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Simple and reliable velocity measurement As I’ve mentioned a few times before in these pages, a consistent, accurate chronograph is one of the most critical tools that a tech can have in his or her toolbox. Being able to quickly and easily monitor your gun’s performance, …

A chronograph is one of the most essential tools that an airsofter can have in their toolbox. It’s the only reliable way to make sure that your gun is safe, legal, and meeting your expected performance goals. Most chronographs use optical gate switches that tend to …

You may remember this pistol from Issue 14, when we built a custom, practical, and very pretty combat pistol using an Echo 1 Timberwolf base gun and filled it with parts from Evike and PTS, including their Battlecomp slide kit. This project is continuing with even more parts on the way from …

ASG Franchi SPAS-12 One Totally Boss Shotgun Words and Photos by Jason Boulanger INTRODUCTION The 1980’s were a magical time. Marty and Doc Brown perfected time travel, Ferris Bueller took a day off, and E.T. phoned home. There was U2, and Blondie, and music still on …

Here’s another episode of Airsoft Insider TV coming across your screen! In this episode, we’re taking a look at the new shortened versions of the CO2 powered Dan Wesson 715 Revolvers from ASG. These latest revolvers still include an adjustable hop-up and different velocities depending on the model …

Obsidian CQC Training Practical Training for Airsoft Location: RTSP – New Jersey Words and Photos by Jimmy Beckett Intro: One of my first ever airsoft events was a training day. I didn’t even get in any trigger time. It was held in Tolland MA at the …

One of our friends over at Airsoft Pal has released a truly massive guide to all things airsoft. With almost 19,000 words of well researched and thought out content, you can likely find your airsoft questions answered within. We are looking forward to more content to be shared …

News in from Krytac about their new exclusive distribution arrangement with Evike: “Evike.com will become Exclusive Distributor in the U.S. for KRYTAC® April 10, 2017 – Brea, California, United States- KRISS USA, a leading manufacturer and distributor of small arms and training replicas, has signed an …

Lightweight gear is all the rage these days, and one of our favorite manufacturers is Whiskey Two Four. They use high tech materials and manufacturing methods (Lasers!) to build high quality, very lightweight modular gear for the industry. Best of all, everything is made in the …

All this week you watched as we turned a bone stock Cybergun Colt 1911 Rail Gun into a sleek, classy shooter. Now we can see it in action using the Advanced Novelty Tech V2 FIRE ANT CO2 adapter. The idea behind this adapter is to replace the small …

We’re in the home stretch with the Colt 1911 Rail Gun build now, time to finish up the trigger install and respray the gun.  See part 3 of this build HERE 27 One more screw and pin and the whole firing assembly will slide out the top …

So far on the Colt 1911 Rail Gun build, we’ve modified some real-steel 1911 grips to fit onto this CO2 powered replica. Unfortunately, we ran into a bit of a snag with the Madbull compensator, so let’s bust out the tools to get that fixed.  See …

In the last installment of this build, we started working on the grips. In this installment, we’ll refinish the grips and start work on the slide modifications! See part 1 of this build HERE 11 You can see that I improved on my process with the second …

  Class up your CO2 1911! 1For this build, we went with the Cybergun Colt Rail Gun. This CO2 powered blowback pistol is full metal and features a two-tone finish that already looks pretty sweet. One thing to note, the original plan was to sandblast gun …

Airsoft Innovations has been kicking out grenades for the airsoft industry for much of the last decade, and their latest is the Burst XL: a propane/green gas powered noisemaker. Unlike other noise making grenades such as the ubiquitous Thunder B or several pyro options, the Burst …