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Modern US Airsoft Impressions

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    firekitten tryed to start a thread of US stuff that i liked but best to try and use the same format as the russian thread that has worked

    for myself im working on a 75th ranger impression, waiting for softshell and acu to ship with opsspec, yes puding has brought some acu shock horror, condor softshell and truspec acu order, trying to put together a list of pantac molle i will need for the look

    inspiration
    us_infantry_20.jpg
    us_infantry_21.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Spooky-Vinny


    I think ACU is very nice but do you not think ACU stands out in the woodland alot? as i witnessed first hand, he may aswell have been wearing red!
    assuming most sites for skirmishing or milsimming are woodland etc.
    xXx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    I think ACU is very nice but do you not think ACU stands out in the woodland alot? as i witnessed first hand, he may aswell have been wearing red!
    assuming most sites for skirmishing or milsimming are woodland etc.
    xXx

    it does indeed stick out its not nick names ICU for no reason :) but that debate has been had alot on boards already, for myself the loadout would be primarily for CQB/Urban or if i need a western loadout for any events


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    Thanks for starting this Pud... I was going to myself.. but got distracted/ deleted.


    I'll post up my USMC and US infantry gear shortly :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Flecktarn


    Hey Pud them Arnie's links ain't working.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    Flecktarn wrote: »
    Hey Pud them Arnie's links ain't working.

    working ok for myself, you do require an account with arnies to view them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Flecktarn


    Puding wrote: »
    working ok for myself, you do require an account with arnies to view them

    Oh right I'd better sign up!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    Flecktarn wrote: »
    Oh right I'd better sign up!

    if there is a forum worth signing up for its arnies :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭Sod'o swords


    I must get some pics of my US army loadout.

    ACU on it's own as BDU's with just some generic woodland vest is horrible, but in a full loadout, even the most vocal of ACU haters can't say it doesn't look good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    Puding wrote: »
    if there is a forum worth signing up for its arnies :)
    Been there, done that :P


    Sod: Yeah it can be, but depends how it looks... If that vest is an interceptor... it looks flash, i like that look.

    My us gear is more US Army sniper setup I use for urban.

    ACUs, CB Scalable plate carrier with a mix of woodland, acu, and cb pouches, OD hatch kneepads, and diamondback gloves with CB desert boots. Its a nice even mix I find... Interceptors and Kpots/mich SUCK for snipers, as the real guys agree. Infact ill post up my loadout with a photo its based on :)

    Its darn comfy and efficient


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,171 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Having everything(vest,helmet,knee pads etc) in ACU looks awful I think, an OD/CB vest and other bits looks much better, not really "accurate" but makes ACU more bearable:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    Blay wrote: »
    Having everything(vest,helmet,knee pads etc) in ACU looks awful I think, an OD/CB vest and other bits looks much better, not really "accurate" but makes ACU more bearable:p
    In certain situations... it IS accurate... Ive always liked the mixed issue look, like tricolour with woodland interceptor, or acu with woodland one, it looks... issue and real to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    well all acu is accurate but it just needs to be used in the right conditions also you need to use high quality stuff, it is a lot darker and absorbs the light where as the cheap copys i've seen almost act as a white board and reflect the light :(

    if you want to see acu look good go watch the hurt looker :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Fireborn


    Where do you can good quality fatigues from?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    you can get most real world camo on ebay proper issuse marpat(marines) acu (army)abu (us airforce)
    i like my issue acu proper grey on grey not the ebaybanned dayglow white


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    Fireborn wrote: »
    Where do you can good quality fatigues from?

    have limited experience myself but after taking advice from others, went for the tru spec http://www.opsgear.com/index/page/product/product_id/1450/product_name/ARMY+Combat+Uniform+(ACU)+Pant , will let you know how i get on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    check some of our own retailers too most are doing helkion gear which is a polish company that produces camo under licence from the US affordable and pretty damn good quality ,the do tri color desert , multicam , marpat , polish cam and a few others


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭StevieGriff


    Puding wrote: »
    have limited experience myself but after taking advice from others, went for the tru spec http://www.opsgear.com/index/page/product/product_id/1450/product_name/ARMY+Combat+Uniform+(ACU)+Pant , will let you know how i get on

    How did ya find the shipping charges?
    Was gunna make an order through UScav, but the shipping charges were over double the cost of the order. Came close to 1 grand in total.:eek:

    Also, anyone buying ACU. Propper or Tru-Spec are the ones to look for, they hold the supply contracts for the US Army.(and the USMC)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    shipping charges from the us can be a bit hit and miss, it depends if the company's does a lot of international business, if they do a lot of business they generally have good rates as they set the website up to give accurate shipping cost, the ones that do little trade tend not to pay attention to the international shipping rates and over charge

    opsspec is generally very good with fair shipping costs, the US does not have the cheapest shipping to start with but no where near as bad as russia

    skdtac is also another good retailer with reasonable shipping costs done business with them in past very nice to deal with http://www.skdtac.com/default.asp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    The Bulle Quarrapel ACU bdus from flecktarn are actually a perfect match... well, being made from actual acu material they are. Nice build quality, comfy, good fit and design. and dont look garishly wrong. Also try exporting ACU from the USA from an online retailer. if its real, you Cannot. Incase you're a terrorist that wants to dress up as a us soldier and blow them up...:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭StevieGriff


    Firekitten wrote: »
    The Bulle Quarrapel ACU bdus from flecktarn are actually a perfect match... well, being made from actual acu material they are. Nice build quality, comfy, good fit and design. and dont look garishly wrong. Also try exporting ACU from the USA from an online retailer. if its real, you Cannot. Incase you're a terrorist that wants to dress up as a us soldier and blow them up...:rolleyes:

    That sounds like utter BS to me, never head or seen anything about that?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    I'd not call it 'utter BS' till you know... Sadly US export restrictions were thought up by a stonened redneck with paranoid delusions... oh. and a superiority complex. Same goes for a lot of Real kit, hardwear, and materials from inside the US.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭Stone.cold


    www.bdu.com is where we get all our u.s gear approx €100 for pants shirt and cap delivery from the u.s takes about a week/10days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭StevieGriff


    Firekitten wrote: »
    Sounds like bs it all it wants... its true. US export restrictions are Retarded. Check it out and see.

    Hmm, must have a further gander, I've seen restictions on IR "friend or foe" reflective tape and stuff like that but never on cammies.
    But if there is a restriction it obviously isn't enforced too much , I've gotten Propper ACU's and 2 pairs of Marpats in from the states.
    There was no fuss even about the Marpat set I had in my luggage coming back through US Custom's but yet I was asked to switch my PSP on to prove it wasn't a bomb (which makes no sense, "hmm that could be a bomb, turn it on please".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭Stone.cold


    I've gotten Propper ACU's and 2 pairs of Marpats in from the states.

    bdu is propper gear.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭hoplite


    +1 on bdu.com I got propper ACU shirt and pants for $30 in their closeout area the only reason it was so cheap is that it did not have the IR reducing properties of the more expensive stuff. The quality was still 100%.

    I have been meaning to get some Multicam gear from them for a while. They have all the sizes available so I can get something high drag low speed to fit me ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    Stone.cold wrote: »
    bdu is propper gear.
    Propper is the uh, propper brand he was refering to... um, Propper is a brand damn it *stops trying to expain....*


    Anyway. US army loadout...

    based on this one from Afganistan
    Army_sniper_team_Afghanistan.jpg
    atleast loosely.

    I'll get photos up tomorrow because the ones I've just taken make paparatzi look like David Bailey... *sigh* bad light.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Spooky-Vinny


    why is it the US army use ACU in the middle east? why not multi cam or desert cam? i think that would make more sense no?
    xXx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    The above photo is pretty good proof....

    MMost warfare is in towns in the middleast... dusty concrete. ACU works amazingly well in concrete situations, dusty acu, plus dusty concrete = invisible. It works quite well.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Spooky-Vinny


    Firekitten wrote: »
    The above photo is pretty good proof....

    MMost warfare is in towns in the middleast... dusty concrete. ACU works amazingly well in concrete situations, dusty acu, plus dusty concrete = invisible. It works quite well.

    I know what you mean and i have seen alot of photos of ACU working well in nice conrete backrounds etc.
    but most of what i see in MW photos, videos, news etc. are all in land scape/towns that are are mostly all shades of brown where it doesnt even seem concrete is visible.

    and then you have the ACU guys in those areas and they stick out way more than they could be.

    xXx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    No camouflage works everywhere... tbh in the desert its better than woodland nbc suits from gulf war 1 ;)

    Even multicam sticks out in some places... imagine trying to hide on the streets of dublin in it? impossible... unless you're in temple bar of course, but hey... everywhere has downsides, acu isnt brilliant, but for urban warfare it rocks imo. I and a lot of other snipers have acu gortex hooded jackets for urban ops when setting up indoor hides in concrete buildings etc. Its great stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Spooky-Vinny


    but you see dublin is a built up proper city where in the middle east where all the US are making theyr mark it isnt as built up as it is in dublin you know?(no offences thrown) where down there theyr citys and towns ar more or less shades of all browns? im not saying ACU doesnt work obviously, i personaly like it, im just saying that desert cam seems to blend in ALOT more from all the footage i have seen. there can be alot of photos of ACU blending in videos it doesnt not seem that way, and i believe in person it would not work as well eother as it doesn in photos. i dont think multi cam is used over in the middle east.
    and another point i was supose to say was, why introduce a new camo so strongly when perfectly good camos are working well but are ruined by a woodland plate carrier, vest etc.
    I'm not even sure if we should go into this on this forum :p

    I'm sorry if my arguement is not suitable or not welcome here, no offence will be taken, delet if you wish :p

    xXx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    but you see dublin is a built up proper city where in the middle east where all the US are making theyr mark it isnt as built up as it is in dublin you know?(no offences thrown) where down there theyr citys and towns ar more or less shades of all browns? im not saying ACU
    ..snip..
    I'm sorry if my arguement is not suitable or not welcome here, no offence will be taken, delet if you wish :p

    xXx

    you might want to have a look at some sites like military photos :) courts in the middle east (Iraq) would dwarf Dublin well a lot of towns would do the same of course there is a differances in bulding materials at time and style , but this is no more of a differances than between citys in the eu :)

    acu works very wellin the mountains as well, multicam is in wide spread use in both conflicts at the moment, more mainstream units even seem to be getting it know first ranger and know some newly deployed infantry units

    there is a good argument for acu doing a great job as a uniform and that's the key, it's both camo and a uniform, both disrupt and help identify yourself and with the type of conflict where telling friend from foe in an urban enviroment is important you can't get more unique really and easy to reconise, and anyway it was picked by civilans I believe what can you expect

    but where slipping into politics and a debate that has been had over and over again, more pictures , more impressions :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    but you see dublin is a built up proper city where in the middle east where all the US are making theyr mark it isnt as built up as it is in dublin you know?(no offences thrown) where down there theyr citys and towns ar more or less shades of all browns? im not saying ACU doesnt work obviously, i personaly like it, im just saying that desert cam seems to blend in ALOT more from all the footage i have seen. there can be alot of photos of ACU blending in videos it doesnt not seem that way, and i believe in person it would not work as well eother as it doesn in photos. i dont think multi cam is used over in the middle east.
    and another point i was supose to say was, why introduce a new camo so strongly when perfectly good camos are working well but are ruined by a woodland plate carrier, vest etc.
    I'm not even sure if we should go into this on this forum :p

    I'm sorry if my arguement is not suitable or not welcome here, no offence will be taken, delet if you wish :p

    xXx
    I dont think you get it...
    Baghdad is far more built up that dublin, and less brown... and more grey.
    Plus, multicam is uses... UKSF, CIA, and some other units run it.

    Ruined by a woodland plate carrier?

    welcome to supply issues in theatre. Tbh, i think it looks good. a CB or woodland platecarrier with acu looks really well imo. Its got that issue, gritty in the **** look to it. And it looks real world. the whole acu ITV and pauldrons and neck guard and crotch guard, mich etc may be 'accurate' us infantry, but it makes you look like mr blobby....

    Anyway, snipers dont wear interceptors, they suck for it :P and few cutdown platecarriers come in acu :P mostly Tan or CB.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭Stone.cold


    Firekitten wrote: »
    Propper is the uh, propper brand he was refering to... um, Propper is a brand damn it *stops trying to expain....*

    Here we go, what no quirky history lesson, once again i dont need you to explain i am well aware the propper is a brand name i wear enough of it, i was merely adding a link so that mere mortals that dont know everything would have another site to look at for u.s uniforms i wont bother in future. it was looking like an interesting thread.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    Stone.cold wrote: »
    Here we go, what no quirky history lesson, once again i dont need you to explain i am well aware the propper is a brand name i wear enough of it, i was merely adding a link so that mere mortals that dont know everything would have another site to look at for u.s uniforms i wont bother in future. it was looking like an interesting thread.

    people are interested in what everyone has to say and the thread will be interesting if every continues to contribute :)

    anyway from my understanding everyone is little right, there was a lot of negative press in the us about items sold in the US getting to insurgents, this was manly items such as IR reflective patchs used for identification but uniforms where bunched in there as well

    because of public opinion generated by those lovely us new shows, some shops did stop selling abroad, or some added in extra security

    nothing in law like in Ireland but there was some effect, made no difference anyone will a credit card and a internet connection could pick up copys in places like china so really it had no impact on the uniforms for after a couple of months things then went back to normal after the eye of the news moved into another area


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    Stone.cold wrote: »
    Here we go, what no quirky history lesson, once again i dont need you to explain i am well aware the propper is a brand name i wear enough of it, i was merely adding a link so that mere mortals that dont know everything would have another site to look at for u.s uniforms i wont bother in future. it was looking like an interesting thread.

    'here we go' nothing... I simply thought you had misunderstood what he posted, so explained it was a brand in a hope to clear things up. Look, it was a simple mistake, and I'm sorry ok? no need to get angry :(


    Puding: yep, kneejerk us patriotic reactions to things like that happen. They still do the same with a lot of hardware and kit... if you arent internal us, you cant buy it, and half of it is restricted to LEO/Federal anyway *cries*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    022806_US_Army_in_Mosul_Iraq_US_Arm.jpg
    Interesting shot here of US army marksman in tricolour bdus with ACU ITV and Mich 2000. Not the typical camo reversal... but an interseting one.

    scoutsnipers1.jpg
    USMC scout sniper team

    Good reference here for a scout sniper team setup for urban ops.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭ZeroSignal


    Personally, I believe that UCP was a huge mistake by the US army. It is an urban and mountain combat uniform (one of the best urban camos IMO) and maybe a winter(ish) camo but the fact that the Army billed it as "universal" is a clear sign of there being something... fishy going on but I won't get into it in an Airsoft forum. :o
    csa200506240954568om8tt.jpg

    picthousandwords.jpg

    070818-A-0559K-035.jpg

    acu1s3pm.jpg

    acu29kb.jpg

    However, as others have said it does work AMAZINGLY well in mountainous regions and concrete urban.

    p8160066.jpg

    ACU_works.jpg

    Not much of that around Ireland, though... :P

    It would appear that UCP needs to be filthy to effectively camouflage in most environments, as pointed out by an Army infantryman on MilitaryPhotos.com:
    (Originally Posted by aj-0311)
    "Pictures really don't do justice for a proper comparison. There is really no substitute for actually observing in the field. From my previous posts, it's obvious I don't like the ACU, but let me explain why. The bitches about pockets, velcro and durability are a seperate issue for me. The colors chosen are a different matter. While in Afghanistan, the ACU matched rather well, but no better than the DCU. When one has a layer of moon dust covering everything, it's hard not to blend no matter what you're wearing.

    I didn't question the ACU until I saw it in different environments. While the BDU is too dark for the grasslands, I noticed it tended to blend better because it could be confused with background clutter (bush, etc.) whereas the ACU attracted the eye because it didn't seem to belong there. I can't speak for everyone but my eye picked up the lighter/brighter coloration rather than the darker BDU.
    Once in the woodline it was BDU hands down. The ACU was usually spotted quickly, even in the shadows. I say this because the soldiers were wearing woodland IBA/ACH and it was arms and legs that gave them away.

    I realize that clothing is only one tool used in proper camouflage, however as a infantryman, I want the cards stacked in my favor. Hence why I don't buy the "universal" claim of the ACU the Army is touting. If patrolling or lying in ambush I want every advantage I can get. And good camouflage can mean the difference between success and failure.

    In my opinion the Army took a step backward with the colors chosen. The so-called "foliage green, gray and sand" look more like blue-gray, light gray and off-white on my brand new never washed ACU's.

    I hope we don't have to deploy to any green areas after the BDU wearout date."


    I for one, while intensely disliking UCP, would really like to see more teams doing the whole ACU/US Army thing rather than the MCCU/Marine Corps loadout. Just to make it more interesting. :)

    Plus it means we can do more MW2 "re-enactments". :D

    EDIT:
    Here's a slight test: see how long it takes you to find all the infantrymen in this photo. :P
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/militarypix/fresh/more/more/even%20more/more/will%20it%20ever%20end/more/more/more/fresh/54997.jpg
    Not too shabby, huh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Spooky-Vinny


    Puding wrote: »
    there is a good argument for acu doing a great job as a uniform and that's the key, it's both camo and a uniform, both disrupt and help identify yourself and with the type of conflict where telling friend from foe in an urban enviroment is important you can't get more unique really and easy to reconise, and anyway it was picked by civilans I believe what can you expect

    but where slipping into politics and a debate that has been had over and over again, more pictures , more impressions :)

    You make a very good arguement puding, never thought about things all that way before haha! :p feel kinda silly now that you'v said all that and i have seen a whole heep of ACU camo doing its job now :D
    I'd like to appologise for my my lil rant :)

    I always liked ACU, but due to the terrain i play in and team uniform:rolleyes: it is no use to me haha.

    xXx


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Spooky-Vinny


    ZeroSignal i agree with you :)
    xXx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Firekitten


    modern warfare 'preenactment' surely :P And No... id die first :P

    Yeah, the look is decent, but it doesnt work everywhere. I suggest we stop the debate now, because this isnt adebate on the effectiveness, its loadouts from modern us military units. So acu is unfortunately here. I'll get photos of my setup in a mo, as an example. Its only used for urban, i wear my woodland marpat for woodland stuff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭Scrambles_


    Building a USMC-inspired loadout at the moment, any recommendations of where to get CB boots? They seem easy to get online (from the states) but wouldn't buy boots from internets :/ Anyone know if any of the camping/surplus stores in Dublin stock them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Spooky-Vinny


    Scrambles_ wrote: »
    Building a USMC-inspired loadout at the moment, any recommendations of where to get CB boots? They seem easy to get online (from the states) but wouldn't buy boots from internets :/ Anyone know if any of the camping/surplus stores in Dublin stock them?

    you could always try spraying them... seen it done before and it looks well!
    just my 2 dolla!
    xXx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭deepimpact


    Scrambles_ wrote: »
    Building a USMC-inspired loadout at the moment, any recommendations of where to get CB boots? They seem easy to get online (from the states) but wouldn't buy boots from internets :/ Anyone know if any of the camping/surplus stores in Dublin stock them?

    You'd be after a pair of Bates, but I got a pair of tan Magnum Scorpions in Protac in the Curragh last month for e90, and they're awesome. No online messing around, and at a decent price.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭delta-boy


    Just to get it back on track.

    ACU doesnt stand out too bad on that pic.

    sloile.jpg
    U.S. Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment engage in a small arms fire fight with enemy forces during Operation Mostarak in Badula Qulp, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 19, 2010.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭Puding


    delta-boy wrote: »
    Just to get it back on track.

    ACU doesnt stand out too bad on that pic.


    actually back on track would be stop stop the debate on acu :) as other have said the thread is about impressions and not about the positives and negatives of a particular line of camouflage :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭delta-boy


    Woops, my bad. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Scrambles_ wrote: »
    Building a USMC-inspired loadout at the moment, any recommendations of where to get CB boots? They seem easy to get online (from the states) but wouldn't buy boots from internets :/ Anyone know if any of the camping/surplus stores in Dublin stock them?

    either before the irishlife mall on down from north earls st ,there's a camping shop that stocks the magnum elite spider in tan for around 90euro ,there is no shops here that stock either the USMC boots from bates ,bellville or even the slightly more rare danner USMC boot

    the boots are the hardest part of the USMC loadout to source ,everything else is pretty easy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭DICEMAN7


    received a pair of these the other day very nice http://cgi.ebay.ie/New-Bates-1450-M-...item19b0aae6d5 if you know your right size go for them they are very very comfortable.


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