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kustomkb wrote:I wonder if the irregular shape made them fly better. Like a dimpled golf ball?

Nope.

This was a joke article

Thanks for the humorous link Jacks,

but as stated, dimpled golf balls do fly better than smooth ones.

I don't think we can compare an aerodynamic bullet, coming out of a rifled barrel, with a sphere, exiting a smooth bore.

I'll have to do some field tests... regardless, .43g is gonna be way better

Cheers.

kustomkb wrote:but as stated, dimpled golf balls do fly better than smooth ones.

That may be true, but we're in a different velocity range here, so I don't think the comparison stands. Humanity wastes a heck of a lot of energy fighting drag in general, if there was any benefit of dimples on objects travelling at high subsonic velocities, airliners would be covered in them

Ultimately, if you want the ultimate destructive performance without changing any of the launcher specs, you should go for steel BBs.

I find that using HPA lets even plastic BBs be pretty destructive though, this is with 0.25g plastic BBs with 850 psi behind them:

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Very nice. Hope you stick around and continue to build with us. And the stop motion assembly is priceless...

I need to stop looking at awesome milled parts After a while I decided to buy a lathe but now you're making me want a mill too
Anyway, lovely gun, love all the machined parts!

awesome gun!!!!! simple design,well built and you have perfection

very nice! may I ask did you use any o rings to seal the chamber? s

O-rings would improve efficiency but in practice you would not notice the difference with a tight fit.

ahh right, cheers for your reply, I'm planning to build one of these next week now!

Thanks for the kind words to all.

I didn't use o-rings, just a snug fit, like JSR said.

I'm not around much but just popped in to browse for some idea's, stay tuned...

Looking forward to what you come up with

kustomkb wrote:stay tuned...