BB's shattering during glasses test.

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The first couple of times I skirmished I used a cheap pair of safety glasses available at a local DIY store. They were great apart from the fogging and I bought a set of mesh goggles. I've upgraded both in the last couple of months as well as buying a sniper that is kicking out 500fps consistently with .25's (EDIT:This should say 0.20's). So I got to thinking how much protection was I actually getting.

Results, Zero 1 .25 bb's 5 shots point blank (like muzzle touching the glasses) = 4 dents in the glasses and a single bb shattered clean in half.

Devil Blaster .36 bbs 5 shots as above = no dents but 5 shattered bbs, tiny fragments all over the place.

Should I be worried about the BB's, keeping in mind the 30m MED I use at all of the sites I play?

 
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Also be mindful of the fact you don't know what bbs everybody else on the field are using too, if your really worried revision sawflys are rated to with stand shotgun pellets !

 
i wouldnt wear mesh i invested in a pair of ballistic glasses work a charm :) £80 and save your sight worth it.

 
Can I just point out without want to pee on anyones parade that if your sniper is shooting 500fps on .25 bbs you can't skirmish it as it needs to be under 500fps on .20s, this may be part of your problem that your gun is hot..

 
Also, I find it hard to believe that Zero One's unfathomably shit BBs didn't break, but the highest rated BBs of the Blaster line, did. Are you sure you didn't get that muddled? Or are Zero One paying you or something? Lol.

All BBs shatter, I use an air rifle pellet catcher to sight my guns in because it's about the size of a person's face, my garden is near enough exactly 21m long and regardless of the power of the gun, practically every shot that hits it smashes to bits.

Madbull high grade, Zero One, Blasters of every grade and that's from range too.

 
Blasters shatter just from hitting each other when fired on full-auto. They're not alone in that though, as Ed says. I wanted to bed a new hop rubber in earlier this week so i fired a couple of hi-caps on full-auto into my open bergen - some of them shattered and that's at only about 330FPS.

I don't worry about fragments. I've had one get through my Hero Shark goggles and hit me in the eye - it was just like having sand blown into it at a beach - annoying, but not dangerous. Simple physics. It expends plenty of energy to shatter a BB, thus the fragments cannot retain it as velocity.

 
Sorry Nickona that was my typo, just to confirm it is 500fps on .20's. I would never EVER use a hot gun, to the point that I have chased marshals to make sure it is chrono'd before I play and make sure they know I can judge their MED correctly. For me its ask/check first and never need to say sorry later. Cheers you are on the ball though.

Ed that was what totally shocked me, Devil blasters are supposed to be the sh't but they properly shattered, into itty bitty pieces. Most small enough to go through mesh on my mesh goggles. The biggest pieces that remained were so fractured up you could squash them easily. I definitely didn't muddle anything, the zero one's are white and came from a fresh bag, the blasters are brown and from a fresh bottle. I had 2 separate mags and did the .25's first.

I feel a bit better if the high grade ones shatter as well in your shooting. My concern was obviously you pay extra for their higher mass and supposedly better quality but in my 10 rnd mini test the cheap Zero one bbs behaved much better structurally even though I was led to believe they were crap over the supposed High grade bb's that are easily 3 times the price.

Ian thanks its good to know that even the fragments that make it through shouldn't be able to cause damage. I guess the fact that the .36's didn't mark the glasses shows the energy being used in shattering the bbs which should mean much less energy in the fragments as they continue on their way.

Mind at rest,

Cheers.

 
Yeah ive had blasters shatter from 25ft from my revolver (500fps)

They are great for accuracy and tolerances, but are pretty soft and can easily shatter. Horrible for snipers as if they shatter inside the cylinder they just go everywhere.

 
Yeah,I've had that happen to me a lot of times with Blasters. I had to go back to using them once I exhausted my Marui BBs and coupled with my damaged VSR mag and feeding issues,I spent a lot of time cleaning the cylinder.

But Blaster Devil .28s don't seem to shatter as much.

 
I don't want now shattering BB's! I want my enemies to feel the full pain in one central pinpoint spot instead of in a spread out AoE!!

 
Well they would....

They only shatter on solid surfaces. If you hit a solid surface, they're not gonna feel it are they :P You've either missed or hit their protective gear.

 
Depends on the ROF too though. If it's very high, a BB may hit the one that preceded it against muscle say, or any body part harder than my squishy belly anyway. I wouldn't be surprised to see them shatter like that.

Yeah UTJ, I've got a bottle of Blaster Stealth .28's (Green) and I haven't seen one of them shatter even though I've definitely hit them with consecutive shots into a sticky target. Maybe that density has better elastic properties...

 
Remember the heavier BB's are a different compound to the lighter ones, it's the only way to get the mass variation while keeping the volume the same. It may well be that the heavier BB is a more brittle compound than the lighter less dense BB.

 
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