BLOWBACK - IT'S A GAS!

Blowback CO2 guns are all the rage, but it wasn’t all that long ago that airguns like these didn’t even exist. Traditional CO2 pellet pistols performed superbly without blowback, and the only items to have this were low-power butane or green gas replicas that were designed with blowback for more authenticity. Made in the Far East, these airsoft replicas were intended for wargames skirmishing, re-enactment and also as just very cool collector pieces.

More effective and powerful CO2 gas has been around for a very long time. Even before the last war it had been used for bulk-filling airguns with internal