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Originally Posted by mcguyver
Now, if you don't think that a PTW will shoot as far as your upgraded sniper rifles, perhaps you are simply a poor airsoft mechanic, or you don't undertsand the basic principals of why flight of a spherical projectile occurs the way it does. You toss around what kind of barrel and length, and this tells me right away that you don't.
I'll let you in on a little secret. Increasing barrel length has no positive effect on BB performance and in fact can be a hinderance. Barrel consistancy in dimension is far, far more important. Hop-up is more important. Consistancy of size and weight and material distribution of the projectile is far, far more important.
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I understand that an aeg *can* shoot as far, but at higher fps, there is a distinct advantage to manually cycling the bolt, you'll have more durability with a BA sniper rifle, and more consistency in long range.
I believe the analogy could be something like how bolt action sniper rifles (RS) are beginning to lose their edge to semi-automatic rifles (M110, M82 etc), where they are more or less on par accuracy-wise with their bolt action cousins.
I would love to see a ~550 fps side by side done between a ptw and fully upp'd vsr, and round for round, I'd expect the vsr to win by a decent amount. hits/second would be a different issue entirely though (pretty sure ptw would dominate)
As to barrel length, I do agree that finish/consistency is a major factor, but the barrel needs to be "long enough" so that the bb can stabilize, and after that, a longer barrel won't serve much of a purpose, except maybe increase fps by a little bit, assuming the cylinder has enough volume.
I'd also like to add compression to the accuracy-determining factors.