The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Rogerborg]

despite being a 50hr+ event it ended after "only" 36 hours as people on the (other!) team got a bit tired/fed up

I'm always surprised if we still have a mostly full site at 4pm on a Sunday.  It's one reason why I've put off going to a mil/film-sim because I'd expect it to dribble to a denuded end, or to see mass packing-in the moment the rain starts.

just tried to book on at there portishead site to be informed I’m banned from all there sites , didn’t like the fact I dared to complain and call them out on there terrible customer service

I do feel compelled to wonder why you'd want to go back to a site run by a nobber.

Well, now you know he's a petulant nobber as well, so that's another reason to find somewhere, anywhere, else to play.  

 

[Tackle]

Would appear so , just been speaking to a former marshal there and he said , you can overkill , ignore  MED’s or any of the other safety rules as much as you want and all you’ll get is a game sit out or a go home early but dare to question the owners business ethics and your out on your arse for good ! 
as I have now discovered ! ?‍???

TBH probably done you a favour, you'll only go & get the hump again, clearly it's not a firm to waste any more time & money on, irrespective of your ban you naughty boy?

 

[Druid799]

I do feel compelled to wonder why you'd want to go back to a site run by a nobber.

Well, now you know he's a petulant nobber as well, so that's another reason to find somewhere, anywhere, else to play.  

The portishead site is a lot smaller than the main site and neither he or any of his cronies ever go there , and it’s run really well by the small team that’s always there . Hence not a problem for me .

 

[Rogerborg]

The portishead site is a lot smaller than the main site and neither he or any of his cronies ever go there , and it’s run really well by the small team that’s always there . Hence not a problem for me .

Then can you talk to them directly about playing there?  Who knows, maybe it'll spark some insurrection among the downtrodden masses.

 

[Tackle]

The portishead site is a lot smaller than the main site and neither he or any of his cronies ever go there , and it’s run really well by the small team that’s always there . Hence not a problem for me .

Walk on & pay on the day ?, Or book in another name etc ?, If the main dickheads don't show their faces, assumedly they'll never know ?, & If the Portishead crew are a decent bunch, can't see them making a fuss.

 

[Druid799]

Walk on & pay on the day ?, Or book in another name etc ?, If the main dickheads don't show their faces, assumedly they'll never know ?, & If the Portishead crew are a decent bunch, can't see them making a fuss.

I wish I could but it’s all booked on through the main site via registered emails , no turn up pay and play allowed mores the pity otherwise that’s what I’d do . 

 

[Tackle]

I wish I could but it’s all booked on through the main site via registered emails , no turn up pay and play allowed mores the pity otherwise that’s what I’d do . 

Set up another email & PayPal account in a different name ?(maybe use middle names etc, your lot usually have half a dozen ?), Scammers seem to be able to do it all the time with no repercussions ?, It's not like your planning anything illegal.

 

[Enid_Puceflange]

Well, it was inevitable 

We had to ban a player last weekend

A fresh face and had been out regularly for the last 3 weeks. 
A chap who can’t handle the adrenaline that gets through his veins. Visit number two for him and he was told to slow down & calm down, over aggressive play and blind firing with his AA-12

later that day, he full auto rinsed me in the face from about 10 meters, again blind firing, another warning was issued.
Second from last game of the day that day and his adrenaline was obviously off the chart, he was over shooting a player and couldn’t hear the “HIT” shout from his target over the full auto noise of his AA-12, so a Marshall had to get his attention by shooting him in the ass full auto to get him to take his finger off the trigger!

Eventually last weekend, again the AA-12 was out in full spaz mode, and he ignored 3 test shots from a marshal whilst he was 5 meters away from the site owner/operator 

A 4 week ban was handed out

IF , if he comes back and does it again, it’ll be permanent. 
 

I have never seen anyone banned before , nor continue to be a knob even after a warning.

He said the decision to ban him was ridiculous, and that he would be taking his group of mates away with him.

They stayed until the end of the day ?

 

[Rogerborg]

Good, I'd like to see a lot more of this happening. I mean, I wish it didn't have to, but when it does, site owners should mean everything that they say regarding rules and consequences.

We can all make mistakes, and get a bit of red mist on at times. But there are a very small number of excitable spunktrumpets who are incapable of or unwilling to play by the same rules and with the same good humour and restraint as everyone else, and ultimately the only way to deal with them is to make them some other hobby's problem.

 

[rj1986]

But there are a very small number of excitable spunktrumpets who are incapable of or unwilling to play by the same rules and with the same good humour and restraint as everyone else, and ultimately the only way to deal with them is to make them some other hobby's problem.

These are the same people who play rugby just so they can make big hits and/or fight people. Or play Sunday league to two foot players.

Anyway, my airsoft day… didn’t. DMR is still in a queue to get fixed after eating the mosfet, so I got my M249 out the cupboard. That then locked up during my test fire meaning I need to take it down to unlock it. I took that as a sign and moved it to next week.

The most annoying bit is this would be the game to get my UKARA reactivated and I have a TAC41 waiting for me at Firesupport. 

 

[Impulse]

I had a surprise airsoft day today at a totally new site. Was literally their first game and the first time I've gone to a site (in the UK) that isn't Worthing! ?

I was down at S.W.A near Hailsham and it was grand. No site knowledge meant I really had to play carefully, and the wind and torrential rain weren't helping me with my bolt action VSR (the number of shots I watched whizz off to the side...). It was a pretty one-sided day though, since our team was playing aggressive and I think a lot of the other people on site were new, while our team had a coordinated team, with some ex-forces guys, making up the core of it. My highlights for the day were:

• An enemy sniper running up to take cover behind the tree I was sitting in front of without noticing me sitting in front of it with my russian leafy hood thing up. I turned with the mk23 and he tried to say "bang" while his hand wasn't even on the trigger of his rifle (was carrying it at the front of the stock) and there were no bang rule on site, as said in the safety brief. Plus, MED is a thing, so I just shot with the mk23. I'd have been slightly (not much) more inclined to take the bang kill anyway if it wasn't clear he was initially oblivious to my presence.
  
• A "mom, get the camera!" moment where a large squad of 8 managed to flank around our team to the objective. I waited for them to get in positions where I could shoot them and just started picking them off. With how quiet the HPA VSR is, none of them knew where the shots were coming from and I took out 6 of them before some of our team's respawns came in and mopped up the rest. Spent the rest of that game behind various tree stumps in the middle of the field and I think I got something like 15 kills in that game since they never pinpointed me, but kept moving past me so I could shoot them in the side and back, which never happens with a boltie! I'm usually lucky to get 5 kills in a game!
  
• Hitting someone in the helmet with the VSR (2.3J on .48s!), the satisfying "dink", the recoil of the head from the impact and... then him not taking the hit. ?
  

The only downside of the day was... me being on a keto diet and the lunch they served was bangers, mash and beans. I watched enviously as my team mates devoured their mashed potatos and beans while I was munching on my sausages ?

On the whole, I really enjoyed the change of scenery. The site has some teething issues, which I'd expect from a first ever game, but I think with more time and more skirmish weekends it could end up being a fantastic site.

 

[Shamal]

I had a surprise airsoft day today at a totally new site. Was literally their first game and the first time I've gone to a site (in the UK) that isn't Worthing! ?

I was down at S.W.A near Hailsham and it was grand. No site knowledge meant I really had to play carefully, and the wind and torrential rain weren't helping me with my bolt action VSR (the number of shots I watched whizz off to the side...). It was a pretty one-sided day though, since our team was playing aggressive and I think a lot of the other people on site were new, while our team had a coordinated team, with some ex-forces guys, making up the core of it. My highlights for the day were:

• An enemy sniper running up to take cover behind the tree I was sitting in front of without noticing me sitting in front of it with my russian leafy hood thing up. I turned with the mk23 and he tried to say "bang" while his hand wasn't even on the trigger of his rifle (was carrying it at the front of the stock) and there were no bang rule on site, as said in the safety brief. Plus, MED is a thing, so I just shot with the mk23. I'd have been slightly (not much) more inclined to take the bang kill anyway if it wasn't clear he was initially oblivious to my presence.
  
• A "mom, get the camera!" moment where a large squad of 8 managed to flank around our team to the objective. I waited for them to get in positions where I could shoot them and just started picking them off. With how quiet the HPA VSR is, none of them knew where the shots were coming from and I took out 6 of them before some of our team's respawns came in and mopped up the rest. Spent the rest of that game behind various tree stumps in the middle of the field and I think I got something like 15 kills in that game since they never pinpointed me, but kept moving past me so I could shoot them in the side and back, which never happens with a boltie! I'm usually lucky to get 5 kills in a game!
  
• Hitting someone in the helmet with the VSR (2.3J on .48s!), the satisfying "dink", the recoil of the head from the impact and... then him not taking the hit. ?
  

The only downside of the day was... me being on a keto diet and the lunch they served was bangers, mash and beans. I watched enviously as my team mates devoured their mashed potatos and beans while I was munching on my sausages ?

On the whole, I really enjoyed the change of scenery. The site has some teething issues, which I'd expect from a first ever game, but I think with more time and more skirmish weekends it could end up being a fantastic site.

Well done sounds like a great day ?

 

[Rogerborg]

These are the same [spunktrumpets] who play rugby just so they can make big hits and/or fight people. Or play Sunday league to two foot players.

Prompted by the tabletop gaming thread, there are even people who throw a tantrum when a dice roll goes wrong while they're playing with model soldiers.

One notable contrast is with steel weapon combat sports (reenactment, HEMA) where it's very quickly and absolutely unambiguous who's able to keep their head, and who's inclined to go full spinny-choppy as soon as the adrenaline kicks in.

 

[AK47frizzle]

Soaked. Soaked to fuck. Removed my gloves for one game because they were soaked, got both middle and ring finger shot which are now bruised and swollen in a nice purple colour. Goggles fogged up to fuck all day. People left one by one because of the weather. When it ended, walked for 30 min in torrential rain with no cover and sat on the bus for an hour with all my stuff laid out everywhere on the top floor.

Still was a decent day though.

 

[Shamal]

Dedication.?

Gotta have the rough with the smooth.lol

I think it was 2017 at the nae and on the Sunday game the heavens opened. I had wet gear on but it came through every opening. When I took mags out water and bbs came out lol.

We stuck it out until three and looked at each other and said "this is fucking crazy" to be honest I though I was gonna get electrocuted every time I fired up the badger! ??

Regards 

 

[Panama]

In a word crap!

My two sons and I were really excited to play at Combat Thetford again after the amazing day we had had earlier in the year.

Kit all prepped, all magazines loaded (oh my god how many mags ? and we traveled the 1hr 15 mins to get there for 09:00 knowing with everything prepared in advance we would have plenty of time for chrono etc etc.

Sadly at chrone, unbeknown to me or my sons they had in the last month decided to enforce the bio bb rule and were asking to see proof of the bottles before chrono. I didn't see anything on the website or on the ticket info when booking to highlight that this was now being enforced.

we were now panicking and feeling on the back foot immediately.

That threw all 3 of us in to a panic and cost us about £100 in bio bb's from their shop for all our weapons.

All mags unloaded and reloaded in the tent and off we go again to chrono.

• ASG CZ p-09 using c02 (I don't have green gas mags at all) for the first time in 12 months of skirmishes is showing as hot and can't be used.
  
• The sniper rifle is flinging 0.43g bb's all over the place and won't show a consistent FPS when it had been fine 2 weeks before (after stripping it down last night I found lube in the bucking so at least I now know why ?
  
• MP7 and predator are fine but I don't have a load out configured to be able to carry and use them together and they are probably too similar to make it worth it other than just the pure fun of the  TM MP7.
  
• Then it transpires that the forestry commission has forced them to use a different part of the forest so all the areas we played in before, including the amazing and massive village, are not available.
  
• The woodland is massively overgrown with 3/4foot plus bracken so anything not a sniper or DMR is massively disadvantaged.
  
• My eldest sons lmg is playing up and just stops when the batteries seem to still have lots of life left in them:
  
• By 12:00 my youngest has had enough of the games and terrain and gives his predator to my eldest and stops playing.
  
• By lunch time we have all had enough. Have some lunch, pack up and set off back home again.
  

We are all very disappointed that the change of playing area and the enforcing of bio bb's was not shouted from the highest rooftops and like many others apparently, were not made aware until we turned up.

It will take an awful lot for us to return here again now.

 

[Rogerborg]

Sorry to hear that, but are you saying that you weren't loaded with bio BBs at a site that you knew was bio only, but which hadn't been checking up to now?

Personally I always make sure that I can show a bottle or bag marked "bio", for what that's worth. 

 

[Panama]

Sorry to hear that, but are you saying that you weren't loaded with bio BBs at a site that you knew was bio only, but which hadn't been checking up to now?

Personally I always make sure that I can show a bottle or bag marked "bio", for what that's worth. 

No, apparently they were a bio site but up until the last month never enforced it so allowed non-bio (normal) bb's as well. Where as now they are strictly enforcing it but didn't shout about it as loud as they could have done before people turned up on the day.

 

[EDcase]

Sorry to hear of your troubles Panama.

We do have off days sometimes where everything seems to go wrong ?

 

[Panama]

Sorry to hear of your troubles Panama.

We do have off days sometimes where everything seems to go wrong ?

lol that is true and in fairness it's been a while since the last one ?