6mm breath mints
 

OK, I know I may get flamed or this will go into Off Topic, or even the Trash Disposal. I don't really care, I'm anticipating Greylocks' reply...
I just wanted to share my experience. Anyway here goes...

WARNING: Try at your own risk and don't blame me if you screw up ;)

I went out for lunch yesterday and working in Downtown Vancouver, especially in the summer, you get a tonne of people giving out free samples, free food, free coffee, etc. to promote their products. So my coworker and I are walking over to lunch and there are these people giving out free samples of Brisk Liquids. I get a several packs and they are in these clear packages. I notice they are round, blue and around 6mm in diameter. Anyway, my mind starts churning and I think, what if these would fit in my airsoft stuff. I didn't have a caliper to measure the exact size, so I thought I'd try it last night in one of my old springers. Well it fit in the mag fine, now to test it! I rack the slide back, aim and fire! Got the garbage bin, 40 feet away on target. Splat! Light blue goo all over the sign. So I try my GBB, load, rack slide, aim and fire. Same thing, but a higher FPS and more accurate. Not bad. I've tried those stupid paintball BB's before and they always break inside the barrel, but I put in a dozen each into both the springer and GBB and no problem. I suppose if it did break in the barrel, goo would be everywhere inside. But atleast the propane smell disappears and you get that clean fresh mint scent.

Cheers :)

"OH GOD MY EYE"


"At least it smells good ......"

Noice!

Certainly a funny idea. They probably wouldn't survive the sharp metal rention fingers on WA mags or the crunchy ones on the Hicapa. Probably fine in an AEG though.

Haha....

lol, I'm just imagining all these people leaving the field and going home smelling extremely minty :P.

I'm half tempted to try it in my aeg. But then...I don't want my prometheus tightbore to smell like menthos.

I'm half tempted to try it in my aeg. But then...I don't want my prometheus tightbore to smell like mentos.

FINALLY! A good reason to get shot in the teeth!

You're awesome.
-VM

True, I used an TM Beretta Cougar springer and a KSC Glock 23f GBB.

Man, just don't ask people if they want a mint at a game, then shoot them in their mouths. Ouch! Just take them normally. Actually come to think of it, some players need mints anyhow. Man do some of you guys have bad breath! ;)

If I see any of your guns in the classified described as "in mint" condition I will flag it for the admins.

That's too hilarious!!!

Yaaaaaarrrr, too bad my kar is 8 mil.

"If I see any of your guns in the classified described as "in mint" condition I will flag it for the admins."

I LOL'ed

Awsome

This is great news! After smoking a mark-ass fool with my Glock, I can pop a cap in my mouth for that minty fresh post-murda after taste! 8)

This is what happens when you are bored
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/601/img07503ds.th.jpg
mints that i got slightly under 6mm but they still fit
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/2...07462pf.th.jpg
mints loaded into my deserteagle
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6731/img07475vi.th.jpg
what a hit looks like
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/9...07512ea.th.jpg
comparason of 6mm bb and what i got
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6364/img07548fb.th.jpg
what a skin hit looks like from a eagle on Greengas from about 3 inchs
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5081/img07554le.th.jpg

Those will be some pretty expensive BBs.

I've done it with a springer before....its ok but not hilarious

Looks like those UV rounds from Underworld :mrgreen: LOL

They do but UV rounds dont smell minty after you get hit by um.

Clearly worth carrying a magazine of them, just incase someone isnt calling their hits!

Target the players with that really bad breath, snipe them in the mouth for that cool minty smell

Great....I am the main target now........

OHHH! So that was you.............











:cheers:

that may work walk up to game admin.
player "this guy wasn't calling his hits could u talk to him?"
admin "sure what does he look like?"
player "i forgot but he should smell like mints"

LOL, I'll have to try it out in my old springer....sounds good.

Doesn't that kinda sting? You know, blood mixed up with mints and all.

Just wondering, what company manufactures these? They look good. (No, I'm not getting a idea here)

I might have to taste them (at low velocity only)

I'd like to know the weight of them. If they are heavy enough, I could snipe with them!

Minty M24!!
450fps minth.

the once i used were icbreakers they were like 2 bucks for about 20-30 of um. and they stung no more then a normal 6mm bb hit from 3 inches.

This is the greatest thread ever. I vote sticky!

lol, thats their new comercial now.

I love this thread.

lmaoo damm i gotta try that!!

I was just thinking the exact same thing. 8)

Exactly what I was thinking. Less chance of people not calling the single hits. Kinda hard to argue a minty stain on your tac vest.

Could also be like a calling card, like the death cards used in Vietnam.


EDIT: Redneck beat me to it. Damn my slow typing skill.

kudos on the unique idea.. would definately be fun th hear about the results of their sue ina game.

MINTY FRESH!
Woohoo! I might go check them out and fire a few rounds with my old UHC springers I had since 4 years ago.

Hey, Fox, you should supply them for the snipers at July's game.
'this is what it looks like when the enemy snipers kill your General' *points to blue splatter mark

It would be better if they had more of a creamy look than that transparency, then you could notice it more, meh, you can smell it anyways. The next time I see these I'm definitely getting a pack and trying this :D.

I love it too. It's refreshing!
hehe.

I'd be curious to weight one of these, I'm pretty sure they're far heavier than a regular BB. That would explain the extra 'sting' at very close range (3 inches as an example)

I looked @ the pics of the bb's in photoshop and blew them up to 200% and measured the diameter of both the bb and the mint
the mints are about 15-20% smaller than a regular 6mm bb

Anyway, I'm going to bring a pack o these for shooting zombies!
If you see one, draw your pistol, lock back the slide, drop the mag, breech-load a single shot, close the slide, re-insert mag and fire!

perfect transition to zombie ammo!
:-D

I tried some today in my AEP, man, they have earned a permanent place with my gear :-D

*BOOM!! HEADSHOT!!*

*WTF MINT?*

gcoap, they kinda look like the "tracer" rounds from Underworld. Very pretty :P hahahah

I so got to try this... :D

one thing: how easy is it to wash the mint stuff off your gear after?

Anyone willing to test these in an upgraded gun?? Say like a 450fps bolt action. I would but I don't really feel like taking my gun apart when it blows up in my barrel.

I'd be willing to test it, but my poor M24 need fixing. :cry:

But I'm thinking, I don't think it's going to be good in a M24, since the mag lips are really strong, and the nosle put a lot of pressure on the BB to chamber it. If I'm to try it, I'd hand load them one at the time in the chamber and carefully return the bolt to battery to prevent juicing the hopup chamber.

If you want to find the weight put them in a gun that you know the fps of on a certain bb weight and chrony it. Then use the weight of the bb with the original fps to find out the energy in joules. Then use that and the fps of the minty fresh shootings and find out the weight. Probably won't be exact but unless you've got a pretty good scale she'll do.

My team mate have an electronic scale. I'll try that and let you know.

They are vegetable oil based so you may need Wisk to get them out of your clothes :)

K, I measured with a highend caliper a KSC .2g BB on average of 5.918mm and the Frisk brand Liquid Mints average 5.893mm! I don't know the diameter of that other brand however. I have yet to weigh them though :-D

I bought some yesterday, they definetly do not fit well in the gun... They're just too small to work even in my M9/M8000 springers, and they really just wander around in the workings of my P14 or P226.

The funny thing is that firing them with propane I expected some sort of bluish splat like a paintball, except that when I fired it at the target, I didn't see a damn thing.

I was wondering what was going on (the M9 springer I fired it out of didn't have enough power to break it so it just sort of bounced off the target), so I turned and fired it at a target I set up closer, It was only then that I realized that it was pretty much blowing up in barrel and sending a nice spray of minty-scented stuff all over the target...

Not exactly the greatest thing, so I have big doubts you'll be able to load them into anything hotter than a duster-gas propelled weapon... Maybe an AEP.

But, I'm thinking of getting the bigger frisk mints, which look like they'll load properly...

Hmm... I'm thinking NBB... KWC 6" .357 Python might be a good one...

Do they come in cinnamon flavors too? i.e. Red minty fresh splatter?

EDIT:

http://www.hersheys.com/products/det...sliquidice.asp

apparently there is red, blue, green, gold, and blue...


http://everythingcinnamon.com/catalo.../liquidice.jpg

Gold is the color of champions.

Man, all these people that want to know the weight, but no one that can READ :lol:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/601/img07503ds.th.jpg
It clearly says, 30 mints, 1.8g. Which makes each of them 0.06g. That doesnt sound right however, and I highly doubt they'd be 1.8g each. I have an electronic scale, so maybe I'll pick up some of these after work.

The Hershey website, stated that the cool mints were .8g per mint, but all the other mints were 0.06...

The container looks like this:
http://www.consobusiness.be/images/p...isk-liquid.jpg

And an interesting article. These won award in Japan! Coincidence?
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/051128/kyodo/d8e5577o4.html

Hmmmmmmm.........

The plot thickens.........

lol :lol:

Thats a funny read with airsoft in mind haha.

Damn, just when I spec'd out my own product you guys go and add BB FLAVOR to your list of requirements... *&%$0(*&%()! GRRRRRR...

This thread is turning into a big spam or advertisement for those minth. Funny.

.8g eh? I like that. If the "round" can be stable at high fps (unlike a paintball), coulde have it's use in sniping!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...BBFlavours.gif

LOL :razz:

lmao@ the picture and the whole thread. Some one desperately needs to actually test this shit out in a sniper rifle and see if it works or not.

wow i can't believe this guy thought he was going to be banned

Lol, thats good!

I tried those mints in one of my springers.... had a bust, but I cleared it out with a bb and then tried it on a Dart board, it also left that minty clean smell.

I did a small accuracy test:
5 shots fired standing each with :
0.25g excel; hopup set for ~50+ feet
and the mints(approx 0.1125g); hopup off
done at 18 feet, no wind against a cardboard backstop
groupings measured center to center
5.1" Hi-Capa using a 4.3" magazine
TK twist barrel
150% hammer/recoil spring
lots o' shooter's design metal parts

3 of the mints failed to explode on contact
http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?i...scf53459zj.jpg
overall group: 100mm
smallest group: 19mm

compared to the excels
http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?i...scf53469zk.jpg
overall group: 33mm
smallest group: 11mm

btw, for those of you who say that the TK barrel doesnt work:
this is the stock barrel, same conditions as the TK twist
http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?i...scf53472lv.jpg
overall group: 50mm
smallest group: 13mm

Where can you buy these? I looked in 5 different stores today, and couldn't find them...guess that's the downside to living in a small town. I was able to find the solid (certs-like) ones, but I don't want to eat them, I want to shoot them!

My brother picked up some of the Frisk ones (They are much closer to 6mm than the other brand) at 7-11. I'm going to give them a shot in my VSR-10 (440FPS w/ 0.20g) after this weekend's OP. I don't really want my barrel to smell minty out in the field.

Only been a week, hopefully no body gts to mad im bringing this back up. Another idea for these mints, would be using them as tracers.. like, in the real wrold phosphorus coated bullets i believe are whats used for tracers in machine guns, but if you dontwanna use the g&p tracer mag, or tm tracer unit you can use these. theyre a different color, may stand out.. maybe not as well as night as in day however, and ice breakers arent quite 6mm, so.. i was thinking bright orange spay paint to coat them? it would make them a bit bigger, but stand out more as well.

Try Hasty Market corner store if you guys have one of those. I have found them there for $1.99 awhile back

Thanks, I forgot to check one place (convenience store). I'll drop by their this afternoon and see if they have any Frisk or Ice breakers. :cheers:

Yeah me and tinshnipz we bought some at a hasty mart but i tried them in my m9 and you have to mussle load it. lol. And you cant tilt it down past a 90 degree angle. They dont break either.

You can do it via mag but when the slide moves forward to put one into the chamber it flies out.

What about-

"Score it in my mouth!"

"OW OW OWW OH GOD CALL AN AMBULANCE- ooh, minty fresh. Tasty."

I think 1.8g is the NET weight, ie: packaging included.

maybe, but even then.. the actual mints would be less then 0.06 each.. doesnt sound like that can be right to me too.

LOL thats hilarious guys.has anyone tryed em in a aeg?

Nobody has said they tried so i'de guess no because an AEG isn't exactly something you test things on by impulse


Now i'm going back to Miami Vice cuz i got seasons 1&2 for my birthday so i doubt i'll be back tonight.

Me to lol, love that show, love DJ! now if only they would release Nash Bridges on DVD...

they are giving away FREE SAMPLES! of thes at mac's

so I finally found whole packages at 711. I only had the samples for a while. they work fine if they are cool. I found that if they're warm, they warp a bit. putting them in the fridge worked well for them although I dunno how you could keep them cold during a game. anywho, there was a crow getting at our strawberries again. I think it'll get lucky with it's minty clean breath ;)

man can't believe this thread got so long :)