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Very curious - somehow it intuitively seems unlikely that you could deform the bb with something so soft as a hopup patch...
Noting that not all bb's are perfectly balanced though - could bring all kinds of mess into the equation, and *if* they weren't balanced around centre mass, their range would certainly suffer as the air resistance would go way up from the "wobble"
The thing is, though, I'd have to look it up, but I'm pretty sure bb will *always* adjust to spin around it's centre of mass to minimize wobble, all by itself. This is the same reason when you spin a hard-boiled egg on a table, lengthwise, it will actually stand up on end. Of course, a bb turning sideways in mid-air would do terrible things to its trajectory, but this is all a result of non-perfect bb's... not what hopup gave them their spin.
So I'm still not sure if we can say that better hopups actually extend range... but I'm still content to find the best one, cuz consistency = accuracy = more hits! I just installed an orga flat-hop, guess I'll see if I can tell the difference.
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