EastCoastAirsoft Blog

Purchasing a barrel extension is a great way to upgrade your airsoft gun and make it both more accurate and powerful.  This is because the extension increases the distance that the pellets travel before leaving the barrel, and this allows the trajectory to become more precise.  You do not want to get a barrel that is too long, but most of the ones that are available for purchase are a reasonable size. Continue Reading

The variants of M14 airsoft rifles are not seen as much as M16s.  This is because M16s are generally more powerful and have a better look than M14s.  However, if you want to find a way to break free from the crowd, this is a great option.  While M16s may have more speed, M14s are still very powerful, and are often used as sniper rifles.  For this reason, they are a great buy for airsoft players who are highly concerned with accuracy.

One easy way to improve the accuracy of your airsoft guns is to add barrel extensions.  I’ve never personally used one for airsoft, but when I got a longer barrel with my paintball gun, the accuracy skyrocketed.  While the physics of airsoft and paintball is somewhat different, there are still a lot of similarities, and having a barrel of a fair length is still important.

If any of your guns are compatible with the barrel extensions we carry, I would suggest picking one up.  Some products cannot use these accessories, but there are definitely more that do (as long as you don’t count airsoft pistols and shotguns, of course. In other words, just airsoft rifles).

My dream is to see a future of people using airsoft guns of all shapes and sizes, without regard to the insignificant differences that we may use to categorize them.  Some of them may be different in their power and accuracy, and those are proper ways to distinguish products from each other, as those actually matter in a game.

We have all been taught to not be racist, and I want to take it a step further and encourage you not to be gunnist.  Why discriminate against certain airsoft guns just because of the way they look?  As long as they can perform well, that is all that matters, and we should put more focus upon the abilities of an airsoft product, rather than its appearance.

Of course, it is a free country, and since airsoft guns are not people, their feelings cannot be hurt.  Still, it would be better for people to be using all kinds of airsoft guns, rather than a small class of them being excessively popular and dominating over the others ones.  Now that is a world that I would like to see.

If you are in the market for a new airsoft rifle, one of the pertinent questions that is going to arise is how much you should pay.  In short, you should pay whatever the price is listed as on this website, ha ha… But seriously, we do not take it offensively if you want to shop around.  That is what a smart consumer should do, and although we have great prices on hundreds of products, we can’t possibly beat our competitors on everything.

By checking a variety of airsoft retailers, you will eventually land on one that has a lower price than another.  There are some exceptions to this rule, however.  Some products, like Classic Army rifles, have a minimum price that retailers can charge for the products, as this eliminates all kinds of price differentiation marketing.  At EastCoastAirsoft, all products that have a minimum advertised price (MAP), we charge at that price.  Therefore, you will never find a site that charges a lower price, and if you do, then they are not playing by the rules, and they could lose their contract with the company.

Also, keep in mind that some of what goes into price covers other expenses of the company.  If you pay more for an item, you are probably going to get it faster and with better customer service.  Because of our company size, we can afford to charge lower prices while delivering superb service, so you do not have to settle for anything.

Here at EastCoastAirsoft, we carry many different variant airsoft rifles.  Rifles can be distinguished based on their type or what they are modeled after (the variant).  For example, there are AK Variants, M16 Variants, AUG Variants, etc.  That is only a few of the options that you have to choose from, and there are definitely several other examples that come to mind when thinking about the numbers of variants out there.

So if you want to figure out what kind of variant you should get, you should look through them all.  Most variants are of roughly the same caliber, meaning that they can all perform almost equally well.  The only exception would be the M16 variants, which are usually much stronger than other types because a lot of them come from Classic Army.  Other than those, most of the remaining ones are about the same when it comes to performance.

Therefore, the most important factor is appearance.  You probably can think of a lot of people who like the looks of an AK-47, and thus would want that kind of airsoft rifle.  While this is a popular choice, it is dwarfed when you look at all the people who choose other variants, including MP5s and G36s.

In this day and age everyone on the planet knows about staying hydrated when playing sports. You see parents bringing bottled water to their kids playing T-ball or basketball or whatever activity their kids are involved in. You can’t watch TV without seeing ads for some sort of sports drink. Continue Reading

Nothing can drag an airsoft game into an afternoon of arguing and bickering like a player who won’t admit when he has been shot. It’s the death of an airsoft game. In fact, it’s the biggest reason that paintball players consider their game superior to airsoft. Continue Reading

It’s a pretty Saturday morning and you are watching your child gear up for a local airsoft game. He has all his protective gear, plenty of ammo, and he’s ready to go. He says goodbye and walks out the door. The last thing you would ever expect is to never see him alive again. Continue Reading

Spring has sprung for those of us on the east coast. This can only mean one thing for the avid airsofter. “Game on !” Although we played a few cold weather games this winter, there is nothing like that first warm day of spring. The trees don’t have leaves yet, but we can re-dig our foxholes and set the home bases back up. Continue Reading