The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Tackle]

39 minutes ago, Shamal said:

Err which site was that?

😉

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

[Tommikka]

34 minutes ago, Tackle said:

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]

9 minutes ago, Tommikka said:

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]

3 minutes ago, Tackle said:

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]

46 minutes ago, Shamal said:

Err which site was that?

😉

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]

1 hour ago, Cannonfodder said:

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]

3 hours ago, Tackle said:

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]

On 05/03/2023 at 21:00, Shamal said:

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]

1 hour ago, Speedbird_666 said:

 

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]

46 minutes ago, Speedbird_666 said:

 

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]

 

On 06/03/2023 at 23:17, Tommikka said:

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

 

Edited March 8, 2023 by Cannonfodder

[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

[Badgerlicious]

3 hours ago, Impulse said:

Until I went to chrono...  

I think chrono was cursed yesterday. I've had my mp5 working fine all week. Dialed in the hop and sight in the morning, it was shooting great and feeding fine.

 

As soon as I get to chrono, first shot jams. I just could not be bothered since I didn't have my tool bag with me, so it was a good chance to test my mates aap01, which shot really well. 

 

I also discovered the tac41 seriously needs locktite on everything. It was trying to shake itself apart all day, so that'll need some seeing to. Shot really nicely in the morning  though. 

 

Good day though. Well fought games. Close ones, even though yellow had the edge all day. Mightve been too many snipers on our team 🤣

[Beorn]

Went to my first ever proper game (not as a rental) down at Red1 Chiselhurst a couple of weeks ago. Wanted to put up a post to say that it was even more fun that I had hoped it would be. Weather was chilly, crisp but clear and got comfortable as the day went on.

I ran out my AEG for the first time. Its a VFC Avalon saber carbine I got off airsoft forums classified's second hand, but it was in basically mint condition. I was really worried it would be a lemon or something and I haven't been able to test it properly since I bought it back in Nov (I live in a small apartment)... but it worked really well after a bit of zeroing. Could probably improve accuracy/consistency by using heavier bbs but even on 0.2s it seemed good to me. Trigger response on 9.9 life's seemed snappy too but I don't have much to compare it to I guess. Only tech hiccup seemed to by my mags, for some reason my hi caps (VFC QRS ones) were a bit inconsistent, so I ended up fucking them off and using the one QRS mid cap and just refilling it as and when I needed to. A bit of a hassle but didn't ruin the day because I was picking my shots and not suppressing too much.

Rest of my kit ran well and was very comfy, particular shout out to my goggles (Valken) they didn't fog at all and I was really active and togged up in a few layers with a helmet and mesh snood too.

Site itself was a lot of fun - good mix of woodland, CQB and medium range combat, some fun game modes (one or two duds - I wasn't a fan of the fall back game mode on defense, felt like a lot of waiting around and wasn't as much fun as the more dynamic capture the barrel/flag/tdm modes).

Seemed a good crowd on the whole, fair few rentals but a load of dudes running their own kit, maybe 40/50 people total perhaps a bit more. Site staff were quite well organized and seemed to be fair when marshaling.

Only complaint about this site, and I'm sure they're not the only ones guilty of this, is the lack of toilets/plumbing but luckily that wasn't an issue for  me on the day.

Only complaint about my kit is that I realised getting a riser for my holo might make things even more comfy and easier to shoot with, and that  midcaps seem to be much more reliable/less fuss so will be swapping to those.

Highlight moment was a bunch of enemies set up in a building with oversight on our spawn and the area leading out of it. Me and two other rando teammates managed to basically push up on it, sneak under the windows of the building and then breach and clear it from behind. Was the type of moment I hope to have more of playing airsoft and felt really immersive and exciting.

Can't wait to get down there again!

 

[Cr0-Magnon]

I went for a woodland skirmish for the first time in just over a month on Sunday. I really had to convince myself to get ready and jump in the car etc. Even out on the field I was feeling a bit lethargic, especially after hop issues forced me back to a gun with just iron sights (I've really grown fond of using a magnified scope, even on a <350fps). My biggest complaint atm is the amount of people just kinda skulking off when they're hit. Especially those who wander around in the middle of the "battlefield" without their hand up (and teammate shooting over their shoulder). I really don't want to overshoot people but I'm sick of giving them the benefit of the doubt and slowing up the games because of it. I did actually have a good time in the end though, after some satisfying sequences. I suppose maybe that's the morale of the story, you sometimes have to be the one who makes it enjoyable for yourself.

[Colin Allen]

1 hour ago, Beorn said:

Went to my first ever proper game (not as a rental) down at Red1 Chiselhurst a couple of weeks ago. Wanted to put up a post to say that it was even more fun that I had hoped it would be. Weather was chilly, crisp but clear and got comfortable as the day went on.

I ran out my AEG for the first time. Its a VFC Avalon saber carbine I got off airsoft forums classified's second hand, but it was in basically mint condition. I was really worried it would be a lemon or something and I haven't been able to test it properly since I bought it back in Nov (I live in a small apartment)... but it worked really well after a bit of zeroing. Could probably improve accuracy/consistency by using heavier bbs but even on 0.2s it seemed good to me. Trigger response on 9.9 life's seemed snappy too but I don't have much to compare it to I guess. Only tech hiccup seemed to by my mags, for some reason my hi caps (VFC QRS ones) were a bit inconsistent, so I ended up fucking them off and using the one QRS mid cap and just refilling it as and when I needed to. A bit of a hassle but didn't ruin the day because I was picking my shots and not suppressing too much.

Rest of my kit ran well and was very comfy, particular shout out to my goggles (Valken) they didn't fog at all and I was really active and togged up in a few layers with a helmet and mesh snood too.

Site itself was a lot of fun - good mix of woodland, CQB and medium range combat, some fun game modes (one or two duds - I wasn't a fan of the fall back game mode on defense, felt like a lot of waiting around and wasn't as much fun as the more dynamic capture the barrel/flag/tdm modes).

Seemed a good crowd on the whole, fair few rentals but a load of dudes running their own kit, maybe 40/50 people total perhaps a bit more. Site staff were quite well organized and seemed to be fair when marshaling.

Only complaint about this site, and I'm sure they're not the only ones guilty of this, is the lack of toilets/plumbing but luckily that wasn't an issue for  me on the day.

Only complaint about my kit is that I realised getting a riser for my holo might make things even more comfy and easier to shoot with, and that  midcaps seem to be much more reliable/less fuss so will be swapping to those.

Highlight moment was a bunch of enemies set up in a building with oversight on our spawn and the area leading out of it. Me and two other rando teammates managed to basically push up on it, sneak under the windows of the building and then breach and clear it from behind. Was the type of moment I hope to have more of playing airsoft and felt really immersive and exciting.

Can't wait to get down there again!

 

It sounds like you had a great day.

From your report, it seems that things might have improved at Red 1 Chislehurst.  I have not been there for a while but words such as "organised" and "fair" are not ones I would have chosen to describe the marshalling there.

[Tommikka]

2 minutes ago, Cr0-Magnon said:

….My biggest complaint atm is the amount of people just kinda skulking off when they're hit. Especially those who wander around in the middle of the "battlefield" without their hand up (and teammate shooting over their shoulder). I really don't want to overshoot people but I'm sick of giving them the benefit of the doubt and slowing up the games because of it.

Shoot them 

 

It is not overshooting if you shoot someone who is already eliminated, it is overshooting to continuously send in a barrage at the same person not giving them a chance to get out

 

If you play any game under my rule sets then sneaky players are encouraged

 

If a player is just bimbling along they may be a sneaky player trying to not look agressive 

They could be an eliminated player not showing 

(Or they could be an eliminated player deliberately obstructing and cheating)

 

The eliminated player must accept being shot if they are not showing they are eliminated.  It’s their problem

If they don’t want to be shot then they can put their hand up (or show a dead rag)

[Cr0-Magnon]

@Beorn - They're decent bunch at Red1 Chislehurst. I did find that some of the game modes led to wandering around, not knowing which direction the enemy team was shooting from. Twice I stumbled across gun fights between people on the same team.

 

Also yeah, most sites have rubbish toilets, Portaloos at best. Driver Wood in Crawley and Battle Lakes in Kent have proper plumbed indoor cubicles and hot running water though.

17 minutes ago, Tommikka said:

(Or they could be an eliminated player deliberately obstructing and cheating)

 

Funny you mention that actually. There was one player being repeatedly shot, putting their hand up but not moving. Turns out he was part of a group with half of them on each opposing team. He was playing silly buggers to stop his friends on our team from shooting his mate.

[Beorn]

2 hours ago, Colin Allen said:

It sounds like you had a great day.

From your report, it seems that things might have improved at Red 1 Chislehurst.  I have not been there for a while but words such as "organised" and "fair" are not ones I would have chosen to describe the marshalling there.

Disclaimer, I have only played there once and my other games were at Bunker 51 which I honestly didn't enjoy at all. By comparison they seemed organised but I've heard other sites have built insanely good reputations. Haven't been able to get anywhere like that yet so I wouldn't take my report as gospel

 

1 hour ago, Cr0-Magnon said:

@Beorn - They're decent bunch at Red1 Chislehurst. I did find that some of the game modes led to wandering around, not knowing which direction the enemy team was shooting from. Twice I stumbled across gun fights between people on the same team.

 

Also yeah, most sites have rubbish toilets, Portaloos at best. Driver Wood in Crawley and Battle Lakes in Kent have proper plumbed indoor cubicles and hot running water though.

Yeah I really noticed that things felt aimless when playing that fallback gamemode, I think because it was sprawling over a large area it was confusing and people were just sort of waiting around. My site choice is limited at the mo because I don't drive. Might have to consider bringing some bog roll and a fishing seat with a hole cut into the bottom or something... improvise, adapt, overcome...

[Colin Allen]

1 hour ago, Cr0-Magnon said:

@Beorn - They're decent bunch at Red1 Chislehurst. I did find that some of the game modes led to wandering around, not knowing which direction the enemy team was shooting from. Twice I stumbled across gun fights between people on the same team.

 

Also yeah, most sites have rubbish toilets, Portaloos at best. Driver Wood in Crawley and Battle Lakes in Kent have proper plumbed indoor cubicles and hot running water though.

 

Funny you mention that actually. There was one player being repeatedly shot, putting their hand up but not moving. Turns out he was part of a group with half of them on each opposing team. He was playing silly buggers to stop his friends on our team from shooting his mate.

On one occasion at Red 1 Chislehurst, we finished a game and were about 10 to 15 minutes into the next game when we came under fire from one of the villages, which was not in play in the current game but had been the objective in the previous game.  The marshals had not told the few players still defending the objective that the previous game had ended.

 

After a few poor experiences, including excessive waiting around, marshals not knowing the rules for a game, the site owner failing to take action after a player shooting at wildlife threatened me for reporting him after he refused to stop doing it (it was clearly stated as being a serious offence in the brief), we finally walked out on a day when a group of players, including my son, reported a player for repeated non hit taking from grenades and BBs.  Junior marshal called in the boss marshal who aggressively bollocked the complaining players for not taking their hits and refused to listen as they tried to tell him that they were the ones who had reported the non hit taking.

 

It may have improved; hopefully it has as it is a cracking little site.

4 minutes ago, Beorn said:

Disclaimer, I have only played there once and my other games were at Bunker 51 which I honestly didn't enjoy at all. By comparison they seemed organised but I've heard other sites have built insanely good reputations. Haven't been able to get anywhere like that yet so I wouldn't take my report as gospel

 

Yeah I really noticed that things felt aimless when playing that fallback gamemode, I think because it was sprawling over a large area it was confusing and people were just sort of waiting around. My site choice is limited at the mo because I don't drive. Might have to consider bringing some bog roll and a fishing seat with a hole cut into the bottom or something... improvise, adapt, overcome...

My eldest son worked at Bunker 51 for a while; it is/was a literal death trap.

[Cr0-Magnon]

@Colin Allen - Ahhh yes I remember the wildlife thing. I haven't been for ages but as I say generally had a positive experience there, definitely understand your sentiments though.

 

Lack of communication and authority of Marshalls is a pretty common issue from what I've found.

Edited March 15, 2023 by Cr0-Magnon

[Egon_247]

20 hours ago, Cr0-Magnon said:

@Beorn - They're decent bunch at Red1 Chislehurst.

 

Chislehurst, kent? I did a quick googly search but couldnt find it. I'm in dartford and looking for other sites as i'm doing the same thing at Apocolypse 249 with the kids.