Dry firing will give you worse gas performance than with BBs; without a BB in the barrel there's no resistance and more gas is released per shot.
Same idea as the KWC Mini Uzi having lousy gas consumption, until you replace the piston head (the HiCapa Piston Head hack), except in that case gas is escaping out the back.
The higher the gas pressure, the worse it'll perform.
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