The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Shamal]

I picked up a welt like on Sunday; there were no HPAs at the site.

You probably should take up

another hobby; airsoft seems to call you nothing but stress and angst.

Are you on blood thinners?

Edit.

Wrong person ?

 

[Wavey_Gravey]

Why would HPA make any difference in the size of welt your getting? There’s literally no difference in how they behave when compared to a well tuned AEG / GBBR.

If your concerned about them fiddling with the power, call the marshals out on it, it’s their job to keep everybody within limits.

 

[Shamal]

No body agreed because they are incapable of accepting a truth or a fact. HPA is too much for CQB.

I have never had broken skin from AEG's but HPA, every game where there are a group of HPA players who trigger spam, I find myself peppered with wounds that bleed.

As for HPA not being liked, there will be changes coming to the sport because lots of places have had enough of HPA idiots, I grant you that there are some players that respect the rules and have kit properly set up, like the guy who was next to me in the safe zone this week, we went halves on tracers because I forgot mine, his rig doesn't leave any wounds like what I get from other nob HPA players.
 

This is another one on the same arm. Again from an HPA player.

One thing I noted is that those particular players were all wearing padded kit, so they didn't mind dishing out the pain but didn't fancy taking hits themselves.

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Are you on blood thinners?

 

[Skullchewer]

No body agreed because they are incapable of accepting a truth or a fact.

Oh the irony. 

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Why would HPA make any difference in the size of welt your getting? There’s literally no difference in how they behave when compared to a well tuned AEG / GBBR.

If your concerned about them fiddling with the power, call the marshals out on it, it’s their job to keep everybody within limits.

He has been told this, repeatedly, in this and other threads. 

He has been advised by many of us to play at a different site. 

We are all in the wrong, he is right. 

 

[Colin Allen]

No body agreed because they are incapable of accepting a truth or a fact.

The classic refrain of every conspiracy theorist, flat earther, young earther, creationist or whatever,

 

[Dan Robinson]

The classic refrain of every conspiracy theorist, flat earther, young earther, creationist or whatever,

I see we have the same YouTube habits LOL

Better comedy than what's on most TV channels.

 

[Tackle]

Are you on blood thinners?

Crystal meth I think ?

I see we have the same YouTube habits LOL

Better comedy than what's on most TV channels.

Those twats that try to wander in to police station car parks or film everyone coming & going really piss me off. 

#AuditorSpunkTrumpets

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[Madhouse]

HPA players are all the devil incarnate and must be returned to the depths of hell

Haters gonna hate.

Physics is physics, we've explained it to death.

Hope you raised any issues you have with the marshals and they dealt with it appropriately - you've not mentioned if you did or not?

If Anzio's got lower limits for HPA, prob best you play there in future.

You do bruise like a peach though, I play loads of CQB and while I look like I've done 10 rounds with a swarm of mozzies the day after as I only wear a thin top to avoid overheating, there's nothing like that bruise around it. Plenty of those HPA boys at my CQB too, never had any issues.

Only had a BB break skin once when I got shot just above the eyebrow, I do believe that was fired from a GBBR.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Crystal meth I think ?

Those twats that try to wander in to police station car parks or film everyone coming & going really piss me off. 

#AuditorSpunkTrumpets

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Glen Cerio is hilarious though with his 400 level English and legs weeps.

Only had a BB break skin once

I've drawn blood plenty of times.  I see it as a mark of having fun and getting into the shit making the most of the money I and the fucker that shot me spent on ammunition.

 

[Skullchewer]

I bled this Sunday just gone, from AEG fire at medium range (See my aggression thread in off topic).  Sometimes that's just how it goes, the right shot at the right angle on the wrong patch of skin. 

If you don't like bruises and cuts you're playing the wrong game. 

Don't take up Paintball.

Maybe take up Nerf. Careful though, some players put it stronger springs.

 

[Dan Robinson]

If you don't like bruises and cuts you're playing the wrong game. 

Too right.  The number of times I've taken a tumble, and hurt myself to protect the pew are too many to count.  The only time I get annoyed is when I'm walking off with my hand up and someone shoot you in the arris.

FFS you're paying good money to be shot at, and we spend a lot of money making sure we can shoot mofo's.  Why the feck would you whine about it? LOL?

 

[The_Lord_Poncho]

Yeah, I'm definitely not writing the site off my list. It's convenient, good facilities and the game zone itself suited my style of play. I had a few good trades and got the drop on a couple of people , as did others on me. 

Driver Wood is my local site, and i really enjoy it. Its a great site, plenty of thick vegetation to allow sneaky three dimensional play, interspersed with open areas to add variety.  Definitely don't write it off - from all that I've been to, its by far the most professionally run and managed, and the safe zone feels, well, safe.

In a year and a half of going there, I've only ever witnessed one proper argument between players, and I can't fault the manner in which the marshals reacted to that situation - ultimately though, I appreciate there is only so much that they can do. Seeing that kind of behaviour definitely leaves a bad taste, but it really isn't something I see as endemic to Driver Wood. I tend to go only to the morning sessions, plausibly people might be a little more level headed when they are less tired?

 

[Tackle]

Why are we only ever hearing one player complain ?, what nobody else who plays the site ever gets bruises or feels some gats, hpa in particular, are running hot. Nope. 

My only other thought is that words got around, & he's getting the kind of well deserved special treatment usually reserved for segregated prisoners & TV presenters?

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[Dan Robinson]

 usually reserved for segregated prisoners & TV presenters?

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Can we include Stop Oil Protesters in that too?  

 

[Tackle]

Can we include Stop Oil Protesters in that too?  

Definitely, lol the irony that those protesting about pollution are actually making it worse with traffic jams everywhere. 

I'm thankful that I'm a long way from the typical areas affected, with no plans to go near them, except by choo-choo?, which so far they've not been able to fuck with. 

 

[TacticalWaifu]

Definitely, lol the irony that those protesting about pollution are actually making it worse with traffic jams everywhere. 

I'm thankful that I'm a long way from the typical areas affected, with no plans to go near them, except by choo-choo?, which so far they've not been able to fuck with. 

I would imagine attempting to block or disrupt rail lines would inevitably end up resulting in a one under, followed by near-instant abandonment of that idea ?

 

[Adolf Hamster]

I hear that Anzio have now made HPA limits lower than AEG, which I applaud, it levels the playing field

does it?

because if they have a problem with hpa players then lowering the limits for those players will be as effective as a lower speed limit sign is at preventing speeding......

I grant you that there are some players that respect the rules and have kit properly set up, like the guy who was next to me in the safe zone this week, we went halves on tracers because I forgot mine, his rig doesn't leave any wounds like what I get from other nob HPA players.

ahh, so you do understand that hpa in and of itself isn't the problem, it's the person operating it.......

yes, i get how annoying it is to play somewhere with regular occurrences of players who are, one way or another, being assholes.

but there's only 1 option available that you can do to fix it, and that's to move, either to a better site or if that's not an option move out of the hobby. because people will always be the worst kind of people and there ain't no changing that.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Definitely, lol the irony that those protesting about pollution are actually making it worse with traffic jams everywhere. 

I'm thankful that I'm a long way from the typical areas affected, with no plans to go near them, except by choo-choo?, which so far they've not been able to fuck with. 

I've yet to have first hand experience, but I do travel through their favourite London areas frequently.  I'm not sure how I would react, but those oil based banners and high vis vests may be used as a weapon against them.

Have thought about signing myself up to one of their training days and taking some used oil from my van and giving them a taste of their own medicine.

I'm all for saving the planet - hell, I drive an electric car, install heat pumps and have been ahead of the curve with domestic heating controls for 15 years.  But those tossers deserve a good hiding for their clueless ill informed shenanigans.  Ironically funded by a descendant of the Getty family.

Aaaaaaannnnnnnndddddddd    breathe.

 

[Speedy Sloth]

Sunday just gone was good at ambush activities.

Had some rifs play up but day went well enough with no rain during the times we were out .

Players count was lower than normal but the field is flexible enough that lower player count just means more chance for stealth, flanking and 1v1 moments. 

They had a new marshall do the safety talk which was incredibly slow but it was his first go at it so will see next time.

They've built a new fort in the stockade section which really changes up the defence options on that part of the map.T he game modes weren't as varied as they could be because they took parts on different parts of the field worked well enough.

 

[Colin Allen]

Despite a terrible weather forecast, I decided to go to Tower Airsoft in Essex today for a third successive weekend of airsoft, as I am unlikely to be able to play for at least the next two, and possibly three or four, weekends due to rehearsals, a festival set and, weather dependent, hiking on Dartmoor.

As the lad had set off for the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg for a week of playing with G36s and other interesting activities, I was on my own this time.

Despite the site not usually playing host to HPA users, attendance was once again low, with a group of rentals forming a significant percentage of those present.

However, in true Tower style, the games suited the numbers present and a good day was had.  The rentals turned out to be good players and the teams were well balanced, with the times for two legged games being almost identical.  One "amusing" incident related to the site's 30m minimum engagement distance for full auto.  While defending the village in one game, I was hit by a short full auto burst from about 4m; when I mentioned the rule to the player, he replied that it wasn't full auto as it was a three round burst; the marshal "had a word".

The forecast heavy rain and strong wind failed to put in an appearance, which was a bonus.

Weapons used:
CYMA/LCT/real steel MPiKM
Golden Eagle AMD-65
Milbro Classic M1911

The MPiKM has been running low on power for a while; a quick strip down this evening revealed that the piston head O ring was no longer sealing.  It is now back up to power.