Issue 43 of Airsoft International is now out:
Issue 43 of Airosft International is now on world wide sale ( thats 4 years of uninterrupted monthly pubishing)
As time goes by my role in Ai has kept me pretty much office bound and concentrating on the commercial aspect of what is without a shadow of a doubt the western worlds biggest selling Airsoft Publication.
My passion for the sport and the magazine sometimes gets clouded and I find myself forgetting that I?m a player. I find myself playing less and less these days as invariably when I turn up to a site you guys want to talk to me and that?s important because without you guys there would not be an Ai.
Playing less is not so much of a problem and it?s a sacrifice that I?m willing to make, to ensure that once a month (in fact 13 times this year) you guys receive a high quality publication.
As this issue goes off to press we here at Ai are at another milestone as with the next issue we slip quietly into volume 5 of Ai, which means that no other publisher in the western world can claim that they outsell or for that matter out circulate the best selling Airsoft publication in existence (in the western world) there has been a number of pretenders to the throne over the years, with I hasten to add quite ridiculous circulation claims and even stranger claims such as the magazine that rather oddly celebrated the fact that they carry no advertising. Unfortunately publishing is a commercial entreaty, with a huge cost attached to it. Our advertising in Ai allows us to reinvest into our circulation, but more importantly provides a service to our advertisers and readers. Fortunately (for Ai) a healthy advertiser base is indicative of a successful publication and that?s one thing Ai certainly is.
contents
6 The Gallery
A place for Airsofters to send in their own pictures, we?ll make you famous
13 Airsoft News
Keep up to date with the latest developments from around the World
16 Hardware on Display
G&G Combat Machine GR16
18 Incoming!
Your letters answered
20 Special Report
Gearing up for your Tour of Duty
24 Gear Up
So you wannabe old school SAS
30 Pistol
Tanaka Works S&W Model 327 M&P R8
35 Site Report
Gunman Midlands University Challenge
8 Man Tournament
40 Project
Top Tech Tips
42 Tried and Tested
We try before you buy
44 UKARA listing
46 You?ve got the Look
Local Load outs
49 Special Report
Weekend Warriors
Essential Milsim
52 Staff Shooters
TM?s 1911
54 Battle Field Bargains
Budget busting tactical gear solutions
56 Gear Zone
60 Our Finest Hour
WWII Airsoft at its very best
65 The Devil?s in the detail
CJ?s Tactical Tailoring
68 Shop Check
70 French Letter
72 Subscriptions
74 Next IssuePaul Monaf, Publishing Director, ebcon publishing
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