| For many years, most of my Saturdays
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| | After severalhours of online research,
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| would consist of aterrible ritual. I
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| | much akin to going to a sports bar and
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| would begin with the loading of my
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| | asking what isthe best football team, I
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| paintball CO2 tanks intothe trunk of my
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| | had ordered my first airsoft gun.
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| car, and begin the search for the one man
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| | Needless to say, myfirst experience with
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| within thirty milesthat could bring my
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| | airsoft was a painful one. I will not
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| precious equipment to life. While
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| | bore you withanother online order horror
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| compressed nutrients werebeing supplied
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| | story. Even though, my first experience
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| to the tanks, the search for an unbroken
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| | with airsofthad shaken my confidence, I
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| and fresh box of paintwould begin. Some
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| | braved the online world once more with a
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| days the gods were receptive and my
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| | second morefocused order with a different
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| ritual would be completedin an hour or
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| | retailer. After several days, my order
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| two. Usually, the paintball gods would
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| | arrived,and my initial hopes were
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| put obstacles in may pathto test my
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| | confirmed. The accuracy, power, and range
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| faith.
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| | that my newairsoft gun displayed were
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| After many years of dealing with the
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| | nothing short of amazing. How had I not
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| fickle paintballgods, I now worship at
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| | discoveredthis before now? I felt as
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| the altar of airsoft. I will be held
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| | though a great secret had been kept from
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| hostage no more tothe tethered tank to my
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| | me. It wasnow apparent that I must give
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| side, nor the fragile paintballs that
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| | praise and monetary offerings to my
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| must be handled asthough they were
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| | newlydiscovered hobby.
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| transplant organs. My Saturdays now
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| | Armed with my new airsoft gun, I set off
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| consist of sleeping late,loading one thin
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| | to convert theworld, starting with the
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| bag into my trunk, and taking a leisurely
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| | ones closest to me. For most of my
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| drive to the field.
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| | comrades theconversion to airsoft was
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| Rechargeable batteries and solid plastic
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| | immediate, with some offering to purchase
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| BBs have replaced hazardous
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| | the airsoftgun on the spot. Needless to
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| compressedgases and fragile, expiring
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| | say, the arrival of airsoft at our
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| paintballs. Much as the car has replaced
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| | paintball fieldthat day delayed the
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| the horseand carriage, airsoft will have
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| | starting time severely, and within two
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| the same effect on paintball, mind you
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| | short weeks allremnants of paintball had
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| that youcan still see a stray horse
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| | been removed from the field and our
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| around every once and awhile.
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| | possession.
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| My conversion happened almost overnight.
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