Airsoft and Teching

Airsoft is a team game where opposing teams eliminate each other by tagging the enemy with plastic pellets or BB’s. If you have ever played laser tag or paintball you pretty much know what airsoft is all about. The main difference is that airsoft is a lot more realistic.

I started playing airsoft a few years ago with a group of people I met that introduced me to it. I had played paintball quite a few times in my life and it was a lot of fun so I decided that I would give airsoft a try. It was so much fun and also substantially cheaper (paintball pellets are very expensive). It became something that I loved doing because it was a really fun team sport full of competition, which was great for me because I can be very competitive.

One limiting factor though was that the beginner airsoft guns you can get are not great. They aren’t terribly accurate and they aren’t the most reliable. But I have a knack for fixing things and so I started learning how airsoft guns work.

Once I learned how they worked and took my own gun apart I began looking for ways to modify and upgrade my gun so that I could have something that was accurate and more reliable without buying a gun that cost hundreds of pounds. I started upgrading all of my guns and making them work so much better, I got so good at it that my friends and even people I didn’t know started asking me to work on their guns and to upgrade them.

This became a really enjoyable side hustle to fund my airsoft hobby and it is something that I still do to this day…when I have the time. One thing I found really difficult with this though was finding good suppliers for upgraded parts for airsoft guns. So to help any other techy people looking to upgrade their own airsoft guns I will list all the suppliers I’ve found to have high quality parts and to be on the most part reliable. I’ll also throw in some good resources for you to learn to tech for yourself.

Airsoft Gearboxes and internals: