Pistols

[Airsoft-Ed]

At Skirmish's new CQB site on Saturday I ended up running my Glock and a BFG for more than half the day and I utterly bossed it. Pistols allow you to pass through doors with your gun raised ready to fire, which can't be done with any rifle, carbine or SMG and the satisfaction from getting kills with them is probably the highest level of glee you'll ever reach.

I'm more annoyed than words can express about the fact that my camera died before I started running my pistol only, 'cos if I'd been filming it would've been some of my best footage ever. Went on an 11 kill streak, 1 of which was a surrender kill, and some of the angles I caught people out from were insane.

There was also a time where I shot a guy, then an arm reached around to pull him back to cover for medicing, and I managed to grab the second guy in the freakin' arm! It was epic as hell.

Also sniped a guy from about 40m away, shot sailed and started to drop, just plinking him on the top of the head, perfect.

The site is only about 100x100m so you can happily run with pretty much any gas pistol and cope fine with the range and not get outgunned, so I might run nothing but my pistol for a lot of games I play there once the site officially opens. I'm busting a gut to get a gas rifle for it as well.

If you're new to the game then I'd advise against a pistol though, they aren't strictly needed and there are only very specific circumstances when they're more helpful than a rifle, and even then those circumstances can be worked around differently in a way that keeps the rifle handy. For woodland I'd say upgrade the rifle, if you play very tight CQB exclusively, then I might say a pistol was a good idea, but otherwise you're better off avoiding them at least until you've read a lot about keeping them in a good, skirmishable condition.

 

[PT247]

have just ordered myself two more pistols, love them

 

[Dan's Ark]

That last point is a very good one Ed, I should have mentioned that myself really.

I have had trouble in the past two months with my TM Glock magazines leaking, and the slide was not working properly. A combination of slight filing and a lot of lubricant has solved the two problems, but it showed my lack of experience in maintaining gas pistols.

If you buy a pistol with a blowback, you MUST keep the magazine valves and the slide lubricated or it will not function properly, and the magazines (Which are expensive, especially TM ones) can leak gas due to the valves not resetting properly.

 

[Zak Da Mack]

In about 16 months owning a pistol and 'softing I've used one 'in anger' :lol: less than 10 times and 3 of those have been recently, since I've started sniping. Worth bearing in mind that drawing a pistol from a secure holster, aiming, and firing on target, is a lot easier when you try it at home than it is when you're under pressure in the field.

3 words: Practice. Practice. Practice. When I first started using my pistol on the field, I struggled to pull it out, fighting with my holster before realising that the button press needed undoing.

 

[alex90]

I've got a usp compact and a broken kwa g18 on its way can't wait for them to arrive

Usp mags might be fun to get hold of thou

 

[Moose87]

yer but they can be fun in situations. i was dead and getting mediced and i saw an enemy closing in on me. obviously i couldbt tell the medic so i drew my cyma glock 18c aep and flicked to auto and pur in back in its holster. i was back in brought up the pistol faster then an aeg and owned him. some may say using dead time to adjust kit borders of cheating. but i see it as the only time to do it.