target shooting

[superfreeq]

is there any reason not to reuse bbs if they were just used on a target indoors?

[Riddick]

not necessarily however it's always good practice not to.

[Pope_Alex_Kaeda_I]

is there any reason not to reuse bbs if they were just used on a target indoors?

It depends on how much you care for your gun.

Once it hits something, theres the chance that its changed shape - Especially Indoor, because the ranges are shorter, so the round still posesses a great deal of kinetic energy - when it hits something, even if its just a cardboard box - that energy has to go somewhere. Often its transmitted into the box, and punches a hole in the box. Other times it hits another bb thats already embedded in the box - causing a divot in the bb.

Ammo is cheap - guns are expensive. I dont know about you, but I would rather throw away the bb's, and buy new ones, than buy new parts for my gun.

[Matt]

Just keep the BBs you shoot indoors to use in crappy springers or BB grenades/claymores or whatever. I always like to have a "junk jug" of crap BBs that I've picked up for that reason. Just make sure you label it so you know they're not good BBs

[No-Name]

It also depends on what you shot them at. If you shoot them at some kind of cloth that has slack in it, then the bb should still be fine, otherwise just don't reuse them. If you drop them on the ground (outside) then also I would recomend cleaning it off before you put it in your gun.

[Speed13]

is there any reason not to reuse bbs if they were just used on a target indoors?

Ammo is cheap - guns are expensive. I dont know about you, but I would rather throw away the bb's, and buy new ones, than buy new parts for my gun.

I think that pretty much sums it up, ammo is cheap enough not to worry about and most guns are too expensive to bother putting re-used BB's through. I would say the only exception to this is with cheap springers, GBB's and AEG's are far too expensive to do this with, but springers are not.

[Knuckles]

It also depends on what you shot them at. If you shoot them at some kind of cloth that has slack in it, then the bb should still be fine, otherwise just don't reuse them. If you drop them on the ground (outside) then also I would recomend cleaning it off before you put it in your gun.

The airsoft sage has spoken. <cowtows>

[Nightshade]

It also depends on what you shot them at. If you shoot them at some kind of cloth that has slack in it, then the bb should still be fine, otherwise just don't reuse them. If you drop them on the ground (outside) then also I would recomend cleaning it off before you put it in your gun.

This has to be some of the worst advice I've ever heard.

Unless it's going back into a $20 eBay springer, DO NOT REUSE BBs. Even if they fall onto the floor of my apartment from my hand, I do not reuse them.

Like Alex said: "Ammo is cheap, guns are expensive".