FEATURE
THE COLOURS OF AIRSOFT
hang
up your
where the
be as unique as
you are, and
chest rig and call
gear and the
what is wrong
with that?
it a day and your
guns are most
choice of what you
necessarily 100%
decide to use during that
GOING
GREEN
righteous,
I’ve also
After I’d spent some time the Noveske
journey should be yours and
embraced
a new
Infidel during the evaluation and testing
yours alone.
direction. For
me, airsoft
process, I decided that I actually liked it
Ultimately, airsoft is about
should be
completely
immensely and that it could easily be a
shooting and if you choose, or indeed
inclusive, from
your very
rifle that I could learn to live in harmony
are forced by law, to use a coloured
first game, through
every event
with, but when it came to choosing “my
rifle, then what the hey? I don’t care a
you attend, right up to the day when you
own” I made the snap-decision not to
jot if the individual (and I choose that
go for “boring black” but to
word carefully) next to me is male,
give that “Bazooka Green” a go.
female, aardvark, or identifies as
I then remembered that in the
a cabbage patch doll. I don’t care
range of the new RAVEN Hi-Capas
about their race, colour, creed, or
there were also models that were
religious beliefs. If they can shoot,
“…FROM YOUR VERY FIRST
finished in a very similar colour …
they can shoot and for me that is far
GAME, THROUGH EVERY EVENT
and a “cunning plan” began to
more pertinent than WHAT they’re
form in my mind!
shooting with. I’d rather have an
YOU ATTEND, RIGHT UP TO THE
With all the great gear and
accurate and efficient shooter who
DAY WHEN YOU HANG UP YOUR
clothing that’s coming onto
is totally zoned into enjoying their
the market at the moment (just
airsoft experience by my side with a
CHEST RIG AND CALL IT A DAY
check out those new Helikon-
red or green AEG, than a poor
AND YOUR CHOICE OF WHAT YOU blue,
Tex shooter shirts for instance!),
shooter who just happens to have
DECIDE TO USE DURING THAT
I decided that I’d quite like to
the very latest “Delta-MacDoodle-
pull together a set of gear that
JOURNEY SHOULD BE YOURS AND Spets” carbine but is grumpy
was “tactical” but not in any
because their PEQ is the wrong
YOURS ALONE.”
way Mil or LE, a kind of “civilian
shade of tan!
shooter” look if you like; a little
I’m approaching things a little
bit “Division” but without the
differently now and that is pretty
respirator and wrist computer.
much all down to the fact of what
For this a rifle/pistol combo that
I saw at SHOT, IWA and other
was “hardcore” but reflected
shows over the past couple of
current trends within the firearms
years. Colour is here to stay when it
industry would work and that
comes to firearms and airsoft AEGs
included both the EMG AEG and
and GBBs should be no different.
the RAVENs. When the pistols
So, do black guns matter? Yes,
and rifle arrived with me I was
they most certainly do and always
taken by how cool they looked
will and we must to continue to
together and although the
fight for and maintain a defence
pistols are not quite “Bazooka
for those “Mil and LE scenarios”
Green”, they are tonally close
where we want everything to
enough so as not to matter.
be just as you’d see it in “real
Sticking to the black/green
life”. And yes, we need to ensure
palette for accessories actually
that “black rifles” are there for
strengthened that “look” rather
historically-themed games but I for
than diminishing it!
one will be happily skirmishing with
So, here I am, one of the “old
my “Bazooka Green Babies” this
and bold” saying that whilst I
summer …and loving it! AA
do love a good “Mil/LE” setup,
“I’D RATHER HAVE AN ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT SHOOTER WHO IS TOTALLY ZONED
INTO ENJOYING THEIR AIRSOFT EXPERIENCE BY MY SIDE WITH A BLUE, RED OR GREEN
AEG, THAN A POOR SHOOTER WHO JUST HAPPENS TO HAVE THE VERY LATEST “DELTA-
MACDOODLE-SPETS” CARBINE BUT IS GRUMPY BECAUSE THEIR PEQ IS THE WRONG
SHADE OF TAN!”
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