Airsoft anyone?!

[SkunkPunk]

u wear titanium when u play this thing right?

[Spider]

The guns are usually made out of a strong plastic resin and some metal parts. But with a small kit and 30 minutes you can change it to practicly full metal.

The BB's aren't all that affected by the wind cause like pilgrim said the BB's are so small (still big enough to feel and see about 5mm diameter if not a bit more or less depending on the weight you get... you can get from .2g to .35 graphite coated heck to .5g.

My league plays in woodlands with some open field and that's why I want the M203. I really don't recommend the MP5 either... more of a CQC fights, but those leagues are kinda rare since you need to find a building of some sort. The desert eagle I don't recommend either. Simply because it's too large/bulky and heavy to carry around when you could get the same power from a M9 SF pistol or a Glock 17.

As for side arm this is what I'm getting



This pretty M92F Military. Will get a supressor and an underlight for it.

[Liquidtide]

Wait am I reading this right, you shoot BB's at each other in the woods?

[Pilgrim]

yup

Plastic bb's

They can welt pretty good, I wear my head gear from paintball, and wrap my neck in cloth

All the rest is just bdu's

You know when you've been hit, and it will on occasion leave a small bruise, but as long as you have no real bare skin, and eye protection it's shockingly safe!

No one of the group I play with has ever gotten hurt by being shot, falling off cliffs and tripping, but not from getting shot. (got about 150 guys local who get together in different size groups, then sometimes we get everyone together in the summer and do a camp out, night fighting, and day scenarios. Pretty awesome!)

And spider, if you are going to get metal replacements for teh AEG then I recomend just doing it yourself but if you do it for a GBB then strongly consider getting a shop to do the conversions (again, redwolf while pricey do really good work)

PAX

*edit

Sorry lingo allert

AEG= Auto Electric Gun (most rifles)
GBB= Gas Blow BAck (the non spring cock pistols)

[Neon Apocalypse]

this i wanna try, except my parents hate guns, they wont even let me play paintball the son of a bitches, well they wont let me buy a marker, but i can borrow one and play, but this airsoft thing sounds cool, i think ill get one when im older

[Everay]

just sucks that theyre so expensive, Paintball guns dont cost this much.

[Setari]

I have the same problem as Neon...also it never seems like anyone around here plays airsoft....

[Pilgrim]

Yeah, my rents were similar.

I bought my first PB marker at 19 and have never stopped. Although I now do more Airsoft then PB just because it's a bit more realistic (no spray painting while yelling "check yourself"

If you do play, get with a group of people who want a realistic environ, it helps... we all load our weapons to the spec max of ammo, not what the weapon can hold. Makes reloading, and spare Magazines a necesity!


As to expense, you can get a decent AEG for under 200... that's with all the trimings you need to play pretty competitive. You can pick up a Bolt action Sniper rifle, and a spring pistol for easily under 150.
And when in doubt just get a GBB for around 50 and play with that.

Compared to a good marker it don't. Last Marker a buddy of mine bought was $1200 or so. I could rig a primary and 2 sidearms wih mostly metal bits and tons of spares for that!

PAX

[Squick]

I assume it is all based on the honor system to determine who is "dead" right? Do any of you ever have problems with people not going "out" when they are hit?

Is it usually CTF games, or is airsoft played with a different scenario?

And lastly, I am assuming plastic BBs are nearly free right? Paintballs are cheap, but can still add up to $10 or $15 for a few games.

[Spider]

Airsoft has alot of scenarios... a couple of them:

Downed pilot: Big force after a downed pilot with leg injury, they can't kill the pilot but they can incapicate him and he has a pistol. Small force dropped off somewhere doesnt know where pilot his they both have radios and try to find each other to make an extraction or killing the opfor.

Corn field: Two teams or more are placed in random corn field areas, at the signal they go hunting for the other team(s).

Normal hunt: Two forces ram at each other... some rules are one death your out... some make you wait about 30 minutes then your back into action...


The scenarios are really up to the imagination of the group.

With 1200$ US I could get my M4A1 with all the mods the metal body kit. A full metal M92F with all the mods I need and the US woodland camo with tac gear.

[Pilgrim]

bb are cheap as long as you aren't buying tracers.

As to the honor system, well... all the people I play with are over 18 and kinda over the "no you didn't" mentality. It's just like wipers in Paintball. There will always be an asshat, but if they don't feel like acknowleding hits then you make them very aware you hit them.

As an example there was a guy who kept playing the "no you didn't" game (and it is possible to not notice a hit, we play it as the target acknowledges, not the shooter) but this guy was just being a tool. My entire team decided on a simple sollution to this problem. We all aimed low. Seeing as this noob didn't think to wear a cup to an event where things were flying at high velocity he was never able to deny a hit again. I also got the back of his neck a few times, it was exposed and left these lovely red welts. We didn't see him again!

But that really is the only problem we've ever had.

As to games, it depends. We play pretty much all the smae games as paintball, CTF, and King of the hill. But we'll also run scenarios and mission based games. that's just fun.

Durring large games we'll establish objectives, and you have to hold the objective for a certain amount of time. There is also a death timer, so after getting nailed you can come back...

But again it depends on your local play group, and the area. We go from organized to deathmatch of doom!

Very fun

[Spider]

Oh right forgot to talk about the cost of BB's.

The BB's go for about 10$ for a bag of 1000 .20g. you can get discounts for large orders about the same for the magazines... my league can get hi cap mags for about 30$ if we get 10 people to order. We can get bags for about 5$ since we order ALOT of it.

[Squick]

Wow that sure does sound fun... Are there any big airsoft fan websites that would post local events? I would have no clue where to look around the Detroit area for other people wanting to play Airsoft... And at $500+ for a gun, I won't be able to get 20 people together myself

[Spider]

Hmmm I know alot of leagues in Canada... but for detroit... sec... lemme do a quick search.

[Rbstr]

this sound cool, i'll have to look into it this summer after i get my job