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.68 Caliber Paintball Rounds
"A friend of ours found this gun in an agricultural catalogue that was used by cattlemen to mark cows. It wasn't long afterwards that we bought two of these things and had ourselves a little duel. After it was over, we just knew we had stumbled upon something great."
- Hayes Noel, among the founding fathers of paintball, was interested in designing a game that would sharpen the senses, and enhance some of our survival instincts that had grown soft from life in the suburbs, and life in the big city.
Paintball was first played as an organized game in the woods and fields of New Hampshire. The original paint was oil based and hard to wash off, and the original paint gun was the Nelspot Marker. The first paintball guns were single shot pump markers. These first games were played in Henniker, New Hampshire on a large woodlot. In this early addition of the sport, the games were long and the fields were huge. Paintball has changed much from its early fields, game formats, and players involved into the sport that exists today.
While many aspects of the game has changed, perhaps the element of the game that has changed the most is its paintball gun technology. The pump style markers of old have given way to the .68 caliber paintball rounds of today.
Most paint guns are designed especially to fire .68 caliber rounds. .68 caliber paintball rounds are the most common paintballs in use in professional tournaments like The APL Tournament Series and the NPPL Super 7. Paintball .68 caliber rounds are the most popular, but actually come in several bore sizes. Paintballs come in caliber sizes 50, 62, 63, 68, and 78. 1 caliber is one-one hundredths of an inch. As I said before, .68 caliber paintballs are the most common. At most paintball stores, the rounds for sale will be .68 caliber paintball rounds. Most rounds will be within .681 to .689 thousandths of an inch. It is essential for the paintballs you buy to be just the right size when matched up to your marker barrel. If the rounds are too big or too small they may break in the barrel or be too loose in the barrel to fire out straight.
For your marker to shoot true, you want to use quality paintballs that are in good condition, and match them up with the barrels to your gun. While the box may advertise .68 caliber paintball rounds, the actual size many vary by as much 10 thousands of an inch. That means that the rounds may actually be between .679 and .689. To get a good match between ammo & marker, you want to compare the diameter of the paintball to the diameter of the inside of the barrel. Seasoned players and tournament pros often travel with an assortment of barrels in the event that the tournament or field operators require you to use their paintballs. Players that come prepared with several barrels can test out the available rounds against the barrels that they brought with them and select the one that provides the best fit.
There are several excellent providers of .68 caliber paintball rounds, including JT USA, Kick Ass Paintball Products, and PowerLyte.
Along with your marker and ammo include accessories such as a harness and remote.
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