Oh my God it’s raining; we just have to cancel our paintball game! Do you really have to?

Paintball players like to play in the rain. They love it! It adds so much interest and challenge in the game.

When you play in the rain, you must know that everything will be muddy and slippery. It will eventually get harder when you sprint and pause and crouch. You will not get a clear visibility and your accuracy will change due to the wind and rain. It is as if like you choose HARD MODE when you play some game in your X-BOX. Thrilling!

I’m going to give you some tips and some guidelines so that you can enjoy playing paintball in under the rain together with the rest.

1) Put on something which is water proof for example a raincoat,” slicker”. You must stay dry so that you won’t shiver and affects your accuracy, mobility. You must remember to cover you head. Do not let water go in to your paintball mask because this will cause fogging and it will not be a comfortable time when you are wearing contact lenses.

2) Carry paper towels with you. This will come in handy when you need to wipe out the water or fog in your mask. Always duck when you are not in offensive mode. Do not let your opponent sabotage you while you are wiping your mask.

3) Wear gloves to prevent cold and wet hands.

4) Wear boots or cleats to keep your feet from getting wet.

5) Take extra garbage bags to use as cover for your paintball marker. This can also be a raincoat function, just in case you do not have one. You also need use it to cover your hopper too. Bring along some rubber bands too, you will know what and how to do with it.

Do not be afraid in trying new stuff. Just let your imagination run wild. Just as NIKE say this- JUST DO IT. Just have fun in the rain man!

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Paintball ‘amour’

In every sport you need a proper gear, outfit, attire and stuff. For example, when you cook, you need to wear an apron also right? When you play American Football you need to wear shoulder guards and stuff isn’t it? Do not tell me you wear a singlet and tights when you play football. Furthermore, this is paintball! It’s our game. We need proper, safety gears, so that we can perform effectively and harms free.

1) The most important gear you need in paintball is your sun glasses ( joking ) The most important thing you need is a paintball mask. You do not want the paintball to replace your eye ball right?

2) Every one has a good friend somewhere. So when you play paintball, the paintball marker is your good friend. Sleep with it, play with it, shower together with it (Laugh) you will know what I am saying when you really played on field. This "guy" will make you win!

3) Proper clothing! A ballerina do not wear bikini for a ballet dance. It is utmost important that you wear properly while you play paintball. Do not dress up like a newbie even though you are one.

Proper clothing means the clothes should be heavy duty, dark in color so that you can “camouflage”. Do not wear shorts! Especially for girls. My girl friend did that ones, it gave her an instant tattoo on the thigh. Please wear shoes for running or heavy-duty boots for alternative.

4) I also suggest squeegees. It is for players who need to wipe out their paint on their paintball mask in the field. For alternative, you can also use cotton rags.

5) First aid kit. This one I do not have to mention in detail.

6) Tools like screwdrivers, tweezers, pliers and spare batteries for specific paintball markers. This kind of tool that you may consider bringing if you planned your private paintball game.

This piece of advice I mentioned above are a ‘must’. Some fields do not allow players to play if you do not wear proper attire. You must always abide in the rules implemented by any field owners. I do not like to hear people got injured by playing paintball because I know all these can be avoided if you stick by the rules.

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Paintball gun is also known as paintball maker. They use the word ‘marker’ meaning is obviously to mark.

In the history markers are used in forestry to mark trees. After some thought of what the marker can do and some modification, they created a game called paintball.

The main body is called the bolt. It allows air to to go through it and pushes the paintball out.

Bolt includes some mechanism. First of all it pumps. Secondly, a system which will automatically re-cocks the marker.

What re-cocking mean , to place another paintball in the chamber.

Chamber is a place which the paintball is waiting for an air rush when it fires. Then a ball détente is a mechanism to hold the ball so that the ball will be in place and won’t roll out.

It also make sure that only one ball to enter ro the chamber.

Paintball will fire out from the barrel. Barrel is a long tube that will make the paintball to shoot out accurately on the target.

There are many kinds of barrel. Aluminum or stainless steel ones are heavier. I got people tell me that brass barrel are the best because less friction on the paintball.

Have you ever seen barrels with drilled holes; this is to help air get out of the paintball’s way, but very difficult to clean.

The hopper or loader is a plastic container that holds your paintball. It’s on top on the bolt so that the ball from the hopper will fall into the chamber by gravity,

I know an e-loader by NXe Journey series loader. Check it out !

Some hopper can hold up to 300 paintballs. It depends on how big is your hopper is. Normally is can hold at least 50.The air tank is the man. Some people uses CO2 and some uses normal compressed air or Nitrogen.

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Does is mean a longer barrel, the better the accuracy?

Yes and no.

When it comes to accuracy, you need to consider two factors.

1) The size of your paintball

2) The type and length of your barrel.

If your paintball is bigger than your barrel, it burst inside before it can even see the world!

So make sure that your paintball is:-

• suitable for your barrel size
• Test it by putting a paintball inside your barrel whether it can roll out smoothly.
  

A longer barrel can increase the distance of the shot. For instance, if we compare a 10 inch and a 16 inch with the same chronograph of 290 fps, 16 inch will travel 6 inches more than a 10 inch barrel.

A lot of paintball players are using 12inch to 16 inch barrel. To improve your paintball marker performance and to shoot more accurately, I recommended 12” to 14” length barrels.

I hope you can get something from this. Happy playinimprove on paintball shooting, paintball marker modificg paintball!

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Barrels are typically constructed of brass, stainless steel and last but not least aluminium.

Brass Barrels

For brass metal you need to maintain and polish from time to time. It is very soft, very heavy.

Quality and the performance of brass barrel is good because of its less friction. Paintballs will not burst easily inside the barrel.

The only thing about brass metal is, it is more damage prone because it is soft and high maintenance.

Stainless steel barrels

This is also the less friction barrel after brass barrel. What I can say about stainless steel barrels, they are durable. If you are a heavy duty guy, stainless steel barrel is the man.

It is harder to manufacture stainless steel marker, so the price for this is slightly more expensive.

Not much of maintenance is required for stainless steel and of course I mentioned just now, it is low friction.

Aluminium Barrels

OK, here is the thing about the aluminium. If your looking for budget barrel, this are the most cheapest of its material.

Not much of maintenance is required also. It is light-weighted fellow. Durable!

Bare in mind that aluminium barrel is more friction than the rest.

Two piece Barrels

This hybrid is a combination of stainless steel base and ported aluminium tip. When the paintball is pushed out from the chamber, it meets with the stainless steel base first, that gives a low friction to the paintball when fired out from the aluminium tip.

It provides two performances but with lesser weight. Cool huh?

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Always have few of your routine paintball strategy.

Keep on using the same, old strategy is very easy to get notice and then you became predictable in your paintball game.

The most important part of a paintball game is in the beginning.

Make sure to tell every strategy details to all of your paintball team members. This is because everyone in your team should know what to use when certain thing happens.

So that you may be flexible in your game and let your opponent know that you are unpredictable.

Sun Tzi Art of war tells us that ‘To Win the War you must know your enemy’

Paraphrasing- If you don’t want you enemy to win, be unpredictable.

Remember two things:-

1) Communication
2) Team Work

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I heard the size of today’s paintball tournament field is about 150’ x 150’. I mean if you can imagine how will it be like when you were shot from 20 feet with 22 bps (Balls per Second) and with the speed of 300 fps.

In that case I would rather play on a football field. Seriously, with the advancement of paintball technology, paintball industry should take this seriously.

Craig Miller is actively involved in the ASTM (American Society of Testing and Materials) is doing a revise on the legal rates of fire.

He says that he would suggest to slower the markers down. He also suggested that the speed should lower to 280 fps.

Well, I think Miller has a point there.

All the best for improving the safety of paintball guys!

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Always remember when you got fog on your paintball mask, do not take off your mask.

It is extremely dangerous and reckless to take of while you are inside a paintball shooting zone.

Worse comes to worse, instead of buying some paintballs, you might consider buying a new pair of eyeballs.



REMEMBER


Always remember to check whether it is a good paintball mask before any purchase- Cheap paintball mask doesn't mean it is cheap quality.Vice Versa.

Always remember to ask the specifications of paintball mask.

Always wear a it when you are doing a paintball drill too.



It is always good to buy one because I don’t like sharing especially with all the sweats of other paintballers inside. View Full Post......