Snowdog
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It seems every damn time I visit Ebay, I end up buying something I don't need. Sometimes it's an Eskilstuna straight razor, or another 500 lead SWCs of some caliber I already have a couple thousand bullets for waiting to be loaded while collecting dust... there's always something. My last visit a week ago was no exception.
I've always wanted a paintball "marker", but never liked the idea compressed air tanks.
From my understanding, they typically last 1,000 shots before needing to be recharged. The CO2 models are also supposedly affected by the temperature; the colder it is, the slower the velocity. Pooey.
When I saw a paintball gun that used propane combustion (Whooo Hooo) to fling a paintball, I was intrigued. After reading the specs, I was hooked. With a dirt-cheap 16oz propane cannister easily found at department stores, one could fire up to 50,000 shots. I'd suspect this would drop to circa 35,000 shot at full power (310 FPS), though still an insane amount of paintballs.
The marker operates by pump-action, which clears the combustion chamber of any exhaust from the previous shot, draws in fresh air and injects some propane which is then ignited by the spark of an ignition coil powered by any readily available AAA cell battery. It's fairly slick in my book! Even makes as a neato noise maker when pumped and fired sans paintballs. With propane cannisters at roughly $2-$3 a pop, I don't feel guilty when doing this, especially since you can squeeze up to 50K shots from each one (this still boggles my mind).
I received it yesterday and made a hell of a mess in the basement. Who knew zapping objects with paintballs could be so much fun.
I'm not (yet) a paintballer, but I did want to chime in my appreciation for paintball innovation!
Here's the slick puppy, photo by "Famousguy" (whom I purchased from and can attest to being a safe merchant to deal with):
I've always wanted a paintball "marker", but never liked the idea compressed air tanks.
From my understanding, they typically last 1,000 shots before needing to be recharged. The CO2 models are also supposedly affected by the temperature; the colder it is, the slower the velocity. Pooey.
When I saw a paintball gun that used propane combustion (Whooo Hooo) to fling a paintball, I was intrigued. After reading the specs, I was hooked. With a dirt-cheap 16oz propane cannister easily found at department stores, one could fire up to 50,000 shots. I'd suspect this would drop to circa 35,000 shot at full power (310 FPS), though still an insane amount of paintballs.
The marker operates by pump-action, which clears the combustion chamber of any exhaust from the previous shot, draws in fresh air and injects some propane which is then ignited by the spark of an ignition coil powered by any readily available AAA cell battery. It's fairly slick in my book! Even makes as a neato noise maker when pumped and fired sans paintballs. With propane cannisters at roughly $2-$3 a pop, I don't feel guilty when doing this, especially since you can squeeze up to 50K shots from each one (this still boggles my mind).
I received it yesterday and made a hell of a mess in the basement. Who knew zapping objects with paintballs could be so much fun.
I'm not (yet) a paintballer, but I did want to chime in my appreciation for paintball innovation!
Here's the slick puppy, photo by "Famousguy" (whom I purchased from and can attest to being a safe merchant to deal with):
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Benevolent self cauterizing wounds.
ive been paintballing a few times and its great fun. i wish i was able to play more often.
