“I want to shoot my friends!”

. . . with tiny, little round BB’s. I’m talkin’ Airsoft, baby!

The Big Purchase

I’m about to purchase my very first airsoft rifle, and I am very excited. “What is airsoft?” Well, do you remember rolling around in the weeds with your plastic gun pointed at your friends making machine gun noises with your mouth and yelling, “You’re dead!”

Well, it’s like that . . . but for grownups. Only, instead of shouting “you’re dead” you get to fire actual projectiles, pelting your friends with little round BB’s. And instead of you yelling “you’re dead” they “yelp” when one of these little guys makes contact—much more satisfying, I’d say (though, you can still make the little machine gun noises with your mouth, if you like) .

Actually, from what I hear they don’t really hurt all that much unless you’re really close range; but nothing like paintball. The way that it’s been described to me is that “you know you’ve been hit; you feel it. But it isn’t usually painful ” . . . unless you’re close quarters : ).

The ammunition is also much cheaper than paintball, and without the paintball reserve barrel up-top, they can look exactly like replicas of real guns (Note: most guns come with an “orange” tip, for safety reasons) The “ammo” usually loads into an actual clip, too. “Pretty cool,” I’d say.

My Weapon of Choice

Searching for that “just-right” weapon led me to an airsoft site called “ShortyUSA”. What I like about their site is that they write their own reviews for the weapons by testing them, and below is usually some very helpful comments from avid airsoft officionados.
I found these reviews to be very helpful and discovered that a lot of these guns are comparable to much more expensive, so-called “higher end” weaponry (Tokyo Marui, Classic Army, etc.) For myself, I think that I’ve decided on the P90 model (If you know Stargate, you’ll know the gun).