What was your first Airsoft gun, would you ever sell it?

[Airsoft_Mr B]

The first shitty springer I had?

Wow, yeah that thing.

It was a retarded looking clear plastic M1911 type of thing with a rail mount for a 'red dot sight' and the cheap lasers.

I don't know why it cost £20, it was probably just as good as the £5 ones that JBBG stocks.

Can't remember exactly how it broke but all I know is that I know longer know where the frame went - just that the slide lays on the floor in my room...

Fortunately my second one, an amazing BEAST M9 was much better! Plastic again, but actually really nice quality for the same price.

Nice and accurate with .2s, powerful (300+ FPS) and felt very satisfying / fun to shoot. Undoubtably the best cheap springer I've had, in fact if anybody wants one for messing around or something GET IT.

Only downside is that you have to support just BB guns when you buy it.

It's called the GSG92 or something, changed the name since I had one, but I'm 99% sure it's the same gun I got 2-3 years ago.

 

[Zak Da Mack]

Hmm, my first ever gun must have been a cheapo lpeg desert eagle. It was still a load of fun. Until it was thrown away I remember I used to go to the war & peace show and I'd always end up doing a mini "skirmish" with my friends and other kids round the campsite. This got me into airsoft after finding out about scoutthedoggie after searching something along the lines of BB gun wars. My first proper airsoft gun was my UHC sniper rifle which I got after my first skirmish. It was not bad, but it was not very strong, as proven by the fact that the bolt spring snapped and the bolt handle came off.

 

[Deej]

Well a couple christmases ago my father bought a couple of cheap unbranded spring shotguns (clear plastic pistol-grip Spas 12s) just to put under the tree, like. They came with about a hundred cheapy BBs (undefined weight) and about the same number of BB Paintballs. After a christmas day pissing about around the house, they went on a shelf. However, they had the word 'Airsoft' somewhere on the box, which I decided to look up...

My god, why didn't I know about this sport five years ago? Used a rental KA M4 for my three pre-UKARA games then bought my first AEG, an Asia Electric P90, because I couldn't find a Marui in time for my 4th skirmish. I have a passionate hatred for the M4 weapon system (So. Damned. Common.) so I was desperate to get away from it.

I've always been a P90 fanboy, since I was about eight playing 4-Player Goldeneye on the N64. For over a decade, opening up various weapon select screens and finding a P90 was just gravy for me, so when I discovered I could a) shoot people with one IRL, and B) have an excuse to own my very own, that was that.

The AE P90 is a solid little performer. A direct clone of the TM, it does of course lack the build quality of the TM but was by no means a bum deal. I would have stuck with it and just upgraded it, but I saw a good deal on a TM and jumped on it.

So my AE P90 has had a replacement Lonex nozzle, hop bucking and a few other tweaks (barrel stabilisation, compression fixes, etc) and will soon be sold to my number 2. So yeah, I'm selling her, but only because I'm dirt broke, and she'll only be next door anyway

 

[Del Monty]

TM Sig 552 was my first, loved it to bits .. bought it from Wolf Armouries (before I knew better, dont judge), had to sell it when I became Ill however, was a good little first gun.

 

[NickM]

I wasn't allowed guns by my parents so when I went to I school joined the cadets and a shooting team. At uni the guy in the room next door to mine was into pistols and we had a laugh messing about with cheap springers, I did buy one no idea of the make or anything but it was £15 is on a market stall and I guess it would resemble a 1911 loosely (if you squinted at it from a distance) it lasted pretty well. It's in my parents loft currently for the main reason that I know no one would buy it and I don't really know how to dispose of it, it might make a nice prop so I may keep it.

When I eventually had the time and money to get out skirmishing I had my heart set on an L85 hence buying the ICS L85 and starting my obsession with getting it running perfectly. It's still not quite right but I've outranged many others and the accuracy is ok. I think from now on I will send it away to a proper gun tech to get it tuned perfectly. Would I sell it, probably not, maybe only if I left the sport for good, but if nothing else it's nice to have so I can go to skirmishes occasionally if I want.

Now my arsenal has grown in order, ICS L85A2, ASG/CYMA G18cAEP, ASG/JG Bar10 Gspec, ASG MK23 Socom, and most recently an ICS M4A1 full stock which I'm tempted to leave as stock, or have turned into a DMR by a proper Tech.

 

[Cheeky vimto]

My first is the gun I'm using now, a TM mp5a4. Bought it used for £200. I haven't upgraded anything but the guy before me upgraded the spring and put in metal shims. It shoots a comfortable 330 fps. As long it keeps shooting I'll keep it, extra guns come handy for friends that want to try it out.