REGIMENT AIRSOFT BOOT CAMP – AIRSOFT BALLS DAY 3
AIRSOFT BALL WEIGHT QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE
My suggestion is buy one weight and stick with it. For both target shooting and game play. Zero your sights and hop up to the ball weight you like best and use them all the time. Your point of aim changes with each type of ammo selected. Stick with one weight .20g or .25g for game play . Don’t mix and match, lighter or
heavier balls in the system will have a different flight pattern than what the hop up system is dialed in for.
Weights range from .11g to .90g.
Different pellet mass
.12g balls are the most common of the light weight balls. The lighter the ball the higher the velocity. Higher velocity doesn’t increase accuracy despite the common belief. The lighter ball is more subject to outside influences such as wind. I will not bore you with the specifics and stats. Lighter balls loose energy faster. The light balls are best used in spring guns and crapsoft. Also the hop up system is a little more harder to dial in with light weight balls.
In game play a .20g or .25g is the common weight. The Ball will hit harder and travel farther more accurately. This will help the other player know they have been tagged out.
The heavier weight .30g balls are more for snipers, also required is top level internals in your gun to properly take advantage of them. With your typical AEG you start to get a diminished return on the weight versus accuracy at this point. Lower velocity will now cause the balls to travel shorter distances less accurately.
Low quality airsoft balls are normally much lower standard. The problem is they are less than round, and will still have manufacturing marks, and little to no quality control. Not suggested at all for the same reason not to reuse balls, slight deforms cause back pressure in the guns, causing maintenance issues.
Good quality spring guns can handle cheap .12g, better than AEG’s.
.43g and higher not suitable for game play. Getting into ball bearings, ceramic balls etc and serious safety factors that the balls can now break safety visors.
This will be covered tomorrow
.34 is the standard for 8mm balls. Not much to say on this.