Getting shot yet not felt it.

arleitiss

Hey, I was wondering if you get shot and you don't feel it can't people think you are cheater and just ignoring getting shot? I mean if you have vest and someone hits you in vest you wouldn't feel it.

gerrowadat

Yes.

Puding

tbh do not feel most of them, normaly i will hear it, or see people around me get hit or just know that im in a position to get hit and they have me dead to rights

i think in the last 3 trips i've made i only 'felt' being hit two or three times

Zomg Okay

Even if you don't feel it you'll normally hear it hitting you.

Best thing to do is, if you aren't sure, just call the hit. It's better to take a hit that never happened than to cause an argument because you didn't take one you didn't notice.

Bemused

Zomg Okay wrote: »

Even if you don't feel it you'll normally hear it hitting you.

Best thing to do is, if you aren't sure, just call the hit. It's better to take a hit that never happened than to cause an argument because you didn't take one you didn't notice.

Agreed. Playing out in Tigerland I took a hit to the toe of my boot at extreme range. The slightest of sounds and took it to the delight of the shooter who was aiming at the only bit of me he could see (single shot too btw!). Afterwards we had a good chat about it and it just improves the overall atmosphere on a site if the culture is always to give the benefit of the doubt that you were hit.

Leftyflip

You won't feel it, but you'll hear it - easy to recognise
In all honesty, some times when your hit - you're like a deer in the headlights, just watching it hit you :P

As the lads said, if in doubt throw your hand up, you'll get a lot more respect for doing so and lads who see you doing that will, give you the benefit of the doubt too.

Stealthirl

Zomg Okay wrote: »

Even if you don't feel it you'll normally hear it hitting you.

Best thing to do is, if you aren't sure, just call the hit. It's better to take a hit that never happened than to cause an argument because you didn't take one you didn't notice.

I agree,what gets me tho is if im playing like that but the guy shooting doseant call his hits i get anoyed.

i was out a few weeks back and called a hit even tho i wasant shure,the guy who hit me took 3 hits to the leg via a member of my team as he shot me but never called them :mad:

Typhon

Death before dishonour

if you even suspect you are hit then walk away. Also as people have said you will hear more shots that you feel as BBs bounce off your gear / gun etc

NakedDex

It's actually a pretty distinctive sound. You'll almost certainly know when you're hit by that sound alone.

RummyMc

I find the main problem for people not feeling hits is the amount of gear they wear! Wearing large vests covering most of their torso with all sort of accessories hanging of them, how do they expect ot feel anything, you just have to hope they have good hearing!

Alan b.

Getting hit sounds like heavy rain pelting off pvc Windows.
And if ya don't feel it, you'll feel the next few haha.

CpcRc

I can say that 70%-90% of my hits have been by ear. I have found that it is very rare that you may feel a hit (at distance in an openfield skirmish) so I try my best to hear if I have been hit as I would expect my fellow airsofters to take all their hits as an act of mutual respect.
If I was hit and didn't feel or hear it, I would bear no grudge towards the other player if they shot me full auto afterwards (within reason) so that I knew that I was hit. This would depend on them telling me that I had not called my hit earlier afterwards, rather than them just firing on me and not telling me why.
This has happened before with a player that I know and trust to be truthful on the airsoft skirmish field shot me in the throat on a cqb field by accident, but they were just trying to hit me because they had hit my hydration pack a few minutes earlier and I had not known/heard this and not taken the hit as a result. As soon as I knew I this, I was happy to take the hit.
I can't stand people not taking their hits as it's so frustrating, it's a lack of disrespect towards the other people on the airsoft field in my opinion, and if I ever do it I would like to know so that I can call it and show my fellow airsofters the respect they deserve for hitting me fair and square.

Edit: As I believe, no victory without honour!

CpcRc

Bemused wrote: »

Agreed. Playing out in Tigerland I took a hit to the toe of my boot at extreme range. The slightest of sounds and took it to the delight of the shooter who was aiming at the only bit of me he could see (single shot too btw!). Afterwards we had a good chat about it and it just improves the overall atmosphere on a site if the culture is always to give the benefit of the doubt that you were hit.

Something similar happened to me last year when I was a lone long distance shooter with a pretty new AUG aeg. I was laying suppressive fire on a base for my team for literally 15-20 minutes as my AEG was fairly new and the other lads in the base didn't have similar range in the cold weather. I kept 4-5 people occupied no bother and one time when I was changing mag I heard and saw a BB hit my boot from the base while I was changing mags and talking to a teammate at the same time and put my hand up and headed back to the respawn. It took them that long to hit me in the shade of the trees I was set up in, but I had kept them busy while my teammates tried to assault the base. They had got me fair and square and I took the hit as they had earned it from 50+metres range.

Inari

I think of the question a little differently; will people be annoyed at you for not noticing a hit? Simply put, if they play with the honour boasted in this thread, then no. The honourable thing is to bestow benefit of the doubt. If they have not called out HIT!, then you missed.

What angers and infuriates people is blatant and purposeful non-hit taking, combined with the ego of a thousands suns, believing no rifle to be capable of out-ranging theirs, and their aim to be infallible.

At the end of the day, we are all human. I am sure everyone has believed they have hit someone, and missed, but still gotten annoyed (I've done it), but you apologise (sincerely), and try not to let it happen again. In the same vein, we have all given ourselves the benefit of the doubt (once again, I've done it) where you're pretty sure it's a ricochet. It happens. Does it annoy people? I'm sure it does. The trick to it is to be approachful and apologetic...if you were in the wrong, simply apologise and move on.

My philosophy with airsoft is that it is a game of honour, and adrenaline. This makes people not feel or notice things, or to get competitive (which usually activates the deflector shields). Most of the time it is far easier to just take the hit...try not to call "TAKE YOUR HITS!!" and instead accept that you missed, and call your own hit. We all slip up, but the idea is that we do not do it on purpose.

arleitiss

Was for my first game today, and yeah followed everyone's advice to even if I have any doubt just say Hit. Did that and had no conflicts absolutely. Thanks.

RABBIT.

its a no brainer, if your not sure call it, the fact that you think about weather or not you were hit generally means you were hit, thats how i asses it, when im in the field if i think someone is not taking hits i just call a marshal and get them to observe the player as i am fireing on them and this generaly solvess it (keep a cool head), more often than not you can see the bb's coming at you so you can generaly tell weather or not your hit. simples

CpcRc

RABBIT. wrote: »

its a no brainer, if your not sure call it, the fact that you think about weather or not you were hit generally means you were hit, thats how i asses it, when im in the field if i think someone is not taking hits i just call a marshal and get them to observe the player as i am fireing on them and this generaly solvess it (keep a cool head), more often than not you can see the bb's coming at you so you can generaly tell weather or not your hit. simples

But unfortunately seeing it isn't enough for some people. I hit one person in the middle of their mesh googles and they didn't take it. I saw the BB hit them and so did my teammate behind me who was looking at them. I tried to not get too angry and I got them eventually.

need a aeg

i bought a tracer unit just so i know when i hit someone and they cant deny it so then i call a marshal to show him and bam hes dead or i will just full auto him if no marshal is around just to make sure he knows hes hit. but as they have stated its a very unique sound and your ear will eventually be able to pick it out in a firefight

GreenCarver

Its very easy to tell the sound and a lot of the time you can see the stream of bbs coming at you. Although sometimes it can be hard to tell, I remember in one of my first games I thought I was well out of the enemies range but I felt a distinct sting on my arm and not wanting to be the new guy who was cheating I stuck my hand up straight away and walked off. It turned out to be a wasp/bee sting but I was still happy to take it rather than feel like a cheater

Alan b.

need a aeg wrote: »

i bought a tracer unit just so i know when i hit someone and they cant deny it so then i call a marshal to show him and bam hes dead or i will just full auto him if no marshal is around just to make sure he knows hes hit. but as they have stated its a very unique sound and your ear will eventually be able to pick it out in a firefight

keep shooting till they call it.
pick your shots and it wont take too long.