Another riveting episode of Ask Umpota!!!
Friday, January 29, 2010Big_Grand, from the Illinois Airsoft forums, writes with this question:
In a game is home made gear ok to use? like would I be looked down on if I used duct tape pouches or anything like that?
Well, Big_Grand, I have been known to make my own gear from time to time, whether it is the trucker girl bandolier, or the masterful tactical codpiece, I have never been looked down on for my brilliant inventions.
However, duct tape? Using duct tape to make your own pouches makes about as much sense as a football bat. I will definitely look down on you, probably because you are about the age of 12. If you’re going to make your own gear, at least put more than 2 minutes and 3 dollars into it. Use a T-shirt and sew pockets into it, take a camera pouch, or best yet, go to the surplus store and buy your stupid ass a cheap surplus M16 ALICE pouch, and attach that to your belt, which also should not be made out of duct tape.
RB Gear and Uniform Rules
Tuesday, October 27, 2009Heres what you need to have at a minimum.
1) Load Bearing Gear in Coyote Brown or Khaki. Whatever you want, as long as it carries your mags somehow. Doesnt have to be expensive, just something.
check www.skdtac.com or www.blackhawk.com or whatever…. post up questions and well help you find it as cheap as possible.
2) At least 2 quarts of carryable water. You can have two canteens, a camelback, a whatever… but gotta have water,
google camelback… just make sure you get the “coyote brown” color.
3) A radio that works, FRS.
http://www.google.com/products?q=frs+radio&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7DKUS_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=uX6tSZ7aKNSPmQfpu-WfBg&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
(youll prolly need something to hold it on your gear too… fyi
4) Tan top and Green Top. With required patches
http://www.bdu.com/tacu-coats.html , http://www.1starmy.com/viewproduct.asp?productno=6522
5) Sheriff Brown BDU pant
http://www.bdu.com/bdu-pants.html , http://www.bdu.com/tacu-pants.html
6) boots of some kind that cover your ankle
7) bug spray
8) Pistol (due to the fact that the CAA games will have no bang kills, and all shots within 30 feet will be taken with pistols, you might want to have one, springers work just fine, for this since you will be close enough not to miss anyhow… you dont have to have ultimate stuff… just something that throws a bb more then 20 feet.
9) A working AEG. Seriously.
Automatic Electric Gun.
10) Mid caps or low caps. No Hi Caps allowed at CAA events… and thats the way the rest of the fields are going around here anyhow.
http://www.airsoftpost.com/100rds-midcap-magazine-series-airsoft-p-25388.html
11) full seal eye protection
examples : http://www.airsoftarms.com/TSD-Tactical-G2-Safety-Goggles , http://www.copsplus.com/prodnum6150.php
Ask Umpota
Monday, October 26, 2009Response to:
i gots me a quick question?
well my friend is wanting me to spend some money on pouches, but im skeptical… im a serious “go wit what ur wearing person” so i wont be buying any vest or spit like that.
anyway this is my idea
do u think that taping two mags 2gether is stupid? i mean it sound resonable. u tape 2 to each other, then when first runs out, can quickly flip it over(i have done this and it works beutifully, but friends are pissed about it.(mostly only works wit AK’s)
has anyone else ever done this and if so did it work out well, and if not dont tease me
http://www.illinoisairsoft.com/index.php?topic=5941.0
Well Chatty Cathy,
First off, are you uncertain that you gots’d you a quick question? My answer to that would be no, it was a rather long question with a pitiful explanation.
I understand your plight, I am also a ‘”go wit what ur wearing person”. There’s just so many “Go with what you’re not wearing” people in airsoft today. It seems like it’s needlessly painful and could result in poison ivy in sensitive areas.
Taping 2 mags together has worked rather well in the cruel streets of Liberia, where highly trained Liberian marksmen use their finely crafted lethal skills to shoot over their heads. As we all know, Liberian Combat Tactics is the pinnacle of L33T.
Please see the attached photos as proof of this concept.
Since it does work, I will now tease you.
You’re a stupid little child. Your cheap walmart springers are useless. You will never amount to anything.
Who We Are
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Renegade Bloc was formed in 2002 to mirror former western bloc militaries by tactics. It was deemed from the start that we would be more a social group then an airsofting group and most of our members take part in activities outside of airsoft more often then inside of it… but I digress.
We have as a rule over the years not recruited but rather waited until people approached us. Our philosophy is simple, have fun on our days off. We aren’t trying to be elitists however we know and understand that our little RB world is a tight knight buncha retards that is just basically happy, and having the right additions at the right time makes all the difference in the world.
Now for those of you that don’t know, strangely enough, we are pretty damn tactical. But traditionally if a game is going too slow for our liking, look for one of our compassioned experienced players to order a screaming death charge. Like I said, having fun on our days off… in the airsoft world, death charges are a ball. Especially when some fool turns around to me and says “you guys should google tactics and then you’ll know what to do.” I mean damn… we didn’t even have AEG’s, we had sticks in our hands and ran at a gun nest.
Which goes to show you, sometimes people are too damn serious.
Well that’s not us.
Oh yea, back to tactical. You might hear from other teams “well this guy is a special forces operative, this guy killed mofos in Iraq, this guy works for the NSA and kills people on the weekends” and that might be how they recruit you. Lets just say we got that too, but that’s not what were all about. We do this for fun and we keep it that way. We don’t yell at each other in the parking lot about who’s the master Sgt and who’s just a regular Sgt (which is something I’ve seen recently) we don’t have any problems, and we are a fluid unit that bonded together because were actually friends rather then some fools screaming about “THIS ISN’T MIL-SIM!!!!!”
We don’t do that Crap.
RB will just get you beyond drunk, throw you in a van Old School style, keep you up drinking for 24 hours then randomly drop you off at your house wearing some type of “Crap happens when you party naked” t-shirt. With luck, and if we have the room in the van, there may be a shopping cart involved, and pictures given to your wife or girlfriend. Actually, I’m lying, your wife or girlfriend had better be there taking the pictures while we drink.
Were the only team around with an Umpota. Which is all you need in most instances to 1) storm castles, 2) win objectives 3)hand out custom made RB death cards, 4)take whole teams hostage in the opening minutes of games and 5) carry a tactical pony keg on his back during the game.
And in case your wondering… we have 25 people on our roster, but we strive to have 1/3 of our guys in the field when we mobilize for an event due to life and such. (I’ve got 3 deployed at the moment, kinda hard to tell them to come out and play, and cant tell college kids in Michigan to drive down when gas is 4 bucks a gallon etc.)