by JTL » Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:31 pm
you're probably the most enthusiastic player in the area, and have what sounds like lots of experience.
Beats me….all I know is that I want to play as often as possible. But I think a big part of attaining that goal is to keep things as simple and spontaneous as possible, so notions like these may be taking us in the wrong direction:
it would be natural for you to set up some games in the area. Getting the rights to the land would be the trickiest part…
See...you guys may be taking too formal an approach to this. First, we don’t need to get any rights to any land, we just go meet on public land and play. If we were talking about some large number of people, like over 50 or something, maybe then we’d have to worry about our presence being felt someplace, but with the sort of numbers were talking about we can show up just about anywhere and be ghosts…I mean that’s what we specialize in: we disappear. Shit, last summer I saw this group of like 20 guys playing up in that park on top of Overturf Butte on the Westside of Bend, like 100 yards away from a subdivision, and they said they played there all the time. I’m not suggesting we do something like that, but I think if a group like that can get away with it regularly, I think a few of us will be OK goofing around out off China Hat. So let’s do away with that ‘organized land use permission’ notion.
But mostly, I think the idea of ‘organizing games’ inflates the importance of it and makes it cumbersome, difficult, and time consuming. Yeah, I think putting a date on the calendar is a good idea, but we also have to be able to get little games going informally, spontaneously, and QUICKLY. For example, I want to play as often as possible, at any time, so if anyone wants to play, just hit me up. That sort of thing is important. I don’t want to have to wait for the damned calendar date to come around so I can play.
With that in mind, we should have a way of getting in touch with each other THAT PEOPLE WILL SEE AND RESPOND TO IN A TIMELY MANNER, and apparently email isn’t it (sorry Sleepy). Anyone feel like making a Central Oregon Airsoft Facebook page? There are some goofballs that have something like that currently, I think in Sunriver, but there’s no activity on the page, and they don’t respond to emails or anything, so they are effectively dead and useless. Time to start a new one….that way we can put out the call on a moment’s notice and get some ‘flashgames’ going.
Tell you what, JTL. Put a game on next weekend (June 12th would work best for my schedule, but I might be able to swing Saturday the 11th). My M14 is still down until I can grab some magazines, but if you're willing to let me run the KWA, Echo and I will come out and shoot somebody. We'll bring our woodies. Echo might even bring her camera and do some photog. Make it happen, I'm in.
Fine. But if you could put it up, that’d be better, because I don’t know how to do it yet. In any case, count me in. In fact, that’s a long time from now, so, again, if anyone wants to go get shot at sooner than that, talk to me. I go out to China Hat every Sat and Sun looking for people to play with, so if anyone wants to go, you can count on me being out there. Just call or email to set up a meeting place. As far as the KWA, yeah, you can use it, but in rotation…whoever is defending the objective or is at a strategic disadvantage gets the hot gun. Agreed? And bring some GOOD AMMO….Bioshot .25 is my preference.
Looking forward to seeing what you can arrange. And I'd be happy to bring a case of your favorite beer to any event I attend for your trouble.
I hope I just arranged it…or made progress in doing so. I think the Facebook page is key, that works really well for my friends in Washington when they want to get games going on short notice. And as for the beer, I don’t drink much, but you know, I do love that Bioshot ammo in .25 and .30…