Something I've learnt after I started airsoft is make sure you do research before buying anything, either secondary or primary research, and make sure you know exactly what you want. I have bought so many piece of gear that I thought I would need but I'd use it in a game, realise its useless, and now its sitting in the back of my closet. Or I would buy a piece of gear, and realise its not what I wanted and now it's also in the back of my closet. You can save so much money from this and I highly recommend it.
'Know what you want' is the name of the game, really. There's a lot of equipment out there, and they all cater to different budgets and different players. Having a reproduction-grade WWII gas rifle might be sweet as hell for someone who cares for looks, but if you're concerned with performance you're gonna have a bad time. And if you buy yourself a full military outfit for your first few games, you might find you don't even want to play with half the stuff on. Which is why my go-to for any beginner is one of these two options: a) Do you have a specific gun you like? Buy that gun, and play. b) Do you not? Pick whatever's in your budget, and play. If you're starting out, even if you have no idea why you want to play airsoft, chances are you'll find out that reason within your first few games. No sooner. Just grab whatever equipment you need to have a decent experience, and hop in a game or two. If you then still want a full battle belt or that expensive gun you were looking at the other night, go for it. Once you know why you play, you tend to get a decent sense of what you want to play with.
In Canada, we have crown land, which is land owned by the government, but that everyone can use as long as they’re not living there or making money off of it, so you can go to the forest and play games with your buddies legally. It’s pretty great.
If you are a complete beginner, do not stress. Just simply pick a local field with rental service, play 2-3 times. It costs 20-30 Euro to get complete rental gear with replica and entrance fee. By that time you will find out if you are into the sport. Regarding how much it will cost and what will you need, just simply ask around the field and try out the builds. There is always that guy with uber AEG/HPA build who can hit bear cans at 50m (No pun intended) which is your "top build" to run. However even thou Airsoft is pay to win, as a beginner it doesn't matter if you have 100 euro replica or top shelf one for 1000e .... you need to learn tactics and how to move first anyway. Having the "latest" and greatest matters more on "professional" level, where skill of the players is leveled and the difference in replica performance matters more. Just enjoy the sport and be prepared to flush lot of $$$ down the drain (You are looking at aprox 1000 for replica and 1000 for the gear and accessories to get you to "top" level), as always with any kind of hobby.
Well. On my first game I played with rentals and it really discouraged me from the sport. Fogging up goggles, terrible replicas. After a year I finally bought my gear, now airsoft is at least playable for me and only now I can actually see if I like it. Maybe I just wasted a bunch of money, who knows, but for me renting the gear was a terrible experience.
Tennis is not $1,000. Most cities have free courts. So spend $150-200 on actual tennis shows and a racquet, and maybe $100 on tennis balls for a whole year if you play a lot. So $300 on the startup year
Counting the cost of eye pro at only $10 is a real low ball. For a new player you should always be recommending full face protection with either a paintball style mask ($100) or full seal goggles and lower mesh ($50 + $10).
Something I've learned is that you should rent a gun at a field for 2 to 3 games and if you like it you should not consider a "starter kit" but rather a gun that is reliable and will last you a long time. Sorry Novritsch, but I think that you don't need a Novritsch gun as your first gun as most of them are more or less the exact designs of G&G or other manufacturers guns (SSE 18 = cyma, SSR9 = well SMG or ARP 9, SSR 90 = Cyma, and more) I can recommend Double eagle for 0.5 joule. Also, get a gun with a MOSFET and FCS/ETU for the maximum lifespan of your gun and batteries. Hope this helps
About the costs, the minimum you can spend is about 850 a year, but if you are into uniforms as well and gas guns, then it can be a really big money sink. And you will love it. I've played guitar and bass for years and airsoft is way more fun. And I'm not a corporation to profit from you :) ((( but I always accept free stuff ;) ;) ;) )))
I learned to investigate further before buying one expensive item. I started my first gameday with rentals, really got hyped about the hobby, went to a local shop, listened to their advice, payed 280€ for a s-aeg without a etu and 300€ for a plate carrier. Only after I joined a team I realized I messed up badly and could have saved so much money if I only did my own research and didn't only listen to one "professional"
S-AEGs seem like they're pretty decent performance for a lower investment on a high-quality replica, but gas blowback is just so fun to shoot imo. I love the heavy 'thunk' whenever my Beretta shoots. Didn't splurge on a gas rifle yet though, I'm still considering whether I should just stick to AEGs for normal battle rifles and only go with gas or spring power with shotguns or snipers if I ever pick up one of those.
I wish I had known about you guys when I started playing like 4 years ago lol. Bought some crap guns I had to replace anyway; but now I have 3 guns from you guys that have become the highlight of my collection. Not to brand whore but they just work and the product support is great, at least it has been in my experience
I ordered a hi-capa GBB pistol as a starter. 4 magazines, a pistol, 4 mag pouches, 3 cans of gas, 4 bags of 4000 bbs, and 2 small bottles of silicone oil. 377€. 75€ was the shipping.
my whole gear cost a lot less than that weapon. sure i dont have a pistol but neither is the video. so at least in hungary even if we only use brand new things the cost woud be under 200euros or 79000ft just have some patience for good deals. also this is just the cost of starting but over time almost evrybody buy new or fancy things. and it coud become realy expensive.
Except when you buy a new GBBR, mags and a new red dot for it and then you keep thinking, that thing should also have a scope too and you can easily be above 1k at that point. And of course you buy another one of all of these later that same year because one was not enough.
Hey I’m a 14 year old teen and was looking at airsoft. I race indoor rc cars but that’s really expensive (up to $1500 for a kit car, electronics, tires, battery, charger, plus inevitable maintenance and parts) and is very time consuming, so I have decided to move on from competition racing (although I will still have them to mess around with). Airsoft looks like it might be a hobby to try, I have played once before and loved it, but I’m hesitant because of cost and time commitments. Does anyone have any advice or assurances?
well the true story is that all the gear and main gun (and accesories) and side arm will cost you €1000,- (not going for the cheapest of the cheapest, but buying quality products) and then you still need to play... first you need to pay to be able to play airsoft with that orginasation... and let's say you want to play 2ce a month, with BB's and paying for the field you'll pay about €1000,- a year... (not including gas for the car) maybe this is differant in differant countries but you need to think that for you're first year you'll pay about €2000,-
Need a mosfet for a replica 🫠🫠🫠🫠my first one was a ak cm28A tactical versipn, payed around 90-100 euros and ended up buyng upgrade parts of around 150-200 euros and in the end soled it for 80 euros.... life is strange (bought it in 2018 sold it a few months back)
i've been at a place where those glasses were banned. i play with similar ones all the time, no site in germany i've been at has had a problem with them.
@@TheWolvesCurse Many places require full seal, so glasses like that aren't sufficient, you need goggles. They may look like sunglasses but they need a full seal. Varies country to country, just like fps/J limits.
In my experience it was the other way around. Started like "dude this is so much fun, press that trigger one more time" and now I'm rather like "only a safe hit is a good shot" started with around 1kg Bbs per gameday. Now I'm rather on 1/4 of a bag.
I use 5 hundred at most per game day(granted it is a large outdoor field, but normally there are at least 60 other players)... No, I am not a sniper, I use an AEG.
No dont buy used, even it's a real deal, Novforrishy wants you to buy their over prices made in china stuff. No warranty on? used? Hell new AIRSOFT guns only have 30 or 60 warrantes! So what the hell is the differnce!? This is an INFOMERCIAL for Novreshitz.
