Anyone play paintball?

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No such thing as a 2 inch bore on a paintball gun that i have seen....all standard paintball markers recognized by paintball associations have a .68 caliber bore...

there are some non-conventional paintball guns with .40 and .50 caliber bores.

and by the way...250-300 fps on a .68 caliber projectile is plenty fast....fast enough to make you bleed.
 
Gun Fucious...I re-read your post, and realized you were talking about a LAWS system...disregard the last sentence of my last post.:D
 
Whoa!:what:
2"?!

I don't wanna be on the recieving end of that thing, nuh-uh!:uhoh: what does LAWS stand for?

BTW My buddy has a .40 caliber Palco XJ40 splatmatic pistol that runs on a 12 gram. I shoot the .40's out of my blowgun too but they're hard to break.
 
Yeah I Play -not as much as I would like. It is truley a awsome sport and like some say it is NOT real combat, but the adrenalin you get from being the hunter and the hunted is real. I was at the tippmann factory un Fort Wayne and saw the Hell Hound it was truely sometihng to look at (talk about toys for boys or some one with way too much time on their hands).:what:
 
That is cool beyond comprehension! I mean that is SO AWESOME:D :D :D :D :D
 
The most important thing that paintball has taught me is follow up shots. It's happened more than once, normally during cold weather, that the first strike hits, but the ball doesn't break. Even though you might see the ball hit the opponent, that still doesn't mean they are down and out.
 
I played several times back around '86-'88 when it was still called The Survival Game and the standard gun was the original Nel Spot 007 pump gun. With the slow rate of fire and limited ammo capacity (clear cigar type tubes) the tactics stressed hiding and stealth more than overwhelming firepower. Reloading was slow and changing CO2 bottles (12 gr) was a real PITA.

I played again a couple years ago and couldn't believe how much it had changed. Guys were taking a case of paintballs out on the field AT A TIME and would burn through them and then go back and get more. The full auto guys and spray and pray tactics really changed the game,and IMHO, not for the better.

The last time I played I used a borrowed Angel and then a Spider when the Angel went down. They were both nice markers, but with the big hopper on top and the huge gas tank and fittings they didn't feel much like "real guns."

The all time coolest paintball gun I ever used was a Tippman SMG 60. The gas tank was set up as the shouler stock and it used stripper clips feeding from a side mounted magazine. The thing handled like a Sten gun and was just way cool. It only held 20 or 30 rounds, so you had to use realistic tactics, like short aimed bursts to use it succesfully.

The field I played at had two of the SMG's and they'd give one to each side, which made taking out the other side's SMG one of the major strategy points. It was kind of like how the Germans would use their rifleman to protect and support their machingunners in WWII.

Unfortunately, the SMG 60 proved to be a dead end design when the top mounted hopper guns came out. One of these days I'd like to get a SMG 60, but I don't know if anyone makes balls for it anymore or if it's field legal.
 
I really prefer when people call paintball markers by their proper name, instead of calling them guns:uhoh: it took me a bit of training to get down with the idea of painball and people calling them 'guns' doesn't help.
 
Trebor-
Unfortunately, the SMG 60 proved to be a dead end design when the top mounted hopper guns came out. One of these days I'd like to get a SMG 60, but I don't know if anyone makes balls for it anymore or if it's field legal.
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The SMG60 was definitely one of the coolest markers ever. I don't think anyone makes .62 cal paint, but I thought that Tippmann also made a .68 cal semi-auto only version of the SMG.
 
yeah i've played about 5 times over a couple years but haven't played at all in the past 2, real fun though

i always play in the woods so it explains the pic of my weird guille gun
 
Have been playing since '88. My first marker was a Bud Orr Commando and we used Nelspot 007's for backup. Today I'm a diehard Air Power Vector fan!
Check out APOG at www.airsoldier.com/~apog

Justin
 

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I am VERY interested in how these hommade suppressors are made.
 
I played paintball once, about 25 years ago. Back then it was called, "The Survival Game". I played because a friend of mine was the cousin of the inventer, or so he said. We played in the woods in the shadow of Killington Mountain, VT. I still have a t-shirt that says, "I survived the Survival Game".

We played with single shot, bolt action guns and wore workshop goggles for eye protection. Some of us had camo BDUs. It was a wild game that keyed on the strategy of single shots and how not to waste them. Ambush and stealth was key.

Very different from todays game!
 
Daniel, that is an excellent price for that setup...if anyone is interested in getting started in paintball, this might be a good way to do it.

Tippman 98 is an excellent marker.
 
Paintball silencers are sort of silly...There are many paintball guns on the market that are more than 1/2 as quiet as some of the others on the market...and for those that are loud...there are several (non silencer) alternatives that will quiet the gun more than any suppressed firearm.

Ways to quiet a paintball gun.

1. Ported barrel...a barrel with ports along some or most of its length will allow the gas buildup to dissapate before the paintball leaved the end of the barrel...Barrels without porting produce a loud POP when the paintball leaves the barrel.

2. Venturi bolt...A venturi style bolt will split the gas column into several equal columns, these column eventually merge back into a single laminar flow...However, the initial disturbance equalizes all pressures along the insides of the barrel, equalling less turbulence, and also providing a quiter shot, along with increased accuracy, and gentleness to brittle paint.

3. Low pressure system...Converting a paintball gun to low pressure is tricky. High pressure systems use a small volume of gas in a short burst to propel the paintball up to speed...This is the most gas efficient method, however it is also the hardest on the paintball, and also the loudest. A low pressure system will deliver a larger volume of gas, in a longer burst, accelerating the paintball up to speed more slowly, reducing turbulence in front of the ball, increasing accuracy, and making the marker significantly more quiet.

Now there are several manufacturers that pruduce paintball guns with all of these features standard...And they are VERY quiet...When firing paint, all you can hear is the cycling of the bolt. My shocker, that was pictured in the start of this thread, is one of the quietest paintball guns on the market...

Players who normally flinch back into cover with the sound of a shot get nailed by me all day long....They never hear the shot.

But for those of you that want a suppressed paintball gun, purchase a ported barrel such as this:
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And fasten a larger tube around the ports, sealed at both ends, and stuffed with polyfill. Will work well to quiet LOUD guns, and trust me, the BATF wont knock down your door in the middle of the night. This is not a rule that is enforced.
 
From gun-fucies link:
"So can you believe it? I need to pay a $200 making tax, just to legally send them a 6" piece of PVC pipe, and a wad of toilet paper, to even find out if they are legal to posess. Wow. I am a bit concerned that Chief Owen did not address my rather direct question of wether or not it is legal to suppress a paintgun, so long as the paintgun suppressor is not considered a suppressor for real firearms. This disturbs me in that here we have an executive branch of our government which is making it's own interpretations of the law, and acting upon them, but not letting the public know what those interpretations are. IMHO, governing our country with "secret laws" is a very dangerous concept, and antithetical to what the framers of the constitution had in mind when they penned its first ten amendments. "


AWWW, look, the poor paintballer is getting his first taste of the sh&% we have put up with all the time.
:D :( :mad: :fire: :banghead:
 
a bit on "silencers"....

Nice suggestion, on putting a tube around the porting of a barrel. I had the same idea... and completely forgot to have something out past the muzzle...

They're kinda pointless on a semi, but DO work wonders on pump guns (and yes, it IS a gun. Maybe not a firearm, but a gun nonetheless).

For those of you who like scenario ball, look into Tippmann's A-5: set up EXACTLY like the H&K MP5K, with the airline running in where the mag would be. You can remove the bottomline and screw the tank directly into the gun. And that cyclone feed system is awesome!
 
Why silence a paintball gun? If a muzzle brake would make it loder I'd add one! I've got an old Spider tricker out as far as I can get it.

Gun Fucious: Scenario game in Va? Tell me more. The only scenarios I've ever seen where at Anne Arundel Paintball Park, an it's been years sinec I played there. Send me a PM If your looking for players
 
I prefer Airsoft to paintball...I have a full-auto electric G36C on order at the moment. *drool*
 
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