I've tried RAP4 airfin pellets

[Axar]

 

Airfins are available here:

http://rap4.com/paintball/os/rap4-airfin-10000-p-2948.html

 

They are used with "Real Action Markers" together with an airsoft kit, but obviously they could be used in a standard airsoft gun, if they would fit into the magazines... I just ordered a bag of airfins to make some tests.

 

What you see first when you hold one of them is that they are really ugly. Very cheap production. They are not perfectly smooth and round like standard BBs. They have marks and edges from production. Hopefully you can see it on the attached photo, it's hard to show it with my camera because it's so small.

 

Anyway, I just took my Star G36, which is equipped with a KM TN 6.04 mm tuning inner barrel and put a standard 0.2g BB into the muzzle and let it slide down until it stopped at the hop up. Then I test fired through the chrono and got the speed value which I'm not allowed to tell here. Then I did the same using the airfin BBs. I did it several times with consistent results, which are all slightly less than the comparison value. Since the airfin BBs only weight 0.19g, they should fly faster, but they don't. Well, that's just because of their design and because they are not as precisely as standard BBs.

 

Much more interesting should be how accurate the airfin BBs fly. You obviously cannot use a hop up with these airfin BBs. In fact they are designed to be used with the "Real Action Markers" which don't provide a hop up. But the manufacturer claims that they fly much more accurate because of their fins.

 

I first put a standard BB into the barrel again and shoot at a tree 50 feet away. Without hop up, the BB flow straight, but the trajectory was not flat. Anyway, I hit the tree. Now the same with the airfin. Wow, what's that? The BB turned to the left and flew into the neighbour's garden! I made several more tests with very interesting results, but never ever hit the tree. Sometimes the BB touched the ground after a few meters and sometimes the trajectory looked like a corkscrew. They fly everywhere, but not to the direction where they should. The only safe place is directly behind the gunner!

 

I'm looking forward to test the airfin BBS in my RAM 3R, but I don't expect them to work like they should.

 

Did anybody else test them?

[Hustie]

I saw these a while back ago, although I didn't really take any intrest in them for a variety of reasons such as being impractical for use in most AEG's and being much to light to use in sniper rifles and single shot guns like the digicon target hunter.

That being said your test results are intresting, I'm glad someone finally got these.

 

I'd say try em out in your RAM gun and see how it goes.

[shinjinMC]

is that pube?

[Catman]

yeah I'd be interested to see how these perform in a RAP4 gun. The whole RAP4 thing looks fairly good on the surface but you realise it's a bit pants when you start digging into it

[ardrummer292]

is that pube?

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Yes.

[HannibalSmith77]

Having owned a RAM from RAP4, I can tell you that my experience with those markers sucked. BIG TIME!

 

RAP likes to make big claims about how great their things are and the truth is they're not. I used to frequent their forums and their fanboys would go on and on about what great kills and accuracy, etc. they would get. Then a normal person would get on and do the same testing and come up with numbers that would make most cringe. Then they would discredit that person by telling them every excuse in the book about how they didn't know how or they messed it up.

 

There is a lot of ###### in airsoft, but IMO, RAP's are all ######. KT Tran is a nice guy, but his stories and junk are not to be believed IMO.

[The Gopher]

Thanks for looking into this...

 

Doesn't sound too convincing now.

[Marine47]

It seems like if the fins would be 6mm across and guide the dart out of the barrel straight that it might be a good idea, but imagine that thing going 400fps in a barrel with the tail wobbling everywhere. How can one expect it to come out of the barrel and magically straighten out and glide.

 

I bet with a similiar design with a few modifications something could come of these.

[happy.al]

Used with a twist barrel I think they could work. It's good to see someone testing these, hope it works out....

[tunabreath]

What's the comparison to the asahi blade bullets? I think everyone has heard stories about their legendary rarity and range/accuracy, and these seem to be the 'modern' equivalent.

[Axar]

It seems like if the fins would be 6mm across and guide the dart out of the barrel straight that it might be a good idea, but imagine that thing going 400fps in a barrel with the tail wobbling everywhere. How can one expect it to come out of the barrel and magically straighten out and glide.

 

I bet with a similiar design with a few modifications something could come of these.

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Exactly. And probably the pellet itself should have more weight.

But anyway, it would always fly ballistically, so it would never have a flat trajectory like a standard BB with a hop up.

[Edmiles]

I do recall reading about these sometime last year, they were pretty new at the time and were being described (at least by the makers) as the future of airsoft. Offering greater range and accuracy as well as realistic case ejection. I was not enthusiastic. It would mean replacing all the current airsoft guns to ones compatible with the RAP4 rounds.

 

Basically if they are rubbish, I would be a happy chappy. Nothing wrong with what we're using now From my point of view anyhow.

 

Edit: Ok that last bit wasn't meant to ryhme lol.