[TokyoSeven]

Unlike your standard GBB pistols the gas is stored in the pistol itself. Since there is no gas required to perform any type of slide "blow back action" all the gas is concentrated on the act of firing the BB itself. This can be problematic as this can result an a "hot" gun if its running Co2, or its a hot day etc. A lot of airsoft revolvers back in the day where meant to be run on duster gas.

There are many brands of revolvers out there in the airsoft market. However only a few brands would even be worth considering. Those would be Tokyo Marui, Tanaka and Marushin. All the fore mentioned are definitely some of the better quality names when it comes to airsoft. With those names also come reliability.

Now in regards to the ability to actually field it. There are two types, one type has faux bullets that hold your BBS and have to be unloaded from the gun, and then "reloaded with BBs" before they can be reloaded into the airsoft gun itself. This is where having multiple faux bullets comes in handy, however with that comes increased cost and more things to lose in the field.

The other type of airsoft revolver has an internalized magazine where the chambers house any number of preset BBs instead of faux shells housing them.

In every instance Ive run a revolver either for laughs or it was the only side arm I had at the time. There's always been one instance where each time that left me in situations with my pants down in a non sexual sense. Be it drawing to fire and finding that all my gas was empty, or having to endure the slow arduous vagina bleeding reload.

Revolvers look nice and scream bad ass, however they lose hands down to the functionality of a regular GBB due to the magazine system.