So I was reading the "Don't Be This Guy" thread and that got me thinking about a sport I'm looking to get into...Airsoft. For those not familiar with the sport Airsoft is like paintball...but without the paint. The guns look(and I think feel like) real military hardware. The gas blowback guns operate like the real deal too. Some guns use electricity(AEG) to propell their airsoft pellets(BB's) and some use gas(mostly pistols there are some rifles out there but they are hard to find) Airsoft is also more tactical than paintball..no capture the flag the stuff its straight up you have objectives to achieve. As Airsoft is a military based sport opponets dawn gear so they can LOOK the part and play solider. Here are some pics of airsoft guns, and a video(operation Irene is a really good one to look at but for some reason youtube wants you to be eighteen years or older to look at it...don't know why.)
Anyway most(and I want to assume all) airsoft simply wear the uniforms some may have team patches and maybe their name. There is a also a website that sells the U.S Army tag to go on an ACU or you can get the same tag with the name of website on it. A team around here has the rank thing going on but they don't run around saluting each other. They only use the ranking system to show whos been here the longest and who's in charge as far as the whole team goes but that's about it they just called each other by first name.
Now my question is this. For those of you who have served and are serving in the armed forces what do you think about the airsoft sport? Is it a slap in the face?
Here are the pics of the gear used in airsoft matches And here's the link for the website I'm getting all these images from in case you want to do more digging Evike.com
yup this is an airsoft gun
I want this gun
And a video of a really awesome airsoft course I'm sure most of you seen better (this dudes gun sounds a bit weak to me...I don't think he's using a lypo battery.)
and heres another one