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Mysteryfish · July 18th, 2005, 21:12

damn, guys... someone get a fuckin' metre-wheel thing and measure out 100 feet.

then measure 300 feet.

I'm positive that there's no plastic BB in the world that weighs anything under a 'whole helluvalot morethana' gram that could even come REMOTELY close to a stable shot to 300 feet.

Consider a .22 cal LEAD PELLET, travelling some 650 feet per second. It takes a NOTICEABLE delay to travel the full length of my local shooting range, and at that range (330 feet) it has dropped AT LEAST 5 feet from the point of aim. Accuracy is marginal at best.

I call RAGING SCREAMING BULLSHIT, if you think your "race guns" can push performance better than that, with airsoft projectiles.

Grab a ruler and start walking. Before anybody starts talking about the performance of their guns, I'd like to hear that they've actually gone ahead and MEASURED the distances they're talking about. It's such a misleading bunch of crap the way people throw phrases like "At 100 feet" around...

I also call "dumb thread".

The simple answer was: Hicapa gets remarkably good range for a stock GBB.

Yes, with propane, it seems to outrange some AEGs.

It probably has to do with a combination of factors. Hop-up and FPS may have something to do with it, but in general, we're not physicists, so beyond our "best guesses", we're not really sure why!

July 18th, 2005, 21:12	#23
Mysteryfish Trader rating Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: North Vancouver, B.C.	damn, guys... someone get a fuckin' metre-wheel thing and measure out 100 feet. then measure 300 feet. I'm positive that there's no plastic BB in the world that weighs anything under a 'whole helluvalot morethana' gram that could even come REMOTELY close to a stable shot to 300 feet. Consider a .22 cal LEAD PELLET, travelling some 650 feet per second. It takes a NOTICEABLE delay to travel the full length of my local shooting range, and at that range (330 feet) it has dropped AT LEAST 5 feet from the point of aim. Accuracy is marginal at best. I call RAGING SCREAMING BULLSHIT, if you think your "race guns" can push performance better than that, with airsoft projectiles. Grab a ruler and start walking. Before anybody starts talking about the performance of their guns, I'd like to hear that they've actually gone ahead and MEASURED the distances they're talking about. It's such a misleading bunch of crap the way people throw phrases like "At 100 feet" around... I also call "dumb thread". The simple answer was: Hicapa gets remarkably good range for a stock GBB. Yes, with propane, it seems to outrange some AEGs. It probably has to do with a combination of factors. Hop-up and FPS may have something to do with it, but in general, we're not physicists, so beyond our "best guesses", we're not really sure why!