Your stupidest (harmless) airsoft mistake
 

I'm bored, and I figured this might be interesting, just to see what some of the more safety-conscious members have done =) Who knows, maybe some new guy will read this and it'll stop him from doing something dumb.

Here are my two big ones:

1) Target shooting in a spare room with a Glock 18c. We set up a cardboard box and suspended a paper target in the middle with tape at the open end. We were having a great time with the full-auto. Eventually I noticed that the bb's seemed to be recoiling pretty fiercely. When I went to investigate, I found that (hidden behind the chewed up target) the bb's had completely perforated the box. bb's were going through the target, out the back of the box, bouncing off the wall, and coming straight back through the box!

Result: SEVERELY dinged-up wall (counted 70 holes and gave up), trip to home depot for touch-up plaster stuff. Waste of time and money, embarassing explanation to parents (whose place I was living at at the time).

Lesson: if you want to use a cardboard box as a bb trap, put something impenetrable like a piece of carpet in the back so that bb's don't destroy the box.

2) Small game at my cottage with some friends. After careful explanation of rules and safety, one of my friends decided to (for chuckles) unload on another friend at about 6 feet on full auto while they were on the way into the field (they were on the same team, to defend a flag).

Result: big argument. Lots of yelling at the idiot.

Lesson: be really careful who you invite to play airsoft. Even past the magic number 18, people can be immature little pricks.

One time I was inserting a mag into my M11, but when I was on the way to inserting the magazine I some how jammed the edge of the feed lips between the mag well by accident and the resulting slip forced all 50 bb's to eject from the mag. It took me awhile to find and collect those buggers.

I stormed a building with a barrel plug in my pistol...

I shot my P90 on full auto while I wasn't paying attention, the barrel condom was on, and the flew off =(.

i was playing an outdoor game after it had rained and ther is this 20ft dirt pile we call k2 that has a fox hole at the top of it, so ya i was running up to the fox hole under fire, i did a combat roll and misjudged my speed and distance and kinda fell into the fox hole jamming my barrel into the mud effectivly plugging my muzzle. so while they advanced on me i was trying to dig all the mud out witha piece of shrubbery... ya it was my crowning moment.

Hiding out under a fallen over tree while two guys on the opposite team stroll by. The closer one was about 8ft away. Didn't have a Glock cocked, so by the time I managed to get a bb chambered silently they both noticed me.

Flanked with my ***** hanging out (accident)

Awww, that would have been more funny if you tried to fire it without it being cocked and notice then.

Was borrowing my friends gun, and went to jump up, and got an eyelash in my eye. Couldnt see, tripped over a root and landed on the gun breaking it in two.

So I'm flipping out trying to blink something out of my eye that i cant reach due to my mask, while yelling at people to stop shooting while i pick up parts of my friends m16

Making a run for cover behind a car in jungle boots on a slate rock surface while it was raining.
Needless to say it lead me from a verticle stance to a more horizontal one fast and hard lol.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Accidentally popped my mask up at PB Nation, near the field entrance, but still on the field.

Thanks for whoever pointed that out to me, coulda ended very differently. :shock:


Harmless mistake?

Came John Woo style around a corner, only to get the infamous slide lock on my first shot. DOH! :lol:

I was loading some mags in my living room and bag of about 4000 BBs fell all over the floor because my cat knocked it over.

Had that happened too in my old apartment...

And my girlfriend insisted on picking them all up before I moved out... :lol:

My biggest mistake was thinking I'd only have one AEG and a sidearm. Stupid...stupid...stupid.

Posting on ASC without reading the FAQ :D

It'd probably trying to go guns akimbo with a MP5K and a TM M9 springer.. Only to realize that it's kind of hard to cock the springer without a free hand.. And then have the gun shot out of my hand and it break into at least six parts..

I forgot to put my contact lens so it was impossible to wear my goggles. It was stupid because I was also one of the organizers. I came back to home and went back to the game.

But the most stupid thing, I forgot to put a mag in my m4. Very useless during a fight.

I took my gun out in public and was shot down by police...I died shortly later in the hospital.

In all seriousness, my stupidest mistake would be Running from the safety of my own base with a pistol and a tape recorder blasting "Ride of Valkyries" into a welcome party of the ENTIRE opposing team when I thought there was maybe 2 or 3 guys...That was a lot of BBs coming my way...

...And I did it more than once. *sigh*

I once tried to provide covering fire while my friend, Fab, kindly pointed to me that my mag was on the floor. Back in the days my gun was giving me all kind of problem such as a loose mag catch.

:lol: :lol: :lol: reminds me:

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haha sorry dude. :innocent:

Thankfully, not me, however... my buddy walks down to his office where all his airsoft is kept in the basement. Just so you understand.... this guy is VERY saftey concious, as he owns real steel too, so all those little habbits like keeping your finger off the trigger are very well followed ........... Usually! So he picks up his AK.. no mag in the gun, and as he's standing there.. out of the blue, still to this day, he has no idea even why, but he squeezes the trigger! So the AK snaps, and a single BB sitting in the chamber fly's out, and lands square in the center of his 19" LCD computer monitor! As you can imagine, only one single word came out of his mouth! I'm laughing about this right now even as I type!

Drake that was harsh, you better show up at the next AC game so I can show you how good my gun is doing now. You'll that it's a whole different ball game.

Shot myself in the hand, point-blank (barrel touching the palm) and bare skin just to see how much it would hurt. Was sore for a couple days.

took cover behind my friends car at my cottage, most expensive cover I've ever hidden behind. the paintjob got royally butt-fucked by full auto fire from another friends souped up M4, let's just say he wasn't happy

Filling a mag with propane but didn't have the valve closed. much liquiud propane ended up on my leg leaving a quarter sized frost bite mark. that was painful for a few days

at my first airsoft game on many times hitting the selector switch on the rented M4 to safe of half way to full thus making the gun unable to fire and getting shot many times. then there was on the same day many times where i wouldn't push the mag all the way in and it wold not chamber and have the mag fall out also making my ambus some what a failure and again getting shot many times.

Auto someone in the back through a fence at FR at less than 15' during my first day on the airsoft field. Boy, talk about breaking every stupid rule. :(

Many dents in Mantagonist's ceiling from his Mac11. He's moved since then and nobody ever noticed, thankfully.

Started shooting my Deagle rapidly and didn't notice my barrel plug was still in the gun, ended up loosing the barrel plug and probably severely damaging my Deagle.

LOL, looks like buddy could use a little more of that diaper tape there.


Most embarrasing moment: chairsoft!

I was trying to get an idea of how my newly CO2 converted APS2 was shooting. I targeted a big box sitting on the top of my GF's brand new sofas (72 hr old sofi) and plugged away at a box full of phone books (the gun chronoed at 480fps w' 0.43's). I couldn't figure out why I had such crappy flyers and realized that the barrel was damaged by it's previous owner. Then I realized that the little speckles on the sofa weren't texture in the fabric but neat little holes...

Then there was the time I climbed up a tree and sniped a lot of players with my P90. They were completely unaware of my position. Then the game ended and I dropped my P90 while trying to climb back down.

I was doing a Ravenshield peak through a window, took out 2 guys, third guy found out where I was, so the next time I peaked, he was waiting and fired, I saw the BB coming, so as I was moving back for cover, I fired a shot, it missed the window, hit the wall and ricocheted off my forehead!

I belive it was a tie for me bettween...

A> Rushing into a group of people only to find out I was out of ammo, and ended up being shot at by about 7 of them.

and

B> Making my very first thread on this forum with the title "Wanted - Any 2 AEG's"... Oh, what a fool I was.

I also ran through something to stop the rounds. I had a carboard box with a rag hanging freely. It worked well at first but then the rag started to tear, but not big enough to notice so I put about 5 dimples in the drywall. Luckily I heard them hitting.

Foxden game, rushed up behind a haybail wall, plopped my MP5 flat on top of it, unslung my M24 and started tracking targets. Left my M24 there, grabbed my MP5 with my left hand (thumb on top, fingers where they landed) and a finger went inside the triggerguard and squeezed off a burst. My one and only accidental discharge ever with any gun, real, pellet or airsoft. :oops:

I played a whole round of skirmish with my gogles on top of my helmet. I did not realisez they where not on my face.

I felt so great to run and shoot and feel the air in the eyes. I was pretty agressive too, running and rushing people. After the game ended, I realisez I had my gogles up on my helmet. I felt sooo bad. All the things that could have happened.


On the subject of gogle: Testing a new GBB in the garage with no eye protection. The slide blew up (metal slide) and the peace hit me hard in the right eye. Painfull and very scary. Always wear protection... I mean, eye protection :lol:

First time I was using my M700 Gas rifle at the field. At the end of the day I went to empty my mag. After searching around for a few minutes to find something to hit the release button I finally vented the gas.. right into my face. ACK. and since I was in the safe zone I had no goggles on. Propane in my eyes. Ouch that hurt :roll:

- Quantis

i once brought my real G36c to a game by mistake and executed 16 players before i realised.....I look forward to seeing you all when i get out in 2042.

Plinking at an empty cola can...the BBs went through the can and started hitting the wall....

That's not even funny... that's just sick.

I was the only one who survived...I'll avenge their deaths....

I was playing a game at XT pulled out my sidearm to go around a tight corner only to realize I forgot to put my mag in at the start of the game :banghead: Not Good

Not really funny or sick... but it definately shows his character. Check out his signature. Because you know, killing your family is 1337. </sarcasm>

was playing with my new hicapa, ratling the slide on an empty mag only to figured out couple time later i fucked up the loading nozzle. Bad ,real bad- thats was the start of my GBB nightmare.

I played with im yesthurday and he is way older than you. :lol:

*shrugs* Age has little to do with someone's character.

....Wow, I *must* be fucking stressed. Normally I'd have found that signature amusing. Not necessarily the post, but oh well.... I need a bloody vacation.

Besides, I really shouldn't judge, having not met him. My appologies.

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One of one of the hanging buckles on my vest somehow became entangled in the trigger guard of my MP5. I couldn't dislodge it so I had to call myself out.

Rough man....

I'd say my worst was charging into a 1-man, 2-man skirmish when we were dumping 4 in at a time with about 5bbs left in my mag. I started checking them after that.

Probably friendly fire, when you are colour blind all that damn cammo looks the same in the woods.

(I've been shot by FF* way more than I've shot someone else)

*and by FF I don't mean Freedom Fighter, we'll soon see if he can shoot me or not)

I have:

Inserted a mag in my armalite upside down prior to a game. Someone pointed it out, thankfully. Most of my mags now have homemade mag pulls to prevent any further stupidity on my part.

Neglected to remove the barrel plug prior to shooting. It flew away. I found it.

Charged 3 people without realizing I was out of ammo.

Forgot to charge the battery in my MP5-PDW and ran about 10 rounds through it before it quit, right at the beginning of a really good skirmish at flagraiders. Went pistol only for the remainder (and still netted 3 kills).

Along the same lines, Tru nailed me in the forehead between my goggles and my baseball hat when I peeked above a berm for a split second too long. From 100ft away. Best shot ever.

-Adam

hey sorry if i offended anyone....i guess scottish humour is'nt for canadian airsofters....i will go put my gagg back on and assume the position
thanks....(all in good fun ladies)

Whipped around a corner took aim at a guy and saftey was on... arg probally would of been a nice HS :(

Guess he's on of the lucky ones...

War-Lock

Charging a hill during a night game with my glock... would have worked 'cept after 2 shots i got a cool down and my slide locked... ouch.

Throwing open a door in CQB and firing into the two people who were trying to slide it open as I threw myself backwards and landed on the ground only to realize that I didn't seat the mag properly and that it was lying were I was standing a few seconds before. I had one of those slow-motion epiphanies that kinda went, "Oooooohhhhhhhh.....ffffffuuuuucccccckkkk...." Thank god the two guys were laughing too hard to actually fire back, so my nuts were spared the agony.

Or the time I went charging into battle armed only with a hockey stick. Wasn't that smart, seeing as how I got shot no less than 75 times before going down, but dammit...it's the Canadian way. :D

-J

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My first airsoft game at a friends place in Verner. Upgraded AK from about ~5 feet away full auto. Got another couple off the bottom of my nose and left cheek. Pretty much knocked me right out, LOL. I guess i had it bad at first... Should have seen the look on my mom and dad's face when they picked me up after....oh man verbal beating in the car on the drive back to Sudbury, lol.

And for all you blood whores...yes it bled for a very long time... I thank Jesus for goggles.

are you sure your not just making and excuse for a teen eating too much candy...you can get cream for that dood and the girls at school will like you more lol

back in '03, Xenosfear wanted to know how painful was receiving a shot on his helmet. I shot right thru a venting hole on top of his helmet at 20 feet by mistake. So he said: your turn, and i wont miss like you did! He shot me at same place than i did.

I got 2 "events"

It wasnt airsoft but 1 of those 4.5 mm pellet air-rifles.
My air rifle is a Beeman 1041 at 490FPS.
Both times I was shooting at paper target, with a wooden wall in the back behind it.
The first time the round ricoched and hit me in the ankle (not serious damage)
The second time a round again ricoched but this time it whiiiiized by my ear.
I was lucky. The sound it made was awsome though (ziiiiiiiip)

I had just recieved my brand new CA870 Charger. Brought it home, something was funny with it. The outer barrel seemed bent downwards too far, I thought it might have just been an optical illusion from the tapered barrel. It wasn't shooting straight at all, so I took the outer barrel off to have a look. The inner barrel was bent where it entered the reciever (I figure shipping damage, box looked like it was stepped on)

Of course, before claiming insurance from purolator, I went ahead and tried to bend it back hoping I wouldnt have to go through the trouble with purolator, snapping it right off.

I didnt have the gun for even 30 minutes before I voided the warrenty, and the insurance.

Oh, when taking the old barrel out, I saw this little piece of plastic fall out. Looked at it, said "Whats this plastic doing covering this little hole? Why would there be a hole that's just covered up?" and threw it out. Turns out I threw out the hopup.

lol, i hate it when i do stuff like that.
im still trying to recall an worthy event for this thread, but when i do, itll be up here for sure.

Bought airsoft from a retailer....

1)sgt Lynch making fun of his team about being a wus for not crossing a stream, only to find himself waist deep in it, laughing my ass off and giving away my perfect ambush point and being hunted down by the whole STAT team .

2)shooting myself in the face from a recoil off a barrier(trying to suprise a squad attacking)

3)jumping off the second floor off paintball city suprising the crap of the opponent ( i will never do that again especially at my old age conditions)

4) playing airsoft HK style with tanktops and shorts

Firing with my M4, wondering why the bb's weren't coming out. Then realizing my barrel plug was still on. Man did I ever feel stupid...

I have a few.

-I opened my gearbox ang the spring guide sprung out and It almost missed the face of my wife for about 2inch.
-Swallowed 2 BB's. It was mixed in my cereal. I wondered how the heck a bb ended in my cereal but soon I realized I was plinking inside the living room and there's a entry hole on the side of the cereal box. Good thing it is "biodegradeble" BB's.
-got pissed on my enemies on the game because they dont call hit. I didnt wind up my Hi-cap.
-But what really is stupid is going to the game and when its about to start and your freaking battery just run out of juice and didnt bring any extra or back up aeg and tell yourself "What a day"

I must say the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen wasn't me, but one of the guys we play with. He managed to shoot himself in the face with his AK, from 100ft.

He fires at a car (rusted out caddy at the end of the range) at 50ft. The bb hits. Bounces directly back at him. 50 more feet. Hits him in face.

Self-pwn.

not just in the face it was directly in the eye, mr. smart guy didn't think to put his gogles on first.

hahah what a douch thats awsome. atleast he shot himself and not somone else.

Had a lit cigarette in my mouth while pressing the release valve on a magazine full of propane. Thank god for wind.

We were out hunting at the LZ and were rounding a bend in an ATV trail. Someone laying down in the grass let off a bust and to avoide being hit in the head, I dropped to the ground. Well the foregrip of my SR16 landed against my knee and my body fell on the gun. Took the metal butt-plate right in the chin. Felt like I knocked myself out. Ooooo, I was sore.

+40 temp. New Tm Hi-capa 5.1 fired at our target. the force blew the slide back more then its susposta and it sprayed silicon and propane in my face. That sucked.

Oh, and last game last season. The LZ's killhouse is on a lower section of the property that was cut out of the rock when it was owned by the quarry. So what you get is super smooth and flat rock about 50m wide and prolly 800m long. Well, after lots of rain there was that green slime everywhere. Our team had been stuck inside the killhouse for close to an hour with the enemy team surrounding us trying to get our VIP. We finnaly decided to kick down the barricade and rush out the door and into the bush to extract. Well, I was covering the rear so I was out last. I run out the door at full speed, spin to cover the flank...but I dont spin, I loose my footing and slam down, knee first into the rock.
I scrambled and got up and kept running, but got shot in the ass afterwards.
Needless to say, it didnt bother me till a few hours later. Fractured knee cap. boo

hahahahahha.....luuuuuuuucky, say goodbye to the fingers. being a smoker myself, I've had enough close calls

Target shooting with a cardboard box in my room while bored.

Wasn't thinking and weighted the box down with arrows.

Noticed arrows were splintered when I was practicing my archery with my gf (and she got a few splinters). Sad :[

Seen the walmart AEG Soft air and shot at with it.. didnt hurt... first time holding a real AEG and not wearing shoes... well I aimed down not knowing where It was aimed and shot myself in the foot from 3 feet away..

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that found out what kind of damage bb's do to drywall...

Also, my room was an absolute mess, you couldn't see the floor. There were all sorts of treats hiding under the mass of clothes and whatnot, incl. some sharp objects. My foot found one of these objects and I fell onto my m16 that was lying on my bed...broke both plastic upper receiver tabs. I have yet to permanently fix them.

Also, a stalk sig 552 is powerful enough to break a lightbulb...

Um lets see there are so many. Charged a group of guys with my safety on, Believed every word out of Franklins mouth, SHot my own team mate, did a cool roll just to get blasted buy other team, Tried to look cool with my home made sling only to have my MP5 hit the floor busting the flash hider off. charging for cover, hitting the wall only to have it fall over and expose me and my team mate. I'm sure there's more

oh yes, i have "safety" perscription glasses - i don't need shooting glasses..... safety glasses work alright - but they have to be REPLACED AFTER BEING SHOT.... $400 later... ya they got a real pretty star in the left lens.... now i wear contacts and polycarbonate shooting glasses - it was only a 310fps gun that shot me too... oh well $400 is still cheaper than a new eye....

I letting my younger brother ( 18 ) try out my new TM Benelli M3 S90 in the crawlspace under our garage. This crawl space used to be part of a cellar type thing, I don’t know what the original purpose was. It’s located underneath the garage about two feet lower than the basement and it had three separate rooms there are one main room and two smaller ones off the main, that are connected by two doors. We just use it for storage.

We were in one of the smaller rooms, shooting at a cardboard box with a paper target and a piece of carpeting to stop the shots. He remarked that it might be easier to calk the shot gun if you lowered it off your shoulder and shot from the hip. He did this, and totally missed the box. The short ricocheted off the wall directly behind the target box and too out a florescent light hanging from the ceiling. This light only source of light in the room, fell and shattered on the floor. So were plunged into darkness with the door on the other side of the room and on the wall to our left. Neither of us had bothered to turn on any other lights besides this room so it was completely black and our door way out now had broken glass somewhere between it and us. I had to use the LCD display on my cell phone to somewhat light the way out and avoid the glass. We both managed to somehow get out with out getting cut.

charging people with my battery disconnected :x

was having issues with my mechbox so i took it out of my gun and noticed the front end of the v2 mechbox was cracked off on both sides near the piston head area i had to grab some screw drivers from the garage so i left the split mechbox unattended and as i was going upstairsi hear a big snap and all this chatter down stairs so i ran back downstairs and every piece of the mechbox was everywhere and the spring ended up pushing the mechbox apart and the spring hit my new laptop lcd and cut the bottom open, worst day ever!

My most Stupidest moment to date, allowing my immature 18 y.o. friend play with my glock 18c. we both thought the gun was empty because I had just recently emptied the clip on full auto fire, but there was still one bb left inside, I dont know how that happened, anyway, he put the Pistol to my cheek and asked me if I dared him to shoot. Obviously I said no, but him being as immature as he is pulled the trigger. and at point blank shot me right in the cheek, the wound bled for 2 and a half hours...then there was a scab for over a week, and I still have the scar to prove it.

Was putting a new main spring into a mechbox. Followed all the tricks to do this without any problems, except forgot to do this in an area that is clear (or inside a large clear plastic bag).

Screwdriver I was using to keep the spring steady slipped. Fully compressed new spring went on a speedy ballistic trajectory 'somewhere'. Contents of mechbox went 'elsewhere'.

I nearly cried.

Stepped in a puddle proclaiming everyone else was a bunch of pussies..... the rest is Airsoft History.

Having a minute of intense dueling with a mirror. I "swat-rolled" across a doorway, saw my slef briefly in a mirror, thought the room was occupied, shot a burst, threw a homemade smoke and waited. The mirror didn't come out and surrender, so I went in and figured out I'd just been fighting myself. D'oh!

Mine I would have to say is when we played a milsim while it was raining, I went around to flank the other team, I had a perfect opportunity to waste all of them. Then I started shooting and I told them they were all dead. Turns out since my goggles were so god damn fogged that I didn't realize I was dry firing at them because my hi-cap wasn't wound up. Then to boot they shot me once...just once. I felt like a dumbass.

I thought of another one while reading G_Unit's post. It was starting to drizzle a bit and I was told to try and flank the enemy with group of my teammates. While running up we lost track of our position and ended up on the other side of the field. lol

me playing a match where both paintballers and airsofters played together (summer 2004). 3-4 paintballers attacked the bunker i was in. as i was aiming towards them, my gun got a hit right in the barrel.

I ran out on the field, all ready to go, magazines in my pouch, one in the mag-chamber. It was a nice big mil-sim & all was going good, we were patrolling an area and got into a firefight.... only for me to realize, shit... I forgot to put my battery in.

Oh... someone must have been hurting afterwards :shock:

I'm sure there's a lot more embarrasment out there somewhere so I thought I'd get the ball rolling again on this thread, I like it.

I was "leading" one of my teams two squads, my first time doing so. There were three different teams on each side and we're all waiting around for the admins to give us the go. I mumble "so is it game on?" By the time the question makes it to the guy in the back he assumes it's an order and yells "GAME ON!" I didn't realise what happened and figured he had a radio. So we start running in yelling "GAME ON!".

Some guys on the other side see whats happening and start high tailing it for a good position in the bunker we're running toward. I see this and start screaming GERMANY ASSAULT ASSAULT ASSAULT!! and run a one man bunker entry. I hit some cover and look back, NONE of my squad had followed me cause they'd seen the admins waving us off and I hadn't.

The game hadn't started yet, and there I was out in the middle of it by myself screaming for an assault that everybody but me knew (by then) was just a false start.
Nobody would believe me that somebody else had yelled game on and the admins were all just laughing their butts off.

That was my first and last day last day as squad leader.

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A figure came out of the treeline during a game and the 3 guys I was with started shooting at him. 4 AEG's going full auto at one guy. Turned out this guy had some ridiculous upgraded spring and was able to get all of us while we were trying to lob BB's at him with stock/lightly upgraded guns. As he came up closer to see who he got, we realized he was on our team. It was wonderful.

I used my hicapa with duster for a week.

the property my friends and i use for airsoft has a trout pond.We approached thru the forest adjacent the pond, to assault what we thought was the opposing team(voices could be heard).We busted out into the clearing only to scare the s*** out of some poor father and his kid fishing.

That funny!

Those poor people probably shit themselves.
Some commando units charging at them with gunz.

Hope you didn't shoot pap. :D

I call bullshit on this one.

At a night game at FR I spent the entire night thinking I was doing really bad as I hadn't gotten a single kill. When the sun came up in the morning I realized my hop-up was so out that the entire night I was shooting at the moon.

Been there

i hate that when it happens. or when you use black bbs.

My call sign is "Onebun" for a reason......

When BB's meet ass you get a embarassing call sign, and yes It was my own gun...

rushed out into a group of people and tripped, fell on my face, got lit up.