newbie question!

[insanedenial988]

i got my first AEG today a ics m4, i was wondering if its safe to reuse bb's, i know in games you obviously lose them due to the nature of the sport but while target practicing at home is it safe to collect and reuse them?

 

[StealthyAirsoft]

Do not ever re-use bbs! Ever!

 

[jaeproductions]

It's kind of tempting, but don't. It'll damage your gun. I'm going to buy a cheap £20 springer that I don't mind re-using pellets in (you're not supposed to do it in any gun but I really wouldn't want to break an expensive one, I've re-used ones in cheap springers before and it was fine)

Then I'll use this springer for target practicing so I can use all the BBs I have (re-used ones, a bottle of 1000 0.12s I got for spending over £50 somewhere, the small packets of BBs you get with guns etc)

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

I reuse BBs on occasion and haven't ever had a problem. Apart from the ones that smash into a million pieces when I fire them the first time because my target is a metal pellet catcher... I can't understand how anything other than a jam could happen...

But if you do and something bad happens, don't blame me.

 

[Arden]

If the bbs are picked up they will probably pick up small bits of dirt, which when travelling down the barrel at speed would scratch it i suspect.

 

[Tariq]

scratch no. But most likely cause a jam

 

[TheFull9]

BBs at about £12 for 3000 of a decent quality vs. potentially damaging your gun that's cost you hundreds. Maths says it all really.

Real 5.56 costs a few hundred quid per 1000 round tin, airsoft ammo really is extremely cheap. The problem is that a jammed BB probably won't cause anything too bad to happen, but it's that time one day when you don't realise there's a BB stuck in your hop unit or barrel and continue firing and your gearbox gets wrecked. End of the day, the risk is (generally) fairly small, but it's simply not worth taking to my mind, not for BBs that cost fractions of pennies each.

 

[insanedenial988]

thanks for all the advice, i was just curious but from the feedback i won't be reusing them.

 

[Ian_Gere]

I reuse the ones that I fire indoors, except,like Ed, those that shatter. My target is one of those sticky ones, but even at 7.5m, the longest shot I can set up in my flat, one BB hitting another stuck to the target can shatter them. I've had no problems. I don't believe that any problems can follow from reusing clean, whole, unchipped BB's and obviously I give them a perusal as I pick them up.