Airsoft Action - October 2023
Even though we're currently having our annual vacation and office shutdown, here we go with the the very latest issue of AIRSOFT ACTION, and as usual it's a bit of a beast with 100 PAGES of free-to-read news, reviews, event reports from around the globe, and a healthy dose of attitude and airsoft opinion! Kicking off with our headline review this month Bill gets some serious rangetime in with the KING ARMS TWS 9MM SBR, an AR GBBR that actually uses G-SERIES magazine many of you probably already have for your handguns... why are more people not talking about this breakthrough gas model... we have no idea, but we'll certainly say our piece! Following on from there we have a first look at the all-new SGR 556 from G&G, the just-released ICS CXP APE SE,and the newest BATTLE ARMS DEVELOPMENT SBR AEG (courtesy of Larri in his first-ever AEG review!) from our old mates at REDWOLF! Then there's a further FIFTEEN SMG models that are moving on through the RED CELL testing program, along with a recap on the ROSSI NEPTUNE SAS six-months in! In terms of kit Bill reflects back on the clothing and gear that he used on the FAST TACTICAL training course he attended recently, and the good folk of the AA LEGION "GO GREEN FTW!" And then... THEN... we have our annual report from the AA crew that attended the NATIONAL AIRSOFT FESTIVAL in the UK, a BIG game report from Portugal thanks to Miguel, and our power-duo of Stewbacca and Anny firstly get "Inside LCT" for an update, and secondly bring in the lowdown on the DING DING CUP Steel Challenge in Taiwan, an event that AIRSOFT ACTION was honoured to support! So, you want more gear, more guns, more news, and more airsoft? You'll find a bit of everything airsoft in this issue, so kick back and get stuck in!
Even though we're currently having our annual vacation and office shutdown, here we go with the the very latest issue of AIRSOFT ACTION, and as usual it's a bit of a beast with 100 PAGES of free-to-read news, reviews, event reports from around the globe, and a healthy dose of attitude and airsoft opinion!
Kicking off with our headline review this month Bill gets some serious rangetime in with the KING ARMS TWS 9MM SBR, an AR GBBR that actually uses G-SERIES magazine many of you probably already have for your handguns... why are more people not talking about this breakthrough gas model... we have no idea, but we'll certainly say our piece!
Following on from there we have a first look at the all-new SGR 556 from G&G, the just-released ICS CXP APE SE,and the newest BATTLE ARMS DEVELOPMENT SBR AEG (courtesy of Larri in his first-ever AEG review!) from our old mates at REDWOLF! Then there's a further FIFTEEN SMG models that are moving on through the RED CELL testing program, along with a recap on the ROSSI NEPTUNE SAS six-months in!
In terms of kit Bill reflects back on the clothing and gear that he used on the FAST TACTICAL training course he attended recently, and the good folk of the AA LEGION "GO GREEN FTW!"
And then... THEN... we have our annual report from the AA crew that attended the NATIONAL AIRSOFT FESTIVAL in the UK, a BIG game report from Portugal thanks to Miguel, and our power-duo of Stewbacca and Anny firstly get "Inside LCT" for an update, and secondly bring in the lowdown on the DING DING CUP Steel Challenge in Taiwan, an event that AIRSOFT ACTION was honoured to support!
So, you want more gear, more guns, more news, and more airsoft? You'll find a bit of everything airsoft in this issue, so kick back and get stuck in!
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AA LEGION<br />
TAIWAN<br />
and HTA Studio, player organisations such as my<br />
skirmish team Taiji Alliance, as well as Yilan county<br />
and Keelung airsoft associations and Taiwan Shooter’s<br />
Union, retailers such as Hawk, No.9 and Minutemen<br />
as well as Tianqing Training & Consulting, Dan Leather<br />
Studio and Shihang Industrial company.<br />
WRAPPING UP<br />
As the gameplay drew to a close I was actually the<br />
last rifleman to throw down and close off one of the<br />
stages, and our scores were readily tabulated thanks<br />
to the integrated mobile phone application collating<br />
everyone’s final scores. It was quite a good haul for<br />
team SPPT; team captain ‘Mars’ Liu HanLin took first<br />
place in red dot enabled rifle, with me managing to<br />
swag third place… just like my other rifle competition<br />
a few years ago! Our other teammate Dan DingXuan<br />
took third in non-optic pistol, and I actually placed<br />
sixth in that division, which I was fairly happy with<br />
given that there were twenty-four participants in it in<br />
the end.<br />
Zheng JiaHua of team Spring Rain took first place<br />
in pistol without optics, with Tsai YuQi on his heels<br />
in second; red dot pistol saw our friend ‘Tom’ Lau<br />
JiaYu take first place, Lin WeiJian in second, and Shi<br />
JiaHao in third. The Elementary school division saw<br />
Huang ZhiXuan in first, Xie HaoYu in second, and Xie<br />
QiaoYu in third; middle-schooler Chen YuCheng took<br />
first, with Xu WenZhe in second and Shen HongYan<br />
in third, and in the high school<br />
division Zhao ZiXiang took first, Jiang<br />
ChengHao in second and Lin YanWu<br />
in third place.<br />
A special mention should go to our<br />
good friend ‘Doobie’ Zhuang YiXuan<br />
(a friend of our team, and many in<br />
the community and one of the guys<br />
at KIC <strong>Airsoft</strong> who regularly help<br />
me out sourcing guns, optics and<br />
components) who took second place<br />
in optics-enabled rifle between myself<br />
and Mars, with a time nearly two<br />
seconds faster than my own; we were<br />
really chasing speed on stages and<br />
shooting one after another in most<br />
cases so we got to film each other,<br />
what makes it all the more inspiring is that ‘Doobie’ is<br />
his nickname as it’s derived from the Chinese for ‘lone<br />
arm’; Zhuang’s missing his right forearm from just<br />
below the elbow which obviously presents a challenge<br />
for weapons manipulation, but despite this he trains<br />
at SPPT’s home facility when he isn’t running the shop<br />
or getting enthusiastically getting stuck in to MilSims,<br />
skirmishing or even recent SUT training events; you<br />
rarely see him anything other than cheerful and<br />
positive and he never lets his physical impediment<br />
diminish his participation in our hobby, and continues<br />
to excel at it regardless. Outstanding effort, my friend!<br />
Many thanks as always to all who organised and<br />
participated in another great competitive event,<br />
and I hope to see such things continue to grow in<br />
popularity and further push legitimate shooting<br />
pastimes into a more mainstream and accepted<br />
space. Thanks as well to the ROs who worked a long<br />
day setting up, running and dismantling everything,<br />
and to the retailers and manufacturers who directly<br />
supported the event as well as being present to add<br />
retail and demonstration aspects for the participants<br />
and raise public awareness. But of course thanks<br />
most of all to Anny, who spent the entire day<br />
ducking around between stages trying to capture as<br />
many of the moments she could; it’s great to have<br />
someone else help with the coverage especially if I am<br />
competing and can’t be everywhere at once!<br />
More of our cooperative exploits to come…until<br />
next time, fellow shooters. AA<br />
“MANY THANKS AS ALWAYS TO ALL WHO ORGANISED AND PARTICIPATED IN ANOTHER GREAT<br />
COMPETITIVE EVENT, AND I HOPE TO SEE SUCH THINGS CONTINUE TO GROW IN POPULARITY<br />
AND FURTHER PUSH LEGITIMATE SHOOTING PASTIMES INTO A MORE MAINSTREAM AND<br />
ACCEPTED SPACE”<br />
92<br />
OCTOBER <strong>2023</strong>