Saturday, November 28, 2009

Airsoft Shotguns Get Kids Playing Outdoors Again

By Kevin Hutto

Airsoft shotguns are a lot of fun. You can buy them in a variety of styles and types. For example, you could choose a 12 gauge, pump action, spring, or sawed off style. They are modeled after real guns but they are toys that can be used by kids through adults. The shotguns are safe and use tiny plastic pellets as ammo. These pellets are loaded into the guns using a tube device that keeps them from spilling all over.

These pellets come in different colors and sizes depending on the Airsoft gun. Young boys play for hours with these Airsoft guns bringing cowboy and Indians to life and even more popular today than it was years ago with the boys is a great game of war. The great thing about the Airsoft shotguns and other variety of Airsoft guns are that you can shoot each other with these guns that carry very small pellets and at most will maybe sting a bit.

However, when using Airsoft guns, you should protect your eyes. In fact, you can find safety goggles or glasses where the guns are sold. Wearing eye protection ensures hours of safe play. Kids of all ages can have fun playing outdoors in the fresh air running from Indians or shooting at dinosaurs.

For those of you who are fathers or grandfathers remember the days of your childhood that there were not arcade games that kept you inside all day. Those were the days that you pretended you had a shotgun or a cheap plastic shotgun running and playing the good guys against the bad guys.

You can give that same sense of excitement to your kids with the gift of an Airsoft shotgun. Get them away from the TV and out of the house into the fresh air. Get them running and playing while using their own imaginations for entertainment rather than relying on computer games.

Airsoft shotguns are affordable too, more so than the latest video game. What's great is that these toys get your kids moving rather than sitting. They have so much fun they don't even realize they are exercising. Airsoft guns are safe, even for younger kids as long as the proper eye protection is worn.

The Airsoft shotgun just puts a little twist on the game and the boys feel as though they are really in a war or at the OK Corral in a shoot out because they don't have to imagine an impact of the pellet even though the impact is almost negligible. Don't worry Mom; the pellets cannot penetrate the skin.

Even if the toy is a gun and most of the younger children do not think about the accidents that could happen. There should always be safety precautions when dealing with anything that shoots pellets. Even though the damage is far from a real shotgun, anyone, no matter if it is a child or not, should know how to handle the gun so that no one gets hurt. Children of any age should be accompanied by an adult when using the Airsoft gun.

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