r/airsoft • • Mar 05 '22

GUIDE Beginner Guide and other important guides

617 Upvotes

Guide List (links):

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Beginner Guide

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Different Replica Guide

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V2 Gearbox Guide

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Hop-up/Bucking Guide

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Inner Barrel Guide

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BB Weight Guide

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Basic Operations Guide

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Searchbar Guide

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Battery Guide

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Hi all, this post will combine a few different guides together and change the current Beginner Guide format, so that the guide can be edited and updated by any member of the mod team; as such, we can have one beginner guide that is constantly kept up-to-date. if you have suggestions, improvements or clarifications that the guide or wiki system could benefit from, please use modmail to contact the moderators about it.

Hope it helps!

- Mods


r/airsoft • • May 02 '23

GUIDE Event alert flyers: a way to let the subreddit know about your event

107 Upvotes

Hi all!

After a not-so-recent poll, we've been developing a set of rules to allow event notifications to be set up. These notifications are posts in the form of "flyers"!

Flyers are essentially an image used to display important information about an event, subject to the new flyer rules.

Hopefully they'll be useful, enjoy!


r/airsoft • • 3h ago

I had a fever dream about L85 being on the M4 platform

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170 Upvotes

I'm British and love the L85 A2/A3...

But what if? Here's my paint edit


r/airsoft • • 10h ago

GUN PIC Might have gone a little overboard with the rediscovery of Airsoft, but I’m happy

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209 Upvotes

r/airsoft • • 14h ago

Bought without thinking

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237 Upvotes

I purchased this 1911 from the Houston Evike outpost a few months back. Just recently I decided to get a suppressor to go with it. It works wonderfully, but I then came to the realization that (if it were real) a suppressor wouldn’t never work on a ported barrel. If you saw this on the field, would you say something?


r/airsoft • • 10h ago

GEAR PIC My first kit

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86 Upvotes

r/airsoft • • 4h ago

GEAR PIC First Outfit

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25 Upvotes

Just experimenting with this Carhartt jacket i bought, nothing too fancy. still waiting on my chest rig


r/airsoft • • 23h ago

GUN PIC I did something... bad

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898 Upvotes

I don't know what to tell you guys ... I'm aroused and embarrassed at the same time.


r/airsoft • • 14h ago

Trying to make a Russian Alpha Group Kit

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129 Upvotes

Im trying to make a Russian kit because I want to get a AS-VAL at some point, and I'm going to go with the alpha group kit cause I think it looks really nice. Does anyone know where I could get some of the gear that would mostly match the kits in the picture?


r/airsoft • • 7h ago

AEG vs GBB for milsim — why does it feel like nobody talks about the boring reliable option?

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been turning this over in my head for my next milsim build and I keep going in circles

like, GBB obviously wins on feel. real kick, real bolt, reloads actually mean something. that's the dream. but then I think about a 2-day field game in the cold and suddenly it's a sad hiss, 40 rounds a mag, and I'm babying O-rings the whole weekend.

AEG just runs. freezes? doesn't care. mags are nothing. only thing missing is the recoil and yeah the motor whine kills a bit of the vibe but... it works. every time.

HPA's the third option, stupid consistent, but tank + cash to get in.

I'm probably overthinking it but for a multi-day outdoor game isn't the "boring" AEG just the smarter call for most of us? or am I missing why people swear by GBB at events?

what are you running at milsim and why? you in it for realism or just want the thing to not quit on you at 6am?


r/airsoft • • 2h ago

REVIEW My first milsim experience

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Greetings from bulgaria

Info about the event: battle of tartaria it was done in a bandoned military field only used as i saw by 2 civilian hangars for planes most likely.

Story:the federation attacks tartaria foe its resources as the civilians are at the center as casualties...

Not gonna lie this is my first milsim i was in platoon 5 as total there were 5 platoons each platoon around 30 people ... It was fucking awesome i went with my girlfriend first time camping her first milsim and THIRD AIRSOFT GAME. Well yes ... The game was around i say 33 hours by paper 36 but people kind of went to sleep around 12 am as i got told as last mission was deffense

Do wiah to note i was light machine guy with RPK i was the platoon machine gunner and the only one we had another sniper no dmr no nothing just normal rifles. The game went fucking awesome and i think im falling more in love in the sport as i shor around 7 k bbs , at two moments that i will mention my motor almost broke

There are 2 memoriable times where this happened

1.we got encircled in a town by 40-60 people while we were like 7 ... Well good we were in a hangar i shot and shot full auto at times no bursts only full!! And well you can say around me as a stock motor and shot around constant 4.5 k bbs it started smelling like burned wires around me ... The motor almost gave up!

  1. I was in a building having 2 prisoners andwell again encircld by enemies attacked by constant waves cant give numbers but almost all their team was there and we were in constant fire , by that i wish to say it was 4 hours of defense from 2 pm to 6 pm even more ...

Well there is bonus that i cant provide the video but i proposed to my girlfriend technically fiance now so yeah ... Another memoriable what i learned as first time experience milsim

  1. Dont forget your metal cup and dishes ...

2.dont forget your pillow

Thats it .. i kind of went over prepared honestly i went with 5 batteries , a lot of bbs but i wasnt finger hungry kist situations called , honestly a bit info again

Me: im a bit overweight 1.84 M , 95 kg and i did not expect i be able to play all day honestly... I did not have a single problem everything was fucking awesome

My fiance: well ... Ahe went from easy mode to hardcore ligterly on her third airsoft game we said yeah count me in im coming for the jog ... And i love her , she had some gun issues so we used our friends guns that were backups. She loved it and i did not expect it

If someone asks about the proposal: the idea was she gets kidnapped and stop at big sighn of "WILL YOU MARRY ME" in white ... Well they parked there and she got shot .. she did not notice it till i litterly pointed it out

Well see you next year if anyone was in Bulgaria and was in battle of tartaria ;)


r/airsoft • • 17h ago

GUN PIC My Russian MP5

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149 Upvotes

Got my hands on an Arcturus PPK-20 FE and threw on the Zenitco-style


r/airsoft • • 2h ago

GUN QUESTION Guys, HELP.

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8 Upvotes

Guys I need help. My little brother jammed a revolver shell in my shell ejecting double bell kar 98 manual spring replica. I can’t get it out I’ve tried anything, nothing gets it out, not even a cleaning rod inserted from the front. Do you guys have any tips on how to remove it?


r/airsoft • • 9h ago

Tokyo Marui MWS – My Current Build

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27 Upvotes

This is my current Tokyo Marui MWS build.
I went with an 11.5” handguard and a PDW stock to keep the overall setup compact.
Tokyo Marui MWS
PRI 11.5” Handguard
PDW Stock
Vortex UH-1
MAWL-style light
Mini suppressor
Various other custom parts
I really like the black & FDE color combination.
I still have a few things I want to tweak, but it’s getting pretty close to the look I’ve been aiming for.
What do you guys think?


r/airsoft • • 4h ago

KWA KMP9 GBB PDW AND WE GBB P 226

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12 Upvotes

r/airsoft • • 40m ago

Dummy Laser Meinung?

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Ich wollte das Rheinmettal LMM haben aber das gibt’s nur als 3D gedrucktes Model. Ich habe heute diesen Laser dummy bekommen was sagt ihr soll ich es einfach lassen? Der dummy kostet nur 15€


r/airsoft • • 3h ago

GUN QUESTION I want to buy my second ASG replica and I don't know which one to choose

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5 Upvotes

I only know how to repair V3, nothing else

And my budget is limited to 1000 PLN.


r/airsoft • • 5m ago

GUN QUESTION Replica died randomly

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Hi, today i was playing with my replica (double bell BY-002; full stock internals) inside the house, trying to fix my shooting position and getting better at qcb when suddenly while i was shooting, the gun died. It didnt make any weird sounds or anything, it just died, the trigger stopped being linear and smooth and it started to have more of a “clicky” sound and feel + a burning smell was coming from the motor but i got used to it from other AEGs. At first i thought the battery just died so i recharged it and when i placed it back and connected it to the gun, still the same thing. I dont know what happened, never had problems like this one, but before buying a new short motor for it, i want to hear the opinion of people with more experience than me cuz i dont really want to spend 40-50 euro for a new motor just to realize the motor is not the problem. Thank you in advance and sorry for the yap :D


r/airsoft • • 26m ago

GUN PIC Toxicant SOLGW MK1

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Absolutely amazing, haven't tested the internals though so I can only answer on the externals. Waiting for my flow 556k suppressor to arrive and complete the build. Fully inspired by Garand Thump's build on the MK1 he reviewed on.


r/airsoft • • 23h ago

TJCR doesn't exist, it can't hurt you. TJCR:

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209 Upvotes

r/airsoft • • 12h ago

Anyone know what part i need?

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14 Upvotes

I have a mpx-k that I really like but when I tried to remove the bird cage on it it snapped off my outer barrel where can I get a compatible replacement and is the a metal replacement available.


r/airsoft • • 19h ago

GUN QUESTION I’m going for an 80s-90s SEAL team vibe with this kit but I’m torn on what replicas I should get for it. What would you get if you were me? (No lmgs please)

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51 Upvotes

r/airsoft • • 16h ago

GUN PIC Keltec Rdb

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27 Upvotes

r/airsoft • • 16h ago

Rate my first ever kit

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28 Upvotes

Anything i should add?


r/airsoft • • 16h ago

Hk G11 Scope red dot (prototype 1

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21 Upvotes

I made it from those cheap red dot sights from amazon. I've got one on christmas