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Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:16 PM
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Anyone play airsoft around here?

I swung by a shop last week...

I think I want one, but I don't want to buy it and have it sit around collecting dust.
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:17 PM
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no but if you get some glow in the dark condoms, Jeremy will play light saber wars with you!
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by ryball
I swung by a shop last week...

I think I want one, but I don't want to buy it and have it sit around collecting dust.
i have a shytload of airsoft guns/rifles i bought before the craze years ago, but i hardly ever use em
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ryball
I swung by a shop last week...

I think I want one, but I don't want to buy it and have it sit around collecting dust.
I played a few times with buddies.. I had a lot of fun
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:23 PM
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I own a paintball gun and have only gone out once...
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:24 PM
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no but if you get some glow in the dark condoms, Jeremy will play light saber wars with you!
no ghey.
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:25 PM
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I see there is a semi-organized group in the Sac area - http://www.sacairsoft.com/

Would rather not play solo with complete strangers... hmm...
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:25 PM
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We need an i-club paintball meet!!!
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by T-Will
I own a paintball gun and have only gone out once...
I used to be HUGE into paintball... I gotta dig up my equipment and throw it up on ebay.
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:27 PM
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We need an i-club paintball meet!!!
I'm down if someone has a tank I can borrow. Mine are most likely TOTALLY out of date.
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:33 PM
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I'm down if someone has a tank I can borrow. Mine are most likely TOTALLY out of date.
I have three tanks, and now that I think about it, they are most likely out of date as well.
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 12:36 PM
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What's out of date on a tank mean? I have two tanks.

I'm down for a paintball meet. Why don't we get something together around 6pm on Saturday at the Raley's shopping center in Natomas...you know for a little urban warfare!
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 01:15 PM
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I have some airsoft stuff... I mostly only shoot indoors though (in my house.)

going out to shoot at people though, that sounds like fun.
Old Sep 20, 2006 | 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ryball
I swung by a shop last week...

I think I want one, but I don't want to buy it and have it sit around collecting dust.
I had the same idea when I got out of the Army...

A decent location, a few beers, and a good time doing CQB with those not too serious. Turned out all the people I met in the area were snobbish know-it-alls that were way too caught-up in the hobby. I bought a nice upgraded TM M4 and ended-up selling it about 4 months later. Had a nice layer of dust on it when I did too...

What I found funny in buying and selling an airsoft rifle is that it's the only hobby where stubborn, indecisive ****ers determine the market, not supply or demand. You drive an automobile off the showroom floor and thousands of dollars are lost on the value. Buy a new airsoft rifle, put 30,000 rounds through it and do countless battle drills with it and somehow sell it for retail. Duct tape a gansta grip on it and you may be able to ask $50 more than value. I found it to be so ridiculous I thought Bud Light needed to do one of those "American Hero" commercials on them. ****, I couldn't even sell real rifles the way a lot of these Simpson comicbook-type *******s sold their used airsoft rifles.

I even wrote this out of spite: http://greensickle.com/2006/08/stole..._are_airs.html

But hey, you may get lucky and find a decent group of guys to play with. Good luck!

Something tells me that paintball is the way to go to avoid the wannabes. Makes sense because you take away a lot of the replica guns and other airsoft equipment.

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Old Sep 20, 2006 | 03:49 PM
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I wanna go play airsoft or paintball. Lets go people's



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