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Where have Nuprol BB's gone ???

I tore the origional bucking due to my own mistake pulling the barrel out of the hop before removing the hopup gub.

Bit of a jump in conclusions there dude.

I have never tore a bucking, DG or standard due to bad bb's as of yet.

I actually ran some blasters through the breakin 4K ish which was left from my last day, only a few hundred nuprols have been though the DG so far.

 
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Fair enough - I've noted a few people from the EU complaining on their FB page (the DG one that is) about the consistency of the Nuprol stuff and assumed that to be the case with you too given that you didn't reply to my earlier post. Sorry about that.

The point still stands though: Just because you've not had a problem yet doesn't mean you won't, and Nuprol really do at this point deserve the reputation they've been given. Their inconsistent use of hydrophilic plastics has meant that their heavier weight BBs - not being properly sealed into a container with silica as many other brands do - are getting jammed in people's sniper rifles. Their flip-flopping over manufacturers and outsourcing has made it very hard to consistently rate them and their habit of breaking up in the barrel or against mesh (more so than other brands) makes them perform almost like a cheap bio BB and this makes them more dangerous for CQB. Clearly the amount of complaints and dip in sales has seen some retailers not bothering to restock them or maybe WE are switching manufacturing again?

My general opinion has always been then Nuprol don't make anything that can't be bought better or at a lower price elsewhere. Their advertising and sponsorship budget is just so high that they're having to squeeze margins elsewhere. They really don't deserve your custom - especially when there are other brands (like ASG) who've been operating very reliable and affordable BBs here for donkeys years.

 
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Personally i prefer to use G&G normal BBs in my G&G guns and others, i have used ASG blasters but mostly for testing purposes and now theres a new brand called Kurse thats come out and i have been using them but personally i still prefer the G&G stuff.

 
Not to worry mate.

I do agree with what you are saying and it's just one of those things.

I started on nuprol and always stuck to them because I didn't have any beef and yes I could agree I may very well would have had a issue at some point, but when you know no different I would have been non the wiser.

Well with all the hassle they seemed to have kicked up and stocks gone, ASG will be my next venture I think :)

The .40 devils work well did you say ?

 
Sounds reasonable. There are plenty of great brands out there, but we're talking plastic BBs here - getting them right isn't hard for companies; it's about how much money they want to spend on manufacturing, how much they want to market it at and - ultimately - how much profit they're comfortable with losing in favour of a better product. There's no real innovation here, it's just a spreadsheet game, and it's a game I think WE/Nuprol played poorly whilst trying to make a quick buck.

I've been running the ASG Blaster Devil .30s in my DG (I assume you meant .30g rather than .40g) and they work great, but equally a lot of other people have had great experiences with brands like G&G. I've also used BB Bastards and those are really good (leave almost no residue in the barrel and are really bubble-free when you crack them open) but they're expensive as hell.

 
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proffrink said:
BB Bastards and those are really good (leave almost no residue in the barrel and are really bubble-free when you crack them open) but they're expensive as hell.
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Not really.

.30 bb bastards = £13.75 / 2000 = 0.7 pence per shot (price includes delivery)

.30 Blasters = £14.99 / 3000 = 0.5 pence per shot (excluding delivery)

Not that much in it, certainly not enough to call them expensive as hell. Maybe if your throwing 4000 a game down range the cost will soon add up, but if your throwing that many bbs a game, you need to learn to shoot better, no bb will fix that.

 
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Not that much? That's 30% more dear - .30g Blaster Devils are already considered expensive by some.

And yeh, I am throwing 4000 down range because I'm running them in an M249 :) I used to use Bastards in my DMR until I sold it and will continue to use them in my pistols (got loads left over) plus anything with a lower rate of fire, but I've not observed a difference significant enough over shorter ranges to justify that 30% mark-up.

Also, you're*

 
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Hmm, interesting stuff.

I have some Nuprol's and so far have only used them in my USP. I've had quite a few feeding issues even on a fully gassed magazine. I had put it down to gas guns being annoyingly unreliable junk, but I wonder if it was the bb's all along. I've not tried any other bb's in it, may have look into this.

 
Well judging from that website they're also stocking ASG and others so there's no reason to - especially when some of the Nuprol BBs work out at a higher cost per 1000 than even the Blaster Devils.

 
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...I had put it down to gas guns being annoyingly unreliable junk...
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Heresy! Blasphemy! Bring me my best throwing stones!

I think you've just only experienced poor GBBs, I've had more feeding issues with one AEG (a top-tech g&g which is otherwise flawless) than I have with both my pistol and g5 combined, which is 0 if I discount the time I broke my pistol

My experience with nuprols isn't too bad, the g5 handles them just fine and the pistol hasn't missed a best yet, even the troublesome feeding of the TR15 hasn't been any different with nuprols. That said, as long as they go in the right direction when I pull the trigger, my bbs are working fine. I've never once checked a BB for seams or bubbles

 
Noo he didn't !!

Oh my, the one game day I took my WE 416 before it was a Daytona. Was probably the best games I ever had for enjoyment.

Yes low cap mags and cool down us a pain when you have come from a AEG but hell its fun :-)

It was pretty reliable too.

Looked through my stocks and I seem to have about 14,000 nuprol bbs varied in weight ? Haha

Got some blaster devil .40's to test out :)

I'm sure they sting.

 
.40s or .30s? .40s are gunna be super slow at 1.1J.

 
I'd be interested to know how you get on. Should be shooting around 230fps with those.

 
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I am too, would have helped if my mate got the .40s but he got .43s ? As there was none in stock.

Now that's gna be interesting haha

Will test it mainly in the p* because of consistency.

Crank it up to 120psi and see how far that goes on the range hehe

I would be bullseye womp rats in my t-16 too.

 
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Right, tha would make sence as i bought a ton a while back.

Chances are that WE will make the next lot in the interim?

Considering all the shops i have been to and online shops that sold a crazy amount of them, clearly there is space for more BB makes.
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Frustratingly the original .43 Nuprols were the best heavy weight BB's I used! Nowadays most people are using Proball BB's. Similar quality but they're round and fit in my 6.01 TBB!

 
The first Nuprol's I used were simply fantastic, they were remarkably consistent and I instantly found a replacement for the bastards I used before, they were measurable better. However then they sourced them differently and I started having feeding issues and accuracy was awful. I dumped a whole load of Nuprol's, they were just plain faulty. I can't even get the 0.2s to feed well enough to use them for Chrono purposes, they are terrible. I would suspect this is why they have disappeared as the recent batches have destroyed their reputation.

 
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