Airsoft Open Play every month @ Hell Survivors

[maxmagnum]

Hell Survivors is now offering Airsoft Open Play Games the 1st. Saturday of every month! Starting January 5th.
See web page here:hellsurvivors.com/index_page/airsoftcalendarofevents.php

$20- fee includes up to 8-hours of playtime. Register @ 9:00 AM, Play from 10:00 am to 6:00 PM (or dusk).

Hell Survivors really wants to get involved in the Airsoft Sport.
We are looking for scenario promoters or avid players to help with ideas and big games/events for next summer.
Please call the office with your input or ideas [phone]

Exotic Sportz stores in Taylor and Pinckney are expanding their Airsoft lines and looking for input on product selection.

We are looking for your help and suggestions.

Thank you in advance for your support and Merry Christmas!

[Knief]

I think this is great news. I was a part of the group that ran the event at Hell Survivor last winter and we enjoyed working with you and getting players out on your field. It's a fantastic field and a lot of fun, and I'm glad to see it open more regularly to us. What are you doing as far as running games for now? Do you have anybody on staff who knows airsoft well enough to keep the games from turning into paintball style games the way they have at Futureball?

What safety rules are you adopting? If you're open to suggestion, MiA's FPS and MED rules have been adopted by every major field in the state and have been used for nearly a decade. I've quoted them below. These rules tend to be right in the middle compared to what other states and other organizations around the country use. I believe I can speak for the majority of experienced players here in saying that they work very well to both maintain playability while keeping player safety as primary concern. The biggest benefit to you adpoting them is that the majority of players in the state have tuned their guns to be within these FPS ranges. If you were to, for instance, lower the full auto limit to 350 FPS, you'd immediately exclude a huge number of players who have tuned their gun to shoot near 400 FPS. Very few people will crack their guns open to lower the FPS for one game when they'll just have to do it again to boost the FPS back up for every other game they play. Those guys just won't come to your games. By maintaining consistency across the fields in Michigan, you make life much easier on the players and in turn, get a better turn out to your field.

Article 15: The following are the minimum distance engagement limits for airsoft replicas. This is the closest a player can engage another player with a replica rated in the following feet per second (fps) categories using full-auto, semi-auto, or single shot capability. See Article 16 for extremely close quarter player elimination.

As of April 24, 2009, these rules include a 10fps "tolerance zone". Players will be allowed onto the field if their weapons shoot up to 10.0 fps over the published limit.

OUTDOOR/OPEN FIELD ENGAGEMENT LIMITS
• 1.0 - 340.9 fps - Arms length engagement limit


• 341.0 - 400.9 fps - 20 foot engagement limit


• 401.0 - 540.9 fps – 50 foot engagement limit, bolt action or permanent* semi-auto replicas only


• 541.0+ fps - Prohibited or allowed with permission of event organizer only

*Permanent semi-auto refers to replicas that do not have full-auto fire capability, no matter how the selector switch or other user input device is manipulated.

INDOOR/CLOSE QUARTER BATTLE (CQB)/ENCLOSED FIELD ENGAGEMENT LIMITS
• 1.0 - 340.9 fps – Arms length engagement limit


• 341.0+ fps – prohibited or allowed with permission of event organizer only

Engagement limits are based on averaged fps readings using .20 gram weight bb’s only. The method for acquiring an airsoft replica’s average fps is to fire multiple (more than 2) shots through a chronograph, record the readings, add the fps readings together and divide by the total number of readings.
Gas operated airsoft replicas should be chronographed using a “warm” ambient temperature gas supply (i.e. magazine), or with heating device functioning if used during the cold season.
No allowance is made for airsoft replicas that have an average reading close to the lower end of the next highest fps category. Example- if the replica has an average reading of 351.5 fps it falls within the 20 foot engagement limit.

Again, these rules include a 10fps "tolerance zone". Players will be allowed onto the field if their weapons shoot up to 10.0 fps over the published limit.

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[Bones]

Knief. Did anyone from the Pickney field ever get back with you on adopting MIA rules?

[Knief]

Not me, but I believe Pagan and the Suicide Kings are working with them about adopting full MiA rules and even running events.

[LeonidasXIX]

This is definitely good news, it is a large area that I think a lot of other airsofters would enjoy, especially if MiA is able to get the big games like Hell Survivors big three games.

[Bubba]

Would the field owner be willing to have a large milsim on a different day?
I'm sure that would bring in a lot of people.

[Pagan]

Jan 20, 2013 21:24:24 GMT -5 Bubba said:

Would the field owner be willing to have a large milsim on a different day?
I'm sure that would bring in a lot of people.

We hosted a Milsim event last March and plan on holding a few this year. The open play is just an additional monthly rec game.

[Bubba]

That sounds great. Good to know

[LeonidasXIX]

It would be awesome to set up a big game there its such a large field. For the paintball tournament games we would have somewhere between 2,000 to 3,000 there, and people there from California even Korea one time; I do not think there will be that many for any airsoft game but it would be a nice idea to start.