What's With All the Airsoft Pistols, Rifles, and Shotguns?

Airsoft is not a new sport per se but is not as widely known as paintball. It involves players attempting to eliminate each other by shooting plastic BBs at each other.

There are airsoft pistols, rifles and shotguns. The main difference between airsoft and paintball is that the bbs do not break therefore you have to use the honor system. This works just fine if you're playing with the right kinds of people. Airsoft started in Japan because the japans people were not allowed to own real weapons so the created replicas while airsoft did officially start in Japan I know my dad was playing a similar version with single pump bb guns (think red rider) and think jackets. Now we all realize the dangers of shooting metal bb's at each other (you'll shoot your eye out )but boys will be boys and in the 1950s this was just good old fun.

Well Japan figured out a way to make it much safer, although you still need to wear eye protection at a minimum, by using plastic bb's. The sport gradually progresses from flimsy toy like guns to full body replicas capable of shoot in up to 500+ FPS.

These guns are all fired in one of three ways ether buy manually cocking a spring such as pulling back the slid on a airsoft pistol or racking a bolt on a rifle. This guns can shoot very fast and be very accurate especial when set up as a sniper rifle.

The second way airsoft guns are fired is by electric motor. These are commonly called AEGs or automatic electric guns. These still use a spring but the spring is compressed by an electric motor and a set of gears as opposed to manually cocking the spring. When the spring is fully compressed it is released to push a piston into chamber thus creating a high pressure blast of air to propel the bb. The main advantage to the AEG is its ability to fire on fully automatic which means you pull the trigger and bbs come out until you either run out of bb's or your let go of the trigger.

The third way AEG's are fired is by the use of compressed gas sch as C02 or green gas which is a propane mixture. CO2 is used in some guns but the majority of newer airsoft guns us green gas. These guns are usually airsoft pistols but they are starting to make more CQB rifles and sniper type rifles.

Overall airsoft is going to be just as big if not bigger than paintball if my predictions are correct. The lack of a mess and the inexpensive nature of the ammo being the major factor also for the price of a midgrade paintball gun you can get a really nice airsoft gun

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