. It translates and rotates at the same time. Because this rotation means different relative velocities between upper and lower semispheres of the BB, the slight pressure difference occurs. This pressure difference balances the gravity, as in airplanes. You can see how the HU is installed on the barrel (and the schematics of a gearbox) on the images no. 5 and 6.

Because BBs are manufactured in different weights, a good replica must have an adjustable hopup. By adjusting the depth the rubber spot goes into the barrel you can change the speed of rotation fo the BB fired. This way you can adjust HU to stabilise the flight of BBs with different weights.

ASG basics part II -- the mechanics

Today I'll try to explain the hows and whys about airsoft replicas' insides. I'll start with the easiest -- gas guns.

First, excerpt from Wikipedia's "Airsoft" article.

Gas-powered airsoft guns use pressurized gas to propel pellets. These guns are capable of automatic and semi-automatic operation. The most common gases used are propane (usually referred to as "green gas" by airsoft players) and HFC134a refrigerant. Less commonly used gases include CO₂ and nitrogen.

Gas-powered airsoft guns are somewhat gas-fueled. I mean that gas is pressurized outside of the gun, and is only released from gas container after trigger is pulled. The hammer hits the valve hard enough to open it, gas flows to the barrel and the BB is propelled. Nothing more. In winter valves like to freeze (decompressing gas causes a temperature drop). Some of the gas-fueled guns have so called "blow-back" system -- it is a mechanism (also powered by gas from container) that moves the slide or bolt to simulate the "real steel" gun operation and to create recoil.

Now, the spring guns. They're the cheapest, but the schematics of its operation is bit more difficult to explain. The mechanism of this gun creates the compressed air on its own, inside the gun. Imagine a syringe in which you have a piston attached to the spring. When you compress the spring you suck the air inside the syringe. After you release the spring the piston moves very fast and creates a flow of compressed air through the nozzle. The operation of a spring powered airsoft gun is very similar. The spring is of course compressed by the shooter (there's a mechanism that allows to do it with the same movement like while reloading a firearm).

The airsoft electric guns (AEG) also have spring, piston and cylinder. But this time the piston is moved by an electric motor, with the use of so called "gearbox". You pull the trigger, the engine starts and rotates the gears (three of them), the last one pushes the piston causing the spring compression. In the proper moment the piston is released. The rest is as in the spring gun. The only difference is that in this case most guns have fullauto option, allowing to fire up to 600 or more BBs per minute.

What is ASG (part I)?

Because two days ago we had our weekly airsoft game (not a very succesful one, to be honest) I want to start today a series of post which will explain -- what is a ASG, Air Soft Gun.

First let's take a part of definition of airsoft from Wikipedia:

Airsoft is a term used interchangeably to refer to one or both of the following subjects:

• A military or law enforcement simulation sport in which players participate in mock combat with military-style mock weapons and tactics,
  
• 1:1 (or sometimes 'minis' or 3/4) scale models of real firearms, with a typical example firing 6 mm or 8 mm spherical, solid plastic BBs of usually 120, 200, or 250 milligrams, with propulsion for the projectile provided by manually compressed springs, electric motors, or compressed gas.

So... this explains what I mean when I write ASG. I don't exactly know why it is called airsoft -- probably because of two reasons: the bullets (BBs) are propelled by compressed air (in spring or electric guns) or gas (in CO2 / Green Gas guns), and the effects of hits are somehow "soft". Of course you'll have bruise in the point where bullet hits you, but the bruise will be the size of a mosquito bite. Of course without protective glasses you'll probably get eye damage with enough bad luck. BB marks on face are also not nice, that's because I wear a face mask. :)

How does the air get compressed and differences between the most popular gun designs (spring, gas, electric) -- next time, hopefully -- tomorrow.

Me, my gun, my gear

This is a photograph made yesterday at our ASG playsite. Of course I am the guy standing at the photo. You can see my equipment -- rifle, helmet (metal polish helmet mk 1950 painted black), BDU jacket, ripstop, olive (was olive, faded to lighter colour, you can see the difference on the left sleeve), M-65 olive trousers and a face mask. You can also see that I carry ALICE -- a belt, suspenders, two M16 magazine pouches and a canteen.

The photo was taken in some kind of abandoned factory, right now in that place there are many plants so it looks something like a jungle inside a large building. Very nice place to play ASG games.

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