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NAF23 bookings are now open...

AirSniper

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In case you didn't know, the bookings have been live for a couple of days now. 

This year the are open earlier than last year.

Just search for National Airsoft Festival 2023 to find.

 
Needs a better name, cos the abbreviation of NAF isn't really selling it ! ?

 
The heads up are for those who want to go, not those who want to wank themselves off or pull their pubes out.

All I can say is that from my experience, a good laugh, HPA players play by the rules as theres no wankers there.

 
theres no wankers there.
Bloody hell, even an MP couldn't say that with a straight face. In my experience cunts and cheaters are attracted to it like flies to a fresh dog turd

Pretty sure individually pulling out my pubes with tweezers would also be more fun than attending......
Careful, you'll give the guys at Killbox ideas

 
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Since delving into this hobby I have learnt 2 things from those that go

1. The social and those you know make the weekend 

2. The Airsofting is shit

Those people that left the toys in the car all weekend had the best time....

 
Seems to me that it's an airsoft event for people who don't really like playing airsoft.  So, basically a bunch of sweaty middle aged men desperate to hang out with other sweaty middle aged men, dress up in overpriced fetish gear, and compare piston sizes.  I'll stick to motorcycle meets for that, thanks.

 
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Don't know which NAF you're going to, but that is not the general consensus I've heard from others.


You know the old saying: if you can't spot the sucker at the poker table, then it's you.

I suspect that can be generalised to wankers and airsoft.

 
Poor guy can't catch a break, every post they makes he gets railed on ?

 
Brother was gauging my interest about attending NAF in '24 (too busy for this year) and apart from trade stands, food and it being a piss-up I wasn't terribly interested. I read stories about how the queue for chono was over an hour long and the standard of play (for those who did play) was shit and not even worthwhile.

Am I pretty much in the right area?

 
Hey at least they chrono......

I went to a walk on day at ground zero and they didnt bother. Oddly enough myself and the guys I went there with walked off at lunchtime after "oops we've forgot the chrono, anyone got a hot gun"

"HPA players you're all set to legal fps, right" and the ever classic "your first mistake was using midcaps here".

That last one was after identifying a particularly obviously dressed player to a marshall having expended 2 mags at him at close range and been ignored (the rifle I was using at the time was notorious for being freakishly accurate and consistant, it was like a laser and at the kind of range that bbs could be seen bouncing off him).

 
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Hey at least they chrono......

I went to a walk on day at ground zero and they didnt bother. Oddly enough myself and the guys I went there with walked off at lunchtime after "oops we've forgot the chrono, anyone got a hot gun"

"HPA players you're all set to legal fps, right" and the ever classic "your first mistake was using midcaps here".

That last one was after identifying a particularly obviously dressed player to a marshall having expended 2 mags at him at close range and been ignored (the rifle I was using at the time was notorious for being freakishly accurate and consistant, it was like a laser and at the kind of range that bbs could be seen bouncing off him).
It sounds like a great site to visit ?.

 
Since delving into this hobby I have learnt 2 things from those that go

1. The social and those you know make the weekend 

2. The Airsofting is shit

Those people that left the toys in the car all weekend had the best time....
Pretty much. If I'm going to sit in a field getting pissed for the weekend then there's no way I'm paying 100 odd quid for it

That last one was after identifying a particularly obviously dressed player to a marshall having expended 2 mags at him at close range and been ignored (the rifle I was using at the time was notorious for being freakishly accurate and consistant, it was like a laser and at the kind of range that bbs could be seen bouncing off him).
That's about the standard for the NAF and it gets worse on the Sunday afternoon. A highlight for me was the kid who I shot in the chest from about 10 yards with my 8mm shotgun. He then ducked into the ferns (I could see them moving as he moved) and when he stuck his head up again I gave him the good news, at which point he started bitching about overkill.

As for the marshals, I got the impression they were more interested in struting around going look at me in my hi vis vest, I'm important than doing their job.

The last part which really put me off returning was the number of idiots walking round the safezone with a finger on the trigger and the safety off. Combine this with I hardly saw anyone actually make sure they didn't have one up the spout and I'm surprised nobody lost an eye

 
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Portsmouth based myself, figured "fuck it a game day is better than a sunday sat round bored" turned out I was wrong.

@CannonfoddertCannonfodderthis was just a normal walk on with less people and therefore supposedly better marshall to punter ratio. My NAF stories are worse. That said all the marshalls on that day were too busy stood in a group discussin their saturday night to actually get involved in running the games.

 
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Well I'll put a good word in for the national Airsoft event.

I've been going there since 2016 and will go again this year(god willing)because,in my opinion, it's a good,well run event with bonuses that aren't offered at any other Airsoft venue.(correct me if I'm wrong).

It's fine if you have tried it and decided it's not your thing but if you have never gone then it's a bit like the argument along the lines of 'I hate prawns,I've never tasted one myself but a friend said they are disgusting' 

It's a good,fun getaway,in my opinion, with the chance of finding some good bargain gear. Oh and the gameplay is pretty good too ?

Chrono is pretty strict and diligently enforced. I have been in game checked.

 
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Don't get me wrong its an okay pissup/camping weekend with dogshit airsoft thrown in...... however for the same money there's at least 1 local festival which does the weekend camp/pissup/goodtimes with mates better and costs the same.

 
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