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A Beginner's Guide To Paintball Guns

By: Steve Timmeson

Here you will find detailed information on how paintball guns operate and a brief review of some of the top models available.

Paintball is the fastest growing sport in the USA and Canada. Stats show that over 10 million people per year play paintball, just in the US. The sport is absolutely safe, thanks to the modern equipment which players use. The most important pieces of the equipment are the paintball gun, also known as a paintball marker, and the goggles.

Paintballs operate on the principle of expanding gas. It can be compressed carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen (N2) or ordinary air, is stored in small cartridges or larger tanks that can be attached to the gun. Paintballs are propelled at 91 meters per second, which is the speed limit applied for safety measures and all paintball marker manufacturers comply with it. When a paintball hits something, it breaks releasing paint and cause very slight pain, more like a sting.

The construction of a marker consists of body, hopper, tank and a barrel. To allow a player to carry around the marker freely when funning, they body is fabricated from light materials such as aluminum or carbon fiber. The small tank holding the paintballs is called hopper.

Hoppers are divided in the following types - gravity feed, stick feed, agitating and force feed. Gravity feed is the most basic type of hopper with a limited shooting rate of to only 8 balls per second. Stick feed hoppers can contain 20 paintballs at max. Agitating hoppers are amongst the best ones, no jamming can occur, because they use propellers to agitate the paintballs. Force-feed models use a spring or a belt-fed system to proper the paintballs.

The tank is the container which holds the paintballs to be fired. The barrel directs the shot. Barrels come in different styles and lengths.

Mechanical as well as electronic paintball guns are produced. The electronic ones are with a microchip which increases your trigger speed by controlling the release of paintballs into the barrel. of course, the basic idea is the same, as they also rely on expanding gas such as CO2 or Compressed Air. The more expensive models have a display showing the number of balls left, shooting rate and a timer.

Currently you can buy stock glass, pump action, semi automatic, electropneumatic or fully automatic paintball markers. With the semi automatics, you have to pull the trigger every time you want to produce a shot. Fully automatics will keep on firing until you release the trigger. The stock glass paintball markers are pump action pistols holding between 10-15 paintballs at a time, which need to be tilted in order to feed in the next paintball.

When it comes to the certain brands and models, RAP4 is probably the best paintball marker ever made. It's a replica of the M4 rifle used by US SWAT teams and military. Another famous model is the Tippmann M98, which is probably the most dependable and rugged marker of them all, due to it's simple construction.

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98 Custom Paintball is probably the most dependable and rugged paintball gun available on the market today. Author - Steve Timmeson.
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