"When my team trains, we use airsoft. But we try to make it as realistic as possible.
Like if your weapon is hit, it is disabled. But your still in the game, you just have to find a way to survive.

Parlay and Mercy rule are non-existent. If I sneak up behind someone, I actually pretend to knife them or do any other various stealth kill.

If players run into each other, or otherwise get close, they engage in hand to hand. There is no parlay or mercy rule. We try to make it as realistic as we possibly can to get at least some feel for the real thing.
And yes, we do take safety measures before and during training."

"When my team trains, we use airsoft. But we try to make it as realistic as possible.
Like if your weapon is hit, it is disabled. But your still in the game, you just have to find a way to survive.

Parlay and Mercy rule are non-existent. If I sneak up behind someone, I actually pretend to knife them or do any other various stealth kill.

If players run into each other, or otherwise get close, they engage in hand to hand. There is no parlay or mercy rule. We try to make it as realistic as we possibly can to get at least some feel for the real thing.
And yes, we do take safety measures before and during training."

"Thanks. I have been waiting nearly two years for someone to acknowledge this. Most people simply dismiss it as irrelevant, when in fact it is anything but.

If you train to hide behind the first solid surface you can find, in a real firefight you may as well place your weapon in your mouth and save them the trouble, because bullets will go through just about anything - it's what they are made to do.

However, if you train and train and train to do something, during live combat you are NOT going to have the presence of mind to stop and analyze the situation; you are going to repeat the things you have conditioned yourself to do during training. This is the entire purpose of training to begin with !!! And if you have conditioned yourself to hide behind drywall during airsoft matches, when the bullets are real and your mid-brain takes over your body, you are going to hide behind that same sh*t and you are going to get greased.

My Marine Combat Training instructor used to say that "In combat you'll never rise to the occasion - you'll only fall back to your level of training." "

"Agreed totally, DN. Practice makes habits, not perfection.

I think about the closest you could get to training would be shooting various medias and being able to recognize what a material will do to a bullet or not. It's the exact same idea as target recognition - "Hands, hands, gun? No gun? Move on. Gun? Shoot."

Personally, I find airsoft is a form of tactical proofreading. While it won't catch everything, it tests basic loadouts, formations and tactics before you're in a situation where they could kill you.
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"You're talking concealment. Cover and concealment are NOT the same thing.

If you hide behind something and I *know* you're back there, even if I can't see you, doesn't mean my bullets aren't going to shred you."

"Didn't you mention .308 tears through concrete blocks in just a few shots?"