ejnomad07 said:
Helix Falks said:
We discovered that Air soft trumps paintball in every aspect and is less painful both on ones body and wallet.
No freaking way it's better. Paintball player and fan myself. I've had a few stingers but quite frankly if it's completely painless where's the fun in that? Half the fun is watching people squeal after you hit him in the hand or some such soft place, and it adds more to the competitive edge as I REALLY want them to be hit and not myself. Personally I've not really got hit and it's left me hurting, but I've gone home with some killer welts.
As for the wallet. I dunno, seems you still got to buy BB's and Gas for the good ones, and the guns still aren't very cheap.
I didn't say it was painless at all, it hurts if you are hit with a BB and it bloody stings if you are hit on the finger or soft fleshy bit such as arms and thighs and I still have the scars to prove it, however playing paintball I have been mildly concussed by being shot in the head from point blank range by some noob poking his gun over the wall I was behind, in air soft I was mildly pissed off from the same.
BBs are around £7 for 5000rds 0.20g (bundle of 10 5000rds = £65.00), Paintballs are £12 for Bag of 500 (Bundle of 8000 = £119.80)
You only need gas if you are sporting a Gas using gun which frankly are less reliable than electric, a decent gun can set you back a little over £140, plus a battery at around £20 eye pro about £20 too
My local air soft site has a £25 walk on fee which includes lunch or £40 for rental (Gun + 2000rds + eye pro) my nearest PB site for rental £50 (Gun + 200rds + eye pro) I don't know walk on fees.
I don't know anything about paint ball guns (Other than how they work), I know the ones we used were upper midrange gravity fed affairs which were accurate up to around 40ft when the wind wasn't blowing and cost the site around £200 a pop, that was some time ago tho and odds are they are cheaper now, I have never come close to blowing the sort of cash on air soft that I have on paint ball.
I used to be a massive fan of paintball myself, my mates and I went several times a year up until our jobs got in the way, then we discovered air soft and we go every other week.
Owning a paintball gun was one of our dreams back in the day, but now I own several air soft guns myself and all my mates have several each too we could field a 15 man team between us. I'm guessing you haven't tried air soft as you thought it was painless I strongly recommend you try it then decide which you think is better.