Early History | Video Coming Soon!

How it started

My first exposure to airsoft guns was sometime around 2004 or 2005 when I was on a family vacation to Ocean City MD. While I was checking out boardwalk shops with my cousin, I noticed a spring powered 1911 with a small bottle of yellow bbs behind the counter. After about 45 minutes of my cousin and I begging my stepdad to buy us one he gave in, and I got my airsoft first gun. Later that day my cousin and I started having airsoft battles with our new, incredibly cheap, spring guns back at our hotel. The next day, my family took us to Ocean City Paintball where I got to play paintball for the first time. I was hooked on gun games from that day forward.

Fast forward to 2008, my junior year of high school. I had received a Tokyo Mauri M4A1 the previous year for Christmas but wasn’t allowed to use it yet since my family wasn’t sure where to let me play safely. Airsoft wasn’t as popular as it is now, and paintball fields were just beginning to offer airsoft open plays. My friends and I were determined to find a place to enjoy our new found hobby, so we took to the internet. To our delight we found other local teams in Maryland that had privately owned land to play on. We quickly realized that we weren’t organized at all, so we decided to create our team that still exists to this day: the Dogs of War Airsoft of Maryland (currently called Dogs of War Milsim). With the permission of our parents, we traveled to southern Maryland to meet the community.

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As a matter of fact!

We all know 2020 was a dumpster fire of a year- but it is also the year that I created my channel. My wife and our two sons traveled down from Maryland to West Virginia to visit my father and on a whim, I decided to bring my airsoft gear and my gun along just in case. I felt that I wanted to hit up Tactical Airsoft Arena (TAA) in Rockville MD for nostalgia while I was in the area. TAA Rockville and the Ranger Surplus store down the street were a major influence in my early airsofting life so I figured it would be fun. I decided that I would bring my old Contour Roam helmet camera to record my gameplay so I could record my experience.

After a few days down in West Virginia, I decided that I should try out a different field that was just a bit closer to my Dad’s house. So I set off towards TAA in Manassass VA, which was their newer location. I had a blast playing there and recording the gameplay. The videos from my visit to TAA Manassass are the very first videos on my channel.

I made a few videos, mainly of my gameplay at Tactical Airsoft in Connecticut with my friends from Ethan Allen Boys airsoft. But that had to get put on hold when my National Guard Unit was set to deploy to the Horn of Africa in March of 2021. I was able to squeak out one milsim event before I left, and I was introduced to airsoft helicopter missions down in Immokalee Florida. I had a lot of fun at that event, and it made leaving for deployment that much harder.