In the US*, orange tips are only required for importation and commercial transportation and sale. Once a private individual owns it, they can paint it whatever color they want. And as long as you don't take them out in public and cause a disturbance, the police can't take them away. When playing on private property (rather than an official field) it's a good idea to call ICOM ahead of time and tell them when and where you'll be playing airsoft if there's any chance that a neighbor or passerby could see you.
Here's a picture of my collection:
From left to right: HFC USP GBB, G&G M-16A2 VN grenadier AEG, King Arms M4A1 GBBR, and G&G Combat Machine M4 EBB.
Here's a picture of my primary loadout:
The major components are: TruSpec MARPAT TRUs, Danner Marine boots, Pantac MTV in Coyote Brown, MICH helmet replica, Revision Desert Locust goggles, and G&G goggle fan.
I did back-yard airsoft with my friends in high school for a couple years before moving up to organized games and eventually LARPsim and milsim. I've also done some CQB. Just enough to make my pistol feel appreciated. The above picture was taken during a milsim exercise last summer. The below picture is my loadout for a LARPsim event a couple months prior to that:
For those unfamiliar, the theme of the LARP was Fallout and I was on the Brotherhood of Steel team. We fought raiders and super mutants and traded with locals for supplies using bottle caps as currency.
The milsim picture was actually taken on the second day of the event. The fighting died down at night and our two platoons made camp and set up a perimeter. But continuously throughout the night OpFor sniper teams were gunning for our platoon leaders. So we all rotated on patrols. They never did manage to take out our leaders. I ended up getting about an hour of sleep. No sleeping bag. Just lying down in my gear with eyepro on at all times. Everything I had with me, I'd been carrying on my back all day and would continue to carry all the next morning. It was quite the experience. There's no way I could do that for a living.
Edit: *Always check your local laws before doing anything. Ever.
Do you have a military background or anything? Because your stance here is nearly perfect, no chicken winging and you have trigger discipline from what I can see. Which is something I wouldn't expect from most airsofters.
Wow, I really like the middle and last gun. Very nice ones.
Thanks! The King Arms is a money hog, since GBBRs aren't as reliable out-of-the-box as GBB pistols or AEGs are. But it sure is fun to shoot. The Combat Machine has a homemade hopup tracer unit (HUTU) installed for night games. The HUTU charges glow-in-the-dark BBs with UV light so they glow brightly when they're fired. Commercial units go for $50-$100. Mine cost me less than $5 to make and it works at least as well. The battery and wiring for it are contained in the foregrip.
Do you have a military background or anything? Because your stance here is nearly perfect, no chicken winging and you have trigger discipline from what I can see. Which is something I wouldn't expect from most airsofters.
I don't have such a background, but a lot of the guys I play with do. I'm not doing everything perfect in that shot. I'm tree cancering, for instance. It's easy to see a lump at the base of a tree and know that someone's trying to hide behind it. It's made worse by the fact that my camouflage doesn't match the tree's color. And it's not visible in the picture, but when I'm in an engagement I don't put the fire selector on safe when I don't have a shot lined-up. I keep it on fire throughout the engagement. It's a corner I cut habitually in airsoft.
But I did have a reason for taking cover behind that tree. I wanted a good position from which to cover the rest of my platoon. I opted for a position with a good, wide angle on the attacking OpFor over a position that was better-concealed. I'm not sure if I actually hit anyone from that position, but after the two guys to my left (pictured) went down I held off the OpFor from making any more progress on our left flank.
Not pictured is the pack that I'd been carrying throughout the simulation. Any time we were sticking around one area we'd put down our packs and any extra gear in favor of our "assault load." I can't tell you how it felt the first time we switched to assault load. Shedding all that weight just makes you feel so light and quick.
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i used to have a spring action clip system pistol, And a automatic SMG type thing that had a clip as the battery which i though was cool. But i lost the charger and the bopper to that one and my pistol completly broke. Im in to paintball now though, Then my spyder pilot died when my medical bracelet got stuck in it and piece went flying and got lost, Ima be getting a spyder victor soon hopefully. Then later a sexy tippmann alpha.
you look like a brotherhood of steel guy nice job
Do you have a military background or anything? Because your stance here is nearly perfect, no chicken winging and you have trigger discipline from what I can see. Which is something I wouldn't expect from most airsofters.
Thank you! I think I had one of the better BoS costumes there. Some of the raider and super mutant costumes were pretty epic too.
Thanks! The King Arms is a money hog, since GBBRs aren't as reliable out-of-the-box as GBB pistols or AEGs are. But it sure is fun to shoot. The Combat Machine has a homemade hopup tracer unit (HUTU) installed for night games. The HUTU charges glow-in-the-dark BBs with UV light so they glow brightly when they're fired. Commercial units go for $50-$100. Mine cost me less than $5 to make and it works at least as well. The battery and wiring for it are contained in the foregrip.
I don't have such a background, but a lot of the guys I play with do. I'm not doing everything perfect in that shot. I'm tree cancering, for instance. It's easy to see a lump at the base of a tree and know that someone's trying to hide behind it. It's made worse by the fact that my camouflage doesn't match the tree's color. And it's not visible in the picture, but when I'm in an engagement I don't put the fire selector on safe when I don't have a shot lined-up. I keep it on fire throughout the engagement. It's a corner I cut habitually in airsoft.
But I did have a reason for taking cover behind that tree. I wanted a good position from which to cover the rest of my platoon. I opted for a position with a good, wide angle on the attacking OpFor over a position that was better-concealed. I'm not sure if I actually hit anyone from that position, but after the two guys to my left (pictured) went down I held off the OpFor from making any more progress on our left flank.
Not pictured is the pack that I'd been carrying throughout the simulation. Any time we were sticking around one area we'd put down our packs and any extra gear in favor of our "assault load." I can't tell you how it felt the first time we switched to assault load. Shedding all that weight just makes you feel so light and quick.
where there anay enclave people?
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