Airsoft Action Outrage/Mistake ?

[jcheeseright]

The worst injury is smashed teeth and that's more vanity than actual injury.

Either way, none of it is considered very dangerous in my book.

I would consider a mouth full of smashed teeth to be a pretty grievous injury, extremely expensive to fix, extraordinarily painful until you do get it fixed and debilitating socially and physically until you're all repaired.

You've clearly never broken a tooth if you think it's just vanity!

Either way, blindfire is bad, I've seen people's eye protection nudged by a barrel before (doesn't need to be removed remember, just shifted a couple of mm), if that was followed up by even a single shot then blindness follows.

Banning people for blindfire? That'd be pretty stupid. Marshals should be giving them a stern talking to and a warning about it, repeat offenders told to go home and think about what they have done.

 

[two_zero]

As for the eye protection part. I've had problems finding ones that fit with my glasses and lower mesh (always keeping my eyes open for better options mind you!). If barrel colliding with them they would be very likely to come off.

Glasses offers no protection, a bb hitting them would mean glass and potentially the bb (especially if at close range) would hit the eye.

 

[Black Death]

Plus even if you take the safety element out of the blind firing equation there's the honesty and gameplay factor to consider as well. Imagine if you took the offside rule out of football... The goal hanging and hoofing would be ridiculous with strikers never leaving the 6 yard box lololololol. Likewise in airsoft (especially in cqb) you would walk into a building to see a gun or two hanging from every corner but wouldn't see a person behind the gun. 5 or 6 people doing that and you'd struggle to get through them to say the least. It would fundamentally change the way we play making it less pro active and less tactical with the chicken shits just poking guns round corners with hi caps popping off shots to hold you back.

If that sounds like fun then I don't even know what to say lol

I don't believe in instantly banning BF players but I think 3 warnings before being sent home is pretty fair as it's the site organiser who pays for the insurance after all. They won't be covered for a player who persistently plays dangerously. Only takes a few people to claim the Marshall's didn't act before the insurer says we ain't covering you for 'allowing' (via lack of action) dangerous play

 

[two_zero]

Likewise in airsoft (especially in cqb) you would walk into a building to see a gun or two hanging from every corner but wouldn't see a person behind the gun. 5 or 6 people doing that and you'd struggle to get through them to say the least.

Not to mention when both sides start doing it and the sport become utterly pointless ^^

 

[Black Death]

Lolololol I hadn't even thought of that!!!

The only person winning would be the bb supplier lolololol

 

[Del Monty]

I believe that those who commit blatant forms of dangerous play, IE Blind Firing .. those who seek out to deliberately cheat/hurt somebody should be banned .. it is a fine line between proving blame or claiming accident I acknowledge this ... however those put in charge of games and skirmish days (Site Owner's / Marshal's) should be mature and sensible enough to determine either .. or .... in cases such as these. Pictures like the one posted above are not good advertisements for the sport, whether guilty or not of dangerous play/cheating .. how it was ever thought sensible to post in a magazine I will never know.