Tell me about airsoft guns

[Craig]

Since I moved house a about a year ago opportunities for shooting my air rifles have been few and far between. I recently got a £20 spring airsoft pistol and have been using it in the spare room - it's been great fun . Much easier to set up a  safe back stop and it's nice to have a repeater  for a change.

Now I'm looking at better guns, eventually probably both a rifle and another pistol. I only really want them for target shooting at five or six yards and I'd like something as accurate as possible at that sort of range so that when I miss I know it's down to me.

I was thinking about a Tokyo Marui Spring sniper rifle like a VSR10 or an L96, can any one tell me if their short range accuracy would be noticeably better than and automatic electric rifle or suggest any alternatives?

I'd also be very interested to know how the group sizes of the good quality airsoft guns compares with normal airguns, at very short range.

[Benner]

I looked at length into this and really came to the conclusion that if you want something really decent, that isn't a stupid colour and isn't crazy money, that the H&K airsoft pistol by Umarex is the way to go.

If you are willing to go over £150 there is a really nice pistol available.  I'd have to look it up though.

[Craig]

I'll have to look that one up Ben

For the most part the bright colours don't bother me, apart from a few I have seen that are truely vomit inducing.

[Benner]

I find the clear, the blue and the green tolerable.  The orange and red aren't my thing.

The CO2 S&W pistol looks pretty sweet.

[Craig]

Shoot pretty well too from what I've read about it.

[Benner]

That's what I read too.

Firepower do a CO2 pistol with fibre optic sights which looks good.  No idea about quality though.

What you currently got?

[Craig]

A KWC Smith and Wesson 4505 I think that mine is the same as the one in the link but mine is clear instead of black.

http://www.justpistols.co.uk/springers.htm#m4505