Airsoft Action - December 2023
Another month flies by and here we are as always with a new monthly issue of AIRSOFT ACTION cram-packed with all the airsoft content we know you love! Kicking off proceedings this month with our cover and headline review Dan gets his teeth firmly into the latest OPFOR goodness from ARCTURUS in the shape of the PP-19-01 PE Z-TAC SP1, quickly countered for BLUFOR by Miguel with his initial field notes on the all-new SPECNA ARMS SA-FX01 FLEX, and we round out our main reviews this month by sticking with all things “9mm” as Bill heads to the range with the awesome CYMA CM106A PLATINUM! RED CELL stay on the SMG-track as they land their mid-term update on FIFTEEN MP5 VARIANTS, whilst the AA LEGION delve into the glories of AOR1 and 2 and what makes these patterns so special. There’s also a look at new eyepro from the EDGE tactical range that we’ve had in test for a while… We then turn our attention to airsoft around the world with our international coverage as Stewbacca lands an interview with the mighty NONOCAT from New Zealand, and then reports on his recent experiences at a Level 1 Competition shoot in Tainan! Miguel brings home his now-annual look at ANA Portugal’s SALAMANDRA game, and we wrap up this month with our report on the awesome 2023 G&G CQB WORLD CUP shoot in Taipei! You want airsoft? We’ll bring you airsoft stories and news from all over the globe, and we hope you’ll enjoy our content this month just as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it!
Another month flies by and here we are as always with a new monthly issue of AIRSOFT ACTION cram-packed with all the airsoft content we know you love!
Kicking off proceedings this month with our cover and headline review Dan gets his teeth firmly into the latest OPFOR goodness from ARCTURUS in the shape of the PP-19-01 PE Z-TAC SP1, quickly countered for BLUFOR by Miguel with his initial field notes on the all-new SPECNA ARMS
SA-FX01 FLEX, and we round out our main reviews this month by sticking with all things “9mm” as Bill heads to the range with the awesome CYMA CM106A PLATINUM!
RED CELL stay on the SMG-track as they land their mid-term update on FIFTEEN MP5 VARIANTS, whilst the AA LEGION delve into the glories of
AOR1 and 2 and what makes these patterns so special. There’s also a look at new eyepro from the EDGE tactical range that we’ve had in test for a while…
We then turn our attention to airsoft around the world with our international coverage as Stewbacca lands an interview with the mighty NONOCAT from New Zealand, and then reports on his recent experiences at a Level 1 Competition shoot in Tainan! Miguel brings home his now-annual look at ANA Portugal’s SALAMANDRA game, and we wrap up this month with our report on the awesome 2023 G&G CQB WORLD CUP shoot in Taipei!
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AA LEGION<br />
TAIWAN<br />
Chiayi then taking a bus from the station there that<br />
thankfully happened to drive straight past the motel<br />
the rest of my compatriots had already checked into<br />
having driven down earlier in the day.<br />
Sunday morning quickly rolled around and we<br />
awoke reasonably early to shovel the included<br />
breakfast down our gullets and get outbound for<br />
the drive out to the Liuying Shooting range up in<br />
the foothills east of Tainan city<br />
in the main central mountain<br />
range that travels the length<br />
of Taiwan’s central region…<br />
we’re never short of somewhere<br />
picturesque to shoot out here, at<br />
least!<br />
Being a Level 1 competition<br />
made things a simpler affair<br />
at least, with two mediumlength<br />
courses in the morning<br />
and afternoon being set aside<br />
each other on the grassy area<br />
that forms one of the Liuying<br />
shooting range’s multi stand<br />
shotgun skeet platforms, and<br />
at least the covered seating<br />
area was a nice change to our<br />
typical standing around in cramped conditions affair!<br />
Thankfully the predicted rain was nowhere to be seen<br />
and we managed to compete in the admittedly still<br />
slightly sweaty and sunny southern weather.<br />
Split into two squads, our team ended up in Squad<br />
2, taking on Stage 2 first, to the right of the main<br />
covered area, a funnel shaped enclosed pathway<br />
with two poppers and two paper targets over the<br />
low wall to the left, and three reclining papers and<br />
a lone popper on the right side, which then opened<br />
out into a wall with two openings allowing access to<br />
the two left and right bays beyond, with somewhat<br />
similar arrays of a low popper, reclining paper, and<br />
two high paper targets, one of which with a noshoot<br />
obstruction present in both of the side by side<br />
bays and the finishing plate in the rear and accessible<br />
from both shooting windows in the barricade. So,<br />
eleven papers, two with no shoots, five poppers and<br />
the ending plate, twenty-eight BBs total basically<br />
mandating at least one reload for everybody, although<br />
I ended up using all four of my magazines and being<br />
short one BB right at the end meaning that I got<br />
slapped with a DNF (Did Not Finish) on my first stage.<br />
My storied long-term abuse of my KJWorks<br />
Shadow 2 had come back to haunt me and despite<br />
catching and fixing a ripped main piston seal just<br />
before the weekend at the previous training session,<br />
and swapping out the main spring grip spine unit for<br />
the one from my less worn Shadow SP01, the gun<br />
“SPLIT INTO TWO SQUADS, OUR TEAM ENDED UP IN SQUAD 2, TAKING ON STAGE 2 FIRST,<br />
TO THE RIGHT OF THE MAIN COVERED AREA… ELEVEN PAPERS, TWO WITH NO SHOOTS, FIVE<br />
POPPERS AND THE ENDING PLATE, TWENTY-EIGHT BBS TOTAL BASICALLY MANDATING AT<br />
LEAST ONE RELOAD FOR EVERYBODY”<br />
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