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YAY! I finally got myself an airsoft rifle care of the folks at http://www.kreature.co.za. Full metal so it weights roughly 3kgs which is really neat (don’t really enjoy the plastic ones that feel like I am carrying a water pistol). My initial impression is that it is pretty neat. It doesn’t quiet have the resonance our presence as the real one (but you can’t go around discharging AK 47s randomly unless you are in some North-African countries) but it seems to work cool.

Lets have a look at a couple pictures shall we?

First up the rifle with the two point sling mounted and the stock extended

Pretty neat huh? Next we take a look at it with the stock folded (still with the two point sling)

Right my next challenge was charging the battery. I found a really cool site that describes the formula for charging the battery. The formula goes like this:

(battery capacity (battery's mAh rating)/charger output (mA - usually written on the charger)) x 1.4(for NiCad batteries, 1.5 for NiMh batteries) = time (in hours).

You can view the rest of the discussion here : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091013093650AAcTEBp

So I worked mine out and it needed 4 hours according to the formula. So I charged it for four hours and went outside to have some fun. The battery died in 5 minutes

So I remembered that some batteries require a longer initial charge. So I gave the guys at Kreature a call and asked what the story was. Seems the Ni-MH type batteries require and initial charge of 8-12 hours! Ok well at least there is nothing wrong with my battery. So now it is plugged in again and this time I will leave it for 10 hours.

Anyways, still very excited to finally have it (been trying to get one for over a year now!) so waiting a few more hours ain’t going to kill me. Now it is time to start finding some games!

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