It’s funny when I first started in airsoft I ran with this cheap $50 OD rifleman style static vest for years, yet I purchased a lot of guns so I could build a collection of toy arms. Now after 8 or so years playing it’s the complete opposite, I have little interest guns (I almost only ever run the PTW as my primary and swap between the TM MEU & Glock 18C for my side arm) however I find myself wanting to tweak my load out all the time! I don’t know if I am considered a gear whore as I don’t go for a specific impression but rather I am always interested in tweaking my gear to optimize for efficiency.
That’s my main direct action load out at the moment (minus camo and boots of course), I have others for greenside/low profile/civilian but they’re not as much fun to tweak lol. I’m pretty happy with what I have at the moment however I would like to replace the single smoke grenade pouch on my back with a two Pantac AI Tornado pouches (no real branded pouches exist to hold those things). Other than my 7 year old belt, replica S&S Precision LBT 6094 kangaroo insert and Madbull MK18 Mod 1 rail unit everything is real (um except the guns too lol).
I think if I had to do it again, I would get all real gear right from the beginning, I experimented with repro/replica gear at first to try to save some money and was never happy at the quality. So many times repro stuff has fallen apart on me in game, sigh but you know what they say right buy cheap buy twice.
Oh Mario and I also swapped foregrips and now I have rails on my Real Sword Type 56-1.
Even though I like AKs, I have never gamed them but now that I have rails on the Type 56 I would be more inclined to. I don’t know what type of rail this is, frankly it’s not what I was looking for but it’ll do for now. I’ve been eyeing this Midwest Industries AK rail but can’t find a retailer who will ship to Canada. For skirmishes it doesn’t matter what gun I run but I can see situations in mil sims where having Eastern bloc weaponry would be useful, that and now I can bolt on my flashlight and PEQ box for night operations. 😉
Sigh it never ends… I guess there are worse things I could spend my money on, at least with airsoft I get some exercise. 🙂
