August 23, 2024 • 19 mins
How does one go from playing with Springer pistols in a secluded Austrian village to becoming a renowned airsoft sniper? Join us as we sit down with Chris Neuwirth aka Novritsch, who shares his compelling journey from isolation to community, explaining the allure and trials of the sniper role in the world of airsoft. Chris also dishes out practical advice for newcomers, whether you're considering renting or buying your first gun. This episode is a treasure trove for anyone looking to dive deep into the airsoft experience, providing invaluable guidance on starting out.
Ever wondered how YouTube has influenced the airsoft scene in Canada? I recount my own adventure in building a new 220-acre airsoft field, filling a void left by the closure of a beloved venue. This leads to a discussion aimed at aspiring airsoft YouTubers. If you’re passionate about airsoft and want to share your journey, we offer insights into different content creation avenues—from gameplay and reviews to tech breakdowns—so you can focus on what you love without chasing views and revenue.
For those strapped for time, we explore the perks of quick, high-energy airsoft games that fit into the busiest schedules. Learn about Chris's routine for preparing gear and playing intense two-hour sessions, and discover why conveniently located fields offering quick-start games are a game-changer. Finally, get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Noveritsch. A growing company, from solo product development to an international team poised to introduce groundbreaking new equipment. Join us in the studio at Action Airsoft Club for the first appearance in Canada of Noveritsch the man himself.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
6-1,.
We have contact left, side 70.
Coming to you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Contact left, contact left.
We're flanking left side.
Suppress, Push, push, push.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We're moving, we're moving and welcome to the
Airsoft Experience.
I'm your host, michael Mascot,also known as Magic in Ontario
Airsoft, and we are super luckytoday we have Chris Novrich in
the house all the way fromAustria.
How are you doing, bud?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Doing great.
I'm doing Canada.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Thank you for coming to Canada.
I just I know we have a littlebit of time with you.
We're currently recording livein Action Airsoft Club in
Mississauga where he has a meetand greet going on today from 5
pm to 9 pm.
He also is doing a couple cqbgames as well in our field.
He'll check it out for thefirst time.
But the community wants to askyou a couple quick questions.
(00:55):
So let's get right to it.
When, how and where did it allstart for you in airsoft?
Like, how did you get intoairsoft and where did it start
for you?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I think, very similar to most people.
I think all young boys likeguns.
Anything that shoots isinteresting, right, it's
appealing Somehow.
We just drawn to it, naturally.
And yeah, you know, I sawlittle Springer pistols for five
bucks.
Yeah, that's how it started andyou know you play with your
friends.
The first person buys asemi-automatic gun and then all
(01:26):
the other people have to kind ofcatch up and also get some
stuff, and from there theyevolved.
Uh, and what was, what wasquite interesting is that back
then I didn't know there is anairsoft community.
So we, we kind of invented thesport kind of for ourselves
awesome.
And then we discovered the, the, the actual sport like the
actual community, which was veryinteresting because it was just
(01:47):
mind-blowing for us.
There's such big games withMilsims, vehicles and all that.
We didn't know of any of this,we just kind of stumbled into it
.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So did you kind of start going to a walk-on game or
a weekend short event, or didyou just start in your backyard
with your buddies and gostraight to a Milsim?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So my parents' house is very isolated, so it's like
it's not in the forest butthere's barely any neighbors,
nice um.
So it's isolated enough that wecould literally just play
around the house and we spring apistols.
You don't break that much stuff.
Yet my parents did get veryangry once we switched to a
cheese.
And you know, still today youcan.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You can actually see it on a drainage pipe, so you
can see the little, the littledance in there oh, I can imagine
the inside of my parentsbasement uh, has a lot of holes
in it back when I was growing upas well um, my house.
Now I've got actual airsoftrange built in the basement now
just to tune stuff out.
Many people want to become anairsoft sniper as their first
(02:45):
kind of thing, and that'sbecause they're seeing a lot of
your videos early in the day andthen other YouTube snipers and
stuff like that.
What made you get into becominga sniper?
Is that something you morphedinto or like?
How did that come about?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, I think people kind of fantasize about it and
they believe it's a really goodidea.
And so did I, and I got an SFsniper with all the money I had,
and then I had no plan B, right.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
If I would have had enough money, I would probably
also bought an HE afterwards,but I just didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So yeah, here I was, I just made the best out of it
and actually once I I kind of,let's say, master the skill, or
once I got good enough with itto compete with people with ags,
then I I really fell for it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, I really enjoyed it is it, uh, something
that you would recommend for anew player, or is it something
that maybe they should kind ofmorph into after they kind of,
you know, do a rental or around?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
it's actually something I used to recommend,
but that's I think at leastprobably like 10 years ago,
because that's what I did and itworked for me.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it
only worked for me because Iplayed with also not experienced
people.
But if you now go to a fieldfor your first day with people
(04:02):
who play since five years andthen you also take a sniper
rifle, you can have a bad timelike oh yeah, don't do that,
don't do that so I I don'trecommend it.
Yeah, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So just get an he yeah, basically, I think the
best thing to do like field likeours, we offer uh rentals.
You come out, before you buyyour first gun, go rent a rental
and see if you actually likethe sport, because you people,
oddly enough, may not like it.
I don't know how, but somepeople may not like it.
So that's good advice.
You heard it there Don't godirectly into becoming a sniper.
(04:34):
Find your groove and work yourway around the airsoft world.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
On the renting and buying.
I'm actually a bit split on it.
I also always tell people thatthey should rent.
But what I'm a little bitafraid of is that when you rent
an airsoft gun and you play yourfirst game, and on the first
game you're gonna have a hardtime right, you're gonna fog and
everything's gonna itch andnothing fits and you don't hit
anything and you're sooverwhelmed and then you
eventually dislike it andbecause you only rent it, you
(05:02):
will never come, as you maybedon't come a second time, right
yeah well, when you bought thegun, it's kind of like I spent
400 bucks on this, right.
Okay, I didn't like the firstgame, but I'm still gonna come
because I spent so much money onit already and I feel like
that's what actually gets youinto the sport, right?
for sure you overcome thosefirst few game days that are
maybe not that pleasant, and you, you kind of get the gist of it
(05:24):
and it's like, okay, now I gotit, like now I know how to aim,
how to bring my gun up fast andall that.
Yeah, now I actually become anactive member of the community
and you also get that musclememory because it's your gun.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You're at home fiddling with it, you know how
it works, you get into thatcomfort zone and I think you
become a better player whenyou're more comfortable on the
field.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I find that so it is something that I'm a bit afraid
about, that, while the wholerental offering makes the sport
more accessible, I'm also afraidthat it brings the sport into
something that, yeah, I tried itonce but I never came again,
kind of thing, you know for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Uh, especially in a cqb setting because you walk
around a corner like you'regonna get lit up.
In a CQB like in the outdoors,it's, it's.
It's not as bad.
Right At the compound and theother fields the engagement
distance are longer.
But CQB like if you're a renterfor the first time, you're
right, it could.
It could make you not likeairsoft If you have a bad time.
(06:21):
We try not to let that happen,but it could happen.
You never know.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So that's a very good point on rentals for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Okay, I would say a massive amount of Canadian
airsofters started playingbecause of your YouTube videos,
believe it or not?
Uh, myself included, and I owntwo fields and a massive Milsom
team and a bunch of vehiclesbecause of watching videos like
yours, believe it or not.
We just opened up a 220-acresuper field where we built a
(06:49):
town, village, road systems, allof that stuff which we didn't
really have here in Canada.
Like, our last big field justgot shut down.
It was an old mental hospital,believe it or not, in Picton,
which was super fun to play at,and unfortunately, over years,
it decayed and then it got soldoff and now it's going to become
a bunch of houses.
So now we had nowhere to play.
Yeah, so I decided to open thisnew field.
(07:10):
That being said, it opens up alot more opportunities for
snipers, but a lot moreopportunities for youtubers.
So we have a lot of youtubersstarting to spawn in the ontario
airsoft, like what advice doyou have for them, being, you
know, an awesome YouTube channelowner?
(07:31):
Like, do you have any advicefor them?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The thing is, you know, my channel worked out
because no one did it back then.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, you're the originator, my friend.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Not the originator.
I mean, it's not that I was thefirst one doing it, but I was
one of the first few who did itconsistently, online, um, and
really committed to it.
And now, you know, thelandscape looks different right,
like there's a lot of peopleout there.
So one thing I can definitelytell you is do it because you
enjoy the process of doing it.
Don't do it because you'reafter fuse, because it's super
(08:05):
hard to get fused these daysyeah, you're not.
You're not gonna make money uh,don't think, okay, I'm gonna
make money with this one day.
It's super, super hard to makemoney with it.
It's super, super hard to getbig with it and with the fuse.
So do it because you like it.
Just if you enjoy the editingprocess, being creative with it,
(08:26):
then just go for it, that'sawesome.
I think that's the best adviceI can give.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, so, like as far as content goes, do you think
more people want to see thegameplay, or weapons reviews, or
breaking down teching and stufflike that?
What do you think?
Do you think it's gameplay, oris it a mix of everything,
because you pretty much do itall?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I also can't.
I think people enjoy allformats, but also all formats
have been done over and over.
If you want to watch I don'tknow an LMG gameplay, you will
find a hundred of them, right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's what I run.
I love it, so again.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I wouldn't approach it in a way of okay, what could
I do that people want to watch?
Because that might be at thatend and very devastating,
because you might have to, Idon't know, be at that end and
very devastating.
Yeah, because you might have to, I don't know.
I mean, we saw these youtuberswearing bunny costumes and
having a chainsaw just to getfuse.
Oh yeah, I don't think that'sthe way, that's the way forward,
and it was even for medifficult when so before I made
(09:24):
the transition from, you know,just making videos to to
becoming a brand and makingproducts, I also was in this
tight spot where fuse were goingdown and I thought this is what
I make my living off now.
So I will just start doingridiculous things like, I don't
know, playing with an earth gunor an airsoft game, right, and
while it looks really fun in thevideo, it's actually
devastating because you bringsomething to a field that puts
(09:45):
you in such a disadvantage.
Oh yeah, you know the video islike five minutes and maybe just
10 kills in it, but for thatvideo I suffered for two days
competing with this shitty thingagain you know, I shot like
five meters, they shoot 80meters.
So, yeah, don't don't do stuffyou don't actually want to do
because you think it will getfused.
Just really do what you want todo.
(10:06):
If you want to do reviews, doreviews.
If you want to do gameplay, dogameplay.
Yeah sweet.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
What is your favorite type of game to attend like?
Do you just like the milsims?
Do you like the weekendwalk-ons or more of a larpy time
type of game?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I actually started enjoying something very
different, and that's going toan airsoft game after work after
, so it's an evening kind ofliterally just one or two hours.
It it's kind of like going toplay tennis or going to the gym,
right.
So I have my stuff prepared theday before I go to work.
I grab my it's literally a gymbag.
(10:42):
There's a GBB pistol in thereand just the most essential
stuff.
I go to the CQB site.
I play for two hours but I playreally active, right.
It's not this typical okay houror like four or five hour game
day where you know you don't runall the time because it's five
hours long and you kind of needto spare the energy, but instead
it's a I know, okay, I'm onlyhere for two hours anyway, so I
(11:03):
go in full energy.
I only sprint, I only run andactually even sometimes before
these two hours I'm already doneand I'm kind of like, okay, I'm
leaving, know I've been runningaround like crazy for an hour
and I can call it and go home,right.
And what I like about this isbecause this is a very
repeatable format that you canintegrate into it.
(11:23):
Busy life actually, becausemany people they say people I
used to play with you talk tothem if they're still playing
they say I have kids and thewife and I need a whole Saturday
, just kind of don't get to itanymore.
So I really think that and Ithink it could vastly help the
sport if the format of afterwork or short games is enabled
(11:46):
by fields that are close towhere dense populations are,
ideally close to city centersand games where you don't show
up and then you have to listento a half an hour long safety
briefing.
Then it takes 20 minutes untileveryone finally loaded up the
mags right.
Something where you go and itsays at 7pm the first game
(12:07):
starts and no matter if peopleare ready or not, the game will
start.
So you show up.
It takes you like three minutesto get ready and I just go into
the game and play.
That's awesome.
That's what I'm looking for themost right now.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We kind of have something similar to that.
So Thursday nights we have afour-hour, 7 to 11.
Same with Saturday and Sunday.
Just a quick four-hour CQB 15minutes on, 15 minutes off, play
as your leisure, walk in, walkout, do whatever you can.
So we're trying to accommodatekind of what you're saying right
(12:37):
now here in this place.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's amazing.
I think it's important to haveboth.
I do really enjoy having if Ihave a whole Saturday or even
like a whole weekend fuck yeah,I love it, go play as of all day
.
Or even like a whole weekendfuck yeah, I love it.
Right, go play as of all day.
But for the times where youdon't have that and I think
everyone has those moments intheir lives, right, I don't know
, they want to fix their car,you just don't have time, right,
and you still would be nice tohave some kind of format that
(13:00):
you can kind of squeeze into theweek For sure, quickly let's
get got a couple questions.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So this one's from uh connor farraghan.
He uh owns a team in ontarioairsoft and a vehicle team as
well, so he wants to know are weever going to see full thrust
kits available for the strikerplatform use case hpa
conversions?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
for the striker platform, that the aries striker
?
I don't think.
I'm not sure.
Actually I don't think so,because that would mean
convincing errors to make amagazine and you hope a chamber,
and you hope a bucking and youin a barrel.
I don't think so, actually Idon't think so but we will have.
Uh, I can tease something wegoing to have a sniper rifle
(13:48):
coming out in about half a year.
That's going to be full thrustout of the box.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Ooh, really, you just heard it here.
Guys, ladies and gentlemen,that's exciting, actually.
On that note, when can we see0.48 gram 6mm BBs in meaningful
quantities in Canada?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, we're 4.9s actually, but they're not bio,
so you shouldn't actually usethem.
It's more for indoor play.
I think there's.
No, is there that heavy bio BBsout there?
I don't think there is actually.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I think there's only non-bio.
I think it's only non-bio.
Don't shoot non-bio out there.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, definitely not on my field either.
Yeah, definitely not on myfield either.
Vial only any interest inproducing an integrally shushed
double action pistol.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So a site integrally.
Yeah, yeah, I can't say it, butI got the idea.
So kind of like a mark 23, butit's already mounted in front
right.
It's part of the actual replicaone unit I don't dislike the
idea.
I I found it a little bit weirdhow crytek made the maxine.
Oh yep, I found it weird thatthey made it a gas blowback
(14:57):
actually yeah I feel like thatwas that form factor is.
I think it's kind of weird forgas blowback because it it's
this massive thing that's reallyhard to find a holster for and
it's not quiet.
But it's really chunky and it'syou know, to find a holster for
, and it's not quiet, but it'sreally chunky and it's you know.
I don't know why they did itthis way.
I would have loved to make youknow, to see them make a
non-blowback maxime, I thinkthat would have had a place in
(15:19):
the market actually for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Okay, this one is from uh airsoft podcast called
the can do experiment podcast.
Uh, he's out of niagara falls,the nq field.
He says you are such aninfluence in airsoft.
I remember when I first startedhe was still new and just
recording his gameplay had a biginfluence with my sniping
career for airsoft.
(15:42):
Ask him from my bestie at thecan dodo experiment when you
first started your YouTubevideos, why did you pick the
sniper bolt action route?
Why was it that drew you tothat class for your YouTube
videos?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, just like discussed before, man, I just
thought sniping is cool and Ibought one and then I was stuck
with it because I just didn'thave the cash for another
replica.
But I did see a YouTuber calledVavan56.
He's a French YouTuber and heis actually the guy who invented
Zoom cam footage.
(16:16):
He was the first person to mounta camcorder onto a scope and I
love to watch his videos and atsome point he stopped and I
thought you know he did sniping,I do sniping, I know how to
edit videos, kind of.
So I'm just going to pick it upand, instead of buying an HE,
I'm just going to buy camerasand make those YouTube videos,
(16:38):
which now, in retrospective, wasa very important decision.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
It's definitely come fullcircle.
Okay quickly, because we got acrowd building outside for the
meet and greet.
What can we all expect comingfrom your company in the future?
Example new gear, weapons,platforms, et cetera that you
can release?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
So the company started with sniper rifles.
We then ventured into pistols,which we now released quite a
lot Now ATs, we do want to quitea lot Now ATs.
We do want to go a little bitinto HPA Nice.
So some HPA products are goingto come, some HPA replicas
actually.
Gas blowback also, more gasblowback stuff will come, gas
blowback rifles Also incombination with HPA actually.
(17:22):
So that's going to beinteresting as well.
Cool, but really.
So you have to imagine that thefirst five years of this, or
the first three years of thiscompany, all the products that
came to the market weredeveloped by myself.
Right, but I'm only one dude.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
And now we have a development team of it's nine
people in Vienna and it's 10over in Asia.
Wow, so what's being developedright now is it's such a massive
scale of projects and all ofthis stuff is going to come out
over the next two years.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So many, many, many releases over the next months
are coming.
I am very excited aboutanything gbbr and anything hpa
my friend, I'll tell you thatmuch looking forward to that.
And we actually have, I think,your full line of pistols on the
wall right now and a bunch ofyour rifles as well that you
have out now.
So if you are in the area andyou want to come, hold them,
look at them, pull the trigger,whatever you want to do, we have
(18:16):
them here, but I don't want tokeep you too much longer from
everybody wanting to meet youhere.
So I really appreciate youtaking some time and sitting
with me on my tiny littlepodcast.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
No problem, thanks for coming to Canada.
We really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Man such a professional setup.
6-1,.
We have contact left, side 70.
Coming to you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Contact left, contact left.
We're flanking left side.
Suppress, Push, push, push.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We're moving, we're moving and welcome to the
Airsoft Experience.
I'm your host, michael Mascot,also known as Magic in Ontario
Airsoft, and we are super luckytoday we have Chris Novrich in
the house all the way fromAustria.
How are you doing, bud?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Doing great.
I'm doing Canada.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Thank you for coming to Canada.
I just I know we have a littlebit of time with you.
We're currently recording livein Action Airsoft Club in
Mississauga where he has a meetand greet going on today from 5
pm to 9 pm.
He also is doing a couple cqbgames as well in our field.
He'll check it out for thefirst time.
But the community wants to askyou a couple quick questions.
(00:55):
So let's get right to it.
When, how and where did it allstart for you in airsoft?
Like, how did you get intoairsoft and where did it start
for you?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I think, very similar to most people.
I think all young boys likeguns.
Anything that shoots isinteresting, right, it's
appealing Somehow.
We just drawn to it, naturally.
And yeah, you know, I sawlittle Springer pistols for five
bucks.
Yeah, that's how it started andyou know you play with your
friends.
The first person buys asemi-automatic gun and then all
(01:26):
the other people have to kind ofcatch up and also get some
stuff, and from there theyevolved.
Uh, and what was, what wasquite interesting is that back
then I didn't know there is anairsoft community.
So we, we kind of invented thesport kind of for ourselves
awesome.
And then we discovered the, the, the actual sport like the
actual community, which was veryinteresting because it was just
(01:47):
mind-blowing for us.
There's such big games withMilsims, vehicles and all that.
We didn't know of any of this,we just kind of stumbled into it
.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So did you kind of start going to a walk-on game or
a weekend short event, or didyou just start in your backyard
with your buddies and gostraight to a Milsim?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So my parents' house is very isolated, so it's like
it's not in the forest butthere's barely any neighbors,
nice um.
So it's isolated enough that wecould literally just play
around the house and we spring apistols.
You don't break that much stuff.
Yet my parents did get veryangry once we switched to a
cheese.
And you know, still today youcan.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You can actually see it on a drainage pipe, so you
can see the little, the littledance in there oh, I can imagine
the inside of my parentsbasement uh, has a lot of holes
in it back when I was growing upas well um, my house.
Now I've got actual airsoftrange built in the basement now
just to tune stuff out.
Many people want to become anairsoft sniper as their first
(02:45):
kind of thing, and that'sbecause they're seeing a lot of
your videos early in the day andthen other YouTube snipers and
stuff like that.
What made you get into becominga sniper?
Is that something you morphedinto or like?
How did that come about?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, I think people kind of fantasize about it and
they believe it's a really goodidea.
And so did I, and I got an SFsniper with all the money I had,
and then I had no plan B, right.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
If I would have had enough money, I would probably
also bought an HE afterwards,but I just didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So yeah, here I was, I just made the best out of it
and actually once I I kind of,let's say, master the skill, or
once I got good enough with itto compete with people with ags,
then I I really fell for it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, I really enjoyed it is it, uh, something
that you would recommend for anew player, or is it something
that maybe they should kind ofmorph into after they kind of,
you know, do a rental or around?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
it's actually something I used to recommend,
but that's I think at leastprobably like 10 years ago,
because that's what I did and itworked for me.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it
only worked for me because Iplayed with also not experienced
people.
But if you now go to a fieldfor your first day with people
(04:02):
who play since five years andthen you also take a sniper
rifle, you can have a bad timelike oh yeah, don't do that,
don't do that so I I don'trecommend it.
Yeah, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So just get an he yeah, basically, I think the
best thing to do like field likeours, we offer uh rentals.
You come out, before you buyyour first gun, go rent a rental
and see if you actually likethe sport, because you people,
oddly enough, may not like it.
I don't know how, but somepeople may not like it.
So that's good advice.
You heard it there Don't godirectly into becoming a sniper.
(04:34):
Find your groove and work yourway around the airsoft world.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
On the renting and buying.
I'm actually a bit split on it.
I also always tell people thatthey should rent.
But what I'm a little bitafraid of is that when you rent
an airsoft gun and you play yourfirst game, and on the first
game you're gonna have a hardtime right, you're gonna fog and
everything's gonna itch andnothing fits and you don't hit
anything and you're sooverwhelmed and then you
eventually dislike it andbecause you only rent it, you
(05:02):
will never come, as you maybedon't come a second time, right
yeah well, when you bought thegun, it's kind of like I spent
400 bucks on this, right.
Okay, I didn't like the firstgame, but I'm still gonna come
because I spent so much money onit already and I feel like
that's what actually gets youinto the sport, right?
for sure you overcome thosefirst few game days that are
maybe not that pleasant, and you, you kind of get the gist of it
(05:24):
and it's like, okay, now I gotit, like now I know how to aim,
how to bring my gun up fast andall that.
Yeah, now I actually become anactive member of the community
and you also get that musclememory because it's your gun.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You're at home fiddling with it, you know how
it works, you get into thatcomfort zone and I think you
become a better player whenyou're more comfortable on the
field.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I find that so it is something that I'm a bit afraid
about, that, while the wholerental offering makes the sport
more accessible, I'm also afraidthat it brings the sport into
something that, yeah, I tried itonce but I never came again,
kind of thing, you know for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Uh, especially in a cqb setting because you walk
around a corner like you'regonna get lit up.
In a CQB like in the outdoors,it's, it's.
It's not as bad.
Right At the compound and theother fields the engagement
distance are longer.
But CQB like if you're a renterfor the first time, you're
right, it could.
It could make you not likeairsoft If you have a bad time.
(06:21):
We try not to let that happen,but it could happen.
You never know.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So that's a very good point on rentals for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Okay, I would say a massive amount of Canadian
airsofters started playingbecause of your YouTube videos,
believe it or not?
Uh, myself included, and I owntwo fields and a massive Milsom
team and a bunch of vehiclesbecause of watching videos like
yours, believe it or not.
We just opened up a 220-acresuper field where we built a
(06:49):
town, village, road systems, allof that stuff which we didn't
really have here in Canada.
Like, our last big field justgot shut down.
It was an old mental hospital,believe it or not, in Picton,
which was super fun to play at,and unfortunately, over years,
it decayed and then it got soldoff and now it's going to become
a bunch of houses.
So now we had nowhere to play.
Yeah, so I decided to open thisnew field.
(07:10):
That being said, it opens up alot more opportunities for
snipers, but a lot moreopportunities for youtubers.
So we have a lot of youtubersstarting to spawn in the ontario
airsoft, like what advice doyou have for them, being, you
know, an awesome YouTube channelowner?
(07:31):
Like, do you have any advicefor them?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The thing is, you know, my channel worked out
because no one did it back then.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, you're the originator, my friend.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Not the originator.
I mean, it's not that I was thefirst one doing it, but I was
one of the first few who did itconsistently, online, um, and
really committed to it.
And now, you know, thelandscape looks different right,
like there's a lot of peopleout there.
So one thing I can definitelytell you is do it because you
enjoy the process of doing it.
Don't do it because you'reafter fuse, because it's super
(08:05):
hard to get fused these daysyeah, you're not.
You're not gonna make money uh,don't think, okay, I'm gonna
make money with this one day.
It's super, super hard to makemoney with it.
It's super, super hard to getbig with it and with the fuse.
So do it because you like it.
Just if you enjoy the editingprocess, being creative with it,
(08:26):
then just go for it, that'sawesome.
I think that's the best adviceI can give.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, so, like as far as content goes, do you think
more people want to see thegameplay, or weapons reviews, or
breaking down teching and stufflike that?
What do you think?
Do you think it's gameplay, oris it a mix of everything,
because you pretty much do itall?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I also can't.
I think people enjoy allformats, but also all formats
have been done over and over.
If you want to watch I don'tknow an LMG gameplay, you will
find a hundred of them, right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's what I run.
I love it, so again.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I wouldn't approach it in a way of okay, what could
I do that people want to watch?
Because that might be at thatend and very devastating,
because you might have to, Idon't know, be at that end and
very devastating.
Yeah, because you might have to, I don't know.
I mean, we saw these youtuberswearing bunny costumes and
having a chainsaw just to getfuse.
Oh yeah, I don't think that'sthe way, that's the way forward,
and it was even for medifficult when so before I made
(09:24):
the transition from, you know,just making videos to to
becoming a brand and makingproducts, I also was in this
tight spot where fuse were goingdown and I thought this is what
I make my living off now.
So I will just start doingridiculous things like, I don't
know, playing with an earth gunor an airsoft game, right, and
while it looks really fun in thevideo, it's actually
devastating because you bringsomething to a field that puts
(09:45):
you in such a disadvantage.
Oh yeah, you know the video islike five minutes and maybe just
10 kills in it, but for thatvideo I suffered for two days
competing with this shitty thingagain you know, I shot like
five meters, they shoot 80meters.
So, yeah, don't don't do stuffyou don't actually want to do
because you think it will getfused.
Just really do what you want todo.
(10:06):
If you want to do reviews, doreviews.
If you want to do gameplay, dogameplay.
Yeah sweet.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
What is your favorite type of game to attend like?
Do you just like the milsims?
Do you like the weekendwalk-ons or more of a larpy time
type of game?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I actually started enjoying something very
different, and that's going toan airsoft game after work after
, so it's an evening kind ofliterally just one or two hours.
It it's kind of like going toplay tennis or going to the gym,
right.
So I have my stuff prepared theday before I go to work.
I grab my it's literally a gymbag.
(10:42):
There's a GBB pistol in thereand just the most essential
stuff.
I go to the CQB site.
I play for two hours but I playreally active, right.
It's not this typical okay houror like four or five hour game
day where you know you don't runall the time because it's five
hours long and you kind of needto spare the energy, but instead
it's a I know, okay, I'm onlyhere for two hours anyway, so I
(11:03):
go in full energy.
I only sprint, I only run andactually even sometimes before
these two hours I'm already doneand I'm kind of like, okay, I'm
leaving, know I've been runningaround like crazy for an hour
and I can call it and go home,right.
And what I like about this isbecause this is a very
repeatable format that you canintegrate into it.
(11:23):
Busy life actually, becausemany people they say people I
used to play with you talk tothem if they're still playing
they say I have kids and thewife and I need a whole Saturday
, just kind of don't get to itanymore.
So I really think that and Ithink it could vastly help the
sport if the format of afterwork or short games is enabled
(11:46):
by fields that are close towhere dense populations are,
ideally close to city centersand games where you don't show
up and then you have to listento a half an hour long safety
briefing.
Then it takes 20 minutes untileveryone finally loaded up the
mags right.
Something where you go and itsays at 7pm the first game
(12:07):
starts and no matter if peopleare ready or not, the game will
start.
So you show up.
It takes you like three minutesto get ready and I just go into
the game and play.
That's awesome.
That's what I'm looking for themost right now.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We kind of have something similar to that.
So Thursday nights we have afour-hour, 7 to 11.
Same with Saturday and Sunday.
Just a quick four-hour CQB 15minutes on, 15 minutes off, play
as your leisure, walk in, walkout, do whatever you can.
So we're trying to accommodatekind of what you're saying right
(12:37):
now here in this place.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's amazing.
I think it's important to haveboth.
I do really enjoy having if Ihave a whole Saturday or even
like a whole weekend fuck yeah,I love it, go play as of all day
.
Or even like a whole weekendfuck yeah, I love it.
Right, go play as of all day.
But for the times where youdon't have that and I think
everyone has those moments intheir lives, right, I don't know
, they want to fix their car,you just don't have time, right,
and you still would be nice tohave some kind of format that
(13:00):
you can kind of squeeze into theweek For sure, quickly let's
get got a couple questions.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So this one's from uh connor farraghan.
He uh owns a team in ontarioairsoft and a vehicle team as
well, so he wants to know are weever going to see full thrust
kits available for the strikerplatform use case hpa
conversions?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
for the striker platform, that the aries striker
?
I don't think.
I'm not sure.
Actually I don't think so,because that would mean
convincing errors to make amagazine and you hope a chamber,
and you hope a bucking and youin a barrel.
I don't think so, actually Idon't think so but we will have.
Uh, I can tease something wegoing to have a sniper rifle
(13:48):
coming out in about half a year.
That's going to be full thrustout of the box.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Ooh, really, you just heard it here.
Guys, ladies and gentlemen,that's exciting, actually.
On that note, when can we see0.48 gram 6mm BBs in meaningful
quantities in Canada?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, we're 4.9s actually, but they're not bio,
so you shouldn't actually usethem.
It's more for indoor play.
I think there's.
No, is there that heavy bio BBsout there?
I don't think there is actually.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I think there's only non-bio.
I think it's only non-bio.
Don't shoot non-bio out there.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, definitely not on my field either.
Yeah, definitely not on myfield either.
Vial only any interest inproducing an integrally shushed
double action pistol.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So a site integrally.
Yeah, yeah, I can't say it, butI got the idea.
So kind of like a mark 23, butit's already mounted in front
right.
It's part of the actual replicaone unit I don't dislike the
idea.
I I found it a little bit weirdhow crytek made the maxine.
Oh yep, I found it weird thatthey made it a gas blowback
(14:57):
actually yeah I feel like thatwas that form factor is.
I think it's kind of weird forgas blowback because it it's
this massive thing that's reallyhard to find a holster for and
it's not quiet.
But it's really chunky and it'syou know, to find a holster for
, and it's not quiet, but it'sreally chunky and it's you know.
I don't know why they did itthis way.
I would have loved to make youknow, to see them make a
non-blowback maxime, I thinkthat would have had a place in
(15:19):
the market actually for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Okay, this one is from uh airsoft podcast called
the can do experiment podcast.
Uh, he's out of niagara falls,the nq field.
He says you are such aninfluence in airsoft.
I remember when I first startedhe was still new and just
recording his gameplay had a biginfluence with my sniping
career for airsoft.
(15:42):
Ask him from my bestie at thecan dodo experiment when you
first started your YouTubevideos, why did you pick the
sniper bolt action route?
Why was it that drew you tothat class for your YouTube
videos?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, just like discussed before, man, I just
thought sniping is cool and Ibought one and then I was stuck
with it because I just didn'thave the cash for another
replica.
But I did see a YouTuber calledVavan56.
He's a French YouTuber and heis actually the guy who invented
Zoom cam footage.
(16:16):
He was the first person to mounta camcorder onto a scope and I
love to watch his videos and atsome point he stopped and I
thought you know he did sniping,I do sniping, I know how to
edit videos, kind of.
So I'm just going to pick it upand, instead of buying an HE,
I'm just going to buy camerasand make those YouTube videos,
(16:38):
which now, in retrospective, wasa very important decision.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
It's definitely come fullcircle.
Okay quickly, because we got acrowd building outside for the
meet and greet.
What can we all expect comingfrom your company in the future?
Example new gear, weapons,platforms, et cetera that you
can release?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
So the company started with sniper rifles.
We then ventured into pistols,which we now released quite a
lot Now ATs, we do want to quitea lot Now ATs.
We do want to go a little bitinto HPA Nice.
So some HPA products are goingto come, some HPA replicas
actually.
Gas blowback also, more gasblowback stuff will come, gas
blowback rifles Also incombination with HPA actually.
(17:22):
So that's going to beinteresting as well.
Cool, but really.
So you have to imagine that thefirst five years of this, or
the first three years of thiscompany, all the products that
came to the market weredeveloped by myself.
Right, but I'm only one dude.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
And now we have a development team of it's nine
people in Vienna and it's 10over in Asia.
Wow, so what's being developedright now is it's such a massive
scale of projects and all ofthis stuff is going to come out
over the next two years.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So many, many, many releases over the next months
are coming.
I am very excited aboutanything gbbr and anything hpa
my friend, I'll tell you thatmuch looking forward to that.
And we actually have, I think,your full line of pistols on the
wall right now and a bunch ofyour rifles as well that you
have out now.
So if you are in the area andyou want to come, hold them,
look at them, pull the trigger,whatever you want to do, we have
(18:16):
them here, but I don't want tokeep you too much longer from
everybody wanting to meet youhere.
So I really appreciate youtaking some time and sitting
with me on my tiny littlepodcast.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
No problem, thanks for coming to Canada.
We really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Man such a professional setup.
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