The term "AIRSOFT" is grossly negligent

[jbombelli]

Anybody make a "bottle rocket" using match heads stuffed into a CO2 cannister? Now that was stupid!

You want to hear stupid?

Dipping cherry bombs and M-80s in rubber cement and covering them in BBs.

 

[whocares]

Kiddy frags

You want to hear stupid?

Dipping cherry bombs and M-80s in rubber cement and covering them in BBs.

Thats wickedly awesome

 

[BDBHoover]

Used to duct tape metal BBs to a 2-liter and fill it with The Works and ....... well you can picture the rest

 

[IndyMedic]

In college a friend of mine had a gas operated airsoft pistol and we would shoot each other with it. It definitely hurt more than I expected.

 

[sepe]

Airsoft is for sissies. When I was a kid, we'd get together and try to beat each other to death with baseball bats, shovels, and tire irons. That was a great time for all the neighborhood kids, well...except the ones that weren't strong enough to survive.

 

[cobber]

Airsoft is for sissies. When I was a kid, we'd get together and try to beat each other to death with baseball bats, shovels, and tire irons. That was a great time for all the neighborhood kids, well...except the ones that weren't strong enough to survive.

This airsoft stuff is probably where all the OWS'ers came from. Not enough hard knocks growing up.

 

[Shwaisey]

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Thats an example of real Mil-Sim airsoft, there is more to this than just 12 year olds with clear plastic guns in the backyard of suburbia.
95% of the people who have posted are just talking about the terrible crap they sell at Wally world.
I use gas blow back rifles and pistols that have the same recoil as .22's and 5.45x39 with real wood, full metal, and dimensions exactly the same as the their real steel counterparts.


Just like USPA or paintball there is a huge network of airsoft associations and organizations that are comprised of adults (LEO/Former military mostly) that have fun with it while treating it as a hobby.

For anyone who is interested in mil-sim airsoft check out these sites:

Airsoftforum.com

indiana-airsoft.com

 

[ray d]

Air soft is a great force on force training tool.If it stings a little it works a little better.

 

[PastorBlaster]

Thats an example of real Mil-Sim airsoft, there is more to this than just 12 year olds with clear plastic guns in the backyard of suburbia.
95% of the people have posted are just talking about the terrible crap replicas they sell at Wally world.
I use gas blow back rifles and pistols that have the same recoil as .22's and 5.45x39 with real wood and full metal.


Just like USPA or paintball there is a huge network of airsoft associations and organizations that are comprised of adults (LEO/Former military mostly) that have fun with it while treating it as a hobby.

For anyone who is interested in mil-sim airsoft check out these sites:

Shwaisey,

Didn't know you were on here! I don't think most of the guys on here realize that a lot of our "toy" guns cost more than there real steel weapons. Im actually excited to build several real guns now that I realize it's cheaper than what I tend to play airsoft with! And in the end, I can shoot you in airsoft and still be friends afterwards!

 

[turnerdye1]

Oh airsoft....me and my friends used to play when we were younger.
My most vivid memory is when i get shot in the mouth from about 10ft away from a co2 pistol. Hurt like a *****! The BB hit my lip, bounced off of my from tooth and landed in my lower gums. I was never the same after that

 

[hoosierdoc]

At least I see airsoft injuries to the eye instead of true BBs anymore. Eyes look really nasty when hit with them.

I hope all the people that preach firearms safety use eye protection when shooting anything that goes that fast.

They are great for wood borer wasps too

 

[maxmayhem]

u should have done a test shot into your testicles before shooting your kid...

 

[Hornett]

No, but those things are fun to fill with powder and a cannon fuse. Takes a while to get it packed in tight, but worth it.

If you take a funnel, jam the top of the canister into the bottom of the funnel, and fill it with sufficiently fine black powder, then you can gently tap the canister with your finger and it fills up very quickly.
Ummm, that's what I hear anyway.

u should have done a test shot into your testicles before shooting your kid...

Agreed.

It's threads like this that let me know for sure I am on the right board.

 

[greyhound47]

They are softer than the bb's that we used to shoot at each other when I was a kid. Man I did some dumb stuff when I was young.

I am glad to know I was not the only one stupid enough to do that!

 

[ThrottleJockey]

LOL, I had the sense to try it on myself before I pointed it at anything else. This was just a lame cheapo 300fps pistol......long story short, I broke my pinky toe with it! That little bugger was swelled up and purple for about 3 months.

 

[Effingham]

I was never the same after that

Yeah, head-related injuries can be like that.

When I lived in Japan, there was an airsoft craze going on. Kids in parks doing all sorts of insanity. I still have a few (okay, about five) airsoft (which I think should be renamed "air-ouch") guns.

 

[printcraft]

Has anyone else shot your kid with his airsoft pistol only to find that it is not soft. ..... I shot him in the leg and he started whining .......

Alrighty Then!

 

[theweakerbrother]

While I was in college, I shot a guy in the dorm room in the calf and it made him bleed.

Then we took his wallet.

 

[whocares]

Its those damn yellow balls. Everything about them says " It wont hurt shoot him with it " Ive been vaccuming them up for years and the vac is still OK. The yellow color makes them seem like little happy balls. They should be red or orange for danger, "dont shoot your kids with me Im orange, caution" not yellow thats all " hey no biggy here, just soft yellow balls"

 

[MAJB Retired]

Soft yellow balls is an indication of an urgent need to see a medical professional...