At 8/18/08 04:48 PM, MCU wrote:
Hey guys, I have one question. In the UK, what we call ''BB Guns'', are they Airsoft guns, or less powerful?
BB guns in the U.S are guns that shoot Metal pellets and airsoft guns shoot plastic pellets. Or at least the Airsoft and BB guns I shot.
Also, I might be selling my gun. If anyone is interested in buying a custom made gun that has seen some really amazing competition and great tourneys, let me know. I'll upload some pics of it tomorrow, but basically it was an Ion and I swapped out every stock part for some of, if not the best parts I could get my hands on.
-Black Dynasty Body
-Black NDZ Scorpion trigger frame on 15 degree angle. Basically like the Karnivor.
-Black Dye Hyper 2 regulator
-Black NDZ Firing chamber + Threads
-Black Freak barrel with .689 insert and 14" Black tip or 16" green tip
-Metallic Olive Green NDZ Blade Trigger
-Black Redz Clamping Feed neck
-Green Virtue eyes
-CP Bottom line ASA
-APE Board with Membrane
-New hoses and Banjo Fittings
-Black Ball Detents
-Black Dynasty grips
-Lucky bolt
Just What it has on it. Everything, in total, cost me well over $2,000 and for a few years, it was the best investment I ever made. It was fast, accurate,light and looked amazing. Always having people ask me what gun I'm using just makes me feel good about it. Even people at the highest level of competition don't know what to call it. Last time I went, the people at the field thought it was a Dynasty Shocker because it had a Dynasty Body....
The only thing I don't like about my gun is the fact that I can never give it to anyone else to work on. It's extremely unique and not many, if any at all, know what it really is or what to do with it. I really don't like taking it apart and working on it. The problem I think I'm going to have with selling it is that most people don't know how to work on a gun. Half the people I know don't even clean their own gun, they drop it off at their local paintball shop and have them do it. I tried that once. They gave it back to me in a shoebox and told me it would never work again. Came back 2 days later and rubbed it in their face.
But about paintball, I'm not really enjoying it as much as I used to. The pressure of making a team, scheduling practices, finding scrimmages, designing jerseys and trying to help people get better and lead everyone is really hard. Especially when you're telling people to do one thing and they do another. It's like the people I'm trying to help aren't making any improvement at all. If you don't know what that feels like, it's extremely demoralizing. You put your heart and soul into something and it goes nowhere.
Honestly, there are times when I just want to quit it all. I think I'm taking it too seriously. I went outdoors last time and I think I made a few kids cry. I just got so into the game that I got into the feeling that I was in a higher competition game. I felt like such a dick after that game. Paintball isn't supposed to be about yelling at people and over reacting like I did. It's about having fun and helping newbies to get into the game. You never know if that 10 year old shooting a rental gun could be the next Oliver Lang or not. I feel like I disgraced the sport by the way I acted that day, and I apologize to everyone who ever played paintball for that.
I'm going to take a break from paintball for at least a month and see what that does for me. I found a team manager and a decent coach a while back, so I'll let them and the co captain take care of everything. I just hope I can get back into the mindset that paintball is for fun first and profit and winning later. I think that's all I need.