If you wanted to be real ghetto fabulous about it, you could pick up a home-made hi-cap for your tri-shot. This one sold for $20. You won't have the range of an AEG, but you can hold your own in the mid-range and closer.

When I first came to AA I got pretty much nothing but shit thrown in my face, and its quite frankly why I hardly ever post or even browse here aside from the classifieds. All I did was ask some questions about different AEGs, and a few of the rules of the game when I first start more than a couple years ago.

Another thing is this websites general attitude toward new players and especially minors, creates an impression on people of an incredible amount of elitism among the community (which I wont say, quite frankly, is totally incorrect). Things have change a little bit since 2-3 years ago, but still generally speaking, if a person admits that they are 16 or 17 here on the forums, no matter what they are given zero quarter and the majority of folks here want nothing to do with them. Which is a shame, because these new players, especially the 16+ group that will be here for a time to come, are the future of the sport/hobby/whatever you want to call it. So in denying them, people are actively working against giving airsoft a future.