Last weekend (yeah I’m behind) I went to Toronto Airsoft to pick up some BBs. I still have some of my old BB Bastard stuff but most fields now require bio BBs so I’ll try some of TA’s house brand to see how it goes.
Hehe Slinky always has to investigate when I’m going to take photos and made himself at home laying on his back and taking a nap while I did my thing. 😉 Picked up 0.28g BBs for myself and 0.25g for Brandon to use with his CA MP5, I also got a bag of 0.2gs for chronying. The CA MP5A3 came in at 388 fps which is perfect for outdoor play while the PTW with the blue cylinder shot 390. Glad after all these years of storage it still has a good seal…
There’s a local airsoft outdoor field within 30 minutes of my house and the next time they have a newbie game, I’ll attend with B. Can’t wait to share the hobby with him, it’s going to be great. 🙂
The Canada day long weekend has been going well, I’m still recovering from shingles, the rash has gotten much smaller but the pain has remained and sometimes there’s a sharp stabbing pain from the right side of my toros which is pretty annoying. Hopefully when the disease subsides completely I’ll be back to normal. Friday & Saturday Brandon had some friends over, end of the school year and he did well academically so it was hard to say no.
Yesterday we didn’t do much, went out for lunch then relaxed at home. Since I’m not sleeping well, I’ve been taking naps but not being a nap person, I sleep too long and am groggy afterwards. 🙁 Today Maggie went to play badminton and we all met up to have some dim sum which was great. I guess I’m the biggest reason we didn’t do anything, driving is difficult due to the abrupt bumps in the road, when I hit one there’s quite a bit of pain so I’m trying not to go anywhere really.
In other news, I picked up a Classic Army MP5A3 for Brandon.
He’s turning 13 in August and I wouldn’t mind playing airsoft with him, he seems interested so why not. There’s a local field in Clarington that’s around a 30 minute drive and they have newbie days, when I’m fully recovered we’ll give that place a shot and see how it goes. The MP5 was one of my first guns (albeit I had a TM) and I really love that platform so it’s quite nice to hold one again. We’ll see what the future brings but I stopped playing because of my fatherhood duties, perhaps now that he’s older I can get back into the hobby. 🙂
I received this email yesterday and it was such a nice touch.
It’s been a while since I talked about the hobby airsoft and I had some great times showing new players what I’ve learnt over the years. With airsoft getting a reprieve from the government (it was slated to be banned), I’m glad people will still be able to enjoy the hobby. In fact I’ve been thinking about getting back into it myself, Brandon is old enough to play now and some of his friends have been talking about it, what fun that would be to experience with my boy.
Needless to say the sender made my day and thank you, I’m happy I made an impact and glad that you can share this wonderful hobby with your boy too!
So the Liberals are pushing the ridiculous Bill C21 which only addresses legal guns and with the help of the NDP, airsofters were able to get an exemption for the hobby. Score one for common sense but we have so much more to do, C21 should be scrapped altogether and my hope is that the bill fails to become law before the next election, I guess we’ll see.
One set is free, the other is still banned so yeah there’s still more work to do. As a legal gun owner (and former airsofter), I am tired of being used as punching bag, whenever criminals use guns the Liberals try to placate the masses by adding more rules or banning guns that are used by legal owners. It’s a farse and I hope that people realize that the Liberals have absolutely no answers to any of society’s problems. They’re pushing gun control because at a time of high inflation, an economy teetering on the edge of recession, Chinese political interference (that benefits the Liberals) and their governing record is abysmal and they have nothing to run on. Their last 8 years has been a complete failure, they’re personally corrupt and only have wedge politics, that’s it.
The next election can’t come soon enough and I would love nothing better than the total destruction of the Liberal party. It doesn’t stand for anything and this incessant team politics will ruin Canada.
Oh to anyone calling me a simplistic Conservative, feel free to look through my previous blog posts and you’ll see that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Last night Stephen, Jason and I hit up Siege to play some airsoft. Jason and I played the previous Friday and it was pretty good so we were hoping for another good game this time around. There were less people, around 20 though on the field at any one time maybe 16-18 or so which allowed us to move around pretty easily. I forgot the name of this game but we had to attack defenders in the two large structures that are attached.
First let me apologize about the quality of the video, I’m using an older Contour ROAM action cam, it’s served me well over the years but Siege is pretty dark and I had to raise the camera’s exposure 4.5x to see anything. I really should get something better but I’ve been out of that market for a while and I want something that’s less intrusive than a GoPro, Contours are great that way super low profile but definitely do not work as well in the dark.
We cleared the buildings pretty easily since between Jason and I we have 12 grenades though you can’t see me hand off grenades to others well with the gun cam. Overall it was a good night, I had fun though my hands hurt as I got a lot of hand shots for some reason but that’s the risk one takes when they choose to play right.
Last night I went to Siege and I put another Contour camera on my rifle this time and the video came out pretty well!
Now if I just weren’t so lazy, I’d splice some helmet cam vs gun cam videos… Maybe I’ll do it later, sigh too bad sport cameras have such poor low light performance.
Wee I’m super stoked I picked up my old Systema PTW back from Tom, as reported it shot awesome last Friday and I may play this coming Friday too. In any case my airsoft guns imitate my real life ones. 😉
Not only is the Systema back in its MK18 MOD 1 and from a handling perspective the same as my Daniel Defense MK18, my sidearm is a VFC VP9, again as close as I can get to the HK SFP9.
So Friday night, Maggie tells me her folks want to go to Buffalo to do some shopping and on the way back visit Niagara Falls. Ugh, I like to play trips in advance but this is for Maggie’s family so I said sure and didn’t complain. We were stuck at US customs for about an hour but that’s ok we left early and the time allowed us to hit the Fashion Outlets mall as it was opening. Had lunch there and shopped (well they did, I read a book) till about 2pm then we headed to see the water.
We only hung around for about 45 minutes, I guess Maggie’s folks just wanted to take some picture and leave lol.
Today I played airsoft with a bunch of colleagues from work and it was a lot of fun!
I was actually looking forward to shooting them but we got grouped all together which means we were slaughtered because the other team had a lot more veterans. Another coworker showed up slightly late so he wasn’t included in the photo but that’s alright everyone had fun. Unfortunately I had to call it quits early I’ve been fighting a sinus infection the whole weekend and by late afternoon was pretty miserable. Still it was fun to feel all pretty in my gear again, it’s been too long and I am already looking for the next one.
I think I’m going to work from home tomorrow as I type this I feel pretty miserable so no point in going in and making everyone else crabby.
So as Stephen calls it, Airsoft 2.0 for me has begun and now I have a VFC MK18. It’s a nie gun very good for a regular AEG and it’ll be the backup to a Systema PTW when I do get it later on.
In terms of looks it’s close to my Daniel Defense MK18, not sure what I’m going to put on the airsoft gun right now, probably the Elcan as it’s just sitting on my shelf but I may outfit it with an Aimpoint T1 a bit later on too. I blame Stephen & Mario, but I’m glad I’m getting back into it and it is a lot of fun. 🙂
So yeah after 4 years I played my first airsoft game at Siege Airsoft, it’s an indoor facility owned by Frank who runs Toronto Airsoft and the venue is pretty good. Jason, Stephen, Mario, Shawn & Cameron along with Shafi from work and some of Cameron’s friends came along in our group (forgot to take a team photo damn it) so I had a lot of support. I was a bit nervous as it’s been years since I’ve played, was worried I’d become tentative but when the games started, I was my usual aggressive self. LOL Jason remarked I was a bit too aggressive at times, moving ahead when he couldn’t back me up.
I did find myself a bit impatient and played solo a lot instead of as a team so something to keep in mind next time. I also missed having comms as there were many times where I wish I had some backup but couldn’t call for anyone…
The video is unedited so it’s like 15 minutes long but if you watch it you can see that yeah I’m as aggressive as the situation allows. Shafi remarked how surprised he was that I’m always running around, I told him I may not look like it but I have excellent stamina. 😉 For weapons I was using a CA MP5K, VFC VP9 and had a couple of Airsoft Innovations Cyclone grenades (though I had a lot of trouble with them for some reason). Jason said it’s possible to play the field with just a pistol, he was only running a side arm and a 40mm launcher but I felt I needed an AEG as there were just so many people and I needed more range than my pistol would allow. I’m getting my PTW back (yay), the MP5K was great as it’s small and really maneuverable but the range is just too short. With that said though had I been running my PTW, I might have had a hard time getting as close…
I may be back in but won’t play as much as I did in the past, that and for now anyway I’ll stick to skirmishes as I don’t want to devote the time required to play mil sims. A side bonus, I’m not as sore as I thought I’d be and still in good enough shape to run around for 5 hours though with less gear than usual.
Haha I’m sure we’ll be talking about it at work tomorrow, Shafi & Jason will tell the other guys what they missed.
