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.
Oh look what I have…
Interesting. 😉
When I was playing airsoft, I never got why players would use the C clamp grip on their rifles other than because it was the “cool” thing to do and now that I shoot real guns (though I admit I’m very much a newb), I see its appeal as even more limited. The C clamp grip came about in the competition world where people are shooting at static targets without the need to worry about cover or concealment and shooting a fairly limited number of rounds. Yes it does seem to aid in recoil control and help shooters with target transitions but keep in mind that competitors only shoot a small around in a short period of time.
In the real world, the C clamp position with the support arm is extremely unnatural and uncomfortable which leads to fatigue and in a hostile situation, frankly I wouldn’t want to use it because it cuts out a lot of your peripheral vision! That and now I’ve learnt that after only a short amount of shooting (say 60-80 rounds) the front rail or hand guard gets too hot to hold!
I guess I’m not part of the cool crowd but yeah the C clamp has its uses but it’s just stupid in airsoft and pretty useless in the real world… Not that I plan on getting into a firefight with anyone but if I did the fad grip would be a liability.
So the last few days we’ve been busy with various things, nothing too much to report on other than I went to play airsoft with Stephen & Jason yesterday at Mach 1. It was fun, the reffing was much better this time around and the games moved very swiftly. At the beginning there were maybe 15 players and that topped out at around 25 mid to late afternoon Sunday and I had absolutely no problems. Here’s a quick video of the first game we played, first team to put the tire in the car wins. I was late for briefing so I didn’t know what the tire looked like, as the video indicates.
The second video is from Jason’s point of view for one of the hostage rescue games we were playing. Pretty ridiculous especially after being hit with a 40mm, that doesn’t feel like a riccochet at all… Anyway despite that we all had a good time and we played a solid 5 hours or so but called it early as we wanted to get back to our families and I had to pack for to go to the range.
Today I went to Silverdale in the morning with Laura and her father, they went to the 50 yard range to shoot their 22LR rifles and I went to the action range to practice more with the Glock 17. It was nice, there was no one else around me for the first two hours so I could do whatever I wanted, I practiced shooting my steel plate a lot and am now up to around 7/10 which ain’t bad for a beginner. I shot the CSA vz-58 a bit as well as the AR-15, haha I love the action range because there I can do double taps and faster shooting. 😉
We left the range around 11AM and I got home by 1, after I cleaned my guns and picked up Brandon early from day care. He won’t be going in tomorrow either as I’m going to be taking him to Ripley’s Aquarium, yeah we went there last year but he enjoys looking at animals and he’s my son so I wanted to do something special with him. Too bad Maggie can’t go so it’s going to be just him and I but we’ll have a good time none the less.
On Friday I went to Toronto Airsoft to pick up a CYMA MP5K (CM.041K), I was worried that the KA Tanker M4 that I have was too heavy for her so I bought another MP5K lol… Yes I have a plastic one but when I saw that the full metal CYMA was only $170, I really couldn’t pass on that.
The kit comes with a short mid cap magazine, 9.6V 1200mAh battery and a European battery charger. I have to say I was very surprised how heavy the CYMA MP5K is and I think this may be too heavy for Maggie too! I chronied it and it was shooting an impressive 350 fps with 0.2g BBs and with the 9.6V battery the trigger is pretty snappy. I was able to insert my 11.1V lipo stick battery into the top of the MP5K and lol with that thing the trigger is super quick, PTWish!
Anyway that’s all i’m going to post about the gun for now, maybe later I’ll do a review on it. 😉
Mach 1 Airsoft opened up an indoor CQB facility of their own just west of highway 401 & 400 in an industrial area of town and yesterday afternoon Stephen, Mario, Jason and I paid the place a visit. Jason went on its grand opening two weeks ago and it was the first time for the other three of us. The field is much larger than Ultimate Airsoft, probably twice the size and it feels more like urban combat than strictly CQB. Don’t get me wrong I enjoy UA as well but this is a refreshing change and the fields are different enough that I think they can both survive.
Anyway it’s been a while since I’ve gone to play airsoft and it was nice to see some familiar faces. 🙂 The games were well run, Evan the ref is a player and he knows what airsofters like so I certainly had a good time. My favorite part of the day was when I was rushing the 2nd floor of the upper structure, my PTW went down and someone else on my team and I rushed the players on the top floor, that was a lot of fun. Unfortunately my partner was shot but I was able to clear out the rest of the defenders with my TM Glock 18C which wasn’t too bad, in fact as I turned the corner (blasting away), I actually saw my opponent cowering lol… I guess he wasn’t use to seeing someone do a suicide rush but it worked out for me and I knew if I waited, the other side would have been reinforced and we would have lost the initiative.
Mario had some papers he had to write and since Stephen was his ride, they left after about 3 hours. A shame as I always enjoy having those two around but that’s how it goes and Jason and I still had a lot of fun. A bit later I was able to talk Evan into doing a low light game and lol I busted out the PVS-14, I swapped the lower on my PTW so I could use the PEQ box and that was fun. Many of the players there have not seen technology like that so after the game I let the guys who were interested look through the tube and to see the IR dot from my laser.
I didn’t play much airsoft in 2014, I think I was a bit busier shooting my real guns but it felt good to get back into the action and I really did miss airsoft quite a bit. After telling Maggie about my tales, she’s interested in playing again (first time in like 5 years) and I think the Mach 1 field will be a great place for her second coming. 😉 I considered taking her to Ultimate Airsoft but that place (it’s fun I enjoy it) is a bit tighter and I’m afraid she’ll get all shot up. I was there for like 6 hours and didn’t receive any bad shots while I was playing.
Argh I forgot to take a group picture, oh well next time. 🙂
