THE CAGE: BETTER DAYS AHEAD!
Airsoft Action|September 2020
AT LAST, WE ARE SEEING A RETURN TO AIRSOFT GAMES AROUND THE GLOBE AND ALTHOUGH GUIDELINES VARY IN SPECIFICS FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY, IT SEEMS LIKE WE’RE GETTING BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL… WITH A MASK ON! BILL’S BEEN WATCHING THE ROLLOUT OF SITE RE-OPENINGS AND HAS EVEN BEEN OUT TO A GAME BUT ASKS THE QUESTION: “WILL THINGS GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY WERE?”
THE CAGE: BETTER DAYS AHEAD!

Jeez! I know it was only the end of February but it seems SO long ago now that I last got my game on and I know many others that feel exactly the same!

After many years of attending multiple airsoft events each month and getting out to play once or twice a month too, the fact that I’ve not picked up my AEGs and GBBs in earnest for nearly FIVE MONTHS is completely alien to me and has been a bitter pill to swallow indeed!

Luckily I’ve sustained myself with range and target shooting at home during the lockdown but I realise that some of you haven’t been as lucky as I have. Being confined to a flat or apartment in the city must have been mind-numbing for some of you and I sincerely hope that everyone has made it through - both sane and happy! I’ve also enjoyed the great company of those online who have continued to create great content and generally just carried on being involved with the community; for those that offered help and a virtual shoulder to some of our brothers and sisters in arms that weren’t faring so well, I salute you!

As always though, time moves on and although we are by no means out of the woods in relation to Covid-19 (and we must all be mindful that things could change again in the near future), many of us have been lucky enough to dust off our “guns n’ gear” and get back out on site at last and, in truth, once again my hat comes off to the Site Operators who have bent over backwards to accommodate us and give us a safe playing environment.

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This story is from the September 2020 edition of Airsoft Action.

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