Hi all,
Well I've been here a little while now and have been long overdue to introduce myself. Im Australian, but am in Tempe to attend UAT (University of Advancing Technology) as a software engineering student specialising in game programming. This is my last year in the States, depending on whether or not I can get a job afterwards. It's not looking too great at the moment.I'm working my arse off on my own to teach myself all the holes and things that the uni should have better prepared its students for. Between doing that and Airsoft is pretty much all I'm doing nowadays.
I've already gotten a lot of noise of the variety "why the fuck did you bother with that LPEG shit"
Simple answer, its not just because I'm in an apartment, but because Airsoft is bloody illegal in Australia, along with most of the things that make me... me
I've pretty much hated it there since I moved there when I was 6 and my goal since 8th grade was to do what I could to get out. As much as Im dying to invest in some good guns and gear, the reality is that if I do have to move back to Australia I'd have to give up everything I've invested. $108 of disposable fun is enough for me to get a taste if that's the case
Well there's always Canada LOL.
Ive some minor background in paintball. I was playing semi regularly and was playing constant air when that first debuted. I'd spent something like $300 ish on a gun, which I then had to turn into the Police or get arrested during the "firearms are illegal buyback" period. I got $50 back
Paintball guns were briefly illegal and then made unillegal or whatever, I'd lost my gun by then
based on that innuendo/bollocks that they could be modified to shoot real bullets. The difference between the US and Australia is that the people that run the country don't bother to understand anything and act purely on hearsay, not separating technology from its application etc. We have a great history of banning things, including almost banning the internet once
Don't let it happen here! thats if the 13 y/o kiddies with the springers dont make it happen first.
The way I got into Airsoft was because my girlfriend is always threatening to shoot me with a water gun for just about anything
A couple of weeks ago I waxed nostalgic about Super Soakers and had a look at what the current scene was. It sucks, all the great guns from early 2000 like the CPS and Monster series have been phased out for kiddy $20 guns. It was always my agenda to pick up PB again once I got a bit settled in here , but never got back into it. PB honestly always sucked, I wanted milsim but had guns that still looked like they were thrown together with pipes and hoppers etc etc. Messy and shite, I wanted to do milsim with super soakers but with nothing to clean up ROFL. That didn't work out but I did see Airsoft mentioned on some of the Super Soaker sites. According to my gf, I've been chortling and giggling to myself for 2 weeks straight since I discovered Airsoft
Ironically I'm the last person you'd expect to be a gun nut. Im more of a martial arts guy, and have no interest in owning a real gun. I especially have a pet peeve for people who do own real guns but basically treat them as toys / penis extensions and shit to be played with and not as a weapon in their mindset. No interest in joining that fraternity. At least with a sword or something you have to actually be involved with some effort to kill somebody. Any idiot can wave a gun, press a button, oops, and be completely disconnected with what they are doing until it's too late.
Well shite, that was long, how's that for an intro? Oh I'm pretty much hooked now
May not be in AZ for much longer depending, but Im definitely into Airsoft for the long haul