Ok whats new... Ummm we have training on Sunday which will be good hopefully the weather looks like it will be crap) also DAC has been invited up to Christchurch for a weekend of airsoft with the teams from up there so have put down for time off which has been okied so looking forward to the road trip coming up. Will be leaving on the first of Oct and will be getting back on the 4th. will be a good weekend. Also have to decide on whether to go to nationals next year up in wellington with the rest of the team. need to decide by the end of the month. Nationals is being held on the 11th to 14th of Feb. Will be good to represent Dunedin and hopefully get a few awards.
The last of my gear should get here by the end of the week hopefully. So should be kitted out for training and future events.
Until next time.
Catch ya..
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
guess what halo just dropped off......
Halo just popped by to drop some goodies off. one big box containing one g&p m4. he also chucked in one of his old chest rigs and a spare battery untill mine arrives. upon taking it out of the box i noticed how heavy the m4 was. its fully metal which is why it ways so much. although heavy its very nicely balanced making it easy to hold. after putting the battery in it putting some bbs into the mag and clicking the safety off i pointed it right down the hallway to the other end of the house aiming at our mannequin. (our flat is called the manic inn). after pulling the trigger the gun made a nice noise as the motor whirred as the first bb was fired and hit centre chest. halo estimates its shooting at around 350-380 fps which is quite high but is ok just means i have to be careful not to shoot anyone close. unfortunitly i couldnt zero in my red dot scope or set the hop up as i couldnt actually c the bb flying down the hall way. will have to set them when im out at the field and have the light and room to get them right. right im off to play a bit more so ill take some pics tomorrow and post them up here.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
15/8/10 game day
Wow what a weekend. My flatmate had his 21st on the Saturday night so was feeling pretty jaded on Sunday morning but was a good night in general. Started the day off to stumbling around in my room at 3am trying to pack up my gear resulting in getting out to the field and realising that I had left my bottle of gas and safety goggles behind. Awesome start to the day. One more negative my BDU fits nicely except for legs, could see about 3 inches of ankle and white sock. Everyone had a good laugh over that (dam my long legs, fitted perfectly otherwise). Unfortunately my M4 didn't arrive in time, it cleared customs on Friday and arrived in Oamaru on Saturday but being after lunchtime the courier people didn't deliver it. Arrived at halos this morning. He's going to come into town in the weekend to watch the rugby so ill get him to drop it off on the way in. Right time to stop moaning and get on with it.
It was a beautiful morning in Dunedin on Sunday blue sky, sun was shining, birds were chirping and so on but after climbing the first hill out of Dunedin it became cold and overcast and a bit misty. By the time we got to the field it had warmed up a bit and the mist had gone but it was still overcast. We had a big turn out this week with 15 people playing. Once every one had arrived and said hello and Halo had given people some goodies and their now fixed weapons, we made our way to the field. One word for it. MUDDY!
First game was initiation for the new guys and a few of us jumped in with them to make it a bit more even. Found a very nice spot where I blended right in. So well in fact that I ended up bleeding haha. I was waiting to ambush whoever came up the hill following the path and I had expected one or maybe two people to go that way not 5! As the engagement distance is a minimum of 10m due to the power of the weapons we can do a BANG kill if someone is inside that. That means you have to be pointing your weapon at them all ready to fire and then call out bang. The person you are aiming at has the choice to accept the hit and in that case they call hit as if you had shot them or they can not accept it in which case you just shoot them and they cant moan if it hurts. I was preparing to do a bang kill on Halo (as he was first to come up the path but before I could move the others appeared behind him. My first thought was if I call out bang to halo he would take it but then I would be shot by the 4 others at the same time but I figured I would take one for the team and take Halo out. Unfortunately in my haste to think things through he got quite a bit closer (about 4m away) and when I moved my weapon towards him he saw the movement and nearly shat himself although he will deny that. (I could tell by the very shocked look on his face and the fact that he shot me twice) once in the thigh and the 2nd on my bare hand. The bb took a few layers of skin off and it bleed for quite awhile but all good no hard feelings towards the man. Even though I didn't get to even bang kill him.
The next game was virus like last time which was fun took while as there were so many people playing.
The next game was VC trail again but we did the trail in reverse which made things interesting. Halos team was the Americans and his team was made up of the squad that's going up to Christchruch in a few weeks so they can get used to working as a squad. That left the rest of us as the VC. Surprisingly we did very well and we managed to kill off the entire squad twice before having to fall back. Things got very interesting when I was the last man standing at a ambush point and I was lying behind a tree and all I heard was Halo calling out "rapid fire" and then his entire squad opened up at me, nothing hit me but when looking up then was so much bbs flying through the air about 4 inches from my face that it looked like it was snowing. During this one of their guys managed to creep right up to the tree I was hiding behind but before he could knife kill me I tired to roll out and shoot someone and instantly got peppered.
Lunch break
After lunch we made up a new game. Two teams starting at different ends of the field had to grab the flag and get it back to your base. Each team was made up of two squads of 3 which made it a bit better as it meant we could go up both sides of the course (as opposed to just two teams going up different sides no one would run into each other). What made it different from capture the flag was that instead of a flag we had to collect a sniper (in this case it was Kronos with his awesome looking sniper rifle. Big silencer on it almost no noise when its fired). So he went off and hid in the middle somewhere and he could shoot us and we needed our medic to bring us back to life. To capture him you had too shoot him and once dead he would join your team. To capture him from the other team you had to first kill off the squad protecting him then kill him. We lost this one pretty badly.Halos team found him first and we managed to pin them down in a clearing for about 15 mins but they flanked us and took us out one by one. After that game Halo had to go so we decided to call it a day and looking at the watch and realising it was 3:20 and wondering where the day had gone, everyone new it had been a good one.
Looking forward to this weekend so I can finally play with my baby. Next game is on the 5th I think don't quote me on that. Oh I was offered by the club rep a chance to do some basic mil type training with the rest of the main squad. It would involve things like setting up ambushes and working as a team and just the basic tactics really. Am thinking about taking them up on the offer as it would be cool to hang out with the guys a bit more and means more game time and a possible place one the Dunedin's inter-club team. Will see what happens.
Right bed time I think,
Catch ya
It was a beautiful morning in Dunedin on Sunday blue sky, sun was shining, birds were chirping and so on but after climbing the first hill out of Dunedin it became cold and overcast and a bit misty. By the time we got to the field it had warmed up a bit and the mist had gone but it was still overcast. We had a big turn out this week with 15 people playing. Once every one had arrived and said hello and Halo had given people some goodies and their now fixed weapons, we made our way to the field. One word for it. MUDDY!
First game was initiation for the new guys and a few of us jumped in with them to make it a bit more even. Found a very nice spot where I blended right in. So well in fact that I ended up bleeding haha. I was waiting to ambush whoever came up the hill following the path and I had expected one or maybe two people to go that way not 5! As the engagement distance is a minimum of 10m due to the power of the weapons we can do a BANG kill if someone is inside that. That means you have to be pointing your weapon at them all ready to fire and then call out bang. The person you are aiming at has the choice to accept the hit and in that case they call hit as if you had shot them or they can not accept it in which case you just shoot them and they cant moan if it hurts. I was preparing to do a bang kill on Halo (as he was first to come up the path but before I could move the others appeared behind him. My first thought was if I call out bang to halo he would take it but then I would be shot by the 4 others at the same time but I figured I would take one for the team and take Halo out. Unfortunately in my haste to think things through he got quite a bit closer (about 4m away) and when I moved my weapon towards him he saw the movement and nearly shat himself although he will deny that. (I could tell by the very shocked look on his face and the fact that he shot me twice) once in the thigh and the 2nd on my bare hand. The bb took a few layers of skin off and it bleed for quite awhile but all good no hard feelings towards the man. Even though I didn't get to even bang kill him.
The next game was virus like last time which was fun took while as there were so many people playing.
The next game was VC trail again but we did the trail in reverse which made things interesting. Halos team was the Americans and his team was made up of the squad that's going up to Christchruch in a few weeks so they can get used to working as a squad. That left the rest of us as the VC. Surprisingly we did very well and we managed to kill off the entire squad twice before having to fall back. Things got very interesting when I was the last man standing at a ambush point and I was lying behind a tree and all I heard was Halo calling out "rapid fire" and then his entire squad opened up at me, nothing hit me but when looking up then was so much bbs flying through the air about 4 inches from my face that it looked like it was snowing. During this one of their guys managed to creep right up to the tree I was hiding behind but before he could knife kill me I tired to roll out and shoot someone and instantly got peppered.
Lunch break
After lunch we made up a new game. Two teams starting at different ends of the field had to grab the flag and get it back to your base. Each team was made up of two squads of 3 which made it a bit better as it meant we could go up both sides of the course (as opposed to just two teams going up different sides no one would run into each other). What made it different from capture the flag was that instead of a flag we had to collect a sniper (in this case it was Kronos with his awesome looking sniper rifle. Big silencer on it almost no noise when its fired). So he went off and hid in the middle somewhere and he could shoot us and we needed our medic to bring us back to life. To capture him you had too shoot him and once dead he would join your team. To capture him from the other team you had to first kill off the squad protecting him then kill him. We lost this one pretty badly.Halos team found him first and we managed to pin them down in a clearing for about 15 mins but they flanked us and took us out one by one. After that game Halo had to go so we decided to call it a day and looking at the watch and realising it was 3:20 and wondering where the day had gone, everyone new it had been a good one.
Looking forward to this weekend so I can finally play with my baby. Next game is on the 5th I think don't quote me on that. Oh I was offered by the club rep a chance to do some basic mil type training with the rest of the main squad. It would involve things like setting up ambushes and working as a team and just the basic tactics really. Am thinking about taking them up on the offer as it would be cool to hang out with the guys a bit more and means more game time and a possible place one the Dunedin's inter-club team. Will see what happens.
Right bed time I think,
Catch ya
Thursday, August 12, 2010
update on order
so just heard back from Halo, the order has cleared customs and should hopefully be here in time for sundays game. looking at a big turnout so far 14 confirmed players. they guys have come up with a few more games involving bases and bombs from what ive heard bombs will be little battery powered alarm clocks with a countdown timer to give us a chance to diffuse it but will find out whats really happening on the day.
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