Airsoft - What do You Think?

[shartley]

Re: Price

Originally posted by MarineRDNC
About Price: How can you say airsoft is espensive and shouldnt be over $100? Paintball is BY FAR hell of a lot more expensive. I mean good god, it's some metal molded and milled to look cool and shoot paint at high rates of speed. I've seen car's go cheaper than some paintball guns. AN ACTUAL CAR. A giant piece of metal, that transports people places. Think of all the work that goes into making an engine and the interior and exterior of a car. I mean I love paintball and everything but prices are freaking crazy!What do titanium boomsticks cost? Like $150.00 if you're lucky? A freaking barrel, a piece of metal! It's outrageous. The only way airsoft compares to the price of an expensive paintball gun (angels, timmys, matrix, emags, etc.) is when you get into the SAW's (Squad Automatic Weapon) or an M-60. They are crafted exactly like the real thing, weight and all, and hold around 1,500 rounds in it at a time. They are the ones that cost about $1,000 bucks or more.

I can not argue with that at all.....

[Minimag1268]

i personally like it because it is a cheaper way of playing paintball or if there isnt a game on for the week.

[hAppy]

airsoft make people violent
some people end up thinking that they re reallllllly kool now w/ their GUN. plus you can totally take over a bank w/ airsoft guns and thats why they should be banned

its severly stupid to carry one around or display in your house. its ok w/ pb cus your gun doesnt seem to look normal or intimidating. airsoft is just freakin scary. my mom would beat the **** out of me if she saw one of those in my house. anyone who doesnt know about airsoft will see an airsoft gun as a real gun. this is where the cops come into the picture...

[MarineRDNC]

Originally posted by xXhAppyAznXx
airsoft make people violent
some people end up thinking that they re reallllllly kool now w/ their GUN. plus you can totally take over a bank w/ airsoft guns and thats why they should be banned

its severly stupid to carry one around or display in your house. its ok w/ pb cus your gun doesnt seem to look normal or intimidating. airsoft is just freakin scary. my mom would beat the **** out of me if she saw one of those in my house. anyone who doesnt know about airsoft will see an airsoft gun as a real gun. this is where the cops come into the picture...

This is why I said what I said before... airsoft is for adults or mature older teens. MEANING... people that it is meant for should use it in the same manor that you would a real gun. And almost always airsoft guns are sold with orange/red/yellow tips on the muzzle. I'm 16 years old and I own 2 airsoft guns, numerous bbguns, and 4 REAL guns, 2 of which are assault rifles (an M4-Carbine, and an AK-47). And because I am a mature teen, I wouldn't brandish my real guns in public nor my airsoft guns. You mentioned that you could hold up a bank with an airsoft gun. Well thats true, but I could also go into a bank and hold up the bank by slipping the teller a note saying I'm going to kill everyone I see if she doesn't give me all the money in the vault.

So what I'm trying to get at is that it's not what you have and what looks real, its how the person acts. Ever heard the phrase "Guns don't kill people, People kill people" This goes in to affect right here.

[~WarpedRT#2~]

It isnt expensive? I've seen MP5 replicas for sale for $400. I know some are more. It is expensive, if you want it to be. It's like if you buy a $30 airsoft gun, thats the equivolent to a BE Talon in paintball. I see sniper rifles for $300 and up. That is alot for a bb gun.

Edit: Oh yeah, found several machine guns, most over $1000, one is actually over $2000, and many sub machine guns for over $500.

[Dubstar112]

Ive tried airsoft. Never played in a real big scenario thing, but me and some friends did run around the neighborhood shooting eachother. (prolly a bad idea, but in the name of fun i wouldnt hesitate to do it again...)

[logamus]

i like the idea behind airsoft. my fav field where i play is a very close quarters urban setting. i like the idea behind airsoft and the training and simulation aspect, but something about it makes me think it should be left to police and military people. i personally feel that the realistic nature of the guns used is only going to cause problems. stories of kids shooting up cars and storefronts with paintball guns are fairly common, that only gets worse with airsoft.

one of the hosts of the morning radio station that i listen too reccently bought his oldest son an airsoft gun. and like kids will do his son and his friends were playing around in the neighborhood. someone saw a "person dressed in all black and carring an m16" and they called the cops. then the cops had no idea they were airsoft guns and drew his sidearm and had a kid on the ground.

now i realize that airsoft is intended to be played in managed areas and such, but we all know that paintball guns are only discharged in safe areas too right. i personally wouldnt be upset at all airsoft was sold the way actual firearms are.

[Sir_Brass]

Originally posted by logamus

now i realize that airsoft is intended to be played in managed areas and such, but we all know that paintball guns are only discharged in safe areas too right. i personally wouldnt be upset at all airsoft was sold the way actual firearms are.

Fine with me: I'm old enough to buy firearms, and since I won't do anything illegal with an airsoft gun OR a real firearm, I don't mind having "gun registration" for my airsoft guns if I ever get them. Just don't make me pay a buttload of money for the registration.

[�.C.]

airsoft is cool, I've played and it's fun. But having whole masses of people using the honor system can cause problems. All in all airsoft is fun and it a cheap alternative to paintball

[845]

Me and my friends just have airsoft fights in the house they are like big kid nerf guns. It usually starts with someone saying lets shoot the target and then someone gets smart and shoots someone else with the gun some place where it will hurt like the hand or toe and then it turns into a war.

[LaW]

I had an airsoft gun when I used to intern at a software place. We would go around having shootouts in the office


When I was a manager in fast food there were some people around my age working there that gave up paintball to play airsoft. I got in numerous arguments as to why airsoft will never grow tot he level that paintball has grown too and these kids would argue against that without any possible reasoning behind it.

Sure if you just play paintball in the backyard with a couple buddies everyweek its a good alternative... but if you play paintball a lot more, weekly lets say and play out of state etc... I just cant see it replacing paintball in a mainstream kind of way

[p8ntballsnowman]

I just run around my backyard with 20 spring pistols with some of my freinds, and its a lot of fun. Although you can barely feel it from more than 15 feet away. Its also really fun to buy the mini electric guns (about 25$ full auto, and runs on a 9 volt battery) Its perfect for inside running around the basement. Their no way i would ever seriously take it up, just because not many people play, and most of the people that do play play in the woods. I also dont like the bbs, because sometimes you dont even know if you are hit. It could have easily bounced off a wall, or the ground. I know if you are playing with spring guns, and wearing anything thicker than a t shirt from more than 20 feet away you wont feel it. Its just not worth it to spend lots of money on it in my opinion.

[mag-hatter]

i think airsoft is pretty spectacular. i used to be a blockheaded ignoramous about it because the only airsoft gun i'd ever owned when i thought that was a pos spring beretta but then i got a better springer and started playing with my friends more and now i have a TM ak47 which is by far the sexiest gun ever and now i think airsoft is up there with paintball. dont get me wrong i still go paintballing its just that airsoft is about hmmmmmm lemme see.........40 bucks less than paintballing is and the cops dont mind if you're shooting in your backyard because its just little plastic bb's.

[The Deacon]

I tried it last weekend, I was a bad guy for a tactical indoor competition.

Here's what I didn't get: they made the bad guys chrono under 250 to not scare the airsofters, but they all got to go to 300. They were the ones wearing full swat gear, we were just in normal clothes. It was sad, you'd pop up right behind a guy, unload a clip on him and he'd just turn around and nail you. I was like 10 feet away, MAYBE. That just pissed me off.

Honor systems just don't work, expecially in a competitive atmosphere.

And no, I don't think they hurt any more than paintball until this punk 13 year old blasted me with 13 bbs at point blank at 300 fps (and full auto was illegal, thanks kid).

I will admit that I had fun, the bad guys I was teamed with were really friendly so we had fun in between games.

I might pick up a spring loaded shotgun and get it to chrono 300 and play bad guy whenever they host those events but paintball is where it's at.

[Chojin Man]

Originally posted by ntn4502
its very childish, I stopped playing with toy guns when I was 7.

lol what do you call a marker then?