Airsoft vs. Paintball

Reasons why Airsoft will take over paintball:

1. the guns look better and are more historically accurate. This includes the magazine which for ww2 reinactors is a crucial point. I plan on buying a Mp44 or MP40 and getting a Waffen SS uniform and joining one of these many groups. I may go usa and get a thompson so i can be like Sgt. Saunders ( vic morrow- Combat!)

2. the guns no not need to be maintained or cleaned as much as a paint gun.

3. The guns are more reliable because they don’t cut the balls requiring you to clean out the barrel and risk getting shot at.

4. the price of .20 gram pellets is like 1/20th the cost of a paintball

5. the cost of the gun is much less and you get alot for what you pay for.

6. The pain of getting hit is nothing compared to a 300PSI paint ball. Thats mostly due to the size of the ball and the density of it.

7. The problem of getting paint all over your uniform and hair is not possible with a pellet.

8. You are not required to wear a huge mask system that covers your head… goggles are fine. This provides comfort when running around all day.

9. The only drawback is the “honour system” which can be used by cheaters to avoid having to sit out till the next game.

I have played paintball since like 86’ with those original daisy’s co2’s and i own 2 paint guns ( autococker and a prolite with a sniper barrel)

indeed, its hard to enforce the honors system.  We make sure to check for new paint marks on each other to see if someone tried to wipe themselves off.  How do you call yourself out with little pellets? In paintball it one shot, gut, chest, or head or 2 hits in any limb or extremity.

For some reason i like cleaning my tipman.  Tipmans are the ak of paintball, you dont have to clean often and its basically a two piece gun when you open it.  Its not great, but not bad.

If you do happen to need to clean a barrel, refill your hopper, or exchange a new co2 or compressed air tank,  that’s just part of combat.  Either hunker down low or have a friend try to give you some cover.  Trees are optimum, i like that extra little intensity in a huge shootout and you have to change out.

Do you guys play airsoft in forests?  With camo?  How do the pellets make it through brush, tall grass, twigs and sticks, with enough effective force for the hit?

I just bought my gun and i havent done much other than shoot it and research it to find out that its the best for the money. here are the specs>.

http://cgi.ebay.com/UTG-tactical-warhawk-AK47-replica-AEG-airsoft-markerset_W0QQitemZ7215917668QQcategoryZ64635QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.hobbytron.com/AirsoftAssaultRifleGunAEGLPSOFTMAK47LE.html

I have an Electric automatic P90 my favorite gun and its cool and yea I like airsoft better then paintball because it is cheaper and well being 16 I don’t have a job so thats a plus and you still feel it when you get shot unless you’re wearing like 2 sweatshirts so it’s still fun :-D

yes, i forgot that as well, paintball has a new claymore set.  You take those itty-bitty co2 tanks that are about palm size.  Take 6 of them and put them in and then there are about 15 tubes in arc formation and each contain two paintballs or one, i cant remember.

I dont understand if it doesnt hurt as bad as paintball what really would stop someone from acting berserker.  In paintball your body might just become one big welt.  I like the fear factor of worry about getting lit up with stupendous pain, i think it makes people act as real to the real thing as possible.  No one in a real battle would get out of cover without a good chance of making it to where-ever he wanted to go.  Perhaps its the same in air soft, but i dont know.

Hmm…suppose someone has made a BAR?  Has to be my favorite weapon from WW2.

Actually theres a site that converts paintball guns to look like real weapons, ranging from WWII to today.  Want a paintball gun that looks like a Thompson or an MP40?  That site was able to do it.  Im sure if I look for it I can provide a link……but im about to play some Day of Defeat: Source.  Will do it later though.

Yea and they have MP42 machine guns too. The reinactors are soo hardcore the guns use empty shells where you stick the pellet inside and when the gun gets shot the shells go flying just like the real run. The sound is very scary not to mention the realism. I got a video of it somewhere.

Mech i’ve seen an AK and a m-1 garand for paintball.  The questions is how good are they to use.  Are they making more for sure?  About the coolest thing i saw was the 3 barrelled heavy machine gun.

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Mech i’ve seen an AK and a m-1 garand for paintball.  The questions is how good are they to use.  Are they making more for sure?  About the coolest thing i saw was the 3 barrelled heavy machine gun.

I cant seem to find the website for the paintball guns……but I can tell you it was awesome site.  The gun conversions were fairly cheap.

A buddy of mine went to a security training facility, where he says they used real guns that were capable of firing real bullets, but instead they were using rounds made of lipstick, or something like that.

I thought that sounded pretty cool, because it gives an authentic feel, but obviously you’re not killing/wounding anyone.  :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/w/?v=XLX7KTrZD2I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyd_h5nfXDA&mode=related&search=

cool airsoft videos