I feel like any test comparing bolts needs to have more shots per bolt, like 50-100 each. Especially with lower-quality paint. 1-2 bad balls make way too much of an impact with that small a sample size
Even with good paint we've found that the result is still the same. Part of me is tempted to buy another ff bolt just to see if there's a difference in machine quality from part to part being that other people are either having the same result or are actually seeing the benefit of the bolt. Everyone is welcome to take the two tests I did with a grain of salt but my personal experience with the bolt has been a dud. I even allowed 3 extra shots with the freeflow bolt on the second test over the stock and still landed up short of the oem bolts numbers. There are more factors at play than shot count (age of marker, o-ring fit, tank reg output, paint quality, etc.) and I did my best to cut down on what I could control and didn't see those crazy benefits that are advertised. Thats the nature of the beast with these tests I guess, everyone is going to see different results and these are just mine.
I put about a rotor worth through when playing with thr SFR. I'll put another couple pods through with both bolts sometime this week and once the new paint gets here we'll test them both again. I didn't take break-in as a factor so we'll see if there's any discernable difference
At this point I'm saying no. Getting some Empire Evil ordered this week to do new test with better paint with a tighter bored barrel to see if there really is a difference
I feel like any test comparing bolts needs to have more shots per bolt, like 50-100 each. Especially with lower-quality paint. 1-2 bad balls make way too much of an impact with that small a sample size
Even with good paint we've found that the result is still the same. Part of me is tempted to buy another ff bolt just to see if there's a difference in machine quality from part to part being that other people are either having the same result or are actually seeing the benefit of the bolt. Everyone is welcome to take the two tests I did with a grain of salt but my personal experience with the bolt has been a dud. I even allowed 3 extra shots with the freeflow bolt on the second test over the stock and still landed up short of the oem bolts numbers. There are more factors at play than shot count (age of marker, o-ring fit, tank reg output, paint quality, etc.) and I did my best to cut down on what I could control and didn't see those crazy benefits that are advertised. Thats the nature of the beast with these tests I guess, everyone is going to see different results and these are just mine.
after installing the freeflow bolt, i was able to turn down my velocity significantly
How much?
Maybe test after a couple hundered shots see if it needs wore in a bit
I put about a rotor worth through when playing with thr SFR. I'll put another couple pods through with both bolts sometime this week and once the new paint gets here we'll test them both again. I didn't take break-in as a factor so we'll see if there's any discernable difference
Freeflow bolt worth it over the oem?
At this point I'm saying no. Getting some Empire Evil ordered this week to do new test with better paint with a tighter bored barrel to see if there really is a difference