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General Off-Topic Discussion / Noveske Rifleworks & FPSRussia
« on: January 14, 2013, 02:15:37 PM »
"On Friday, January 4, the owner of Noveske Rifleworks, 36-year-old John Noveske, was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 260 in Oregon."

"Only a day earlier, the lifeless body of 32-year-old Keith Ratliff was found at FPS Industries in Franklin County, Ga., just outside of Carnesville. He had been shot once in the head, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation."

http://www.examiner.com/article/two-gun-makers-killed-two-days-and-no-answers

Just thought I would share...

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Airsoft Items WANTED / M4/M16 Metal Body
« on: January 02, 2013, 02:27:53 PM »
Looking for a spare, black M4/M16 metal body, with parts intact (mag catch, selector switch, etc).

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Real Firearms / Synthetic Motor Oil as a Gun Lubricant
« on: September 06, 2012, 11:34:44 AM »
Thought I would share this letter with all of you in regards to oiling/maintaining an AR-15.

http://www.survivalblog.com/2012/09/letter-re-synthetic-motor-oil-as-a-gun-lubricant-in-teotwawki.html

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Airsoft Items FOR SALE / Complete Systema V2 Gearbox
« on: August 10, 2012, 09:59:45 AM »
======= SOLD =======

I have a Systema v2 gearbox lying around that I haven't used since I switched to Polarstar.  The gearbox is complete and needs just a tad bit of TLC to make it the way you want.  I modded the selector plate for single-fire only and used it in tandem with a Systema Magnum for a DMR setup.  This is what it has:

Systema reinforced gearbox with 7mm bearings (LiPo ready, have been using a 7.4v LiPo)
Systema Flat Hexical gear set w/E1 steel bevel gear
Polycarbonate piston with Systema silent piston head and silent cylinder head
M110 Spring (350-380 fps) with ball bearing spring guide rod
Systema Type 0 Teflon Bore Up Cylinder
New CA wiring harness, wired to the front for deans

I'll also include two motors:
Systema HiTorque (for you high-speed fans)
Systema Magnum (for your big springs)

I'm looking to get $120.  A brand new one of these will run you $240-250, not including the motors.  Let me know if anyone is interested.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Lord Stanley's Cup 2012
« on: May 30, 2012, 10:15:18 AM »
Game 1 tonight.  Had to post my plug.


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Troubleshooting / LiPo C Rating
« on: November 05, 2011, 08:41:42 PM »
What's the recommended C-rating/Amp Discharge rate for a LiPo to pull a M120 spring?

I've noted that even on a full charge, my 7.4v 1100Mah 20C LiPo doesn't seem to have enough juice to pull the spring.  The motor is fine (Systema Magnum) and acts as if the battery is dead (slight whir/click) and the battery heats up very quickly.

So it's either a bad battery or a weak battery...

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Local Games Listing/RSVP / OP Bad Company - Part 2
« on: August 05, 2011, 09:01:28 AM »


Operation Bad Company
Mission: Sparrow Flight

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HOBO SITREP INBOUND

Recovery Team Hobo has successfully rendzevoused with Raptor One and has secured a small rally point inside North Korean territory.  A contingent of what is known as the NK People's Militia has since been in pursuit and has radioed in reinforcements from the suspected coastal command post.  Per recon surveillance, the reinforcements are expected to make hard contact with Hobo within the next 15 minutes.  The current rally point will be too hot for extraction, therefore a secondary LZ has been communicated to Hobo.  Extraction cavalry is en route to LZ Gamma and is expected to arrive within 3 hours.  Recovery Team Hobo is to locate LZ Gamma and hunker down for extraction.

Where: Mount Ord

When: Saturday, August 27th @ 0800hrs
Meetup @ 0700hrs at the Baja Gas Station across from Ft McDowell, south side of Highway 87 at Ft McDowell Road.
Chrono @ 0800hrs
Game Start @ 0830hrs

LIMITED SEATING EVENT
18+ Only.  Exceptions may be made with sponsor or on request via pm.
All weapons will be chrono'd
AEG's 376fps w/.25 bb's (420 w/.20)
SNIPERS semi Only 460fps w/.36 (617 w/.20) min 75' Engagement Distance

Teams:
NK People's Militia - Woodland, Olive, Tigerstripe, Multicam, etc.
USAF 305 SOG Recovery Team - DCU, DDPM, ACU, etc.

Current Headcount: ~40
Green: (15)
thegovernator +3
Shadowviper +1
Sergei +1
SpiritOfSimo +2
Franquero +1
Guest of Sparrow +2

Tan: (17)
Burrito
Husky
DCOps +5
SG-1 +1
Rockit
Warlord +5

TPA: (7)
Shadow
Paradox
Bigwavedave
Toast
Sparrow
Doc
DeathbyDanish

What to Bring:
Water!
Bag o fun!

--->> Register Here <<---

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Airsoft Items WANTED / MultiCam Set - Med/Reg
« on: June 24, 2011, 01:44:49 PM »
If anyone has one.  I'd like to pick one up.

Med/Reg

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Local Games Listing/RSVP / 06.25.11 - OP Bad Company
« on: May 25, 2011, 01:17:47 PM »


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HOBO SITREP INBOUND

24 Jun 2011 - Kadena AFB

A South Korean Air Force F-15K Slam Eagle, tail number 4494, was last reported patrolling a sector of the DMZ region along the southeast border with North Korea. At 2315 hours, a distress call came from 4494 after taking fire from a previously unknown AA battery three miles inside the North Korean border, near the East coast. At 2317 hours, a mayday call was issued from 4494. We have had broken communications with the pilot, designated Raptor One. Raptor One appears to have managed to evade capture and is six miles inside North Korea, but reports are that Raptor Two was KIA during evasion. USAF Pacific Command has not successfully re-established contact with Raptor One in the last 45 minutes. A recovery team from the 353rd SOG based out of Kadena AFB has been airborne and is anticipated to arrive at LZ Echo at 0325 hrs.

Although hostilities between the South Korean and North Korean governments have increased in recent weeks, the North Korean government has claimed that this act of aggression was not from their military. A CIA operative in the region suspects that the CAP was brought down by an insider threat in the North Korean military ranks. There has been evidence on the wire that this group is suspected of acquiring SU27s from a Chinese contact, and has been basing them in an unknown airbase along the eastern coast of North Korea.

Whatever this patrol saw, apparently someone wants to keep unknown.

Where: Oak Flat Campground
(33.307577,-111.043453)

When: Saturday, June 25th @ 1900hrs
Meetup @ 1900hrs at Hwy US60 turnout to the campground
Chrono @ 1945hrs
Game Start @ 2015hrs
THIS IS A NIGHT GAME!!!

LIMITED SEATING EVENT
18+ Only.  Exceptions may be made with sponsor or on request via pm.
All weapons will be chrono'd
AEG's 376fps w/.25 bb's (420 w/.20)
SNIPERS semi Only 460fps w/.36 (617 w/.20) min 75' Engagement Distance
** Semi Automatic ONLY! **

Game and scenario details will be released at game time.

Teams:
Green (green glowsticks) - Woodland, Olive, Tigerstripe, Multicam etc.
Tan (blue glowsticks) -DCU, DDPM, ACU etc.

What to Bring:
One (1) Blue Glowstick
One (1) Green Glowstick
Water!
Flashlight

Register Here

Attendee List
Blue:
1. thegovernator
2. guest of thegovernator
3. guest of thegovernator
4. 19DCAV
5. Warlord
6. Warlord
7. Warlord
8. Warlord
9. Warlord
10. Warlord
11. Warlord
12. JSmith

Green:
1. Killsenemyatnight
2. SG-1
3. Hippie
4. TMills

TPA - 6

Photos of the AO



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Other items for sale... / 2007 Chevy Tahoe LT - $23399
« on: May 06, 2011, 01:41:22 PM »
Looking to unload some bills, this one is my biggest besides mortgage.  I'm going to have it professionally detailed and put new brake pads on within the next week.  I love the car and hate to see it go.  Asking what I owe.

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/2361756348.html

Immaculate 2007 Chevy Tahoe LT - 61,000 miles

• Maroon
• Door locks power programmable with lockout protection
• Privacy Glass
• Power Seat
• Power Door Locks
• Power Windows
• Power Steering
• Tilt Wheel
• Fold-Down and Removable Third Row Seats
• Complete Surround Air Bags (Front, Rear and Sides)
• 3-Point Safety belts in all seating positions
• AM/FM MP3 (Single Disc)/XM Satellite Ready
• Bose Premium Speaker System
• OnStar Ready
• Back Up Sensor System
• Dual-Set Front Air Conditioning
• Separate Rear Air Conditioning
• Luggage rack side rails roof-mounted Black

• 5.3L V8
• ABS (4-Wheel)
• Rear Wheel Drive
• Brakes 4-wheel antilock 4-wheel disc
• Cruise control with set and resume speed
• Suspension Package Premium Smooth Ride
• StabiliTrak stability control system with Proactive Roll Avoidance
• Rear-Window Defogger
• Daytime Running Lamps with automatic exterior lamp control
• Fog Lamps
• Black Running Boards
• Towing Pkg
• Alloy Wheels
• Near-New Tires (12k miles on them)
• Full-Size Spare Tire

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Making AA a Stronger Community
« on: March 30, 2011, 10:23:41 PM »
In the short amount of time that I have been registered here on AA, I've seen (and participated in) many threads which have started out as a question or comment and have turned into flame wars and personal fights, typically consisting of demeaning and immature replies and equally inconsiderate defensiveness.  While it is quite easy to hide behind a computer screen and make snide remarks for internet fame, there's a deeper problem that I think we should attempt to nip in the bud here on AA.  If we intend to have a positive, friendly and strong airsoft community in the state of Arizona, we need to try and change ourselves to the core.  I don't mean that we all need to become best friends and sing kumbaya around a campfire, but we at least need to be considerate of one another; newbie and veteran alike.  I've thrown together my thoughts with things I've learned through very difficult circumstances and trials in the last couple years and thought I would share them with you folks here.  If I'm being preachy, so be it.

Who ARE you?

On the surface, humans differ widely. In our behavior—our "doings"—we display immense variety.  But below the surface the world is different.  At the level of who we "are" (our being) there are two ways only.

THE RESPONSIVE WAY

One way of being is to see others as they are: as people.  Seeing them as people, I am responsive to their reality; their concerns, their hopes, their needs, their fears.  Others are as real to me as I am to myself.  Seeing others truly, I am true.

THE RESISTIVE WAY

The other way is to see people as objects.  Seeing them as objects, I am resistant to their reality. If I see others at all, they are less than I am—less relevant, less important, less real.  Seeing people as less than they are, I am deceived about their reality.  Seeing others falsely, I am false.

DEEPER THAN BEHAVIOR

A common misunderstanding:
Being "responsive," my behavior is "soft"; being "resistant," my behavior is hard.

The truth:
Being "responsive" I see others as people; being "resistant" I see others as objects.  This distinction is deeper than behavior.

Consider the following:  Complimenting others, for example, might be considered "soft," and correcting others "hard."  But I can compliment or correct another because it will help them or I can compliment or correct another because it will help me.  One way I am seeing a person—I am being responsive.  The other way I am seeing an object—I am being resistant.  I can compliment or correct in either way.  Likewise with almost any behavior there are two ways to say "Yes," two ways to say "No," two ways to smile, two ways to frown, two ways to discipline, two ways to reward.  Almost any behavior can be done in either way.

INFLUENCE

But consider how different two apparently identical behaviors can be:
    Seeing me as a person, someone compliments me.
    Seeing me as an object, someone compliments me.
Do the compliments feel the same to me?  Or consider how different it feels to be corrected by someone who sees me as a person as compared to someone who sees me as an object.  Whatever I "do" on the surface, people respond to who I am being when I am doing it.  Way of being determines influence.

THE POINT of CHOICE

As a person, I know what it means to be a person. I have a sense of what people need.  For example, I see a person in need, and feel the need to help.  My responsiveness to others’ needs is my deepest sense of what is right.  I can resist this responsiveness toward others’ needs.  If I do, I betray my deepest sense of what is right.  Betray my deepest sense of what is right and I betray myself.

SELF-JUSTIFICATION

Betray myself and I do wrong. Do wrong and I seek to be justified. I begin seeing a world that makes the wrong seem right.

Example: My child cries in the middle of the night, and I feel the need to get up and tend to her before my spouse wakes up. But I don't.
I now say:  "I got up last time." "My spouse is not as busy as I am." "My spouse is probably feigning sleep."

Another example: I obtain information that would help a coworker and feel I should share it. But I don't.  I now say: "This person doesn't help me."  "This person is too dependent on others already."  "I worked hard for this information."

The people I felt to help now seem blameworthy.  I feel justified in not helping.  But did they seem blameworthy when I felt to help?  Why do they seem blameworthy now?  Betray myself and I seek to be justified by blaming others. I become resistant to them.

In self-betrayal I seize upon others’ imperfections; I magnify them.  How profitable I find others' faults when I need to justify my own.

PEOPLE OR OBJECTS

So betray myself, and people to help become objects of blame.  Instead of people with their own lives, I now see others as obstacles in mine, or as vehicles to be used for my purposes, or as irrelevancies that offer me no advantage.

Consider when I felt the need to get up and tend the baby before my spouse woke up.  Was my spouse a person or an object to me?  And how was I seeing a coworker when I felt I should share the information I had obtained?

THE QUESTION

Every moment offers the choice of two ways:  Will I be responsive to others and see them as people, or resistant to others and see them as objects?

My life consists of moments with others:

    My spouse needs my help.
    My child needs attention.
    My sister needs an apology.
    My friend needs a listening ear.
    My neighbor needs a helping hand.
    My employer needs my commitment.
    My coworker needs my assistance.
    My assistant needs an encouraging word.

The people in my life, regardless of who they are or where they came from; have I done right by them?  What would they say my choice has been?

The quality of my life will depend on that choice, and so will my experiences and friendships in this forum.

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Airsoft Items WANTED / TM G18c Battery
« on: March 25, 2011, 10:05:49 PM »
Need a battery for a TM G18c.


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General Off-Topic Discussion / 1979 All Over Again
« on: January 28, 2011, 12:12:04 PM »
Anybody else paying close attention to what is going on in the ME right now?  Looks an aweful lot like 1979, and is a tad bit scarier.

So for you guys in the sandbox, keep your powder dry and be safe.  Things could get messy.

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I did not know this until today, but I could not resist to show my sincere appreciation for such a man.
A hero proved in liberating strife.
Currahee!

January 21, 1918 - January 2, 2011






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General Off-Topic Discussion / Thanks, Vets!
« on: November 11, 2010, 02:43:10 PM »
Land of the free because of the brave.

Proud of my dad!

SSgt Rose -2/MB
USAF 6988th Security Squadron
Kadena/Yakota AFB Japan
SIGINT - Silent Warriors - Vietnam
RC-130B-II, EC-121M, A-12 (SR-71), RC-135

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