The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[EvilMonkee]

6 hours ago, Colin Allen said:

No mistake;  I knew what I was buying.  I buy kit to play pretend war in; UTV is far more practical than the grey rubbish which I initially used, although I do still have a set of that tucked away in the dressing up cupboard.

I have:
Helmet with camo netting.
Shirt
Trousers
Braces
Webbing
Mag pouches (7.62 and 5.45)
Backpack
Water bottle and cover
 

Your more than set then whats stopped you so far???

[Colin Allen]

5 hours ago, EvilMonkee said:

Your more than set then whats stopped you so far???

I am not sure really.  I will sign up for one this year.

I also have an MPiKM and an MPi-AK-74N, both with the lovely plastic furniture; both are based on CYMA RIFs.

7 hours ago, Impulse said:

I didn't actually play too much at Worthing on Sunday. Spent most of my day helping my friend with his guns and tweaking my own ready for AI500 next weekend. I will be removing the Jaeger Precision NPAS from my MWS though as even when I opened it all the way it was still blocking a portion of the intake and I was only mustering about 1.5J on ASG orange gas; DMR limit is 1.88J and this is specifically my DMR MWS. Didn't want to put red gas in it with how the weather was as I was worried I'd cause the nozzle to explode, so out came the ol' reliable KJW m700 built as an m40a5. Fortunately that performed really, really, really well, though with how windy it was it made sniping very difficult.

 

The game I did play was a large game where yellow team had to gather bomb components and then bomb a base. Nobody knew where the components were, and only yellow knew which base was the final objective. I was on blue so we had to stop them, but at the time I got into the game, yellow had basically all the components and were moving the bomb around. A lot of blue team were also suffering from the classic airsoft malady known as "I don't want to get shot syndrome" and so as soon as I got into the game, I became the front line with my bolt action sniper rifle. There were a few regulars on blue who were pushing, but in such small numbers they ended up getting picked off. Eventually, the marshalls told blues what the objective base was and started to verbally prod players to stop cowering far back, especially as the yellow team got into the base and started the bomb timer; that seemed to be enough to get players to start playing a bit more aggressively and we quickly swept yellow out of the base to defuse the bomb

 

I will say there was some absolutely abysmal hit taking and I heard that someone threatened to punch someone. The latter was very swiftly dealt with by the marshalls, as one was in ear shot and wasn't having any of that, and there were quite a few players who got sent back to the safe zone for not taking their hits. Marshalls were really on top of it all day, so props to the marshalling team for dealing with it when it cropped up, I just haven't seen so many people taking the piss in a while.

 

Spent the rest of the day tweaking my m40 on the range and helping my friend with his m700 (still having issues...) and his new MWS. I also think something in my hi-capa lower is busted because it doesn't always shoot when I pull the trigger. I think one of the sears is on the way out; it still works fine, but very occasionally I will pull the trigger and nothing will happen, so AAP will be my go-to sidearm for AI500 as that is having no issues.

I do like sites that follow up the tough talk about the consequences of repeated non hit taking, having a hot gun and serious bad behaviour;  the chap who runs Airsoft Plantation has no qualms about sending people home.

Edited Monday at 23:57 by Colin Allen

[Badgerlicious]

2 hours ago, Colin Allen said:

I do like sites that follow up the tough talk about the consequences of repeated non hit taking, having a hot gun and serious bad behaviour;  the chap who runs Airsoft Plantation has no qualms about sending people home.

Staff attitude will make or break a site. It's one of the reasons I feel very lucky to have worthing as my closet site.

 

I didn't see any of the bad hit taking personally, but I did overhear some marshall's reminding players of the rules. And I heard about the threats second hand, glad it was dealt with immediately. The guy got shot in the plate carrier with a little bb and threatened to hit someone. Ridiculous attitude over playing make believe. 

 

It was overall a great day though. My first in many months. I played like a regular player for once, rather than a shrubbery, and had a great time. Teams were very even in the morning. We did "sands of pain" which involved holding a button on a box to build up a timer. We lost by two seconds! But people peeled off through the day so teams had to get rebalanced past lunch a few times. 

 

Also someone had a lipo fire in their gun that was in their car. Thankfully only the gun got damaged and no one got hurt. But the parking area got nice new smell for the morning. 

[Colin Allen]

8 hours ago, Badgerlicious said:

It's one of the reasons I feel very lucky to have worthing as my closet site.

Which site will you use when you come out of the closet?

8 hours ago, Badgerlicious said:

Also someone had a lipo fire in their gun that was in their car. Thankfully only the gun got damaged and no one got hurt. But the parking area got nice new smell for the morning. 

A chap recently had a flashbang go off in his bag in the back of his car at AP; he chucked his bag in prior to leaving and there was a nice loud bang.  

[EvilMonkee]

16 hours ago, Colin Allen said:

I am not sure really.  I will sign up for one this year.

I also have an MPiKM and an MPi-AK-74N, both with the lovely plastic furniture; both are based on CYMA RIFs.

 

Perfect.  Next one is on 14 Nov up at Bourne in Lincs.  My local site and I can't make it as I am off to Bangface Festival