Arctic Warfare

After a long break from Airsoft, I rolled myself to the PKS-Airsoft's gamezone in Korpilampi... Nothing special about the games itself, they were great (...though they ended too soon...) if we don't count in how much snow there was. It's like one step and you drown into it... But hey, it's Finland and here is a LOT of snow!

But let's go to business ->

I want to speak littlebit about Airsoft in winter, "Arctic Warfare", like my friend says. First thing in winterplaying is clothing, really... just put more clothes on, when you get warm, it's much easier to remove clothes than add them, particularly if you weren't smart enough to bring some extra clothes to the field. Mainly you got to focus on your legs, because there is nothing more annoying than freezing toes. Afterwards on the field, there is nearly nothing you can do to warm 'em up. Combat boots with wool socks, a warm hat and gloves are going to make your gameday better. Hot drink or food like hot chocolate or soap is also important. Warm clothing really helps you when it's -10 degrees Celsius.

And why I'm talking about this kind of obvious stuff? Because there really are people who does not take warm clothing seriously, believe me, it saves your day in winter ...But remember you also get warm while moving, and moving in Airsoft is swift, and swift moving mixed with large amount of snow... that's gonna make you really warm.

Second thing to remember is that snowcamo is much different to the normal camouflage. First of all forget snow ghillies, ghillie does not work in snow the way it works normally. Normal white snow camosuit with bit of OD/black spot is a perfect choice. I myself prefer BW-snowcamosuit: it's quite cheap and it definitely works! Plus it look awesumely cool :)

Third thing in winterplaying is about your weapon, get a good battery, seriously, I mean it... Mini-type NIMH batteries are just gonna make your head explode in winter when they die only after couple of hours. Large type batteries with more than 3000 mAh and 9.6v are good-to-go, but the best choice in is LiPo-battery, -10 degrees of Celsius, and they're rolling the gun asking: "wtf is winter?"

Also check out your inner barrel that there is not snow in there, because that's gonna make you see red when bb's fly like drunk flies. It's normal that your accuracy is littebit fucked up in winter, but the reason in that is cold air, which affects on rubber parts of your gun like Hop-up and piston head's o-ring, and there ain't much we can do about it. It's also normal that your fps suffers a little drop in cold.

Be careful not to stick your gun's barrel into snow, use proper battery and wear warm clothes and you can enjoy Arctic Warfare! And of course, have fun! :D

...Because Airsoft is just fun fumbeling after all ;)