My M16a3

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Ah, excellent. I'll try to head over sometime, but I can't bring back anything on the plane with me, and I don't feel like shipping...
Besides, I hate Armalites. Still, I'd like to see what this thing is.

[Shooter]

You probably wont find it as good as your $800 marui watever u have, but as I said, Im a beginner and thats Ill I can afford rite now.

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Nah, I have a $450 Marui FA-MAS.
It's OK, just the fact it's a brand I've never heard of has sparked my interest.
I checked, it's a 10 minute drive from where I am...

[Shooter]

Ok, cool. Also, its probably nowhere near as good as a Marui, but It'll do for now. Thats too bad you cant bring on th plane, lol. They got a whole new shippment of springers from $30 and AEG's from $169

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Ah... I find there's no real point to spring pistols (I mean, no-one skirmishes with them), so I think they should pull the cheaper more abundant ones from the shelves... I hope to God they don't have these on display.

[Greylocks]

In general, you cant find anything decent for less than $600. If less, they tend to break really fast.
Save your money next time. Learning with a bad gun is not good, it wont even give you a faint idea for what airsoft really is.

[Shooter]

My M16a3 looks exactly like this:

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Originally Posted by Greylocks

In general, you cant find anything decent for less than $600. If less, they tend to break really fast.
Save your money next time. Learning with a bad gun is not good, it wont even give you a faint idea for what airsoft really is.

Hey, my brand-new FA-MAS was 455... it's great, durable as hell, and has an ROF from Hell. Plus, quite a few guns are under 600, including half the Marui guns (Minus batteries and chargers). I'd lower that to about 330, the cheapest price of a new MP5K (Actually, that'd be an exception. 450 should be the proper number)
Hmm... doesn't look too bad. Might make for a nice project gun... perhaps, with a lot of work, you could somehow drop a nice mechbox into that...

[Atomic_235]

I saw your M16 in many US shop like Icefire. It's a springer. Also, this is not a M16 A3, it don't have the rail on the top. It's a M16 A1 with the M16 A2 hanguard and lot of little accessories...
Save your money for a real AEG, you can got it for a good price on Double Edge or Rangers. :tup:

[Greylocks]

Bob, you know the $600 is a ballpark figure by the time you have a gun, decent charger, ammo, batteries, extra mags. Yes there are exceptions. But the point is still valid.

[SF]

Let's not rain on Shooter's parade. It's his toy, his hard earned money & he is very happy with it. That in itself is priceless.

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Originally Posted by Greylocks

Bob, you know the $600 is a ballpark figure by the time you have a gun, decent charger, ammo, batteries, extra mags. Yes there are exceptions. But the point is still valid.

Ah... that's quite true. For 2 guns, BDUs, and just about all my kit, I've just passed the 1000 checkpoint.
As for Shooter, I respect that. It's his hard-earned money, and he can practice with it until he has enough for a proper AEG.
PS: If it is hard to read this thread, I've edited out a lot of my responses. Trying to keep my post-count down, it seems that I've forgotten about forum ettiquete.

[Vryheid]

Is it just me or is it odd that in most cases airsoft guns costs more than the real weapon they try to copy.

[Greylocks]

Originally Posted by Vryheid

Is it just me or is it odd that in most cases airsoft guns costs more than the real weapon they try to copy.

It's true. A real AK47, full auto, sells for about $350 Canadian dollars. You can get an M16 (civilian version) for about $500-$700. An MP5 for around $500. A tommy-gun is between $300 to $400.

[skaterjoe]

i think its mostly in canada that airsoft out prices legal real steel.
and then again, i think the guns that are out priced are the lower end ones like the norincos and such.
Note: i was talking about legal guns, im sure illegal guns are much cheaper than airsoft.