Airsoft as Personal Defense

[TDR911]

Would never do it in real life, but playing out the senario.

Shoot at his eyes. This would disorient him and possibly blind him giving you the advantage. Anything you have at arms reach can be used to thrown. But the airsoft has a farther reach is more painfull .

 

[503glock]

lol ok i have now read it all..lmao

 

[psyopspec]

That's right, I'm not (necessarily) advocating airsoft for self defense.

Well if you aren't, and no one else is, what is the intended application of this thread?

 

[Sav .250]

You can "think" out side the box if you wish to but in a case with the out come un-known, I`m not going to play around! If the scenario you put forth is a training exercise, then Airsoft would seem appropriate other then that I`m sticking with the tried and true.
Airsoft as a possible deterent ? Hope the wife, girl friend, significant other, is thinking out side the box or else all are in trouble.

 

[inherentical]

I would sell the derringer on Gunbroker and the airsoft gun and the several hundred dollars worth of accessories it probably has on eBay, then use the proceeds to buy a used Remington 870 at a pawn shop.

 

[griz]

I'm not actually advocating it... necessarily.

Except each and every time somebody says a real gun and a free hand is better than a real gun in one hand and an airsoft in the other.

Put me down in the any real gun camp.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Would Rommel have used one? Rommel bluffed a lot. He did it when he served in the Wurttemburg Mountain Battalion and as the commander of the Afrika Korps. Still, Rommel bluffed to deceive his enemy as to his weakness. It takes a cool head and ability to exude a false confidence.

Depending on the aggressor, it might just work. It's like brandishing a gun but not having to shoot. Still, all it takes is to have one fellow who's crazy enough not to fall for the bluff. Then you have to quickly transition to the lethal weapon.

 

[Fred Fuller]

We have reports of tragedies that happen occasionally with trained LEOs who carry both a Taser and a sidearm, mistaking the sidearm for the Taser and shooting someone they intended to tase. And here the OP is going to actually suggest that Joe Sixpack, who statistics indicate that as a by god American born thinks he needs no professional defensive firearms training whatsoever, is going to be able to keep proper track of a genuine 1911 and its AirSoft clone, in the dark and under pressure?

Folks, we are NOT going there. Not here. Not as long as I have all these extra buttons on my screen, anyway.

This is NOT fantasy, entertainment, what-if-as-if-reality-doesn't-matter. What if monkeys flew out of your butt, would that scare him away? Disorient him? Fix it so maybe he didn't kill you, or you didn't actually have to, like, shoot him?

Get real. Or get out of S&T.

AirSoft is OK as a training aid. That's it. In the real world it will get you shot by someone who has a real gun. There are sufficient documented cases of that happening too...

lpl

 

[hso]

It does hurt and disorient from a distance.

I've trained FOF with airsoft several times over the years and there's no way that it is going to serve to "hurt and disorient".

As pointed out a ball bat or flash light makes a better backup as a bludgeon. The flashlight has the advantage of actually blinding your opponent upon encountering them and makes a better bludgeon than the airsoft.

OK, here's the scenario: Its dark and you awaken to the sounds of a bad guy(s) opening your backdoor. You reach over to your nightstand and pull out your surefire, your 1911with 6+1 .45acp rounds, and your 1911 gas blow back airsoft gun loaded with 20 airsoft 6mm bbs and a fresh load of green gas. How would you go about incorporating the airsoft gun as a part of your self defense system?

This is my scenario.

Ok, let's look at your scenario. If you have a 1911 then the only other thing that needs to be tying your other hand up is a flashlight that you can illuminate the invader with to help you identify your target and fire on it, if need be. You're better off with a 5 cell Maglite in this case to use as a H2H weapon if you haven't the time to reload. If you can afford a realistic replica airsoft that weighs and handles like a real gun to carry around with your real gun then you can afford an inexpensive real handgun (.38 revolvers are available for under $200) as a backup (and you can certainly afford the large Maglite if you can afford the Surefire). If you treat the airsoft like a backup weapon you've chosen to use a toy that is marked as a toy after firing with a live weapon. It won't sound or act like the real thing and it certainly won't convince someone you've fired on that it's the real thing.

The only way to make this idea remotely "work" is if you live where you can't have a real gun (which isn't part of your scenario) and you have to use the airsoft to bluff with. You have to be able to "sell" that you have a real gun instantly to get the goblins to flee (and you had better be trying to get them out of the house instead of holding them). That's a fools game because there are just too many points of failure where they may not buy it.

Anywhere you can't have a hand gun in the home you can have a shotgun. In any situation where you suspect someone has entered your home you don't go hunting for goblins in the dark. You get your loved ones together and you secure the door and keep your legal inexpensive shotgun trained on it while the cops are called. If you go wandering around your house looking for bad guys you may be unlucky enough to encounter them.