Description
Airsoft Pistol Product Details
Spring Beretta PX4 Storm Licensed Clear Pistol FPS-260 Airsoft Gun
Airsoft Pistol Product Features
This is a Spring Airsoft Pistol, which means it’s powered by a spring and must be cocked for each shot. It’s fast, clean, inexpensive and easily maintained; it requires no gas or batteries to operate. Also, Spring Airsoft Guns are the toughest, most durable of all Airsoft Guns, because they’re made with few breakable pieces. If you’re looking for a fun, reliable Airsoft Pistol that’ll look great and perform even better, you’ve come to the right place. You must be 18 years of age or older to purchase this Airsoft gun.
Airsoft Handgun Style Details
Find out about airsoft pistols and sidearms and how you can use them as backup weapons or as main weapons on the airsoft playing field. Practicing your accuracy and getting the right sidearm can be a game changer in aiming your shots. Sidearms, naturally, are shorter range airsoft guns. They are normally crafted after real handguns or replicas of actual pistols. A large number of airsoft pistols are fully certified models of their real world weapon equivalents. These airsoft guns can handle in the same ways and visually look almost identically to the real guns they are designed after while blasting airsoft BBs in place of real world bullets.
There are several kinds of airsoft sidearms consisting of CO2, green gas or propane (blowback and non-blowback), spring powered, and AEG automatic electric handguns. Each of these styles of handguns have benefits and differences related to them. Learning about the kinds of airsoft handguns helps you decide which type is right for you and your airsoft play style.
CO2 Airsoft Sidearm Details
CO2 airsoft handguns are among the most common and long lasting types of handguns. They are all season weapons and work well in many kinds of weather conditions and climates. These pistols use high pressure CO2 gas to send airsoft BBs out of the weapon barrel. The CO2 cartridge is usually located in the pistol’s handle.
These styles of airsoft pistols are excellent for playing in cold and snowy weather conditions due to the fact that the pressurized CO2 gas is less vulnerable to performance decreases with low temperatures. This fact provides great FPS and shot consistency while playing airsoft in the wintertime for example where other types of airsoft sidearms like green gas cease to operate or hardly fire BBs.
Info About CO2 Gas and CO2 Cylinders
CO2 airsoft guns are powered by common 12 gram CO2 cartridge cylinders. These cartridges resemble a shiny steel cylinder and hold high-pressure CO2 gas consisting of just one carbon atom and 2 oxygen atoms, subsequently the molecular formula comes out to be “C + O2 “. These atoms are attached in the following order “O= C =O”. The gas is held in the 12 gram cylinders under very high pressure of approximately ~ 800psi which correlates to 55bar.
The CO2 cartridges cannot be refilled and you can typically purchase them in packs of 12, 20, 50, or 100 12 gram CO2 cartridge sets. They come sealed to keep the CO2 gas safely and securely within, but as soon as they are punctured (firing them in an airsoft handgun breaks the cartridge seal) cartridges will start to lose pressure if they are not used up. You should attempt to use up the entire CO2 cartridge the exact same day you open the seal. Use the opportunity to do some pistol target practice and use up the rest of the excess gas if the airsoft games end and you still have CO2 gas left. There is no gas level sign on the cartridge so you have to shoot up until the gun stops shooting airsoft BBs.
CO2 cartridges have a long storage life if the cylinders are kept sealed. They have a supplier’s best used by date typically listed on the box or cartridge cylinder, however, they may maintain pressure for a very long period past this date if the cartridge seals are not broken.
Information About Green Gas Airsoft Handguns
Green gas airsoft sidearms resemble CO2 guns, however they do not use CO2 cartridges. Rather, they use green gas or propane for propellant to propel 6mm airsoft BBs. The impact on airsoft games and green gas sidearm performance is essentially the same as CO2 pistols with the guns shooting up to 300+ feet-per-second (FPS). Shots are efficiently fired in automatic or semi-automatic shooting modes and precisely hit targets at short to mid-range ranges.
The green gas is sealed in the handgun’s magazine and can frequently hold around 15 to 20+ airsoft BBs based on the handgun style. A sequence of valves, silicone gaskets, and seals keep the green gas pressurized in the pistol magazine till the pistol’s trigger is pulled. It is a good idea to top off and fill up the green gas in your magazine each time you reload it. Pistol-wielding airsoft players can additionally carry extra bottles of green gas or propane in the field for refilling mags in-between breaks in the battle or in-between missions.
When running a green gas handgun on the airsoft field or arena as a secondary or main gun, additional magazines are recommended for quickly reloading and engaging opponents. Having extra magazines allows you to join in the action in the course of firefights or while sweeping structures in CQB (close quarters combat) room-to-room fights.
Green gas handguns are ideal for CQB at airsoft fields considering that rifles and full-sized AEGs are generally not allowed to be used for indoor shooting. This is an essential safety guideline because of the close range proximity of players during shooting engagements and the potential for players to be hurt. While green gas handguns can still shoot airsoft BBs at about 300 FPS, the short pistol barrel helps to keep the joules and energy forcing the BB at a lower level compared to AEGs, sniper rifles, and long guns.
Thinking About Green Gas Blowback (GBB) VS Green Gas Non-blowback
There are two different styles of green gas airsoft pistols. First there are green gas blowback handguns or GBBs. These pistols operate like a realistic pistol with the pistol’s slide “blowing back” with every shot. The propane gas triggers the slide to cycle every time a fresh airsoft BB is chambered. The result is really cool, but the weapons often are more expensive and potentially have more parts that can break. The green gas non-blowback airsoft handguns use a fixed slide which does not cycle. The non-blowback weapons usually cost less than GBBs. Performance is about the same when comparing the two kinds of green gas pistols.
About GBB and Green Gas Issues
While green gas usually functions effectively, it does have issues. For example, when they are played with during the winter airsoft season in the snow or in cold weather (like lower 32 degrees F). Considering that the green gas or propane is stored in the weapon’s magazine by silicone seals, o-rings, and gaskets, cold temperatures can impair these seals and allow the gas to seep out before shooting airsoft BBs. The depressurized gas can make the airsoft BBs to only shoot a few feet (like 10 feet in cold temps ) when it would normally shoot airsoft BBs over 100+ foot ranges in warmer weather).
One solution to this problem is to keep the GBB pistol mags warmer by positioning them next to your body or by a heater before the airsoft game play starts. If you really desire to play with a trustworthy airsoft handgun in the cold weather, it may also be worth getting a CO2 style of your favorite pistol.
Spring Airsoft Handgun Info
Spring airsoft handguns are powered by powerful springs that propel the airsoft BBs down the handgun barrel. They are usually one shot only. The manual functioning of firing, cocking, and reloading spring pistols makes the weapon’s fire rate much slower than CO2 and GBB handguns. This makes spring airsoft pistols fun to use, but they are usually less efficient when running into rivals on the airsoft field with upgraded airsoft guns like fully automatic airsoft AEG rifles, sniper rifles, and CO2, green gas, or GBB airsoft pistols.
Spring airsoft guns perform best in springer wars where game players can exclusively use comparable, single shot spring weapons or as a transition backup gun for CQB buildings when you can often quietly sneak up on other airsoft game players to get an assured one-shot-one-kill. In the latter scenario, a fast 2nd followup shot isn’t needed considering that the other person is now hit by the first shot and out of the gameplay or moving back to respawn. Take care when engaging numerous foes considering the spring gun just fires as quick as you can re-chamber an airsoft BB manually.
About Spring Pistol Effectiveness
Spring guns are very effective under the proper circumstances. Spring guns like pistols can typically fire up to 120 feet or more with 0.12 gram BBs but accuracy decreases rapidly.
AEG Automatic Electric Airsoft Handguns
AEG airsoft sidearms or AEPs (automatic electric pistols) are also an option to use as a secondary gun on the airsoft field. These automatic electric handguns are normally powered by mini stick batteries in the pistol’s grip. They function similar to an AEG rifle and use compressed air pumped through electrically cycled pistons, cylinders, and gearboxes to fire airsoft BBs quickly and very rapidly at that.
AEG handgun mags generally store about 20 to 30 airsoft BBs. The handguns can shoot airsoft BBs right up to around 300 FPS using 0.12 gram airsoft BBs or about 200 to 250 FPS when loaded with 0.20g airsoft BBs. The electrically powered gearbox system can shoot around 700+ BBs per minute which is estimated if you have enough magazines to reload with and the battery lasts that long. These handguns can accurately fire airsoft BBs at around 150 foot distances.
AEG Handgun Quality and Efficiency
AEG pistol quality has actually grown significantly over the last few years. The first gen guns were a little bit sketchy and undependable, but the new designs have most of the bugs resolved and make reliable airsoft backup weapons. They can be improved with increased mag storage capacities and by accommodating bigger batteries.
A big perk of buying an AEG pistol is that you have the capability to rewire the battery wires to use a bigger battery with higher mAh. Depending on the AEG pistol type, you can get a sizable leap in performance by using a two cell Lipo battery (like an 2S Lipo) rather than the standard mini battery. Be careful when changing the elements and wires since you must think about the volts, mAh, and loads of the battery. Ask a professional weapon technician at your local airsoft shop if you have modding questions.
Which Airsoft Pistol is Right for Me?
If you have over one-hundred dollars to spend on your airsoft handgun, you may want to consider a green gas blowback pistol or automatic electric handgun. If you have around fifty to one-hundred dollars to upgrade your gun, review a CO2 pistol or cheaper GBB handgun. If you have less than $50, you can still look for a resilient airsoft handgun to use for the handgun games by checking out lower end pistols and by trading with players on the used gun market.
Frequently Asked Questions About Sidearms
Question: What is the most widely used type of airsoft handgun?
Answer: The best pistols are often a matter of a player’s preference. CO2 and GBB airsoft sidearms usually are the most reliable and dependable. Learn about the different types of airsoft pistols.
Question: What kind of airsoft gun is the Spring Beretta PX4 Storm Licensed Clear Pistol FPS-260 Airsoft Gun?
Answer: The Spring Beretta PX4 Storm Licensed Clear Pistol FPS-260 Airsoft Gun is an airsoft pistol.
Question: Is this airsoft pistol good for first time airsoft players?
Answer: This airsoft pistol can be a good option for first time airsoft players. It depends on how much the player has to spend on an airsoft pistol, their experience shooting handguns, and how much they believe they will play airsoft. The Spring Beretta PX4 Storm Licensed Clear Pistol FPS-260 Airsoft Gun is a decent weapon for most players to carry in the field.
Question: Is this airsoft handgun rentable?
Answer: Many airsoft fields rent guns. You will find most fields rent automatic electric guns like SMG or rifles instead of pistols or handguns. Therefore, finding this specific pistol model to rent will probably be more challenging. Check with your closest airsoft field near you to see if they rent the specific pistol model.
Question: Can this airsoft sidearm be upgraded?
Answer: Potentially, this airsoft pistol may be able to accept upgrades depending on the gun type. Look for parts particular to the Spring Beretta PX4 Storm Licensed Clear Pistol FPS-260 Airsoft Gun.
Question: Are airsoft handguns legal in my state?
Answer: Perhaps depending on where you live. Check your regional gun laws or with your regional police authority. States like Arkansas (AR), Colorado (CO), Illinois (IL), Maine (ME), Massachusetts (MA), Michigan (MI), Mississippi (MS), New York and New York City (NY), North Dakota (ND), Texas (TX), and Washington D.C. do have stricter laws and requirements which might apply to airsoft guns like the Spring Beretta PX4 Storm Licensed Clear Pistol FPS-260 Airsoft Gun.
Question: What type of airsoft BBs does this airsoft gun shoot?
Answer: This airsoft sidearm typically shoots basic 6mm airsoft BBs which are 0.12 gram or 0.20 gram. Check out the item details for more details.
Question: How far can this airsoft gun shoot?
Answer: The majority of airsoft pistols can shoot around 80 to 120 feet or more. This may include the Spring Beretta PX4 Storm Licensed Clear Pistol FPS-260 Airsoft Gun. Pistol precision depends on the shooter’s skills, shooting conditions, weather, wind, terrain, and other factors.
Question: What do I need to know for airsoft weapon safety?
Answer: Safety is a top priority when using airsoft weapons. Game players need to constantly use eye and protective face masks. The weapon needs to be used safely with guidance for training in suitable environments or for target practice only. You can learn more about safety by reading the airsoft rules of engagement and safety regulations.
Question: Can this airsoft pistol fire real ammo?
Answer: No, this airsoft gun can not shoot real ammo and can not be modified in any way to fire live ammo. It is a toy weapon.
