Just curious about the Old-Timers?
 

Hey guys, I was wondering if any of the guys that were around era pre-2008 are still around? Like Tru and Illusion, the London and Toronto guys that used to play outdoor games at Flag Raiders are still around and playing?
Would like to come back to the game and get back in better shape, but don't want to be the only old fart there.

TRU has been Missing in Action. There was a rumor that he now own an island somewhere and he is treated like Royalty.

Illusion is around, would come out once in a blue moon, literally.

In other words, yes we are still around. Broken, grumpy, and still kicking ass. You should come out and help us push all the wheelchairs!

Most people that played on regular basis when I stated moved on or moved out of the area. I saw Wildcard about a year ago at local CQB night, I also see one/two guys who started Vietnam theme years ago but I see them at living history events, don't know if they come out to airsoft games.

Wives, Businesses ... real guns, real games .. many have to pick and choose their time and place to participate, time is at a premium.. but many are still around

Kids, friggn kids. And the wife. Should have been a hermit

Old?

Real steel has won me over mostly. Did a lot of airsoft in my younger days then joined the CF for a few years. Now I have kids and I'm out of the CF I find myself looking to get back into airsoft

out of the country for several years. Back now

Hey Splinter, you are from the area... did we ever meet?

Old flag raiders, you say? Kitchener, you say? We probably met at a few games. I've been lying low in airsoft for several years due to being busy at work but am now getting more active again.

Who dare awaken me from my slumberhttps://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...59&oe=5713AC2B

Well, if you played with a guy whose wife also played along side him, that was me. Hell, she was just as deadly as most of the guys were, I have to give her credit for that.
Well, we are split and I have alot of nothing to do, so I think I am going to be playing this year as much as I can and try and get myself in a bit better shape.

Anyone that is going to Mondays indoor Flagraiders game, can you bring a charger? I cannot find mine.


PS. Nice one Maddog.

LIES! We still have him chained up, on a steady diet of week old slight moldy bread, and moisture from an old leaky led pipe in the sub basement of ASCmart. You would know this if he invited you to his ultra secret limited person FB account!! We are still trying to figure out where he is hiding the device he periodically logs into with, but the last person who attempted the body cavity search (Illusion) is so rarely seen in public anymore from the mental scaring we did not want to lose any more old guard airsoft players.

first time I come here in years and I see this thread...
I'm into motorcycles now.
I kept the gear though, just in case.
I don't feel like shooting bbs anymore...It feels stupid... :( what happened ?

its unexplained, but you need to see a doctor and have them scan for tumors...

Airsoft was causing more stress than fun.

I got into a Arma 3 group to fix the craving.

I then got a house and a kid.

I'm still around too. Don't say much or get out too often now but did take my son to Ultimate Airsoft a few of times last year to introduce him to airsoft. Otherwise, it's the once/year with Force Recon to the US for a big event (wife permitting, of course).

This is neat seeing how many of us are still around after all these years.

Old Guys yeah, most are still around just not playing. or posting. Some are now Bottle feeding, most got a job, a car, a piece of ass, and a pain in the neck. Its been soooo long now some are returning to the game. Try an Old Timers Name Game. Third World used to host games at Sgt Splatters, and what was the name of the guy who was a Mod here that was team lead on Phoenix Connection?

This thread has me thinking, perhaps in the spring I should host an "old timers league" game at finch field.
Get some of you guys who have been away a while out without all the newer younger guys around so we can "kick it old school"
I know I haven't been around as long as most but I also know that a lot of you guys were the guys kicking around here and at the games I started at and I miss the "good old days" (as many have heard me complain) when everyone knew everyone and we could all shoot all day and drink all evening with no hard feeling because we'll there were no bad calls lol.

but who will cover the knee surgeries and hip replacements that will follow?
who will push the wheelchairs through the woods?
What about the pacemakers? don't wanna break those

We used to lay at Flag Raiders nearly every weekend with the same group of guys and had the time of our lives.
There was a time when we would go out and play all day and go back to the restaurant where I worked and had a few beers with dinner after the game and just unwind before having to drive home.

Add to that, TRU was even a guest at my wedding. I still have the wedding gift he gave me 15 years later...

But ya, at 43 years old, I am thinking of starting to play again. I am just waiting to find some parts for my MP5k to have a working gun.

Have to admit I had alot of fun with those guys and am hoping that I can find the comradeship again like the "old" days.

Still Kicking, just don't use AK's as much.

People happened.

That or getting wiser, but I doubt it's the former :D

When you started airsoft, it was the guns that drew you in, after a while and thousands of BBs later, it was the people that kept you in, as some of them drifted away there was little left to hold you.

You can find it again, but I find the "mature" players need more of a challenge, More immersion more of a deep and sharp break from their day to day reality.

For me, I found WWII reenacting, It feeds the need and eliminates the "techwars" that is a feature of today's airsoft scene. No cheaper that is certain, but far far more fulfilling, with the added feature of learning about History.

I guess I'm still around. Started a store now. Play a heck lot less now due to other life obligations.

Guns got cheaper and are more abundant. Walk-in stores are in every major city centre across the country.
Parts got cheaper and better in quality.
Fields got a lot nicer. Lots of indoor and outdoor options.
Communities grew. Airsoft Canada used to be the only place to gather. Local forums and Facebook groups are everywhere now.

This is the ASC I miss.

A lot of the guys I know are getting away from it due to the "Facebook" Airsoft scene going on now.

Brian's pretty much nailed it.

For me, I miss the old scene. You did stupid, you got treated stupid. No baby gloving. The maturity level was higher.
It's also now just a game of "pay2win", so a lot of us just severely limit where and when we play.

I remember showing up to my first game in mid 06........ If you had a 203 and some Tri-Colour desert with a skateboard helmet, you were the cool guy (it was ASC's Black Hawk Down era)

We need you old guard guys. I love the nigh vision and all that but what I hate. is the Fakebook dude bro airsoft attitude. I started airsofting to escape it. but it's trying to follow me. the Cod kids and like attitude needs to be purged. I don't even do most open days or super busy events. I cant stand seige Saturdays.

I'm glad you guys are still around.

also picked up a K98k and mp40 recently still looking into WW2

do people still play at flag raiders? that was some of the first airsoft games I had attended.

Not one of the old guard (in fact, I'm a complete greenhorn compared to you oldies :P), but yes we do, both the indoor and outdoor field. Outdoor season's been over a few weeks already, so indoor just started to ramp up, although honestly, Siege is lightyears better than FR indoors. FR outdoors is a great GTA outdoor field though.

Could be worse... Like siege Sunday's... D:

Still active but like previously mentionned, free time is premium shit with busy careers, kids, ect.

I don't play as often because it seems the good quality games are way behind us. I always scan for good games during the season and i'm always disappointed and end up not moving my ass for a game during the whole year.

I guess i'll die old school.

I have known Joe at Flag Raiders for 2 decades. I am sure that if we got 20-25 guys on a weekend during the winter he will let us play.
Back in the old days we didn't let a little thing like winter stop us from playing.
All we need to do is pick a date and see how many guys will sign up and then talk to Joe about opening the field.



Just curious, but was anyone here that played that full weekend game in Ottawa. I think it was in 2000 or '01.

Well hi there, still around after leaving for a while. Now I'm just ultra picky about the games I attend.

well Hi Back!!!!!

..... Ronnie

Same as everyone else really. Mind you I'm not as old school as MANY on here but got a job with the railroad so my time goes to work, family, and then I just try to see as many friends as I can.

But every time I go out I find there is less and less respect between players. Guys who open up on you after you flanked them and tried to do the right thing and mercy them to avoid nailing them from close range.

All in all things change, time gets less abundant, and life happens.

There is quite a few of us 40+ rolling around in our wheelchairs at UA on Friday nights. You are welcome to join.

Checking in. Yay me.

I'm not old. I am just well seasoned.

Hey Malinak,
you still have my french camo that you stole from me for a ridiculous price?
:D


BTW anybody besides Primus remember Capital Thunder, the original in the Marlborough Forest?

I might win 1st place for the youngest oldtimer award!! 26 and going strong, as for the rest of the old boys I think we might need a defibrillator on the field if there was to be a oldtimers game. Maybe oldtimers vs noobies milsim..

So many names I remember are suddenly starting to appear. I remember my first 2 airsoft guns were from the pimp himself TRU TM mp5a4 and mk23 NBB

I missed out on the first one but attended CT2 though. Wonder if any of STAT still exist? Poncho? Still lurking around here?

I've been here all summer.

I do still have and wear the camo. Use the hat daily for a work hat. Beautiful camo.

Wha...old timer? I'm only 33...feeling 50 no thanks to my 2 kids, and work, and paying down my home, car...shit I am old.

STAT is no longer operational. Poncho wanted it that way. Some have moved on with real steel, others have family, others chose to serve and very little of us left still active within the community and have evolved.

Good to see ya here Kwokwai, hope family is doing well!

Poncho will probably post later. You know, he's always late for everything! Lol


I do, still have some old school photos somewhere too. Not to mention when we nabbed you during OPERATION Centra Spike. I remember you saying, "are those moving bush?"

Ah man, old flag raiders night games good times... Driving home after fueled by nothing but Bawls energy drinks and a cd folder full of offspring...

God! Has it been that long ago. Capital Thunder, Rigaud, Rawdon with the Dogs of War ops...You got to post them buddy. I'm afraid that I've really turned into a chairsofter and might not be able to save myself. I keep telling myself that I will play but always find an excuse to not go. I just peek at the after action reports and cry abit for not going.

When I joined ASC, I was no-where near old enough to play... and now when I see names like Snow Dragons, Contras, Phoenix Connection, FoxDen airsoft, the LZ and others.... shit does the nostalgia hit me hard. I wish I had been old enough play in those times :/

I joined at 16 I remember names like that. I'm really glad someone does. the local scene in Durham or the Facebook scene made me fear too many of the people from the good old days didn't play anymore.

Bruce!!!! What the hell man! You're alive! Last I heard they try to bury you but I guess that was not successful. I'll have to dig up those pics. It's so old that the government has it in their archive folders! lol

Whatever happened to ZeonPrime and TokyoSeven?

Zeon is still kicking

Zeon has been lying low in the last couple years, he will be back out there soon, I'm trying to get him out to a game

How do you get the "old guard" out? you start early, you plan long, you select who comes. you expect half to jam out last minute.

in short you INVITE them.

LOL,
the oldguard is so old that they are newbs now.

Damn...

I am old now.

Nah maybe second youngest. 25 here. Joined when I was 14 and read as much on airsoft as I possibly could from you guys.

also I cut my hair

im still here - no one cares.

rip peter kang.

agit prop? vondnik?

usually see Agit pop into the admin section once a yearish says hi then disappears for another year.

TokyoSeven is still around, but his/her/it's tomoahawk has been missed on the field for a few years.

ZeonPrime still alive, I saw him post not long ago that he was looking to become more active this year again.

I need to get back out there and meet up at a game, then we can all go to a Mike's afterwards and make the waitress work for that late night time tip with all the food we order.

This was so loud it woke me up.

Miss playin' with ya buddy!

I heard Vondnik got into real steel. I think he's the one who sold me my first AEG way back in the day. It used to be owned by a guy named Hellranger IIRC. A lot of history in that SOPMOD I have...

Did anyone here ever hangout with Kampfer? He's a cool guy. I think he's still around and goes to the odd game here and there but his job keeps him real busy. I talked to Optix a few months ago, sounds like he's a super busy dude with a career now. Willie W. from SpecArms isn't allowed to have contact with the community anymore but I remember someone mentioning that he's involved with JDM imports now.

I thought Will's no-contact thing was a condition of his two years less a day?

I was under the impression that it was more of a permanent ban (in addition to getting a PAL and owning RS) but that's all just hearsay unless you actually read the cases' sentence and conditions. So shame on me for spreading some FUD. I did hear from a pretty reliable guy though that he is doing car stuff now and the guy mentioned something about JDM imports.

Was Malinack at OPCT 1? Man if you were able to score a set of ultra-rare fatigues off of Pockchop then you certainly earned some rep points there.

Still around, got into Hockey but slowed down on the ice time the past year - would be interesting to get out to some of these local indoor places.

Best times were all the road trips to Ottawa, Rigaud, Rawdon, and other epic locations in eastern Canada - sometimes the trip there and back was just as fun as the event.
We had an OP CT 2 Pbase account a long time ago, I am sure those photo's are out there somewhere still if you go searching for them.

You can still visit the Marlborough Forest - I took a detour there on my last road trip. Worth the extra route!

I'm still lurking bud - hit me up on LinkedIn if you need me lol

STAT is dead. Like Stryker said. We have evolved. It's way better on this side.

Holy crap SINN, you're still around? I bought my first gun from you in 2008. It was a WA SVI Infinity Hybird. I still have it btw :)

Vondnik is indeed in real steel today. He's also a huge fan of offroad with his Jeep.

Hellranger is a player that passed away a couple of years ago. It was a shock to the whole Quebec community (including myself).

Missing the old time in the Pit with you guys Poncho !

Well things like that can be a terrible monkey on your back. From what I remember he seemed to be a pretty cool guy online I'm on the other side of the country so never met in person or anything plus I was like 16 or something when I made this account. I actually still have that SOPMOD sitting around in more or less unmolested condition.

I'm into downhilling, motorcycles, cars, and homebrewing now so lots of other things to keep me busy.

Old but still in it
 

God, I remember PQAC with Raven!

I think the only guy still here that I know is drake, and I have been in and out of airsoft. I've only gone back really for the milsim and nightfall games, but my main issue is finding people who want to play in my area.

God, 47, I even remember playing paintball with CO2 cartridges, but airsoft just clicked for me.

I remember when Tru was the only good way of getting new airsoft in!

Damn, I'm getting old.

I still have my old PQAC card!!! Number 0005 :p

Snake out ;)

I haven't even found time to charge a battery and shoot something n my garage let alone game. Would be fun to get out sometime soon. Has popularity grown in the "sport"

Malinak... That's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time...

Damn, the names in these posts. I am now one of the old geezers too *sigh*

You're still around?

I got pretty busy with Airsoft Innovations, but I still poke my head in here once in awhile.

Just curious about the Old-Timers?
 

Malinak... You popped into my head about a week ago. How weird is that? I'm still here. I remember you. You might remember me.
- meta
- meat
- Sean


Been here doing this shit since 1998. Like the rest of the old guard, been doing it since most of these new "veterans" we're learning how to use a spoon.

Man... so many familiar names that I haven't seen for so many years. I remember the golden era of airsoft in Canada *tear* :'(

Remember when you could buy an airsoft gun, put in upgrades and it'd be worth more when you sold it?

Remember all the times the sky was falling and we buried said guns in our backyards?

omg, that's where i put them.
Brb

Oops.

I almost miss the annual sky is falling threads.

Some of the best threads were the rallies to rush parliament hill with petitions and demand justice for our rights. Really brought out the flavor in the community! Especially the differing perspectives from Easter vs. Western Canada. The 41 pages-in-2-hours threads were golden to read.
Never has justice.ca been quoted more during those times.

I was a lurker back then and still am from time to time. This thread makes me feel nostalgic and old :(

All of you PLEASE comeback. Unfuck what airsoft has become.

holy crap look who crawled out of the basement. long time no see dude.

Yes indeed! After nearly 13 years I'm still alive and kicking and glad to see you are as well.

So sad that all that crazy traffic has been cut up into little pieces and scattered across social media accounts. No more super otaku fever posts consolidated in one text searchable place.

Agreed I hate this Facebook shit, can't find what you are looking for, impossible to reference old info, no tips and tricks for mods threads, track a local game schedule impossible.

I am not that interested in going through everyone's posts to see what they did with mary joe rotten crotch this week just to find a game or be constantly asked to take this online quiz test so you can authorize the company to steal all your personal data.

There is much to be said for having a dedicated resource that removes the clutter of other bullshit we don't need to see.

Now back to watching my CRT TV and VCR in the basement ;)

Wow... you guys actually got the princess to post something!

Some of us are still around, I've been out for several years, but I got back in touch with some of my old team mates, flash and brakoo, D.O.W. ftw. Actually coming back this summer, just need some guns now!

I am enjoying my 8 track, and typing this on MS DOS. lol

IF IT ISN'T MR. P, still rocking the Fahrenheit?

We should meet up at KK sometime.

:)

Yep, still got the pumpkin! :)

If you dont remember me, you must remember my wife coming. She was the only woman there that played as one of the guys. We both had such a great time that it kept us in the sport for the next 6 years or so.