Inside a Paintball Gun

This article explains how paintball guns actually work and reviews some of the best models on the market.

Paintball has gained huge amounts of popularity in recent years. As a matter of fact, it is the fastest growing sport in the country, presenting participants with a particularly nice to enjoy the weekend and have some good time with family and friends. The modern day equipment has made paintball one of the safest sports there is. The paintball gun is the second most vital part of the equipment next to the goggles, which protect a player's eyes and ears.

Paintballs operate on the principle of expanding gas. It can be compressed carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen (N2) or ordinary air, is stored in small cartridges or larger tanks that can be attached to the gun. Paintballs are propelled at 91 meters per second, which is the speed limit applied for safety measures and all paintball marker manufacturers comply with it. When a paintball hits something, it breaks releasing paint and cause very slight pain, more like a sting.

The construction of a marker consists of body, hopper, tank and a barrel. To allow a player to carry around the marker freely when funning, they body is fabricated from light materials such as aluminum or carbon fiber. The small tank holding the paintballs is called hopper.

Hoppers can be gravity feed, stick feed, agitating, and force feed. Gravity feed is the most basic type of hopper, limited to only 8 balls/s. Stick feeds can hold 20 paintballs. Perhaps the best type is the agitating hoppers, since they don't jam and use propellers to agitate the paintballs. Force feed type of hoppers push out the balls using a spring, belt-fed system or a propeller.

The tank of a paintball marker contains the gas which propels the balls. The barrel of the gun directs the shot. Different lengths and styles are available. Paintball guns can be mechanical or electronic.

Electronic guns have a special chip integrated in them designed to increase your trigger speed. Electronic markers also require CO2 or Compressed Air to propel the paintball. Some of the more advanced models have a display showing how many paintballs are left in the hopper, shooting rate per second and a game timer.

Currently you can buy stock glass, pump action, semi automatic, electropneumatic or fully automatic paintball markers. With the semi automatics, you have to pull the trigger every time you want to produce a shot. Fully automatics will keep on firing until you release the trigger. The stock glass paintball markers are pump action pistols holding between 10-15 paintballs at a time, which need to be tilted in order to feed in the next paintball.

Perhaps the best paintball marker ever made is the RAP4. It's the first real action paintball marker, a replica of the legendary M4 rifle used by SWAT Teams. The other high-profile model is Tippmann 98. The M98 is though and dependable, because it has a simple design combined with extra-tough finishes.

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