training

Just got home from training. It was a good day. It was overcast and on the verge of raining but it held back until we finished. We were training on one of halos friends farms which is about 5 mins out of Dunedin no bushland, just open field on a hill. We started the day off with patrol techniques and practiced what to do when coming into contact. First off we needed a enemy which I volunteered to be. I had two mins to go down the hill a bit and get ready. We weren't doing anything serious still had too call your hits and if hit you were dead. We were more focusing on the techniques than shooting each other. It was also a good time to take the m4 for a spin.

As they came over the ridge I opened up. First thing I noticed. My m4 shoots dam straight. Second thing I noticed. I can out shoot everyone but Halo and Kronos. (kronos is the teams sniper.) 3rd thing we all noticed. 8 shots 5 kills and I win, much to the shocked faces the other guys had. They then had a weee moan about my m4 shooting too perfectly. Then they all had a play with it and fell in love with it. I am expecting a few more g&p m4s to turn up with the team in the next few weeks. All that aside we gave patrolling a few more goes swapping around and got the hang doing it properly. (Halo bought a copy of the training manual for the NZ SAS and we worked on the techniques from it.) After patrolling we did some practice of approaching a civilian and talking to them and getting info from them and checking to see if they were hostile. We had to practice this as in the big events coming up there will be unarmed and armed civilians running around. Was quite funny and there was quite a bit of sheep poo thrown from guys with fake accents, was very fun. After we had finished clowning around we practiced taking someone prisoner and lucky me, the guys got revenge for me slaughtering them in the first exercise i was "volunteered" to be the prisoner as you will see in a couple of the pics. After that we did some target practice and then had a photo shoot. (photos to come) then we just mucked around for about 2 hours which involved shooting distant trees, shooting each other for no reason, sliding down the damp hill, having a good chat about airsoft and putting our guns through the chronograph (pistol averages about 270 fps and m4 is about 375 fps) pistol is about right and m4 is a wee bit high but halo and drop it down if need be.

Then it was home time, all in all a good day. I will put up pictures when halo puts them up and i can steal them.

I don't have a game for a while the rest of the team is going to chch this weekend for a game which may or may not be on due to the earthquake. Most probably next game will be when we go up to chch first weekend of october. Will write something soon when the rest of my stuff arrives because its in chch at the moment and has been delayed a couple of days due once again to the earthquake.


catch ya