Paintball

[Poe]

Originally Posted by Mayvik

It's not really a question. Low caliber markers have been around for a long time, and have been a big fat failure for a long time, even when they were allowed to shoot "hot".

Ask RAP and Kingman Training how successful .43/.40/11mm has been at changing mindsets in recreational paintball.

As a recreational sport/hobby, there's nothing inherently wrong with .68 @ 300fps. Why not just shoot .22 caliber paint at 1000 fps and make everyone wear Class IV armor?

On a different yet somewhat related note... has anyone compared the old 50cal paint to the 'new' stuff? Did Italia actually improve it?

[big jim]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

I also highly doubt that a paint projectile is stable at those velocities (wicked curving) or would survive traveling down the barrel in one piece.

Lonewolf,
Years ago I was talking with Ray Gong's (Top Gun PB in Jersey) air smith. He had spent some time with Bud Orr working on the snipers and on a whim they decided to try to see how fast they could make a cocker shoot. He said that after around 450fps the balls shot bullet straight and were denting the bottom of a 55 gal drum they were shooting into at about 50 yards.

[custar]

Originally Posted by Aggressive SportShop

Rumor mill has it that CPX is switching to .50 cal paintballs. They'll have to sell .68 cal too but then they won't be able to mix them up, fairly that is.

The rumor mill is wrong on this one. CPX has over 100 rental Tippmanns and no plans on replacing them all right now.

custar

[brycelarson]

Originally Posted by custar

The rumor mill is wrong on this one. CPX has over 300 rental Tippmanns and no plans on replacing them all right now.

custar

fixed for ya!

[custar]

Originally Posted by brycelarson

fixed for ya!

I am corrected. I knew they had a lot but not the exact number.

custar