Page 79 - Airsoft Action Issue 126 June 2021

ACTION AIR

TAIWAN

<<xhead>>29 SHOTS IN 21 SECONDS
Stage 4 was a great start for me, taking
just shy of 21 seconds to clear all 29
shots relatively quickly and cleanly - only
acquiring 2 Charlies on the longer shots
towards the end. Although the popper
array incurred 4 missed shots with me
trying to transition quickly and deal
with height over bore issues at such
close quarters, which I then had to
make up adding a little to my time.
At least my reload as I reached the
barrels they were hidden behind prior to taking
them on was fairly quick! 27 Alphas, 2 Charlies, 4 moving
missed shots, 33 rounds total fired, not a bad start fast
to the day given it’s the first time I’ve competed with and overcoming the
rifles since arriving in Taiwan, or GBBRs in general - awkwardness of some target
the last time I shot rifles on a paper was live fire! presentations.
Up next we walked up the steps to the topmost Starting at the rear of the wide, irregular
terrace where the other 3 stages had been arranged pentagonal fault line box, with your heels resting
and prepared to take on Stage 3. This was a more on the line across the back and the rifle unloaded
open plan “hall of mirrors” style affair, with dispersed in “Condition three”, I immediately swept left as I
barricades hiding 8 paper targets (2 with no shoot loaded and took on three of the paper targets - two
lower obstructions) at various heights and angles that were visible in the foreground and another
around the cover, plus 2 poppers and the ending further rearward only possible to engage from this
plate. This required more rapid shuffling side to side position through a narrow gap between barricades.
and acquiring targets at odd angles when compared Making a hard run right I hit the high paper hidden
to the “run and shoot” pathway of Stage 4. With a the other side of the barricade there, as well as the
19 shot minimum there was little likelihood of popper at its base and then began sweeping
reloading being required, it was left to hit the low paper the other side of the
more about same barricade plus the remaining papers
further back now visible from this point,
before dropping the final popper and
ending plate.
Just over 19 seconds and 22 shots later,
I’d missed the last popper on the first
shot and put four rounds through one of
the middle targets just to make sure I’d
gotten two alphas on it, but the run was
otherwise clean, if again a little slower
than my peers - all to be expected. We
broke for brunch and to top off our
magazines with rounds and gas again,
before returning uphill to take on the
final two stages.

“WITH A MINIMUM SHOOT OF 11 ROUNDS, I ENDED UP MISSING A POPPER AGAIN ONCE AND
RUNNING 12 ROUNDS THROUGH EVERYTHING IN JUST SHY OF AS MANY SECONDS, GETTING
ALL 11 ALPHAS AND STILL MANAGING TO BE HALFWAY UP THE PACK IN TERMS OF TIME.”

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