The New Guy (or girl) List part 1

Ok  I talk to some nice people over at Airsoft Battle Grounds and I was talking to them about were to start when you are a begnier. So now i am makeing what i am calling The New Guy (or girl) list

The New Guy (or girl) List 

First you need a gun then you need a face mask and then you need tac gear (if you dont know what that means then look at my older post :) ) 

Gun- when you first start you are not going to want to cash out a lot of money at first when you buy a gun i would try to stay away from the gas blow back pistols and smg (sub mussine gun) and the rifles. What i would want to buy would be like a good aeg not to nice but something with some power to it and when i mean power i dont mean fps (feet per sec). a lot of new people think fps is all what matters but that statement is not true there are many things like rps(rounds per sec) and what that is how many your gun can spit out per sec or you can find rpm (rounds per min) and all you have to do is divide that by 60 and you will have you rps. but that is beside the point here i will post up some links of good but not the pricey. these guns are some that i love to pay with

kwa cqr 

this is a gun i love it has a gear box ( the thing that make the gun shoot) is out of a $350 gun and it kicks butt i love this gun and i wish i had more hands on time with it i love it that much. but the gun is still light weight but something a lot of guns around this price range is that is has a metal upper reasser and a polymer lower. it is a nice touch. but one thing about it dose come with a mid capsity magazine so instead of holding 400 rounds it holds 120 rounds but you dont have to wind it but you do ave to use a speed loader. Here is the link and some pics

 http://www.airsoftgi.com/product_info.php?products_id=10377
that was the KWA cqr mod  n2ow they just released the mod 1 and here is a pic

Now you must be thinking what is the difference well one has a longer barrel and the other has a shorter one it doses not matter which one you pick it is just  which one you like more. handol both of them if you can so you can decide which one you like more.

gear

gear well there is all sorts of different kinds of gear. airsofters call there gear tac gear short for tactical gear. the point of having gear is for the most part to carry magazines on to the field and some time water and other stuff like jackets food, bbs, air tanks, green gas or propane.. there are five main kind of gear i will make a list

1 plate carrier
2. pouches
3. backpacks
4. holsters
5. vests

plate carriers,  in the past there name sums it all up but not now. the plate carrier was made for carrieing ballistic plate (ballistic plates aka body armor are made to stop bolits) but in airsoft there are no need to carrier the plates senice there are no bulites  flying at you. the carriers have this thing called MOLLE to sum up what MOLLE dose there are rows of webbing on the plate carrier and you weave your pouch on to your vest. so airsofters use the system to carry mags on them just like the miltery dose. her are some picuters of plate carriers



pouches are the the thing that holds the madzines for you gun and they come in all sorts of sizes and shapes some are for holding magzines some are for holding water bottles or you flashlight and knife or medical gear or what ever you want them to hold here are some pic the one on top is for holding mags the next one is for holding a water balder
 
back packs are used to carry more thing they are not common to use.in airsoft there is no need to carry a tent of cooking gear or other stuff but they are used to carry air tanks for classic type of airsoft guns i use a tac gear back pack for school i use one like this for school
 
holsters there are a poop ton of different kind of holsters made out of all sorts of different kinds of stuff like plastic and leather we use holsters to carry your side arm ie your pistol they hold them safe and are most of the time easy to draw from the holster. another resen why we use a holster is so we can draw are side arm fast. most of the time you never use your side arm you have it with you in case you main arm goes down ie jams you run out of rounds or whatever so you need to get to your side arm fast a with a holster you can do that. here are some pics i use a holster like the one in the first pic i like it because there is no think need to work it so that mean i can draw fast every time all i need to draw my side arm is to press the butin and pull out and when i need to re holster it all i have to do is push it back in to the holster. the one in the second pic there is nothing holding the gun in beside the presser of the holster holding it so you draw i vary fast the one in the third pic has a thum break system so with that kind you have to press the lever to pull out the gun and when re holstering the gun you push it in and then move the flap over the top of the gun so this makes for a slower re holstering then the two above it. the forth pic is the cheapest one you can get it is the slowest one to.
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vests well as you can guess there are lots of different kinds to a vest dose not hold a plate most of the time and a lighter then plate carriers. the subject vest also includes chest rigs in my eyes a chest rig is the lightest way to go most of the time there is o no back and they do not cover all of your chest like my chest rig it is very small and light the one bad thing about chest rigs are they are not very good with dealing with weight unlike a plate carrier witch is very good at doing that. most of the time thay have MOLLE on them like the plate carriers. here are some pics.the one in the fist pic is like the one i use a vary small and light weight chest rig. the rig in the second pic is what a chest rig would look like. the one in the third is a vest that you would see alot of time.

i will talk about all of these subjects more in depth over time thank you for reading and i will be posting more airsoft good ness over time

face mask

alright next thing on the list is face mask. a face mask is something that protects you face and mouth and teeth. most of the time people play with paint ball mask and that is fine. in fact my loewca store JF airsoft and paint ball sell paint ball mask to airsofters but there are more options to airsofters. some like to were hard plastic face mask as they protect you best but there is one con to useing a hard plastic face mask is that you can not aim down your sights wich you need to do if you want to shoot the uposing team. a hard face mask looks like this so to get around that they use a low profile face mask now these are some of the most pricey options to face protection. but some dont have the money to spend on a low profile face mask so they use something airsofters call mesh. what mesh is it is a two part face protection system. the first part is a mesh lower piece the protects you mouth and nose. the second part is the goggles or some use safety glasses but that is not acteble as they will let bbs pass though the bottom of the glasses and the top as they are not sealed unlike a face mask. most felds will not let a player play if they are wearing safety glasses. goggles are sealed so no bbs can pass though the top or bottom. here are some pics of low profile face masks and goggles and mesh