Right guys and girls, since I was airsofting over a week ago, I’ll provide a short writing of it here:
Friday the 7th was to be a good day for airsofting at SG1 Bellaghy, the weather good and the friends plentiful. The day was pretty much the same as any airsoft day, with the games and craic decent. I actually did all-right for once, perhaps helped by my shiny new JG MP5 which I will review in time on youtube. The Killhouse, the CQB part, was my favourite part, which I managed to win one game for the team. I think the compact MP5 helped. I got a decent number of hits and overall had a good time. The loud noises emitted from William let me (and everyone else) know when he had been hit!
The main problem was my goggles; they kept steaming up. Quite annoying for shooting at a range. But apart from that, it was overall a good day.
Here is my most recent youtube video, which tells the 7 second story of an iPod feeling the almighty wrath of an air rifle (NOT an airsoft gun, totally different things…).
I have scrounged the money to save up for a replacement MP5 Airsoft gun. No, I’m not showing off or being flashy with my new purchase, but as you have seen earlier, my M4 failed on me and split in two. I got together the useful parts from it, sold them on eBay and plunged some of my birthday money and the result is a nice Chinese-made JG MP5. I will be thinking of adding to the countless video-reviews of it already on youtube, or at least get a few pictures up here!
The gun already looks to be a better purchase than my previous model. It is small, manoeuvrable and has a better sling attaching system, much welcome to me. As I am attending SG-1 I hope its size will assist me as it is majority woodland/CQB, no long range stuff. Anything is better than the guns SG-1 rent you. The “power”, the “accuracy”, the 180 round mags, the price of more BB’s, aggh, the mere thoughts of those old AK’s are killing me!
Tomorrow looks to be good, I’ll write up on it later if there are any stories to tell. And as there are 20+ people supposedly attending, it’ll be all-out-war! Bombs away*!
(*Sadly, pyrotechnics are not allowed, so no bombs.)
Continuing from my birthday post, I have decided to go over my past year. Not entirely of coarse, that would take ages, and some of it will stay where it belongs, in my head, or indeed heart.
Several key events happened from the 22nd of July 2008 to the 22nd of July 2009. The first, obviously, been my 15th Birthday. It was a decent enough day starting with a game of football with my friends, and then a small party at my house. My nice shiny new EEE PC was my present, and we were playing around with it, most notably on MSN. (Compare to my 16th)
Things were on and off after that, I went on holiday visiting my Uncle in England, a semi-entertaining trip which the highlights were the local swimming pool and shopping centre. Butlins, in all seriousness, that place wasn’t justified by the £65 entry fee. But all in all a decent ending to a long summer which saw the transaction from 3rd year to 4th year, and the dawn of GCSE’s (Which I will be doing next year. Owies.).
4th year began slowly, mostly due to personal reasons. My school work wasn’t affected too badly, justified by a decent Christmas exam result.
(26/04/2012: I never finished this but have decided to publish it for old time’s sake. Mark)
Airsofting is one of my smaller, but enjoyable pass-times. It is a sport similar to paintball which your primary objective is to eliminate members of the opposing team with your gun.
My involvement is somewhat limited now, mostly due to a “slight” fault with my Airsoft gun. Ah, my gun, the amazing JG M4 CQB. A decent replica of the M4 Carbine, used by the US armed forces and British SAS alike. When I was airsofting on Monday, this fault became apparent. Here is the result of it:
Some assembly may be required.
No, I don’t have the number of the car that went over it. OK, OK, the picture was taken after I disassembled my gun. But the real problem was that the stock just snapped from the receiver. What? Oh, I mean it snapped in two. You can be fairly confident my future airsoft guns will be metal. My advice to kiddies: BB guns are fun, but never let your friend’s younger brother poke with it. And certainly never let him unscrew a screw which you later find out, the hard way, that holds two key parts of the gun together.
Yay! It was my birthday again on the Wednesday 22nd of July, I am writing this post 4 days later as I have had no access to a computer since.
I believe it is the 3rd post regarding my birthdays since this blog opened.
A lot has happened since I became 15, and I could go on for ages on it. But to summarise, I think it was a great year, it had as many ups as downs but that’s life. I threw a birthday party with my mates on the day, starting with football at 1 and then at my house, at 2.00, we had a BBQ. Cooked by yours truly. It was a success, with only 2 burgers burned and the semi-needed assistance of only one female comrade! We ate and got entertained by the likes of Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. It was the biggest party ever in our house, with around 15 people present- and it’s all on video.
After the party, I went down to Portrush (the local beach/seaside “resort”) with some of my friends and had a good time. I stayed for 3 days, swam in the sea, went to a “theme park” (Barrys amusements), ran around a kiddies water fountain display half naked, yep, I did it all.
That’s the best I can summarise my day.
To summarise the year would take much more. I might do a “Review of 15″ later, but for now it’s late on a Sunday and I value my sleep. Night all.
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