nerf....

I had my first gun set at the age of 4-5, my dad even bought us a cowboy hat. It came with a belt, bullets and a spring fire revolver. 

it looked something like this one..

My brother and I have some real fun during those old days…Safety was my parents major concern and we were told stories about kids playing with toy gun and accidentally shot their eye leading to blindness. My dad often damage the spring or just hide the bullet from us. Well, I am a great fun of shooting game since then although I am not a great aimer myself. 

When I started getting my paycheck, I had been collecting air gun. However, it was not playable in the house as it was far too dangerous. The nerf gun provided another option, but yet it was merely a toy when it was initially launched. I had a few nerf guns when Xian was young but he was not that keen playing with it at that moment.

However our new 4^th floor had been our shooting range lately…Xian and me had dug out our old nerf gun since January. All of them are still usable after 2-3 years of being stored. We had tried to fire everyone of it, including the vulcan, stampede, maverick....it was fun but yet it could be better...

I had however googled over the net and found some new edition.  I had gotten myself a slingfire and a sledgefire.

The slingfire is considered a dream gun for a fan of rifleman tv series.. I was 7-8 years old then when RTM(Radio TV Malaysia) aired the series; the main character Lucas used a Winchester model 1892. The pull and load feature easily scorched in my mind; and old gun but could fire with style.

The sledgefire mimic a leveled action shotgun; another classic. The down part is that it only come with 3 shells and is no practically usable in a nerf war…

When Xian returned from Malaysia, I had added a mega centurion, ecs-10 modulus and a rapidstrike cs-18 to my collection.

The mega centurion was a struggle as there were so many negative reviews but yet just can’t help it when you have already owned a longstrike and longshot…

ECS-10 and Rapidstrike were good for CQB run in the house due to their autoloading feature. I had made 12 targets from the wood left over from the renovation. Just scatter them around the 4^th floor and volla; Xian and I could enjoy an IPSC like scenario. ECS-10 is better than Rapidstrike as Rapidstrike waste a 18 rounds magazine in 4 secs; lots of reloading needed. It is far more safety using nerf gun than using BB gun when playing in the house.

Playing with a 13 years old child in the house is fun as long as you have the proper tools. Most of the parents I knew don’t share common interest with their kids (minus mobile device of coz). They lost their ties with the kids after primary school and some of them got into trouble later on...

 I picked up what I had left out during my childhood and share it with my kids. It was nice sharing memories with them and it pulled us closer to each other.