You may not realize it, but your airsoft gun requires maintenance. You don’t need to strip the whole thing down and clean it every time you shoot it, but you should take some simple preventative measures in order to save yourself some heart-ache in the long run.

This is a cylinder head from one of the guns in our tech queue. There is sand coated on the inside of the cylinder and beaten in to the piston head. It also destroyed the o-ring on the piston head.

Fine grains of sand and even dirt and grime can cause catastrophic failures in your AEG and GBB guns. You need to properly clean and maintain them. Don’t go tossing them in a sand bar or worse and hope for the best. Simple barrel cleaning can prevent a lot of this as the barrel is a direct access route for foulant to enter your gun. Consistent maintenance will aide your gun in always placing your desired shot.