Airsoft Action - January 2021

KIT & GEAR
LOFTED GARMENTS
INSULATED
GEAR FOR
THE WINTER
WIN
EVERY WINTER WE LIKE TO HAVE A LOOK AT WHAT’S NEW FROM OUR OLD FRIENDS AT SNUGPAK BY
INCLUDING AN ARTICLE ON WHY YOU SHOULD LOOK TO INVEST IN SOME SERIOUS “LOFTED”, OR INSULATED
PROTECTION. CONTINUING HIS LOOK AT “GOOD GEAR TO GO”, OUR IN-HOUSE TECHNICAL CLOTHING
“GURU”, BILL, TAKES A LOOK AT BOTH NEW GEAR AND THAT WHICH HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TRIED AND
TESTED!
I’m here writing this article this year on the first
“official” day of winter - and what do you know?
The north wind has suddenly made its presence felt
and where I live we’ve had the first proper frost of the
new season, with the possibility of snow showers in
the offing! It is most definitely time to break out the
insulated jacket for downtime and range testing days
and I truly believe that this is a crucial piece of “safe
zone” gear that every airsofter should own - for two
main reasons which I’ll recap here again.
Firstly, after a hard morning’s play you’re going to
have built up a head of steam but when you’re on an
outdoor/woodland site with no heated safe zone (in
many cases you’ll be operating from the back of the
car right now), it’s very, very easy to chill down quickly
when you stop to bomb-up or for lunch. This leads all
too quickly discomfort and on a cold, wet or snowy
winters day I’ve seen many guys leave at lunchtime as
they’ve become too chilled to continue. Secondly, in
the UK it’s often not the cold, fluffy and pretty white
stuff falling from the sky that we need to contend
with but sleet and icy rain, so you’ll totally get why I
“…SYNTHETICS RETAIN A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF THEIR INSULATIVE PROPERTIES EVEN WHEN
WET, WHEREAS WHEN DOWN GETS WET IT WILL STAY WET AND WILL ACTUALLY TRY TO USE
YOUR OWN CORE BODY HEAT TO DRY ITSELF, RESULTING IN YOU BEING EVEN COLDER!”
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