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This airsoft range is near me. Although fun I'm not sure if airsoft is useful for training. Does it create more bad habits than good? (Paintball for example causes lots of bad habits) Anybody with experience in airsoft and firearms?
I was struck at how little most airsofters know about real guns. The majority of the people in there who I met and had lots of airsoft guns had very little experience with real firearms even the older people there. Just to toy with them I'd point to thier various rifles and handgun replicas and ask them what various levers and buttons do on real guns. Some answers were hilarious.
For example the takedown button that you push down on the frame of a glock to remove the slide. Nobody except the store owner in there knew what it was for on a real gun even though they all owned a replica. Another is the cocking handle for an M16.
One advantage I see in airsoft over paintball in terms of training is that airsoft guns are close replicas of firearms so all your real tactical equipment should work with these replicas. Also, paintballs are expensive but the bbs are super cheap. But actual training on recoiless replicas seems somewhat dubious. Like training in martial arts with heavy padding.
That being said I have my eye on the HK G36 airsoft rifle by Classic Army.
This airsoft range is near me. Although fun I'm not sure if airsoft is useful for training. Does it create more bad habits than good? (Paintball for example causes lots of bad habits) Anybody with experience in airsoft and firearms?
I was struck at how little most airsofters know about real guns. The majority of the people in there who I met and had lots of airsoft guns had very little experience with real firearms even the older people there. Just to toy with them I'd point to thier various rifles and handgun replicas and ask them what various levers and buttons do on real guns. Some answers were hilarious.
For example the takedown button that you push down on the frame of a glock to remove the slide. Nobody except the store owner in there knew what it was for on a real gun even though they all owned a replica. Another is the cocking handle for an M16.
One advantage I see in airsoft over paintball in terms of training is that airsoft guns are close replicas of firearms so all your real tactical equipment should work with these replicas. Also, paintballs are expensive but the bbs are super cheap. But actual training on recoiless replicas seems somewhat dubious. Like training in martial arts with heavy padding.
That being said I have my eye on the HK G36 airsoft rifle by Classic Army.