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Post by captainbrenandsten on Jun 20, 2010 19:19:29 GMT -5
i know this is not a gun but is it good and is it practical in a ww2 airsoft battle?
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Post by Adler69 on Jun 20, 2010 19:36:31 GMT -5
i know this is not a gun but is it good and is it practical in a ww2 airsoft battle? It's good , but the M18 Claymore Antipersonnel mine was not used during WWII , it is a weapon of the Vietnam War. Even tough the idea of this type of weapon was around during the end of WWII , the actual weapon was not made. So no , it is not a practical weapon for a WWII battle.
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Post by captainbrenandsten on Jun 21, 2010 8:50:10 GMT -5
however could they be used in place of the bouncing betty for the germans
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Post by Fusilier on Jun 21, 2010 10:12:04 GMT -5
however could they be used in place of the bouncing betty for the germans >> Umm no.Totally different type of mine. A bouncing betty pretty much did just that,you stepped on it, and it came out of the ground and exploded. A claymore is set off manually and sprays thousands of tiny pellets in a wide arc. I had extensive experience with them while I was in the Army. I see a pattern here,in one post you want to use a Vietnam era fild jacket,and now a Vietnam era mine?? Like I said,RESEARCH,RESEARCH,RESEARCH! Use Google, it helps,trust me. :-)
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Post by captainbrenandsten on Jun 21, 2010 10:55:34 GMT -5
well i assumed since m18 it was made in 1918, so i did some research and found out it was a Korean war weapon. but, i did know what a bouncing betty was. i am kind've new to all this ww2 re enactment where everything has to be period correct. i mean im not about to spend a large sum of money just to play airsoft with a group of people.
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Post by Fusilier on Jun 21, 2010 11:22:34 GMT -5
well i assumed since m18 it was made in 1918, so i did some research and found out it was a Korean war weapon. but, i did know what a bouncing betty was. i am kind've new to all this ww2 re enactment where everything has to be period correct. i mean im not about to spend a large sum of money just to play airsoft with a group of people. >> Just because it says M18,doesn't mean it was made in 1918. If you do not want to be period correct,or do the research that entails getting into WW2 AS,then maybe you should stick to modern,where it really doesn't matter what you wear,or what weapon you have. Some of us have been doing WW2 reenacting a long time,and have spent a LOT of money doing it.We do it because we love the history and want to recreate it as best we can,and as Accurately as we can. to not do so is in a way a disservice to the men who served.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Jun 21, 2010 12:39:22 GMT -5
The "M" series designations are a bit misleading and inconsistent. In some cases they do reflect the year of release while in other cases they reflect which iteration in a series an item might be. The Claymore that was finalized being the 18th design in a series of anti personnel mines. The one commonly issued in Vietnam being the M18A1 version.
The Supercell Development spring powered airsoft mine (and the Chinese copies) are in my opinion quite cool and very worthwhile for Namsofting as it was an iconic weapon from that era.
At this point in your pursuit of WW2 airsoft I'd avoid flowing into support weapons or accessories and focus on the primary impression and main weapon which are challenging enough.
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Post by captainbrenandsten on Jun 21, 2010 17:40:46 GMT -5
as much as i would like to re enact ww2, i just cant get into it because 1. few people in my area want to be like me, 2. im only a freshman-sophmore and dont have a job yet, 3. my friends that do play airsoft would rather buy an m4 or something that can mount an ACOG than a thompson, 4. whenever i show up with all my ww2-vietnam era gear i never really need it(example- i always end up just sitting in a bunker with everything so it doesnt get lost), and 5. my girlfriend hates it when i play airsoft as a German because she considers all Germans to be nazis, even when i tell her that the Whermacht were not nazis.
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Post by petermartin14 on Jun 21, 2010 18:15:08 GMT -5
im in 9th grade, and i dont have a job. just takes time and some lawn mowing.
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Post by captainbrenandsten on Jun 21, 2010 21:56:51 GMT -5
well yeah but money wont solve all my problems.
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Post by petermartin14 on Jun 22, 2010 6:16:42 GMT -5
never said it would
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Post by volkssturm on Jun 22, 2010 11:04:50 GMT -5
A trivial note on nomenclature (most of you know this already). From somewhere around the beginning of the US Army they designated equipment by the year it was adopted, thus the Model 1903 Springfield Rifle. Somewhere in the late '20's someone decided to change the year to a sequential number. So the Garand became the M1. I've often wondered what happened to the numbers between M1 and M14.
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Post by Adler69 on Jun 22, 2010 13:16:22 GMT -5
A trivial note on nomenclature (most of you know this already). From somewhere around the beginning of the US Army they designated equipment by the year it was adopted, thus the Model 1903 Springfield Rifle. Somewhere in the late '20's someone decided to change the year to a sequential number. So the Garand became the M1. I've often wondered what happened to the numbers between M1 and M14. The nomenclatures between M1 and M14 where used on the experimental rifles that Garand and Springfield worked on until the final product turned into the M14 rifle.
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Post by theloonygunner on Jun 22, 2010 15:13:40 GMT -5
I am also relatively new to ww2 airsoft however if you have problems with getting into it start with the basic stuff like a uniform and a weapon. Don't worry about mines yet, if you like it you can get the extra things like that at a later point in time.
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