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 Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:44 pm |
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| applepod124 |
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| Hi, I just purchased a CO2 PX4. I also bought 6000 copper BB's, although I heard from a few people that its bad to use copper in this gun. Is this true? What BB's/Pellets do you recommend? |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:04 pm |
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| donec |
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| It is bad to use BB's in a gun with a rifled barrel as the BB's can damage the rifling. The metal used in air guns is not the same as in powder burners it is in fact often brass. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:09 am |
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| applepod124 |
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| Ok. What BB's / Pellets would you recommend for this gun? |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 1:27 pm |
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| applepod124 wrote: |
| Ok. What BB's / Pellets would you recommend for this gun? |
I always recommend Crosman domed pellets for beginners or for a gun not broken in yet. Because while they may not be the best they tend to work quite well in most guns. The exception is if you are shooting paper targets at 10 meters then I recommend Crosman wadcutters for the same reason. Once a gun is broken in and the shooter is proficient enough to want more accuracy then the shooter will need to experiment with different pellets to find the best ones for the gun. If you want to shoot BB's I would say to use the lead BB's since they are soft and should not harm the rifling but they may not fit well. The Beretta PX4 Storm is able to shoot steel BB's due to the use of a magnet in the magazine to hold the BB's in place as they are smaller than pellets and would fall out of the gun without the magnet. Thus the lead BB's may fall out. I have never tried the lead BB's so I don't know if they would be the same size as the steel BB's. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:43 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:42 pm |
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If they are steel under the zinc they would function but would probably mess up the rifling the same as copper coated steel BB's do. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:17 pm |
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| Hmm, then what BB's would work in this gun? |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:25 am |
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| Slavia |
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| Hmm, then what BB's would work in this gun? |
It's not that steel BB's won't work; they will. Lead pellets will be more accurate.
My Beeman catalog (Edition 22, p. 37) says that steel BB's for a nominal .177 gun will range from 0.162" to 0.175," which means they will fit loose in the bore. A soft lead pellet will fit more tightly, and will be spun by the rifling (shallow spiral grooves in the bore). With the badminton shuttlecock shape (drag stabilization) and the rifling imparting rotation (spin stabilization) the pellet will be more accurate.
The problem is that shooting hard steel BB's will scratch the shallow rifling, reducing the accuracy you might have had with soft lead pellets.
Pellets and BB's load in exactly the same way, so there is no loading or capacity advantage to using BB's:
I would suggest forgetting about BB's and use only lead pellets. |
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