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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4556714, member: 111037"]I love the outdoors and I love guns! </p><p><br /></p><p>However, living in the UK I cannot own the real thing so I don't bother with shooting clubs and shooting ranges here as they are rare, expensive and the legislation is cumbersome. Luckily, air-soft is legal and there are plenty of clubs and sites around to go and play pew-pew with other consenting adults.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically it is like paint-ball, but with more realistic guns (replicas of real models) that are either electric or gas operated and fire plastic pellets. The range is about 40 to 60 meters, and they are pretty accurate, so that allows for realistic war-games and scenarios in nice woodland settings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one of my toys: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128145[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It is an air-soft replica of the CZ BREN 805 from the Czech Republic. It can be an expensive hobby as you can spend a lot of money in upgrading the internal mechanism plus adding stuff like bipods, scopes, mock suppressors, etc. A fun difference from the paint-ball ones is that they are full-automatic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does it hurt when you get hit by one of these? Yes on naked skin or thin clothing like t-shirts. At close range you may even bleed. Eye-pro is compulsory and mouth protection is a good idea unless you have a very good dental plan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4556714, member: 111037"]I love the outdoors and I love guns! However, living in the UK I cannot own the real thing so I don't bother with shooting clubs and shooting ranges here as they are rare, expensive and the legislation is cumbersome. Luckily, air-soft is legal and there are plenty of clubs and sites around to go and play pew-pew with other consenting adults. Basically it is like paint-ball, but with more realistic guns (replicas of real models) that are either electric or gas operated and fire plastic pellets. The range is about 40 to 60 meters, and they are pretty accurate, so that allows for realistic war-games and scenarios in nice woodland settings. Here is one of my toys: [ATTACH=full]1128145[/ATTACH] It is an air-soft replica of the CZ BREN 805 from the Czech Republic. It can be an expensive hobby as you can spend a lot of money in upgrading the internal mechanism plus adding stuff like bipods, scopes, mock suppressors, etc. A fun difference from the paint-ball ones is that they are full-automatic. Does it hurt when you get hit by one of these? Yes on naked skin or thin clothing like t-shirts. At close range you may even bleed. Eye-pro is compulsory and mouth protection is a good idea unless you have a very good dental plan.[/QUOTE]
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