I love airsoft. It give you the pseudo-impression of owning firearm. Unlike the American's law's on airsoft, instead of the classic orange tips, we get clear-body. Which makes the guns more fragile. Airsoft does come with all sorts of problem.
Because I use airsofts as tool to practice firearm handling, dropping and breaking them would be a nightmare. Most of the accessories I bought from airsoft are magazines and clips. I have duct tapes patching broken mags & clips everywhere. The other problem is I have painted or taped all the guns black, or put camo on them. They look exactly like a real gun. Early summer this year, I let the neighbor's kid borrow a Barrett M468 (most accurate rapid-fire gun ever), which I put black paint on it. The teenager was wearing full tactical gears of mine and ran to his house. Then his dad came and complain that he almost scared the shit out of his mother. I literally laughed out in front of the kid's dad. But the worst came, he took my C-TAC CTAWP and shot his dog. Two BBs stuck in the poor dog's stomach. I ended up begging his parents not-to report to the police while I paid all the medical bills for the dog and never let that monkey near my airsoft again...
I have assembled a small team of people who enjoys being pseudo-warfighter, video game's nerds and those like me who misses the real battlefield. We all want to fight each other like a bunch of rag tag soldiers. However more problems come...
There isn't a field for airsoft in my area. Granted, paint-ball arenas are plenty, but I don't want to play with kids who think airsoft is somekind of toy gun. Granted again, airsoft probably is somekind of adult's toy. Plus paint-ball arenas look very boring, not much obstacles to fit a place for airsoft players to fight. Then we thought outskirt places like small forests, abandoned factories/buildings and wastelands. So a guy said he found an excellent place and we got ready for the next day. We arrived at the destination, got out, prep and start shooting each with our high-powered airsoft guns. The next thing we knew was, the place we were in is a popular camping area. We started running toward our vehicles while cursing the plan guy. We drove like hell on highway, and actually had police's cars tailing us. We finally lost them at somewhere near Simcoe. It was a weird experience...
I wish I have a large backyard where I could shoot whatever target I want. Of course, not animals. But moving target is still cool. So I have come up with a remote sliding target that assembled from auto's parts. THEN problem came... My cat kept jumping in front of the target every time it moves. He just enjoyed catching that fake-looking rabbit thing. Now it's my cat's new toy, and I still don't have a satisfied target.
I'm also very afraid of my cat swallowing the BBs. No matter where I hide, he can just find them. So I put every BB bags I have in my GF safe. And now he scratches the safe every time he walks by, lol -_-
The upside of loving airsoft is, my GF also loves them. She have two Glock 17, specially ordered from US. And they aren't clear body (I have no idea how they passed postal custom). She's also a firearm expert. At least next time she could scare some robber with them if I'm not around. He he...
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Speaking about my cat, I also killed him several times. Don't know if they were intentional or accidental. However it happens every time I went drunk. And most of the time was opening the door. One time I almost ran over him when I was mowing grasses.
I guess I shouldn't drink any vodka, as I promised my GF so...
Destrayop
What kind of sadistic kid would shoot his dog with an airsoft sniper rifle O_o
Wurfel-Waffles
Well he's the kind of kid who enjoys hurting animals. He's 15 years old already and still act like 5.
Last year summer, he trapped a whole raccoon family in his dad's large mice trap. He used the sticks to poke them, then finally drowned them in the nearby creek. The whole process was witnessed by an old neighbor. It actually made news on CBC. His dad got questioned by cops and reporters. The whole thing was like some circus joke. I still didn't know how the heck did he trap those raccoons.
Other time he chased my poor cat with a remote toy car, while I was out.
The difficult thing is his dad and me are good friends. Every time I need to get something fixed, I need his dad. So in return, I watch over his kids whenever their parents are out.