| In addition to airsoft guns being strong, it is almost | | | | the energy that is normally put into the pellets now has |
| important that they look cool and have other interesting | | | | to be redirected towards moving the barrel. You can |
| features. One of the features that can be found on | | | | find a ton of weak electric airsoft pistols that have a |
| some electric and gas pistols is the feature of | | | | blowback function, and they usually fire at around |
| blowback. The purpose of this function is exclusively to | | | | 120FPS. This is remarkably slow, but if you can find a |
| make the product look more realistic, and it has no | | | | more expensive electric blowback, you may get a little |
| positive effect on power. If you are not familiar with | | | | more power. |
| what blowback is, it is when you fire a pistol and the | | | | However, if you have a gas blowback pistol, you do |
| chamber moves backwards. In real life, the purpose of | | | | not need to worry about a decrease in power. This is |
| this is to release the expended shell, but since there | | | | because an extra amount of gas is diverted from the |
| are no shells in airsoft, there is no real need for | | | | canister specifically for the blowback function, while |
| blowback. However, because it looks cool and | | | | more is spent on powering shooting. This means that |
| simulates what happens with a real weapon, a lot of | | | | you use gas faster than with a regular gas pistol, but |
| people like this feature. | | | | you do not lose any power in any of your shots. As |
| Although it makes airsoft guns look cool, there is no | | | | long as you do not mind replenishing your gas canisters |
| other purpose to blowback other than that. In fact, | | | | more frequently, then you can use a gas airsoft |
| most blowback guns are less powerful than their | | | | blowback pistol as effectively as any other kind of |
| non-blowback counterparts. This is because part of | | | | airsoft gun. |