Weapon damage

[liquidflorian]

Read this thread and revel in the afterglow.....

[Lon]

you complain about getting wear on your guns, and i complain about the lack of wear on mine... I should really go out in the brush more.

[rather]

i dont care about most my guns but i bought a 300 dollar WA and i wouldnt play with it . i didnt want to break it or scratch it. so i sold it.

[Captain Hat]

That's crazy talk! I bought my first WA for £180. I've only not carried it on about three of the occasions I've been airsofting.

 

Hrm. People seem to be continually complaining that WAs are unreliable. I've only had trouble with mine (and I have five WA pistols) on a couple of occasions, and it was usually my fault at that!

 

Having said that, they ARE high-maintenance. I've had most of them in pieces more times than I care to count, just cleaning them out and regreasing them. It never fails to surprise me how many guys don't even know how to take the slide off their sidearms.

[TDS]

It really depends on the person and the gun

 

I just sold an EBR kit simply because I felt it was too nice to field, I couldn't play and was always afraid of scratching it.

On the other side I had a tanaka k98 that I fielded for ~5ish years, at least twice a month, abused it to hell, and it took it all like a champ.

 

External looks really dont hurt resale too much.

Damage like broken sling points and lost pins do, painting defiantly does.

Your base gun will never be worth any more than ~60-70% of what you bought it for, but stuff that doesn't wear out like magazines, scopes, some externals, ect. hold their value much more. Internals hold almost no value since a smart buyer knows you never know where they came from, who installed them, and really how many rounds are through them.

 

The important thing is you are having fun, nowadays with clones you can replace the externals of your gun for way, way, less than I could have imagined when I started, so dont worry about it, as long as you dont do something stupid like run between two trees and break your m16 into a zillion parts (happened to one of the guys at a game) any damage your gun takes is worth it.

[Treadhead]

But don't scratches decrease resale value?

 

ultimately, do you have the gun to enjoy playing airsoft or to sell it?

[niust]

just wrap them with cloths.. with is good to protect and hide ur gun too..

[The Badger]

The Badger would recommend the following solution if you are worried about how many scratches your gun has.

 

step 1. put down your purse (unless your Bella, in which case your guns probably in the purse)

step 2. find the nearest solid object and hit it hard with the weapon in question.

step 3. while hitting weapon on object, yell loudly "This is a rifle(/Submachine gun/pistol/shotgun) not a GODAMM Ferrari! It looks good beaten to a pulp, and I like it that way!"

 

Repeat as necessary

[w00k1e]

I was looking at my 3 current rifles last night: CA M15 CQB, TM M4-S, JG C36C

The M15 just looks so much better than the others with its 2 years of natural battle scarring that the plastic bodied other guns just can't match! I had to replace the lower receiver on it due to a crack a couple of months ago and deliberately bought a second hand one that was a bit battered so it didn't lose it's character

[PAWNO]

No matter what anyone says, there is a resale value and damage to your gun does lower it. Just look at ANY sales thread.

 

To get the best of both worlds, choose your skirmishing kit for the purpose of skirmishing only ie, durability, fps , reliability etc etc etc. Then buy other guns for collecting purposes ie, test firing , wall hangers, trading etc etc

 

If you do find that your gun is too beautiful to game with, then don't, thats why cheap soft exists.

 

There are alot of gun covers that you can get for assault rifles, specifically for camo purposes but they do protect your gun from wear. They also look ###### but thats not important.

 

I have managed with most of my guns, to skirmish with them and not have them look like garbage. Battle wear does look cool when it surface scratches etc etc. It looks gross when bits are missing, cracked and hanging off and at that stage they are only realistic when comparing them to some third world milita's inventory ie AK47 with broken sites, broken wood furniture etc etc. Any army worth its salt would repair the gun if it effected performance but you'd still be left with superficial marks.

 

My personal tip for reducing damage is this:

 

1. use protective camo dressing as its functional in 2 ways (I don't bother most of the time because it snags)

 

2. choose a gun that is appropriate for your size, if you are short don't get some long unweildy rifle (unless its a sniper or support weapon). Doing this will decrease your chances of smacking it into things.

 

 

I personally am 6ft tall but always opt for compact guns as that are more mobile and less likely to get smacked into things. I don't really use covers and I have run around alot because I prefer to assault or recon and CQB . lr300, patriot, mp5, ak74u etc etc.

 

Most Airsoft guns ARE NOT built anywhere near as well as real guns, even the steel ones (because of internals as well) and should therefore not be treated as roughly as real ones if you want them to last.

 

In saying that though, for just about any AEG there are hundreds of choices of spare internal and external parts so that should give you some peace of mind. Also try and get spare externals secondhand so you don't have to worry about babying it as much.... as you've paid less and its already used.

 

hope this helps.

[snorkelman]

Find someone who really wants to battle wear their gun but is too lazy to do it themselves. Charge them a fee to do it for them and leave your own prescious at home

[Roskov]

But don't scratches decrease resale value?

 

just sell it to some mil-sim freaks, they love a good pre-scratched weapon

[jchu1988]

Unless, its a classic gas gun, like an Smokey barrett or the WA2000, in pristine condition, then scratches isnt gonna do much to resale value. If you wanted to invest your, you should have bought gold instead of a TM or CA or whatever. Airsoft rifles is very unlikely to increase in value, especially AEGs.

[Destroyer 105]

You don't. It's called battlewear, and it's great

 

amen man

 

altho some guns look nice undamaged, G36 is one of them imo

[Warhog Driver!!!]

You don't. It's called battlewear, and it's great

 

i second that, it makes you look like you actually airsroft rather than sit cleaning the exterior of your wepon all day...

 

it happens to everyone, just get use to it

[HabibDemon66]

If you look around you will see that in real life most guns are worn and have battle wear, you dont always want to have a shiny brand spanking new weapon. The exception is of course the plastic guns, but with metal bodies and wood kits scratches and wear and tear looook swweeeeeeeeet

[Jsres]

i think i swap parts too often for them to get battle wear

[broken gun]

if you dont want your gun to be damaged then dont use it. if your running around the forest or a building trying to shoot people who are shooting back your probily going to scruff it up.

[Kye]

Oh yes. My M15 has some very deep gouges in it from today's Longmoor.

[GuzziHero]

Not wanting to damage a gun? And heres me, crawling in games and sling dragging my M1 with a custom wood kit behind me, just so I can ADD battle-wear!

 

It does feel cheap though, trying to intentionally scratch it. Just like motorbikers who scratch new kneesliders on the floor so they look like theyre good riders

[tanx-man]

i cant say much, running around..trip, crack!! whats that? (only my body weight snapped my HK33E in 2 clean pieces) that ruined my day!

[magaz]

i've been there tanx made me laugh though! haha

My ak47's are scratched, dented, cracked, i cracked a chunk out of my spetz foregrip and glued it back airsoft wouldn't be the same if your rif was all pristine and shiny...

[Finius]

My AK in it's current form hasn't seen too much action, but the amount of times I've taken it down and such, and the amount of times I've dropped it in the garden etc, well, it looks nicely worn, except the wood grips, those get alot of love.

[davefc3s]

My old M15 Rifle had some nice wear on it. Faded paint everywhere, beat up stock. Performed great though... thing was quite the workhorse.

[Gliderrider]

i've been there tanx made me laugh though! haha

 

Me too, but mine was a rental P90, so just said I fell over your so and so and broke your gun. Thanks, now I'll try that G36. (I was looking for a new gun and it was between the two)