Need some help picking out the right gel blaster? If so, you’re not alone! With everything from pistols to sniper rifles available with the click of a button, choosing the wrong blaster is an easy mistake to make, and it’s also a costly one.

Choosing your Equipment

Step 1 – Set Your Budget

Make sure you have a firm idea of what you want to spend before you start looking for the perfect gun. Your price range should also be based on not only how much you have available to spend, but how involved you want to get. There’s no point in dropping hundreds of dollars on a professional guns if you are new to the sport. Start of with a cheap gun so that if you will break it you won’t miss too much and then gradually work your way up depending on your involvement and how much money you got.

Step 2 – What Type of Play will you be doing?

After you’ve set a budget and know how much you want to spend, the next step in choosing a blaster considering what you plan on using it for. Is it going to be used for target shooting? Playing CQB in a tournament? Or having some fun with your friends in an outdoor field? After you choose your purpose and role then pick a gun suitable for it, just make sure you pick something reliable.

If you just want to mess around with friends, then any airsoft gun will probably work. However, if you plan on playing in tournaments and attending events, you need to have a clear picture in your mind of what role within the team you want to play and have an equipment with higher performance.

As there’s a lot of choices and possible combinations to what you are thinking about, the best think to do is to come and try first then have a chat with one of our staff to get your best deal.

Step 3 – FPS

Based on topic 4, you will need to think of the performance of your weapon and FPS is one of the most important  factor.
FPS is an acronym for feet per second and a very common term used to describe the speed that a blaster propels a gel ball. If you plan on sniping, the higher the FPS the better, because a sniper rifle with a high FPS will shoot more accurately. If you’re into CQB, however, a high FPS might not necessarily be a good thing, because getting pegged at close distance by a sniper rifle or another high-FPS gun is anything but fun.

Usually the FPS in CQB fields are limited to between 300 and 330fps. Make sure you check that before buying an equipment that you won’t be able to use at the place of your choice.

Step 6 – Other Equipment and Weight

The gel blaster is not the only equipment require to play the game. You will also need an eye protection gear as compulsory for all gel blaster fields in Australia and a carrying bag to transport it according to the new legislation. And the gel balls, of course! Some fields provide gel balls for an extra charge and to start playing it would be good enough, just check with the place where you are going to know if they provide them and /or what type of gels are permitted to be used.

Another factor to be considered is the weight of an gel blaster gun. Although it may seem cool to run around with a full metal weapon, the weight of these guns is way too much sometimes for some players to handle and, for long games, it may become a burden.

Nylon guns or Nylon with metal internal parts are usually easier to carry for longer time while full plastic guns are usually not really reliable.

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