Airsoft Guns For Recreational Excitement

Airsoft guns are air guns that fire plastic projectiles

. They can be very accurate, and are very similar to the air rifles used in sports like the target shooting competitions at the Olympic games. Today you can get airsoft guns that are powered by electric motors and that can shoot continuous streams of BBs with very high velocity. Fire rates of up to 1000 per minute are not unheard of, and velocities reach 450 to 500 feet per second. In other words, these aren't toys, but air guns capable of making mincemeat of any soda can in range.

Airsoft guns are mostly used recreationally, though some manufacturers make very realistic versions that are used for military and law enforcement training purposes. But for the most part, players participate in field games where military situations are replicated using airsoft rifles.

You can get airsoft sniper rifles that are replicas of actual sniper rifles, and some of them are even bolt-action, so they feel even more like the real thing. Beginners like airsoft pistols because of their small size and the fact that they are usually replicas of real pistols. These have shooting velocities of around 300 to 350 feet per second. They're pocket-sized and lightweight, and they're easy to shoot.

Electric powered airsoft guns have electric motors that use rechargeable batteries. The motor moves an internal piston and spring assembly to launch the pellets. You can get them in automatic, semi-automatic, and three-round burst types. Electric powered air guns, also called "automatic electric guns" (AEGs) are the most widely available and most popular of these types of guns.

Motors in AEGs drive a series of gears that reside in a gearbox. The gears compress a piston against a spring, and once the piston is released, the spring pops it forward through the cylinder. This pushes a pellet into the chamber, through the barrel and out through the muzzle. A lot of AEGs are modified on the outside so that they look and feel very real - virtually identical to their real counterparts.

Three popular guns are the FPS:280 WELL Spring Airsoft M16 A3 Rifle, the 380fps Mossberg Spring Pump Action M500 Cruiser Pistol Grip Shotgun, and the 330fps Smith & Wesson M3000 Sawed Off Airshot Shotgun.

The FPS:280 WELL Spring Airsoft M16 A3 Rifle is a 280fps spring-powered air rifle with a range of 154 ft. It weighs just under 3 lbs. and has a magazine capacity of 200 BBs. It comes complete with safety glasses, strap, laser, and flashlight. The 380fps Mossberg Spring Pump Action M500 Cruiser Pistol Grip Shotgun is a spring-powered airsoft gun that has a 209 ft shooting range. This popular style weighs in at just under 4 lbs. and has a magazine capacity of 19 BBs. The 330fps Smith & Wesson M3000 Sawed Off Airshot Shotgun has a shooting range of 182 ft and a magazine that holds 180 BBs.

The popularity of these guns continues to increase in recreational settings. When all the proper safety precautions are followed, airsoft games can be an exciting, physically and mentally demanding sport, and they will no doubt continue to attract new participants.

by: Jason Bacot

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