Ball Breakage

[magman79]

LOOKING FOR HELP HAVE CLASSIC MAG THAT KEEPS ON BREAKING BALLS. SENT OUT TO LOCAL SHOP AND HE WAS UNABLE TO FIX. ANY HELP PLEASE THANKS DAVID:confused:

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

you're gonna have to be a little more specific. are you chopping or are you just breaking? it could be a number of things. short stroking, old powerfeed plug, small bore barrel with large bore paint. it depends on if it's just breaking in the barrel or in the breech.

[talls]

It could be any of these:
1)you could be shortstroking (Are you letting go of the trigger all the way?)
2)your nubbin in your barrel could be broken which will chop balls or not in the barrel far enough making you double feed.
3)Bad paint(what kind was it)
4)Or you are out shooting your hopper (if you shoot slow does it still chop?)
Just try checking these one by one and you should fix it.

[Army]

Usually, but not always, ball breakage falls under two reasons:
You are "chopping". This is caused normally, by short stroking the trigger. That means not fully pulling it and completely releasing it, this makes the sear fall short of catching the bolt before it goes forward again, cutting a ball that has not fully dropped into the chamber.

The other reason could be your barrel nubbin is protruding too far into the barrel. If you have a wire type of nubbin, simply bend the "P" end until in goes into the barrel only about the width of a paper match. Keep adjusting the depth until the breaking stops.

Lastly, make sure you are using fresh new paint. Old paint doesn't hold up in any gun.

[HoppysMag]

what kinda barrel u usin? where is it breakin?

[mountaindud]

I had problems with that here's all check these problems:

1) Small Bore Barrel? - Put a paintball in your barrel and blow it through if it is hard to do or you pass out thats your problem

2) Standard Feed? - Powerfeed chops less balls because they aren't all stacked on each other thus they don't bounce after every shot.

3) Gravity Powered Loader? - You should have at least a 12 Volt Revolution to keep a constant flow into your gun and if your hopper is near empty fill it back up

4) Crappy Paint? - Old, bloated, deformed, or broken paint will chop even in a low pressure gun, What do you think will happen in your MAG?

5)Sharp Wire Nubbin? - Check your nubbin I reccomend the plastic ones they're only 6 for 4 bucks the wire ones like this ________/\_ are especially known to chop.

Lastly) Short-Stroking? - It's important that you pull the trigger and let it go into the full starting position son the valve doesn't do a half-arsed shot.

That's all I've got; hope that helps