Airsoft Canada - Great White North!

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Great White North!

Some pics from today's mini-skirmish... a balmy -1C, with a wind chill of -9C (and no one's mech box broke!)

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It was a wee bit cold, but fun!

P.S. If any moderator would like to set up a region for us up here (NT, Great White North, The Territories, etc) like you southerners have, like Ontario, BC, Atlantic, etc... that'd be cool.

Wow, beautiful scenery!!

Hey Tex, I just posted picts of today on our last thread... You beat me to a new one.

Ah yes...unlimited airsofting with unlimited land. All 10 minutes from my house...

Wow, you've got a great "field" there! I'll definitely go up there do some trekking in the future... Airsofting, well quite harder but not impossible!

Just to tease a bit, we've hit 30 celcius today after some weeks at around 8-10 celcius. Constasts a bit with your -9, lol :P
But honestly, 30 is too hot for me -- I'd prefer a good zero celcius.

Does PaRkA play with you guys? if so tellem the Niagara Guys say hello.

It looks like Sudbury! haha

Here's some more pictures from todays game... lots of fun. We brought out some pallets this afternoon and made some "cars"... great for cover to augment the trees until the leaves come in.

The terrain looks awesome!

Keep it up guys.

The terrain is nicely mixed, in a rather compact area. Perfect for a smaller group; there's (obviously) trees, some dirt trails, rocky cliffs, and a mini-desert nearby.

And then the Sun came out...

The "Cars" made great cover. It really opened up a lot of new tactics on the roads... instead of "stay out of the road if you want to grow old" it's now "watch out for the road...". The adrenaline really gets pumping when you're pinned down on the road behind a car and bb's are slapping and popping off the cardboard and wood, kicking up dust beside you.

We Haven't Melted Yet

My God that is amazing. I want to take a holiday back north again to just Airsoft!!!

You'll be more than welcome to play with us. The more the merrier!

I used to live in Churchill and Thomspson for years :)

Bugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugsbugs

Too damn many bugs last night... warm, too.

You've heard of Silent Sam? Meet Beekeeper Bob...
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Too hot for the field jacket...

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So I ditched it (thus presenting the bugs with a smorgasbord). I also had to borrow a gun from the resident airsoft expert after mine stripped a gear or something. He's gonna try to fix it for me.

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Whilst our resident airsoft expert makes us drool over his assortment of guns...

We're slowly sucking some more guys in, and have hopes to play into the fall with a steady six or so. :D

Awesome stuff, Your start is much the same as here in Newfoundland. Our small Isolated group of 5 or 6 regulars has jumped substantially in just a few years and now we even have 2 teams within among us!

That's great; news like that gives us hope here in St. John's North.

One piece of advise... establish some form of leader or system. Because when more and more players start coming you'll at times have to make choices on rules and stuff, alot of arguing can happen and nobody likes that.

We've got a good leadership core now, i.e. the tiny handful that are playing and actually own our own guns. Not that I'm all that leader-ly, but the other two are. :)

Oh, that's not a bug hat. That's a "sniper veil", and it worked great. Nobody could see me and I won every game. I don't even think I was shot once, just kept blasting you fools that were giving away your positions slapping bugs.

The leadership thing will be a big step as our group matures. It's the balance of getting everyone involved and having a good time, but kicking out the troublemakers/lawyers.

Any visitors are always welcome.

Just When You Thought We Were Done...

Looking awesome! kool stuff guys.

how many are you up there?

It's small, yet. Three hardcore, with another three to five sometimes/possibles/hopefuls. We're expecting the "hardcore" number to grow over the off-season, as some others aquire gear.

A little scouting yesterday... Looking for a new area of operations. As well, we tested out our new Comtac II headsets from Huang. They worked awesome.

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And our first tiny foray into video...

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I love it when a plan comes together...

Loving the tactical cigar! Smoke signals come in handy when your radio breaks down! :p

I wanna come up to play with you guys! Looking good!

Well, there's not snow here all the time, so I figured I'd paint up my gun. Here's some pictures of that plus a few others of our latest games.

Hate to be the buzzkill and all but, airsoft and sexy or not, that last pic is an ND waiting to happen. Keep the finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. Wicked paintjob though.

A little gaming today in the new area, amongst the lovely fall foliage...

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Bee-utiful.

Wow...looks amazing! :)

Do you edit your photos or did they turn out like that?

There's some Picasa editing involved, a combo of punching up/warming up the colours a bit, and some focus effects. But, oddly enough, warming up the colours makes the pictures look a lot like they do through my VR28 lensed Oakleys. Here's a couple of unedited photos...

Bah! Can't believe I had my finger on the trigger... Ah well, I guess I'm a noob. Frozen Tex mentioned the gun wasn't safe in the picture, and I replied (a la Black Hawk Down) that my finger IS my safety. He retorted "and your safety was off". Oops.

Here's a few of pictures of my G&G CQB with an HK416 style rail on it. *Ahem* Notice the proper placement (or lack of placement) of the trigger finger. *gloat*
-Red dot from WalMart
-552 from Huang
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-Silencer from teammate
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Bring On The Snow...

Your 1911 is awesome... looks good Tex

loving the stargate patches... doesnt look right with the ACU and the ciras though... well to me anyways.

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Originally Posted by oniwagamaru (Post 1084109)

loving the stargate patches... doesnt look right with the ACU and the ciras though... well to me anyways.

Season 9/10 (and maybe 8) the show depicted Army medics in ACU and one of the last shots in the last episode showed an SG team all in ACU.

So, you like my pistol, do you Zarb?

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Socom gear MEU?

Damn, I want one of those.

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Socom gear MEU?

Damn, I want one of those.

Yup, with Tactical Type 90 suppressor. Me likey.

Great Kit guys...nice work. How many players do you have in your neck of the woods

3 core players, plus... 4-5 newbies/eager beavers. We're small, but hopefully growing. It's tough with a small population that can be fairly transient, and we want to keep yahoos/idiots out.

And now for the first winter game... freezing/slurry rain, around 0 celcius, soaking wet but lots of fun. It felt like playing airsoft in a slurpy. Erm, a water flavoured slurpy.

Marpat woodland worked pretty well, in the picture with the bottom rock you can see me poking over in the top left. I mix it up with my multicam vest (I'll probably get a green one eventually but it's working so far) and it doesn't seem to bad in our terrain.

The ACU is amazing against the rocks, you can see Tex in one picture where it looks like his legs are invisible in the picture, ACU in general has impressed me this year with the coyote brown gear overtop, it breaks it up and a few times I only picked out Tex because of his big white face amongst the bushes. Time for some facepaint...

Gun Scythe with the mutlicam/tiger stripe was also hard to pick out, a few times I was taking fire from him but was off about 30 degrees (my guess of his direction) as he was so well camo'd.

so i guess GBB are out of the question?

and are you ever worried about running a V.2 mechbox in those kind of temps.?

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Originally Posted by Donster (Post 1085997)

so i guess GBB are out of the question?

and are you ever worried about running a V.2 mechbox in those kind of temps.?

I've never really had a temperature problem with a gun. Wet, cold...everything just keeps working.

My personal opinion is that a V2 mechbox will work fine down to very low (-35C?) temperature. The only weak point/risk would be the piston, but if you've got a good one of those you're fine. I'm fine with using stock pistons down to maybe -10 or so. People say otherwise, but we use them up here and they're fine.

Heh, heh... Slurpee.

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And, no, Donster, GBBs don't work all that well; a few shots of my Socom Gear MEU and it lost power. The Tornados worked... a little slowly. But effective nonetheless. I got two kills thanks to them. One was direct on Gunscythe, the second one made him bolt from his cover so I could shoot him! And while it was cold, I was comfy in merino wool longjohns and a polar fleece hoodie under the ACUs. And I stuffed a glove warmer inside the crane stock to keep my battery from getting cold.

Agreed about the temperature. As long as the battery works they should be OK. And we break soemthing.... well, I guess we will call it quits for the winter and buy parts for spring.

That fog tech works wonders. I haven't been fogging at all. Today was 0 C or so, wet snow falling, running around, sweating like crazy, and no fogging at all.

Crappy Weather...

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Ghost??? Where did you get the bandanna?

One of our guys bought a box full of them, and gave us two each. From whence they came, I know not.

We were out this weekend for some gaming. -19 without wind, -30 or so with. Lots more pictures to follow, when we get some post production work done. :)

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Is that a SOG Daggert I spy?

It is not. It's a Kabar, Next Gen type. Had it about 10 years or so.

I want the green PCU!

Gunscythe you need to photoshop some brass flying from that rambo shot...

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I want the green PCU!

If you mean the green jacket I'm wearing, it's a TADGear softshell, in a colour they don't use anymore... Condor makes a similar styled jacket in a slightly different shade of green for much less than TADGear's stuff ($85USD vs. $240USD). I think somebody here is selling them... Farmboy, perhaps?

And, We're Back!

To a wet, snowy start....

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My babies... :D

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There was actually running water in spots under the snow cover... by the end of the day I felt like Sponge Bob Suede Boots.

But our season is finally under way!

The Snow Went...

At least you have less to worry about in terms of overheating while wearing lots of gear?

And people say ACU is a bad pattern.. Seems to work for your terrain rather well.

Those are some sweet shots.. Picasa is a great program.

And to turn on teh nerd mode; during the last years of SG1, weren't the other teams occasionally wearing Marpat, not ACU? I recall SG3(?) and/or SG22 wearing Marpat on the Sodan planet. At least it looked like Marpat.

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Yes, there was MARPAT because some SG teams were USMC... ACU only showed up twice in the last season. Once in a medic treating wounded on earth near O'Neill's cabin, and once on a team going through the Gate in the last couple minutes of the last episode. I just have the ACU with the velcro.... And only desert MARPAT.

Ah yes, I remember the Beast episode now, and the Army guys on site.

Still can't remember the ACU going through the Gate... I suppose I'll have to rewatch a few episodes... oh darn.

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Ah yes, I remember the Beast episode now, and the Army guys on site.

Still can't remember the ACU going through the Gate... I suppose I'll have to rewatch a few episodes... oh darn.

Not to take away from your SG Fun, but the bit you're looking for is in the last scene of the last episode of the last season of SG1, and they're only on screen for a couple of seconds as they walk up the ramp into the Gate.

Oh noes! You're going to step on that tiny man! (a few pictures up)

I find ACU works great. Any of the digitals are awesome, and ACU is no exception. We often lose Tex in the birch trees, or the rocks, or any of the sand. Especially with the coyote gear breaking up his outline.

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One of us (whose name shall not be mentioned) go hisself an M249, but a wee piston problem put it out of action during the first game... better luck next week! :D

The shattering of the stock CA249 piston after 2000 rounds was a sign from my God. With it, he said "yea, he shall take thy gun apart, fixeth thy piston, and with it throw in a bigger spring, which ye shall smite thine enemies with". Heck, I _almost_ threw in a spring that J@rek the @r@b dr@gon sold me (custom welded - two M190 springs) so that I could join his covert Blue Noise team.

Wolverines!!

I've been away to the Center of the Universe for a few weeks, so it's been awhile since I played or posted...

Guns 'n' Roses!
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Chemical Warfare! (against skeeters...)
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That AK-47 of Philkensebben's is getting real popular... I can't wait 'til my AKMS gets here...!
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More fun today, and another facial wounding...
And a couple cool pics (but not as cool as the above "smoky" pics)...

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In a week or two, there will be moar... :D
As soon as mine gets here, we'll have a tiny Durka Insurgency Force.

It Was A Dark And Stormy Day...

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Well, not really. We didn't even get hailed on today. :D
Had some fun, and the group keeps getting bigger (and soon there'll be 4 of us with AKs... Our own little insurgency). And no one shot me in the face (although Gunscythe's shot in my ear hurt like a bugger... I hope Zarb can fix my Comtacs soon.).
Additionally, I hope to soon post a pic or two of Zarb's ghetto Han Solo blaster... ;)

I'm just wondering if I sold an AK to one of you guys up there. It's good to know where it goes.

I'm really enjoying seeing pictures from all over Canada. Looks like you've got a good group up there.

Good to hear. I've missed that rifle over the past few months, but I've accepted the loss. I'll end up with another AK in the future I'm sure.

Let me know how it keeps working for you.

I'm pretty sure our immunizations are up to date...:D
There is, however, a lovely pond nearby; I want to jump in it, and thereby gain super-powers. The others say it'll likely just make me very sick, if not kill me. :(

How could I forget...
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Zarbenglyphen's "Ghetto" Blaster! ;)

And I found out last night, after trying to figure out the mysterious wet spot on our couch (we thought the cats had pee'd pure water!), that someone had shot me yesterday with a "golden BB" that managed to find the small hole in my hydration pouch... mounted on my back! It shattered the fill-cap on my Camelback (I found a BB floating inside it!), and now I need a new one!

Wow that's some nice locations you have there for gaming; and some of my best memories of the sport are back when it was just 10-12 people who all knew each other well shooting at each other in straight up matches..

Yeah, today was just 5 of us, and we still have lots of fun. And this new area still has lots to discover! :D

WOW!!! I want it to snow right now....

I missed a couple weeks due to travel... :( But had fun so it's okay.
Much fun was had in the fall foliage of an idustrial wasteland...

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On a downer, some damned bastard paintballers found our sight and have covered in in slimy, neon-pink splooge. :mad:

Bastards.

Pretty area, whats with the tape around the stock of the AK. Also that is a really pretty mask on the last pic.

You should share the field with the ballers, neon-pink splooge helps you camouflage with the pink stuff on the walls of buildings :P

Hockey grip-tape; I think it was a field-expedient to hold the stock on when the screw fell out, now he just likes the look.

I don't want pink paint on my gear.

awww a TAD fast pack. Ive wanted one of those. nice mask too!

Winter Wonderland!

Ahhh lovely winter airsoft, I can't wait till the season of white snow hits our local fields :D

Do you ever have it effective to dig in the snow and blend in the snow or build snow forts :O. I didn't get enough snow last year to build or dig in the snow in my area :(