Airsoft Whiners: Part Deux

I've explained my hobby of Airsoft here before so I won't go into that much detail as to what it is.  Go back and read Airsoft Whiners the first for the details.   Here in Middle Tennessee, we have one brick and mortar airsoft store called "Nashville Airsoft".  You would think a retail store would want to promote the sport as being a safe one, but all these guys seem to want to do is have a "mine is bigger than yours" contest.  They run games of their own at the Bad Karma Field where I play, but they don't use the Bad Karma rules (a big part of why I will never attend one of their games).  The speed and power of an airsoft gun is rated in FPS; or Feet Per Second.  A standard assault rifle AEG (airsoft electric gun) usually shoots around 285 fps to 330 fps out of the box.  These guns of course can be upgraded to shoot a bit faster.  People, wrongly, believe that faster means farther.  True, a .20 gram plastic bb traveling at 350 fps goes a bit farther than a bb traveling at 285 fps, but it still loses kinetic energy when it gets to it's destination.  Kinetic energy is what makes the target feel the bb hitting them and what makes them raise their hand calling themselves hit.  What will make the bb travel farther is a tightbore barrel.  Also a longer barrel.  A tightbore barrel gives the bb more spin (think the rifling in a regular firearm) thus more sustainable kinetic energy.  The longer barrel means it is sustaining this energy in a controlled space where it is kept constant for a much longer time, therefore it travels further because it has more "umph".   The standard rules on the BK Field are like every other field I've played on.  400 fps for regular riflemen with no range limit, 500 for snipers with a 100 foot limit (trust me at 500 fps, at 100 feet it will feel like 400 but still hit you) and SAW's at 410 fps (their high rate of fire causes the piston to lose some fps) with a 25 foot range.  These are good, safe distances and speeds and all that one needs honestly.  It is well known that every time you start to upgrade a regular AEG higher than say 415, it increases the risk of you frying the motor, striping or freezing the gears, etc, etc.  Basically crap starts to go wrong more often.  The guys that run this store, NA, have a no FPS limit at their game days.  Their whole deal is to see just how high they can upgrade a gun.  I've heard reports of people being called whiners because they lost it at an NA game by being shot point blank in the back of the neck with a gun shooting 600 fps?!?!?!  I'd be pissed too.  That's like getting slapped in the back of the neck with a bullwhip.   One of the many reasons I won't attend one of the games they run.   If that ever happened to me, it would go from guns shooting plastic bb's to me pinning the guy to the ground pounding his face in.  It's unsafe and uncalled for and it disgusts me that this is a retail store who's lively hood depends on the sport.  Idiots.  Now they have been having these delusions of starting an "Airsoft League" where teams take on other teams for bragging rights I guess.  Sorry man, this ain't paintball.  Alot of former paintballers play airsoft because they like the whole mission based objective style of play.  Not team A on this side of the field and team B on that side, ready, set, come out shooting.  It's stupid, and you might as well just go play paintball if that's what you want to do.  They have been making asses out of themselves "calling out" other teams.  The good teams: Bad Karma, OpForce and my own team The Order have ignored them.  We don't like that crap, and frankly we have nothing to prove.  It's a damn hobby.  We are out running around with realistic bb guns playing "army" for Christsake!!!!!