The DSG Strikes Again

That's right! Dukie is making a 4th run of the DSG! Perhaps one of the more boner-inducing paintball markers, I managed to sneak in on the first run of the marker, and haven't looked back since. Click here for my full review, which I should update at some point, given I've had it for over 2 years and have upgraded it with new gen. DSG parts. Don't miss out, when they're gone they're gone, and very few people sell their DSGs (except for the typical MCB marker whores). The price this time around is $785 CAD.

Jonathan Idema Dead?

News is rolling in that the infamous Jonathan Idema is dead due to AIDS complications as of a few days ago in Mexico. Most of you will have two questions, the first being, "Who the hell was Jonathan Idema?"

This guy.

Well, Jonathan Idema was a... troubled individual. I'm not going to discuss the grey areas of his backstory, as they are quite numerous and very confusing. What we do know is that Idema became (in)famous for trekking over to Afghanistan, and attempting to secure bounty booty by kidnapping and torturing Afghans for the whereabouts of Taliban insurgents.

A-TACS FG Unis Pre-Orderable

The folks at Predator BDU now have A-TACS FG gear up for pre-order, and anticipate an arrival of late February to early March. You can read a full release from their media arm on Predator Intelligence right here. While you're there, be sure to check out the frequent articles they publish, most recently including some Shot Show coverage. Grey Ops didn't get to attend this year, hoping to make next year happen (Ontario Shot Show Posse anyone?).

Mag-Fed Paintball Surge Down South

The introduction of PsiOps, inexpensive RAP4 conversion kits and a change in the economic climate for paintballers seem to finally have acted as a catalysts towards mag-fed play in the United States. Perhaps this year will be the year we see a large surge towards the adoption of magazine fed markers, or limited play in general in major venues/markets of the states.

Cerakote Update + Paintball Marker Cerakoting

2 Augusts ago, I posted a small blurb about a process called Cerakote, which coats firearms with a small layer of ceramic spray to make for a great looking and extremely durable finish. I've found this cool video depicting the Cerakote process:



What's more, there's somebody on MCB offering Cerakote services for paintball markers (at what appears to be a pretty affordable price, ~$100). Here are a couple examples of some of their work:

China Lake Airsoft/Paintball 40mm Launcher

Youtuber Morisato54 has made an awesome airsoft/paintball version of the China Lake Grenade Launcher. While not so useful for firing Nerf Vortices (or vortexes, if you so prefer), it would certainly be a fun bb/paintball scatter gun.

Grey Ops Gets a Facelift

Unless you're reading this as an RSS feed or email, you've probably already noticed that Grey Ops has undergone a facelift of sorts. It was a struggle, but I think I managed to maintain the previous aesthetic feel of Grey Ops, while making it a bit more streamlined and in some ways more spartan.

All the content previously on Grey Ops has been transferred over (with some of the videos not filling the entire post section, but that doesn't really affect anything), including the 3000ish Disqus comments. While it would appear that the column containing the post content has shrunk, it hasn't. It actually increased in size, but the sidebar increased considerably more in size so I can take advantage of some new content. In particular, I migrated a mirror of the chat gadget into the sidebar (with sound automatically off so nobody gets annoyed), so people can leave shoutouts or chat it up on the main page after having read an article.

Also, sharing and "liking" whatever post/page you're on has gotten a lot easier with the integration of a floating sharing object to the left of the blog. It took about an hour of fiddling with positioning to get it working well for every platform I had access to, but if it looks like junk on your end (ie overlapping into the middle, which it never should) please let me know!

Another  cool feature that is now possible is that I can now set up image backgrounds on the blog very easily (static ones). So what I may do in the near future is have a Grey Ops photo contest, with the winner having their photo act as the background for a period of a month or something.

If there is a feature people would like to see added, now's the time! I'm still in blog makeover mode so it would be very easy to integrate something new. And please, let me know what you think in general!