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Air Soft Guns

CameroonCameroon Member Posts: 702 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
Has anyone heard about young children, ages 10 - 12, playing games
with air soft guns that require the user to wear goggles? My boy
wants one of the guns but I found out they play war games with them
intentionally shooting at each other which is the reason for the
goggles. Is this a scaled down version of paint ball gaming? I've
been told the other boys' parents know how the guns are being used.
Comments please.
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  • CameroonCameroon Member Posts: 702 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, you not suppose to put them in the suitcase [:D] TSA will take them away [:0]
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  • CameroonCameroon Member Posts: 702 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can you ship airsoft guns by usps? I think they shoot b-b's
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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Alot of my daughters friends go "airsofting". with googles, I feel it's alot more harmless than the great BB gun wars of my youth!
    2 pairs of sunglasses and 3 pairs of jeans in the middle of summer got a little hot and they really didn't stop the sting of a BB!!!!!
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  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    they use plastic bbs (usually 6mm) AFAIK they don't hit as hard as paintballs, so a full face mask is not rquired. However, airsoft will still put an eye out so shatter-resistant goggles are a must.

    A lot of airsofters wear skimasks (a la cliche terrorist), "delta force" helmets(like in Blackhawk Down), fake (plastic) k-pots, etc. but that is primarily to aid the military simulation look and not so much for protection.
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  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Theoretically airsofts are deliberately designed to be low energy, but it depends on the exact model. The power of these is restricted by law in Europe, but some of the guns available in the USA can be a lot more powerful, and I am certain that these more powerful ones can cause eye injury at close range, so eye protection is an absolute MUST.

    I have one of the most poweful spring-air pistols. I deliberately shot myself with it at 1 inch distance just to test this, and I can tell you firsthand that it left a painful welt/blister at absolute point blank range. It will put a dent into an aluminum soda can to give you some idea of the power. Again, most of the airsofts are NOT this powerful, and the energy drops off pretty quickly with range with the light pellets.

    To answer the question, yes kids do play wargames with these, and they are exactly like paintball, only the range is a lot shorter, the guns are less accurate and powerful, and there is no paint. (You can actually buy mini-paintballs for airsoft, but I dont know how well these work. . .Id guess not very well). You can probably think of airsoft as a much safer variant of BBs.

    Pretty much anything you'd want to know you can read about here:
    http://www.answers.com/topic/airsoft
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  • meunkemeunke Member Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here in kansas city there is a large group of us that run arisoft milsims:

    www.kcairsoft.com

    If you REALLY want milsim, check out this: Operation IRENE III

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3817213100467821104&q=operation+irene
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    A standard is about 275-300 feet per sec for Airsoft/Hardball

    And when you have plastic pellets from 0.12 and 0.20 gram at the lowest and 0.35 and 0.40 gram at the highest. 0.20 and 0.25 gram pellets are the most common.

    But even at 300 feet per sec - it hurts like heck, will put blue marks (looks like a zit) on you if shot on thin clothing or bare skin - it can crack teeth and destroy eyes.


    Some AirSoft/HardBall guns can be tuned up.

    My M4A1 electric rifle had about 28-30 pellets per second at 280feet per sec with 0.20gram pellets before I gave it a tuneup. In case you're wondering, it'll give you one heck'uwa'lot'of'zits as standard.

    Now it ranges in at 475 feet per sec, about 23-25 pellets per sec and with 0.25gram pellets. That just gave me about 50feet extra range and will still put nasty zits on my opponents.

    I have to be carefull - because closer than 5-8 yards, I can break the skin of my opponents. So anything closer than 10 yards - I just aim and call out.


    Airsoft/Hardballguns can with standardkits, get tuneups up to 650 feet per sec, with 0.20-0.30gram pellets.
    Those are nasty as they will also break skin, crack goggles and at closer ranges than 10 yards - the pellet will sometimes get stuck under the skin.


    Mind you though - they are NOT toys when meddled with and after tuneup.

    ALWAYS use protection - even when shooting at objects. Plastic pellets are notorious for ricochets.


    I was surprised to see I could shoot straight through an empty soda/beer-can at 15 yards.
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