Airsoft Action - December 2023

AA LEGION
TAIWAN
Chiayi then taking a bus from the station there that
thankfully happened to drive straight past the motel
the rest of my compatriots had already checked into
having driven down earlier in the day.
Sunday morning quickly rolled around and we
awoke reasonably early to shovel the included
breakfast down our gullets and get outbound for
the drive out to the Liuying Shooting range up in
the foothills east of Tainan city
in the main central mountain
range that travels the length
of Taiwan’s central region…
we’re never short of somewhere
picturesque to shoot out here, at
least!
Being a Level 1 competition
made things a simpler affair
at least, with two mediumlength
courses in the morning
and afternoon being set aside
each other on the grassy area
that forms one of the Liuying
shooting range’s multi stand
shotgun skeet platforms, and
at least the covered seating
area was a nice change to our
typical standing around in cramped conditions affair!
Thankfully the predicted rain was nowhere to be seen
and we managed to compete in the admittedly still
slightly sweaty and sunny southern weather.
Split into two squads, our team ended up in Squad
2, taking on Stage 2 first, to the right of the main
covered area, a funnel shaped enclosed pathway
with two poppers and two paper targets over the
low wall to the left, and three reclining papers and
a lone popper on the right side, which then opened
out into a wall with two openings allowing access to
the two left and right bays beyond, with somewhat
similar arrays of a low popper, reclining paper, and
two high paper targets, one of which with a noshoot
obstruction present in both of the side by side
bays and the finishing plate in the rear and accessible
from both shooting windows in the barricade. So,
eleven papers, two with no shoots, five poppers and
the ending plate, twenty-eight BBs total basically
mandating at least one reload for everybody, although
I ended up using all four of my magazines and being
short one BB right at the end meaning that I got
slapped with a DNF (Did Not Finish) on my first stage.
My storied long-term abuse of my KJWorks
Shadow 2 had come back to haunt me and despite
catching and fixing a ripped main piston seal just
before the weekend at the previous training session,
and swapping out the main spring grip spine unit for
the one from my less worn Shadow SP01, the gun
“SPLIT INTO TWO SQUADS, OUR TEAM ENDED UP IN SQUAD 2, TAKING ON STAGE 2 FIRST,
TO THE RIGHT OF THE MAIN COVERED AREA… ELEVEN PAPERS, TWO WITH NO SHOOTS, FIVE
POPPERS AND THE ENDING PLATE, TWENTY-EIGHT BBS TOTAL BASICALLY MANDATING AT
LEAST ONE RELOAD FOR EVERYBODY”
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