I have never understood the fascination with airsoft and other replica guns.
Not trying to put anyone down, just wondering what the hell are they usefull for.
Are they just for fun? Can get kids into alot of trouble....
Airsoft is a way of essentially LARPing with toys that are meant to look realistic, teaming up with friends to play massive battle against one another. The difference between this and paintball is the fact that, the majority of paintball guns do not look realistic enough for people who want the hardcore look of military simulation. Airsoft provides this look while remaining cheaper in many aspects, since paintballs can cost nearly $70 dollars for a thousand rounds of the good shit, and a thousand rounds goes quick when your spraying it at 20 bps, a can of pellets goes for what like $15 for five thousand shots.
The only cons of airsoft is the fact that the magazines on many weapons have like 600 fucking shots, which is highly unrealistic. Also a man who spent like $700 dollars on some crazy gun which shoots air will out perform you while your cheap ass is using a fucking electric gun with a spring that cant shoot nearly as far or as many rounds per minute.
In this video the guy with the m4 variant(idk what kind of weapon it is, specifically) shoots like 300 fucking rounds from one simple magazine, while the poor bastard with the ak is stuck on semi auto. BTW at the 7minute mark, i will literally fly to your country and smack you in the mouth if you hold your handgun like that, ffs that is the worst hand placement i have ever seen, like he wants his fucking fingers to get ripped off by the slide or something if it was real. Worst part is, this is some sort of airsoft pro or some shit, who prolly has never shot a handgun properly in his life.
If you want to truly be realistic which was what i was going to do a few years back, its incredibly expensive is this below. You cant get much more simulation than this without shooting real firearms with a different firing pin and powder rounds(IE, also really fucking expensive). A paintball shoots a .68mm which is large, while these shoots a .43mm which is smaller and allows the barrel as well as the others components to be much more realistic(similar to what most airsoft junkies want). The .43mm shoots from a casing similar to how live ammunition shoots, which inturn ejects shell casings and gives you much more realistic magazine counts(around 20-30). Only down side to this is, you look like a clown trying to paintball with it, as everyone else has 200 rounds of ammunition, and finding people who are into simulation is tough, as meets are far and normally quite large, requiring you to drive and possibly stay a night or so to continue your war escapades. Also, as far as i am aware of, alot of things like this are banned in other countries, like Germany i do believe. Another aspect of this .43mm is that many of its weapons will give you a blowback simulation which is great for realism in pistols and rifles that you simply cannot get with something like airsoft, or paintball markers. Honestly this is as real as it gets for someone who wants to simulate, and i would tell anyone to go this route over airsoft.
This last video has nothing to do with anything above, its just for shits and giggles. This is what happens when you give russians tanks and paintball guns. The other jaunts have rocket launchers and are shooting them at the tank to simulate it being blown up.
