Airsoft Action - October 2023

AA LEGION
TAIWAN
to switch out belt gear between stages and divisions.
For the most part the organisers and range officers
worked fairly efficiently given the
sheer number of
stage was curtailed somewhat to try and speed things
up. In the end the afternoon ran more smoothly
and made up for lost time, however we were
slightly delayed rounding things off past the
intended 1830 closing of ceremonies.
RUNNING AND GUNNING
With the focus being purely on shooting
and without much need for stage planning,
moving or reloading I actually managed to
hold my own quite well; all those evenings
wearing the sears smooth on my WE G36C
at my old KUI Zhubei haunt came flooding
back and the short and light triggers of my
Shadow 2 and N4 helped me throw BBs
down rapidly and
participants and the
special considerations for younger and
less experienced shooters, and managed to
have most people complete all their shooting
without any issues, although some inevitably
succumbed to equipment failures and a very
few number of disqualifications. People were
cycled through the stages fairly quickly given
the simplified setup and lack of need to patch
paper targets or score hit zones
as with
our more typical
events, but despite this by lunchtime
things were reshuffled somewhat and the ‘briefing’
time allowed for each participant to dry run each
accurately, with a fastest
stage of 1.96 seconds on the rifle and 2.15
seconds with the pistol; the latter surprised
even myself and garnered a round of
applause from the guys in the rear… always
nice to be appreciated, but I think the guns
do a lot of the work for me!
The youngest practitioners also garnered
particular attention and praise, with
Jackie’s son Xie HaoYu (only 8 years old!)
performing very well alongside his older
sister Xie QiaoYu (12!) comporting themselves very
well and clearly being ‘chips off the old block’ as
we would say and following well in their father’s
footsteps. In general the wealth of new shooters,
especially youngsters from a variety of schools and
“THE YOUNGEST PRACTITIONERS ALSO GARNERED PARTICULAR ATTENTION AND PRAISE,
WITH JACKIE’S SON XIE HAOYU (ONLY 8 YEARS OLD!) PERFORMING VERY WELL ALONGSIDE
HIS OLDER SISTER XIE QIAOYU (12!) COMPORTING THEMSELVES VERY WELL AND CLEARLY
BEING ‘CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK’ AS WE WOULD SAY AND FOLLOWING WELL IN THEIR
FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS”
90
OCTOBER 2023