The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Badgerlicious]

So a friend and I had an impromptu day out at driver wood, as impromptu as you can be with pre-booking anyway. I was trying out my new ghillie cobra hood, new camo clothes, and a new scope. They've got a very fancy staging area, lots of benches for everyone, despite the probably around 200 people there, a cafe, quite nice toilets, and a little area to watch the paint ballers while you eat lunch. We played entirely on the two long roads with 'the maze' in the middle, which might as well be a cqb area with how dense it is. It's a nice area to play in though, there's a few sightlines and vehicles in the middle. 

First downer was that I forgot my fan goggles, so I had to use my shooting glasses which at least don't blind me, but do fog a bit. This also meant I couldn't run face pro with camo on the front as it would make the fogging even worse. not a super effective ghillie with a big pink face in the middle. 

Anyway, first game I had a nice spot watching the double decker bus on the road, but about half way through the first game, maybe 30 minutes in, there was a call of 'game over' from a nearby field of paintballers, and I thought it was our game, so I stood up and then got shot in the head, and never managed to push that far in. Kind of a negative imo. Also someone very angry at people not calling hits and being overshot. Actually lots of complains of overshooting. Personally I blame the vegetation for this, I didn't see hit shruggers myself. The veg is just thin enough you can often see movement through it but your bbs will get thrown every which way bar forwards. Still, it's not a pleasant experience to have people yelling at each other nearby. 

It did seem to get better as the day went on, maybe señor shouty went home or calmed down, idk. There was a pretty cool game mode with where we had to capture some "rogues", players with a 15 sec timeout on hit. We also did some bomb escorts, and some zombies at the end. Although parallel games does have some drawbacks with fields so close, it does mean rentals aren't forced against walk-ons, and while I'm not against that, it means almost every player is playing nice and aggressively, supporting the objectives and so on. It felt very even in the teams, though I have zero idea who won any of the games, lol. 

Ghillie worked really well, especially in the thick veg of the maze. I had one player only spot me due to the neon green armband I had to wear, and some not see me even when I was just milling about standing up. With my fan goggles, face covering, and the more subdued colour of my local field's arm bands, I have some high hopes. Though I do still need some pictures in the game zone to really judge it. I am 100% shortening the back a little though, I kept stepping on the tail ends that had gotten a bit ripped. 

Jack pyke digicam. Pricey, fits small so instead of a large I'm a 2xl now, but a really nice soft shell outer layer. I thought it would be a touch rustley but I was able to move silently with it. I was kept dry of all the damp mud I was kneeling in, kept warm though it's not super cold today. Blends well with the ghillie. I like it. Again, would be curious to see some pics of myself in it. I'm really bad at remembering to take pics. 

Scope was good too, it's a Hawke Vantage. Nice and easy to zero, hasn't moved. Did general scope things well. When I wasn't fogging it was wonderfully clear. 

Overall a decent day for standard £25 walk on pricing.

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

It was definitely a lesson for the new members to care after their kit, as 4 magazines and two guns died in the span of 30 minutes.

Pisses me off to have to lend spares to others, especially when loaned equipment is not cared for either.  

 

[concretesnail]

Sold day at anzio for the battlesim on day.

Objectives rolled out and wave reinforcement type spawns worked well.

Other than the odd few trying to make up their own rules as they went along, including a bang bang rule, it was great.

 

[Rogerborg]

Also someone very angry at people not calling hits and being overshot.

The site should have been all over that.  Nothing turns a day toxic faster than some bangstick screeching "CHEETAR!", or pissing and moaning loudly, because it's a very audible signal that the site is weakly run, and not enforcing its own rules.

Does my head in, the amount of stuff that's said at briefings, then ignored on the field. Don't waste everyone's time declaring that "Cheat calling is as bad as cheating" if you're not going to actually treat it as such.  Non-dicks don't need to be lectured, and dicks aren't listening anyway.  Less talk, more do.

 

[Impulse]

First downer was that I forgot my fan goggles, so I had to use my shooting glasses which at least don't blind me, but do fog a bit. This also meant I couldn't run face pro with camo on the front as it would make the fogging even worse. not a super effective ghillie with a big pink face in the middle. 

Get some camo cream. I bought some for when I fully ghillie up as it lets me break up the solid skin-tones while also allowing me to not wear anything on my lower face and steam up my prescription insers, as when I wear lower face, even with my mesh glasses, the inserts always steam up. However, that being said, I'm enjoying specifically not ghillie-ing up and still going invisible. Good practice that  

Anyway, first game I had a nice spot watching the double decker bus on the road, but about half way through the first game, maybe 30 minutes in, there was a call of 'game over' from a nearby field of paintballers, and I thought it was our game, so I stood up and then got shot in the head, and never managed to push that far in. Kind of a negative imo. Also someone very angry at people not calling hits and being overshot. Actually lots of complains of overshooting. Personally I blame the vegetation for this, I didn't see hit shruggers myself. The veg is just thin enough you can often see movement through it but your bbs will get thrown every which way bar forwards. Still, it's not a pleasant experience to have people yelling at each other nearby. 

I've had people moan at me a lot with the classic "I hit you loads call your hits!!" when they laced up a nearby bush really well, but not a single BB has hit me. As a BASR user, I am painfully familiar with the effects of leaves and twigs on the trajectory of a BB. However, not everyone is as familiar with this and just assume that because they fired a whole high-cap into the bush that one of them would punch through. Totally get that though, angry people throwing tantrums can ruin a day for a lot of people.

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

My airsoft day has been shit.
UPS delivered me a couple of bags of BBs, a new foregrip, and a Titan battery.
But didn't bother themselves ringing our loud doorbell, just left it out front instead.  

So some thieving git nicked it all.

Arse.

Edit:.  Blimey. AirsoftAnonymous sent me an email at 9pm (which I've only just read) to let me know UPS made a bollox of their status updates, so it's not actually been delivered and then nicked after all!

Huzzah!  So it's now a good day ?

 

[Skara]

My airsoft day has been shit.
UPS delivered me a couple of bags of BBs, a new foregrip, and a Titan battery.
But didn't bother themselves ringing our loud doorbell, just left it out front instead.  

So some thieving git nicked it all.

Arse.

Edit:.  Blimey. AirsoftAnonymous sent me an email at 9pm (which I've only just read) to let me know UPS made a bollox of their status updates, so it's not actually been delivered and then nicked after all!

Huzzah!  So it's now a good day ?

What a rollercoaster!

Glad your stuff didn't get stolen

 

[Nick G]

Had a great airsoft day today. Low numbers but I like those days, so much more tactical. All the players were in good mood , no issues with hit taking , hard faught games and blowing pumpkins up with pyro, what's not to love ?

And the GBBR went well all day, infact the cold got to me before it did the to the rifle ?

 

[Badgerlicious]

Really great day out, even when losing most games. Ghillie cape/cobra hood is working wonderfully, had someone within two feet of me while lying down, and it enabled me to shoot many, many children ? I think some of the rentals got a bit confused with taking hits, buuuut they couldn't see me so I just shot them again if they acted alive. They seemed to get better through the day though, so they do learn! 

 

[Impulse]

Really great day out, even when losing most games. Ghillie cape/cobra hood is working wonderfully, had someone within two feet of me while lying down, and it enabled me to shoot many, many children ? I think some of the rentals got a bit confused with taking hits, buuuut they couldn't see me so I just shot them again if they acted alive. They seemed to get better through the day though, so they do learn! 

I can't say I had the same, unfortunately. Rampant non-hit taking I can usually deal with (they didn't learn with me. Was dinking them with the 1.1J VSR and they were just ignoring it wholesale), but then both of my gas pistols also said "nah, too cold" today and then to top it all off with a guy charging at me to do a knife kill and I had to actively stop myself from putting him in an arm lock since it's a reflex at this point since I started martial arts. Muscle memory and reflexive reactions are interesting (at Worthing, knife kills are stealth kills to avoid the situation that almost happened with me today)

Roll on next game day. These things happen and my last few game days have been cracking. I was due a bit of a crappy one, so now that universal balance is restored I can look forward to the Christmas game next month safe in the knowledge I've done my crappy one already

EDIT: And either there was an error in dispatch, or a Karen just called the police on me as I headed back into my house. All the gats were fully covered and in bags (I've been in this hobby for 16 years, I know how it works), nothing was showing, but just had two coppers turn up saying they were called to this address, though they didn't say what for. No trouble and they went on their way, but quite coincidental that I just got home like 20 mins ago and had them turn up. Probably just an error, but rather coincidental.

 

[Badgerlicious]

(they didn't learn with me. Was dinking them with the 1.1J VSR and they were just ignoring it wholesale)

Damn. Maybe I'm too forgiving. It was just very confusing in the morning, I'd shoot the rental kids, and they'd sort of run off behind some bushes and come back, one even dry fired at me when dead, so I pointed my gun and him and he puts his hand up and says "no I'm dead". Just a strange situation tbh. I held a lot of them off in that water tube game later on though, and they seemed to be taking their hits pretty well during that game. I didn't notice anyone else, personally. The wind didn't help at all though. ?

And either there was an error in dispatch, or a Karen just called the police on me as I headed back into my house

I heard about this at the end, sounded like someone was walking along with a bare gun out, but if it was you with gun bags that's a serious overreaction. 

Christmas game should be good though. No sneaking for me at that one

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Good day at Special Ops at Emberton (nr Olney nr Milton Keynes)

Everyone as friendly as always, people took their hits. Perhaps because they saw me setting a good example so many times ?

After yesterday's problems with my batteries it was pleasing to get through a day trouble free.  Almost took the old AK out for a walk but ended up sticking with the M4 just because 4 hi cap mags on the belt is very reassuring.

Made one 'hero moment' taking out the bomb carrier and his escort before returning the bomb to my team.  Not bad for a fat old bloke with dodgy ankles

knackered but happy... soaking in the bath ?

 

[Impulse]

I heard about this at the end, sounded like someone was walking along with a bare gun out, but if it was you with gun bags that's a serious overreaction. 

Yeah, I heard about that too. The guy I get a lift with is one of the staff and he pulled over on his way back from the lockup to give them a stern talking to. With what happened recently in Liverpool, that could've been baaaaaaaaad. Was a bunch of kiddies waltzing down the A27 with guns out.

Christmas game should be good though. No sneaking for me at that one

I'll still sneak. I did last year in a tinsel ghillie and got away with a lot more than I expected, so I'll try it again.  

 

[Nicnicol]

Good and bad day.... went to use my AA T10 for the first time and the cylinder head blow out of the cyclinder. Now I need a new cylinder and head 

 

[Skara]

I had a rather bad day.

Decided to take the t11 out for a spin, numbers were low so I thought it would be a fun easy day.

Couldn't be more wrong.

Wind kicked up instantly so I basically had to shoot ghetto style the whole morning, plus I kept making bad positioning decisions so I ended up with a whopping 0 kills day.

Well, one, but still disappointing.

I suck at sniping and my field doesn't help.

 

[simonp]

A very good day, albiet i thought i was going to go badly after the G36 started the day chronoing hot (im still not sure why, need to have a tinker this week)...luckily the AK didnt let me down and therefore got a more than usual full day of gameplay and i forgot how much it makes me smile.

Great marshalling and a really good group so really nothing to complain about (until tomorrow when all my joints and back really start to remind me)

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

Filmsim at Tuddenham today.  Pretty simple domination and timer based games today.  TBH, it felt more like a standard skirmish than the usual filmsim, but fun nonetheless.  Attended with the lad, his mate and an old friend that has not played for over a year due to covid restrictions etc.

In the morning we had a standard but very clear safety brief.  As a rule, these are of a rare kind.  What they say they do usually actually happens.  Chrono well before kick-off, so any issues with fps can be dealt with, and spare rifs can be fetched.  

Nice clear game brief delivered with a bit of humour, simple rules and a flashy magnetic backed map of the area/overhead photo thing.  Whatever it is, it made knowing what do where easy.

Game stared almost on time, which is nice.  The armband team attacked a pair of positions with the aim of setting off a timer.  I managed to run to one timer fairly early and pressed the wrong button, because despite the clear game brief, I have a crap memory.  

Once the timer had been correctly started, we moved to the next objective.  With the first completed, I managed to work my way to the second timer.  About twelve far pluckier previous attempts had failed, but these had led to the opposition giving away their positions.  This was only possible due to some good teamwork and pretty clear communication, which is impressive for a random group of strangers I think.  Whatever, the case, I was hit about five feet from the timer with the marshal counting down from ten.  At the count of eight someone threw themselves through the hail of BBs and started to medic me, until the penny dropped...  he realised that I was shouting to ignoe me and get the timer, which he dived at just in time for the countdown to end, and we lost.  Seriously, it was hysterical.  His seriously nice gesture used up too much precious time, the game had been great fun and no one seemed to mind taking the L.

The next game turned around and was even more fun than the last.  Having sussed the best spots that had blatted us previously, we swiftly set up position in them.  An inability to stop talking by a couple of the players meant that we were swiftly discovered.  I retook the position despite heavy fire from the lad whose mouth had lost it, as we had split up after respawning, and he had forgotten what I was wearing I think. The opposition soon played a really simple but clever series of flanking moves which almost surrounded us as we defended the timer.  The amount of plastic flung was prodigious, we stuck out until the end.  I think the morning was a draw overall?  We may have lost, I don't really remember, if I knew at all.  

Lunch was too long, as it always is.  Half an hour would be ample, but that may not allow enough time to drive to the nearest Mackie D's for ultra shit food.  Being a cut above such behaviour, we had broccoli frittata, pork pies (with jelly), cold sausage and green tea, as per Healthy Airsofter's thread.  Loads of protein and no carbs (OK apart from the crisps).  If this carries on I may end up shopping in Waitrose or something. 

The afternoon was played in the village.  This was a really great scrap over a chess timer type deal.  At the close of play the timer in the shipping containers had about two minutes difference, which showed what a good scrap had developed around it.  The second timer in the buildings was 100% held by the other side.  Fuck knows what happened there.  

The turn around was well played and the fight over the containers even better.  I was getting a bit knackered by now.  Lack of sleep made me sluggish, but a new rif performed well, despite the inevitable hop setting palaver as it settled in.   A new toy always makes a game good I reckon, especially when it turns out to be a snappily sharp little number.  

The loaned out and ever reliable G&G CM had a minor fit, it failed to fire as if the battery was totally flat, until I reminded the lad to select auto, as the 'fet is set to one shot burst.  In semi it just sulks.  

Some really good gameplay saw the buildings well contested, with the front of the village lost and retaken by each side numerous times.   A plethora of bangs were thrown.  Smokes were slung.  The teams ended up well mixed up as players went forward and showed some really spirited gameplay.  Some moaning about none hit taking as ever, but TBH I think that such stuff usually gets raised when players get hacked off at losing each or nearly each game, which I think the banded team did.  It seems odd to me to value winning over decent gameplay but there we go.  

Thoughts at days end.  With wet foliage all damp deep green, russet and hues of autumn gold, DPM is still ten times better for Northern Europe than MTP.  There are too few women involved in the sport, in winter when the girlfriends stay at home and only us fools still play in all weathers, it really stands out.  There were far less kids too.  The games themselves could have been less skirmishy and more complicated (says he who forgot which button to press).  The marshals did an excellent job.  Airsoft is an excellent way to catch up with old friends.  The boy's friend borrowed a sniper and used one for the first time; he loved it.  It's an idea to change what we do to sometimes perhaps, to learn how to enjoy the sport in new ways.  Due to laziness, I used my old webbing comprising a large ammo pouch for spare BBs, speedloader and a mag, one fastmag, one holster and a water bottle, all in various camos.  Radio on the webbing and what else do you need?  

Sorry for the ramble, just sharing a few thoughts arrived at after a post game Bloody Mary or two, sore back banished, cares forgotten for a while, laughs laughed and muscles aching slightly.  Hope you enjoyed your airsoft as much today.  It certainly beats a run around the local park for exercise.

 

[Cr0-Magnon]

Oh airsofters never change. Some gems from yesterday:

"Push forward!" - Screamed by the same few people who always seemed to be at the back of the crowd ?

"I upgraded my gun to a 11.1 lipo"

"I felt a hit from the side but took a look and there wasn't anyone there, so didn't call it. Then I got shot again and noticed there was someone hiding in a bush"

Player: "Guys, I've just been hit by a sniper"

Marshal: "Dead men don't talk"

Player: "That doesn't count because I didn't say where he is"

 

[Impulse]

"I felt a hit from the side but took a look and there wasn't anyone there, so didn't call it. Then I got shot again and noticed there was someone hiding in a bush"

Player: "Guys, I've just been hit by a sniper"

Marshal: "Dead men don't talk"

Player: "That doesn't count because I didn't say where he is"

As a sneaky bushboi, this pierces to my very soul. It happens all the time  

 

[Cr0-Magnon]

As a sneaky bushboi, this pierces to my very soul. It happens all the time  

At the other end of the spectrum, I sometimes call hits only to realise a moment later it was likely some debris falling from the trees.