Are you made fun of for playing airsoft.

Are you made fun of for playing airsoft?

Almost everyday I am made fun of for playing airsoft but when ever my friends and I have a match those jerks want to be invited because they say they can kill us.
every match I have versed the jerks in I have killled them BAD and it makes me feel like i have accomplished something or proven a point.

I strongly agree

I have had cocky people like that before just show up onto one of our fields. with walmart POS guns.

we killed them then ran them off. then a story lasted for another 2 months.

Acually airsoft is pretty popular around here , we get heckled a little ever now and then by some kids but they don't mean anything by it .

no body around here ,except my gf, make fun of airsofters. my gf only pokes fun because of my hard core addiction to the sport. i just tell her that at least my only two vices are cooking and shooting.

both of which i take to the extreme. cooking i kinda have to. im a pastry chef by weekday and a sniper on weekends.

its just who i am.

yes all the time i am made fun of by people who play paintball...they say people who play airsoft are wimps becouse we are afraid to get hit by a real gun that herts more(they say airsoft guns don't hert) so i tell them let me shoot you with my guns and tell me if it herts...they never do....

Hi Guys,

Alot of the heckling, teasing or just plain making fun of is also based in how you `` Present´´ your Hobby. When you start talking about `` Shooting somebody ´´ how many `` KILLS´´ you have in a game, how many `` BULLETS´´ you magazine holds, people are going to get the wrong impression and inturpret what you are trying to say all wrong. I know politics should not come into play with our hobby, but the sad reality is, depending how you talk about it, is how people will see it.

I don´t shoot the opposing player, I Hit, or Mark them, there are no KILLS in Airsoft, you TAKE THE PLAYER OUT, we all go home at the end of the game more or less healthy and whole, Nobody in Airsoft uses bullets, we use BB´s.

Remember how you present the game to people who don´t play, is how they will understand it, and if they don´t understand it, they are going to make fun of it. It is human nature, most people are afraid of the things they don´t understand.

If you present the Hobby well, you will see the membership of your teams grow, or maybe even other teams will get started near you, believe me LARGE games against other Teams are alot more fun than always playing with the same bunch of friends.

The only real person who makes fun of me is my older brother who is 23 but he doesn't mean anything by it either , and what Slab said is true humans are scared of what they don't understand , some people think that airsofting is just training for killers and is a school shooting waiting to happen , while I dissagree airsoft and paintball , I belive , actually keep these incedinets for happening . I love airsoft and many do , some are scared of it and some are just idiots who don't even play airsoft and base their decisinss on on hear say and bias . Some aren't milsim type people thats fine , but some hate airsoft just because it makes them known . The same as having a bulldog , but I wi ll getinto that later .

Yes-all the time. I'm often told I'm a freshman, and shouldn't be "playing war" or "Playing guns" I HATE this. Just last week I had a kid saying "How hard can it be? If I played you, I would own you. Light your 'Behind' up". Well, he ended up at our field. And what do you know, we played.....5 rounds, I think? maybe four? I won every single one. He only got to correctly return fire ONCE. Not trying to brag or anything, but I am showing how it goes in situations like that. It makes me SO mad, there stereotypes are usually formed on those cheap 15.00 LPEGs anyway, which makes me even angrier.

I'm not really made fun of for playing, at all really. Awhile back some of the neighbors that I used to play with started making fun of me. They only did it because they approached every game they played with the idea that they were going to be Master chief and automatically kick butt, whereas me and the neighbor I was usually teamed up with used a more tacticoool approach; the tacticool approach obviously had better results(not trying to brag at all, I got tagged allot just got more tags).

They shut up after awhile... It took some explaining about my future carrier choice and a little but of harsh words but they stopped. Really I just wish I would have shut up and taken it; they only keep doing it after they see some results that they like(people getting mad).

sticks

yea i get made fun of alot. people treat our hobby or sport as i call it like its not worthy of there attention. football players make fun mostly (im in high school).

slob212 wrote:

If you present the Hobby well, you will see the membership of your teams grow, or maybe even other teams will get started near you, believe me LARGE games against other Teams are alot more fun than always playing with the same bunch of friends.

Well said slob212.

This is the exact reason my team started off so slow but is now so large. We initially struggled with people taking us seriously, and we had to overcome the stereotypes of either playing "cowboys and Indians" or of playing with "dangerously-real looking weapons." For us the best thing we did to improve our/airsoft's image was to involve people. Show them airsoft is a blast and when played correctly, a safe alternative to the ever-so-popular paintball.

im glad that i can agree with bama sniper everyone i know plays airsoft or paintball here it would not be so fun being made fun of for that.(most of those who play paintball also play airsoft....sorry to say but im one of those people)

I'm made fun of for everything. People just don't like me in general. I follow Thomas Jeffersons Quote. " In matters of style flow with the current in matters of principle stand like a rock." I am who I am and airsoft is something im made fun of less. Well I talk about whatever I want and if people don't like it they can have a punch.

Unfortunately most aren't as fortunate as I , well anyway , airsoft is a great sport but I try not to go all over board whenever I talk about it .

I'm not been made fun of for playing airsoft... I've just been called addicted to it.

Haven't we all , lol .

I get made fun of by my bro and kids at my school because I talk about airsoft too much

i get made fun of by my friends who used to play airsoft but have moved on to paintball and called me a ***** for not wanting to get shot up with scar making paintballs.

I told my mom I wanted a higher end gun than a crosman and she told me paintball would be cheaper so I could not get one then I showed her what a derderder she was and she was cool with it

Same with my parents they didnt want me to get a gun over 50 bucks but soon they were cool with it.

There aren't kids in this neighborhood of mine so I don't get made fun of and at school(it will probley change next year when I am in high school) but yeah and when I do talk about it, it's with my team and only my team so people don't get impressions and what not. But my team has gotten bigger because a lot of my friends played and I listened to them (I've known most of them since kindergarten - 3 grade then there is Kill who I haven't even known for 3 months) Oh and Satan don't feel bad for people not liking you in general people HATE me there always trying to beat me up or something (part of the reason I always have a pocket knife with me to get rid of problems I don't want to have) well the main point I'm trying to say is that people don't make fun of me for playing because nobody really knows I play and the people that do and aren't on my team don't mind either because they have once played or I explained it well enough they see it as a non threatening sport.

P.S I am sorry for all of those who get made fun of.

Well its kinda strange but at my middle school almost every other guy plays airsoft.

I wish that was the same here in Colorado airsoft isn't all that big I think there's only about 3-4 fields here and 2 of them are indoor and my team doesn't play indoor so yeah we have to make are own stuff and finding other players is hard to.