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R22Master

Dionysus

Registered: September 2004
Location: Static in the UK, but wishing I was motorbiking around the world - UK > Europe > Russia > Alaska > USA > UK.
Posts: 3,372

Review Date: 21/8/05

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: �4.99 | Rating: 1

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Ummmmmm, thinking...
Cons:	They are NOT spherical, don't burst on impact with clothing, jam in most guns, don't feed in most magazines, expensive, not much paint contained

Wow, such a great idea. A BB that turns any Airsoft gun in to a "marker"!

Well, yes. Nice idea in principle, but so poorly executed it kind of defeats the object.

First off, these BBs AREN'T SPHERICAL (see third photo)! Sort of a basic theme of BBs but these have missed the mark dramatically. This leads to feed-jams, ruptures inside your Airsoft gun, and all manner of cock-ups occuring when you least want them to.

Secondly, they ONLY rupture when fired at high speed at solid objects. Shoot them in a skirmish at someone's jacket and it will simply bounce off. Again, this kind of defeats the point of having them.

Thirdly, these are expensive. Now if they worked as you would expect them to, I wouldn't object, but paying �5.00 for 200 of them makes them more than 15 times more expensive than normal BBs!

Basically, I don't recommend these BBs to anyone. They will jam in your gun, initiate intricate cleaning regimens, and won't work properly in-game if you get the darned things to shoot in the first place. If this system allowed me to give 0 out of 10 I would, but as things are, 1 out of 10 is the lowest I can give.

Avoid at all costs. Utterly useless. Sad

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MDK_Marshal

You think you're awesome, badly drawn Mel Gibson?

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

Review Date: 7/9/05

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: �2.50 | Rating: 1

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Limited Fun for plinking with Springers
Cons:	Ridicutously bad manufacturing, break only at high speed.

Well, what can be said? It's a great Idea, in theory. The same way Communism and Long distance relationships are good ideas. Turn your Airsoft gun into a paintball gun, no upgrades or anything... Except, like Communism and (Most) long-distance relationships, they don't blumming well work.

Starting on what R22 said, one of the biggest problems with these is that they're not spherical. They're roughly round, but I'd be much happier firing precision 6mm balls fo dirt. These things even jam my springer armarda up - my 'lil bro got a �1 CYMA pistol, and threw these things away, because thaey even jammed that up.

If You ever manage to load one of these things into the breech of your replica, then you'd think you're in for some fun. Nope. Half the time these just bounce off at close range - an 'upgraded' P99 springer couldn't make these break firing at my cupboard... a metre away. When they do break, they leave a tiny splodge of paint - around half of what's in the actual round. The rest stays in the damned thing, and makes a nice mess on your carpet.

The one good thing is that these don't seem to be water based and shouldn't stain - but My cupboard and ceiling still bear the battle scars of these little blighters. Leave the paint on anything too long and it stains.

If anyone ever makes a decent 6mm paintball that works in a gun known to mankind, then I'll give it a go. Until then, I'm only going to buy them to saok in water and put in spring-loaded booby traps of some kind. It's the only usefull thing you wan do with ammo as bad as this.

EDIT - I tried soaking them in water. it messed my gun up. I didn't expect this, seing as I breech-loaded one into a low-power springer. And it still broke in the breech.

Also rectified the bit wehre I said I recomended them. That was embarasing!

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McMadkat

Weehoo!

Registered: September 2004
Location: Caithness
Posts: 3,272

Review Date: 19/12/05

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: �2.50 | Rating: 2

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Nice and messy!
Cons:	If they break in your gun.......you will be cleaning for months!

I got some of these from HK over ebay a while back. They took 2 days to arrive and non were broken in transit. Not surprising really as they are almost impossible to break unless they hit something hard like a window!

These fired fine in a springer, and even in a KSC G19. I tried them in my G26c, but one broke and got rather messy.... I found that they worked ok in the G19, but as they are slightly smaller than 6mm they did occasionally jam in the magazine at the top. They made a nice mess of my window and the paint stained the plastic surround...joy oh joy....

Conclusion, only use in cheap guns that you don't care about. But they are good fun for shooting at tins/windows.

Buy them again? Yes. They have a nice novelty value about them.

McMadkat

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I mean, come on. It doesn't take the brains of an Archbishop to figure that it's not a good idea...
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Stormtrooper88

Registered: December 2007
Location: Essex
Posts: 76

Review Date: 29/12/07

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 1

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Good Idea
Cons:	Expensive, Jam your gun , crap, dont buy

well.....

Paintball bbs seemed to be a good idea.
But that good idea is always poorly executed. They are not even made properly.

REASONS NOT TO BUY

1. Expensive
2. Make a mess
3. Cant play using mesh masks or goggles
4. Jam your gun up
5. Poorly constructed like a primary school kids designed them for airsoft guns
6. JUST A RIP OFF
7. Shall i go on?

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