Not a fan of any of the airsoft or paintball type LARPing that entail shooting other people. Watching youtube vids of millennials having meltdowns and going postal on each other is kind of amusing, though.
I had that M1 carbine air rifle. The one you cock by pushing the barrel straight back? Daisy I think but I’m not sure. It looked good but it was pretty weak.
I also had (still have) a Marksman BB/pellet pistol that looks like a 1911 .45.
I was out with a friend with our BB rifles in the fields around the RR tracks just hunting and shooting at whatever. I had the Marksman in a holster my belt. A railroad guy (inspector?) stopped us to ask what we were doing and give us the “railroad tracks are dangerous” spiel or something.
He noticed that .45 lookalike and his eyes got real wide. “Is that real?” he asked. I couldn’t believe how startled he was. We were 13 or 14 I’d guess but I thought “why shouldn’t it be?” After all, I knew how to handle a gun and we might be approached by some sketchy guy. Like him. lol