Miasmatic Review

Soft my bruised body!

A word of advice for all the parents out there; Just because the box says Soft Air, it doesn’t mean the little plastic BBs come out softly.

For Christmas Boopie received a soft air handgun, shotgun and M-16 (fully Automatic). I figured these would be good starter firearms to get him used to modern firearm safety. We even gave him an electronic target system so he could practice his aim. Thinking these couldn’t be that dangerous, I didn’t see how it would hurt anything. I mean c’mon, they are spring-loaded firearms that shoot plastic BBs. What’s the worst that could happen?

A series of BB sized bruises all over me is what could happen! And before you go yelling, “You shouldn’t be shooting each other with the guns”, we weren’t. I was catching ricochets off of the targeting system. Hell the shotgun is strong enough to have broken the plastic backing on the target box. I put up a backdrop to keep the little plastic BBs from going everywhere, but they would ricochet off of that. I was hit in the leg arm and shoulder. Those little buggers hurt. Hell, one stray shot may or may not have broken a window in a neighbor’s garage.

I’m just glad I bought him protective eyewear. We don’t want him to shoot his eye out.