Claybank Saskatchewan: Operation Mason Relic May 9, 2009
 

Counterfeit Combat is a relative newcomer to the Airsoft scene but stepped into the arena with two indoor CQB facilites in Melville Saskatchewan one year ago. One being 6000 sq ft, and the other being almost 60,000 sq ft. These facilites have been played and enjoyed by players from across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta with very good reviews.

Counterfeit Combat is now stepping into the outdoor game and has secured a highly unique location near Claybank, Saskatchewan. This was once home to a very successful brick manufacturing business. The brick plant opened in 1914 and ran until the 1960s producing some of Canada's finest brick products. Many of Canada's most beautiful Historical buildings still display the products that were produced in Claybank. It is now a national historic site that hosts thousands of visiters each year.

Counterfeit Combat owner, and game promoter Al "CamoGames" was granted permission to use this facility on May 9th for "Operation Mason Relic". This is an Airsoft event that will feature six of the best game writers & planners in Western Canada. It will also feature a number of military vehicles, pyro, great leadership, prizes, and more.

We sincerely hope you can attend what could be a once in a lifetime Airsoft event. Please explore this site for more details and visit our forum if you'd like to attend this game.

Visit: http://claybank2009.com/ for more information!

CamoGames has been working hard gaining access and use of this facility, over the past several months he and the following game admins have spent countless hours planning and organizing what will be one of the most unique games hosted in Western Canada.

Here's an early thanks to CamoGames and his crew of game admins for making this possible:
Bob "Darklen" - Red Deer, Alberta
David "Gish" - Calgary, Alberta
Mark "Paranoid" - Winnipeg, Manitoba
Casey "Demon" - Regina, Saskatchewan
Kim "Kimbo" - Calgary, Alberta
Davin "CharlieTango" - Winnipeg, Manitoba


Hope to see some Eastern Province Players out for this one!

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Oh.... Lucky..You even get to use vehicles.

Very Very Very Cool...

I need my full drivers license, take a few days off work, pack up everything I got...could be worth it, that place looks massive.

thats awesome! how long does it takes to get there from Toronto?

2,759 km – about 1 day 8 hours

It's a far drive.. but it'll be sure as hell worth it!!

I think I just spooged...

looks like this will be much bigger and better than BW2

Damn, I might have to buy a gun and check this out.

Just outa curiousity...how far from BC?

Yes this will be a very fun event. I hope it gets a huge number of people out for it. This will be very memorable, no matter how many show up though.
Hopefully the weather will be kind. It can still throw some crappy weather at you at that time of year. Normal lows, that time of year at night -3c to +4c. Highs +5c to 25c in the daytime. And there won't be leaves on trees. So bring appropriate clothing and gear for anything from -20c to +25c. Snow or rain.

From Vancouver, probably 22 hours driving time depending how heavy your foot is.

can you push the day back to after the 12th? lol... right in the middle of my florida vacation... fudge that place looks sweet

oh my gawd.... i will be pretty pissed if i miss out on this

If this was a multi day even, I'd attend. As far as I can tell from the site though, it's only a day so I'm going to pass on this. If I'm wrong PLEASE elt me know :P

One day only. We were fortunate to get that one day.

Aw, dammit!! I'll be in Saskatoon the weekend after, so I won't be able to make this one.

It says on the site "black BBs only"?

:D I go to Flo-Rida the week after!

Correct. As the site is a Federal Historical Landmark, they don't want white bb's all over the place.

Thank you BloodSport for posting this for me. I was just about to send you something to you.

Yes, this is a one day event and it will be one to remember. I was fortunate to get permission to run the game here, and I am taking the opportunity along with my admins for this event to give Canadian players something that I think is special.

If you have any questions, please pm, or email me.

al@counterfeitcombat.net

I have had quite a few games in my CQB facilities, in Melville Sask , and had a lot of players from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta take part in those games, but I would love to see the player base reach out further for this special event.

It is a long drive for players outside of Sask, but I believe it will be well worth it.

Al

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Dark vs light? As in arpat vs cadpat?

I take it by "saw" you mean all LMG's?

If you don't mind going to this link, you will find a lot of answers, and get a lot of into from it.

http://claybank2009.com/

Thank you

Al

Well, that's what I'm talking about.

So, a more "greener" taliban will be on the green side, where as a "whiter/taner" taliban will be on the tan side?

German Field grey on the green side, and SS Oak fall side out on the tan?

Or will there be more detail put into those kinds of situations.

Oh, okay, sorry.

Yes, the teams are going to be seperated by lighter tans/browns vs greens, or as close to that as we can get. There may be situations that need looking into, yes.

That was the way we thought it would work best. I hope that answers your question.

Aww. Yes. I guess it clears it up. UNFORTUNATELY not the way my buds and I wanted it though. Haha. Ah well.

What would have been better? how would it have been more satisfactory?

I think Bootyourface was planning on using Light coloured camo and dark coloured camo ww2 german uniforms and having to fight with germans on bothsides would be confusing if only because they were two differnt shades of camo. Perhaps it would be more satistfactory if the germans were on one side out numbered 10 to 1.:)

Oh, okay, well I'm sorry that won't work out for what they were planning.

Someone should film this for Kill Haus so I can watch it:)

Been a few people asking how far away this is.

Basically:

Regina 1 hour
Moose Jaw 1/2 hour
Winnipeg 7 1/2 hours
Calgary 7 1/2 hours

Closest Airport - Regina (WestJet and AirCanada), I also believe BearSkin Airlines flies here for those who have access to them (North Ontario, Manitoba, Sask, Alberta).

From North Bay, Ontario it is about a 22 hour drive. I've done it several times not a bad trip if you have multiple drivers. Hardest Part is getting out of Ontario lol. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1c=Nort...laybank+&2s=SK

From Toronto or SW Ontario regions you may want to look at cutting across the states via Windsor and comming up through the south via Manitoba or Southern Sask. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1c=Toro...laybank+&2s=SK About a 26 hour drive.

From Vancouver it is approximately a 19 hour drive. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1c=Vanc...laybank+&2s=SK

From Kelowna it is approximately a 15 hour drive. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1c=Kelo...laybank+&2s=SK

Thanks for breaking that down BloodSport.

*Drool.... near me and my hometown! yet I didn't know it existed!

I don't think people will be wanting to cut through the states and come back through Canadian customs with a trunk full of airsoft guns :rolleyes:

Touche, although they could always ship them ahead of time as the gas and time saved would probably be less then the shipping.

I'm more then willing to be a receiver for them.

If I may ask, how many players were at BW2?

dude this is so worth the working and slaving the extra hours for this!!
waterloo and kitchener ON, recruiting.

If memory serves, 217 people attended BW II.

Cheers!! :)
Brian

i wish they had that in Ontario. Now ontario isn't THE best place for airsoft in canada :(

Saskatchewan FTW :P

Clearly not....

for locations I would have to say Saskatchewan... An old school, an old hospital... and a freakin' clay brick plant!!

I have two CQB's, and now access to this location at Claybank. This, as far as I'm concerned is just the beginning. I entered the Airsoft world a little over a year ago so there is a lot more to come, however, I just had a look at the BWIII location and videos, that looks pretty sweet...no?

I also have interest in coming to Ontario in the future and doing something there as well.

Brian, thank you, I did find that after I posted the question. That's a lot of people.

For out of town players looking to travel in for this game and wondering about hotel rooms instead of camping at the site, Moose Jaw is 1/2 hour from Claybank.

I talked to a customer of mine who owns a couple local hotels here in Moose Jaw, May is the beginning of Tourist Season in this area so hotel rates usually jump to over $100/night.

He said he will do $79 for a 2 bed room for anyone calling to make a reservation.
He has bought 2 hotels here in Moose Jaw, The DreamLand (closer to the highway) and the Capone's Hideaway (downtown across the street from the liquor store and beside a bar). All rooms have TV, Highspeed Internet and Fridges.

Just give him a call if you want to make reservations and tell him you were referred by Kip from GM to get the cheaper rate. Ask for Nick at 306-692-1878

Dreamland Motel: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Rev...katchewan.html - please note the one review is from about 4 months before he bought this hotel it changed owners 3 times in the past 2 years.

Capone's Hideaway: http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Saskat...e=Moose+Jaw+SK - he just bought this one a month ago.

Never was either.

I could see this for 2 days, but for one its not worth the trip.

Total bummer, if you can get it for 2 days next time I could see alot more people at least from the west making the trip.

The next one I do will be two days for sure. I was hoping, but I didn't know it was going to get this big. I am getting pm's from a long way away, great to see.

To bad it won't work out for you this time around.

BAH thats not an excuse, I've been to and played on the Ferry in Mission for a 1 day game. And it was worth the trip, this will surpas the Ferry in many ways as to worth of a trip :)

Plus SockMonkey if you make it out I'll buy ya a beer :D

Car pool
 

Hey, Im hoping to make it out there for this for sure, I have a car and was wondering if anyone either a) needs a ride, or b) wants to car pool. Save the earth ppl! LOL, anyway Im in winnipeg, PM if your interested!

Check on the claybank forums Greg Moran, thats where most people attending the game are communicating.

And its official I know of atleast one person making the trip from Ontario (Deep River area) so those saying this is a long trip for 1 day he's making a 2900km treck, mind you he's flying into Regina from Toronto, but still making it out lol.

Wow this looks absolutely fantastic, and near my home town... Oooh tossup.. MS TechED in Los Angeles or Claybank.... Oh.. the decisions....

Unfortunately I'm already signed up for MS TechED and I leave on the 9th. I look forward to hearing the fun stories when I get back!

i got my kraken ak-47 finally plus my cheap M4(just starting) and im hoping to make it to claybank...i may be bringing a co-worker with me. SO EXCITED!! I think i just pooped a little....

hey guys...sorry to bug you but I only have OD green cargo pants and may get a OD green hoodie and a paintball mask...plus I got me a Aftermath Kraken AK-47 shoots at 370fps w/.20's and a cheap M4 thats prolly around 250ish fps no side arms....my co-workers got a M4 A1 are these good enough also this is our first ( hopefully of many) event. lemme know what I could get to help (within reason) or if you guys could help with anything at all...I'm hoping to make this my major hobbie. thanks guys.

Seth, everything you have is fine. All the rules are listed on the Claybank site.

www.claybank2009.com

Tempting... so very, very tempting.

DO IT!

And bring your entire team :)

Borrowed a few new pics taken by JuiceWeasel of the game fields:

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Not seein' anything there :(

Game is just under 1 month away!

Current Count for players is: 161 players
Alpha (Tan/brown) - 79
Bravo (Green) - 82
as of April 17th


Sign up now and make travel plans! While here take in a visit of Corner Gas only 20 minutes away!

ha, where's that?

Filmed in the town of Rouleau.

Question: How are the vehicles going to work? Just driving around the outside or what?

corner gas is done now btw. series finale was the 14 i think

Oh my god how I wish I was Canadian for at least the next few weeks! I wish you guys the best of luck on this one!

Thank you




Hey Blood, registrations are even at 82 for Alpha, and 82 for Bravo at this point. Thank you to everyone for all the interest in this event, if you have any questions, please pm me.

13th Actually.

I can't wait to get to claybank. there's a lot of people and I know Al will be putting on a damn good game. See you there Al!

Thanks monkeyboy, seeya there.



More registrations this morning.

Bravo (Green) - 94
Alpha (Tan/brown) - 83


Darklen, Demon and I were out there yesterday and went deeper into the hills....very impressive terrain back there....awesome actually.

If you make it over for the game I'm sure someone will have a gun you can use :D


Game #'s are growing and tons of playing field room for more. So far I see players from Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta and 1 confirmed payed from Ontario. Now wheres the rest of you??

Historical Airsoft game here people, actually played on a Historical Society Site.

You Sign Up Now!! And CamoGames will bring us more (cause he's sexy like that with sexy locations!!)

If I could afford it, I wouldn't hesitate to come only for this game! Even with little $$, I do plan to visit Canada someday, join in for a few games and just experience the airsoft society. I really like what I'm seeing on these forums - the mood, the people, all the knowledge being shared. This is actually the place I always end up at, when searching for info on internals etc.

:D





Here's the numbers at the end of today Blood

Bravo (Green) - 101

Alpha (Tan/brown) - 84


as of April 21th

Well over 200 players signed up for this game now, with over 170 who have prepaid for the registration deadline of May 6th!

Alpha (Tan/brown) - 101

Bravo (Green) - 118


Now the rest of you fence sitters come out!!

This is going to be legendary. Full stop.

Locked and loaded ready for duty

Heading for Claybank SK.

That, plus the 2 military Humvees and Unimog I have lined up will help make this a great event.

I have (at this point) 212 players that have pre-paid and there is more coming in.

Woot 3 days to go, but the last day for Registration and Prepayment it today!! You Sign up and Send $$ to CamoGames now!

Wish i was 18 years old, Can't wait for BIG Airsoft games like this.

214 pre-paid players, and registration is now closed.

Thank you,

Al

As a sponsor of this event, I would just like to say, I wish it was closer and I could attend and meet you all, but, please enjoy the product I`ve sent to the game and most of all, HAVE FUN! This game looks very well organized with terrific props and a switched on and organized hosting crew. You can`t ask much more than that!

Good luck to everyone.

PLAY SAFE AND CALL YOUR HITS!

Oh yeah, someone take some pictures of the BB Bastard banner. I`d love to see it in the field.

Thanks to all the sponsors for their prizes and of course to my fellow admin staff for running it. Bob you did a fantastic job being lead admin my man. You delt with the issues at hand the best way possible for the best possible outcome of the game. Casey how many miles did you end up walking? Al ran a tight ship and for the first time I saw an airsoft event briefing and game start within 15 mins of intended .. and to those PDW and my fellow Wolfpack members for pitching in when 200 people showed up to sign in, and at the chrono etc... You went to play and volunteered your time to work. Shows the community what you are made of!

I hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Mark (paranoid) and I had a blast running you around in the trucks. apparently the site operators said "that was great, see you next year" to Al so with any luck we can get back to those canyons and hammer it out!

Mark will be hosing his pictures shortly I am sure. Keep your eye on http://markf.zenfolio.com/f191372317

That was without a doubt the most amazing airsoft game I've ever been to!
Admins, you did an amazing job keeping everything very well organized, and were very professional in dealing with problems.
Alpha team, Cleric and MickeyWang, it was an honor and a privelage to play with you all, everyone did a great job out there!
Thanks to our sponsors for all the prizes, even though I didn't win a gun lol
And I look forward to playing with you guys next year, and some of you at operation coldfront

Thanks to all the admins, volunteers, sponsors, Camogames and the Claybank Historical Society for getting this game off the ground.

Dav and the rest of the `Peggers, was good seeing you guys again and getting a chance to share the field.
With luck, PDW may be able to start travelling again this year too.



Btw...can we possibly get MORE ASC hats to give away next time ;)

lol ya the hats were awsome lol. All of our group ended up getting one pretty quick in, was sad till they tossed all the names back on the box there for the guns :D

I'm shooting to have them up later this evening. It was a great day and despite the couple of problems I believe it was an overall success. I'll have some more comments once I get the pictures up.

Mark's uploading right now, 112 photos and counting lol

And they're all awesome. Great shots man!

sigh, im jeleous. i wanted to go, but no ride, peacekeeper came through town and stopped by to grab my tachton camera and offered a ride, but i couldnt ditch work and leeave on the spot lol. had i known the night before tho lol... oh well, "a cold front is coming."

Andrew (gryphon) shot almost 1000 pictures apparently, and i was in excess of 400 minutes of raw footage, almost 60 GB worth compressed.

I had one or two guys ask me if you came out lol

Great pics!

Make sure you get all this up on the Claybank forums too.

Yes I want to see more of my small ass with my big ol M14

I am extremely happy with the outcome of this event.

When I started with this idea 9-10 months ago, I hoped that it would have had an ending like this, and yesterday it all came together to be one of the most unique games (from what players tell me) they have ever seen, or been a part of.

The outcome of this one, along with the pictures, film, and the National Historical Sites final words on the game will open doors that were previously closed to the Airsoft community in Canada.


A very big thank you to all the Sponsors of { Claybank2009 }


007 Airsoft - Calgary Alberta

Capital Airsoft & Tactical - Edmonton Alberta

Canadian Airgun Supply - Red Deer Alberta

Amos Airsoft - Winnipeg Manitoba

BB Bastard - Canada

airsoftpartscanada.ca - Toronto Ontario

Quinn The Eskimo - Regina Saskatchewan

ILLusion Airsoft - Scarborough Ontario

Plastic Soldier Airsoft - Calgary Alberta

ASC Mart - Canada



Thank you all for being a big part of it, it was simply awesome.




P.S. Great Pics Mark!!

Here's a selection of some of the pic that I took while we were setting up scenario 3 as well as during scenario 3. It seems some of you have already found the gallery, thanks for the comments.

The rest can be found at http://Markf.zenfolio.com/p684227

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Thanks to all involved in this -- Camogames, Claybank Historical Society, all the rest of the Admin crew, everyone else who volunteered time and helped with props, the gate, chrony, etc... and to the players -- seeing people have a good time airsofting makes all the work worth it.

See you guys at the next one. :)

C.

Here's the link to my pics from Claybank: Claybank 2009

Scenario 1 video
 

that is a pretty sweet video of an awesome game man claybank was sweet

Nice video man looks like you and I were in the same areas for most of that first game lol

LOL Austrian Death Machine. Excellent choice.

Yeah, all of Bravo got kind of bunged up in the same areas in Scenario 1. ;)