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Gryphon · December 8th, 2006, 09:55

Thanks for yet another typical useless canned response, Grey.

Now for a serious answer that you may find helpful, like others have said already it depends on the type of glass you're shooting at and the velocity of the BB when it hits it. If you have a hot gun shooting 500 fps but your glass target is 100 meters distant, you're not likely bound to break it.

If the concern is damage to modern houses and vehicles, the risk is extremely low. Laminated, tempered glass is very strong. If you've ever tried breaking a car window (especially a windshield) you'll know that it's unusually tough stuff. If it can survive a sharp piece of stone flying at 100+ km/h, a 0.20g plastic BB would glance off it as if it were an insect. However like also mentioned previously, mirrors aren't very strong and will likely suffer damage.

This is assuming you are not targeting the glass pane at 10 feet on full auto with a Systema M160 in your gun. Enough constant, applied force on an area will eventually weaken it and it will chip or crack. Older glass panes are also thinner and far more brittle. As an example, my team has a large farm on which we sometimes play and there's an abandoned barn in one spot. It used to have glass windows along the side until we did the St. Valentine's Day Massacre thing on 'em. Most of our guns were upgraded by that point and we noticed that our teammate with the TM M3 Shorty was having much difficulty breaking anything, despite the age and fragility of the old glass. Full auto tore them right out though. Our distance was about 10 meters.

December 8th, 2006, 09:55	#18
Gryphon Trader rating Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: MB	Thanks for yet another typical useless canned response, Grey. Now for a serious answer that you may find helpful, like others have said already it depends on the type of glass you're shooting at and the velocity of the BB when it hits it. If you have a hot gun shooting 500 fps but your glass target is 100 meters distant, you're not likely bound to break it. If the concern is damage to modern houses and vehicles, the risk is extremely low. Laminated, tempered glass is very strong. If you've ever tried breaking a car window (especially a windshield) you'll know that it's unusually tough stuff. If it can survive a sharp piece of stone flying at 100+ km/h, a 0.20g plastic BB would glance off it as if it were an insect. However like also mentioned previously, mirrors aren't very strong and will likely suffer damage. This is assuming you are not targeting the glass pane at 10 feet on full auto with a Systema M160 in your gun. Enough constant, applied force on an area will eventually weaken it and it will chip or crack. Older glass panes are also thinner and far more brittle. As an example, my team has a large farm on which we sometimes play and there's an abandoned barn in one spot. It used to have glass windows along the side until we did the St. Valentine's Day Massacre thing on 'em. Most of our guns were upgraded by that point and we noticed that our teammate with the TM M3 Shorty was having much difficulty breaking anything, despite the age and fragility of the old glass. Full auto tore them right out though. Our distance was about 10 meters.