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Here I was thinking that I was being clever, that I could find a way to get in some trigger time, during the cold part of the year, indoors, and improve my technique on the cheap with some plastic bb's and some spring loaded wonder toys. Lesson learned that 'soft air' means hot air. I'm not sure if it necessarily translates over to air soft, but I found the "Colt" rifle/pistol combination from Walmart to be pretty awful in terms of feel, quality of material (damn near felt like it would break every time I pulled the charging handle/slide), and I could barely hit the target half the time sitting just a few feet away. That's ok, you can always count on an old standard to sweep in and save the day...

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Of course. If you pay for crap you get crap. That applies to more than just airsoft. If you want training tools, I suggest you get them somewhere other than WalMart and for a little more than $20. Plenty of good airsoft guns out there that are pretty much perfect replicas of their real firearm counter parts in both feel and operation. You're just not gonna find them for sale at Wally World.
A lot like saying that all those scopes and red dots are a bunch of useless gimmycky nonsense because the one you bought came from WalMart for $20.

Check out AirsoftGI.com or Evike.com if you want an airsoft replica that can be a useful training tool.
 
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I played Airsoft when I was 14. There were a few guns that, although I didn't know it at the time, would feel just like the ones I held at the range.

These were typically made of quality metals, well machined, and cost about $300. You'd have an easier time finding a decent gun for $150 than a decent airsoft rifle. I know for $150 I could at least get a used shotgun or a Mosin or something
 
I used to have a metal 1911 that would shoot plastic pellets hard enough to break the old fashioned Coca-Cola glass bottles. It was a single action spring gun so you had to rack the slide between every shot... even so you could shoot it at a fairly high rate of fire, with some practice.
 
Oh, I don't know, I've got a Beretta 92 airsoft pistol that only cost 20 bucks and it's the most accurate pistol that isn't a real gun I've ever fired. Accurate enough to shoot a seagull off the top of a telephone pole.
 
Oh, I don't know, I've got a Beretta 92 airsoft pistol that only cost 20 bucks and it's the most accurate pistol that isn't a real gun I've ever fired. Accurate enough to shoot a seagull off the top of a telephone pole.
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Why are you shooting seagulls off telephone polls with it?
 
Closed. Seagulls are a federally protected species, which means that shooting them is illegal. This is not an acceptable subject to discuss around here.
 
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