by oregonduck » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:38 pm
Started with paintball in '88 with the guys I worked with at Strategic Simulations. That was a fun summer. Played outdoors & indoors. Later, in the early 90's, we formed at paintball team at Dynamix and competed for awhile. Then everyone but me moved on to different game companies. Played sporadically until the late 90's.
In '03, my neighbors attacked me with spring pistols. Couldn't believe this airsoft stuff. They shot up the neighborhood, plinked my car, shot me in the a$$ when I was getting the paper. Decided to retaliate. Started a neighborhood arms race. We won. My daughter and I built a bunker in our front yard out of tree limbs. Hunkered down behind it and banged away with springers and minis we snagged off of EBay. Later, my wife and I would take the kids up to the local cemeteries and play against each other. My son was almost two at the time, and he loved to shoot those minis. He was four when he got his first MP5. Daughter was seven when she got her first CA. We've turned into a pretty heavily armed family, though the kids don't play as much now that we use the higher FPS guns, though my son played some night games with us over the summer and took out one of A Co., 2-162's soldiers twice!
During Katrina in '05, heard from the Bravo Co. guys about the more serious side of airsoft. Started getting into it more as a result.
'06, finally convinced one of my best friends that he needed to try this stuff. He's a pacifist. Turned out he was born for airsoft, and our group started coelescing around us last summer. Went from minis and springs to G&P and CA, hosting our own games, playing at StrikeZone, serving as tackling dummies for Alpha, 2-162, and building machine gun nests on the field we use. Hope to host a few more games in the next year, which will give Ben a chance to tattoo my forehead again. And a$$, for that matter, damn you!
John
