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Originally Posted by Ranger11
A good r-hop is what you will want, however you will also want a good barrel to go with it. Something like a PDI 6.04 or a prometheus 6.05. Hop unit alone won't make much of a difference, the bucking and barrel are what you will want to change out first.
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There's a lot of misconceptions on what rhop is and isn't, and a lot of people who throw money at rhop and think it will trump everything.
NO.
rhop effect can't contribute to overall range. There is only so much energy put into the projectile by the spring. Hopup just makes use of the energy
You can only make the system more efficient. Less air loss in the compression, consistency in compression, quality and application of spin by the hopup and a stable, consistent barrel bore.
Straightness of flight depends on the hop applied, was the patch pushing down on the top of the bb evenly with an equal contact patch, not cocked at an angle that gives fliers. The weight of the BB and quality of the bb also matter. heavier rounds of quality manufacture will have weight evenly distributed in the bb, the heavier weight uses momentum so is less effected by cross winds or environment.
Rhop is the LAST thing to do in a chain of upgrades, not the first. If you have shit compression, you're going to spray rounds short and longer. Assuming the hop rubber is pushing straight down and not cocked to the side, shitty BBs will spray left and right.
Rhop doesn't make shots go farther, it applies hop so there's less hump overall in the shot vs a regular mounded bucking, it reduces grouping size if you've gone through with compression upgrades vs a regular bucking with the same compression upgrades.