Why paintballs? and not Paint bullets?

[hitech]

How about "fins" on the back of a standard paintball. Kinda like and arrow or dart. They could be made out of the same material as the shell is now. I think that would work.

[PyRo]

Again, that would need to be magazine fed. Even then, it wouldn't so much.

[Magic37220]

Don't fix it if it ain't broke!

[PyRo]

Magic your no fun. Takeing thigns apart is what makes he world go round.

[hitech]

Originally posted by PyRo
Again, that would need to be magazine fed. Even then, it wouldn't so much.

Yes it would. However, that isn't very hard to do (I have lots of ideas on the subject). Considering the rate of changes these days it wouldn't be THAT big a deal, in my opinion (I'm never humble).

[PyRo]

Straying from a convential magazine style would be more expensive, and more prone to break.

[SGTKennedy]

another thought.... the best way to get more distance out of it would be add mass or to decrease the air resistance by shrinking the area.... Either of those would hurt more and the legal fps would have to go down some more for insurance reasons.

As for my Retooling issue... i bet simply changing the rollers would be a fairly spendy investment... we are talking about a bunch of rollers...
Not to mention the fact that everyone that wanted the Bullet technology would have to buy a brand new Emag body at least.

[[NA]WARLORD]

The fins on the ball was already done back in the pumpgun days. It was known as a "sniper ball", looked like a badmitten birdie and was expensive, i think like a pack of 20 were 100.00, they were reviewed and got a bad rating due to inconsitency in manufactoring. Plus it was only good for one shot and had to be loaded like old flint-lock musket. Forget that !!!!!!!!!!!!1

[845]

Ouch taking one of those in the kidneys could cause some serious internal bleeding and hurt like a female dog. And if you die from internal bleeding you wont be playing any game. Like magic said if it aint broke dont fix it.

[udtseal]

I have said this time and time again, we should just use Simunition!! Its made is a bunch of differnt calibers and law enforcement and the military have used it for years!! VERY expensive though.

[Micromag5371]

ok...2 different types of paint bullets-

-FGJ = Full Gelatin Jacket
-G-JHP = Gelatin-Jacketeted Hollow Point

I would chose the ladder of the 2... paint shrapnel would be launched, possibly eliminating other players.

only if the market ever sees these types of paint

[BobCon]

Maybe we should do away with paint and go with lead think of the advantages. No more cheating no need for refs no calls for paint check. The only down side I can see is it wouldnt be long before you run out of players. Still the world is over populated as it is.

[sir welt-alot]

Maby we should leave it to this...paintball is called paintBALL for a reason not paintbullet or paint kill people or whatever, it is a fun sport and think of all the 10 year olds who would get hit by a little mini football or sumthing at 280 fps, that wouldn;t make them come back. Paintball has a bad image for a reason and we have all worked long and hard to clean up how the sport looks and assing paintbullets would just be a setback. If you want realism and bullets and etc then go play airsoft, if you want good clean fun wiht a good image,play paintball

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[Micromag5371]

Umm, no offense, but your only partly right sir welt alot.
Airsoft Does NOT use bullets...they use 6MM BB's in .12 gram or .2 gram. You can Buy 6MM paintballs for them. and
Airsoft does not have a bad image. its pretty big over in japan. The guns definately do have every bit of realism, as well as price...i seen $1300 m-60 airsoft trench guns. what a waste. Paintball does have a good image in our eyes but some other people interpret paintball as a nuicense to society, and relate us as a bunch of trouble makin punks. not so. Now, i can see if you were walking down the street with your paintball gun, i dont think much would happen. i have done it before. if you walked down the street with your airsoft gun and the cops rode by, all i can say is good luck movin like NEO on the matrix.

The moral? paintball nor airsoft doesnt have the best image in the sports world. 'freakin soccor mommys. Everybody has worked hard to make sure paintball has a good image, but some people are biased and cant open their eyes to the reality around them. And, as for Airsoft, it can stay in japan. Stupid japs will lose their eyes, theres hardly any safety precautions for airsoft and they shoot like 430 FPS...i seen shop safety goggles being worn by somebody...oh well. when he loses an eye, i wont be there to help.