Airsoft Action - October 2023

AA LEGION
UK - NAF 2023
are one of the things we all
dread at an event of this size,
but all the facilities were
kept as clean as possible
which makes the camping
experience a little nicer!
My thoughts on the
event overall? It’s not your
typical festival but a friendly
gathering of fellow like-minded
airsofters who make it their own fun and if you have
never been it is worth going at least once in your
lifetime to experience this individual style of festivities
and make new friends and connections with so many
fellow airsofters! There is far more goodness to take
away from this than negative so save up, boot up,
book on and we’ll see you there next year! ...just
don’t forget your TENT…
Thanks to Ben for his input from the game side,
and there’s one last mention that I have to make;
2023 was the first ever meeting of
the new VMP-1 owners group,
and although the guys from
VORSK were unable to make it
themselves due to scheduling,
they did provide free VORSK
FUEL and BBs for all those that
turned up! It was my true
pleasure to co-host the event
with James from AIRTAC at
his stand, and it was great to
be able to chat with fellow
owners, and now-friends
(yeah Stu, talking about
you, ya lovely!), about their
experiences with the VMP-
1 so far. I sincerely hope
that next year this will be an even
bigger thing… and I’m sure that Taig will gatecrash
again with even more Kydex Customs VMP-1
holsters to delight everyone with (he will, and we’ll
be reporting on this soon…). Thanks from everyone
that attended, to VORSK for the freebies… and for a
fabulous SMG!
And my final thoughts on the National Airsoft
Festival 2023? As I’ve said many times before, the site
is superb and the organisation impeccable, even with
numbers of people on-site! The facilities were firstrate
again this year and the scheduling spot-on.
Once again I’ll echo my thoughts of past years as
the play that I saw was hard, fast, and in the main fair,
with hits taken and compliments given where they
were due, and Ben would appear to agree with that.
The “after game” was as
much fun and as lively as ever,
and the bottom line is that
everyone seemed to have a
thoroughly bang-on time whether
they played for the duration, for a
few hours, or not at all!
Well done to the players of
BRAVO who took the win this
year, and I’m certain that DELTA
and THE OTHERS will be back to
contest things next year! Again as I now say after
every NAF, whatever your style of play may be the
National Airsoft Festival has something to offer you.
The Festival is first and foremost just that, a joyful
festival event that celebrates airsoft in all its diverse
and wonderful forms, and a festival that just happens
to be set on an awesome site that has an enormous
game going on at the same time… BRING ON NAF
2024!
Our thanks as always go to AA LEGION associate
Josh and his crew at www.kriosphotography.com
for their help with additonal photography. If you
want to see all their NAF 23 photos, head over to
www.kriosphotography.com/Airsoft/National-Airsoft-
Festival-2023. For further information for the 2024
National Airsoft Festival please keep an eye on www.
groundzeroairsoft.com/nae, and the AA Crew look
forward to seeing you there! AA
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