Anyone play airsoft around here?
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Originally Posted by Mr. Xevious
they will do a visual inspection but they cannot hydro test.
The best place to get a tank hydo tested is at a fire extinguisher store. There are a few around town and used to take my CO2 takes (when I was using CO2 for paintball) for testing and labeling.
IIRC it was a few bucks to get it done.
The best place to get a tank hydo tested is at a fire extinguisher store. There are a few around town and used to take my CO2 takes (when I was using CO2 for paintball) for testing and labeling.
IIRC it was a few bucks to get it done.
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About 4 to 6 of us play once a while, usually at 9 or 10 pm late at night. We have guys that have everything, like upgraded(spring) rifle with scope, grenade laucher, camo the whole 9 yards. As for myself I carry a semi auto 45 pistol, mask to pretect my face and street clothes.
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So is Action Paintball near Rancho Murietta still open? They had some great Capture the Falg courses out there. We used to go as a group and we would get our own course and refs. I think the smallest group we did that with was 16 or 18.
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Originally Posted by Salty
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.
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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Originally Posted by ryball
I bought a gas blow-back pistol. It is rediculous fun. 
I sat in my backyard yesterday double-tapping all the shrubberies.
I sat in my backyard yesterday double-tapping all the shrubberies.
Originally Posted by ryball
I bought a gas blow-back pistol. It is rediculous fun.
I sat in my backyard yesterday double-tapping all the shrubberies.
I sat in my backyard yesterday double-tapping all the shrubberies.
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Originally Posted by ryball
Nice. Haven't seen one in person yet.
i've lost a few hundred pellets after maybe 10 min of fkn around with it.
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HAHA Airsoft, i just sold the last of like my 10 bazillion guns. Now im going to use that money for my car.
Airsoft has gone down the ****TTTER!!!!! It used to be so much fun around the sac area, then everyone got all arrogant and stuck up and hella 12 and 13 year old kiddies started playing. I cant count how many times a little kid whined or cried or got yelled at. Just no fun anymore.
Airsoft has gone down the ****TTTER!!!!! It used to be so much fun around the sac area, then everyone got all arrogant and stuck up and hella 12 and 13 year old kiddies started playing. I cant count how many times a little kid whined or cried or got yelled at. Just no fun anymore.