This guy at work plays airsoft. Supposudely he has some real guns, a .270 bolt action I think he said, but I've never seen it. He convinced me to stop by his house on my way home from work to check out his airsoft guns. He is always trying to get me to go play airsoft with him and his friends, its great "training" and they use "real military tactics".
I go to look at his stuff, thought it sounded mildly interesting, he says how the guns are so accurate not like paint-ball. The fucking things didn't even have sights on them.
He tells me one day, "its good that you go shoot your guns all the time and can shoot them well, but that won't help you if you don't practice tactics like we do."
I said dude, your guns don't even have sights on them. Spray and pray with "guns" that have no real range or accuracy is going to teach you infantry tactics? Do you even know what FM 7-8 is (I was in Army ROTC in college, fooled around on a few FTXs at fort sill)? Then how the fuck are you learning anything about "real military tactics."
you can learn about employing REAL tactical principles with REAL guns by doing things like IDPA/IPSC, three-gun, and taking courses taught by proffessionals. This guy thinks he is fucking rambo because he plays with piece of shit plastic toys with his faggot buddies out in the woods.
Give me a break. I could see where these things could be useful in training, if they had more power and range, were operated like their real counter-parts, and actually had real usable sights on them...something more realistic like the training glocks, and if they were used in a professional training environment with people who know what the fuck they were doing.
One day he tells me, check out these airsoft "M-4s" online with the "M-230? (WTF? lol) attachments. They are
MIL-SPEC and even have "field stripping."
I tried to not laugh, then asked him, WTF is field stripping? (in reference to airsoft guns) He looks at me and says, "its when you can open it up in the field." He thinks having the capability to seperate your upper and lower receiver is called "field stripping". Better make sure you keep the bore on that airsoft beauty nice and clean so that you can keep those groups down right?