FEATURE
HIGHS AND LOWS
another one home. I’m not sure that’s entirely cricket, but,
hey – war’s hell!
HIGH ON THE HILL
Another high from the Hill came through my regular use of
Marui shotguns (which I love).
Attacking up a short but steep hill, I’m taking fire from a
tree above me. The shooter ducks back behind the tree and
I let off a shot from the Marui. To my astonishment there is
a cry of “Hit!” and my would-be assailant emerges, hand in
the air. Seems that at least one of the BBs had curved round
the tree trunk and hit him! Hard not to love shotguns after
something like that.
The following is from an anonymous Airsoft Action staffer -
let’s call him Pill Bryce Thomas…
“I’ve thought about this for a while now and probably my
most embarrassing moment and the funniest moment
came in one single game... embarrassing first...
“I played with a great team in the USA and had a
fabulous “wing man” called Jay. We were all stacked up
ready to hit a building entrance, Jay #1, me #2. We’re just
about to hit the “go go go” button when Jay sticks up his
hand to call a halt to the breach... and I promptly shot him
in the trigger finger from about six inches away... Much
interesting language was the result as you can imagine...
“Same weekender and the team was down to just Jay
and me whilst the others were respawning, and the mass of
the opposing team (about 100 players) were heading down
“Main Street” towards us... by this time Jay had ripped the
front out of his trousers and is down to shorts. Naturally,
the only option was for us to launch a sprinting, full-frontal
assault straight up the middle of “Main Street”, shooting
like loons on semi-auto all the way! Until that was, the
entire opposing force opened up on us! I have never been
welted like it before, or indeed again since - the other team
gave us a fabulous cheer, laughed heartily at our audacity
(stupidity?) and we retired welted but happy!”
So, as I rush towards a reasonable word count, it’s obvious
that airsoft has it all; tears, laughter, pain, sorrow and
the ability to deprive otherwise sensible people of huge
amounts of cash for little or no return!
Here’s to the next eleven years of BB-based lunacy! AA
“NATURALLY, THE ONLY OPTION WAS FOR US TO LAUNCH A SPRINTING, FULL-FRONTAL
ASSAULT STRAIGHT UP THE MIDDLE OF “MAIN STREET”, SHOOTING LIKE LOONS ON
SEMI-AUTO ALL THE WAY! UNTIL THAT WAS, THE ENTIRE OPPOSING FORCE OPENED UP
ON US!”
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