THE EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Airsoft Action|November 2020
AMONGST THE AIRSOFT ACTION TEAM WE HAVE MANY TALENTED “TECHS” WHO ARE UP TO DATE WITH THE VERY LATEST INNOVATIONS, BOTH MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL, THAT MAKE UP THE “BEATING HEARTS” OF THE AEGS THAT WE SEE EVERY DAY … AND THEN WE HAVE BILL, A SELF-PROCLAIMED “TECHNO-LUDDITE” WHO KNOWS HIS WAY AROUND A GEARBOX, BUT WOULD MUCH RATHER BE SHOOTING THAN “FETTLING”! SO WHEN WE RECEIVED THE VERY LATEST “V2” MODEL FROM SPECNA ARMS, WHO BETTER TO HAND IT TO?
THE EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY

It’s true you know… I hate technology! It may surprise you, but for someone that works exclusively in digital publishing these days I don’t even own a smartphone, preferring instead a “burner” whose battery lasts for months on one charge and that I can make calls on! Sometimes I have even been known to send a “txt” …whatever that is!

It’s a bit of a standing joke amongst my friends and colleagues, that I’m as “tech averse” as I am but the fact is I’d much more be experiencing life, rather than watching it on a screen! I am old, that is true, and I embrace technology as a tool to do a job but if it ain’t useful to me, than I ain’t gonna bother! I prefer to stay happily non-conformist and if truth be told, I do like to disappear “off grid” at the drop of a hat too!

So when the guys at Specna Arms told us that they had the “next generation”, or V2 EDGE Series AEG for us to look at and that it was full of new electronic wizardry worthy of the most discerning (in my mind some kind of cyber-Gandalf-esque) user, then we advised that we would dearly love to see it and I would arrange for one of the “youngsters” to check it out. However, when we got into our production meeting to decide who would be looking after what this month, the “Specna V2” was sent my way, the reasoning being that if I could work with it, then anyone could…

Suffice to say I soon found myself at my office PC, muttering under my breath, whilst trawling through numerous websites and pdf documents to actually understand what I had in front of me.

DON’T BE FOOLED BY APPEARANCES!

This story is from the November 2020 edition of Airsoft Action.

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