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good practice for range trying to get 1st class marksman at cadets - tell them learning how to handle the toy plastic rifle will help you with prom to lance corp at cadets. If they don't trust you with it then you could buy it without BB's - uhm yeah that won't last long

soz I shouldn't give you or others ideas on that or I will have loads of parents flaming me

You can't shoot more than 70m MAX in airsoft

I was meaning to tell parents it is for practice when shooting real one on the range.

Not groupings on rifle range with this plinker but just to tell 'em and get used to handling L85 & all that

I wouldn't say that handling airsoft weapons improve any weapon handling skill- ideally it should be done with the real thing. You can't get used to the weight of the real thing when you're holding a much lighter airsoft replica.

As well as this you can't practice load, unload and make safe drills with some of the available replicas because they don't have all the features the real thing does. The ICS L85 doesn't suffer from this, but £300 for an AEG you'll be practicing weapon handling with just makes no sense

It's not in the least bit realistic: you can't die, can't kill anyone, can't be a POW, will not get PTSD etc. But what you can get, is fresh air, exercise, new friends, plus an insight into how war is not like a movie where you'll never get hit. Thus it is healthy and educational.

suggest orange tip. say that you do same thing at computer but without any exercise.

Exactly. Stuff like CoD, ARMA, Battlefield etc are far more detrimental. They set you up as some hero figure in unrealistic safety, mowing down hundreds of demonised middle easterners with no consequences whatsoever, all whilst isolated from real human contact and getting no exercise whatsoever. I bet they let you play those. They are practically designed to desensitize young men to violence.