How To Use Airsoft Rifles For Advanced Rifle Training Drills Airsoft rifles replicate the appearance and basic functions of their real steel name-sakes and have an a number of advantages for conducting advanced rifle training drills. Constructed from high-impact ABS and some metal parts, Airsoft rifles use battery-powered electric motors and gearboxes to drive spring pistons and shoot 6mm plastic pellets accurately up to 60 feet or more. Today, we’ll be looking at ways you can effectively incorporate them into your rifle training drill repertoire.
Enhance Your Skill Set On The Move As pellets impart less than 0.2joules upon impact, Airsoft guns are a safe, cheap way to run through reloading drills without the maintenance costs of doing so with your real rifle. Airsoft carbines have faithfully reproduced magazine catches, fire selector switches and, in the case of our MP5A5, retraceable stocks and adjustable sights. While they offer no advantages against marksmanship training with your real rifle, Airsoft guns let you enhance your skill set by practicing reloading on the move and adopting nonstandard positions from behind cover. You can complete drills without running the risk of damaging your real weapon or having to carry out costly or complex cleaning, repairs or maintenance. Ultimately, you can complete Airsoft drills with minimal risk of harming yourself or others.
Refine Your Reloading Drills Airsoft guns let you run through reloading drills with a high level of realism. As with your real firearm, your Airsoft gun holds the rounds (6mm pellets) in detachable magazines which are secured and released in exactly the same way as real firearms. Although Airsoft magazines hold hundreds of rounds, you can load them to the same capacity as a real magazine and buy multiple magazines. Airsoft guns offer a realistic rate of automatic fire and let you run through reloading dills that might be risky with a real gun. With three MP5 magazines, each loaded with 30 pellets, you can safely practice reloading on the move, while shooting 30 rounds at a time from a standing, kneeling and prone position without risking the safety of yourself or those around you. 90 Airsoft rounds are a lot cheaper than 9mm rounds and there’s no cleaning involved afterwards!
Prepare For A Potentially Lethal Encounter
Airsoft guns are infinitely upgradeable; you can dramatically increase range and accuracy by upgrading the barrel, springs, gearboxes, motors and battery. This gives you a high-level of accuracy and a decent range for close-quarters shooting practice. In actual encounters you are not the only one whom will seek cover and concealment and you can replicate this with battery powered Airsoft targets that fall when you hit them and rise automatically. You can run through advanced training drills where you not only find and utilize cover and concealment but practice shooting at targets emulating enemies that do the same.
Build Your Confidence With Minimal Cost And Risk The principal advances of utilizing Airsoft guns during rifle training drills are that they have lower cleaning, maintenance and repair costs. You can practice primary and secondary weapon switching drills, reloading with and without retention on the move, and emergency reloading. Completing these drills with an Airsoft gun is far cheaper; a thousand 6mm Airsoft rounds cost just a few dollars which is much cheaper than actual ammo. If you load magazines to their authentic capacities, close-range drills with Airsoft guns are highly-realistic training experiences. Practice makes perfect and Airsoft is the perfect way to hone your tactical shooting skills when you’re not on the range.