Intriguing, I have found exactly the opposite...B.D 0.5 ml I have found to be flimsy, sticky and the actual needle feels much worse upon piercing the skin. On a new point, never used before, it feels like one of the 1ml syringes after several uses, feels as if the needle has been blunted already. Also for some reason I have found it much harder to register with the 0.5ml syringes...sometimes I have been in the vein but blood has not flowed back into the barrel. If it has flowed back into the barrel it has been at an incredibly slow rate. In 10+ years of injecting I have barely ever missed a shot or had these problems until picking up this box of 0.5's (as they did not have any 1ml's in stock).
These are the full size needle (which is what I am used to, not the half inch ones) and injecting methamphetamine.