Airsoft Specialists Practical Shooting Range

[BattlePriest]

You guys and gals at Enos helped me out early on in my development of my Airsoft practical shooting system, so I figured I would shoot you guys a copy of my Announcement.

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Airsoft Specialists is proud to announce its new Airsoft Practical Shooting Range and Airsoft Weapons Training Facility.

The deposit has been made, and the lease will be signed by Friday, May 11th.

As far as I know, this will be the first facility dedicated solely to Airsoft Practical Shooting to be opened in the United States.

This facility will have several purposes, the first and foremost dealing with Enhanced TAPSS Competition. Please read the Enhanced TAPSS primer to see what Enhanced TAPSS is about.

Monthy or Bi-Monthly Enhanced TAPSS Leagues

Pre-Registered base entry Fee of $15 per person (Includes swap meet entry)

Walk in entry fee of $17 per person (Includes Swap meet entry)

Includes one class entry and one set of 5 silhouette targets

Addition class entries are an additional 5 dollars per class.

Extra Silhouette Targets are .25 cents each.

Non participant spectating is free.

Depending on availability, Airsoft Arms may be on site with BB's Gas, Parts etc.

Weekly open practice nights: (Possibly starting by May 22nd)

Every Tuesday night will be Practical Range practice nights.

Hours 5:00-9:00 PM

Entry fee of 7 dollars.

Shooters are expected to do their own scoring

Shooters must bring their own paper targets or buy targets from Airsoft Specialists.

Shooters on site can "suggest" their own course layouts to the site manager or use the layouts planned for the next competition.

Special Large Scale Enhanced TAPSS Tournaments:

Entry fees will be larger

Prizes will be offered

Date's to be announced.

Airsoft Swap Meets (In conjunction with TAPSS Competitions)

Non participants in the TAPSS events are charged $5 to display items for sale or trade.

Private Team Airsoft Practical Weapons Training (by appointment only)

$10 per team member.

Minimum of 5 team members required or minimum of $50.

Cost does NOT include paper targets.

Teams must order and bring their own targets to fit on 12X18 target traps.

Site manager will do scoring.

2 Week's advance notice and $ 50 non-refundable deposit required to schedule an appointment.

Here is the facility floor plan:

http://www.airsoftspecialists.com/articles...S_basefloor.png

Courses will be designed using modular and movable PVC barrier walls, target stands and other movable barriers and tools. This allows easy changing of the course between weeks and even between individual stages at competition.

The property is at: (Or about)

1030 S Erie Blvd (Rt. 4)

Hamilton, Ohio 45011

The actual street address is: 1524 Bender Ave

Here is a satellite photo to show you where it is:

On site parking for 15-20 cars.

No bathrooms IN the facility but a bathroom key will be available for a bathroom in a neighboring building, or you can use bathrooms in one of the nearby restaurants or stores.

Nearby Stores and Restaurants:

Kroger

KMart

Skyline Chili

KFC

Gold Star Chili

Burger King

White Castle

Penn Station East Coast Subs

All within a few blocks on Erie Blvd. (Rt. 4)

[BattlePriest]

Hey guys...

Just in case you are interested (The lack of responses to this thread says you probably aren't)

Here is a Demo video for my Enhanced TAPSS system and my Airsoft Practical Shooting Range.

[Gary1911A1]

I like it. I can just see me doing something like this, but don't know where to start. Let us know more as you go along. Where did you get your pistol and can you tell us your specs and price?

[Rob Boudrie]

Air soft mags don't do well when dropped onto concrete. Is that Home Depot box some sort of padded magazine catch basin?

[BattlePriest]

I like it. I can just see me doing something like this, but don't know where to start. Let us know more as you go along. Where did you get your pistol and can you tell us your specs and price?

That particular pistol is an Airsoft replicas made by "Western Arms" in Japan. It isn't really a replica though, because it is based of of Strayer Voight Infinity pistol designs. And since we know SVI's are custom, you can't really make a replica. Though Western Arms does have licensing through SVI to make their replicas. If you go to the SVI web site:

http://www.sviguns.com/

And click on "Airsoft" you will find a link to the Western Arms site in Japan. However... you cannot buy Western Arms guns from Japan unless you live IN Japan. The only way we can get them, is to buy them from Hong Kong retailers.

I buy most of my Airsoft race gun's from http://www.uncompany.com UNcompany sells Western Arms pistols stock, and pre-modified to be even more useful in races.

My pistol, pictured here:

May look modified, but it is actually bone stock from Western Arms. However, there ARE many many customizations you can get for Western Arms and other brands of airsoft pistols. From Upgraded lightweight aluminum slides, tightbore inner barrels, heavy recoil and hammer springs to increase cycle speed, heavier metal magwells, to lower center of gravity and increase frame mass, etc.... You will also notice in THAT picture, that there is orange paint on the barrel. An unfortunate necessity in order to get them imported into the US. Easily remedied though, a little acetone takes it right off. The orange is only necessary during shipment from retailers to end users.

If you want, you can check out the Practical Shooting section of my forum here:

http://www.airsoftforum.com/board/index.php?showforum=194

There are quite a few threads in there that will show you what airsoft is capable of when it comes to practical competition. A guy named Ben Stoeger who shoots USPSA came to my forums to ask about Airsoft for use in training for his real steel matches. I followed up with him recently and he is more than happy with his Airsoft replicas for that use. He doesn't actually compete with Airsoft, but he has found them a very useful tool for training.

Air soft mags don't do well when dropped onto concrete. Is that Home Depot box some sort of padded magazine catch basin?

Yes, in the bottom of that box is a fluffy pillow. . That's a little trick I learned from videos of Airsoft practical shooters in Hong Kong. Airsoft practical shooting is MUCH bigger in Hong Kong and Japan than anywhere else for obvious reasons. If you watch a lot of the videos of practical shooting from hong kong you will see how sometimes their entire course floor is padded so they can drop their custom reinforced mags anywhere they want. But for my range, I can't at this time afford to do such a thing. So I place padded bottom boxes at places where there is either a mandatory reload or places where I think those with the lowest capacity mags may NEED to reload based on estimated shot counts.

Here is a copy of a PM I sent to one of the other members here who asked about where to buy good Airsoft pistols for practical shooting:

Westerns Arms just came out with a new line of SVI's in the past few months... so there are a few nice ones you can get that are in stock. Western Arms usually makes a new SVI line once a year in limited numbers, then makes another new line the following year.

Here are a few that you might consider:

http://www.uncompany.com/pageproductdetails.asp?prodid=9620

(I have that one)

http://www.uncompany.com/pageproductdetails.asp?prodid=9640

http://www.uncompany.com/pageproductdetails.asp?prodid=9639

Or if you want to pay a good chunk of change... here are some customs:

http://uncompany.com/pageproduct.asp?L3catid=177

http://uncompany.com/pageproduct.asp?L3catid=178

Also from another retailer you can find a few more of the new Western Arms SVIs

http://www.dentrinityshop.com

If you type "Infinity" into the search tool at that site, you will find all their SVIs. There are currently 7 models of SVI replicas still available.

In case you have never ordered from a HK retailer, here's how it goes down. You put the items you want in your shopping cart, give them your contact info and select orange barrel markings (or it may get rejected at customs) and your choice for trademark coverage... then place your "order".

They will send you an email QUOTE in a day or two telling you exactly how much it will cost and the amount shipping will cost. If you agree with the terms, you make your payment via paypal and it will be on it's way. Usually arriving within a week if everything you want is in stock.

If for some reason you have problems getting it after it is shipped (usually customs is the only reason that may happen) YOU have to be diligent in contacting customs yourself and the place your ordered from and never take no for an answer.... problems happen on occasion, but I have always gotten what I ordered in the end.

Edited June 3, 2007 by BattlePriest