My airsoft day could have gone better... though most of the issues I had weren't the sites fault... allow me to explain...
My brother phoned me up last week and asked if I wanted to go to z-mart with him this weekend, so I agreed, knowing that I was going to have a shit week at work, and needed a good de-stress at the end...
Got parked up next to the site and was outside waiting as one of the first in line... doors opened and I found out the safe zone is upstairs... three trips to move my kit and trolley upstairs and I was able to start bombing up.
My brother rather helpfully decided not to give me a hand moving the trolley, instead mocking me for bringing it (despite the fact even HE didn't know the SZ was upstairs either) which was overheard by the marshals (this detail is important for later...) but I was thankful to a fellow player who gave me a lift with the trolley.
Bombed up and headed to chrono and hit my next problem... the tippmann was firing hot... back to safe zone to adjust it, and found that the Allen key I needed was missing from my toolkit, and no one else's allen keys would fit due to them having metric sizes, but the tippmann being american has imperial sizes... found a torx key that fitted and got the adjustment done just in time.
Out to game briefing, to have the head Marshall ask me to swap my usual helmet setup due to concerns a ricochet might get through the small gap between the back of the mandible guard and my cheek. Never had an issue before, but thankfully I did have a GSR respirator I could swap it for...
Game and safety briefs were clear, concise and to the point (though I do wonder what the hell happened to get "do not indecently expose yourself" added to the brief...)
First games were zombie games, and the head marshal called my brother forward and announced that he had stiched himself up by not helping me earlier, and as such he was the zombie for round 1... (I didn't laugh... much). Did reasonably well considering I didn't know the site, and into round 2.
End of round 2 and got spot checked, only to find the tippmann was now varying wildly between shots, though the Marshall that did initial chrono spoke in defence and said it was consistent at chrono. I agreed with the head Marshall to switch to a backup gun, and broke out the SMC9 for its first use in anger... took me ages to swap the mag pouches from m4 to a couple of mp5 pouches on my rig.
The only issue I had after swapping guns was that I couldn't aim properly down the red dot sight I had in the smc due to the GSR I was wearing, and in the low light I couldn't see where my bbs were going. Fixed that by charging one of my tracer units off my battery bank and then running tracer bbs all afternoon... at least then I could see where I was shooting..
Really enjoyed the "escort the bomb" games, and on game 2, playing offense, we managed to wipe the enemy team and get the bomb into their spawn, claiming a win..
Then there was the objective grab, trying to capture various objects placed in the centre of the map downstairs and get them back to respawn.. I definately got lit up in that game, but managed to snag a few objectives for our team.
End of the day and managed to get all my kit downstairs and loaded in the car. Went to pay for parking.... FOURTEEN BLOODY QUID!!! ON A SUNDAY!