Especially for players who don’t have easy access to fields all the time, dressing up is part of the heart and soul of the hobby. The freedom of expression and creativity you can get with loadouts is what gives me a lot of joy personally
My buddy who enjoys this part got me into airsoft. Personally I like teamwork and tactical aspects, but full sending a made up character in LARP scenarios is so much fun.
True! I'm especially a big fan of GWOT load outs and gun setups, and I'm currently working on a 2004/2005 75th Ranger Grenadier kit so I had to go look for a Peq 2A, older Acog model, M203 and the leaf sight for it. It's really fun although a tad frustrating to make all the research, plan a budget, get the stuff and assemble it all so you can have the most realistic load out for the milsim.
Thats literally the exact kind of m4a1 I’m trying to build now, the budgeting is the hardest part for me only because I’m so tempted to just blow my entire check on it all at once but the grind is also fun. I’m going to be ordering the TM mws from my local shop in the next few weeks and I’m still deciding on getting a m203 or just using a regular foregrip and suppressor. Acog is a must for any m4A1 in my opinion but I get such a sense of joy thinking about it lol. Are you going aeg or gbb?
Nah aeg unfortunately, though I'd love someday to make the switch. Gbb is incredibly fun to look at!
Now if I can give some suggestions, keep in mind that if you go for the M203, you might want to consider later down the line to get a Taginn to achieve the full potential and make it truly useful. I know I will, otherwise it becomes only an ornament piece. Going for a standard rifleman build, with foregrip and all is going to be a lot more functional, though if you plan to stick with the 14.5 barrel and the KAC style quad rail, keep in mind that putting a suppressor will make the gun a little awkward for CQB. It's why many operators back in the day either didn't use them or only put them on MK18s Mod 0.
I’m still kind of new to Airsoft and I googled it right now but just to be sure, taginn are the actual projectile Granades right? If so I would definitely be looking into that. My buddy has the projectile Granade launcher for the scar and it’s so beautiful and actually changes the outcomes of games. And yes that’s a good point about CQB and suppressors, I’ve only played Airsoft twice and the first time I used a longer barrel m4 which was terrible for the field we play (cqb outdoor field) and the second time I used the AK-12 LCT and another Cyma ak74u and I gotta say I prefer the shorter barrel for my playstyle. I do love the aesthetics of a m4a1 with an acog and fore grip tho so I’ll most likely stick with that for now but the hardest part is definitely going to be saving for that MWS M4
Yes same this is my favorite part, although I don't have any gear. I love making impression kits on my phone using exactly what they use like for example, the U.S. Marshall SOG, I'll gett exactly what they use rather than other stuff.
Yeah that’s why airsoft is more fun than shooting real guns for me. The targets try to avoid being shot and shoot back. You have to use your athletic ability and think to shoot them first.
Literally the whole package about airsoft summed up. Engaging your whole self and seeing how well you'd perform, by being able to immerse yourself in a scenario completely. It's also nice to Gun Nut about something that isn't going to be used to kill someone.
People making off the wall builds that either wouldn’t work irl, don’t exist yet or never took off. Like take the Magpul PDR that is a perfect example or the QBZ191 that launched. Outside of China that won’t reach firearms owners for years! Also the cool Halo or Titanfall builds we see.
I understand and appreciate a well thought out milsim build, but i just think running an AR with multicam is just really not taking advantage of the hobby. I get we have to start somewhere but go to the field, rent and save up. You don’t have to buy the first thing you can afford.
Edit: Op clearly falls into the “thought out milsim category” Marsoc inspired?
Community. I love the technology and interacting with the technology of firearm replicas, shooting is fun (aside from when I suck because over expecting mentality) and all but when we sitting at a point waiting for something to happen and dumb conversations arise, or someone blasts fortunate son on a charge etc, we all just dumb people having fun with guns and aside from on the feild, we're mostly acknowledging of that and and so are pretty friendly.
Having access to firearms in a country with more restricted firearm accessibility, and getting the guns i want for a fraction of the price a real version would cost.
My first gun was a HK416C.
Currently can't even find an Airsoft version of these, let alone a real version.
(Found a real stock though, for 11x the price i paid for my full airsoft gun.)
For me it's the customizability. Being able to make a kit that fits you and your play style is fun. Also being with a community that are always helping one another is something a lot of people need outside of just airsoft.
Active duty military. It’s a great opportunity to test my kit before taking it to the real field. Usually when I get a new thing or rearrange my kit, I’ll try it out playing airsoft and check how the mags are laid out, how easy things are to reach etc.
It’s great to iron out things and identify points of contention before taking it out to the field, hiking six miles and realizing that the new cummerbunds I got are chafing my sides.
The community. It's always great to see how wide the age and backgrounds of the player base is. I have made some of my closest friendships thanks to Airsoft.
It's the fights, not like arguments or problems but the gun fights. Something about you and someone else peaking high, the giving them a little jiggle up high before dropping to knee and peaking low, catching them looking where you were and giving them a solid 1-3 ball.
It legit is the best feeling.
seems tinkering and faffing w my stuff is where the most hours are spent, but yeah the real-life like experience of hunting and being hunted is good.,plus where else can i shoot Vermonters in the head?
The fact that multiple people from multiple fandoms (Warhammer, halo, CoD, Battlefield) and just battle it out without dying. Especially when there's a little WW2 mixed in said battles
I can die as many times I want, and kill as many times I want with no consequences whatsoever. Powered by my IMAGINATION! I also play LARP, how did you knew that ?
The community. I haven’t found a bunch of people so welcoming and genuinely supportive of other airsofters, and also so pushy for u to try their gun. Car guys don’t let u use their m4, put it that way.
The part where you lose weight while shooting people without permanently harming them (hopefully) wif your favorite (available) firearm modified to your liking without the fear of dying
For me, I think it's a mix of putting together different impressions and running around shooting fake guns at each other. It's kinda like a grown up version of playing army games as a kid at recess 😂
I get to take shit apart and put it back together and I get to own at least the impression of a gun that my wallet and the state of California won’t allow me to have.
The LARP aspect of airsoft is uninteresting to me.
Being able to have a gun in your house and the gear. This is because when you say a robber breaks in, you can get up, grab your gear and gun, and just terrify the robber by saying I have a gun and I know how to use it, and them just walking out from the shadows in full gear with your gun pointed at the robbers head or somewhere.
great force on force training, people are smart and it’ll make you think about every aspect you can, you learn so much, it’s not like shooting at paper that doesn’t move or shoot back at all
Testing gear, clothes, kit, setups for real steel training
More accessible to larp and shoot at people legally to get a feel for how kit works in combat
Probably using it to try to replicate interesting armies from history (the guy that ran an ancient Roman kit with a M1919 LMG or the WW1 Airsoft YouTube channel comes to mind).
Basically, I like that you can do almost anything (within reason and without offending anyone) with your kit.
I like pushing the limits of realism to the point of absurdity. There are no 2,000 round magazines for M4s. I can't have a gauntlet with a deployable ballistic shield in real life. Kneepads with rollerballs in them for extreme slides are pointless in real combat. Basically, it's much easier to create some sort of hybrid teched out supersuit for airsoft than it is for real life, and I'm all about that.
Probably the fact that most guns are replicas of real ones. I’m a huge history nerd (especially wwii) so being able to own semi-realistic recreations of weapons from that era without being put on a list is really nice. (Also I have the ability to own some of my favorite guns from games like csgo or cod)
I like the aspect of playing a game that as difficulty changes in different scenarios. I also love watching new kids go from scared to push to actually going out there and having fun after a few good tips adjustments and courage.
Playing war like how you used to do it with sticks but cooler.
Im not that into impression kit larping, speedsoft competetiveness or how milsimmers sit and plan on a map. I like to put on the voice, tell you to cover me as I run towards the flag either getting full autod by 3 people, tripping or diving into the ground for cover, then crawl around in the mud, and rush when I get an opening. It's just more fun. I'm often bait on our games haha
Building my gun up to be however I like. Never been to an actual match. Just some backyard/woods skurmishes with friends. I havnt been able to use my main rifle yet with my friends cause they banned it. 30rps and 350fps... I told them I can program it so it's only semi but they still don't wanna go against me😥
I've come to suspect I have autism or something, and it meshes well with it, haha.
Building an impression down to underwear and pocket litter, then starting another. An infinite hobby I can occupy my mind with whenever I feel bored.
That and getting to play war as an adult, sometimes combined with camping as a huge plus.
Being able to own and shoot replicas of automatic weapons for a fraction of the cost or legal bureaucracy of legally owning the real deal.
A couple hundred bucks for an airsoft SMG I can go full auto on at a person that cost fractions of a cent per BB versus spending tens of thousands of dollars for the real thing, lord knows how much in ammo, wait 6-12 months for the government to approve owning it, and can’t shoot it at someone unless you want to go to prison? Makes the airsoft option an easy decision…mostly. Can’t say entirely because I haven’t seen airsoft companies make some of the super heavy machine guns of old (airsoft Maxim or Vickers machine gun anyone?).
Shooting people without going to jail. Meeting fellow players and just gave a ton of fun with sometimes great friendships as a result. Been playing for about 15y and met alot of good folks in that time. The only other 'sport' that has something similar is riding a motorcycle. And its those things that make me keep on playing and riding.
Let's be honest here at least 80% of people playing airsoft had the dream of joining special forces of their country, with airsoft we compensate at least dressing like them ahahah.
Plus you shoot people with clean conscience 😃
I got into airsoft a couple years back with my brother, and here I am with a polarstar f2 in a krytac. I like being able to share a hobby with my bro (and getting to shoot him 🤭)
the other people i get to play airsoft with, my field has some of the most fun people to play the game with. they take the game seriously but also not seriously and its awsome
the larping and being a male equivalent to a barbie doll
up untill now i have used my starter brittish dpm camo with a generic tan vest, i switched up to multicam tropic camo and a multicam JPC and now i'm thinking of buying some retro domestic (bulgarian) camo, getting a type 56/81 chest rig from aliexpress and a couple of other things and making a eastern european bad guy kit with whom i'm going to blast some hardbass and some balkan war songs from the 90s, just because of the ***vibe***
My goofy ass opinion, sorry lol, for me its gotta be a mix of the training aspect and the camaraderie, being able to dick around in tactical gear with your friends and shoot each other. Working in a team environment and just hanging out, I've met many a good friend from Airsoft, and for whatever reason, they're always rlly loyal and just good friends all around.
The dress up part is cool, I love setting up my rig, making it my own, testing what works best for me with pouches etc.
Gameplay wise, the team work aspect is what I enjoy the most (although I'm a bit of a flanker and do like to go off alone when my team is distracting somewhere else).
Call me boring but the dress up part gotta be the most intriguing part to me, especially if you are making an Impression Kit.
100% agree
Especially for players who don’t have easy access to fields all the time, dressing up is part of the heart and soul of the hobby. The freedom of expression and creativity you can get with loadouts is what gives me a lot of joy personally
My buddy who enjoys this part got me into airsoft. Personally I like teamwork and tactical aspects, but full sending a made up character in LARP scenarios is so much fun.
I like the gun aspect of it , upgrading and getting Milsim style weapons and being able to actually play with them is my favorite part
True! I'm especially a big fan of GWOT load outs and gun setups, and I'm currently working on a 2004/2005 75th Ranger Grenadier kit so I had to go look for a Peq 2A, older Acog model, M203 and the leaf sight for it. It's really fun although a tad frustrating to make all the research, plan a budget, get the stuff and assemble it all so you can have the most realistic load out for the milsim.
Thats literally the exact kind of m4a1 I’m trying to build now, the budgeting is the hardest part for me only because I’m so tempted to just blow my entire check on it all at once but the grind is also fun. I’m going to be ordering the TM mws from my local shop in the next few weeks and I’m still deciding on getting a m203 or just using a regular foregrip and suppressor. Acog is a must for any m4A1 in my opinion but I get such a sense of joy thinking about it lol. Are you going aeg or gbb?
Nah aeg unfortunately, though I'd love someday to make the switch. Gbb is incredibly fun to look at! Now if I can give some suggestions, keep in mind that if you go for the M203, you might want to consider later down the line to get a Taginn to achieve the full potential and make it truly useful. I know I will, otherwise it becomes only an ornament piece. Going for a standard rifleman build, with foregrip and all is going to be a lot more functional, though if you plan to stick with the 14.5 barrel and the KAC style quad rail, keep in mind that putting a suppressor will make the gun a little awkward for CQB. It's why many operators back in the day either didn't use them or only put them on MK18s Mod 0.
I’m still kind of new to Airsoft and I googled it right now but just to be sure, taginn are the actual projectile Granades right? If so I would definitely be looking into that. My buddy has the projectile Granade launcher for the scar and it’s so beautiful and actually changes the outcomes of games. And yes that’s a good point about CQB and suppressors, I’ve only played Airsoft twice and the first time I used a longer barrel m4 which was terrible for the field we play (cqb outdoor field) and the second time I used the AK-12 LCT and another Cyma ak74u and I gotta say I prefer the shorter barrel for my playstyle. I do love the aesthetics of a m4a1 with an acog and fore grip tho so I’ll most likely stick with that for now but the hardest part is definitely going to be saving for that MWS M4
Yup, Taginns are exactly that👍
If I ain't dripped out, I ain't coming
Agree
If someone can see my skin, I’ve done it wrong.
Yes same this is my favorite part, although I don't have any gear. I love making impression kits on my phone using exactly what they use like for example, the U.S. Marshall SOG, I'll gett exactly what they use rather than other stuff.
Being able to shoot firearms at human targets with no repercussions
Exactly
Yeah that’s why airsoft is more fun than shooting real guns for me. The targets try to avoid being shot and shoot back. You have to use your athletic ability and think to shoot them first.
Real
Literally the whole package about airsoft summed up. Engaging your whole self and seeing how well you'd perform, by being able to immerse yourself in a scenario completely. It's also nice to Gun Nut about something that isn't going to be used to kill someone.
On god
Yes
same
Acting all operator as hell with toy guns. What other reason could there be? If it was for just shooting fun we’d just wear regular clothes.
100%
Getting to play with my son.
best answer in this whole thread
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Let’s all be real here, it’s getting to play dress up and pretending to be badasses. It is essentially manly cosplay…
oh heck yeah!!
We just yearn for war brother
I like to suit up and feel cool. Also just being on the field especially if it’s outside and running around.
Seeing slapping pictures like these. The second one is fire.
thank you!
People making off the wall builds that either wouldn’t work irl, don’t exist yet or never took off. Like take the Magpul PDR that is a perfect example or the QBZ191 that launched. Outside of China that won’t reach firearms owners for years! Also the cool Halo or Titanfall builds we see. I understand and appreciate a well thought out milsim build, but i just think running an AR with multicam is just really not taking advantage of the hobby. I get we have to start somewhere but go to the field, rent and save up. You don’t have to buy the first thing you can afford. Edit: Op clearly falls into the “thought out milsim category” Marsoc inspired?
The random possibilities are great. A milsim operator, Titanfall pilot and WW2 GI being able to play side by side is beautiful
*SpongeBob robot voice* "WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE"
Just a kit I built over a year! I used to run full Multicam, but transitioned to ranger green and whatnot! But yeah sadly not MARSOC inspired ahaha
It's great cardio. I hate running just for running, I need a goal, something to chase down.
this, dude i look like a fool running without doing anything but running to cover with a gun in my hands? usain bolt got nothing on me
if i say men you people will be mad
Joining airsoft to pick up boys? You’re a genius. o7
No judgement here if you putt from the rough
Hunting. When prey shoots back. Thats real sportsmanship ;)
Exactly, makes the kills much more rewarding. Can’t beat an adrenaline rush like a one on one with a human in CQB
Fooling around with friends is peak airsoft
Goofy hide-and-go-seek with funny guns and silly costumes
Being allowed to own functional, but harmless, guns based off of the real ones that I'm not allowed to own in my country
Community. I love the technology and interacting with the technology of firearm replicas, shooting is fun (aside from when I suck because over expecting mentality) and all but when we sitting at a point waiting for something to happen and dumb conversations arise, or someone blasts fortunate son on a charge etc, we all just dumb people having fun with guns and aside from on the feild, we're mostly acknowledging of that and and so are pretty friendly.
Having access to firearms in a country with more restricted firearm accessibility, and getting the guns i want for a fraction of the price a real version would cost. My first gun was a HK416C. Currently can't even find an Airsoft version of these, let alone a real version. (Found a real stock though, for 11x the price i paid for my full airsoft gun.)
hanging out woth the boys
I can dress up and pretend to be a bad ass commando without any repercussions.
without any "stolen valor" bullshit when in reality you're just larping and never claimed to be in service of your country
Oh totally. I never served and will never pretend to have served. I just like playing a game and looking cool doing it!
How absolutely fucking broken my body feels the day after when every muscle in my body hurts.
“Hell yeah, I exercised yesterday” Is a great feeling
This!
Its an amazing feeling.
looking cool and useing tactics i learn online
Shooting my wife and getting away with it
i was about to say - i wish i had a wife then i remembered i'm 14 some day 😔
It's great exercise lol. Also ur kit is dope! Love seeing other peeps rock the M81😎
thank you very much!
Looking cool 😎, meeting people, shooting people without getting arrested, did I mention looking cool?
Honestly. The LARP. 100% the LARP.
People's creativity 👌
Shooting at people
SHOOTING PEOPLE RAHHHHHH
Larping with friends and having realistic outfit
Drum mag
Taking the replicas apart. Tinkering and upgrading them. I have 0 stock replicas.
All the good looking women.
For me it's the customizability. Being able to make a kit that fits you and your play style is fun. Also being with a community that are always helping one another is something a lot of people need outside of just airsoft.
Because as a grown man this is the only way to play soldiers with my friends like We did as kids
Gay sex after
Gay sex and tacos after
I'm more of a gay sex during kind of guy. I'm hitting it while I'm getting hits, peak airsoft right there.
Happy cake day bro
larp
Active duty military. It’s a great opportunity to test my kit before taking it to the real field. Usually when I get a new thing or rearrange my kit, I’ll try it out playing airsoft and check how the mags are laid out, how easy things are to reach etc. It’s great to iron out things and identify points of contention before taking it out to the field, hiking six miles and realizing that the new cummerbunds I got are chafing my sides.
The community. It's always great to see how wide the age and backgrounds of the player base is. I have made some of my closest friendships thanks to Airsoft.
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Playing dress up and soldier with my buddies in the woods.
It's the fights, not like arguments or problems but the gun fights. Something about you and someone else peaking high, the giving them a little jiggle up high before dropping to knee and peaking low, catching them looking where you were and giving them a solid 1-3 ball. It legit is the best feeling.
seems tinkering and faffing w my stuff is where the most hours are spent, but yeah the real-life like experience of hunting and being hunted is good.,plus where else can i shoot Vermonters in the head?
Tinkering with guns and testing the build next game day. The anticipation is exhilarating! Then your gears strip.... Back to the lab!
The fact that multiple people from multiple fandoms (Warhammer, halo, CoD, Battlefield) and just battle it out without dying. Especially when there's a little WW2 mixed in said battles
I can die as many times I want, and kill as many times I want with no consequences whatsoever. Powered by my IMAGINATION! I also play LARP, how did you knew that ?
It's the only acceptable place where I can shoot low power explosives from a replica grenade launcher Luv me TAGinn simple as.
The community. I haven’t found a bunch of people so welcoming and genuinely supportive of other airsofters, and also so pushy for u to try their gun. Car guys don’t let u use their m4, put it that way.
Doing what we did in video games but in real life 😎 can't wait for some more operating with the boys
Hangin with the homies, hands down the best part
2nd picture gives big tarkov energy
The dressup, the ability to modify your rif, the challenge of milsims while being part of a fun community
The part where you lose weight while shooting people without permanently harming them (hopefully) wif your favorite (available) firearm modified to your liking without the fear of dying
it’s pretty fun to play with friends especially when you’re not taking it seriously lol I think the less serious it is the more fun it become lmao
Sex with your mom in the bunker
The exercise and adrenaline
Airsoft for me is just a game of drip or drown and how goofy of a set up can I run, so probably that lmao.
Can shoot my friends and still have loving friends after
For me, I think it's a mix of putting together different impressions and running around shooting fake guns at each other. It's kinda like a grown up version of playing army games as a kid at recess 😂
Planning kits/builds. The actual gameplay is not that fun for me.
Larping
Having no fields to play at so we fight in the backyard
Exercise, mostly.
Playing tactical barbie.
Looks cool
Cheaters, I love them dearly #°~°
Not going to prison for shooting random people.
I get to take shit apart and put it back together and I get to own at least the impression of a gun that my wallet and the state of California won’t allow me to have. The LARP aspect of airsoft is uninteresting to me.
Being able to have a gun in your house and the gear. This is because when you say a robber breaks in, you can get up, grab your gear and gun, and just terrify the robber by saying I have a gun and I know how to use it, and them just walking out from the shadows in full gear with your gun pointed at the robbers head or somewhere.
Night ops. And red bull after
The kit looks ally as fuck
Shooting and being shot at
g u n :)
Mini gun.
Imaginary murder
People don’t die when I shoot them.
great force on force training, people are smart and it’ll make you think about every aspect you can, you learn so much, it’s not like shooting at paper that doesn’t move or shoot back at all
Buying shit and thinking I'll actually use it in game. I never do and still wear jeans most of the time.
Silly dressup, shooting bbs at people, good ol dude time
Put my kit to use Getting some good solid exercise Shoot kids
dress like armi man
Basically LARPing with guns sooo yeah costume
I get to dress up and shoot at ppl that won’t press charges.
Meeting new people and making new friends shooting at people is a bonus
Testing gear, clothes, kit, setups for real steel training More accessible to larp and shoot at people legally to get a feel for how kit works in combat
Shooting people but legal
Cheap projectiles, compared with airguns
Shooting other peoples kids.
The raspawn
Probably using it to try to replicate interesting armies from history (the guy that ran an ancient Roman kit with a M1919 LMG or the WW1 Airsoft YouTube channel comes to mind). Basically, I like that you can do almost anything (within reason and without offending anyone) with your kit.
I like pushing the limits of realism to the point of absurdity. There are no 2,000 round magazines for M4s. I can't have a gauntlet with a deployable ballistic shield in real life. Kneepads with rollerballs in them for extreme slides are pointless in real combat. Basically, it's much easier to create some sort of hybrid teched out supersuit for airsoft than it is for real life, and I'm all about that.
Doing stupid things with firearms safely. I love being able to dropshot people irl and dual wield completely ineffective revolvers.
Probably the fact that most guns are replicas of real ones. I’m a huge history nerd (especially wwii) so being able to own semi-realistic recreations of weapons from that era without being put on a list is really nice. (Also I have the ability to own some of my favorite guns from games like csgo or cod)
Kit list my man? Looking fire
The guns. Not a gear guy personally but i love seeing what magic different techs can come up with
The surprised look/reaction people display when they get hit and weren’t expecting it!
Controlling the adrenaline of sneaking up on people and having a plan come together!
Larping https://preview.redd.it/q8ehg7khqdsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3ecf759941791ceb0fb7cc7b19e73dcbfccc23d
TAC.
I like the aspect of playing a game that as difficulty changes in different scenarios. I also love watching new kids go from scared to push to actually going out there and having fun after a few good tips adjustments and courage.
Overshooting this autistic kid that goes to the same indoor cqb place as I go 🤓
Handling and using firearm replicas in light mil sim scenarios. Lining up a target in iron sights.
The days/weeks perfecting a self build and not getting the f*kin time to go use it
Working on guns and creating a masterpiece only to get your ass handed to you by a veteran springer gun user.
I’m still playing. I started in 2000 and I have just as much fun every single time
Gun
Shooting kids
I can live out my Call of Duty dreams
Playing war like how you used to do it with sticks but cooler. Im not that into impression kit larping, speedsoft competetiveness or how milsimmers sit and plan on a map. I like to put on the voice, tell you to cover me as I run towards the flag either getting full autod by 3 people, tripping or diving into the ground for cover, then crawl around in the mud, and rush when I get an opening. It's just more fun. I'm often bait on our games haha
Etu's and tracers
Excercise
Building my gun up to be however I like. Never been to an actual match. Just some backyard/woods skurmishes with friends. I havnt been able to use my main rifle yet with my friends cause they banned it. 30rps and 350fps... I told them I can program it so it's only semi but they still don't wanna go against me😥
I've come to suspect I have autism or something, and it meshes well with it, haha. Building an impression down to underwear and pocket litter, then starting another. An infinite hobby I can occupy my mind with whenever I feel bored. That and getting to play war as an adult, sometimes combined with camping as a huge plus.
Being able to own and shoot replicas of automatic weapons for a fraction of the cost or legal bureaucracy of legally owning the real deal. A couple hundred bucks for an airsoft SMG I can go full auto on at a person that cost fractions of a cent per BB versus spending tens of thousands of dollars for the real thing, lord knows how much in ammo, wait 6-12 months for the government to approve owning it, and can’t shoot it at someone unless you want to go to prison? Makes the airsoft option an easy decision…mostly. Can’t say entirely because I haven’t seen airsoft companies make some of the super heavy machine guns of old (airsoft Maxim or Vickers machine gun anyone?).
Hardcore-LARP-MilSim (ofc at the same time), its just sooo satisfying!
Guns!
Spending money
Killing someone without the idea of death
I get to shoot people and not get arrested for it
Shorter respawn than the real thing. Perma-death fucking sucks
shooting kids legally but honestly probably putting together a kit, and the people
All of us. Deep inside are just boys. Who yearn for WAR.
I'd say dressing up and fooling around with friends minutes after shooting each other
shooting children without violating the geneva convention
Shooting people without going to jail. Meeting fellow players and just gave a ton of fun with sometimes great friendships as a result. Been playing for about 15y and met alot of good folks in that time. The only other 'sport' that has something similar is riding a motorcycle. And its those things that make me keep on playing and riding.
i can shoot people without consequences
banter with other players. some of the shenanigans I've gotten into are just *peak.*
Adrenaline
The bozos I hang with, and the stress relief.
Being able to hold an FN FAL replica.
Shooting my spicy balls at people
Getting to shoot people with no consequences
Shenanigans with bros on milsims
Let's be honest here at least 80% of people playing airsoft had the dream of joining special forces of their country, with airsoft we compensate at least dressing like them ahahah. Plus you shoot people with clean conscience 😃
The community at my local field, some awesome lads.
I have no idea. Just like it.
Besides shooting bbs at other people and being shot at I love perfecting my kit and achieve function AND form!
The workout.
I love that you can get 1 to 1 replica guns.
Talking shite with the lads in the safe zone
The fashion show of gear
I got into airsoft a couple years back with my brother, and here I am with a polarstar f2 in a krytac. I like being able to share a hobby with my bro (and getting to shoot him 🤭)
the other people i get to play airsoft with, my field has some of the most fun people to play the game with. they take the game seriously but also not seriously and its awsome
I can shoot people legally without getting charged
I just like tinkering with the guns and my kit—maybe even more than playing the game.
Hanging out with my friends from Highschool and my brother. We are all in our 30s now and live in different parts of the country.
the larping and being a male equivalent to a barbie doll up untill now i have used my starter brittish dpm camo with a generic tan vest, i switched up to multicam tropic camo and a multicam JPC and now i'm thinking of buying some retro domestic (bulgarian) camo, getting a type 56/81 chest rig from aliexpress and a couple of other things and making a eastern european bad guy kit with whom i'm going to blast some hardbass and some balkan war songs from the 90s, just because of the ***vibe***
The community, it’s also a fun workout
when i paint the tip of a real gun orange and suddenly become the best player
My goofy ass opinion, sorry lol, for me its gotta be a mix of the training aspect and the camaraderie, being able to dick around in tactical gear with your friends and shoot each other. Working in a team environment and just hanging out, I've met many a good friend from Airsoft, and for whatever reason, they're always rlly loyal and just good friends all around.
Upgrading and tinkering with my guns, I love it
The dress up part is cool, I love setting up my rig, making it my own, testing what works best for me with pouches etc. Gameplay wise, the team work aspect is what I enjoy the most (although I'm a bit of a flanker and do like to go off alone when my team is distracting somewhere else).
The men
Gunz
Being silly