YouTube channels on Airsoft

[Rickwales]

Hi, can anyone suggest any channels I should be watching? 

Tactics more than equipment ideally. 

 

Thanks. 

[Lyndication]

Explosive Enterprises and MrDuffo are two of my favourites

[Rickwales]

Watched a few kicking Mustang, the wife wasn't impressed. I have to admit the headshots seem extreme. 😆 

[Lyndication]

He is exactly the kind of player you hope never turns up at your site ngl. Just kinda starting drama, being aggro, and there's a lot of chat about how he cheats a lot.

[Rickwales]

Yep, I can believe that. Mr duffo seems more my kind of thing. Cheers. 

[Austeyr]

47 minutes ago, Lyndication said:

He is exactly the kind of player you hope never turns up at your site ngl. Just kinda starting drama, being aggro, and there's a lot of chat about how he cheats a lot.

There‘s a long list of things he’s not liked for all with good reason 😂

[Emergencychimps]

I'm quite a fan of airsoft Alfonse.

 

When you say tactics, do you mean squad level or an individual level? 

 

While I'm not a fanboi, the gbrs YouTube has some bits of interest, dirty civilian and garand thumb also have some nuggets in there. A lot of it is real tactics and they arent always relatable or that transferable, but they can give a chain of thought 

[Rickwales]

1 minute ago, Emergencychimps said:

I'm quite a fan of airsoft Alfonse.

 

When you say tactics, do you mean squad level or an individual level? 

 

While I'm not a fanboi, the gbrs YouTube has some bits of interest, dirty civilian and garand thumb also have some nuggets in there. A lot of it is real tactics and they arent always relatable or that transferable, but they can give a chain of thought 

Honestly not sure, just want to up mine and my son's skills really. I'll check those names out. Thank you. 

[Baser]

I quite like cam man, mostly sniper content so I’ve been watching him while getting used to my DMR. 

[MrTea]

1 hour ago, Lyndication said:

and there's a lot of chat about how he cheats a lot.

This list exists for which sites he's banned from. Some of the things he's accused of are actually insane behaviour. Granted, it's two-ish year old but that's 40+ sites that confirmed he was banned at the time.

 

I can second AirsoftCamMan. I watch his stuff from time to time.

[Cannonfodder]

9 hours ago, Rickwales said:

Hi, can anyone suggest any channels I should be watching? 

Tactics more than equipment ideally. 

 

Thanks. 

Not so much tactics  but Bodgeups did some good videos showing what sniping is like in airsoft. All his videos are a few years old now though ad he gave up on the whole YouTube thing.

 

9 hours ago, Rickwales said:

Watched a few kicking Mustang, the wife wasn't impressed. I have to admit the headshots seem extreme. 😆 

I won't go into detail but his headshots aren't the worst thing he does. I would say he's a cunt but I don't think he's got the warmth, depth or ability to provide pleasure.

 

With airsoft on YouTube you need to remember that 99% of videos are very heavily edited to make the player look far better than they actually are

[Rickwales]

He was just what came up when I looked for Airsoft on YouTube. Told the wife, she was disgusted by his behaviour and pleased no one at our site is like that...

Thanks for the replies and suggestions gentlemen. 

[Lyndication]

KM seems to always encounter toxic and cheating players in his videos, and it definitely gives that vibe of, "if you smell shit everywhere you go, it's you."

 

I genuinely think he's an absolute negative for the hobby, and it's shite that he's far and away the most popular channel because that shit gets views.

[Fatboy40]

26 minutes ago, Lyndication said:

KM seems to always encounter toxic and cheating players in his videos, and it definitely gives that vibe of, "if you smell shit everywhere you go, it's you."

 

I watched a couple of minutes of his latest video, downvoted then closed it, with it leaning so heavily into "toxic femininity".

 

Is he now the airsoft Andrew Tate?

[Emergencychimps]

15 hours ago, Rickwales said:

Honestly not sure, just want to up mine and my son's skills really. I'll check those names out. Thank you. 

 

I'd probably say don't over complicate it, get some practice in changing mags so you're comfortable with your kit and doing it so you can change mags without watching what you're doing and it's fairly quick.

 

If you use radios, practice using them, make sure you don't hot mic etc. 

 

Maybe some snap shooting practice, hitting with your first shot vs  your 10th can make a difference. 

 

If you do CQB, I think the limited penetration or "Israeli method" is the way to go, which is basically a fancy way of saying slow down and fight from the doorway/window, learn about slicing the pie and understanding the principles of a section attack and that this can be applied a lot will take you a long way. 

[Rickwales]

We weren't getting enough shots off to need changing mags... 😆 

I've just received some more paper targets for practice and to make sure we scoped in properly.

We do have baofeng radios but haven't used em yet. 

[Lyndication]

4 hours ago, Fatboy40 said:

I watched a couple of minutes of his latest video, downvoted then closed it, with it leaning so heavily into "toxic femininity".

 

Is he now the airsoft Andrew Tate?

 

Fuck knows honestly. He's always had that trick of just starting shit, getting a response, then editing around it so the other people look mental. It's an old trick.

 

He does start that video saying he's brought his, "most painful gun".

 

Another channel to shout out is Gun Gamers btw. More MilSim/LARP focused but a good bit about gear setups and the like. Generally seem to have good vibes as well.

 

I'll say that you can learn a bit from firearms channels like Hop, Brass Facts, or Garand Thumb, but there's not much crossover in practice. Airsoft is basically simulating the most close-up form of fighting possible where everyone's within 50m like it's a Ukrainian trench raid. A lot of American firearms advice is how to maximise your paranoid schizophrenia level so you can convince yourself there's a civil war, retreat to the deep forests, and die of dysentery eating beans and MREs.

[Rickwales]

Lyndication, I'm not the paranoid prepper type... 😆 

Some great suggestions thank you. 

[Punisher3990]

I like AirsoftCamMan also so another + for him. Airsoft Alfonse is good too he has been to some cool sites ngl 

 

I used to watch Kicking Mustang but I read when he is filming he has his buddies guard him off camera to make the footage better. He does have a nice ghillie tho 

[Impulse]

1 hour ago, Lyndication said:

I'll say that you can learn a bit from firearms channels like Hop, Brass Facts, or Garand Thumb, but there's not much crossover in practice. Airsoft is basically simulating the most close-up form of fighting possible where everyone's within 50m like it's a Ukrainian trench raid. A lot of American firearms advice is how to maximise your paranoid schizophrenia level so you can convince yourself there's a civil war, retreat to the deep forests, and die of dysentery eating beans and MREs.

 

Don't threaten me with a good time! But I do agree that some real-steel shooting practices do work well in airsoft, while others (most of them) very much do not; some do work with a bit of modification though. I've got some legacy US military sniper handbooks and training aids, obviously not up to date, but from the 80s - 2000s, that have really helped me in my chosen way of playing airsoft. I find a lot of fun from adopting and adapting (where needed/possible) real-steel firearms practices into airsoft, without going to a silly degree where I'm spending thousands of pounds on high quality scopes, night vision, thermals, ways to combat night vision and thermals, and ten years supply of baked beans for my off-grid cabin in the woods. I might try and put together a DOPE card for my sniper rifle, though with airsoft and how wonky our rifles shoot by comparison to real-steel, it'd be more of a "rough estimate" than the exact readings you'd have on a real firearm.

 

All that said, I do try and set up my gear to be as realistic as possible; such is the curse of being a filmsim immersion nerd. Proper number of mags set up in the right way, comms, observation kit (binoculars, rangefinder, and I want to get a wind speed reader) sustainment kit (food/water), and the airsoft essentials like BBs and gas that allow me to play uninterrupted for an entire day without needing to head back to the safe zone, or even to respawn outside of when I get shot. I carry all my kit on me, and more often than not I find myself reloading in the field as the way I play revolves around not getting shot, so I'll often fall back if spotted rather than risk getting taken out in an unfavourable firefight, or my position getting grenaded or sprayed with full-auto

 

And if you want some very good, but very old sniper youtube videos, this was the channel that properly got me into ghillie sniping 18 years ago. None of this KM drama bollocks, just some good old fashioned sniping, the way it's meant to be done!

https://www.youtube.com/@6mmhunters/featured

Edited 2 hours ago by Impulse

[Lozart]

This guy was pretty decent https://www.youtube.com/@GunfatherMilsim

 

He's an active-duty SWAT officer in the US who also plays airsoft, so he put together some of the more relevant techniques in some videos. He's gone back to just real steel stuff now, but his old stuff is still up.

[Colin Allen]

6 hours ago, Fatboy40 said:

 

I watched a couple of minutes of his latest video, downvoted then closed it, with it leaning so heavily into "toxic femininity".

 

Is he now the airsoft Andrew Tate?

No, he is just desperate to get his gums around Tate’s knob.

[Emergencychimps]

47 minutes ago, Lozart said:

This guy was pretty decent https://www.youtube.com/@GunfatherMilsim

 

He's an active-duty SWAT officer in the US who also plays airsoft, so he put together some of the more relevant techniques in some videos. He's gone back to just real steel stuff now, but his old stuff is still up.

 

Some of this guys stuff is great and so on point for this thread! Thanks

[Krisz]

20 hours ago, Rickwales said:

Hi, can anyone suggest any channels I should be watching? 

Tactics more than equipment ideally. 

 

Thanks. 

It's a waste of time apart from certain review channels. Youtube airsoft is all about clickbait bullshit and drama which doesn't represent reality.