Choosing an Airsoft Electric Rifle (AEG)

Recently Tracy and I have been getting a lot of calls and emails all asking the same thing:

 

“How do I choose an Airsoft Electric Rifle?”

 

Well we have to say that this is one of the hardest decisions to make as it involves not only research into other people, like the manufacturers and their quality, but also research into yourself and what is your ‘perfect’ style or variant. In most cases that is the place to start, as WHAT you are looking for will greatly affect which manufacturer’s AEG you buy

 

We have recently added an article on Choosing and Airsoft Electric Rifle to our Airsoft Information and Articles section that should help the newbie, or FNG as I like to call them, make a solid decision and get a good AEG that will last them for a long time. So go check it out, and go get yourself a good one!

So, WHEN is it OK to “cheat back?”

I hate those guys. You know the ones I mean? The guy (or it could most certainly be a girl, however for the sake of this rant, it’s a guy) who is on the other team that NEVER admits he’s been hit, the guy who has ALL the gear and can’t play for, um, crap. The Cheater!

Now the sport of Airsoft is, by and large, a sport of honor. Airsoft players have to say “Yep, I’m hit” put your arms in the air and walk off. It’s what the whole sport of Airsoft is BASED on, and I will always do my utmost to follow this belief, even there are those that will fudge a little her and there.

But then comes “that guy”, and as he tries to sneak up on you, you nail him 2 – 3 times good. I mean DAMM you can see your bb’s bounce off him. So OK, he has alot of tactical gear on and he probably couldn’t feel it. So you squeeze off a few more rounds, again clearly nailing him, and you put one or two on his knoggen . . . just to get his attention and ‘help him’ to know he’s been hit.

Nothing . . .

So, here is the point where I feel it is really OK to bend the rules as much as the cheater is clearly doing. This is where I feel you have to take advantage of what my Ju Jitsu Professor used to call “a teaching moment.” So in an effort to teach this obvious FNG (F-ing New Guy) that he is outside the rules and needs to pay better attention, I will flip the switch to the rock n’ roll setting, and hold the trigger down and do my very best to empty my mag on the guy until he can do nothing other than squeel and RUN off the field.

 

Mission accomplished!

When it Comes to Gas Airsoft Pistols, Gangasta Shooting is BAD

I was reading through another Airsoft Forum/Blog and a person asked why his BB’s were all turning left when he shot it, and I laughed so loud Tracy actually looked up from his latest video game to see what was up.

 

Well, it turns out he was shooting “gangsta” style, meaning the weapon rotated 90 degrees to the left. The reason for the BB’s all turning left is of course the hop up. It is designed to put back spin or ‘lift’ on the BB to flatten its trajectory. Well when shooting with the weapon tilted you are now throwing curve balls down range.

 

So we decided to test this out and see how much it really turns. So we gassed and loaded a mag and started shooting and I can honestly say we were both very surprised at the results.

 

1 – The BB’s didn’t really turn left as much as they did down. From 30’ I was able to “make baskets” into a trash can. This made us contemplate the why down instead of left, and we are still drinking, um, thinking it over.

 

2 – Most surprising was the fact that the gas leaked badly when shooting in this style. Upon considerationit is obvious that it would. The gas in the mag isnt’t all gas, but it’s “mostly” gas and some liquid that will become gas as the pressure drops. With the mag tilted 90 degrees the liquid gas is able to leak as the gun cycles.

 

So, the moral of the story is shooting “gangsta” style makes you look ignorant, makes you waste ammo, and ensures you will only hit something NEXT to what you are aiming at. Sound familiar?