The Airsoft Experience
The Airsoft Experience
Ottawa’s FPS Airsoft Story -A Phone Conversation With Cory and Antoine
A community that wouldn’t let a great venue die—this is how FPS Airsoft Club became Ottawa’s 55-acre home for big games, bigger smiles, and some downright wild vehicle action. We sit with Cory and Antoine to trace back to the start, from backyard Clear Soft and early Red Devils runs to founding TNF, discovering PRZ Nightfall, and turning a legacy property into a player-first experience that’s welcoming on day one and still challenging on year ten.
We get into the design choices that make FPS feel huge without getting lost: clear MSRs linking dense zones, a village that breathes under pressure, and forest paths that deliver flanks you actually finish. They break down a smart rental ladder—from entry rifles to an HPA-tapped G&G LMG—plus on-site BBs, green gas, and HPA fills so newcomers can jump straight into the action. Attendance has climbed to reliable Saturdays with 50–60 players, and the vibe stays healthy because veterans mentor, TNF pitches in when needed, and safety stays tight without killing momentum.
Then the fun escalates. FPS is built for vehicles, and it shows in stories of troop carriers navigating the village and a helicopter that absolutely put BBs on target. We unpack how they’ll bring a new technical online responsibly and why learning to fight armor changes the meta for everyone. Signature events like DEA vs Cartel mix flags, side missions, and NPC chaos into a day that’s competitive but approachable, while Gota vs The World returns with full-throttle combined arms. Operation Resilience bridges the sport with service, raising funds for veteran service dogs and giving vets a low-friction way to reconnect with team spirit.
We close with what’s next: micro-structures along key roads, fresh blinds in the forest, more lighting cues for night games, and expanded Gunfighter Challenge formats that spotlight precision under pressure. If you care about practical field design, community growth, and events that deliver both narrative and firefights, this conversation hits the sweet spot. Subscribe, share with your squad, and drop a review—what mission would you run first at FPS?
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Hey everybody, it's Magic Mike from the Airsoft Experience, and I'm super, super excited to get this episode out. We're sitting down in the studio, actually long distance uh episode this time because our friends on the other line are from Ottawa from FPS Airsoft Club and the TNF Milsom team. We're sitting here with Corey and Antoine. How are you guys doing? It's uh honestly, I kind of miss you guys because uh the last time we were together, we had uh an epic time at your field. And honestly, it's still like to this day one of my favorite events that I've gone to in uh in a very long time. But uh we'll get into that a little later in the show. Let's just start with uh introductions. Let's start with you, Corey. Like, where did the airsoft bug start for you? How did it start? Where did it start? And let's just get into it.
SPEAKER_04:All right, man. Uh well, it's been about 14, maybe almost 15 years since I've been in airsoft. Uh, an old neighbor and very good friend of mine invited me over to his house one day, showed off his uh his new airsoft uh equipment, and asked me if I wanted to come with him.
SPEAKER_02:Uh, we went up to a place called Red Devils Airsoft, uh, and I instantly fell in love with the sport. Nice, nice. How how long ago was that, sorry? Uh somewhere between 14 and 15 years ago. Wow. So you have been around the block in the airsoft community? Yeah, I've been around for a little while. That's awesome. Did you just so you just did a walk-on game and kind of started playing that way and then kind of molded into Milsom from there?
SPEAKER_04:That's it. I uh I rented for the first time I went, and that's all it took. I had my own equipment by the next weekend.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, when you're hooked, it's just like instant go to the store. I need my own stuff. I need better, better, better. Oh, yeah, that's where it starts. 100% awesome. What about you, Antoine? Where did uh where did Airsoft start for you?
SPEAKER_06:I think for me it started probably similar to Corey. I'd say about like 13 years ago, but it was all in my friend's backyard because he lived out in the country and we were 14, 15 at the time, back when ClearSoft was a thing.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So then we started there, just me and two other buddies, and then moved to Ottawa, and the scene here is a lot bigger than it was at the time at Halifax. So same thing, same as Corey, went to Red Devils for an event and then got hooked from there.
SPEAKER_02:Awesome. Were you guys kind of together when you started Airsoft? Like did you guys know each other or did you guys meet each other through Airsoft? Yeah, we met each other through Airsoft.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Not at the start, but later on in our in our airsoft stories.
SPEAKER_02:Did you like play on the same fields um or did it just like spur the moment you guys came together at an event, or how did it actually happen where you guys met?
SPEAKER_06:I'd say it's like after my first couple games at Red Devils, I started going to what was OHP at the time. Then I was closer to where I was. I liked the fields, and Corey and all the other TNF lads were playing at OHP, so I guess I gave them enough of a hard time for them to recruit me onto TNF, and that's how I met all the TNF guys.
SPEAKER_02:Nice, nice. So Red Devil Field is no longer in operation? No, they've been closed down for uh a couple years. Nice, and that is in Ottawa or outskirts of Ottawa or? Yeah, it was just in the outskirts uh in a town called Kempville. Cool, cool. Okay, so let's kind of step forward. So you guys both got into the sport, you got hooked right away. It was more of a walk-on thing. When did like TNF kind of come into uh the realm? Like when did you decide to do the team thing? When did you decide to you know get into more of a Milsom team-based type of play? Like, how did that all start?
SPEAKER_04:Well, I mean, the team starting itself uh was basically me, the guy, my buddy that got me to come out, his name is Jeff, and one of the owner other owners at FPS, Sean. We had played for a couple weeks together, and that's how the three of us decided to start a team, and that's how CNF was for. Uh, as far as the Milsom thing goes, uh, it started with Nightfall. Uh, and I have a feeling a lot of the people in this area start the same way. Oh, yeah. Uh, Nightfall was such an amazing place at PRZ, uh, an amazing game story held at PRZ, which was such an amazing field, and it just got us hooked on the Milsom experience.
SPEAKER_02:Do you remember which nightfall that was? Because you're you're talking this team's been around for 10 plus years, even longer. Uh I believe it was Nightfall 3. Wow. That's awesome. Did have has the game morphed since uh since three, or has it always kind of been the exact same? I've only been around for five, I think, Nightfalls total. So I'm I I I gotta get some some backstory on the the very first ones. Like, how was it for you guys as a new team going to this big event at PRZ, which is just an epic field? Like, kind of describe how it was for you guys going to that event for the first time as a team.
SPEAKER_04:Uh well, it was it was it was pretty mind-blowing. Uh, we had never been to a field that big and that well equipped before. Uh and we were just flabbergasted. I remember before the event even started the night before, we went for our first night walk through all the buildings at Pierzy to check out the field, taking a bunch of videos and having a great time.
SPEAKER_02:And uh, like that field was unbeatable, really. Yeah, it was an epic field. It's honestly it's still sitting there to this day. Uh, one of my teammates was out front of it, I want to say three days ago, sending us video and pictures of the building still standing there, absolutely no change, other than a billboard saying uh come live the base life, and then uh one C container. But other than that, our our amazing field is still sitting there unused, which is just makes me a bit angry uh because we all could definitely still be playing there in my eyes. I wish I knew their plans so I could try to get involved in some way just to get one more big event there. I think it would be one last game in one more big just hurrah. You know what I mean? Like just the buildings and the outer fields, no paintball stuff scattered anywhere. Just get in there and do some really cool missions for one last time. I would love to make that happen.
SPEAKER_04:That'd be amazing. Oh, yeah. I think the draw that would come from a game like that would be insane.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I I think everybody in the community would want to do the the one final send-off for that field. That field's epic, but that field is not what we're here to talk about tonight. Tonight we are talking about your guys' amazing field, which I actually got to play for the first time in October. Uh, it is FPS Airsoft Club. So, what I want to do between the two of you, let's let's get into where all of that began. Like, where did FPS come from? How was it just, you know, where did it come from? Like, where did it start? How did it start? Let's get into the story, let's get into the details for the community.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, well, like Antoine was saying earlier, uh, we played at a field that was called OHP at the time, uh, that was actually on the same property that FPS is on. Uh, we played there for quite a few years. We absolutely fell in love with the field and the layout and the community. Uh, and when the owner decided to close the doors, we were we were heartbroken. So some guys were able to get together and we were able to open FPS to keep that alive.
SPEAKER_02:That's amazing. Did it what or sorry, was FPS always an airsoft field, or what did it start its life as a paintball field, or how did all of that come to fruition?
SPEAKER_06:So that's it. Like it didn't it was an idea after we heard that OHP, which was the field previous to where we are currently, was shutting down. So we decided if we were able to kind of revive that field as us, how we do it, and then we all came up with FPS, and then I mean it's been pretty much history ever since we opened in 2020, I think, was our first year officially.
SPEAKER_02:First year officially was 2020 for FPS, and how long was it the other field before there?
SPEAKER_06:Corey would probably know that a bit more than I do because it was OHP, and then before that, I think JTs, who was a local store, kind of a circle store, he had a paintball field. So the field itself has been there probably decades.
SPEAKER_04:Wow. Yeah, OHP was around for, I believe, about seven years. Uh and JTs was there, I believe, about 15 years. But yeah, like Angela was saying, it's been an air softer paintball field for probably about 25 years.
SPEAKER_02:That is amazing and really good to hear. I love when you hear stories about properties just staying alive and and supporting a community for so long. That's that's incredible to hear. This original field, was it the same footprint as FPS is now? Or did you guys grow the footprint? Was it like you know, a smaller field with you know, little cut up, cut up little semi-fields like most paintball fields, or how was it in the very beginning? Like when it was handed over to you guys or when you guys purchased it, how was the field then and and kind of what has happened since then to get it to the stage it is now?
SPEAKER_06:I think when it was more of a paintball field, like you could definitely tell that there were areas of play that were different, kind of separated from each other. And then as you know, Airsoft kind of took over the field itself, I think it started meshing a bit more with itself. But since we got it, we've pretty much like in terms of how much space we have, it's always been the same amount of space, but I think we've been utilizing a lot more of that in a way that all flows very well together.
SPEAKER_02:That it truly does. I I absolutely love the flow of that field. I love the different zones, ad hoc roadways, the the forests. I just it's honestly it's a great field. You guys have done a a great job with it. When you guys converted the field over or it went into your hands, was there a big local following already playing there? Or is that something that you guys kind of adopted and and brought to the field when you switched over?
SPEAKER_04:Uh, I mean, we definitely had to grow the following that we've had. Our kind of core community has always been around. Uh, but I'd say we've definitely brought in more draw to people since we've been open.
SPEAKER_02:Nice. And you guys obviously, for the people that are new and are listeners out there, you guys do big events that you personally host as a airsoft club, uh, FPS, and you also have other game hosts that come out there. That's pretty much how it goes. Yep. Yeah. And uh you have walk-on every weekend, other than when it's absolutely miserable out like right now in the middle of winter?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, snow's about the only thing that keeps us away from our walk-on days.
SPEAKER_02:We're open rain or shine three months, uh three seasons of the year. Nice. That's awesome. What's the uh what's the walk-on volume like? You guys got good turnouts every weekend? Is it the same group of people? Do you find you have a good balance of newer players trying to get into the sport and trying it for the first time? Or how how's that crowd?
SPEAKER_06:We've had uh our Saturdays now compared to when we first opened, because when we opened in 2020, COVID started at the same time, so that kind of slowed us down a bit. But from then to now, like I think an average day, which or a slow day, let's call it, we'd have between 50 to 60 people. Right. A lot of new people this year I've noticed as well. Like the community and I guess Airsoft in general seems to steadily be growing in our area here, which is great. That's all we wanted from the start, is to get more people into the sport that we all love to play. So we have a lot of our regulars that come, but it's very we have everybody comes now.
SPEAKER_02:That's that's absolutely all we can ask for as you know, field owners and field players, is just to create a safe space for new players to come out and and and enjoy our sport and be guided by you know players that are more experienced, like you guys and and your Milsom team. Like, does TNF uh like are they all refs? Are they all incorporated in the field? Are they a part of the field? Is that kind of how it's rolling out there?
SPEAKER_06:It would depend on the day and like how busy we are and how many of them come out because they we don't expect all the TNF guys to come out every single weekend and ref for us, right? A lot of them do play when they come.
SPEAKER_03:Nice.
SPEAKER_06:But if we ever need a helping hand, like they're always happy to help us, whether it's refing or help us with Chrono in the morning or when we host our events at the field, like they'll they'll help us do the parking and kind of get everyone situated while we get everyone registered and get everything ready for the day.
SPEAKER_02:That's awesome. I love hearing that. What about let's put it into perspective here? Let's say I'm a brand new player, I've never played Airsoft before. One of my friends uh keeps talking to me about FPS Airsoft. We want to go play, I don't have my own gear. Do you guys have a store and uh rentals and have everything everybody could need, like air and all that stuff? Let's get into kind of the details for anybody that's looking to play uh at FPS.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, we absolutely do have a uh full stock of rentals. Uh we actually have three different levels of rentals as well, uh beginner uh and going forward. Uh we also do have a store, we have our own line of BVs as well. Uh we sell green gas, BBs, all the consumables and basic needs, mags, stuff like that.
SPEAKER_02:Uh and yes, we do HPA fill as well. That's amazing. So let's let's touch a bit on the uh the rental packages because that's kind of something that is out of the ordinary. So you basically have a beginner package and then kind of like an intermediate and then some sort of pro-ish package, something like that.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's basically how it works. Uh, we have the beginner package, which is just like an entry-level uh uh airsoft gun. Our intermediate level is more of a more performance level of gun, and then our advanced level is actually a GNG LMG uh with an HPA tap.
SPEAKER_02:Wow, that sounds definitely fun as an LMG uh operator. I can definitely get down with that for sure.
SPEAKER_04:Yep.
SPEAKER_02:All right. So do you guys have any plans on any additions or any changes to the field in the off season or any new builds or anything like that that the community can look forward to?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, we we have one that I have an idea of what I want. So we we bought the wood before winter just so we'd have it ready in the spring to put that one up. And you've I know that the listeners may not all have vigorous field, but you've been there. So along the the main MSRs, like ideally we would like to build kind of smaller structures going along towards either end of the road. Nice and then the forest as well. I I love building in the forest and better than taking the chain on there and just building up new blinds and new structures. So we we have a lot of ideas of what we would like to do as we progress, but for sure by the time we open in the spring, we'll have one new building put up and then probably some stuff uh in the forest as well.
SPEAKER_02:That is awesome, and I definitely look forward to coming back out and and playing the field, hopefully multiple times this season. When I was there, uh we'll get into that a little bit later, but there was vehicles on the field. Is that something that is normal for you guys, or is that something that kind of just got incorporated this year?
SPEAKER_04:Uh well, we've had vehicles on the field for one of our events in the past, uh, but it seems like more of a special occasion kind of thing.
SPEAKER_02:That was one hell of a special occasion. Yeah, it was hell. Uh so to recap, our good friend Lou uh and the Go to Boys and Dennis and all those those guys, they hosted Gota vs. the world three at FPS. And they had like, I'm gonna call it a tank generally, but it was a troop carrier and a helicopter flying around the field, and it was absolutely fucking epic. I'm gonna say that I definitely had a great time. I think everybody had a great time, and to bring that up and to talk about the vehicles, your field plays so well for vehicle combat. I like I was blown away on the flow, and it doesn't feel constricted in any way, if you know what I mean. If if you played other fields, you you kind of feel a bit constricted with where the vehicles can go.
SPEAKER_01:I feel at your field you can just go wherever you possibly could want and get around, no problem whatsoever.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I mean, like in general, we try and keep a lot of open space in between our like concentrated areas like the village and POW and the mortar pits. Uh, to be honest, I was really impressed that that tank was able to navigate its way through the village without hitting anything.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that that was that was quite a CQB battle in that tank in the village. I'll never forget that. That was that was absolutely epic. That was such a good time. Do you have do you have future plans to do some sort of uh like field-based technical that'll be on the field uh that you know you can look that players can look forward to in future events?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, so we we I guess as TNF, whatever team leader Chad, he acquired a Chevy Tracker. Nice. So we won't go too into detail because we're still figuring that part out. But eventually, once we get that up and running, I think we'll try to find a way to incorporate it in like a Saturday skirmish if we can. Nice and then kind of go from there because it's not always the easiest, especially when you have you know veterans coming out, you have new players, and then you kinda have the players that are experienced but still learning a lot about the sport. For sure. We'll just have to find a uh an appropriate way to navigate that and incorporate it to a game. We've tried it uh once with Lou, and that went pretty good. So we'll see uh if we can get that going. Because like you said, like playing against a vehicle is a whole other ball game. It's so much fun.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, it changes it changes everything. And I want to get to the point, like sometimes, like personally, uh like obviously my team, we own our own technical and we fight in it a lot, and what we want to veer away. Away from uh is people just turning and running when they see a vehicle. It'd be nice to get them back out on the field and learn how to to to fight these things. That that is kind of what we were trying to push. And I mean, I feel like FPS is definitely a field that can handle vehicular warfare for sure, in the air soft sense. So relax there, liberals. I know you're listening. Definitely that kind of molds into like let's get some details into you know the FPS community, the Ottawa community. I know Antoine, you touched on it a bit earlier, but like going back to what you were saying before, was it a tiny, tiny, tiny little community, or was it a bigger community that's kind of spread all over Ottawa, kind of like Ontario, or kind of like what's the history around Airsoft in uh in the Ottawa Valley and Ottawa?
SPEAKER_06:Question. I mean, even when I started, the community was still fairly large, but because Ottawa's so spread out, and at the time there were I want to say four, maybe five fields, two of them were in Yatina, I believe. So across the river from us on the Quebec side. But since then, like a lot of fields have unfortunately closed after COVID and everything. So I think the community's always been there, but it was more spread out. But now that we only have two fields in our area, I think we're starting to see more people kind of get back out into it now that it seems to be you know blowing up a little bit more. More people are learning about airsoft and coming out to the field. And we have people who will show up and say, We we've been there almost five five years now. They'll come and be like, We had no idea you guys were even here. Like, yeah. We've been here for five years.
SPEAKER_02:It's it's crazy to hear that because like in our eyes, we're like, how in in our ears, how have you not, you know, heard about this field? And what a lot of people don't know is we're very censored on Facebook, on Instagram. Like we can post hundreds of posts, but it's not going out to people a lot because of our businesses, because of our hobby or our sport. It's just a different sport that I think uh, you know, some part of the community doesn't accept it, if you know what I'm trying to say, which is uh we're trying to change that and try to get as much information out. So when people say they haven't heard of us uh or you guys are different fields, it kind of makes sense because I'll even post something about Airsoft on you know one of my Facebook accounts or Instagram accounts, and people that usually follow my accounts or you know, I'm just using me as an example, didn't even see that post. You know what I mean? So it's kind of hard, it's kind of hard for us to advertise and get out there because I feel like we're just kind of being fought by a certain group of individuals, but we won't get into politics in this episode, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly what you're saying.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's just it it's it's mind-boggling because it's just I've been told the same thing. It's just like I've I've never heard of the compound, and it's like we've been in this community and we are all pretty tight-knit. And to have somebody that's been playing Airsoft for a while, you know, not hear about that, it's just it flabbergasts you. So I kind of understand where you guys are are coming from.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, and I see it too. Like uh, because I'll do the social media for the field, and even the other day, like on Facebook, I got a notification that all your accounts restricted for posts you made like a year ago, and I'm like, how am I supposed to work with that?
SPEAKER_02:It's it's insane. So, same thing with me. I I got restricted for a post that Bacon posted his pictures on my account from one of the games to show all the players his awesome photography two years ago from or almost three years ago from Gun Runner 1. And that's the post that got flagged to take all my recommendations off of my Facebook account. Oh, it's like I are you kidding me? And right in the post, it says this is airsoft. It's like I I don't even know what to say. I was so flabbergasted. It's we're we're trying to get everything out for the community, it's also a business, but it's just it it boggles my mind that they just gotta censor us so much over toys, like it just boggles my mind. Yeah, so enough about the politics. You guys have some plans for the future to do some uh new builds, which is always good. Some new fresh stuff's always good. Uh, what about events? Like big events. Uh, I know you do the walk-ons for you know three seasons out of the year, they're every weekend, but what about some uh major millsims? Like, how often does that happen at FPS?
SPEAKER_06:Let's say in terms of major MIL-SIMs, like the biggest one that we had last year was obviously Golda First of the World, and Lou also ran a few of his own and he calls it the takeover event.
SPEAKER_03:Yep.
SPEAKER_06:So we had him run those a few weeks, but we have come up since the start. I think either the first year I created this we'll call it a milk script if you want. You know, it's a mix of kind of milk aspects, but without all the serious milkness tied into it. So we call it GA versus cartel, and it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. So one team is the police or the army, and the other team is the cartel, and they basically just fight throughout the day, and that's been such a fun event to run and watch the players like really get into it. And it's it's an easy-go-in-lax event, but uh the rivalry that it's almost created between the two. I think it's so fun to watch throughout the year.
SPEAKER_02:How many years have you guys been holding the uh DEA versus cartel event?
SPEAKER_06:I think from the start to five five years now. I think the last one was our twelfth iteration of it.
SPEAKER_03:Wow.
SPEAKER_06:So we'll try to do two a year. So one in the spring and then one in the fall just to kind of get both different times of the year in it in the fall when you get to play a little bit at night, a couple hours, which obviously we enjoy night stuff.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So it's fun to get the community a little more involved into the less known night fights that we have.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, your your field at night is absolutely epic to fight through. Like the the Friday night uh from the go to event, like man, some of the firefights in the town were just absolutely crazy. Especially that's the first time that me or any of my guys went to FPS, and like we had zero knowledge of the field, zero knowledge of any sort of layout or anything. So that that right there was just an epic experience. We we had a blast. That was that was so cool. Like the the field just plays so well during the day, but like at night, even if you kind of learn the field and and get your footing throughout the day, at night all of that goes out the window.
SPEAKER_01:It's like, where the fuck am I? I don't even know where I'm going. Okay, I think I see a building over there.
SPEAKER_06:No, it's fun to find at night there.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, it's a whole other room. Well, we did put too many lights kind of all over the place, like eventually, I think in the town area and along like the main road, like a couple more, just so if you pop out open woods or you know what seems like you know where you're going, at least you can kind of find a light and be like, okay, that's kind of the middle of it all. But with all the paths that we have and the tall brush and like it's fifty-two or fifty-five acres. Like if you don't know where you're going, yeah, you'll you'll end up at the fence line and then you're kind of through from there.
SPEAKER_02:It's it's it's fifty-five acres, but it feels like three hundred acres. Like it's just it's a sizable field. Like, that's the one thing. Like you you get in there, you're you're at the town, or you're in the woods. Like me and my guys did the real long flank when we hit the CP there that one time. Man, just yeah, yeah. So much cool, cool, cool, cool stuff there. And that's just such a groovy field. I really, really enjoy the flow there, and day and night battles are are epic. But going back to um the Milsom, so you guys have that one Milsom that's hosted by you guys. If another game host wanted to host an event, it's something that obviously is doable there.
SPEAKER_04:Absolutely. Yes. We all always welcome people to come out and uh and talk to us about their own their own events. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02:And is there a specific like I know you sell uh uh combustibles and and stuff like that? Is there a specific store that you guys are kind of connected to or anything like that out there if anybody needed to go buy gear or anything like that that you guys support?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I mean we definitely support uh OPS that's uh now moved to Carlton Place. Uh Brian, the owner, is a great guy, and he's always willing to help anybody out with what they need.
SPEAKER_02:That's awesome. That is awesome. Any big uh new events that you can kind of leak or any returning events that are coming to the field this year that you want to get out there? A little bit of uh little bit of information for the community?
SPEAKER_04:Well, I I mean we are uh happy to hear that God vs. the world four will be happening at FPS again next year.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, that's what I was hoping to hear. Yeah. Oh, you know I'll be there. The boys will be there for sure.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, we're all definitely excited about that. Uh, we also have the second iteration of Opera Zilience, which is for uh military vets and retired RTMP. Uh that's held by a team called the Tourists.
SPEAKER_02:Uh, they did a great job last year. It was an awesome event. Nice. And what what does that event entail?
SPEAKER_04:Uh it was basically an event to raise money uh for a specific group that trains um dogs for veterans. Oh, that's awesome. What are they called? Uh service animals. Sweet. And uh they basically ran certain skirmishes throughout the day and had a lot of nice giveaways, and all the different companies that supported the event were there with uh with their venger setup.
SPEAKER_02:That is awesome, and it's uh good cause, and it's really, really, really good to hear that stuff.
SPEAKER_06:Do you guys and that too is uh was another way to kind of expand into the community, really. A lot of veterans, this is the first time trying it, and you know, you could tell at the start of the day they're a little unsure about it, but at the end of the day, they everyone was smiling, having the best time that they had in a in a while, and it got veterans to talk with veterans, and we got to talk with them. It's it's an awesome event.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that that sounds amazing. It's always like new players I find once they get over the fact that they're gonna get shot or get shot, then everything goes out the window and it's just smiles from then on out. I think it's just the very the the little nervousness of oh my god, I'm gonna get shot, it's gonna hurt. Like once you get shot a couple times or you know, 10-15 times from an LMG blast, you you're you're nothing but smiles after that. Oh yeah, then the adrenaline kicks it and you go Yeah, you go nuts, and I'm like, you go, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna find that guy and I'm going to outflank him and I'm gonna get him back in that's pretty much the tick for tack for the entire day. Absolutely. Do you so the just uh the you you've got the one event for the veterans and then you guys got your event, Lou's got his event. Is there any hankling or any idea of you guys maybe hosting a whole new event through you uh through maybe the team or something like that? Or is it just you're gonna stick to what you guys got? And I know it's a lot to you know continuously do walk-ons every weekend. That's one thing that is it something that maybe is in the future for a couple more MIL SIMS.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I mean, we're always coming up with ideas of new events that we can do. Uh, there's nothing solid in the books for next year yet, but uh we will be doing another uh edition of the Gunfighter Challenge as well. Oh, yeah, let's talk about that. Yeah, absolutely. That's uh so basically it is a target style shootout with a little bit of distance in between, more base off, something along the lines of like an IPSIC challenge. Uh and Dave from Auto Airsoft, amazing guy. He does all of our bombs and all of all of our electronics at the field, came up with interactive targets that we spaced out through a course um up at the top near the M60 pit in JOC. And we had guys come out and run three different heats to see who could battle for the best time. And I think the best part about it was while everyone was battling for the best time, they were all cheering each other on at the same time.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's so so awesome to see. I love stuff like that. That's just that's great. When when do you guys usually host that event? Is that something that's later on in the year or early in the year?
SPEAKER_04:Well, so the one that we did last year was the first one that we've done. Uh there are gonna be a few this year spread out, but dates haven't been put into stone yet. Uh, but they're all gonna have different different styles of play. So there's gonna be one that's kind of based for snipers, and there was gonna be one that's uh we're gonna move through like a more dense brush area rather than being out in the open or in buildings.
SPEAKER_02:Nice. Have you guys ever thought about possibly bringing the um the sniper certification up there for anybody out in the Ottawa uh area that's interested in doing stuff like that?
SPEAKER_06:I think we we've talked about it. We we still haven't really come to a conclusion as to for like our Saturday walk-off per se.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_06:If you know having the snipers that can shoot that much higher than like our regular limit is gonna work as well as it would for like at a Milton event where everyone knows what's going on as opposed to having you know newer players and rentals and younger demographic that are trying the sport. So we haven't really come to a decision as to if that's something we want to incorporate with like a regular days or you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, for sure. The last thing you want is somebody picking up an airsoft gun for the first time and taking in uh four or five right to the nose. That's for sure.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, you get uh the one rental kid that just disappears and then pops up, you know, 50 feet from the guy's barrel and timing's not the best all the time, right?
SPEAKER_02:So Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's you're right. It's it's it's definitely something that's more uh you know game specific, uh Milsom specific type of thing. I just know that there's like your field is set up nicely for you know, in a Milson for snipers, you know, they they got the bush line, they got the tall grass and stuff like that. And I just noticed that there's uh a big uptick in people that want to be snipers, so it's just something that I was throwing out there. It's actually gonna be an episode uh coming up on my podcast about about snipers and uh how a lot of people decide to you know grab that as their first airsoft gun. And I just think that's a huge mistake. And I just started thinking your field sniper kind of went one-on-one, but you're right, it doesn't really work too well for uh a walk-on type of situation, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you know, I always thought the same thing when I started started out in airsoft that like sniping was a miss. I always used to say at airsoft. Basically meant that like if you were gonna get into sniping in airsoft and be successful about it, you basically had to pour yourself into it. Oh, yeah. We do have some guys at the field that have incredible setups, and these guys will take you out from 300 feet away and you won't even know where it came from.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, they're crazy.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah. It's it's it's more of a it's almost uh a complete lifestyle, I find, to be a sniper for sure. Oh, absolutely. All right, let's talk about some you know, some some favorite moments or some memories or anything like that that you guys can remember some times at FPS Airsoft like just this past season. Anything that comes to mind that really jumps out.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, I'm not gonna lie, the first thing I gotta say is being up in that helicopter shooting down uh with the LMG that we have was incredibly intense.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah. Dude, were you were you guys the ones that were shooting up my truck? Because that was so fucking funny, man.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I did I definitely shot the Warwick a few times.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, that that's a blast, man.
SPEAKER_02:Like, I mean, uh, there's there's nothing like raining gunfire out of a moving helicopter at tiny little targets on the ground and actually hitting them. So just because I can speak it all I want, but now I'm talking to you know other people that have been in the helicopter. The rotor wash does not wash your BBs out. You can land BBs on people from a moving helicopter. I've proven it, Corey. You've definitely proven it. So there's definitely a myth there for sure.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, absolutely. That's the first thing I noticed since we got up and I started shooting, is that the aim was actually quite perfect.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's it it blew my mind. I'm like, there's no way that these BBs are gonna make it to the ground. But I mean, from somebody that was sitting in an open topped uh turret, they're definitely making it to the ground.
SPEAKER_01:I can definitely attest for that for sure. So the helicopter was definitely one of the the good moments for you then, Corey.
SPEAKER_02:What about you, Antoine?
SPEAKER_06:I would say the helicopter, but I unfortunately haven't got the chance to actually go to go to Virtual World yet. But this next one, mark my word, I am there.
SPEAKER_02:I hope you're there.
SPEAKER_06:That will be my next memory. What I'd say, honestly, for me, is just from running the DA and cartel events, I think my favorite moments are actually watching it successfully go as I envision it going.
unknown:Nice.
SPEAKER_06:You guys have organized events, right? You know, in your mind it makes sense, and then you get there, you're like, I don't know, and then it goes perfectly.
SPEAKER_02:I honestly uh the I don't sleep the fucking night before I'm not gonna lie.
SPEAKER_06:I feel like I have 16 more things to do. I don't know what they are, but I have this feeling. And as the game starts, then you're just like, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It's it's exactly it. It's like you your your one goal as a field ownerslash game host is it it it doesn't matter what you want, it matters what everybody gets, if that makes sense. Yep. All that matters is is player status status I can't even speak. Players having fun. And uh and that's all that matters to us as game hosts, as field owners, as as You know, players itself, we just want to make sure that everybody has a great time, uh, safe time, and an awesome time at our fields. That's pretty much fair to say, yeah?
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yeah. And I mean Antoine does such an amazing job with the Aversus Cartel. Like the amount of heart that you see when people come out and the effort a lot of our commanders and a lot of our players put into that event is just it it's it's crazy.
SPEAKER_02:That's awesome. So at this event, is it like mission-based? Um, you got some actors, some props, stuff like that going on.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah. So we have it, so it's basically there's five different like flag caster points. A little bit like nightfall with the uh with the flag.
SPEAKER_03:Yep.
SPEAKER_06:So those are the the main ones, but each team gets I think the last one I had 15 separate side missions to complete like throughout the day to get extra points. So it it breaks up the game from just fighting over the flags. So you know, one team could be fighting for the flags, but then the other team at the squad's gonna find whatever objective I wrote down on on the sheet. And then we also have like we we call them NPCs, but mostly the TNF labs and some people who want to kind of roleplay as uh the villager we'll call them. And most of the time they just go around and make a bunch of noise and try to annoy you and steal your stuff and continue to do things for in-game cash or information on an asset that's in the area. So it's very dynamic of a game, but being very easygoing. So and even a new player could come and have the best time of his life at these games, and that's what the whole objective is. It's serious but not serious at the same time.
SPEAKER_02:That's the best type of airsoft game there is. Like honestly, the you get the best of both worlds, right? That's like that's everything that you know a serious Middleso player really wants. They want to go have fun, have a bit of a serious aspect to it, but also have that other aspect where it's it's not serious at all, where we're all just here to have fun. That's right.
SPEAKER_06:And it's been crazy watching uh like from when we started to now, even like commander-wise, like our the last time our cartel commander he had a whole mesh mesh static, I think that's what it's called.
SPEAKER_03:Yep.
SPEAKER_06:Whole setup tracking different squalls all over the place, and it's from just starting in as like, hey, you know, Corey and Magic, you want to be commanders and figure it out to what it is now. It just blows my mind how much effort even just the commanders put into it.
SPEAKER_02:That's exactly what we want. We want, you know, people to grow and and you know, the games to grow and the community to grow. That's all we could ask for as you know, players in the uh in the community. Do you guys find that you have a lot of people traveling to the field from uh other places? Like do you have a lot of people from Quebec come in, you know, Toronto bound, anything like that?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, we definitely do. Uh even for our walk-on days, we have guys coming from Montreal. Uh the guys uh from Astor L came down for a game this year. Uh, we have guys coming from from all over the place.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah, the guys from NQ went down to play there too. I remember because I was at NQ the weekend after. Yeah. Oh yeah, those guys that honestly I I play at NQ just because they're about 20 minutes from my house now. So I play there as much as I, you know, have time for and can play. Uh but yeah, they're a great group. And I was actually gearing up to come up to your guys' field for uh go to versus the world three, and they were kind of filling me in on the field before I went there because I was there the Sunday before I came up to you guys, and they just told me they had an absolute blast. So it was uh it was a good precursor for me coming out, and like I said, as soon as I got there and and throughout the entire event, I just had nothing but a great time. Everybody's attitudes up there were so awesome. It was just great to see, and it's like really, really good uh to see like wholesome airsoft fields uh creating a great place for us airsofters to make great memories. And I definitely commend, uh, commend you guys for doing what you're doing, and I really appreciate the fact that there's uh another great field that the community can go out there and enjoy.
SPEAKER_04:Appreciate that. And like uh our community is a big part of it as well. Uh like we do it for them and they make us great. Like, we have such an accepting community. You could be a brand new player, just come for the first time, shy to talk to anybody, and one of our veteran guys will just grab you and get you to run with them. Anytime anyone has a question, you can go to anybody at the field, not just the TNF or us, and everybody's more than happy to answer your questions and show off their gear.
SPEAKER_02:That is absolutely amazing to hear. Another thing that I do notice and definitely appreciate is how much you support other fields in the community. I know you guys come down to my neck of the woods quite a bit and play at our field as well, and it just shows the amazing support that you have for the community as a whole, and it's really, really, really awesome to see.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, we love coming. At the end of the day, which like we tell people all the time, like we we're airsofters at the end of the day, so we built a field for airsofter by other airsofters. Like we know what the community wants, you know what we want. So we're not just someone who opened up like, oh yeah, this looks like fun. Like, we actually have passion for it. We see the community, like it almost spreads to everyone that comes. It's we have an awesome community at the field.
SPEAKER_02:That's it's great, and I got to see it firsthand, and and like I said, I hope to come up there a couple more times this upcoming season. I definitely want to try the uh DEA cartel game at least once. I know I was planning on coming back, uh, but it there was a scheduling conflict with something at the compound that weekend, so I couldn't make it, but this year I want to make it to that, and I definitely want to come out to uh the Go to versus the world, and I hope it continues to be at FPS because it is just such a good time up there. Like me and the boys, we jump in the truck, we get uh no, we stayed at the field because it was nice and warm that weekend. So we come up, we come camp, and we just have a great time up there and we look forward to it. It's definitely high on our list of games that we want to play this year. So I just I honestly right now, I just I I can't wait. I can't wait to get out there and shoot again and see what you guys come up with this tier. And it's just I the hair on the back of my neck standing up, I just want to go shoot right now. It's just it's it's it's flowing through me right now. It's just it's what you guys do, you know. You you you get people excited, and like you said before, your field is for the community by the community. I find an airsoft field is a great entity when it is built by the community, by players for the community. It's just got that really good vibe to it, you know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. It's just it's a great place. I am going to wrap this episode up because we're getting to our hour mark here, but quickly, I'm gonna recap what we talked about. You guys have walk-ons uh three seasons uh every Saturday, or is it Saturday and Sunday?
SPEAKER_04:Uh every Saturday. We do private rentals on Sundays for like uh little private groups.
SPEAKER_02:Awesome. So you can rent the field out privately if you want for like a birthday party or anything like that on Sundays. Saturdays is walk-on. You have three different cool options for rentals. Uh you can get any of your combustibles, BBs, which if you have your own line. Uh I know you sell the boomers. We'll call them that. Uh the fun balls, um, because I've bought quite a few from you, so I know that. And um yeah, gas. Uh you have a lot of veteran players that come out that can help new players. The field is great, the layouts are great, you know, future vehicles coming on the field and some big events to look forward to. Is there anything else I missed, boys?
SPEAKER_04:Uh I just want to give a shout out to uh Sam and Sean as well, our two other partners at the field. They couldn't be here today, but uh they put just as much effort into it as we do.
SPEAKER_02:That's awesome. Thank you guys, and thank you, you two, for coming on the show. I really appreciate uh taking an hour out of your time to uh talk to me and and let the community know how awesome uh FPS Airsoft Club is. So thank you for being on the show. Uh we appreciate you having us on, man. We're honored to be able to come on and talk about the field. Awesome.
SPEAKER_06:I look forward to I'm stoked we got to do this.
SPEAKER_02:Awesome. Uh you know what? Maybe we do a recap episode at the end of next season because I'll be down there. Maybe I'll bring my stuff. We do it live at the field.
unknown:That's going to be great.
SPEAKER_02:Awesome. So I guess, well, I'll see you guys at a Airsoft field somewhat soon in the spring and uh the summer, but I definitely look forward to coming out to FPS and and uh checking out what you guys got cooking up there.
SPEAKER_04:Well, we're definitely looking forward to coming out to the compound this year. We'll be fighting underneath you, no flag and coming out for Gun Runner for sure.
SPEAKER_02:Awesome. I can't wait to see you guys. Thanks again, and I appreciate you coming on the show. Have a good night, guys.
SPEAKER_06:Of course, yeah. Have a good night.
SPEAKER_02:Cheers.
