Airsoft Thread

[Cortexian]

I was more or less referring to a situation where you actually need to hang onto your weapon and get it back into a firing position quickly. Lets say you fall/slip, if you're experienced with firearms you should let go with one hand to steady yourself but keep the other hand on the firearm to make sure it's in a controlled direction and such. If you let go with your trigger hand it doesn't matter what kind of grip you've got, obviously. If you let go with your other hand though I'd have to say a pistol grip would be better, I stumble every now and then in the woods while hunting and the traditional style grips provide less of a control factor than pistol grips. I trip and fall quite often when playing airsoft when sprinting from cover and such, and it seems that a pistol grip is much easier to maintain control with.

That's my personal experience at least. Add that to the fact that I think they're more comfortable and I don't really have a reason to not use a pistol grip. The fact that shotguns have a higher barrel then rifles doesn't really matter if you know how to shoot properly.

[Spartan094]

So I heard California is getting its panties in a bunch and trying to pass a LAW where ALL AIRSOFT guns are CLEAR with orange tips. Wouldn't that hurt ASGI, Evike, and all other airsoft companies in Cali.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/...ed_sen_v97.pdf

Fuck that

[Cortexian]

If they're clear I doubt they'd need orange tips as well. And yes, that would ruin US retailer sales into those areas. If that happens the retailers will most likely do what our Canadian retailers did for awhile and get the "bad parts" in smoked/clear plastic.

See the follow for what I'm talking about:
http://www.007airsoft.com/products/htm/aeg-gg.htm

Just look at the full size images in the sub-categories on that page. They're really not that bad at all.

[Bodzilla]

air soft confuse's me.

you guys know it's not a gun, you shoot little pellets at people regardless of whether it's clear or not, because it's going to work.



Why does it even bother you.
is it the romantic fairytale around firing a real gun, does it hurt pretending when it looks less like a gun..... i dunno. wouldnt the end result be the only important thing here, why does it have to look like something else.

[Warsaw]

So I heard California is getting its panties in a bunch and trying to pass a LAW where ALL AIRSOFT guns are CLEAR with orange tips. Wouldn't that hurt ASGI, Evike, and all other airsoft companies in Cali.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/...ed_sen_v97.pdf

Fuck that

No. Fuck California. Arrogant sons of bitches, even by American standards. The government of that state can go jump off a bridge, and if they are so eager to set precedent and lead the nation, they can take the Feds with them, too.

Bod, it's not just about shooting people in a game. Some of us are as much into looking the part as we are actually playing the part. Some of us dump four times as much into looking compared to what we spend on playing.

[Spartan094]

Can you see this gun being smoked clear or even just clear plastic? It's just wrong to do that to a WW2 replica, the orange hider is obnoxious but hell its better then a full clear one.

I can't believe I was born in California, went down hill after I left

[Bodzilla]

but why are looks teh most important things :S????????

[Cortexian]

Because airsoft is about replicating warfare. The more realistic the better the immersion and the more fun to be had.

[Warsaw]

If you want to just shoot people and have a good time, play paintball.

[Bodzilla]

americans.