Ultraweasel Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Hi Guys, I have a maximum backyard range of about 9 yards. In my TM Hi Capa I've tried .3, .36 and .43g BB's. I seem to get best consistency with .36's at about 250 fps. .43's appear to shoot to a similar poi, which is quite intereresting... 'cos I want to shoot (thin) steels, A heavier BB is better, right? Any comments from you guys/gals with experience? Thanks, Ultraweasel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha1000 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Sorry I cant answer your question, but where do you buy bb's that heavy in bulk? I've been using .3, but they still shoot high through my Hi Capa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultraweasel Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hi tha1000, Sorry, just realised I hadn't populated my profile with my details! I'm from the UK, so where I buy BB's from probably won't help you... But for info., I use Blaster Devil BB's and buy them in bottles of 3000 for £25 for 0.36's and £27.50 for the 0.43's. I do apologise. With regard to 0.3's shooting high in your Hi Capa - a couple of thoughts: What distance are you shooting at? What 'hop up' settings are you using? - even at short ranges (~10 yards) you can 'over hop' these things! (Especially with the TM Hop-Up, which is regarded as one of the best stock 'Hop-Up' systems, I believe? One of the reasons I use heavier BB's is to 'de-sensetise' the 'hop-up' adjustment. This is based on my, currently, unscientific testing. I now intend to attempt to conduct more 'fact' based testing to ascertain what does and doesn't work at the range(s) I have available (~9yds in my case). Is your Hi Capa a TM? Is it standard? I feel that, because Airsoft velocities are so much lower than firearms, you can find that errors in trigger control, etc. can be highlighted. Not saying you have that issue, but it can be a good way of seeing if there are issues that can be worked on? Another thing I've noticed on my TM Hi-Capa is that the sights are, erm, crap. I'm working on machining them into a state where they work with the right amount of 'white' for the front sight in the rear sight notch. My milling machine is coming out to play! Cheers, UltraWeasel. P.S. I'm no way near an 'expert' on these things, I'm just a guy who shot handguns in the UK when they were legal, and now they aren't, we have to play with 'toys'. Shame, but there you are - we have to work with with what we can get... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha1000 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Mine is a KJW with the hop up dialed all the way down. Shoots about 2" high at 10 feet with .25 gram bb's. is acceptable with .3 bb's, but the bb's i have do not feed as well as they dont appear to be as polished as the .25's I have. Basically looking for a high quality .3 bb and I think that will get me where I want to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5young Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I used to work for evike.com, so I used to see what most of the better/frequenter players would use. Generally they would either run .25grams or .3 gram bbs. I would recommend the elite force bbs. They are some of the best feeding ones out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al23 Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Been using .23 as it is cheaper and seem to be just as accurate as .25Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOThompson Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I use .25 for my gas blowback Glock. Evike.com has plenty of biodegradeable BBs on sale cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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