The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Baser]

Back to Apocalypse in Kent on Sunday after last weeks, slightly disappointing, game I really enjoyed myself. Maybe I rolled out of the right side of bed this week.

Took the trusty RPK16, freshly updated with a Prommy purple hop rubber and nub and polished inner barrel. With my trusty Sig 226 on my hip I was ready to go, just about got the RPK through chrono but Ive picked up a new spring to lower the power to be safe. I went to site on my own again but joined a group of regulars so felt like part of a team rather than tagging along. around 140 players on site made it a little quieter than usual but it was supposed to rain which probably had something to do with it.

First game was carry. Players are divided in two teams and a brave Marshall stands in the cross fire. The aim is for the Marshall to carry a case through the site, they can only move with 2 players escorting them, with the other players either supporting or stopping the movement. checkpoints and spawns move as the Marshall moves. I really enjoy this game play and it's the first time I've played escorting rather than stopping the Marshall moving. This game is always intense as the ambushes and pushes are fluid and have a very focussed 'kill box'. Shout out to our rentals who ran at the other team with no fear putting a lot of us to shame. I emptied a 1650mah battery, 2 drum mags and 3 stick mags totalling nearly 6000 rounds. We lost but everyone put 110% into the game with some great positioning and cross fire keeping us pinned back.

Second game after lunch was move the bomb from your base to your enemies base. Again game play was intense with a lot of action somewhere in the middle (no mans land) we got our bomb to the other teams base through distraction, again great play by the rentals going full highlander with a charge worthy of William Wallace shouting 'FREEDOM' to the right of village while the bomb was snuck in on the left. Sadly the bomb was found and thrown out of village while the other team got into our base stockade. After this the snipers/ghilles/DMR players found their fox holes and slowed the game right down. Again we lost this one but not for a want of trying.

Didn't stay for the third game as I'm working away from home this week and needed to get home and get everything cleaned and put away.

Surprising how it only takes a few small things to change a meh day to a great day.

Touring the UK this week so already been into Bespoke Airsoft on Monday to pick up some parts, then off to Patrol Base and Urban Airsoft Mega Store tomorrow for similar before picking up a used LCT AKMS on Thursday.

Gratuitous photo below, held this spot for about 20 mins, the barrier helped keep me protected and took most of the weight of the RPK.

 

[Colin Allen]

There seems to always have been at least one cat at Battle Lakes; the one that was there when I was marshalling was a very friendly little chap.

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The Battle Lakes cat, 2017.

 

[Impulse]

Went to Worthing Airsoft on Sunday to play airsoft. Though I'm not sure I'd count it as "playing airsoft" with how I played this weekend. I only played half the day, as I needed to make sure guns were working for next weekend at rift, but in the morning games I fired a grand total of... 0 shots. Yes, you heard right. 0 shots. So... how did this happen?

First two games were a king of the hill style game on the new base, a killhouse at the bottom of the site, with sides swapped. It's a really nice base, but it's... not exactly the territory of bolt actions or DMRs, and with me using my mk12 MWS set to 1.8J. I decided to try a cheeky flank, using a route that I knew nobody else would go to. As it turns out, there was a good reason why nobody was using it. Getting to it was hell, as I had to make my way through incredibly thick brambles and stinging nettles that came up to my chest height (and I'm 6'5, so they were some TALL nettles...). Then when I finally managed to get onto this route, the route itself was mega-overgrown and I had to fight my way through some really thick foliage. With the game only being 20 minutes, it took me the whole game time to get through, literally getting off the path as the "30 seconds remaining" was called. Damn it.

Anyway, second game where we flipped sides, surely I am smart enough to not try that again, right...?

Wrong. I did the same thing in the 2nd game to the same result because I'm both stubborn and stupid; I also assumed it'd be easier since I had already pushed through the thick foliage part, and I was correct, but... I got to the point where I went up in the first game, but it was way too close to the enemy respawn and I didn't want to either spawncamp or get spotted, so I had to go further along this horrendously overgrown route which basically meant the 2nd game ended the same way as the first game for me. Definitely got a good workout in, but no shots fired. If both games had been 30 minutes, I could've done some serious damage, but with only 20 mins for each game I just... ran out of time. Just about. Damn it...

Third game was a larger game, with loads of objectives around the bottom of the site that needed capturing. Items that needed to be brought back to our base (and could be stolen), as well as some flip cans that needed to be controlled. I spent this game on base defence, watching that same path I used in the first two games as it was a super easy route into our base, but nobody came along that path. I eventually left with 15 mins left of the game, after having sat there for over an hour, and sure enough 5 mins after I left someone tried going along that path and got hit by the others defending the base. Because that's how timing works. I did essentially get a surrender kill at about 70m though; saw someone coming along the other flank I moved to, but when I pointed my rifle at him, he just called out. When he walked past, heading in for an early lunch, he said that he couldn't be bothered fighting me with his pistol at that range, and wasn't going back to respawn with only about 5 mins left of the game.

So that was that. A morning of airsoft, not a single shot fired, and got 1 kill. I will say I'm incredibly happy that we're finally playing the bottom of the site again. It's been literally years, and even though it sucks for sniping since it's so overgrown, I'm really happy that we're using it. The top of the site was getting very samey.

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

Took the trusty RPK16, freshly updated with a Prommy purple hop rubber and nub and polished inner barrel.

Gratuitous photo below, held this spot for about 20 mins, the barrier helped keep me protected and took most of the weight of the RPK.

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I play with an RPK most games. I remember the tedium of cleaning the aftermarket barrel all too well. Rodded about half a kitchen roll soaked in meths through it.

What's the weight of that beast like? Looks like a lower back killer tbh.