Handle: Riptor
Name: Daniel
Position: Operator / Recon/Scout
How you got your Handle:
One of my favorite video games growing up was a fighting game on SNES called Killer Instinct. The first 
character that I played as was a dinosaur named Riptor so I just kept it. I was no good at fighting with him in the game but I was a big Jurassic Park fan so I HAD to like the half man half dinosaur character. I still think he’s cool.
History and Experience:
I started playing airsoft in November of 2000. I was a freshman in high school and all my buddies though I was some kind of crazy person for going off and buying all of these realistic looking guns. I started out with 5 springers (MP5SD, G3, Desert Eagle, Uzi and Baretta). That Walmart M9 was one of the infamous airsoft pistols they sold made by Daisy that eventually got their butts sued because they didn’t have orange safety tips. I instantly fell in love with the game even after all the shots my friends and I took to the face because we didn’t know about “hop-up” or what that meant. We played night games all over our neighborhood in Bel Aire until it was almost 5 in the morning. We later got ourselves some gbb pistols and the richer few of us got AEG’s. My first game outside of the hood was at Froghollar in the fall of ‘04 and I was only packing my KJW G27 and a Mac11. It was still fun though. Then I invested in an ICS M4 in the spring ‘05, helped organize WRAA, and played continuously until I left for a 2 year church mission to the Fiji Islands. Yes I did find some airsoft guns there and yes we did play some around our flats. It was a great feeling to come back home and play again for the first time in February at frog and see some familiar faces. I guess I played pretty good since Lotone approached me at the following Frog game and talked to me about joining Stac82. I originally had my eyes set on joining Darkhorse but things changed and this is where I’m at now. And boy am I having a blast. Even though my team thinks its rediculous how fast I go through guns and calls me the team “gun pimp”, I’m enjoying the team and the sport!
Ops Attended:
Operation Midnight Rodeo- Austin, TX
WASC-Wichita, KS
Operation Counterstrike-Derby, KS
Arsenal:
KJW Silver M9
Classic Army Aug A1
Uniforms:
MARPAT
Tri-Desert
Tri-Woodland
