How long have you been an Airsoft player?

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How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Less than 2 years
43
21%
2+ years
61
29%
4+ years
34
16%
6+ years
31
15%
8+ years
17
8%
More than 10 years
21
10%
 
Total votes : 207

Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Kendodude » Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:48 am

All started when I bought a TM SPAS-12 from a FLAC member in 2002...

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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby weasle8877 » Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:31 pm

Late 2006, not counting the many years of backyard games before that. OP: SP was my first big game.
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Darius137 » Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:03 pm

I started playing in 1986
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Junto » Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:15 pm

DRAT started springer-warring in 2004 or so before we formed the team in late 2005. Started playing with AP in early 2006.

6+ years.
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Ivan Daylovich™ » Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:38 pm

Airsofting for almost 9 years.
Been with AP for 7.
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Nox » Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:15 pm

Since 2001, started playing at a field down here that had rental gas Mac11's and got hooked.
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Captain G.H.O.S.T » Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:19 pm

Since 2004
No. 5 RAC

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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Lunchbox » Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:23 pm

June 2006 I believe
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby chapped » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:10 am

December 2005
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Heretic » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:09 am

2004.
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby VogonFord » Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:56 am

Summer 2008 I started playing with airsoft guns other than springers, then CQC7 in 2009 was my first real game.
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Switch » Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:41 am

Late Summer of 2005.
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby nb » Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:06 pm

A lot of people are saying different dates than their join dates.

I smell shenanigans!
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby McNair » Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:40 pm

nb wrote:A lot of people are saying different dates than their join dates.

I smell shenanigans!


What does your AP join date have to do with when you started playing airsoft?
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Re: How long have you been an Airsoft player?

Postby Matt » Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:53 pm

McNair wrote:
nb wrote:A lot of people are saying different dates than their join dates.

I smell shenanigans!


What does your AP join date have to do with when you started playing airsoft?


Uh, yeah. The website database was dropped several years ago and we started from nothing. So even if people were part of the community before then, the join date would not reflect that. Also, that doesn't account for folks who played in other communities for several years. Besides that, some folks here pre-date even the original existence of AP in 2002. I didn't ask, "How long have you been part of the AP community?"

Interesting factoid, this forum's start date is: Fri 26 Nov, 2004 3:32 pm. But AirsoftPacific.com existed before that as a custom forum I created in 2002. When it became popular and it became apparent that my hand-made code sucked, I switched to phpbb.
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