On Saturday I met up with Chris and grabbed up his AN/PVS-14 weapon mount and I have to say, with the NVD on the PTW it looks pretty damn sexy! 😉

Oh this should be obvious but definitely do not use repro optics with night vision devices (yeah I’m an idiot)! I tried just for fun at the lowest setting and it left a temporary spot in the image right in the center and lasted for about half an hour! That was pretty scary considering how much the damn thing cost but I’m glad there’s no permanent damage. Yeah I can use the EOTech 551 but it doesn’t look good on a CQBR style weapon and now I guess I’m in the market for a real Aimpoint M2 lol.

Heh well I sold my old set of gen 3 NVGs to Mario so I could get myself an AN/PVS-14 night vision scope. 🙂 This device is a monocular and it can be attached to my helmet or my weapon! It’s generation 3 and mil spec, comforting because if it is designed for military use I know it’ll handle anything i can throw at it. The last picture is of my gear in the darkness.

Oh god with Chris, Brayden, Henry, Mario and I equipped with generation 3 night vision, the GHOSTS will totally rule the night! LOL Maggie was saying, how come it’s her birthday and I get a nice toy like this… 😉

Yesterday I held a training session at thanh’s field for the TFBG and overall it went well. I’ve come to accept the fact that my group of players will not play as well as AFO or QRF simply for the fact that I have the largest group of players, whom do not have experience playing together as well as having the less experience overall. Still I was pleased with how the team progressed during the day.

Sigh too bad the field was so small, I was hoping the recce portion of the game would take at least 2 hours but it was really done in about 30 minutes so I had to start making up missions on the fly. Much of the rest of the day I tried to teach the TFBG guys to attack aggressively while watching for no shoot targets.

There’s still too much chatting during patrols and the guys bunch up way too close but we’re making progress. 🙂 It’s going to be slow but I do believe that we will achieve all objectives that we are tasked with.

So today I picked up a used EOTech 551 from Brian (another one) and boy is it sweet! 🙂 I’m not sure what I’m going to put it on just yet as I prefer Aimpoints on the PTW but I’m thinking of maybe the M249, I think it would look good there.

Hehe gotta love the NV mode, just in time for… Um I’ll tell you later! 😀

Yesterday the team hosted a table at the Toronto Airsoft Convention 2011 (TAC11) at FACT and it was fun. I think this was the fourth or fifth time we’ve done this and every year I have a blast. Much of the team volunteered to help Brian run things and they did a great job. Myself I spent most of the day at our table talking to newbs about guns, gear and general airsoft tidbits, which I hope will help them with their airsoft careers. A bit later in the day a guy who hosts his own Youtube channel Wolf’s Den got this girl to interview me about airsoft and that was fun. LOL I don’t know why she was wearing what she was but whatever I won’t complain haha and best of all Maggie thinks it’s funny. 🙂

Phil had also set up a booth serving food, what a great idea that was as there aren’t any places to eat close by. The newbs loved looking through Chris’ ACOG which was cowitnessed with his PVS-14 NVS as well as checking out my NVG setup. Brayden brought down his PVS-14 as well so we had three gen 3 mil spec night vision goggle/scopes on the table, man that is sweet! All the guns garnered a lot of attention but definitely the A&K M249 Para and A&K M60E4 were the stars of our table.

I didn’t buy too many things, I picked up my yearly supply of BBs, a used Pantac Paca vest in black and a really nice Condor soft shell jacket in coyote tan. Bernie also gave me a set of custom grips (with our new team logo etched into them) for my TM MEU and my god are they cool! 😀

All in all another great convention and I already look forward to next year’s event. If you live in the Southern Ontario region and are interested in airsoft, this is definitely something you have to attend!

A couple of years ago, to fund another project I sold my TM 1911 which was upgraded with a full Guarder Army metal kit and pretty much since that day, I’ve been kicking myself. Well the other day I was able to buy it back, and $75 cheaper than what I sold it for! The gun itself looks exactly like the day I sold it and it has been pretty much sitting in a box the whole time. I’m certainly happy as getting a full metal kit in Canada these days is very difficult and finding the exact model I’m looking has been near impossible.

Hehe to the left is my FMU TM MEU, the new/old FMU TM 1911 and a plastic TM 1911. I guess I can sell the latter now since I do not need two, anyway Colin is happy… 😀

In May, the team and I will be playing a large mil sim and today we had our first outdoor training session.  We practiced CQB at the Belleville Craig Complex Hospital, while the May game will be a field game practicing CQB builds team relationships and dynamic.  At first the Task Force Battle Group (the platoon under my command) struggled with clearing rooms, angles and aggression but as the day progressed, the guys started to gel and did quite well.  As the “point of the spear”, TFBG suffered the most casualties with the last mission but then again we had the most of the engagements.  I think between the various teams on my side (AFO, TFBG & QRF) we’ll need better comms, that was pretty obvious at the end when I asked AFO to sweep the rooms on the left.  They did not advance as quickly as my guys and we got cut down by Jason who was in a good position.

Still the day went well and even though I didn’t fire many shots I still had a good time. 🙂

Heh in between missions we took a team picture. On March 26th I’ll be hosting a training session for the TFBG (though everyone is welcome) and we’ll practice section movement, radio comms & map reading/relaying coordinates.  Woo this will be something special for sure.  For the time being this post is private, after the game I’ll make all the posts public, don’t want op-for to read my thoughts. 😉

Tuesday Feb 22nd 2011 Edit: Chris took some video with his iPhone and uploaded to Youtube.

Yeah the facility truly is awesome! 😀