So, WHEN is it OK to “cheat back?”

I hate those guys. You know the ones I mean? The guy (or it could most certainly be a girl, however for the sake of this rant, it’s a guy) who is on the other team that NEVER admits he’s been hit, the guy who has ALL the gear and can’t play for, um, crap. The Cheater!

Now the sport of Airsoft is, by and large, a sport of honor. Airsoft players have to say “Yep, I’m hit” put your arms in the air and walk off. It’s what the whole sport of Airsoft is BASED on, and I will always do my utmost to follow this belief, even there are those that will fudge a little her and there.

But then comes “that guy”, and as he tries to sneak up on you, you nail him 2 – 3 times good. I mean DAMM you can see your bb’s bounce off him. So OK, he has alot of tactical gear on and he probably couldn’t feel it. So you squeeze off a few more rounds, again clearly nailing him, and you put one or two on his knoggen . . . just to get his attention and ‘help him’ to know he’s been hit.

Nothing . . .

So, here is the point where I feel it is really OK to bend the rules as much as the cheater is clearly doing. This is where I feel you have to take advantage of what my Ju Jitsu Professor used to call “a teaching moment.” So in an effort to teach this obvious FNG (F-ing New Guy) that he is outside the rules and needs to pay better attention, I will flip the switch to the rock n’ roll setting, and hold the trigger down and do my very best to empty my mag on the guy until he can do nothing other than squeel and RUN off the field.

 

Mission accomplished!