The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Khyber]

45 minutes ago, Skullchewer said:

It's a G&G GC4 G26 30th Anniversary edition.
It's old and a bit knackered so I'm not too worried about it.

Still unfortunate

[Shamal]

Hey I got that one. They are a limited edition I have been told and worth a few bob.

Didn't recognise yours as its a mess lol.

Worth fixing up though bro 👍 

 

Regards 

 

 

[Skullchewer]

23 minutes ago, Shamal said:

Hey I got that one. They are a limited edition I have been told and worth a few bob.

Didn't recognise yours as its a mess lol.

Worth fixing up though bro 👍 

 

Regards 

 

 

 

Really? Blimey. Still got the box somewhere too!

[Skullchewer]

Brilliant day at Skirmish Wycombe, made better by the l fact I captured the bomb!

Bumped into a forum member whose forum name I'm fucked if I can remember. Nice bloke.

Also ran into @GAMBLE who got a melee kill on some guy with a kids light saber 🤣🤣

And then there was this guy, who at the end of the day stood out so we could all shoot him in the shiny helmet.

[Jaylordofwaargh]

15 hours ago, Skullchewer said:

Brilliant day at Skirmish Wycombe, made better by the l fact I captured the bomb!

Bumped into a forum member whose forum name I'm fucked if I can remember. Nice bloke.

Also ran into @GAMBLE who got a melee kill on some guy with a kids light saber 🤣🤣

And then there was this guy, who at the end of the day stood out so we could all shoot him in the shiny helmet.

This sounds like a cool as fook day! Very happy for you. 

Was this plate wearing maniac even carrying a BB slinger or just fuck off melee only? 

[Skullchewer]

17 minutes ago, Jaylordofwaargh said:

This sounds like a cool as fook day! Very happy for you. 

Was this plate wearing maniac even carrying a BB slinger or just fuck off melee only? 

He had a vector. Your can just make it out in the photo.

He only put the armour on for the last game, and it was bloody hilarious.

[Jaylordofwaargh]

5 hours ago, Skullchewer said:

it was bloody hilarious

For all the bad crazy this hobby can have some times it sure does make up for it in the good crazy

[Spartan09]

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!

[Badgerlicious]

Sort of like this 😭

[Skullchewer]

19 hours ago, Badgerlicious said:

Sort of like this 😭

 

Ouch 😕 Hope you can get it replaced and fitted easily.

 

I took the other half Airsofting for the first time today.

She loved it and got lots of kills. A marshal was playing today, and complimented her on her playing, twice. Once after she shot him in the face. 😁

 

We played a game mode called pilot. 7 downed pilots that have to be captured by one of the two teams. Whoever captures the most wins.
I was a pilot. I dug in under a bush in a ditch. 

Nobody could find me. I had people so close I could have reached out and touched them.
Got 4 pistol kills, without giving away my position, before I was eventually found, last pilot to be captured. Very smug 😁

Personal kill of the day, pistol kill on a running target while defending bean can fort.

Unfortunately I got so drunk last night I forgot to charge my camera batteries, so I got very little footage of the day 😭

But overall a great day, and we have a new convert.

She wants to try sniping.....

[Skara]

My Airsoft day hasn't even started and I've already witnessed a guy coming in my local retailer asking for level 4 plates.....

[Shamal]

1 hour ago, Skullchewer said:

Ouch 😕 Hope you can get it replaced and fitted easily.

 

I took the other half Airsofting for the first time today.

She loved it and got lots of kills. A marshal was playing today, and complimented her on her playing, twice. Once after she shot him in the face. 😁

 

We played a game mode called pilot. 7 downed pilots that have to be captured by one of the two teams. Whoever captures the most wins.
I was a pilot. I dug in under a bush in a ditch. 

Nobody could find me. I had people so close I could have reached out and touched them.
Got 4 pistol kills, without giving away my position, before I was eventually found, last pilot to be captured. Very smug 😁

Personal kill of the day, pistol kill on a running target while defending bean can fort.

Unfortunately I got so drunk last night I forgot to charge my camera batteries, so I got very little footage of the day 😭

But overall a great day, and we have a new convert.

She wants to try sniping.....

Oh yeah not the old camera batts died just as I wiped out a whole battalion! Lol.

My wife is very good at sniping. She has been sniping at me for years lol.

 

Regards 

[Enid_Puceflange]

Did Paintball today ✌️

[Shamal]

13 hours ago, Enid_Puceflange said:

Did Paintball today ✌️

Burn him for his unholy transgressions lol

[Nick G]

13 hours ago, Enid_Puceflange said:

Did Paintball today ✌️

I'm sorry, paint what ? I'm painting a fence today , is that the same sort of thing ?

[Khyber]

13 hours ago, Enid_Puceflange said:

Did Paintball today ✌️

Sorry you posted in the wrong thread... this should go in confessions. ✝️

[Enid_Puceflange]

Not to worry

I am at Airsoft confessional shortly and will be for the rest of the day

That paintball is a mucky bastad thing 😖

[Impulse]

I just got home from playing airsoft in a swamp (not really, but Worthing Airsoft is on an incline and we played at the bottom today and it was quite swampy and it was a great day all things considered. Played aggressive, played hard, but the main reason it was good is I managed to play the whole day. Now, that might seem like a weirdly low bar for a young'n like me, but two things:

 

1. I missed last game day because I was ill, so I've had a month of eating baaaaaaaadly with very little exercise (I am a notoriously bad stress eater and unemployment + sickness wasn't a nice combo)

2. I was running my full "weight loss" setup to try and counteract the weight I've put back on over the past few months.

 

The weight loss loadout worked. I could really feel it and now I'm totally knackered; plate carrier with 4kg weighted plates in it (so 8kg because 2 plates), all my mags and spare ammo and stuff in pouches and a backpack with more gas (GBBRs use a lot) and water to drink. It was a really heavy loadout, but I'm so happy that it was as it's exactly what I was going for. Was running around with the my TM AKM GBBR and it was firing fantastically. Need to bed the hop up rubber in a bit as it was the first time out with it, but it was shooting really nicely if a little inconsistently, though I imagine the mild rain in the morning and the ambient cold didn't help it too much in that regard. One bad thing that did happen was I dropped to one knee... right on a little rock in the ground, so my right knee hurts. Plenty of rest for that...

 

I think I'm going to keep up my break from bush wookiee-ing and keep running this weight loss loadout as I move forward for now. Weight loss is half of it, but also just working on improving an aspect of the game that I don't typically do much and haven't done much in a long time; I feel like I have sniping down, so I'll work on what I'm weaker at for now. The goal is to not only do that, but also try and carry 3 guns total (rifle, sniper and a pistol) as I'm a big lad at 6'5" with a heavy Dutch build so I think it'll be doable. It may not be and may just be more hassle than it's worth with slings everywhere, but it's a nice goal to strive for.

 

Roll on next game day!

Edited March 13, 2022 by Impulse

[strykerles]

Not been playing today but had 3 guns in bits for cleaning, lubing and mild upgrading

 

does that count?

 

also copious amounts of alcohol and snacks as the wife is away 😁

[Spartan09]

31 minutes ago, strykerles said:

Not been playing today but had 3 guns in bits for cleaning, lubing and mild upgrading

 

does that count?

not really  =P

but in fairness i have been doing the same thing today as  i wasnt feeling 100% this week and decided to skip airsoft this weekend, but i will be back out next weekend.

 

[colinjallen]

I had a really good, if slightly muddy, day at Airsoft Plantation.  Around 170-180 players turned up and the day was played in a good sporting spirit, with well designed games and excellent marshalling.

Both AEGs and the CO2 1911 performed flawlessly.  I got a lot of kills, including two guys who charged around a corner at me; I shot the first one and then the second one, who was already pointing his rifle at me.  He looked at it and looked at me; I was expecting him to claim that I had not taken a hit, but he just said "the safety is still on" and walked away to regen.

Another player apologised to me after he had shot me in the face from fairly close range; as it was all that he could see of me, I did not see it as a problem, but it was indicative of the sprit in which players seemed to approach the day.
 

[ghostwalker]

Great day at Battle stations new and old site. Just a shame my kwa erg decided it doesnt want to work properly and then the joys of losing a qd supressor that was never to be found again. hmmmm

[Badgerlicious]

I should've brought some ice skates with me today. The mud at Worthing wasn't as deep as it can get but everything was slippery as hell. I tried my luck at climbing up onto one of the ridgelines but just ended up sliding back down again on my backside 😂 Still, despite the rain some great fights, good pushes and defence by boths teams, always a pleasure to see. One complaint is a game of running barrels to a central objective was going a lot quicker that the marshalls thought it would, so a lot of rules started changing on the fly. It was a bit confusing to say the least. But we got to some classic base domination in the afternoon, lots of fun, lots of kills pretending to be a hedge 😄

 

It was a good day for me too, gun is back to 60m range and performing quite well even after a last minute gear change. My ghillie is doing its usual good things, though it will need some updating as we get into spring. I took out my new pistol, WE's version of the p226. Very happy with it, effective at 30m and reaches out to 45 totally stock. My friends had less good days, sniper mag issues, and my mates g&g sr15 falling apart for a third time. 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Good day at Special Ops.  80 people there meant the games inevitably ended up with some stalemates due to the weight of suppressing fire, but the marshals did a good job of encouraging, and if that didn't work then even moving some extra cover in place, or simply declaring an objective taken. 
I noticed the teenagers weren't very keen on trekking back to respawns, they'd just walk 20m from the front line and then go back again, whereas this old man with his arthritic knees and chocolate ankles was toiling backwards and forwards.  Oh well.
Had a couple of hero moments when pushing forward, had two rifles (two! count 'em! two!) working and used, and when the battery gave out in the TM Aug HC, right when I was pushed up on the objective area, I even pulled the pistol out.  

I managed to try a couple of HPA guns.  So yeah, an Evo Scorpion with the necessary bits at several hundred quid might be a bit of a big bill to swallow, but it really was nice to shoot.  The guys were impressed with how good the DE M906 was, especially for the price.  The TM got some compliments too (mostly no doubt for Not Being Another M4, I'm sure :))

I think our team won every single round through the day.

 

 

Edited March 14, 2022 by RostokMcSpoons

[MAX DICKER]

Manic day at strikeforce Gloucester yesterday, everyone seemed to have had their weetabix and the quality of play was fantastic, my friends and I found the honesty levels to be very high. The MWS always brings a grin to my face (not great when I don't wear face protection lol) and I found I was going through all 6 of my mags most games as well as all 5 of my glock mags.

The last game I played was Tug of War which was basically a stalemate for the entire game with the middle of the play zone being an absolute meat grinder. Must have over 100 welts on my body (8 on my face alone).

Amazing day.