The little Things

When you spend half the day running around the field with a rare rifle ... and then having more fun with a cheap shotgun, and getting way more one shot kills with it

One of the members on here should be able to tell you the stories about my sniping shotgun..

Alright so my spotter gets as much if not MORE credit than I do for this one, because none of it would have been possible without him.

Today we were playing at our local field and had been providing overwatch for a while. My spotter started moving down the field to see what our options were, and once I decided it was safe I started to follow.

I was about to grab him and say "Hey, lets keep moving!" when he stops me and says "I might have a shot for you." He explains that there is an enemy shooter that he had located that had four of our teammates pinned down. He pointed out his general area to me and said "You might be able to get him, see what you can do."

I took a position back from a window and steadied up for the shot. My spotter gave me directions as to where the enemy was, and after he finally made the fatal mistake of shifting I had him. All I could see was the top half of his head above a log at a distance of 225 feet. I wasn't quite sure what would happen, but knew my rifle was capable of it. My only question was "Am I capable of it?" After about three minutes of setting up the shot I sent it.

Up until this moment I had no clue what type of weapon the enemy was carrying or how big of a threat he presented to my team. I watched the BB fly towards him and then saw a rifle go up in the air. To our great pleasure it was an enemy sniper!

To me this is the epitome of Sniper/Spotter team work! As I said, I would have continued on right past this opportunity had my spotter not done his job perfectly in locating the threat! All I did was pull the trigger. (I will never EVER doubt my spotters competence from this day forward!!!!!)

(Sorry for the rant, i'm still really hyped up from that one shot that WE achieved as a team)

I played a game on saturday, a night game, and I was on a roll.

It was a 4 vs me and my spotter game, and when we hit all four of them, I silently ran up near their base, about 20 meters. I hid in some bushes and heard them talk. They would charge in once the timer ran out and one would give suppresive fire.

I my view was completly blocked to the other side of the field, except for this "hole" between 2 trees, which was around 1 meter wide.
I saw a flash of the guy who would give suppressive fire, I aimed and fired. At this point I couldn't see him anymore, but the bb went through the tree and hit him on the shoulder. this all happened in like 1-2 seconds.

I silently padded myself on the shoulder and stayed in position, if I would've left my position I would probably be shot at. So now I knew the guy I hit would probably know the general area I was at and that he would come for me, I got down to one knee and took out my M9.
The guy did exactly what I thought he would do and, still unaware of my position, came for me without taken the time to find some cover.

I let go 1 shot and missed, and instead of firing back, he went on hands and knees and made himself as small as possible and far easier for me to hit. So out went 2 other shots and he was down and out. And still didn't know where I was.

I felt so good, I couldn't stop talking about it and almost drove my friends to madness

When you decide to randomly work on your old GBB and somehow figure out how to fix it without spending a dime on new parts.

When you get your friends GBB up and running despite several "damaged" parts, without spending a dime.

When you fix up 4 leaky m17 mags without...(yep you guessed it) spending a dime.

It has been a very good day so far.

When an enemy walks right up on you, no farther than 10 feet, looks right at your face and stares for a minute.....then continues moving on. Then, after safety killing him you get a "Where the HELL did you come from? I'm the only one out here!" I have yet to beat that rush of adrenaline.

Also, when your rifle is capable of doing things nobody else's can. This story goes with one of the quotes in my sig:

Long day game, about 4 hours in. My spotter and I are moving for a far flanking maneuver to the enemy's left. We meet up with our buddy Steve, he tells us there are 2 enemies about 170 feet (not far for snipers) through the thickness of brush/branches/thorns and "nobody can touch them".

I smile, rack my bolt and level off, wait for the wind..... "there's no way you can hit that guy, if you hit that guy...I quit for the day. There's no wa-"

-hit- ::grin::

"Have a good day Steve!"

To this day I have never have laughed harder while trying to be sneaky sneaky. I still laugh to this day.

I remember the first game I played with a sniper rifle (i won't say "as a sniper" because i was so far from sniper material!)

I had made some many Noob errors, the gun was fireing at 400fps and I was still using 0.2s which were flying wildly into the sky at 30m even with the hop at lowest! and I was about as stealthy as a fat guy in a pink leotard with tourettes! I was just about to be one of those awfull newbie player that picks up a sniper rifle and the decides "there is no such thing as the airsoft sniper" until the last game of the day.

It was a hold ground game, and to start with my team had to protect 3 bridges while evenyone else rushed onto the bridges and were out quite quick I sat about 28m back (giving me an effective range of about 8m) in a small dip in the ground surrounded by ferns. I kept seeing someone poke his head, or the barrell of his m60 around a barrel on the bridge, I took a pot shot and heard the crack of the BB missing and hitting the woodwork, followed by the guy screaming "shit theres a sniper!", then some one else would try and I would do the same. from my possition I could see all the bridges, it took them over 10 minutes to pick up the courage to just rush my position in numbers! even though i never hit a single one of them the Psychological effect of a sniper in the bushes ment that I single handedly held the bridges for long enough for my team to regroup and dig in about 10m behind me.

not bad for a newbie with a stock china clone!