HFC 0.2g BB's, Bag of 5000 - ArniesAirsoft

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MDK_Marshal

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Registered: February 2005
Location: A small hole in a muddy field, wondering where my artillery support is.
Posts: 5,031

Review Date: 22/1/06

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: �9.00 | Rating: 4

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Cheap, Lots of the Things, Seem to be rather hard
Cons:	Plastic Mis-shapes, Nipple/torpedo BB's, Too Small, isible Mould Lines and/or Bits of sprue attatched to BB

Well, I only really got these by a mistake - Not mine, unfortunately. I'd placed a big order (Well, big for me) with airsoftscotland, and had put a bag of Xtreme 0.2's on my order, as I needed ammunition.

When the package came through the post, I had a quick shufti through, as one does - to my slight irritation, I found that Airsoftscotland had sent me a bag of HFC 0.2's by accident/mistake. After a quick poke around their website, I found out why - the Xtremes were out of stock, and they had loads of the HFC's in.

With this bit of information at hand, I decided to keep them - heck, it was 1500 extra rounds for a quid less! How could I go wrong?

Yesterday, I decided to try these out - actually, I decided to test my new midcaps before my first skirmish. Loading up the four MAG midcaps (MP5 mags, btw) I'd purchased (along with 2 STAR mags I got with my MP5), I set up an unsuspecting cardboard box to be my target for the evening.

Letting rip with the star mags, these fed fine. Due to the short ranges I was shooting at, I can't give a guess at how accurate they are; well, that and the fact that it was getting rather dark. Both magazines emptied flawlessly. So far, so good.

Swapping to my first Midcap, I immediately hit a brick wall. Selecting semi, I lined up a nice few rounds on the box - only for a deep thudding noise to emanate from my gun with each shot. Dropping the magazine out, I turned the gun upside down and started firing again. This cleared the jam, so I slapped the mag back in and started shooting again. It did its no-firing trick again, then after another drop out, slap and throw back in the gun, it fed fine for the rest of the mag.

Okay, I thought - one dud mag. Let's check the rest.

ALL of them did exactly the same thing. Disheartened, I went to bed.

So, a few minutes ago, I realised; would they possibly be too small, jamming my magazines? I had a half-empty bag of Toytec 0.12's lying around from my Mini AEG days, so I filled a Midcap with them, and another with the HFC rounds.

Out of ten shots, the one with Toytec rounds fired every time, as I'd come to expect - they were decent 0.12's. Repeating my ten round burst with the HFC loaded mag, I managed a total of zero rounds exiting the barrel.

A quick check with a ruler tells me that these rounds are about 5.55 MM - the toytec rounds clocked in at a fraction under 6mm.

Digging through the bag, I found a number of scary things - almost all the BB's had seam lines, most had lumps of plastic from the mould attached to them, and there was a bit of mould itself in the bag - a huge, strangely shaped piece of plastic that would kill any magazine it was inserted into.

Knowing what I now know, would I have used these rounds or returned them? Definitely returned them, straight away. They refuse to feed in all but two of my magazines, they are oddly shaped, quality control seems woeful at best, and worst but not least, they were bested by a bag of 0.12's that cost me a mere three quid, a third of what I paid for these.

Avoid these. Avoid them like the small white plague.

EDIT - To add insult to injury, I�ve discovered that these things have SERIOUSLY off centre air bubbles in them. I am NOT impressed.

EDIT 2 - Important update

Okay, after taking my MP5 to Combat South Urban a week or so back, I've got to update this. The Midcap magazines I mentioned above (the MAG ones) seem to have problems with the Xtreme brand BB's I got recently, so I've concluded that the feed issues are due to the magazines. Okay, one more point due to me not being thorough.

However, after trying desperately to use these up, I have discovered that there are quite a few more problems than I expected. LOTS of them have mould lines, and there's bits of sprue tuck to mare of them than I'd realised. And a fair few aren't even spherical.

If you do buy these, then be careful with them and check most of the rounds before putting them in you gun - it's either that or end up with bits of sprue jammed in your barrel. If you're on a budget, then buy them, by all means. Just don't expect great things from them.

(Edited once more for spelling and the like)

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Registered: September 2004
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 4,350

Review Date: 23/1/06

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: �8.00 | Rating: 7

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	cheap-ish
Cons:	not consistant

not writing here to agree or disagree with him there, i've had 2bags of them. first bag went through my MP5 with a tightbore without any problems. the grouping isnt the best with these but they'll do.
not a bad price for 5000rds.
if you look close enough, the actual rounds have specs of darker colours in it. the actual plastic mix used to make the BBs arent the best because you cant guarantee the weight distribution is all good with the different bits of plastic there. i've used HFC.2's on a 500fps VSR and when it broke in half on the target, i didnt see any bubbles there. maybe some have some havent because i've noticed a FEW shots were off target even on my 1J MP5.

if you're not worried about the odd BB flying off target or you're more of a closer range combatant, then get these, i personally havent had a problem with these BBs in close combat.

although they're not lubed like the more expensive rounds with a tiny bit of silicone oil on the rounds just to keep the internals all nice, they do the job but if you're after consistancy round after round. get different ones. get the more expensive ones because their price is worth it.

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