Greetings from Airsoftireland!

SpykerASI

Hello there every one, i am spyker from airsoftireland.com

we had one of your members here provide us with a link to these boards and its a cool place!

airsoftireland.com is a dedicated place for airsoft in ireland, both north and south.

if any of you guys play often you are more that welcome to come up north and play at one of our sites.

i no that there are a large group of lads from dublin that come up to the north almost every weekend!

Check out our forums.

Spyker.

(if possiable could a mod or admin please sticky this post, cheers)

Sparks

Stickied. Not sure how AirsoftIreland.com, Irish-Paintball.net and Boards.ie will all come together, but I think it's better to at least know there are multiple forums (fora?) rather than have three communities with no contact.

bniall

Yep welcome guys to the new world of airsofting in Eire. I have been airsofting now for 3 years up north and i can ask most questions you can throw at me.

If you have questions about certain aspect such as health and safety, which gun manufacturer is best, which is a best starter gun, what happens in a game, why do you like it etc etc etc i can answer them well. please feel free too ask.

and to settle this boggling question straight no 6mm paintballs cannot be used in AEGs (automatic electric gun) or any other type of "AIRSOFT GUN". A cheap £30 bb gun is NOT an airsoft gun and never will be, beacuse they break, they are rubbish ad they are not airsoft quility. Airsoft is a safe sport even though you see in the papers girl killed by idiot with air rifle, airsoft sites enforce strict rules on the game and it is stopped the second anything bad happens, secondly like paintball guns airsoft guns should be only used in designated playing arenas.

Airsofting was created in Japan as an alternative to paintballing, Japan has extraordinarly strict rules governing guns and airsoft guns. For instance in the last month retailers and manufacturers where arrested and fined for selling dangerous guns. Japan has much stricter rules than England, Scotland, Wales, northern Ireland and Eire so that these guns are quality and very safe if used properly and in proper regulated conditions just like paintballing is.


And this problem has been plaquing paintball sites for years. Is there actually an airsofting minigun and the answer is actually YES!

http://www.pipersprecisionproducts.com/

SpykerASI

I have been softing for over 5 years and i am one of the 4 founding members of airsoftireland.com

before the birth of the forums last year we used to use www.airsoftcommunity.co.uk but airsoft in northern ireland grew at an alarming rate! So we needed our own space, and the rest as they say is history.

We now have 3 well played extensive sites that our users play on mostly every weekend.

I am the Super Moderator of the ASI boards so, we have 3 admins as well. I would consider myself an offical liason/embassador.

any questions, please visit our site! my username is Spyker.

kdouglas

hey guys, nice site you have there

SpykerASI: nothing personal but i find it irritating that you felt the need to introduce yourself in every thread which you replied to a with a link to your website and also continually refer to ASI, you have a stickied thread and a link in your sig? is that not enough? "Pimping" of your own website is generally frowned upon on alot of other forums here on boards.ie

Other than that, hello!

Vexorg

Im wondering why this is stickied.

if its a useful resource then add it to a resource sticky, it would seem to be aimed at getting users to their forums, which could result in the creation of this forum being a bit of a waste of time:)

Vex.

Sparks

I stickied it mainly so the new Mods would be well aware of it vex; the three communities don't overlap that much...

kdouglas

gotta agree with vexorg here, if everyone disappears over to ASI, this forum will be a waste of time...

Sparks

Thing is, ASI is mostly Northern Irish lads. ROI lads have a sum total of two threads over there.

Personally, I've no oar in the water here, but I do think that since airsoft is only starting in the ROI and paintball is hardly well-established outside of the few commercial interests, it would behoove those interested in the sport not to simply dismiss any resource - and whether ASI or Irish-Paintball or Boards.ie winds up being "dominant" won't matter so much as whether or not the sport prospers.

Besides, Boards.ie is a far more general site, with a *lot* more users, and so is more likely to be spotted by wandering, airsoft/paintball-curious newbies.

bniall

have changed/removed ambassador part

i have also made chages to allot of my posts on asi and appologised aswell

i feel like a right little f**k atm and to say soz to the asi guys and the mods here as i was in a pretty big hangover over partying my as levels

sorry to all if they feel offended/confused/irritated

but i stand by my post to be helpful to those with airsofting qu's

SpykerASI

kdouglas wrote:

hey guys, nice site you have there

SpykerASI: nothing personal but i find it irritating that you felt the need to introduce yourself in every thread which you replied to a with a link to your website and also continually refer to ASI, you have a stickied thread and a link in your sig? is that not enough? "Pimping" of your own website is generally frowned upon on alot of other forums here on boards.ie

Other than that, hello!

Sorry to rumble the cage.

ditpaintball

Sparks wrote:

Besides, Boards.ie is a far more general site, with a *lot* more users, and so is more likely to be spotted by wandering, airsoft/paintball-curious newbies.

sparks is right there. if some one has a general question about either paintball or airsoft, then no harm in asking it here. but if the answer requires a more experienced person to deliver it, then go to where the experts are.

just on a note of integration, i passed a few ideas onto the boards.ie admin a few months ago, but got no reply so i left it so.

Sparks

Unstickied as a more closely related thread to the topic of interest (how boards.ie, ASI.com and I-P.net work together) has started (and has been stickied).