F - Paintball Terms & Definitions

• Fanning (slang): Fanning is a term used to describe when a person was their middle or index finger or both, hold straight out to fire the trigger. The entire forearm moves back and forth rather than just the trigger finger. Generally, this is thought of as bad technique and discouraged by instructors teaching new players how to shoot effectively. The fanning technique causes the elbow of the shooting hand to stick out, away from their body, making them a larger target for the opposition to aim at. Some players use this technique, thinking that it will enable them to shoot faster.
  
  
  
  
• Feed: Feed is an abbreviation for feed neck. Feed as a mechanical action is the process of placing a paintball through the breach into the receiver. Electronic hoppers are usually faster than mechanical hoppers at transforming paintballs into the receiver. Hoppers are often rated on how fast they feed, in balls per second.
  
  
• Feed Nipple: - is also known as a feed port. The feed nipple is a short tube that is connected to the paintgun housing at an ample of 45 degrees. It provides the passage by which paintballs move from the paintball hopper, through the hopper adapter, which attaches to the feed nipple, and into the chamber of the paintball gun. Pump action paintguns usually have feed nipples that are one inch in diameter. Semi-automatic markers have feed nipples that are seven eighths inches in diameter.
  
  
• Feed Plug: is a plug at the bottom of a power feeder that angles paintballs into the feed port. Turning it stops balls from feeding into the marker.
  
  
• Feed Tube: - is a tubular storage container for paintballs usually work on a belt and used for reloading in the field.
• Feeder: is a slang word for hopper. Some fast loading feeders include the Viewloader Revolution, Ricochet AK, and Odyssey Paintball Products Halo TSA.
  
  
• Feeder Agitator: - is an electronic device located at the base of the feeder. The agitator insures that balls feed through the bottom of the feeder and do not jam. The Feeder Agitator is often used on smooth-firing markers like the Autococker, AutoMag, and Angel since these markers shake very little. A Feeder Agitator can also make obsolete a Power Feeder since it insures that a ball will always be available to the gun.
  
  
• Fill Station: - A fill station is an apparatus consisting of at least one valve used for exhausting pressurized fill hose, a fill hose and some type of fill adaptor for connecting a constant air tank to one end of the hose. A Fill Station is used for fueling smaller constant air tanks with liquid Co2 from larger siphon fill tank. The large siphon fill tank is usually 50 to 60 pounds in volume weight.
  
  
• Firearm: - An assembly of a barrel and action from which a projectile is propelled as a result of combustion, which makes it fundamentally different from a marker, from which a projectile is propelled as a result of the release of an inert gas.