Hello there

[JoshuaTBC]

Hi everybody,

I'm Joshua from the Tactical Black Cats. We are an airsoft team based in France (near Paris), and I am curious on how airsoft is played abroad.
Our youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TacticalBlackCats
See you soon,

Joshua.

[AndySpeers]

Hello Joshua,

Welcome to Airsoft Pacific. From what I have seen of your videos Airsoft is played just about the same. Except we don't have very many places to play indoors. Most of our games are played out in wooded areas.


Andy

[Nark]

Welcome to AP. Seems like we won't be getting any "Which gun should I buy" threads from you which is nice I've only ever talked to one other guy outside the US about airsoft, who is a part of the Tier-1 MILSIM group in England. How is it over in France?

[JoshuaTBC]

Thanks for your messages.
Hard to summarize airsoft in France, as there are many ways to play it (of course). I play near Paris. There are more and more players, as the activity is more and more popular, and until last year quite a few places to play (wooded areas mostly). Things changed for a year, thanks to Wild Trigger, a company that looks for places and negotiate the authorizations with the owners. Thanks to that, we have lots more places to play, including old facilities, which are awesome for CQB games.
The legal limit is 2 Joules (462 FPS with 0,20 g BB), people play usually with 350 (full) or 400 (semi only).

Most French citizens don't like guns (we don't have anything remotely close to the 2nd Amendment here), and reputation of airsoft is very fragile (lots of mix-ups with militias or terrorist groups). This is why teams work every day to promote a good image of airsoft in the Medias, but there are still lots of things to do.

And by the way, which gun should I buy ?

[Darius137]

Good day sir!

Any pictures or website for your group? I think we used to have one French player on this site a while ago that was working on a US Marines theme/loadout.

[JoshuaTBC]

There is the youtube channel link above, with some loadouts inside

We also have a picassa album: https://picasaweb.google.com/1100743830 ... 2TheHangar
And a Facebook page (in French): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tactical- ... 9236222000

[Nark]

Thanks for your messages.
Hard to summarize airsoft in France, as there are many ways to play it (of course). I play near Paris. There are more and more players, as the activity is more and more popular, and until last year quite a few places to play (wooded areas mostly). Things changed for a year, thanks to Wild Trigger, a company that looks for places and negotiate the authorizations with the owners. Thanks to that, we have lots more places to play, including old facilities, which are awesome for CQB games.
The legal limit is 2 Joules (462 FPS with 0,20 g BB), people play usually with 350 (full) or 400 (semi only).

Most French citizens don't like guns (we don't have anything remotely close to the 2nd Amendment here), and reputation of airsoft is very fragile (lots of mix-ups with militias or terrorist groups). This is why teams work every day to promote a good image of airsoft in the Medias, but there are still lots of things to do.

And by the way, which gun should I buy ?

Sounds like what we got here too. Many different levels and all with varying levels of players. Definitely a different beast I would say when comparing West coast airsoft to East coast airsoft. We have too many people using airsoft guns in public and then getting in trouble with them or being shot because of it. Wild Trigger sounds like our own Lion Claws, an airsoft event series that goes around to big name AOs that we wouldn't normally be able to play at and gets bigger games together. We just had our first one in the PACNW at a local military base and some of the guys even joined us. It was lots of fun despite some of the flaws that were seen.

[JoshuaTBC]

We have too many people using airsoft guns in public and then getting in trouble with them or being shot because of it.

Looks like we also have this kind of idiots here. But policemen won't shoot them, they know there would be massive riots if they do.