Airsoft is a game that not many people play or have even heard of. The majority of players use plastic gun replicas that fire .12g or .2g plastic ball bearings (bbs). It is possible for different weights but those are by far the most common. The people that actually play airsoft (no, I’m not talking about the ones who just like to mess around with the guns) are usually the quiet kids in JROTC that look at guns on the internet in their spare time and want to join the army so they can shoot someone with a real firearm.
Now for a quick physics lesson. Many people say "well, airsoft fields generally allow 400-550 fps and paintball fields only allow up to 300 fps.” That statement means absolutely nothing. Well as a matter of fact it does mean something; it proves that paintballs hurt much more.
This is the average force of an airsoft pellet assuming its a .2 gram bb traveling at 400 feet per second (although many airsoft guns can’t even shoot that fast).
Force = mass X acceleration
.2 grams = 0.0002 kilograms
400 feet = 121.92 meters
F = .0002 X 121.92
F = .024384 N
This is the average paintball force assuming we are using a 3.185 gram paintball (the average weight) shooting at 300 feet per second.
3.18500 grams = 0.003185 kilograms
300 feet = 91.44 meters
F = .003185 X 91.44
F = .2912364 N
So what does all this crap mean? It means that the average paintball has roughly 12x more force than an airsoft pellet traveling 100 fps faster. You can make a fair assumption based on those facts that the average paintball will hurt 12x more than a pretty fast airsoft pellet. Still don’t believe me? Well then think of it this way… what bullet would do more damage, a .22 caliber bullet or a .50 caliber bullet? Oh and airsoft pellets loose velocity much faster than paintballs, I’ll spare everyone from those equations.
Now for a quick physics lesson. Many people say "well, airsoft fields generally allow 400-550 fps and paintball fields only allow up to 300 fps.” That statement means absolutely nothing. Well as a matter of fact it does mean something; it proves that paintballs hurt much more.
This is the average force of an airsoft pellet assuming its a .2 gram bb traveling at 400 feet per second (although many airsoft guns can’t even shoot that fast).
Force = mass X acceleration
.2 grams = 0.0002 kilograms
400 feet = 121.92 meters
F = .0002 X 121.92
F = .024384 N
This is the average paintball force assuming we are using a 3.185 gram paintball (the average weight) shooting at 300 feet per second.
3.18500 grams = 0.003185 kilograms
300 feet = 91.44 meters
F = .003185 X 91.44
F = .2912364 N
So what does all this crap mean? It means that the average paintball has roughly 12x more force than an airsoft pellet traveling 100 fps faster. You can make a fair assumption based on those facts that the average paintball will hurt 12x more than a pretty fast airsoft pellet. Still don’t believe me? Well then think of it this way… what bullet would do more damage, a .22 caliber bullet or a .50 caliber bullet? Oh and airsoft pellets loose velocity much faster than paintballs, I’ll spare everyone from those equations.
Airsoft is just a sport that no one really plays. But its cheaper than paintball so it must be better, right?
by andrewmc91 April 29, 2006
A "sport" for people who are too afraid, young, or cheap to play Paintball. Airsoft involves shooting small 6mm plastic BB's out of a cheaply made (usually also plastic) Chinese made gun. Airsoft players tend to try and find reasons why Airsoft is better than Paintball, when really they are backing themselves on false claims so they can feel better about themselves. Many Airsoft players are in the 10-12 year age group. One common claim Airsoft players make is that Airsoft BB's fly much farther than Paintballs. This is a clear example of the ignorance of an Airsoft player, they do not understand that it takes a well made piece of precision engineering to launch a Paintball 150 feet accurately. While any Chinese nobody can create an Airsoft gun that easily can shoot over 200 feet.
NOTE:
Before the explosion of cheap Chinese Airsoft guns, an Airsoft player could expect to pay $200-$300 for an entry level gun, which is roughly the same as an entry level Paintball gun.
NOTE:
Before the explosion of cheap Chinese Airsoft guns, an Airsoft player could expect to pay $200-$300 for an entry level gun, which is roughly the same as an entry level Paintball gun.
Person1: Hey man wanna go paintballing today? Its an awesome day for some woodsball.
person2: No way man my mom says I'm not allowed to Paintball, how about some Airsoft in my backyard instead?
Person1: Why am I still friends with you?
person2: No way man my mom says I'm not allowed to Paintball, how about some Airsoft in my backyard instead?
Person1: Why am I still friends with you?
by junits15 March 01, 2011
A lame thing to do when your application to the military got rejected because you had a kid with your mom. It's incenst, and its illegal. Airsoft should be illegal. You dress up like you're going to war, but you shoot plastic at each other. How fun. You run off the "honor system." Which means, shoot me and I won't call myself out.
I play airsoft because I'm too pansy to fight for my country, so I play in my backyard with plastic guns.
by BigBalla89 July 23, 2006
Paintballer:"lets play some paintball!"
Airsofter:"NOO!!! i dont wanna get hurt!Besides my mommy wanted me to be in bed by 6:30"
Airsofter:"NOO!!! i dont wanna get hurt!Besides my mommy wanted me to be in bed by 6:30"
by steewaffle August 15, 2009
airsoft is a game where people like to play or re-enact sences from black hawk down
they play with their booty and have nice guns. a man only sport. not for boys
they play with their booty and have nice guns. a man only sport. not for boys
by pseudonym September 11, 2004
Game for 12 year olds that buy 11 dollar guns from the Chinese guy at the flea market. The other market is old fat angry men that like giving orders to their squadren members.
The markers are unnecessarily large and heavy just so they give these 30-year-old kids a feeling of power.
They would be better off using real guns.
The markers are unnecessarily large and heavy just so they give these 30-year-old kids a feeling of power.
They would be better off using real guns.
Person A: Hey dude, want to play Airsoft in a little bit?
Person B: *Slurp* *Slurp* Yeah, when I'm done *Slurp*
Person A: I need a LASER sight because I can't aim for shit. This defeats half the purpose, but still.
Person A: Alpha follow Charlie. Bravo attack the rear. Foxtrot, beat off Delta.
Person B: *Slurp* *Slurp* Yeah, when I'm done *Slurp*
Person A: I need a LASER sight because I can't aim for shit. This defeats half the purpose, but still.
Person A: Alpha follow Charlie. Bravo attack the rear. Foxtrot, beat off Delta.
by PBNation December 13, 2005
A game where people shoot mil-sim guns at each other pretending like they're in the military. typically these people dress up in camo and play who knows where because no one wants to lose money on opening up an airsoft field. airsoft guns have to have a higher velocity because even still you cannot feel it. airsofters play airsoft because their guns "look more realererer then teh ghey paintball pansy guns" when in reality paintball guns are not pansy guns.. paintballs hurt more... if you play airsoft and say paintball is gay, that officially makes you a fag. paintball is overall more fast paced, fun, and requires more overall skill and stamina than airsoft. i dont carry a 50lb ruck on my back.. you know why? because i'm not a dumbass and i dont play airsoft..
dude: hey, we're gonna play airsoft in my backyard today, wanna play?
guy: didnt we do that when we were like 7 with "real looking guns" and yell "bang you're dead" at each other
dude: no, airsoft has teh 1337 pelletz that roxorz joor face off!
airsofters cannot take the pain of a paintball.. which is why they need airsoft and real looking guns "if only real looking guns had an orange tip" to make them feel like they hold some kind of importance in society and to make them feel better about their rice sized penis...
"i played airsoft once.. i almost got shot by a cop.. apparently my replica m16a1 with a blaze orange tip looked WAYYY to real for him."
"sweet... you're gay"
guy: didnt we do that when we were like 7 with "real looking guns" and yell "bang you're dead" at each other
dude: no, airsoft has teh 1337 pelletz that roxorz joor face off!
airsofters cannot take the pain of a paintball.. which is why they need airsoft and real looking guns "if only real looking guns had an orange tip" to make them feel like they hold some kind of importance in society and to make them feel better about their rice sized penis...
"i played airsoft once.. i almost got shot by a cop.. apparently my replica m16a1 with a blaze orange tip looked WAYYY to real for him."
"sweet... you're gay"
by HuNtS1987 July 23, 2006