Perhaps because they don't want to kill what they're shooting at?mrbadexample wrote:why anyone would fire 0.2 gram BBs is beyond me. i prefer .177 lead pellets, one shot, one kill.
Which is EXACTLY the reason that vortex and cloud guns were invented.Ragnarok wrote:mrbadexample wrote:with 150 BBs a second pelting you, you'd be very, very, distracted.
That's how the SAS used to trainRagnarok wrote:I can tell you, airsoft as a sport would fast be unpopular if you ended up with lead pellets embedded in your skin
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
imagine the cost of the upgrades needed to push lead bbs from an aeg. that's pretty much a hunting air rifle. airsoft would be illegal everywhere and no fun at all.jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:That's how the SAS used to trainRagnarok wrote:I can tell you, airsoft as a sport would fast be unpopular if you ended up with lead pellets embedded in your skin
My bad, it wasn't the SAS but the Jungle Warfare School set up by the British in Malaya. From the wiki article:i-will wrote:imagine the cost of the upgrades needed to push lead bbs from an aeg. that's pretty much a hunting air rifle. airsoft would be illegal everywhere and no fun at all.
In addition to jungle discipline, field craft, and survival skills, special tactics such as combat tracking (first using native trackers), close-quarter fighting (tactics were developed by troopers protected only with fencing masks stalking and shooting each other in the jungle training ground with air rifles), small team operations (which led to the typical four-man special operations teams) and tree jumping (parachuting into the jungle and through the rain forest canopy) were developed to actively take the war to the Communist guerrillas instead of reacting to incidents initiated by them. Of greater importance was the integration of the tactical jungle warfare with the strategic "winning hearts and minds" psychological, economic and political warfare as a complete counter-insurgency package.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
If you can generate enough flow, why not. Not as easy to source as airsoft BBs however...POLAND_SPUD wrote:would a bbmg work with stainless steel or lead BBs ? BtB has been using .117 lead BBs... so are 6mm BBs really too heavy ?
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
Indeed, back in the day before all this health and safety bull excrementGippeto wrote:Not for wimps or pussys!
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
A very short range one however, BBMGs rely on a concentrated volume of relatively low powered shots for damage and as range increases, so does shot dispersal and therefore effectiveness. I'd rather have a firearm like the P90, it would also be a lot less bulky without an HPA tank hanging off it.POLAND_SPUD wrote:hmmm... a BBMG firing lead BBs and running on unregged CO2 (or HPA) could be regarded as a PDW weapon...
There were several marble MGs here and on spudtech, and if I'm not mistaken DR had built a golf ball MG too.BTW has anyone tried using ammo bigger than BBs ? I've heard about Spudfarm's plans to build a marble MG but AFAIK he hasn't started to work on it yet
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
Indeed, DR did make a Marble Cloud:POLAND_SPUD wrote:@ jsr I meant marble vortex\cloud guns
