Calling yourself out.

[greg]

It is actually remarkably hard to light up petrol in most cases, without compression. Diesel, forget it. Ive seen with my own eyes a guy put a lit rag into a motorbike fuel tank as he was sitting on it. The vapours blew the burning rag out. DO NOT try this at home though!

Back in the bad old days, I had a mate who used to throw his lit cigarette buts into his bike petrol tank, ashtray style, before filling up, next to the pump.

 

It only caught fire once & he put it out with his hand.

 

Please, by all means, live a little; try this where ever.

 

Funny to think how life has changed; that was back when you could have a fag in a petrol station, before mobile phones were invented.

 

Now, you can't even use a mobile phone while filling up, let alone smoke.

 

BTW, does anyone know how many petrol stations were EVER burned down, due to cigarette smoking? Or using a mobile phone?

[greg]

the car would have exploded

Only in hollywood.

 

But fair play to ya, for declairing out.

 

 

Greg.

[Kalem]

Yeah well in all fairness I didn't excatly do very well in science... I spent most of my final year out due to a serve injury in my ankle (not Airsoft related) and actually I believe my course I should have done for the subject was on petrol and lighting properties (o.O)

[SoSwift]

Airsoft is a sport based on honour, if you aren't going to call any and all hits you are selfishly ruining the game for others. What do you really achieve anyway? If you've only managed to push forward and kill a couple of more honest players by cheating, where is the fun and sense of achievement in that?

 

I will always call my hits unless I am absolutely sure it is a ricochet, which only happens in CQB situations really.

 

Recently I was praised by a site owner for having a good airsoft attitude and taking my hits, so people do notice either way. However, I imagine if you aren't taking your hits the conversation with the site owner would go more like "Cheers for today's money, but don't bother showing up again you aren't welcome"

 

** No petrol station has ever burnt down due to mobile phones, that rule was introduced when they where new and we knew little about them. If you think that's stupid, people where originally against trains going through tunnels because they thought it would suck the air out and you'd die.

[JColt]

I've had instances where i've taken a hit even though the bbs haven't hit me as i know the people shooting me are getting frustrated.

I've also put my hand in the air, walked over to the enemy team who were shouting at us for not taking hits and calmly told them they were falling short. The standard where i play in that situation is to call a marshall to check where the bbs are landing, but some people just prefer to moan.

 

I once stormed the castle at Phoenix airsoft, got up the steps onto the top level and rounded a corner with my pistol and rubber knife. There was a guy about 5m away and as i went to fire...nothing....no gas. At that distance i couldn't call bang (Phoenix doesn't use bang rules other than for knives) and running at him would result in a pasting before i got close enough so i called myself out.

[GuzziHero]

I had a situation at SWAT a few weeks back where me and a buddy were crossing terrain and a guy lying down was shooting at us. His shots were falling JUST short (this wasnt a very long range), and I shouted to him to check his gun hop was set right. We both then waited for him to have a chance to range in his gun, then carried on. Its not his fault his hop was daffy, so its not fair to take undue advantage from it, IMHO.

[DarkLite]

Sunday I was in a static defense game - someone was behind hard cover about 15m away from me and stuck his head out to have a look - I was running to cover, but I put a couple of rounds at him to try and get a hit, but he ducked into cover before I could adjust my aim. Fair enough.

 

I waited till he popped out again. He dived out firing, and I got him square in the head. At the same time, I felt a bb smack off my boonie from the front. He called his hit, and after I'd had a second to think about it, realising that the only person who could have shot me was him, I called it too.

 

I found him at the end of the game and congratulated him on the shot - both of us hitting each other in the head with a single shot at the same time, what are the chances?

[csem-it]

Walking through wodland and I heard 'twang', turned to find that I had just tripped a spring claymore about 5 foot away. Thing is, the BB's just sort of fell out with not one going any more than 2 foot so I called my kill.

 

At that a young lad jumped out from behind a bush with a big smile on his face and said 'Did it get you?'.

 

I told him that sadly it didn't and I had just taken it like a flashbang kill. He looked a bit disapointed and a bit puzzled so I just said 'I hadn't seen you hiding anyway so if I hadn't taken it you would only have had to wait for me to take a few steps on and you could have peppered me anyway.....'

[GuzziHero]

Honest of you though Like I said earlier, if someone has taken the time to stalk me, I'm happy to take a hit even if it doesnt actually strike, because they deserve the reward for their effort. Nice to see some other players are as honest

[SoSwift]

A few times I've probably taken rain drops as hits by mistake.

[Voodoo1]

A few times I've probably taken rain drops as hits by mistake.

 

nothing more confusing than airsoft in a hail storm...

[Enforcer]

Last Saturday I whitnessed a discussion, where a guy was convinced he hit another fellow, more or less point blank. The recipient, happy to call himself out, pointed out, that the gun was only firing gas & when tested, it was. The recipient still insisted he 'took it', explaining that being hit by gas at that range, was fair enough <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />. Both plyers left for the safe zone, smiling. One 'out', the other to fix his gun. I quizzed the guy that called himself out &, like my example, he just felt it was the right thing to do. Great sportsmanship.

 

 

Had that situation quite some time ago. My mag didn't feed and the guy saw i was aiming at him shooting a couple of times from 1m but didn't accept the "hit". Bad aim was not the issue.

Others just needed a gun pointed at them like "bang, you're out" and they accepted it.

A friend shot a guy playing sniper ( without ghillie ) who didn't accept or feel the hit, after waiting a couple of seconds he shot him again and again until the guy was admitting he was out.

[triggerhappy16]

I had one the other day where I was inside the bunker in the middle of the field. I knew the other team were moving up on it fast and that the easiest way to clear the bunker was to run up the side, look over the top and "bang kill" anyone inside. I could hear them getting close and I had gone in with just my MP7 on semi due to the range involved.

As I heard them saying to go up the side I snuck along the little exit bit so I could try and surprise them and push them back. I popped around and saw a guy at my 2 o'clock through nettles and 3 o'clock high. I went for the guy at my 3 as he was more visable and swung for a single centre of mass shot. By this time he had clocked me and swung to face me and called "bang". I wasn't sure if I'd hit him so I asked and he said he hadn't felt it, which you would if it had.

He offered to take it and I declined saying he had bang killed me, whereas I had gone for a shot and missed. Called myself out and left them to clear out the rest of the field.

[MDKsmiffy]

Sportsmanship is really important but you gotta have a laugh too.

I was at the Mall a while a go when one of the guys from Dragon Valley suck up on me, quite a feat as he is huge, and grabbed me to take me hostage, he held his gun point blank to my shoulder and said surrender, i just said hell no so he had no choice but to shoot. I like a laugh and we both thought it was funny as hell. Better dead than captured.

Smiffy

[Thai Bride]

With CQB its a little different if your standing in a hallway and bbs are shooting past you ( but your not in direct line of fire ) ricochets can happen and i guess i just follow a simple rule if i can see the shooter and i get hit ill take it but if i am in cover with no possible way some one has there sights on me its a ricochet , but also alot has been said about padding drop legs and etc now i know from experiece when your running from room to room you adrenaline levels will be throught the roof and pain is numbed .... now if your hit on your vest you don't always know if you have been it so i guess sometimes that may happen and players must learn to deal with sometimes they might not have felt it ... but when people complain about non hit takers it ruins the atmosphere of the game

[Voodoo1]

We've started to take the line that if someone appears to not feel hits, because they're wearing too much gear then we make them take it off. Gameplay and sportsmanship first...

[blind_marksman]

I take hits when I haven't actually been hit all the time. (I started when I was 17, quite a few of the 'veterans' seemed to think there was something wrong with me - like they expected me to do the opposite )

 

My feeling is, someone has spent £X on a gun, and if the shots are going near me but not hitting (say about 12" around me, or just dropping short) I take the hit. Later, in the safe zone, if I'm feeling up to it (as I'm sure most people probably won't really care), I might tell them that their aim is off, or that their shots are dropping slightly. To be fair though, I'm such an LST, it's probably their gun if they can't hit me

 

I remember once seeing two friends arguing that each other "should be dead - blah" after one had misfired, and the other had then shot back and missed. It was a loud argument. It ended my squadmates just shooting them and sending them off.

[Thai Bride]

We've started to take the line that if someone appears to not feel hits, because they're wearing too much gear then we make them take it off. Gameplay and sportsmanship first...

 

 

 

 

True but alot of the times iv run through an area and the guys say " you got hit there mate " ill always take there word for it as they have a better veiw on things but like you said sportsmanship 1st