Phoenix wrote:I have a crapload of Crosman BBs from Walmart and they haven't screwed me over YET... Although I don't trust them so in the future I'm just going to be buying decent BBs from the Internet. Any suggestions for some good .25s or .20s that don't cost a ridiculous amount?
I have shot 10's of 1000's of Crosman .20 bb's and never had much of a problem. Probably 5-6 jam's. Their bb's are lower quality and
will jam the higher quality guns more often than the higher quality bb's. The main issue I ran into was more about the "extra" little pieces of plastic that get through their filtering system! They end up in the jar of bb's, then jam in your mag!!
Then you have to tear down the mag to get that piece out.
The only damage that cost me money was a bb that busted in the hop-up and tore the hop-up bucking! That came from a high-grade .28! Has never happened again though.
In the 100's of thousands of BIO TSD's I've used and repackaged, I have only seen 1 "extra" piece of plastic and one or two "dented" bb's that may or may not have jammed a gun. All of these where caught before getting to the "end-user".
99% of the High Grade bb's you purchase from quality airsoft stores are safe to use. Excel, KSC, G&G, Airsoft Elite, TSD, to name a few. Many of the store brands are just one of the above named brands purchased in bulk and re-packaged.
I'm in the process of testing out the new Spartan Javelin BIO's. So far so good.
Watch for additional posts by players who have been using specific brands for years (like UBCS Gibbs who uses KSC's) and heed their advice (If you can afford it
)
Not all of us have the budget to buy the so-called "best" so we have to comprise until our budgets catch up with what we think we need. Though I don't recommend them, if you
have to use cheap bb's then only go with the Crosman .20's. (but expect some jams on an occasion!) If you can afford a step up to a store brand, or higher, then
definitely do it!