Tuesday, April 6, 2010

AIR SOFT GUN

What is air soft guns? What the difference between air soft gun and real gun ?
Air Soft Guns are a scale 1:1 replica of real guns which are powered by spring, gas or electric to fire small plastic ball bearing. Most air soft guns are produced as real as the original real firearm. Commonly airsoft gun made in Japan or China can be really like the real one, but for airsoft gun made in USA there is a spesific difference (orange token in gun point). But in my opinion, I prefer the one without the orange token to be more realistic.
Beside the capability of firing, many people also consider the realistic body performance of air soft gun. Metal body and the existence of body marking have become one of realistic point of air soft gun.
There are three types of air soft guns; spring, gas, electric, and all of those work on the same principle of compressed gas expanding to push the bullet down the barrel:

  1. Spring
    This type of air soft gun use potential energy stored in spring to push the bullet. This is single shot device, and can not automatic or semi automatic fire. We must to cock a spring gun before pull the trigger. This type of air soft gun usually is cheaper than electric-powered gun. We also can’t use this gun in close combat. But spring-powered guns are usually more reliable against weather.
  2. Gas
    This type of air soft gun use pressurized gas to fire the BB. The gun can be automatic or semi automatic. The most common gases used are "green gas" (which consists of a mixture of propane and a polysiloxane lubricant) and HFC-134a
  3. Electric. This type of air soft gun typically uses a rechargeable battery to drive an electric motor, which cycles an internal piston/spring assembly in order to fire BBs.The gun can be automatic or semi automatic.

So, guys...which one you prefer and think better? Some people like spring-powered guns because some reasons, even there are some spring airsoftgun groups. They believe that spring airsoftgun has character which can build maturity of members in airsoft game. Because each person should think carefully before shoot the BB. I myself prefer electric-powered gun for riffle because it is simple and can beautomatic or semi automatic. But for handgun, I prefer gas-powered gun, because the sound more powerfull and I think it make more realistic.

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