Today I was shopping for a birthday gift for my mother and came across a cheap Smith and Wesson airsoft pistol at a sporting goods store. Impulsively, I purchased it. It’s a nice solid gun, it looks exactly like a real pistol. (So it will be staying in my room exclusively.) It came with a target covered in this sticky gel-pad, which the pellets stick onto and then can be caught in a tray and re-used. I placed the target about 30 feet away.
Having never fired a handgun before, only rifles and shotguns, i was surprised at how well I was able to hit the target. Using the sight-irons, I consistently hit the bull’s eye with the 6mm plastic pellets. How similar is the accuracy of one of these airsoft guns to a real handgun? It would be nice to get a real handgun some day and target-shoot, but there’s no shooting range in my town.
The sporting-goods store also had an airsoft AK-47 which was very heavy and solid and cost hundreds of dollars. It was labeled as a “competition” rifle. Are there really airsoft competitions?
That is pretty badass. I’m assuming it’s automatic, then?
It is really annoying to have to cock the pistol after each shot. I wish I had a semi-automatic airsoft pistol - how much would a good one cost me? Also, reloading the clips is a huge pain in the ass. You have to hold down a little lever and manually push the pellets, one after another, down the slot in the clip.
I’m not familiar with the revolvers. I assume they just work on spring pressure from cocking?
The MP5 has a 200 rd mag. Basically you just pour the BBs into the top. There’s a roller on the bottom that winds a spring to push them up. Unfortunately mine isn’t working. I need to get a new one (or two). The MP5 is automatic. It will also shoot semiautomatically.
As far as how much a semiauto pistol runs, it looks like a Marui starts at about $129. (The MP5 is a Classic Army. I read somewhere that they’re ‘upgraded Maruis’.) Here are some Marui pistols.
No, it’s not a revolver, it’s a regular 1911-style pistol. It looks more or less like this one (but without some of the modifications in that picture.)
That Beretta is really nice. Are the really hardcore airsoft enthusiasts (the type who would use such a complicated weapon) basically people who wish to have the thrill of firing a real weapon but are restricted by their property, lack of a firing range, or simply don’t want the risk of accidentally injuring someone else?
The Beretta is actually a blank gun, rather than an airsoft. (And an expensive one at that. About $3 a round!)
I bought the MP5 as a movie prop. A little CGI and some audio and it would work. It’s fun for blowing the heads off of dandelions, and a lot cheaper than a real gun. Sure, I’d think about getting a machine gun if they were allowed in this state. But there’s a lot of paperwork, they can cost five figures, and the stimulate the economy too much. (i.e., I’d be buying thousands and thousands of dollars in ammunition.) I can take the MP5 out in the back yard and have fun with it, and all it costs is a little electricity and some plastic BBs.
