I used to play piantball for 12 years team and everything, then I played pro airsoft and I never went back to the paintball feild again, I sold 5 tipman 98 and a whole bunch of extras like armor, ammo. After playing airsoft the way few here in america play their was no turning back. Airsoft im plenments everyaspect of real war combate from real wepons, airsupport (helcopters, rpgs, atv's, amor transport, tank, anti armor wepons, mines, gernandes, etc,). In airsoft snipers must be used and front line tactics as well, Scermishes are everything from extract to conflict recration, We also play an elite ruling here only out in the open these rules rarley are played in CQB. Elite rules make all members of the team medics, in which you have 30 seconds after your team mate falls to drag him/her to saftey and give life back to them buy an uniterrupted 13 second count. They gamae is very live and intense I have seen kids and grown ups alike run outta the coars once they realize a group of pepole is trying to hunt them, play or not airsoft is dangerous and without armor and head grear you will be giong to the hospital, we use guns which shoot in acess of 600 feet per sec. and they always punture the skin even at great distances, the rounds are not soft infact are very hard and the sniper rounds are the same size of a paintball round 8mm and they do not break and are also shot at up too 900 ft per second. Here is where I play and some bigger scermishes.
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Oh and airsoft is now world wide in places where running watter is not even found, It will soon be just as big in the US, "Prepare for Battle"