Military Outdoor & Airsoft Show 2020

Airsoft Action’s legionnaire in taiwan, stewbacca, heads to the annual military, outdoor and airsoft exhibition, where he checked out the new releases from vega force company, among others.

With 2020 coming to a close and the end of what has been a pretty awful year for basically everyone in sight, the light at the end of the tunnel was the Military, Outdoor and Airsoft 2020 exhibition, held once again at the Taipei World Trade Centre in Xinyi district, right in the shadow of Taipei 101. With the ongoing COVID crisis basically cancelling most of this - and apparently already some of next year’s - events in terms of gun shows in general - Shot Show in the US and IWA in Germany - MOA2020 has pretty much ended up being the only show in town. Having rushed myself last year with work and other commitments the year before, I decided to make a full weekend of it and book time off work to ensure I could cover the event thoroughly and spend more time talking to manufacturers about their products.

Possibly as a result of the previous cancellations of IWA, a lot of Taiwanese domestic manufacturers have resorted to individual press releases or their own social media to raise awareness of the products they had intended to showcase at the biggest international event of the year. Furthermore, having talked to some of my contacts in the industry, it seems that many of their facilities are already extremely busy churning out product to keep up with demand - with the likes of the real steel ammunition shortages in the US market and the sudden spike in shooters resorting to airsoft guns for maintaining dry fire practice at home (in lieu of the usual range work they can no longer accomplish), as well as hobbyists being stuck at home all over the world and taking the opportunity to spend whatever excess money they have on acquiring new releases and components for fixing up their equipment ready for the return to the fields.