There’s an old saying that goes: “It doesn’t matter how much you polish a turd, because in the end it’s still a turd.”
Well, to update such a wise and clever saying, if you polish a turd, it’s no longer a turd – it becomes this.
An airsoft shotgun. But not just any airsoft shotgun, but a Chinese knockoff airsoft shotgun. That surprisingly, did not work at all as soon as I opened it up and gave it a go.
It was 50% off, so in the end it was $26. Now I can think of several other ways to drop $26, but I couldn’t resist having a cool looking toy shotgun that didn’t look like the kind of crap they sell at the Halloween stores. I kind of knew it was going to be a piece of shit when I bought it; it was obviously a Chinese knockoff, being sold by Chinese guys, at the sad shell of what was once a Borders, but even I didn’t think it was literally going to break, or was already broken when I took it out of the box. Another subconscious reminder was the obvious declining of plastic BBs for the gun; I had little belief that I was actually going to use it for shooting of physical matter, but it’s like I knew that this was going to be a piece of shit, and couldn’t justify the necessity for 5,000 pellets.
In the end, despite it breaking as soon as I opened it up, and taking about almost two hours to fix it back up, it’s still a cool looking prop, which would go great with the Gay Chris Redfield costume if I ever decide to bust it out again in the future. But man, does shit like this really sour me to even the most counterfeit of Chinese knockoff merchandise.
