The underground magazine for airsoft players by airsoft players Issue #4 Q4 2004 $6.00 USD In this issue: OPERATION: BIOHAZARD battletech: The perfect hop-up! The armory: Top’s m249 Sgt. Pecker Vs The liberal HEAVYARMS: True squad support (Part I) ak babe q4 2004: The NAM wishes you a very Merry Christmas! Battletech: Secret tips and tricks For your AEGs! FIELD TESTED: Tanaka M24 TOP AK Drum magazine Interrogation Room All things airsoft: Airsoftgunhelp.com The underground magazine for airsoft players by airsoft players 2 www.NationalAirsoftMagazine.com The underground magazine for airsoft players by airsoft players Briefing: Greetings and welcome to the this issue for more details on the fourth installment of: Op and how to register for next year’s (this year if you’re reading this in 2005) Halloween event! I’d just like to close by wishing you all, all the best and a very heartfelt Merry Christmas (Happy Christmas to all you Redcoats!), Happy Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or whatever you celebrate! And if you don’t celebrate the holidays, you should! Make something up if you’ve Wow, it’s almost hard to believe gotta! Happy Holidays and we’ll see we’ve been at this thing a whole you all March of 2005 with Issue #5! year now. Then again, when I reflect on the “crunch time” compilation, it’s not so hard to Cheers, believe (joking…sort’a). On a personal note, I’d like to thank everyone who’s been there since our Reaper very first issue, those generous people who’ve helped us and moved on, and those who’ve jumped aboard this locomotive in full motion (very brave) and managed to stay aboard! But most importantly, I’d like to thank our readers. You’re the driving force behind this little, yet powerful engine! Without you there would never have been an Issue #2. THANK YOU ALL for helping us reach the end of our first year, our fourth issue! Stay with us. I don’t see this ride ending any time soon! And just what did you do this Halloween? Well, we received several harsh and rather critical “complaint” emails, as well as a few verbal lashings from people telling us we couldn’t pull it off. But we proved them wrong YET AGAIN, which is beginning to look like our trademark! The National Airsoft Magazine’s OPERATION: BIOHAZARD was a BIG success! Proof positive that you can mix your airsoft with a healthy dose of zombies! Everyone who came out really enjoyed the unique and experimental experience. You truly are a bunch of hardcore airsofters…or maybe just a bunch of lunatic zombie freaks like me; but hey, that’s okay! I’d also like to give a big shout out to the sponsors: Airsoft Extreme, RedWolf Airsoft, Prodigy Airsoft and Airsoft Advantage. Please check out our site for links to their stores! Before I forget, the event has been made annual! See the WAR JOURNAL in www.NationalAirsoftMagazine.com 3 The underground magazine for airsoft players by airsoft players Publisher: The NAM National Airsoft Magazine Advertise Online: P.O. Box 1483 Marina, CA 93933 Standard Monthly: $100 per month The NAM Staff: Prepaid Commitment: Reaper, Zorro, Shutter Bug, $500 for 6 months STORM, Howitzer, (only $83.33 per month) neo, Sensei, $700 per year (only $58.33 per month) Submissions: Please address all submissions to Advertising gets your website’s the relative departments at the banner (linked to your site) posted magazine’s address. Include your on three highly trafficked pages on name and address. You can also e- our website; both of our Home and mail both letters and images to: Online Content pages via a small banner under the SPONSOR column and [email protected] our Sponsors page via a standard Submissions will not be returned sized banner. and become the property of The NAM National Airsoft Magazine. [email protected] The Legal Mumbo-Jumbo: Editorial contributions are SPONSORS encouraged and accepted. The Publisher disclaims all Airsoft Extreme Pages 6, 20, 31 & 32 responsibility to return solicited or unsolicited Ash Bash materials and all rights in Back Cover portions. Any views or opinions expressed in any advertisements, Economy Printing Service signed columns, letters, articles, Page 5 photographs or any other published materials are those of Generation Airsoft the sponsor, artist and/or author Page 29 and do not necessarily reflect Mountain View Surplus the position of The NAM National Page 49 Airsoft Magazine. Any materials received by the magazine or its Prodigy Airsoft editors are assumed to be Pages 50 & 63 intended for publication and reproduction in whole or part and RedWolf Airsoft therefore, may be used for such Pages 9 & 25 purposes. All materials become University Auto Body the property of The NAM National Page 55 Airsoft Magazine. Nothing herein may be reproduced in whole or Oops! part without written permission Sheesh…you people actually read this?! from the publisher. All articles Do you sit there like little vultures scanning every page for the slightest and columns are protected under hint of a discrepancy?! You think we international Copyright laws. error every single issue?! Well HA! We didn’t last issue! …at least I don’t The NAM National Airsoft Magazine think we did. Did we? You’d be honest Copyright © 2015 and tell us if we did, wouldn’t you? Just kidding! ;oP All Rights Reserved. Happy Holidays! -Reaper 4 www.NationalAirsoftMagazine.com The underground magazine for airsoft players by airsoft players Table of Contents: 41 AK Babe of the Quarter 02 Briefing Myckey wishes you a VERY merry Letter from the Editor Christmas! 07 Contact HQ 45 The Dossier Q & A Arizona’s own: McDowell Mountain Airsoft 10 Latest Intel Reveals… New AirSoft products, cool stuff, 47 M4-tune rumors, etc… Dehydration, The Real Enemy! 12 War Journal 51 Battle Tech Operation: Biohazard The perfect Hop-up! 21 Field Tested 56 Sgt. Pecker Tanaka’s M24 “Just a spoon full of sugar helps TOP’s AK Drum Magazine the medicine go down…” 26 Speak Freely 57 the specialist Cheaters: The Real Snakes of airsoft! HEAVYARMS: True Squad Support (Part I) 30 primary objective AT4 Rocket Launcher (LAW Build) 61 Divisions National airsoft clubs 33 Interrogation Room This issue we decided to put the 62 Glossary spotlight on a great new website: Abbreviations and common terms AirsoftGunHELP.com defined. 38 The armory 63 Debriefing TOP’s M249 Next issue! www.NationalAirsoftMagazine.com 5 The underground magazine for airsoft players by airsoft players 6 www.NationalAirsoftMagazine.com The underground magazine for airsoft players by airsoft players Contact HQ: I was wondering what type of water MARPAT, Marine Pattern Camouflage, system is best? I’ve seen people is the distinctive digital with canteens, camelbacks and just camouflage used by the United States plain old water bottles. Marine Corps. It’s used to Tim D., Livermore, CA camouflage our troops from satellite images as well as in the field. It The answer is simple; whatever works pretty damn well too! As of you’re comfortable with. Personally, now, it comes in two patterns, the I used to use a canteen but got original Woodland MARPAT and Desert tired of having to pause to unsnap MARPAT. CADPAT stands for Canadian the pouch, pull out the canteen, Disruptive Pattern. Unlike the unscrew the top and catch a drink Woodland MARPAT colors, it’s similar when I was parched. Then reverse in colors to the woodland camouflage the process to put it away - VERY used by the U.S. Army and those time consuming. So I switched to a worldwide, however the pattern is camelback. However, this is not to “digital” like the MARPAT. Speaking say that canteens suck. The of Army, as of 2005, the United camelback can be popped, it takes States Army is set to receive their time getting used to, the dispenser own distinctive digital camouflage. (even though it’s covered) can get -Reaper besieged by dirt, bugs, dust, etc… which just makes that first sip oh What type of AEG should I buy? so refreshingly bleck! So every What’s the best? water system has its pros and cons. A.J., Pensacola, FL As for the water bottle in the pocket, if you can’t afford anything I try to steer clear of these types else, go for it. Otherwise, look of questions in general, but this is into something that’s hands free what I recommend. Since there are until needed and won’t impede MANY guns out on the market today, movement. go to your local retailer and ask to -Reaper hold the ones that appeal to you. Keep in mind that regardless of the I really enjoyed the interview with “coolness factor,” you will most Elias Fedorowski in Issue #2, but I likely be running around with this have one question. Where is his gun all day at an airsoft event. A store located? perfect example of what not to do S. Smith, Marina, CA would be for a person who’s 4’8” to be running around with a full size Elias Fedorowski, formerly of SG-1 with a full metal body. Is it gunkulture, is running a new Airsoft a cool gun? Yes. Is it practical? Extreme location in Oakland, Not really, and it only gets worse California: when you add gear. Select the gun that is most comfortable to you. Airsoft Extreme Retailers might suggest their 95 Linden St. Suite 11 favorite AEGs and even attempt to Oakland, CA 94607 “upsell.” So just find something you 510.302.6678 like that is comfortable to carry.