 Originally Posted by Tricky
I still go a lot (money permitting) and really enjoy it, I'm 30 in February but not stopping anytime soon!
As for Airsoft, it looks fun, but there seems to be a lot of Walts involved with it and I wouldnt like to get branded with that tag, you know the type who are fully decked out in military kit, even wearing unit and rank insignia despite never having served, and they talk about it like its real. Talk to anyone who has actually served and they despise those people!
Oh yeah, those guys.
The only time I've been paintballing (had a blast) I had a battle with one of those guys. He was decked out in custom gear and he must have thought a lot of himself. He snuck up the right flank and tried to attack some of us from behind, but he waited until I was the only one left in our bunker (this was my first or second game, so I was still getting into the way of operating the paintball gun etc) ... anyway, I hear the dude coming, turn around but my legs have gone a bit dead from crouching in the bunker, so I'm struggling to get upright and we're shooting at each other at an ever-decreasing distance and for me I have an excuse for not hitting him (for one thing aiming the guns we had was a pain as the cannister was under your arm, so it was never comfortable to aim straight ... helpfully ... not) ... but this dude should have been a better shot, or perhaps it was quite fitting, he thought a lot of himself all decked out in custom gear etc ... anyway, this little battle for who would 'kill' who first went on for a few seconds until BOOM - I painted the guy right in the middle of his forehead (on his camoflage bandana he had wrapped around his head) ... needless to say word around the camp after that match was that the dude was pissed he'd been head-shotted from someone who'd never played before.
I then had a great match afterwards where I took out 3 or 4 people (including one my housemates ... who I accidentally shot in the neck  ), but then I think it was the last round and that guy got his version of revenge when I got a paintball in the back from him ... not a particularly classy guy, really, eh?  Still - he clearly came off worse that day ... BOOM! HEADSHOT! 
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