Airsoft -- which one?

**Snee** · 02-23-2005, 01:07 PM

Are the proportions all wrong on those? (They may be better usual tho')

Can't you get one that isn't all plastic with proper proportions.

Or at least one that's supposed to have sort of a plastic finish anyway, like a glock pistol, so it looks at least remotely real?

Those soft air gun rifles are never very good from what I've seen my kid brother buy.

This one looked kinda' cool tho', and the weight isn't all off.

**Cheese** · 02-23-2005, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by SnnY

Are the proportions all wrong on those? (They may be better usual tho')

Can't you get one that isn't all plastic with proper proportions.

Or at least one that's supposed to have sort of a plastic finish anyway, like a glock pistol, so it looks at least remotely real?

Those soft air gun rifles are never very good from what I've seen my kid brother buy.

This one looked kinda' cool tho', and the weight isn't all off.

They do suck. Plastic toys that break far too easily, in fact when I used to work in a hobby store we were told to advise using them for firing.

The main thing that pissed me off about them though was that we were not allowed to sell them to under 15 year-olds by law. Of course by the time anyone reaches 15 they are no longer interested in toy guns so we had endless processions of 12 year-olds trying to buy them.

"OMG WTF I is 15 and like!!!111"

Strangely my sister bought one when she was 19...

**DanB** · 02-23-2005, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Withcheese

Plastic toys that break far too easily, in fact when I sued to work in a hobby store we were told to advise using them for firing.

Very

indeed

**Snee** · 02-23-2005, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by Withcheese

They do suck. Plastic toys that break far too easily, in fact when I used to work in a hobby store we were told to advise using them for firing.

The main thing that pissed me off about them though was that we were not allowed to sell them to under 15 year-olds by law. Of course by the time anyone reaches 15 they are no longer interested in toy guns so we had endless processions of 12 year-olds trying to buy them.

"OMG WTF I is 15 and like!!!111"

Strangely my sister bought one when she was 19...

I bought one when I was about that age too, a pistol, with which I've shot all of my siblings at one time or another. I shot my brother on my way home when I'd bought it.

You have to be eighteen here to buy one, btw.

It stings quite a lot. I know 'cos I also shot myself to prove it didn't hurt.

Mine is of a decent quality tho', and I used glassfiber bullets, none of those crappy plastic ones that are too light and badly molded and which won't go straight.

What pisses me off the most about them is that I can find little yellow plastic bbs everywhere these days, since lots of kids have gotten hold of soft air guns somehow, and are playing war with them all over the place.

EDit: If I actually wanted to do some serious target practice rather than drunken playing around, I wouldn't have bought a soft air gun at all, at the very least I'd bought a real air gun, or, slightly better, one that was powered by carbon dioxide, none of these silly replicas.

**Cheese** · 02-23-2005, 02:36 PM

I got shot in the eye once by one of them, point blank. Nasty.

My sister also went through a phase of shooting me whenever I had a hangover and said, "Someone please shoot me."