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Originally Posted by Rickshaw
I've been trying to find ways to make my gear feel more realistic, with cement in fake M67's
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I would be most upset if you were to ever utilize a cement filled inert grenade in a game.
There is a point to realism, but some things are dis-recommended from a safety standpoint. Utilizing Safe-T-nades from Bent Barrel Airsoft would be better, as there is lead shot in a foam casing, it's still heavy, but safer to use.
If you are deadset on weight, buy some scuba weights, small ones, and duct tape them into your grenade pouches to simulate the carrying weight without increasing the risk to other players by throwing heavy masses around.
As to the armour,
Technically all SAPI (ESAPI, HSAPI, etc.) training plates are ITAR restricted under the US Munitions List, as they are training aids to significant military hardware. You may pursue this via a DSP-83 end user certificate, you may pursue this via Brownells as a special order to have them help you export this under the $100 wholesale price exemption limit, or pursing the PO box in the US option (which still is an illegal export of significant military hardware).
Further, the team wendy plates are only sized medium, 10x12 of SAPI cut. Measure from clavacle notch to belly button, and then nipple to nipple, look up what size you should be getting, in my experience in Airsoft in Canada, most players either should be using a Small or an Extra-Large plate, few people are properly a Medium.
There are other training plate manufactuers, I'd suggest looking at ATS tactical, again you'd need to pursue proper export proceedures.
If you're going to be seeking realistic weights, then you really should be realizing the proper utilization of the gear, which many of us are not. As I mentioned above regarding the size of plates, that also means the placement of the plates... there have been studies done that show most soldiers in Iraq and Afgahnastan are wearing their plates incorrectly, too low. Talk to many of the CF vets here and ask them where they put frag grenades if they had mounting options. Ask how many twenty year vets would put tape and other things on their grenades to really, really make sure the spoon stays put.
Appropriate weight is all find and dandy, but realize that we still are players in airsoft, our AEG/GBBR ranges are nothing like real world equivalents, the lack of training, physical fitness, and many other aspects do not translate well. That abstraction between the real world and airsoft will always exist, so there are times that I believe the pursuit of realism can be taken to far.
To each his own, fill your boots and have fun.... please no cement grenades.