Would you cancel in bad weather?

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It's my son's birthday party tomorrow, 10 of us going Airsofting.
We play outdoors in woods and scrubland, it's wet and muddy even on a good day.
Met office says 32 mile an hour winds and 90% chance of heavy rain.
I hate to ruin his day, but don't want kids to get hurt or break my toys.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
 
Sorry this may not be helpful but, nah it'll be fine! (Maybe)...the truth is, you never know but might be a good op to experience that weather - play it slow and steady. Up to you mate.
 
Thanks mate. I want to go, we have winter gear and camp all year round. Just needed some opinions really. I'd hate to spoil his day
Cheers
 
Depends, I do play in the rain and wind but usually leave early once soaked through and cold. A few mates drop out at the first mention of rain.

Toys are usually fine in the rain, if they are kids they should be light enough not to break the guns if the land on them.

Maybe ask your boy to send a WhatsApp around his mates to get their opinion? Do they want to play in the rain, that might give you your answer.
 
Thanks mate. We not snowflakes, they good strong Welsh boys and used to rain. I just worry being responsible for other people's kids.
 
I am a hot weather airsofter and so the cold and the wet are... really not my thing and I usually will just sit on the range if the weather is really crap and tune my rifles, hang out with friends in the safe zone etc. (I'm not a fair weather airsofter; I will also play without issue in the temperatures that make others wilt), but I would still say go for it. Pack accordingly, bring waterproofs and a change of clothes, but still go for it. If the lads decide they don't want to play, you can always leave early, but they might really enjoy the day.
 
It rather depends on your son and everyone else who is going. How old are they? How experienced are the others at being out all day in bad weather? 32mph winds and heavy rain might be too much for some kids; what are you going to do if some of them decide they don't want to play?
 
How old are the other kids? Sounds like you and your boy are not going to be phased based on your camping experience but are the other kids equally tough?

Might be worth sending them a pack list - change of clothes, bags for wet and muddy gear etc just so you don’t get lumbered with 10 whining kids who didn’t think to bring essentials.

Woods will prob cut the wind speed down but will be a boggy mess unless the drainage is good.

I’d do the entire day at 50% effort so as not to burn out slogging through the slop and moreso not to fall over. Wet tree roots are going to be like anti-personnel mines.
 
With good wet weather kit & the right mindset its doable........
But
Yep, you're responsible for everyone's kids, not just your own, as gunnoat diplomat said, warn the lads to slow it down, there's no prizes for trips to casualty, maybe push the mindset "right lads, today's game is all about the fieldcraft, slow & steady wins the race, sneakiest motherfudger wins a tub of Haribo" etc.
Its what I'd do ?
 
Brilliant replies. Thanks everyone. We gonna go for it. Sons in the garage scoping out 2 snipers. He's better at it than me...
 
Colin Allen said:
It rather depends on your son and everyone else who is going. How old are they? How experienced are the others at being out all day in bad weather? 32mph winds and heavy rain might be too much for some kids; what are you going to do if some of them decide they don't want to play?
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They all 14 or 15.
 
It's a hard call to make.

Wind is a killer, you'll be struggling to hit things. Rain can play merry hell with fogging up optics, glasses and gumming up guns on top of just being miserable.

That said, the number of times the weather man has predicted the end times only for it to sail merrily around wherever i've been playing.

Where you draw the line is very personal, i would happily play in a freezing gale but rain doesnt have to try hard to get me to change my mind. But there's folk wont play in anything but dry double digits and there's folk who'd merrily play through a hurricane crashing into a blizzard.

Tl:dr, its up to you, guess worst case is postpone to another week?
 
Adolf Hamster said:
It's a hard call to make.

Wind is a killer, you'll be struggling to hit things. Rain can play merry hell with fogging up optics, glasses and gumming up guns on top of just being miserable.

That said, the number of times the weather man has predicted the end times only for it to sail merrily around wherever i've been playing.

Where you draw the line is very personal, i would happily play in a freezing gale but rain doesnt have to try hard to get me to change my mind. But there's folk wont play in anything but dry double digits and there's folk who'd merrily play through a hurricane crashing into a blizzard.

Tl:dr, its up to you, guess worst case is postpone to another week?
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Thanks Adolf ....
Not a sentence I often type... 😆


He wants to go. We will take all sensible precautions and I've messaged all the kids. I'll bring plenty of extra layers and things we may use.
Cheers mate.
 
I've had some poor times out in the rain... but maybe I just haven't done it often enough to get the hang of the workarounds.
Main problems I had were fogging and/or enough rain the lenses to just plain not being able to see what was going on - so you get to the frontline only to get zapped by the first guy who sees you - and you don't even see them. Rinse-and-repeat. Got frustrating (but I do tend to be a bit gung-ho so that can happen in good weather too).

I also found optics pretty useless, so would take them all off and trust to watching the BB's flight and walking the shots in (more-so than usual. I do like a properly zeroed-in optic to get first shot hits).
 
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I've had some poor times out in the rain... but maybe I just haven't done it often enough to get the hang of the workarounds.
Main problems I had were fogging and/or enough rain the lenses to just plain not being able to see what was going on - so you get to the frontline only to get zapped by the first guy who sees you - and you don't even see them. Rinse-and-repeat. Got frustrating (but I do tend to be a bit gung-ho so that can happen in good weather too).

I also found optics pretty useless, so would take them all off and trust to watching the BB's flight and walking the shots in (more-so than usual. I do like a properly zeroed-in optic to get first shot hits).
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Yeh, I wear glasses and the fogging is always an issue. I stumble around and get shot repeatedly. 😆
 
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