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Originally Posted by Kos-Mos
There is a HUGE advantage that AEGs can't get, and most people don't realize. The gas flows until the BB leaves the barrel. Heavier BBs accelerate slower than light ones. That means that if you chrony your GBBR on .20 in the morning, at 380FPS, and use .30 BBs, you will shoot roughly 355 FPS, but have almost twice the energy. You will in fact have a LOT more penetration power and don't lose any appreciable range.
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And that's why out here and in Mb, GBBR's and now every other gun as well is chrono'd with the weight they'll be using.
Otherwise the GBBR's are just cheating the chrono every time lol
Anyway a gun's range and accuracy is the sum of it's parts.
One place in particular that GBBRs and PTW's have SIGNIFICANT advantages over AEG's is something nobody thinks about, the hop chamber.
The hop chamber on most AEG's is flimsy at best, some are plastic, most are slightly loose in the outer barrel, the barrels are held in by weak plastic clips that have some wobble to them and secured in the hop chamber by rubber. And the adjusters are usually a long flimsy arm that suffers from bounce and uneven pressure and in the case of M4's have over-sensitive dial adjustments.
The VSR system is a bit more secure, but the hop chambers on the GBBRs tend to be significantly more rigid, and have rotary dial adjusters that are more precise and more rigid. Plus the added continuous back pressure of gas helps center the BB more quickly than an AEG would.
The PTW's barrel is precision pinned to it's hop chamber for zero movement in any direction. The hop adjuster, when modded correctly, is so rigid it works like a fixed hop giving extremely repeatable results in backspin. The adjuster is very precise. And the hop chamber is pushed forward quite forcefully by the spring tensioned ball on the back of the cylinder, into a set of half moon grooves ensuring that it stays centered and rigid. Nothing has any play in the compression parts and barrel group.
With the AEG, you've got a few thousandths of wobble in the mounting of the hop chamber, a few thousandths between the barrel and hop rubber, the clip can wobble back and forth .01", the hop rubber might not seal perfectly against the air nozzle. There's just so much more play and inconsistency in an AEG than anyone even realizes.
The polarstar is an awesome drop in mechbox, but it's only major failing in performance is it's dependence on an AEG hop chamber and barrel lol
The only failing to GBBR's is the gas, really. How do you get around not having to carry extra canisters on you?
Otherwise, they offer the very best realize, and their range and accuracy is just downright impressive.