Shooting Blanks
 

Out of general curiosity, can it be harmful to shoot too many blank shots with an aeg :?

beats the sh*t out of your gearbox shell. Perhaps not an issue with V3+, but definitely not good for V2. I can measure a significant increase in impact delivered to the mechbox when dryfiring without pellets.

Other than that, you probably incur the same kind of wear to everything else in your AEG mechbox.

Im assuming that it would take quite a bit of blank shots to have a noticeable effect on the gearbox/mech, right? I just got a new aeg and have been having a bit too much fun perhaps... :smack:

Well if you can afford an AEG, im sure you could afford a bag of BB's. 20$ get's you 2500 rounds. Get yourself a cardboard box, and some padding to build a BB trap and have fun, it's less stress on your internals and provides hours of shooting goodness.

I cant count the number of times I've put a stack of boxes out on the curb on recylcing day that where filled with holes and had BB's all through out them. I just flatten a few boxes and stick them all in a larger box, the BB's stop somewhere inbetween the boxes and just fall into the larger box they are all sitting in.

ya, ive been shooting bbs too, but also been running round the basement shooting blanks for fun with the initial excitement of a new aeg, haha. oops!

You can fire blankly as long as something is providing resistance at the end of the barrel. Like if you have the red cover on it (that comes with the gun). or a BFA (blank firing attatchment, like those that come withe G&G rifles). it should be fine. Or at least thats to my knowledge.

Minus.

I'm fairly certain that the end cap does not provide adequate restriction to reduce mechbox impact. What model AEG are you firing? The V2 builds (MP5, Crapalite, G3) are prone to mechbox fatigue. I don't know if it's a serious issue with the stock spring though as I don't know of any stock AEGs breaking a gearbox, but I hear about only a small fraction of failures in the world.

Your first AEG can be a lot of fun. I blasted off a lot of dryfire shots when I got my first gun.

This threads about dryfiring? I thought from your title that you were looking for advise on puberty. :-D

Wait for the ball bearings to drop

hahaha . Firing blanks... :lol:

If you 'dry-fire', something will eventually break. So it's up to you. It can happen in months, or in hours.
The repairs can be extremely expensive. It's your money.

:confused: So, if I use lowcaps, I multiply by like 50 time the chance of breaking my AEG?... That's really bad, but on another side, it would force me to count my fired BBs..

No... dry-firing means shooting the gun with no ammo at all. Try Google.

I think hes referring to the times when the lowcap runs out and you fire a few dry shots before you realize your out and reload. As where this would happen far less often with a hicap.