How to Build an Airsoft / Paintball Gun

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This is a homemade airsoft Sniper rifle. I havent tested the accuracy yet. Its body is from a cheap steyr aug aeg but with the exception of the barrel and breach every other part of the system is of my own design. To fire it one must run the attached air compressor, pull back on the bolt, and pull the trigger. This takes aprox 4 sec. and will be optimized in the future. Check out my other inventions and products at WillCorp

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Step 1: Gutting the aeg

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remove all parts from aeg and gearbox except for the gearbox enclosure, the breach, the bolt, and the barrel. Ill add pics later

benjiman345 says: Sep 4, 2012. 3:36 AM

bloody i hate australian airsoft laws

garagegenius says: Jan 18, 2012. 4:17 PM

whats with the 200 volts aqnd how did u get it

tinker234 says: Jun 3, 2011. 7:17 AM

how hard does it hit

Psycho Geek says: Dec 20, 2009. 7:36 PM

cool thought, but i wouldnt want to run around with all those wires all over the gun and myself! speacialy not in rain or snow. ZAP! ya...no thanks. good ideah though, hax on that half!

Paintballer98 in reply to Psycho GeekMar 15, 2011. 5:49 PM

I know, if you get electrocuted in a fox hole and your really short( all the way in the foxhole) they'll never find you!

Paintballer98 says: Mar 15, 2011. 5:48 PM

Holy crap do you think you have enough wires hanging from that gun?

patriots8888 says: Mar 14, 2011. 1:34 PM

And my mama said i wouldnt get and airsoft gun till i was 14

cclime1 says: Feb 15, 2011. 7:20 PM

Love it man.

shmyt says: Jun 15, 2010. 8:47 PM

What is an aeg and where would i get one (Ontario Canada)?

coilsinamotor in reply to shmytDec 9, 2010. 10:04 PM

toronto airsoft has really good guns :)

DacrazyDude in reply to shmytNov 28, 2010. 3:15 PM

if you live near London there is a great store that sells lots of airsoft aegs for $100-600. best quality guns that i have ever seen. the store is called Forest City Surplus. they also sell some nice paint ball guns. i think you can buy stuff off their web site too

RMConstruction in reply to shmytOct 3, 2010. 3:56 AM

An AEG is an automatic electric gun intended for airsoft. Try Airsplat.com

albhednomad in reply to RMConstructionDec 8, 2010. 2:36 PM

Airsplat.com is a good resource for information. But the guns are sometimes....blech.

RMConstruction in reply to albhednomadDec 9, 2010. 11:04 AM

I'm not American, so I don't shop on there.

ien.nimbus says: Sep 21, 2010. 9:19 AM

Yes, where can we get that small compressor?

pufferfish9108 says: Sep 19, 2010. 12:01 PM

how heavy is it??

Happybob says: Jun 30, 2010. 3:28 PM

whats the fps on the gun?

erikos kostarikos says: Nov 13, 2009. 6:34 AM

well the primary guns look better then the modificated ones...everywhere threands and other stuff you know...

r3ddr4gon says: Jul 29, 2009. 2:13 PM

Nice steyr aug or a.k.a. bullpup

r3ddr4gon in reply to r3ddr4gonSep 27, 2009. 8:29 PM

i just call it bullpup

dla888 in reply to r3ddr4gonSep 27, 2009. 7:15 PM

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Colonel88 in reply to dla888Nov 4, 2009. 6:10 PM

A bullpup rifle is a rifle with its magazine in the back of the gun, to save space. Some examples are the FAMAS, and the Steyr AUG. so yeah YOU JUST GOT OWNED.

dla888 in reply to Colonel88Nov 4, 2009. 7:34 PM

I f you are talking to me, I did not get owned I said that the Steyer AUG is a bullpup rifle, not that the steyer AUG is the bullpup rifle. My last statement means that it is not refereed to as a bullpup and by that I meant that people don't call it a bullpup, they call it a steyer AUG. If they just called it a bullpup that would make some confusion. Actually, you got owned. Have a nice day.

RMConstruction in reply to dla888Oct 3, 2010. 3:57 AM

Fail. It's Steyr. No second 'e'.

dla888 in reply to dla888Nov 4, 2009. 7:37 PM

Oops, I didn't mean to delete my last comment. In case you are wondering it said:
"A Steyr AUG is a bullpup rifle. It is not referred to as a bullpup."

edwin81 says: Sep 11, 2009. 9:45 PM

Hi, where do u get da small air compressor?

ry25920 says: Feb 2, 2008. 7:50 PM

Have you ever played paintball? Also, how big is the bore on that barrel? I like the idea though.

geckowil (author) in reply to ry25920Feb 4, 2008. 7:12 PM

yeah i have played paintball, the bore is only .25" not .69" so a regular paintball would definitely not work. I was referring to the 6mm paintballs sold for airsoft guns. Anyways this was just built as a rugged platform for me to test my other ideas on.

ry25920 in reply to geckowilFeb 16, 2008. 8:47 AM

I am building a paintball sniper that collapses and fires a single shot 300ft. I am going to use sch40 or sch80 3/4PVC pipe as the barrel. I know one of them have an ID of .7". About the size of a paintball. It uses a bolt made of sch40 1/2"PVC pipe, and air will flow around and exit. Any ideas? I call this idea when I build it.

schithen in reply to ry25920Sep 2, 2009. 12:50 PM

The solution is simple... they are called o-rings

pandaboy292 in reply to ry25920Mar 27, 2008. 6:29 PM

i didn`t know they make sch80.

Coffee bean in reply to geckowilFeb 15, 2008. 10:21 PM

never heard of them cool

!Andrew_Modder! says: Oct 22, 2007. 4:41 PM

Oh! Oh! Ok, lol its an airsoft gun as a paintball like gun ok! nice :-) (co2 instead of gears and battery lol nice!)

h20incinerat in reply to !Andrew_Modder!Jun 30, 2008. 1:38 PM

ok enough with airsofting, lets go paintballing and expieriance some real weapon action :D (and dont say paintball is painless, if you say that it is apparent you have not played...

inventor1488 in reply to h20incineratJul 20, 2009. 2:31 PM

its not like paintballing doesn't hurt, its that airsoft is much more for situation simulation. It was developed for police training, whereas paintball was made by construction workers who fired paintballs at wood to 'mark' them as to their use. One day someone decided to shoot someone with with, and high performance "markers" were made. Airsoft is about replicating every facet of the gun relative to its real life counter part. For example, an Uzi can EASILY top 1000 rounds per minute, though its performance in accuracy and power isn't paramount. A good sniper is fully silenced and shoots at 450+ FPS with .3 gram bbs, effectively making someone scream at 150 feet. AK-47s are the cheapest automatics on the market, but their place stays with people that just want to send a large amount of BBs a good distance with having breakdowns being VERY easy to fix (a $100 gun can last over two years). High performance M4s are the step up to the AK for SURE! they have a higher rate of fire, are more accurate, and have tactical rail systems and are much more upgradable than AKs. But when there is a problem with them, its usually game-ending (though repairs are hardly ever over $50 if you can install the part yourself). SAWs are about laying out a WALL of BBs at over 100 feet, with electric feeding mags that can fire 5000 rounds without changing, but these start at $250 stock. All guns are made to weigh as close as possible to their real life counterparts, and tactics in hardcore players are the same as Spec Ops and the military. This isn't to say paintball doesn't have a place, or airsoft is better its just that airsofts place is replicating modern warfare without the 'death' thing. As far as i know, paintball seems to be for being much harder to cheat at, to have a bigger adrenaline rush, and to have a gun that performs close to real guns in terms of POWER (and airsoft is making them PROPORTIOALLY SIMILAR)

h20incinerat in reply to h20incineratJun 30, 2008. 1:41 PM

Oh, and by the way, if you live in Oregon and wish to join a paintball team, here is your chance! We are looking for one more player for the bad acids, we have awsome jersey and regular practices. It is ok if you do not have much experiance, just as long as you have a legal marker and mask. Check us out at youtube.

kotarski in reply to h20incineratFeb 21, 2009. 4:48 AM

paintballings painless...