27 Feb
Spring Guns VS. Electric Guns
The other day my airsoft buddies and I were discussing which was more fun; the old days with cheap spring pistols, or today with our 250+ FPS automatic weapons? It was an interesting discussion. Back in the day, two years ago, the games we played were a lot different. We played in the streets around our houses then. The people on our block were used to seeing us duck behind their cars and hiding in their backyards. You didn’t worry back then of getting shot by someone from halfway up the block. It was like old school gangster wars; you had to creep right up on somebody to get a kill. As time went on everyone started getting better and better weapons. The Echo 1’s and Classic Army rifles started being used and the games changed. The most obvious change was people were more honest about calling their hits. The old spring guns didn’t really sting when you got hit, so some guys wouldn’t admit to getting shot. When the high powered guns were being used, people called their hits quickly and loudly. The reason? They stung like hell! You called the hit just so the other guy would stop shooting you.
It was fun shooting the better guns, but it came with a price. We were bouncing BBs off the side of peoples’ houses, and pinging them off of cars. Guys were comparing welts on their backs. The smaller kids on the block were diving for cover. The parents of these kids were looking at these real life looking guns with more scrutiny.
Luckily for us, we have a nearby woods. So that’s where the games eventually moved. We now play far away from the houses. We have adapted to guns that can hit us from 150 feet away, and we duck for cover at the mere site of an enemy player. Don’t get me wrong, I love the games we play today, but it is never the same as the days when airsoft was new to us.
As a result of the conversation, we have decided to play spring games once in awhile. Sometimes on the block and sometimes in the woods. It’s fun to go back to the tactics we used when we first started. Who says you can’t turn back time?
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