Super heavy bbs
- D.Smitty
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Super heavy bbs
I have a pre-ban Tanaka M700 with a problem: the very lowest hopup setting causes all commonly available bb weights to aim for the sky! 0.2 g bbs get a good 15 feet in the air (I was shooting at the brick wall of my house and the shot actually went OVER the house from a standing position @ 75 feet). Even Madbull .43s still hop too much for accurate shots.
I have heard that super heavy weight bbs (> 0.43s) used to be available, but I am having difficulties finding them. Does anybody know where such rounds are sold?
I have heard that super heavy weight bbs (> 0.43s) used to be available, but I am having difficulties finding them. Does anybody know where such rounds are sold?
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Re: Super heavy bbs
Heaviest ones I have ever heard of, outside of 6mm steel ball bearings at .88
http://www.bbbastard.com/eco/66-pearls- ... ounds.html
http://www.bbbastard.com/eco/66-pearls- ... ounds.html
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Re: Super heavy bbs
Never thought I would use my boxes of Super Grandmaster bbs as a LOW-cost alternative.
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Re: Super heavy bbs
These bbs are also ceramic, which means they are harder than metal. Those people that don't care to be shot with metal bbs probably won't want to be shot with these either.
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Re: Super heavy bbs
As long as the Joules are under the limit, the impact will be with the same amount of force. Heavier weight bbs are simply able to maintain that force over a greater distance. The actual material is irrelevant. If you have an aluminum bb (hollow core) and a plastic bb which are both 0.30 grams travelling at the same speed, they'll hurt just the same.
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Re: Super heavy bbs
I agree with you.D.Smitty wrote:As long as the Joules are under the limit, the impact will be with the same amount of force. Heavier weight bbs are simply able to maintain that force over a greater distance. The actual material is irrelevant. If you have an aluminum bb (hollow core) and a plastic bb which are both 0.30 grams travelling at the same speed, they'll hurt just the same.
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Re: Super heavy bbs
Ceramic bb's shatter. Not so good for people with mesh eye pro.
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Re: Super heavy bbs
These will not. While the images have gone down (kinda disappointing, they were really cool pictures), a particular test of these bbs, simply to examine the hardness of them, they were shot through a 600fps rifle, point blank, into fiber reinforced concrete. The concrete dented from the impact, and the bbs left unharmed. So unharmed, that once cleaned off of the concrete debris the bbs were void of any pit marks at all. Now, that's one example of a $1.50 bb, not many people have these things, I could be mistaken.captainkirk05 wrote:Ceramic bb's shatter. Not so good for people with mesh eye pro.
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Re: Super heavy bbs
I was just thinking of how many ceramics are brittle and break easily, especially if cheap. I guess for over a dollar a pop these must be a higher quality ceramic that won't break.
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Re: Super heavy bbs
Bb bastard claims to make the bbs out of the same ceramic used on the space shuttle. And while these are very well made and some of the heaviest bbs you can get, they have been discontinued for quite a while now.