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Originally Posted by Feels
Excuse my ignorance but Heavier bbs = lower fps. Right?
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Yes. But increasing BB weight and reducing your fps doesn't put you under field limits.
When a field states "400fps on a .20" they're not setting a speed limit so that everyone has the same chance to dodge a BB. They're setting an energy limit, so people don't get hurt.
Whether they enforce that energy limit properly or not is on them. But player safety is everyone's responsibility.
E=1/2mv²
v is your fps
m is your BB weight
E is how much a BB hurts when it hits you
400fps on a .20 is 1.48j, and that smarts at close range
400fps on a .43 is 3.18j, and that's very easily gonna embed BBs in you at close range
As I said before, what your gun shoots on .20s doesn't necessarily have
anything to do with what you're shooting on heavier BBs. So you could pass chrono on .20s, but have a hot gun once you put heavier BBs in, and really hurt someone.
Give this a read:
http://airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=166583