Airsoft Horror stories

[Michael K]

Im quite a newbie and I went to an event in Reading. Was having a great time till the last game. I was in a small tight room (literally 2m x 2m) and took out a few guys as they came in. No one came through the door for a few seconds and the next thing you know 2 grenades come through the door and I'm in the corner of the room sat down unable to get up. First one blows up and I call my hit, the second one landed on my feet and I couldn't hear anything. The second grenade goes off on my ankles and I thought "jesus christ, this is it for me" as I literally thought I broke my ankles or something. This was the first time I was ever hit by a grenade at this range and as a newbie I have never been so scared ever in my life.

 

[Tackle]

A marshal at my local, having checked that every other skirmisher was wearing correct eye pro when leaving the safe area, failed to check himself and only noticed once he was about to call game on, a quarter of a mile from the safe area!

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lol, been there done that, I'm about ten minutes in to a game, thankfully hadn't come under fire, & I'm wearing ess v12 advancer goggles, the ones that have fast change individual lenses over each eye.

I remember thinking what a good job I'd done cleaning the lenses, not only were they crystal clear, they weren't misting up either, as I reach up to touch one of the lenses I promptly poke myself in the eye & exclaim "oh you stupid Cnut, you forgot yo put the lenses in".

what followed was an embarrassing walk back to the safezone with my hands over my eyes while trying to peek through my fingers.

Being a player marshal, there was a lot of pisstaking that day lol.

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[Seth_Erebor]

Im quite a newbie and I went to an event in Reading. Was having a great time till the last game. I was in a small tight room (literally 2m x 2m) and took out a few guys as they came in. No one came through the door for a few seconds and the next thing you know 2 grenades come through the door and I'm in the corner of the room sat down unable to get up. First one blows up and I call my hit, the second one landed on my feet and I couldn't hear anything. The second grenade goes off on my ankles and I thought "jesus christ, this is it for me" as I literally thought I broke my ankles or something. This was the first time I was ever hit by a grenade at this range and as a newbie I have never been so scared ever in my life.

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First game was at Bunker 51, first and last time mind, BFG rolls next to me and pretty much the same thing. Thankfully I had ear pro (cheapy) on, but the next time I heard someone shout: “Grenade!”, a cold sweat went down my back. 

 

[Aengus]

This was the first time I was ever hit by a grenade at this range and as a newbie I have never been so scared ever in my life.

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Had one go off under my ass 1/10 would not do again. Hurt like a mother f, genuinely thought it had burnt me and my shorts ?

 

[Huxley]

Seen a bb go right through someone's ear, did suspect some of the hpa lads were running hot that day.

 

[Seth_Erebor]

Seen a bb go right through someone's ear, did suspect some of the hpa lads were running hot that day.

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A hot HPA, never! 

We say that a player incident might one day bring us some terminal heat/attention, but some sites are just as bad. 

 

[Pigeon_Haris]

Once I was playing at a woodland site, it was my first ever time playing airsoft, It was for my birthday so I was dressed by the marshalls in some kind of pilot suit for catch the pilot (flight helmet, Flight Respirator, heavy harness buckle, and a baggy as all hell navy jumpsuit)

My friend allowed me to use his gun for the Day (ASG M15A4) which he'd bought brand new not even a week prior, gucci'd up with attachments and such,

a kind gesture from him as he couldn't make it for the day

Little old me was sprinting, it was near impossible to move because how baggy the legs were getting caught on my boots and shrubbery. 

I was at full sprint, my right foot kicked into a mound and it sent me flying forward a couple of feet landing flat on my face, all my weight fell onto the gun and snapped it clean in half.

I got up and looked, I thought, well, how do I explain this....

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[Lasbrisas17]

Im quite a newbie and I went to an event in Reading. Was having a great time till the last game. I was in a small tight room (literally 2m x 2m) and took out a few guys as they came in. No one came through the door for a few seconds and the next thing you know 2 grenades come through the door and I'm in the corner of the room sat down unable to get up. First one blows up and I call my hit, the second one landed on my feet and I couldn't hear anything. The second grenade goes off on my ankles and I thought "jesus christ, this is it for me" as I literally thought I broke my ankles or something. This was the first time I was ever hit by a grenade at this range and as a newbie I have never been so scared ever in my life.

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I was at reading last year and I heard my teammates behind me screaming and running away, I turn around only to find a grenade next to my feet and... well I couldn't here for 30 mins. I now wear hearing protection and turns out that grenade was a friendly one that they botched but didn't think to let me know.

 

[Albiscuit]

Have seen this happen at EAG Dorking. One particular marshal said we could take our eyepro off on the skirmish field once the battle had ended.

Course I didn't. But many others did. 

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Always baffled me this!!

As mentioned, all it takes is a sniper who didnt hear game over or a bod coming back from reloading at the safe zone or someone test firing outside the safe zone who sat out that game and its game over! 

At another EAG site, the now closed Epsom Tunnels we were in the safe zone with a few other players as our squad was knocked out like a couple of others so were re arming and sorting mags, when a couple  of player marshals come running through the safe zone, shooting at each other with pistols. Scared us shitless and it was late in the day so we packed up and left for the day.

We did go back but it was the sort of place you kept eye pro on just in case...

It was here one of my mates had a moscart in his pouch facing upwards..... You know the rest!!

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The scariest things to happen to me are tame in comparrison to some things on here, At the Mall my mesh goggles were shot at from close range and I could feel something in my eye. This scared me so much.. Turned out the bb had dented the mesh and the paint had come off the rear and into my eye.

I also walked out to the DEA base at Airsoft plantation once, test firing on the way, laughing and joking on the long walk whilst others where shooting away.  Stood there listening to the brief and the marshal stopped halfway through to remind me to put my eye pro down from my hat over my eyes.. OOPS... I cant believe another player didn't spot or tell me though....

 

[DopeYourScope]

Two interesting occurrences from a milsim, firstly we had a pair of dogs appear on site and proceed to run round till caught finally found the owner at one of the FOBs they didn’t seem to care too much about where they were.

second incident from that event, a couple of the guys in my squad decided to swap weapons for a while we went for a Raid on the enemy fort which involved very close engagements (less than 5m) I got taken out by a lad hidden away and watched one of my team light up the guy full auto from a window not even 4m away, safe to say the poor guy was bleeding but no serious injuries. Everyone used their own weapons after that incident.