1. Airsoft for Beginners - Tips and Tricks for the Rookie Airsoft is a great sport for those who have the desire and energy to engage in pretend combat with other airsoft enthusiasts. People of all ages, skill levels, and from all walks of life engage in airsoft play.
2. Airsoft beginner tip #2: Take a good pair of boots: In Airsoft you run a lot forward an backwards which is a lot of opportunity for your ankles. I recommend take something with really good ankle support that will help protect your ankles on the field.

Welp, it's super late and I can't sleep and I'm bored so I decided to write out some tips for beginner players that will hopefully help them get started into the greatest hobby on Earth.

Tip number one? DON'T BUY ANYTHING RIGHT AWAY. That's right. Rent first. Play with a bunch of different types of rental guns and see what fits your fancy the most. It's going to be pretty shitty when you drop money on an AK and you decide a couple weeks later that you really prefer the feel of the MP5. So play a lot and rent a lot of different types of guns. Which leads me to my next point, play different types of games. Airsoft has different types of play, including close quarters combat, which is reminiscent of speedball in paintball. Fast paced, close encounter games with lots of running, high rate of fire, adrenaline junkie goodness. Or there's field, with more long term strategy and forward thinking than CQB. It's slower paced with longer games and more long range encounters. Or there's sniping, which is a completely different beast, so here's a sub tip within this tip, stay away from sniping if you're a beginner. I don't care if you think it will be fun. Unless over 600 dollars to invest and more patience than Mother Teresa you will not have a good time, trust me. Anyways, understand the different types of play and the different types of guns and gear that you will need to fulfill your role within those play types. Figure out which type of game you like and what kind of gun you like to use and then go from there. But until you get to that point, keep your cash in your wallet son.

AEG – Airsoft Electric Gun. The AEG is a battery powered 6mm airsoft gun. HPA – High Pressure Air.These have unique systems that are tethered to an airtank to deliver the same ammount of air pressure every time. Very consistent but very expensive even for Airsoft to setup and for Training not very realistic.

Tip number two? Get what you like. In terms of guns and gear get what YOU like. Airsoft is a hobby centered around personal preference. If you go around getting only what other people like, you're not going to have a good time. You don't get the M4 because everybody else wants it, you have to get the M4 because YOU want it. If you want an MP5 but other people tell you to get the M14, then get the MP5 for Christ's sake. If somebody tells you that the gear you want isn't cool then fuck what they think, if you think it looks awesome then buy it, rock it and operate the shit out of it.

Tip number three? Don't be afraid to be the new guy. Everybody is new at one point in their life. Trying to hard to appear like you know what you're talking about when you really don't doesn't earn you any points and makes you look like a monkey's ass, so don't do it. Ask questions, expect to suck your first couple games, and don't take it personally when people point out your errors, chances are they're just trying to help you out.

Tip number four? Be wary when it comes to private sales. Places like Craigslist and Ebay are great places to get deals on guns and equipment. But it's also a great place to get ripped off you don't know what you're doing. Lots of people on Internet wait for beginners who have no clue what they're buying and try to sell them on crap products for high prices. Remember just because somebody says it's KWA or Tokyo Marui doesn't mean it actually is. If you must buy used then at least find somebody who can verify the product's authenticity before you spend hundreds of dollars on something that's worth a couple bucks at best.

Tip number five? Don't get caught up in all the lingo. You're going to hear a lot of terms like LiPo, NiCad, NiMh, AEG, GBB, ERG, Springer, Green Gas, Red Gas, Propane, Vorpal Bunnie, and more brand names than I care to mention. Don't worry about memorizing all of it. Just take it slow and eventually you'll be an expert on all these strange acronyms and terms that once seemed so confusing.

Tip number six? Until you get some more experience, LEAVE YOU GUN STOCK. Ok, so maybe a red dot or vertical grip or other 'bolt on' parts as I like to call them are fine. But if you just got into the hobby leave your gearbox in once piece. Chances are you'll not be able to get it back together and then you'll be in some deep shit.

Tip number seven? I know airsoft guns are not real guns. But please treat them as they were. I've seen kids get shot in the face point blank by airsoft guns that were supposed to be unloaded. A mutual friend of mine was nearly blinded when a bb shot from an unloaded gun hit him in the corner of his eye. Teeth have been shot out. Eyes have been damaged. And some people have even lost their lives, gunned down by police who mistook their airsoft replicas for real firearms. So a simple tip? Anything that you wouldn't do with a real gun is probably something that you shouldn't do with an airsoft gun.

Tip number eight? Know what subset of the hobby you're trying to get into. Are you going to be playing backyard wars? Are you going to be playing in competitive events? Are you going to be plinking in the backyard? They are guns that fit every single subset of the hobby, decided which area of the hobby you fall into before buying. No sense in purchasing a 600 dollar Tokyo Marui recoil shock SCAR when all you're going to be doing is shooting cans in the backyard.

The final tip? Actually play. I know it sounds ridiculous but the only way to gain any experience and knowledge on anything is to delve in and learn from every mistake. Like I said, people are going to expect you to make mistakes but they're also going to expect you to learn from them. So don't get turned off if you get eliminated in the first ten seconds of every game. Keep coming back and keep playing and before you know it you'll be operating the shit out of every single game you're going to.

Perhaps you've stumbled across this and are thinking 'What's this airsoft he keeps talking about?'
Well, airsoft is a game very similar to paintball. The main differences are;

• Most airsoft rifles are powered by an electrically wound spring, as opposed to CO2 tanks
• Instead of a .43 or .68 caliber paintball, airsoft guns fire 6mm plastic BB's weighing between a tenth and a half of a gram (roughly).
• Airsoft guns are far more realistic, often having the exact same look and scale (minus the blaze orange flash hider) and sometimes even the real weight of a real steel rifle.

However, airsoft is played in a pretty similar way to paintball. Everybody in the game has some kind of pistol. After making sure you've done all the safety precautions (inlcuding using the goggles), you will head out to the field. When the game starts, the goal is usually to eliminate the other players by shooting them X number of times. If they are shot that many times, they are out until the next round. However, you can also play games like;
Capture the Flag
VIP
Search and Destroy
Unlike paintball, however, the BB's do not splatter when they hit, and there is no mark showing that the BB hit. This means the game relies heavily on the honors system for everybody to call their hits. There are 6mm paintballs for airsoft guns, but they have been known to break inside the guns and ruin them. I don't suggest these.
Airsoft guns are powered by one of three different methods:
Spring;

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The gun must be cocked before every shot. When you pull back the cocking bolt, slide, etc. it pulls air into a plunger. When you pull the trigger, the air is released. With the exception of sniper rifles and some multi-shot shotguns, spring guns are usually classified as beginner weapons. Usually referred to simply (and condescendingly) as 'springers'.
Electric;
These work very similar to spring. The only exception is that, instead of manually having to pull back the spring, it uses an electric motor to pull back the string at hundreds of times per minute. When you see an assault rifle, SAW, or SMG out on the field, it's probably electric. These are the most common and range from $30 Low Powered Electric Guns (LPEG)s to $1,200 SystemA training weapons. An Electric gun is usually referred to as an Automatic Electric Gun (AEG) or Automatic Electric Pistol (AEP) though the latter can cost hundreds for a decent quality version.

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Gas;
Used mostly in pistols and some high end rifles/shotguns. The most common use is for a pistol. They are divided into two types: Non Blow Back (NBB) where the slide is fixed, and there is no recoil. Then there is Gas Blow Back (GBB). On a GBB pistol (or some incredibly rare rifles), some of the gas is used to push back the slide in order to create realistic recoil, usually around that of a .22LR. Usually just called gas pistols/ weapons.
Note: there are other weapons such as grenade launchers and land mines that also use gas as a propellant.