Airsoft Action - December 2023

AA LEGION
TAIWAN
not gone unnoticed, and in fact a large proportion
of us decided to make use of the facilities seeing as
we were there anyway! I’d been itching to visit this
firing range for a while in truth, it’s just somewhat
inaccessible without your own transport, so figured
I’d make the best of the opportunity, with all four of
team SPPT present going for 20 rounds, two magazine
loads, of .22LR pistol on the 25m range, my first live
fire pistol experience, as it happens!
I’ve had plenty of opportunities to throw rounds
down behind a .22R No.8 bolt-action Lee Enfield,
as well as the L98/L85/L86 5.56 systems half a lifetime
ago in my RAF cadet days, and also had full-auto
funtimes with an M16A1 and AKM in Cambodia back
in 2015, but in Taiwan you’re pretty much limited to
shotguns unless you travel down to this range.
I managed to get the highest score of our team
with 83/100 points, and second highest of everyone
who did live pistol shooting which somewhat made
up for my DNF on the first stage, and I enjoyed the
long overdue return to the sweet smell of spent
gunpowder… smiles all round.
Back at it following the typical Taiwanese lunchbox
and some drinks to maintain hydration, we got on
with Stage 3; this comprised again of a bounding box
of fault-lines (a smaller square this time) with mirrored
‘L’ barricades as well as a low horizontal one beyond
them forcing the shooter to acquire a lone popper
over it at the front end of the fault line box. Each of
the front side bays had a lone high paper obstructed
by a no shoot, with a further reclining low paper each
side behind the ‘L’ barricades forcing you to engage
both side in front and beyond the side barricades, as
well as over the low one to the rear, before shooting
the ending plate at the rear. A fairly quick stage, 4
papers, 2 no shoots, one
popper, one ending plate;
we did however have
to start in Condition 3,
holstered with no magazine
fitted or round chambered,
forcing us to spend some
time loading after the
draw…- 7.83 seconds,
9 Alphas, 1 Charlie, the
fastest shooter doing it in
5.76 with an
additional
Charlie.
Stage 4
was a much
more open
range affair;
again a wide
rectangular
fault-line box,
with more
distant target
arrays
and ‘V’ shaped
barricades to both
sides pointed tips
toward each other, a low popper and high paper
behind the left side, and two low poppers behind the
right side, with three widely spaced unobstructed high
papers at the rear of the bay with the end plate in the
middle. Twelve BBs all told, three poppers four papers
and the end plate; I did end up reloading on the long
run from the left to right front corners of the fault-line
box just to make sure I had plenty of BBs, as well as
firing on the move fairly effectively at the three rear
paper targets prior to the reload… 12.61 seconds, 9
Alphas, 2 Charlies, 1 Delta, with the fastest shooter
doing it in 9.44 seconds with just 3 Charlies.
And now for something completely different! To
“WHAT TO DO WITH A REASONABLY LONG LUNCH BREAK GIVEN THE SOMEWHAT SHORTER
STAGES AND LOWER TURNOUT YOU ASK? WELL, THE SOUNDS OF LIVE FIRING FROM THE
SHOOTING RANGES FURTHER UP THE HILL HAD NOT GONE UNNOTICED…”
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