this happen to anyone?

[laysomepaint]

yesterday, i was goofing off with my flied speed on tr22 to prove to two of my friends that my zcode halo did in fact feed 25 bps. The third person to shoot it was shooting the last of the hopper, and it chopped. It surprised the crap out of me, thats the first chop in 3-4 cases since i got it back.

im going to goof around and try to recreate the situation. I have a hunch it was just a bad ball especially considering i havent put any real high quality paint through it yet, just cheap practice paint. Though it probably wasnt anything lopsided because it wouldn't have gotten through the halo, it probably would have jammed. Maybe it was something real real brittle.

anyway, has anyone else experienced a chop in a practically empty hopper at a high ROF?

[crashdan]

my fly has broken 1 ball.... and ive hit 28 bps in one small burst, my gun broke a ball yesterday shooting small burst at 10 bps... probably the paint as in my case as well

[ckyxx87xx]

its either bad paint or bad barrel to paint match...

[Vantage_TeS]

If it actually chopped and it was the last of the loader what most likely happened was that the last couple balls are not force fed and they bounced. This will register a pass letting the gun shoot, but the ball bounces back up and chops. Its fairly uncommmon but it does happen. A gated feed would help fix this, I am guessing you dont have one.

[Worr Angel]

If it actually chopped and it was the last of the loader what most likely happened was that the last couple balls are not force fed and they bounced. This will register a pass letting the gun shoot, but the ball bounces back up and chops. Its fairly uncommmon but it does happen. A gated feed would help fix this, I am guessing you dont have one.

But on a gated feed it won't work on the last ball. I am pretty sure that is to hold two or three balls in the stack.

This isn't a problem with the gun though. All guns can have this problem. Especially with old paint that becomes bouncy.

[laysomepaint]

i have a check it clamping rise- no gate of course.
the bounce thing makes sense to me. I could see how the gate would help, in some cases at least, but what if the paint doesnt bounce high enough to hit the gate... The paint is somewhat old im pretty sure. Im not sure how long its been sitting around my sponsor's house, but with nitro ball, you can never tell anyway.

It wasnt bad paint to barrel match because I was using .693 and this paint is normally smaller or close to a perfect fit for it, and it was a definate chop anyway, not a barrel break. Paint was all over the breach.

havent had a chance to recreate yet, I dont have access to any air. I still have 3/4 of the same case that the chop was from though.