Airsoft - What do You Think?

[mag-hatter]

oh the smell of ignorance

i love how people make their judgements off of kmart spring pistols when they dont have any idea what airsoft guns are capable of. just give me a second to explain. airsoft guns can be upgraded to shoot 550 or even 600 feet per second. 280 hurts, let alone 550!!!!!! i've been shot with a 450 once and it was terrible, so there is no problem with pain. the thing about airsoft is, there is no chopping whatsoever so you can buy the biggest spring you want (and back it up with the right internals) and you can have a gun shotting up to 600 fps. here is my gun, and here are some airsoft pictures from me and my friend.

[mag-hatter]

my arm

and my friend's arm

[Recon by Fire]

I haven't played airsoft but have seen others play. I'm sure it would be just as much fun as paintball. I can see why it is not as popular as paintball though becuase it strikes to be a simulation and not just a game.

Some airsoft players have a little chip on their shoulders though. At a local field, I was talking to several airsoft players who were out there playing. One of them made a comment directly towards me about how airsoft was not like paintball because they had honor and were not cheaters. That little teenage brat almost ate an x-mag that day

[brianlojeck]

Honestly, if you play Paintball using the same attitude and tactics used by Airsoft people, it's a hell of a lot more fun then just Airsoft IMHO.

The main difference is they are supposed to call themselves out, but there are cheaters in Airsoft just like anything else.

As usual, the difference is Ego and Attitude.

[xXHavokXx]

We have airsoft guys buying Dye Balance gear from our store, so they dont flinch. My take on airsoft: It is where paintball was 14 years ago, the new fad is airsoft on paintball speedball fields, why? No idea. I have alot of friends that are hardcore airsoft players, and mostly I think they play Counter Strike too much, everyone seems to be a sniper, or a asssault entry point man, or a flank machine gunner, but if you're gonna play war you can leave out the logistics personel like the guy swho get the ammo to you, the guys who purify your water, who run the radio, the administrative assistant to the general, and the cooks. Seriously, some of them take it too far. One of them thinks he's delta force material but refuses to join the army, so he dresses like them exactly, carries their m14, puts bricks in his backpack equivalent to what theirs would weigh and the whole nine yards. I'm like join the damned military if you're such a good delta force canadate. Besides the honor system that doesn,t work, alot of it is simulation on imagination. Nerfballs are grenades things can be defined as explosives, people can write class IV body armor2 on their undershirt and hey it's class IV, even scarier is some people say that if you buy body armor you can have it count in the game so kids are buying kevlar. So now you have kids training in combat tactics, wearing body armor, using realistic guns, wearing simulation uniforms (sometimes ultra realistic) and what does this look like to you.......

[mag-hatter]

Honestly, if you play Paintball using the same attitude and tactics used by Airsoft people, it's a hell of a lot more fun then just Airsoft IMHO.

The main difference is they are supposed to call themselves out, but there are cheaters in Airsoft just like anything else.

As usual, the difference is Ego and Attitude.

the other main difference is that there will never be sup air style airsoft tourneys with homo colorful gear and everything because the guns are alwasy going to look like real guns and it just wouldnt be the same as the sup air homo tourneys. same tactics? you cant have the same tactics in airsoft because the guns (on simi auto, which is required for fields) you cant shoot as fast, and the guns shoot straiter and farther, with scopes that are actually useful and whatnot.

[coolcatpete]

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The only thing I like Airsoft for is to re-live my "cool toy gun" childhood. I might not be able to own a real steel AR-15 or AK-47, but I can own an exact copy that shoots 6mm BBs. I just think Airsoft guns are cool toys, thats about it. I'll stick to paintball for playing.

exactly, I use my spring airsoft pistol (which I won at a paintball big game) just to mess around with one or two friends, in the backyard...

Airsoft is not an alternative to paintball, completely different game. airsoft is all about "bang, bang, I shot you! your dead!" you dont play to win or lose, its just fun messing around with a replica gun!
Its very cheap if you stay with spring guns (infact I'm purchasing a $65 dollar steel (gold color) desert eagle soon, Most of the time I just go outside and play around with it...