The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Shamal]

I already paid £30 for the day. (Non member walk-on)  and it was another £30 for UKARA renewal.  (Took less than 2 mins while I was there)   I will question the UKARA price with the owner next time I'm there.

I did clip the spring (QC is so great ?) and it chrono'd at 342 ?

Niiice. ?

 

[Shamal]

So this is a fun toy to use? For all its Brutalist and sci-fi vibes it is on the 'list' Thanks 

I am one of those really annoying players that sticks to the times given, I'll load up and bomb up at appropriate times, I'll loudly look at my watch (Airsoft days are the only time I wear one) and 'we good for game brief'

After lunch is another fun instance, 

The hearding cats thing, well, I think some of that is the site staff not want to be seen as riding the players HOWEVER, we pay good money to shoot people and I would like more site managers to focus on that.

Agree strongly.

I bomb up,charge up,and dress up the night before so that when I get to the site I'm ready to roll. I hate it when the "okay guys ten mins" turns into twenty five and the two mins shout is at least ten.

 

[Tackle]

Agree strongly.

I bomb up,charge up,and dress up the night before so that when I get to the site I'm ready to roll. I hate it when the "okay guys ten mins" turns into twenty five and the two mins shout is at least ten.

Me too, game time is for playing, if I want to socialise or talk bollocks ill go to the pub (or come on here?). 

Think I've mentioned it before but one site I played, end of lunch started getting ready to head back out, next thing music starts playing & a "lady" starts taking her clothes off, stick I got for turning my back on here to get loaded up. 

Then when I got home & the missus says "how was the day", I get more stick as if it's somehow my fault some slapper was stripping off?

 

[Shamal]

Me too, game time is for playing, if I want to socialise or talk bollocks ill go to the pub. 

Think I've mentioned it before but one site I played, end of lunch started getting ready to head back out, next thing music starts playing & a "lady" starts taking her clothes off, stick I got for turning my back on here to get loaded up. 

Then when I got home & the missus says "how was the day", I get more stick as if it's somehow my fault some slapper was stripping off?

Err which site was that?

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[C-Diddy]

And there was me, less than happy giving GZ £13 to do mine. Sounds like I got a steal compared to you. 

Relatable. Feel chuffed now!

 

[Tackle]

Err which site was that?

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Don't get your hopes up ?, it was a relatively short lived site, the old power station at richborough, near sandwich, Kent. 

 

[Tommikka]

Me too, game time is for playing, if I want to socialise or talk bollocks ill go to the pub (or come on here?). 

Think I've mentioned it before but one site I played, end of lunch started getting ready to head back out, next thing music starts playing & a "lady" starts taking her clothes off, stick I got for turning my back on here to get loaded up. 

Then when I got home & the missus says "how was the day", I get more stick as if it's somehow my fault some slapper was stripping off?

I have been to events like this, though those kinds of things were reserved for the players party etc 

One particular event would have undressing ladies.

A more preferred event has had performing ladies who keep their clothes on.

One year as the clothed ladies were being announced on stage as some of our guys rushed off I did try to point out that they are rushing off to join a sweaty crowd desperately trying to push closer to ladies at a distance on a stage behind barriers - in the rain …… whereas currently we were dry under a shelter in a group with real life ladies willing to drink with us and talk with us, and would be willing to see us again

 

[Tackle]

I have been to events like this, though those kinds of things were reserved for the players party etc 

One particular event would have undressing ladies.

A more preferred event has had performing ladies who keep their clothes on.

One year as the clothed ladies were being announced on stage as some of our guys rushed off I did try to point out that they are rushing off to join a sweaty crowd desperately trying to push closer to ladies at a distance on a stage behind barriers - in the rain …… whereas currently we were dry under a shelter in a group with real life ladies willing to drink with us and talk with us, and would be willing to see us again

This was literally a mate of the organiser was opening a club & sent a bird down with flyers to drum up interest.

Have you been to an airsoft site lately ? , look around at half of the overly hairy sweatbag walts, the only woman most of them get near is their mum ?

 

[Shamal]

Don't get your hopes up ?, it was a relatively short lived site, the old power station at richborough, near sandwich, Kent. 

Well I'm glad about that. That sort of behaviour isn't acceptable. I for one would have promptly left.....after she had finished ?‍?

 

[Cannonfodder]

Err which site was that?

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I saw the video of it and you didn't miss much. From what I remember she would've made more getting paid to put her clothes on

 

[Tackle]

I saw the video of it and you didn't miss much. From what I remember she would've made more getting paid to put her clothes on

While I never saw the video afterwards, I do remember a very pasty spotty arse ?

 

[Tommikka]

This was literally a mate of the organiser was opening a club & sent a bird down with flyers to drum up interest.

Have you been to an airsoft site lately ? , look around at half of the overly hairy sweatbag walts, the only woman most of them get near is their mum ?

There are some women in airsoft - I was photographing a paintball tournament which was on the same day as the skirmishing.

In the morning there was a commotion in the staging area, as everyone turned to look at the car park and I heard the immortal words …..

”They’ve got women in airsoft now!!!”

Or to be more accurate - there was one

 

[Speedbird_666]

Great day at ucap green ops.

Is Green ops worth a visit? It's about ~90mins from me but I would like to give the site a try at some point this year. Sounds like it's a compact/small woodlands site but I should think that it would be quite good fun to play.

 

[Wavey_Gravey]

Played strikeforce again over the weekend, I think the site itself it a bit barebones basic (works) for me, I’d like to see it built up a bit more with proper structures or rooms BUT was a good laugh.

Good mix of experience on both sides made for some great easy pickins and decent firefights. Easily the most “kills” I ever gotten, overall and on individual runs.

 

[hitmanNo2]

Is Green ops worth a visit? It's about ~90mins from me but I would like to give the site a try at some point this year. Sounds like it's a compact/small woodlands site but I should think that it would be quite good fun to play.

I'm not really into woodland sites but I did a private training thing there a while back and it seemed a decent site for skirmishing.

 

[Shamal]

Is Green ops worth a visit? It's about ~90mins from me but I would like to give the site a try at some point this year. Sounds like it's a compact/small woodlands site but I should think that it would be quite good fun to play.

Hiya bud.

Yes it's worth a go.

As you say it's a compact site but still good distances between teams if you need it.

Mixture of dense rhododendron and wooded areas. Features and props are being added on a regular basis,a tunnel is being constructed at the moment to link two parts of the site.

It's what I call a clean site. It's very sandy soil which drains well and even after rain it's very difficult to get too dirty so even laying down you are not gonna get in a shit state,and any mud on boots ect just dries and falls off.

We have a large parking area and most times combat south park their mobile shop there if not consumables are available as well as drinks and snacks.

On site portaloos generally well kept.

Large covered area for bombing up and free tea and coffee.

Come on down mate it's worth a punt?

Regards 

 

[Cannonfodder]

There are some women in airsoft - I was photographing a paintball tournament which was on the same day as the skirmishing.

In the morning there was a commotion in the staging area, as everyone turned to look at the car park and I heard the immortal words …..

”They’ve got women in airsoft now!!!”

Or to be more accurate - there was one

 

[Cannonfodder]

Apologies for the double post.

Another great day at Ambush Airsoft yesterday. Hit taking was on the whole pretty good with only a couple of moments which made me think wtf, but nothing a few follow up shots didn't sort out. On the downside my AK decided to stop working after chrono and for some weird reason my totally stock WE P99 was chronoing at 16 joules (no that's not a typo) so went straight back in the bag and I used the shotgun as a back up.

 

[Impulse]

Went along to Worthing Airsoft (as usual) yesterday. Really needed a good day of airsoft since I've been having issues sleeping related to anxiety from the times my heart decided to be weird. VSR was fine and leak free after I took the engine apart, made sure the o-rings were all in place and everything was lubed up. The m21 was feeding well and chronoing perfectly and the weather in the morning was lovely. It was perfect.

Until I went to chrono... VSR leaked all its air within about 15 mins and didn't fire at chrono because the tank was empty and the m21 started jamming on empty again. Ahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa......... Seriously, I am truly miffed and I think it's the last straw for HPA for me. The m21 will be sorted, as I spent most of the day toying around with the FCU and managed to get it to stop jamming, however the short mags that I brought with me weren't feeding that reliably. I'm optimistic that when I take it to the next game day with the normal TM magazines it will be fine, but I just couldn't play at all since both of my guns were playing up.

I did, however, manage to make the day constructive and useful. Before the games and through lunch while the games weren't on I took a wander out into the site with my rangefinder and made a very interesting discovery. With how thick the foliage is, even during winter when the coppices have no leaves, there are very few areas where the lines of fire are more than 65m. You can play along the paths and you can get sight lines up to about 120m, but as soon as you want to play anywhere that isn't along the path, even if you just go a metre or so off the path, you suddenly only have sight for about 65m at most. Suffice to say, I'm bringing the m700 next game day and adjusting it to fire at 1.1J since I know I can make that shoot accurately to 60m at 1.1J and will do away with the 30m MED. I also confirmed my suspicions on some bolt action users that they're shooting within their MED; I just wish the marshalls did something about it. I at least found that all of my spots were 30m or more (though just barely on some. One was 31m!), but it's not going to be very meaningful as I think I might just fully transition to 1.1J builds at Worthing.

Hopefully I'll be able to actually play next time. Got a private game at the UCAP bunker next weekend and I'll be taking the SR-25 and MWS to that, so if the MWS doesn't want to play ball I know that the SR-25 works fine and the hop is set and everything is zeroed (I'm changing some externals on the MWS so I hope it won't affect it, but you never know!). This is why, even though I don't like using AEGs, having AEGs as a reliable backup is so useful.

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Another trip to Special Ops at Olney / Milton Keynes.

It seems the previous day's rain had scared off a bunch of punters, as the site was surprisingly quiet when I rocked up at 8:15.  And so it turned out - about 40 players for a sunny winter's day skirmishing.   Plenty of room to spread my kit around then.

I took
Double Eagle M906C  (I may have to write some wedding vows for this thing), 4xHigh cap Lonex flash mags
Cyma M14, 4xHigh cap

G&G G(EC)36, 2xHigh cap, 2xMed cap

Rossi M40 bolt-action sniper rifle, 4xmags

Kit bag was a day sack I bought from Action Hobbies boneyard.   Plenty of room inside, which meant I packed it full and it weighed a ton.  

I intended to run the M14 for the morning, but the long range testing revealed a tendency for the BBs to curve right.  A knackered or misaligned hop rubber?  I'll have to fettle it.

The G36... I forgot to bring one of the smaller batteries that would actually fit inside the handguard.  D'oh!

 So I tried the sniper for the first game.   Got a couple of decent kills, but the number of times I knocked the floppy safety lever to safe when reloading... and then couldn't fire a shot when the moment came... ARRRRRGHHH        Once I find a way of fixing that, I think I will enjoy occasional sniping sessions, but I soon ditched it for Old Faithful

The DE M906C ran like a trooper as always.  It seems my hop rubber replacement hasn't spoiled it's effectiveness to get hits at range.  The only bad thing was I shooting so much ammo I feared even my 3000mAH battery wouldn't last the day, so I set it charging at lunchtime and then realised I'd forgotten it when I'd made some 600m of the trek from safe zone  to the game area.    Cue a stumbling jog-walk backwards and forwards to go fetch it.   

Damn it, I absolutely love this gun.   I am questioning whether I need all my others, beyond the fact I have a gun fetish and love messing around with them.   Maybe there'll be a big sale in my near future, and I'll just have the 906, and maybe get a couple more variants, and some nicer webbing and gear (.... my magazine pouches decided to disassemble themselves mid-game, MOLLE mount screws losing their nuts.  Amazingly I find a bag of spares by accident in my kit box, and fixed 'em)

The games were mostly 'plant flags to clear mines, then find objects scattered in an area' and 'drop tickets in ammo boxes to capture zones', and everything worked very well... as long as you were on the blue (my) team.   The poor old yellow team got owned through the day, it was very one-sided.   There was a stage when the guns went silent as the yellows couldn't / wouldn't leave their spawn... the marshals pushed us back a bit to give them some room.  (It didn't really help) 
I really enjoyed it anyway.    Hit-taking was actually very good and everyone seemed happy enough. Hot dogs and burgers for lunch, and the rain only turned up as everyone was leaving. 

Looking forward to RIFT next weekend