Im Drew, and I live in Eastern WA. I belong to multiple communities, though I'm partial to Eastern Washington Airsoft, because they are who got me started going to the bigger games!
I started, like a lot of airsofters, as a plinker. Yes, Ill admit it, I bought my fair share (Okay, a lot more than my fair share) of the Wall-mart 'Soft Air' guns. I played with my childhood friends in our backyards, shooting at each other with springers.
I refused to accept that there was an airsoft industry more than what we were doing. Even to the extent of creating my own airsoft community on Facebook. 'Next Generation Airsoft', we planned airsoft games under names like 'Operation Flying Ninja', for over a year. It actually can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ngairsoft/ After a year, every active user on the group either grew up or left. I held on to NGA like a fleeting memory. I couldn't let it die!
But then I let it. And it was awesome. As scared as I was, I went to an EWA game at the 'Barn', And it was the coolest thing i'd ever seen. There were over 15 people there! (Yes, I know how ridiculous that sounds, but I was young.) I started going to EWA pretty regularly, and I started to meet people. Let the record show I thought most of the EWA guys were scary.
A magical time arose, I had been reading all I could about the airsoft gearbox, and how you can tinker with it and make it preform even better. My first 'real' gun, A G&G Combat machine, seen here:
I was All excited to crack open that wonderful box of mysteries and do all the things I been reading about! Thats always how it starts, isn't it? So one day when I was especially ambitious I headed up to my dads car show to get tinkering. I took it slow, as I think we all do at first, and when I that gearbox finally exploded open and the spring guide flew across the room, I had realized I had let the cat out of the bag.
Three hours later, I figured out how the gears went. This was slow going. I worked long into the night, assembling and testing. To no avail. I read all I could, but it turns out I forgot to take into account the sector gears starting position. So my timing was WAY off. Also, I had thrown my motor across the room in frustration, so that didn't help. One new motor and sector timing correction later, it was running like a watch. I was proud, but more happy that I got it working again. My Investment of 120 dollars for a combat machine was all I could do at the time.
I actually built the gun off a design I saw in RedWolf TV's 'Custom gun under 300' Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5xL_moaEY
Of course, I built it for less. I loved it.
I had a fever, I wanted to build more guns, MOAR GUNS!
But, I had no money! Darn money. So, I'd buy random boxes of parts, and throw together as many guns as I could.
Here is and old pair.
Slowly, the Redwolf custom Esc. gun deteriorated. Slowly begin sold off, traded, and put into new customs. Which were then sold, Thankfully, I had snagged a VFC M16 for 100 bucks just before that. It was my baby,
It ran well. For a long time. In that time, I had been going to EWA games pretty consistently, and was finally making a name for myself. I had met a local guy with ambition. Long story short, I ended up on a team. 'Task Force Kilo'. I searched for more realism in my weapons, I longed to go GBBR. So when an opportunity to trade up the VFC for an upgraded WA GBBR, I took it. Sadly, This happened right before winter, so I only got one game out of it before I realized winter is coming up, and I needed a gun that would work. So now here we are, the present. Yahoo. Isn't it wonderful?
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