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Originally Posted by ThunderCactus
With heavier rounds you have better potential for more range over airsoft, it's the deformation of the round in flight that really holds you back. I really do think you'd get a lot better range and accuracy with backspin as long as you could stop the rounds from deforming so much.
We're using tiny 6mm pellets that weight 0.30g and we're sending them very accurately out to 260ft.
Would be a matter of mass vs drag, but you'll never send a low velocity spheroid as far with rifling as you will with hopup. The rifling only stabilizes it axially to a limited extent so it doesn't tumble in flight. Hopup has the effect of stabilizing a spheroid and making it lift at low velocities.
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But what if you guys came out with a shaped projectile like a BB? Something more aerodynamic. Like say first strike almost exactly but on a smaller scale. It would require proprietary equipment for sure, but if it worked that well, wouldn't people want to switch over? At the very least snipers.
First Strikes don't develop flat spots, they also are 100% unaffected by the weather (in short terms like a paintbal would be). They're made of a harder biodegradable plastic. Makes it harder for them to break in your marker as well. Some markers can actually simulated jams with them. We have a marker coming out called the PTR that will be closed bolt in action and more or less mimic a real AR to a tee. You even have a functional forward assist to clear the jams like the real thing. Only possible with First Strike.
Its funny though, hearing this side of it. When it comes to the negative stuff, both sides always have the same things to say about each other (Its a kids game for example lol).
Though I'm getting pretty positive responses back across the 6 or so forums I've posted this one. The most surprising I've found were people complaining about magazine size. Ours hold 20, closer to the real cap of 30 (and in some cases IS the real cap). But I had people telling me how much more realistic airsoft is, and then complaining our magazines don't hold 200 rounds. We have hoppers for that lol (or one of the LMG box mags).