Where have Nuprol BB's gone ???

[Mr Monkey Nuts]

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.

 

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.

[proffrink]

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*

[PeteS]

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.

[DANNY THOMAS]

just been and visited my local store near Liverpool. It's BombedUp in Runcorn they have Nuprol BBs in stock.

http://bombupairsoft.co.uk

[jcheeseright]

Probably because no one will buy them anymore!

[proffrink]

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.

[TheGrover]

...I had put it down to gas guns being annoyingly unreliable junk...

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

[LordGeorge]

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.

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

[LordGeorge]

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

.40s i have some .28s at the moment as well. Will test .30s soon.

The .40s are purely testing.

[proffrink]

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

[LordGeorge]

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.

[Hudson]

Just got the latest batch of Nuprols in.

[Snakeeyes75]

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.

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!

[BrightCandle]

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.