6mm based rifle / airsoft BB's question???

[huntinggamo]

my little brother got a new airsoft gun and it shoots 6mm pellets. it got me thinking, i wonder if using trailboss or something if it would be theoretically possible to load the .20 gram air-soft bb's into a .243 or similar 6mm case? i don't know why but i have this overwhelming urge to experiment. it could be used for close range pest control maby...

Totaly bad idea? i know but who has the balls to try it? i would but don't have a 6mm based rifle.

 

[MrOldLude]

Never tried anything like this, but I'd experiment with jamming a BB into the case-neck and firing it with just the primer.

 

[rcmodel]

Yep.
No powder necessary, or desirable.

Just use a primed case and push the air-soft pellet in the case neck.

I used to load .222 & 22-250 for pigeon control using just a primer & a .22 air-rifle pellet.

Works like a charm out to at least 50 yards!

rc

 

[huntinggamo]

Yep.
No powder necessary, or desirable.

Just use a primed case and push the air-soft pellet in the case neck.

I used to load .222 & 22-250 for pigeon control using just a primer & a .22 air-rifle pellet.

Works like a charm out to at least 50 yards!

rc

did you ever chrono one of these loads? i would be interested to see how fast they were moving... would it be a bad idea to but some powder behind it?

 

[Bovice]

burning powder behind a plastic pellet?

my guess is that it would start melting.

 

[MrOldLude]

burning powder behind a plastic pellet?

my guess is that it would start melting.

The issue I see of dumping a powder charge behind a plastic pellet would simply be the waste of powder. I don't imagine it'll seal terribly well, and unburnt powder would be spat out the end. If it did seal and allowed the powder to burn, yeah, it would probably scorch the plastic. Probably not melt it, but enough to cause it simply mar the plastic and make it go unstable.

 

[rcmodel]

did you ever chrono one of these loads? i would be interested to see how fast they were moving...

No. But as I recall, it was very similiar in power & trajectory to a good spring-piston air rifle.

SO, I would have to guess in the range of 700 - 900 FPS.

Trust me, you do not want powder behind an air-soft pellet!
Just a primer will do all that needs to be done.

rc

 

[redbullitt]

they make rifles that fire regular old lead pellets this way. I think this could probably work ok as well, provided the plastic pellet holds up ok.

 

[Navy_Guns]

I drilled an A-Zoom 12 gauge "snap cap" to fit airsoft BB's and counterbored the back end for 12 gauge primers. Even though the device is only 2 3/4" long, the pellets chronographed at 1,850 fps with 209M primers. They are NO JOKE! I also modified a .243 case to take 209 primers but haven't tried it yet.

 

[rattletrap1970]

Primers have a surprising amount of power. Those X-ring rubber .45 ACP bullets that you simply pressed flush into a .45 cartridge would fire very accurately and go through one side of a heavy cardboard box at 30 feet. I still have some of those. Kinda neat. The only problem is if you are going to burn up primers at the price they go for now, I'd rather be burning powder too. But for specialized applications, primer driven light projectiles are handy and safer than an air rifle in some cases as the projectile is very light and has a very limited range.

 

[MrOldLude]

PThe only problem is if you are going to burn up primers at the price they go for now, I'd rather be burning powder too.

$0.024 each isn't very much.

 

[Beaux Nehr]

Those X ring bullets are kinda pricey in my neck of the woods, though.