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Fitting the Right Paintball with the Right Barrel
There are a lot of factors that go towards your performance in a patinball game. One factor can be your marker. Some of the things that can affect the performance of a marker are its weight, rate of fire in balls per second, and accuracy. Some excellent markers on the market include the Drallionn Autococker from Dragun, the Factory Team Shocker from Evil Paintball, and the Traitor Shocker from Hybrid Technologies. The next product that can have the biggest effect on your performance in a game is your grade of paintballs. Tough they look the same and act the same, not all paintballs are created equal. Some differences among paintballs may be the brittleness of the shell, and the thickness of the paint fill. Generally the thicker the paint fill, the higher grade of paintball you have. One of the most common methods of cheating in the game is the wipe. The wipe is the act of getting hit with a paintball, and wiping off the mark before a referee can see that you got hit. High grade paintballs usually have a thick fill, and are hard for a player to quickly wipe off in an attempt to cheat. Some good quality, tough to wipe paintballs includes Dynasty Dragon Paintballs from Dynasty Paintball, Medieval Paintballs from Evil Paintball, and Premium Paintballs from Fuego.
Fitting the Right Paintball with the Right Barrel.
While all of the above factors are important, to succeed in tournament games like the Millennium Intercontinental Cup, players must have a good fit between their paintballs, and their gun barrel. The gold standard for the barrel bore size and the paintball is .68 caliber. That means that the diameter of the paintball, and the diameter of the interior of the gun barrel will both be .68 inches, or 68 hundredths of an inch. At first glance, buying paint and marker barrels would seem easy, but in actuality their sizes are rarely exactly .68000 caliber. Some paintballs may actually be .685 or .678 caliber, and some barrel interiors may actually be .687 or .679 caliber. While these differences may seem trivial, they could actually effect the performance in a game.
Fitting the right paintball with the right barrel means finding projectiles and barrels that matchup perfectly. IF the paintball is a little bigger than the barrel interior, it may curve out of the barrel, or break inside the gun. Paintball breaks inside the marker may cause the machine to jam, or at the very least shoot less accurately. Paintballs that are smaller than the barrel interior may not fire true away from the muzzle of the barrel.
Here is a player tested, gold standard method for making sure that your paintball fits your barrel. Separate the barrel from your marker and hold it freely in one hand. Place the ball in one end of the marker. Next try to blow the ball out the other side of the marker. If it shoots out easily, then you have a good fit. If you have to really blow hard to shoot the ball out, then the paintball is too big. If the paintball falls out of the marker on its own, then the paintball is too big. One industry leading barrel on the market is Edge Barrel from J & J Performance.
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