Page 78 - Airsoft Action Issue 126 June 2021

ACTION AIR

TAIWAN
THE

OF ACTION AIR

AIRSOFT ACTION’S “MAN IN TAIWAN”, STEWBACCA, ISN’T JUST INTO ACTION AIR PISTOL COMPETITIONS,

BEING PRETTY HANDY WHEN IT COMES TO “LONGS” HE DECIDED TO GIVE AN ACTION AIR RIFLE COMP A
GO.
aving barely finished writing my previous the typical handling of any AR style rifle and shares
Action Air article regarding the first IPSC the typical STANAG magazines with my HK416. I had
Hshooter centre cup competition shoot of spent half of one of my training sessions on home
the year in early March, editing together my stage turf bore-sighting and adjusting the hop unit and the
videos and still having a raft of still photos to edit, I replica EOtech 558 holographic sight I have mounted
nonetheless dragged myself out of bed at an ungodly atop its receiver, ensuring that I had accurised it after
hour on the next Sunday morning - the 14th of March its previous outing, using it at longer ranges at the
- to join a few of my SPPT teammates in the long road Pinoy charity shoot.
trip down to the central hills East of Taichung in the With all our magazines loaded and gassed up,
middle of Taiwan, to take part in my first Action Air belt kit donned and adjusted and, of course, the
rifle competition - the KUI rifle contest. all-important camera setups ready to roll, we had
Following a couple of hours in the car with the the initial briefing from the organisers and took the
other guys driving and snoozing in shifts as the sun short walk to the first stage our squad was going to
started climbing overhead, we arrived in the misty undertake. Stage 4 was the longest and highest round
foothills of Xinshe district, the other side of the first count and the only one that required a reload as a
chain of hills from Taichung and signed in on site and result. Consisting of 10 paper targets grouped in pairs
began preparing ourselves (and our equipment) for in various bays arranged around a central, ring-fenced
the morning’s four stages of Action Air. pair. With one opening facing the start point, forcing
Despite my well known usual love for all things the shooter to move right to clear the pair around
Heckler & Koch, I had decided to eschew my WETech that side of the fencing, then move left to get the
HK416 GBBR in favour of their slightly longer-barrelled pair inside it and swing left to take on the 3 pairs in
T91, the Armalite platform rifle that is Taiwan’s current separate bays before reaching the end point. Here,
national militaries’ service rifle; a blend of the AR15’s a reload would be required to take on the final 8
platform and ergonomics with the reliability of the poppers in a close cluster 3-2-3 configuration of three
AR18’s gas piston system. Used by entirely too many rows and then, finally, the ending plate beyond them.
other platforms in the real steel arena, the T91 has all

“27 ALPHAS, 2 CHARLIES, 4 MISSED SHOTS, 33 ROUNDS TOTAL FIRED, NOT A BAD START
TO THE DAY GIVEN IT’S THE FIRST TIME I’VE COMPETED WITH RIFLES SINCE ARRIVING IN
TAIWAN, OR GBBRS IN GENERAL - THE LAST TIME I SHOT RIFLES ON A PAPER WAS LIVE
FIRE!”

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