COMMUNITY
The JBG community is an ever-expanding entity, which is great. We want to welcome anyone and everyone we can across the airsoft industry and travel to as many places across the UK as we can. JBG is also planning to travel across the world to places like the Canary Islands and the United States to deliver mil-sim training packages and to enjoy game play. If you see us at an event, please come and say hi, we’d love to speak to you.
What's to come:
Through the rest of 2022 we plan to continue our expansion and social media presence and bring more ally merch to market such as caps, t-shirts, gun stickers and gun charms. We are involved in content advertisements so you may see us in a kit/airsoft advertisement, so our content and media section is really seeing an increase in workload. We also plan to produce and deliver structured, progressive training programs and lesson packs for mil-sim teams and airsofters.
An exciting idea of ours coming to reality in summer, 2024 will be the launch of the Johnny Big Festival. We have begun planning and preparations for this already as we want to absolutely smash it out of the park and give our attendees the best time we can. For the remainder of 2022 into 2023 we plan to develop our relationships with our partners and friends to bring as much to the table as we can and expand our reach by going global. The Johnny Big Gun is a reality, with an exciting future.
Common Q+A’s
Q: How did JBG start?
A: Basically, a bunch of soldiers were goofing about in the block one night when suddenly, one soldier took another hostage (jokingly) and held a Glock 17 pistol up and shouted, ‘look at me, I’m the Johnny F***ing Big Gun’. Suddenly, light bulbs simultaneously appeared above our heads over a roar of laughter and so, the Johnny Big Gun was born.
Q: You fundraise for Help For Heroes?
A: That is right, we are committed to fundraising for our supporting charities. As a veteran community we think it is imperative to welcome anyone who wants a social hobby and to join our community. We have a strong emphasis on mental health awareness and charity work. Sometimes, veterans leaving the service miss the rhythm, conversations and sense of humor of a military environment and that is what we provide. A social veteran community for anyone.
Dit corner
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‘keep your mouth shut’
So basically, we were at Bristol Airsoft in the old county court playing one night and we had entered an underground corridor with a large piece of plywood propped up as cover. Once we had entered the corridor, the corridor lit up with tracer bbs as the other team had spotted us. We dashed behind the plywood and began looking around for more cover to move to and how we were going to counter the other team when suddenly, Johnny mongo sticks his head out around the plywood and catches a bb right in his front tooth, completely shattering the tooth and losing it. His instant reaction was to turn to us and calmly say, “I think I’ve lost my tooth”. He then opened his mouth and due to the incredibly poor diet of this man, the bb had left a prominent circle shape in his mouth as it tore through the tooth. It was probably one of the funniest things we had witnessed and died laughing. This man then spent the next 40 minutes scouring the floor looking for his tooth, picking up every bb he saw and inspecting it rigorously in case it was his tooth.
‘Mr. Walters’
One of our recent games in Swindon, we were pushing up to a building we planned to clear. This push was led by one of the coolest guys in JBG and got his A*se handed to him in this push. We had pushed up to the rear entrance of this building when two players from the other team popped out from cover and tried to get us, it did not work. Within a fraction of a second, they had been hit and hands were in the air. We then pushed through the doorway and into a corridor, just as we refocused, a rapid crack of a bb gun was heard as the guy in front of me fired at someone who had flew out from a doorway. I was impressed by his reaction but quickly realized, they had both fired at each other in a chaotic second and the bb had hit my mate, in the penis. Time had stopped. His Glock fell from his grip, and he fell against the wall and slid down to the ground in agony. I could only laugh at his agony and was instantly reminded of Mr.Walters from 21 Jump Street, “you just shot me in the dick”.
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’One hell of a bluff’
One night when we were all still in the Army, during the early days of our airsoft adventures we were preparing our stuff for a game the following night, putting batteries on charge and loading magazines. Johnny Mongo had my battery on charge, and all was well. About an hour later I wandered to the communal toilet to refill my bottle of squash and as I turned the tap off, the fire alarm screamed throughout the block. Naturally, I assumed someone had just been vaping in their room again and set the alarm off so initially thought nothing of it, (good drills). Then I opened the toilet room door, the entire corridor was emersed in black smoke. I looked to my right and saw my friend running towards the other corridor door, he turned to me and shouted, “It’s the battery”. Oh Sh*t. I ran to where the batteries were on charge and saw a blazing ball of flames, luckily, I was wielding a fresh bottle of squash, so I used it to put the flames out, it worked. I look up at Johnny mongo who by this point can only be described as a blistered lobster having been scorched by flames and battery acid. We had realized that the fire had melted through his carpet tiles in his room, this was a big problem and would likely have led to a Quartermaster being a bit peed off. Using our iniative, we ran in to our own rooms and sacrificed a carpet tile from under each of our beds and replaced the melted tiles using Gods finest Gorilla glue to hold the replaced tiles down. One hell of a bluff and a good use of iniative. To this day, I imagine those melted tiles are still hidden in that same pathetic spot we left them.
Reviews
JBG likes to get around, we try to experience as many sites as possible. We have so far travelled to many sites across the South of the UK and plan to meet as many sites as we can, if you’d like us to review a site or travel to your site, please let us know. We’d be happy to.
Gloucester Prison
Amazing game play area. A great mix of outdoor and CQB environments as you can work outside and around the prison blocks as well as indoors in the blocks for a CQB environment. If anyone plans to go here, do not let your guard down for a second, there are a lot of sneaky corners and angles in a busy cell block and can get very painful being at close range. The game modes here were quite enjoyable, a not many game modes we chinned off or sighed at. We genuinely did have a fun day. Biggest downfall for us were the marshals, we honestly thought they were ex-servicemen by the way they spoke and acted, (they were not). They made a point of insulting everybody at the start and integrated a colourful word into every sentence. They went on to ask if anyone had experience in the special forces, nobody raised their hand. Obviously, nobody is going to raise their hand, either they genuinely did not serve in the special forces, or they did and are not willing to let people know that they did, maybe because they can’t.
Thunder park Airsoft
Great place, apart from one of our snipers coming up too hot on the chrono which was very annoying, overall we had a great day. The game modes were different, fun and required an element of strategy. This truly was a site where you could sprint around and dominate if you wanted, or you could take it easy and chill out in games. It was a well marshaled site, all the marshals were extremely friendly, welcoming and pleasant to talk to. We made good friends with the mil-sim team Devgru that day, (who by the way, are great guys). Well worth a trip to Cornwall.
Skirmish Exeter
Like any Skirmish, professional, big and long. The area was huge and allowed us to play our sneaky games by creeping around the other team and pay them a surprising visit. Rest area has a good amount of picnic benches so we could always have a space to relax and prepare for the next game. The game lengths were good, classic game modes with no funnies or crazies in there. The Marshalls were great guys, we got on well with everyone there. If you are looking to get into airsoft, I’d strongly recommend starting out at a Skirmish near you. It’s a great place to begin at with total professionalism and conventional game modes.