Airsoft Action - October 2023

AA LEGION
TAIWAN
myself in taking part, as well as Spring Rain/165
Fighters, Taiwan Shooters Union making up the
majority of the adults, and a variety of players from
elementary (under 12s), middle and senior high school
(13-15 and
16-18 year olds
respectively).
The younger
participants
required
a parental
consent form
and many of
them were
mentored by
a member of
their school
staff who also
happened
to be an
experienced
shooter
themselves;
with a total of 71 shooters participating all told, in
itself a much larger crowd to deal with than our more
typical local competition circuit events of around 20-
30 in three divisions.
Every one of the age range divisions had cash
prizes of NTD2000 (around UK£50) for first place
as well as other cash prizes for second and third
place, along with
commemorative
coffee mugs (Ding
Ding Cup is not just
a clever name… you
actually get a usable
cup!) and tangible
goods in the form
of giveaway bags
of CLPD BBs, tote
bags, guns and
accessories provided
by the likes of VFC
and local retailers
with a final raffle
draw also being
held for all competitors to have the chance to take
away an array of goods.
The three bays were set up in separate morning and
afternoon configurations giving a total of six stages to
be shot by all participants, but, as with the Kaohsiung
level 3 competition of last Xmas myself and my
team captain ‘Mars’ Liu decided to punish ourselves
by taking part in both pistol and optic enabled rifle
divisions… so we got a double helping, along with a
few friends from the community who were similarly
masochistic! Many others only competed in pistol
division, all told there were sixteen rifle participants,
only three of whom used iron sights; I decided to
field the excellent RATech EMG Noveske N4 GBBR I
reviewed back in Issue No. 152 with a T1 style red
dot which served me very well (more on that later!),
as well as my more typical CLPD Shadow 2 on the
Double Alpha Lynx belt for the pistol stages.
Having signed in and undertaken the morning
briefing we got to work loading up our magazines
and preparing our various belt kit and gun bags
to deal with running both pistols and rifles where
applicable, and the range officers began marshalling
us all through the various stage presentations. Mars
and myself were squadded up with some of the other
pistol and rifle dual competitors to try and navigate
the stages more efficiently, and thankfully due to the
more relaxed equipment stipulations and lack of need
to move on the stages I just added rifle magazine
pouches to the front of my Lynx belt to avoid the need
“EVERY ONE OF THE AGE RANGE DIVISIONS HAD CASH PRIZES OF NTD2000 (AROUND UK£50)
FOR FIRST PLACE AS WELL AS OTHER CASH PRIZES FOR SECOND AND THIRD PLACE, ALONG
WITH COMMEMORATIVE COFFEE MUGS (DING DING CUP IS NOT JUST A CLEVER NAME… YOU
ACTUALLY GET A USABLE CUP!)”
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