Should Airsoft Clubs Subsidize Their Members’ Expenses?

By: Ferdinand Sy


Those mineral-filled polypropylene 6mm bb pellets are not exactly cheap and with Airsoft gaming sites often situated in areas quite far from city centers, so gas money can be an issue. Not to mention that your regular site has been lousily located where you have to drive more than 15 minutes just to buy lunch, and this is starting to look like a very expensive hobby. But is it right for your Airsoft club to subsidize “some” of your “ammo” expenses? After all, if you’re not around, with whom are they going to play with?

Currently, I’m a guest member of a “foreign national owned” Airsoft club who gave away free premium 6mm bb pellets to its members if we members promise to “swear allegiance” to the club owner’s country during times of embassy real property taxation disputes. Given that his country is socialist leaning, he should set a good example to his members. After all, some of the members are army regulars of the country in which his embassy is situated. Thus serving a very novel way of gathering “intelligence” of your potential enemy’s tactical mindset.

Our “foreign-owned” Airsoft club had been further proselytizing us members these past few months by providing free lunch – but only on weekends. Sometimes I wonder whether this is a fiscally viable way to run an Airsoft club, but if this keeps everyone happy, then so be it. After all of those running around in the woods evading 6mm mineral-filled polypropylene bb pellet “gunfire” can sure built up quite an appetite for us players. The free access to the owner’s real Kalashnikov collection for live firing in their rifle range every end of the month weekends would have been incentive enough for some to be a full-fledged member.