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Do nitrogen tanks hurt more than co2 tanks for paintball?
Does the Nitrogen shoot the balls out harder/faster than regular Co2? – CanMan
CanMan you ask a question that many new to paintball ask after they have played a few games against players with high end equipment. The simple answer is No, not directly. However there is a much deeper answer that has lead to this common mis-belief.
CO2 is a liquid in the tank and must expand to a gas to fire the ball from your marker. The transition from liquid to gas creates a rapid rise in pressure. Because this expansion takes heat and time to occur, the faster you shoot, the more liquid that will make its way into your marker. This liquid co2 in your marker will do two things 1) It will do serious damage to the seals and o-rings on your paintball gun 2)It will cause shoot down, where the balls go less and less distance with each subsequent shot. The colder the day the more pronounced this shoot down issue.
So while chronoeing your gun, because you are shooting just a few balls, and slowly, you are not drawing much liquid CO2 into the gun, and therefore your velocity stays pretty high. You, consequently are adjusting at the peak velocity. Also do to the unpredictability of the expansion from liquid to gas, it can spike and you will always adjust to below the field limit (300fps or whatever).
With HPA (high pressure air aka nitrogen aka compressed air) the propellant is stored as a gas in the tank. hen firing the gas has to to leave the tank (which is holding the air at pressures like 1500-5000psi) it must first go through a regulator to drop the pressure down to the operating pressure of your marker (400-800psi). Due to this regulation of pressure the propellant is super consistent. You will rarely ever get spikes using HPA, and rapid rates of fire have little effect on the velocity.
With a gun on CO2 it is not unusual to have to set the velocity at 280 fps with it fluctuating from 260–300fps shot to shot. With compressed air you can set it to exactly 300fps and have shot to shot consistency of 298-300fps.
The net effect of all of this is that a compressed air powered marker can seem to hurt more because it’s velocity is stable at the maximum allowed while a co2 powered marker can have radical drops in velocity due to all the things I mentioned earlier.
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Are there any tv channels that regularly show paintball games?
-Christopher
At one time paintball was on ESPN, OLN and ESPN2 every week, now, to the best of my knowledge there is only one show “Traumahead Sports”
According to their website The Paintball show will be available on both Dish Networks (channel 230) and DIRECT TV (channel 344) in the basic program packages starting April 2nd, every FRIDAY NIGHT @ 10:30 PM EASTERN.
So yes paintball is again on tv but I have never seen this show myself (Because I do not have tv). There are quite a few great paintball shows on the internet.
PB Live is one of the best online paintball tv shows, but there are literally hundreds including many that aired on live tv in the past.
How much does it hurt to be shot by a Paintball gun around 15-20 feet?
Just wondering lol. -Crey
Well Crey, it really depends on the part of your body you were hit on and the amount of clothing you are wearing.
I have been playing for 21 years at this point and I played tournaments for most of that time. Much of my career was spent as a front player and as such there is probably no square inch of my body that has not been blasted by a paintball at close range. So with all of that out of the way.
My three worst places to get shot at close range.
3) The pinkie… Jumping jeebus on a Popsicle stick. This is painful and can actually break your finger. I cannot describe how much I hate getting hit in the pinkie…
2) The base of your neck right by the collar bone. Great koogley moogley, this one is a serious shock to the system, made me feel dizzy and gave me a head full of stars.
1) The junk, balls, testicles, what ever you want to call it, getting shot here is lights out suck.
For the most part you won’t even notice because of all the adrenaline in your system, and the fact that most shots at this range are mask, gun or pack shots. But on the rare occasion you take one to any of these three body parts, well it sucks.
What paintball gun should I get?
I’m just starting and the price has to be under 130 dollars. I’m looking to get the us army alpha black tactical edition and what is e-grip. Thanks - Hunter.
Hunter this is a very common question and I wrote a post about the Best Paintball Gun for a beginner that you should check out.
What it really comes down to is getting one you are comfortable with, and since you have one that excites you get the gun you want, no reason not to.
An E-Grip replaces the mechanical trigger with an electronic one. So rather than your trigger pull acting as a lever that releases the sear and thus the hammer, leading to the paintball gun shooting, in an e-grip you pulling the trigger clicks an electronic switch which then causes a solenoid to release the sear. The benefits are many. You can have MANY firing modes, like 3 round burst, full auto, semi, etc. The trigger pull is MUCH smaller and lighter allowing far greater rate of fire with the same marker.
Have a question about paintball you’re looking to get answered? Send an email to hammer at paintballgunman.com and I will try and answer it here.
What paintball gun should I get?
I’m just starting and the price has to be under 130 dollars. I’m looking to get the us army alpha black tactical edition and what is e-grip. Thanks - Hunter.
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It is Pouring down rain, or as my Aussie friends say “Its pissing”. Which sucks, as today I was supposed to go play paintball with my friends in the picture here. It was a reunion of sorts for the birthdays of Mike’s son (middle guy in orange hat) and me (guy to the far left). But it has been delayed due to really crap weather.
So the gear gets put back away, and my lonely paintball guns must wait for a sunnier day to break their current hibernation. Oh what sorrow.I haven’t played with this group of guys in over 5 years. Daren Regazza the short dude, went of and played for the Naughty Dogs, Billy Roser (one in the gray shirt) did as well, until he had a child, then he got very serious about career and family. Mike and I played together for a few more years as serial paintball whores. Ryan (far right) I haven’t seen or heard from him in some time. He is the luckiest basterd on the planet. EVERY major prize in raffle drawing, he won. It was like some kind of reverse curse regarding high value items and little tickets.
Hopefully the rain only caused a delay in the paintball reunion. This was the last group of guys I played with as a team who felt special… It’s hard to describe, but you spend 3 days a week practicing together, and 6 weeks a year on the road, in airports, hotels, taxis and restaurants with a group of guys and it almost becomes a family. I imagine being in a band together is much the same.
My Paintball guns may be lonely but at least they are dry, unlike everything else.