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The Airsoft Camp 2014, a YMCA charity event sponsored by Evike, occurred last weekend at Camp Ta Ta Pochon near Big Bear Lake. It was a three day camping event with airsoft games, raffles, and three full meals. Before I get into the details, I had the best time of my life enjoying the company of fellow airsoft players and kicking ass on the green team. I had came with a crew of 6, so we were ready for action.
Driving up and down the mounter was a piece of cake as I had done it numerous times in the area. But going to Camp Ta Ta Pochon was a brand new experience. It was cool to meet Matt, who I see on Evike TV all the time, in person as I parked. After registering with Evike's George Melahn, I unloaded all my gears into the cabin. There were very little parking for the 120 of us, so we had to move our cars to designated parking areas.
Chrono'ing was done in orderly fashion, but I did screw up and got my secondary M4 DMR banned from the games. But when I chrono'ed my primary VSS Vintorez, it showed the same FPS as the M4 DMR, which shoots 50 FPS slower. Turns out I had 0.2g BB's in the magazine, when I told the Evike staff that it was 0.25g BB's. Oops. Using Evike's 0.25g BB's, both DMR's passed the test.
The spaghetti and breadstick were delicious and quickly filled us up for the night game. After dinner we walked the area of operation (AO) to get familiar with the layout. I was pleasantly surprised that the night game was going to occur after sundown, not following the expected 7 PM schedule. Pitch black night game was exactly what I wanted.
The force-on-force night operation was pitch black as the tree line practically covered the entire night sky along with the half full moon. Many of us on the green team was tripping and tumbling. Some experienced mountaineers among us seems to fair better. However, the tan team seems to have gained the upper hand on us by being higher up on the hill. For a whole hour, I struggled to understand forest traversal during the night, while attempting to come up with a batter strategy to win the fight. I eventually succeeded with my combat buddy and was able to take out numerous enemies from hundreds of feet away. See my "Night Tactics in the Forest" thread on this site for details. My VSS Vintorez was apparently very accurate and the laser sight worked perfectly for the situation. We felt unstoppable until the game was over.
Mountain traversing was hard. It took the wind out of me, just climbing to the spawn point at the beginning of the game. The night operation made me really hungry, so we chowed down on tons of left over spaghetti. The garlic bread tasted so good that I had three pieces close to midnight. And as you can guess, my stomach was quite upset for the early part of the night.
I had other appointments Saturday morning, so I did not play the morning game. Word was that our green team started on the southern (high) side, and overran the tan team. Maybe some of you who had played the morning game can fill in the details here. After getting back to the camp after lunch, I seen many folks in the tactical training class. The lessons were all familiar to me, so I proceeded to suit up and get ready for the navigation class.
Navigation class provided the basics to understanding the use of a compass, protractor, and a topology map. It was very rewarding as I also learned about terrain features and other hiking knowledge. I wished I had learned about pacing earlier, so that I could have used it to measure the AO size.
Evike and YMCA notified us of a hurt bear in the area. Apparently, the weekend was the only two days that hunters may hunt bears out of the entire year. The word was that a hunter had tracked a bear to our camp, shot it with a bow and an arrow between two cabins, but lost the bear. The staff claimed the bear should have already bled out.
Everyone was so excited about gaming, the bear didn't intimidate anyone to cancel the game. So we started an afternoon game, which is a game of football. The green team started in the north side (low) spawn point. Jet "DesertFox" DelCastillo commanded most of our team to take the high hill, while my fire team and a smaller group of us advanced on the low road. We immediately found the blue/yellow football as we traversed. My fire team covered the football until we arrived at the front line. The enemy had posted many snipers on the ridge above the middle road. My fire team had two DMR's (including myself). We were able to counter-snipe the ridge, while team mates forced the OpFor back up the hill in the gully. We proceeded to over run the enemy the rest of the game. The football never fell into the enemy's possession. I heard a team mate had even wrapped it in a BDU jacket to camouflage it.
Evike filmed a live-version of the "Not So Round Table" talk show. It was fun and entertaining to watch live. There were a lot of fun questions and answers. I may had even gotten into the footage at some point.
Dinner consisted of turkey, mash potato, gravy, dinner roll, corn, salad, and pumpkin pie. The afternoon game took a lot of out me, so it felt like the best dinner I had in my life. The team mates from our cabin not only like teamwork on the field, but also loved friendship. We sat at the exact same table throughout the event.
Evike had prepared competition, raffle, and giveaways at the campfire. However, it's not clear why George chose to let us compete with his very unreliable secondary weapon. It failed every time as each cabin attempted to compete with it. Finally, by cabin three, we all ditched the competition idea. Raffles consisted of JG G36's, Ecotech clones, ammo boxes, airsoft tanks, and WE Glock's. Sadly, I didn't win anything. However, I did get a Evike aluminum water bottle, a bearded beanie, and a TAC 2014 patch.
The next morning, the chef served french toast, ham, with fruits. French toast was my favorite breakfast, so the breakfast rocked.
After breakfast, we proceeded to play the last game of the weekend. The tan team had a hard time with the green team the entire weekend, so we were placed on the bottom of the hill again. This time, it was capturing the enemy's VIP with medics. Only the VIP can escort the enemy's VIP. We proceeded to use the same plan that we used in the football game. However, I took our counter-snipe strategy for granted. Rather than counter-sniping as we did the previous game, everyone ran into the gully below the lower road. That allowed the enemy to pin us down in the gully with no where to go. In the mean time, my fire team had split. One mate radioed into me describing the situation as desperate. Our VIP was down only 100 yards from the spawn point. Eventually, we gathered together a small task force re-routed to the upper hill. There was a heavily fortified enemy nest. Our task force used bounding overwatch to get close to the nest. We had asked another fire team to provide suppression fire. As we planned our next step, Jet's team showed up ahead of us, putting down a lot of firepower. Using coordinated effort, we charged up the hill into the nest when Jet's team laid down the next set of shells. We were able to destroy the nest and overrun the tan team for the last 15 minutes of the game.
Overall, our green team seems to have excellent ability to teamwork. And we are able to overcome many challenges. Congratulations to all the greens. And thanks to the battle hardened tans for providing the challenges.
In the aftermath, it seems that there are no other snipers on the green side other than myself and my fire team mate. The tan side, on the other hand, had four or five snipers. Please speak up if you know otherwise.
Surprising to us, Evike did not sell anything throughout this weekend. All Evike did was give out stuff, including red dead rags. I guess charity is charity.
All in all, the weekend was extremely fun and tiring. I know everyone was tired and ready to go home. But it was an experience what we'd never forget. For $120, The Airsoft Camp was the best experience money can buy. We were all ready to go back to camp next year!
Jake
Wed, 20 Aug 2014 03:54:14 +0400
The live audience shooting of the "Not So Round Table" video has been posted... Quite a few of us are in the video!
Airsoft "Not So Round Table" LIVE! @ Airsoft Camp Ep. 40 - Evike TV:
Jake
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:31:04 +0400
Yeah, I saw it. Fun stuff. Still waiting for the gameplay videos.
JM
Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:48:01 +0400
They posted another airsoft camp video.
JM
Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:57:01 +0400
Jet "DesertFox" DelCastillo has posted the a touring video of Camp Ta Ta Pochon during TAC 2014. I can't wait to go back again!
Jake
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:16:18 +0400
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Title: The Airsoft Camp 2014 - The Ultimate Airsoft Retreat
Weblog: Airsoft SpecOps
Excerpt: http://www.evike.com/products/47297/ I'm definitely interested in this event. Its local and sounds awesome. I'd be up for going if we can get a group together. Anyone else interested?
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Title: Night Tactics in the Forest
Weblog: Airsoft SpecOps
Excerpt: We have just gotten done with the first night operation at Evike Airsoft Camp 2014. It has been a lot of fun with a lot of friendly people. I have gotten more tactics to share. 1. The forest is a big area. You will definitely want to build a DMR that can shoot quite a distance. 2. It is practically . . .
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