PMI Premiums Bad Batch run through?

[joeyjoe367]

Hey all.

A while back a bunch of guys were havin' problems with PMI Premium paintballs being waaaay too brittle and breakin' in Mags.

I did a bounch test and they didn't do well at all either.

Soooo, the point of this post is to ask any of you guys if you've tried PMI's recently, and seen if the bad batchs have run through or not.

If you did bounce test, post results.

I'd like to go back to my fav. brand of paint, so Thanks for all informative posts in advance.

Thx!

[Cliffio]

how long ago you talkin?
what color?
shell/fill?

cause i had some problems with red/yellow shell and yellow fill a while back

[kilaueakid]

i just had 2 cases within the last week and unfortunately it is still a very brittle schell. I was doing the bounce test and the stuff was breaking on the 1st or 2nd drop. Color was aqua and had the advantage(dry) shell. It seems as though after a couple of days the shell just goes from bad to worse. Maybe it is too dry where I was storing it.
I was having really good luck with Diablo Blaze, than the field/store stopped carrying it.
kila

[joeyjoe367]

Cliffy, I Didn't really specify a color or fill. It seems as if all PMI premiums got real brittle.

Anyway, people keep posting results. I'd like to know when I can go back to my favorite paint

[joeyjoe367]

Oh yeah, and the most recent results would be great.

[Oregon_pb_]

Same

I had a bad bunch sent to me 2 weeks ago. It was completly dimpled.


However if i have to choose between PMI Prem and Diablo Blaze the Prem will win everytime.

[Oregon_pb_]

Colors

Forgot to give the colors.

Purp/Yel: I am now convinced this color pretty much sucks and i won't order it again.

Red/Black: Seems to be ok just the white fill is tough to see on marked players. Had NP's with it though being bad.

Blue/Black: Bad 3 Cases, however this is the preferred color around here so i'll stick with it for now.

[hitech]

PMI Advantage

I am using PMU advantage in Tom's humidity test. The bounce number were poor, but none of us had any breakage problems at the field (including a mini mag).

Bounce test numbers:

2, 4, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 2, 6

It is Red/Yellow with yellow fill.

[CFD323]

I thought this Advantage stuff was supposed to be tougher...

I thought this Advantage stuff was supposed to be a tougher shell so it wouldn't break in the guns as much. I used it last week (purple/white shell with white fill) and I broke a ton of paint in my Emag. It shot pretty well early on in the day but after about 2.5-3 hrs of playing the crap was breaking everytime I ripped off a string of like 10 or more. It's hard to play speedball when you're using the squeegee more than you're shooting. The temp was around 45-50 degrees so that shouldn't have made a difference. I think I'll go back to using Marb's. Also, my buddies shoot an automag and a spyder and they had the same problems. Is this poor quality due to it being a PMI product or what ?

[krafty]

I had some really sucky orange/white white-fill PMI stuff over the past month or so. 2 bounce average on Tom's bounce test. As a matter of fact, some of that paint came from CC during the super tour. I was shredding balls and couldn't figure out why... Then I did the bounce test after I got home with about 30 balls I had left over and they were 2-3 bounce.

[Restola]

i used pmi prems all summer. probably about 10 cases. never had a single problem whatsoever. i havent shot it in about a month though.

[X-Plosive]

Actually that is all I shot on sunday. 2 cases of it, it shot flawlessly without a single break or chop. It always broke on people with one exception the second game. I was using blue/black shell, orange/blue shell, and red/yellow shell. It was perfect. I was using the superbolt and plastic nubbins on the retromag. It shot great on the mini as well. The mini had plastic nubbins and the extended nose SS bolt. It fits both the LAPCO bigshot and my DYE boomstick very well.

[Gecko]

i have had nothing but trouble with the advantage shell. I tried some when it first came out and my excalibur was chopping/ breaking the stuff. At that point the ram pressure on my excal was about 60 psi and would still break it on ocassion. This past weekend a friend shooting a revenge v2 was chopping and getting tons of barrel breaks even using a freak with a huge insert. He switched to a different brand and the problem disapeared. I have had the best luck with my emag using blaze.
Gecko

[Load SM5]

The first, last and only time I used advantage it blew horribly. Three of us were playing with it and all had problems. I walked out of the first rec game because I broke 8 out of the 10 balls I shot. we all took the paint back and were actually refunded. The we all got all-stars and had a great rest of the day. After that day, you could'nt pay me to play with advantage again.

[Restola]

all-stars are the advantage shell too if im not mistaken