Yea neo I would suggest you borrow a gun or go to ab airsoft park with friends and split the fee, get a rental and see how you like it. Another thing is you could just skip those two and buy a cheap one, if you buy a cheap one your better not to buy from Wal-Mart. I had gone pauntballing eith my friends and family and finaly decided to get into the sport. I bought a cheap gun off airsplat (I was new to the whole thing and didn't look enough into where to and not to do buy. It was a cheap Mp5 that broke after a month. So I bought a new better one that my friend had and liked, it was a nice M85 and still works fine. Only issue is it's a backyard gun and doesn't operate well if i went competitive. So now I'm moving up to a new M4 and will pick it up when it's back in stock.