Moving on from a great start yesterday spending time with some of the smaller airsoft outfits, Stewbacca’s (almost allowing for time differences!) live coverage of events and announcements taking place at MOA 2024 continues from Taipei today!
He checked in again to share that;
“So, MOA 2024 DAY DEUX, Fellow shooters…
A slightly later start at least, and a proper breakfast in ourselves, we got to the expo centre just 20 minutes or so before opening and settled ourselves in ready for the next round.
It’s a much bigger show this year, as 2019 was intended to be, before the bug nixed all that… but MOA is back in full force and on track for what it was always supposed to be, with the second hall to the side with the lower ceiling area homing a bunch of the stalls.
Despite more civilians there is also more space and that’s one thing Eric and his team have nailed this year; the walkways are larger and the attendees have also made the booths themselves more walk-through friendly in many cases, allowing for less bottle-necking due to rubber-necking. Top marks guys ‘n gals, it all feels really chilled and a good atmosphere despite being very busy.
Things of mention that impressed … Acetech are a company I’ve been meaning to do a feature piece on especially after our group trip there last year with Bill, Anny, Nono and Thunderspear with the Archwick crew, and this year not only is their existing target system on show in their own small range, but something of particular interest to me and Derek, my visiting US friend, was their adjacent zeroing target . It registers fairly accurately where the BBs hit and gives you a readout on the paired iPad, allowing you to set it up at a known distance and either free-hand test your guns and sights, or sled-mount them and really dial in the hop unit and optics zero with the aid of instant feedback! For someone like me who has a raft of guns to test it looks like a godsend, similarly shooting clubs or site owners could make great use of it for sorting out rental or members guns in a no fuss fashion… something to keep an eye out for.
Red Sea Trading (pictured) also flagged me down on recommendation of one of their friends who they’re sharing a booth with (Max TACT) who I met through Clarence and Katherine previously. RST have a growing range of very high-end GBBR assemblies and components, with moulded and machined carbon fibre M-LOK handguards, extruded aluminium receivers for the likes of SCAR/AR pattern guns, and even immensely buttery smooth bolt carrier groups with actual roller bearings for them to run on their rails. I was just sloshing it back and forth in the receiver by gently tipping it and everything feels excellent in terms of fit and finish. Both theirs and Max Tact’s facilities are down in Taichung and not too far apart, so hopefully I can organise a double date after seeing the SQB tournament in December and get a bunch of interviews and material out of one trip south given how difficult it is for me to find time usually.
Finally as for the aforementioned Clarence and Katherine (Clarence Lai Project Design, or CLPD) I spent some time on their booth eyeing up the next shiny things they’re likely to have me test; direct-mount red-dot-ready top slides for the KJW Shadow 2 (and Orange) GBB pistols that have been the mainstay of my IPSC adventures the last four or so years. I’m looking forward to the man himself tuning my guns again, but I’ll wait until after the competition in two weeks to avoid too much last minute changing of my comp setup.
More burning the midnight oil planned for tonight, and shooting early tomorrow to boot, before returning to round off the show…
#EatShootSleepRepeat, fellow shooters.”
