Theoretical Paintball

[fenris69]

AGD posted all of this a while back. turns out they dont do squat for pballs. wish i could recall the initial topic...might be able to search for it.

[Eisaak]

MARTLET1:
lets not ever bring up the subject of adding something to the inside! I love this sport but I dislike "Angel kisses". I have never cared much for getting shot. I'm thinking "more solid" is a very very bad idea. I would like to see them less solid.... almost like a summer mist on your skin.

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[Hasty8]

One thing on the dimpled concept is that they are in a very specific pattern and not just willy-nilly. I remeber an article from a few years back that ight now, the dimples on a golf ball are just about at their max. No more can be added.

[auslandt]

Dimples might decrease drag, but it would cause problems elsewhere. Dimples
means more surface area and more "sharp" surfaces. Put dimples on a paintball
and you are likely to get them stuck VERY easily in the hopper. They will grab on the
way into the barrel and probably increase the load time. Then they might roll down
the barrel, but no longer. Dimpled paintballs would wobble, hop, bounce, and do
other friction type things that could throw off accuracy.

Golf balls, are loaded one at a time at about 1 per minute. Then once propelled by
the club, touch ONLY AIR. If golfballs had to be shot 10/second through a 2 foot
pipe by an air supply, they probably wouldn't have dimples either...

But then again Golfers that are within 40 feet of a target are happy... Show me
ONE paintballer that is willing to be that far off!!

[C�borg]

I've shot golf balls out of guns before, ok it was a modified potato gun, and the golf ball couldn't travel down the barel without shaking the gun, or firing it. It worked pretty well, much more accurate than any potato could be, and I don't know if you guys have noticed, but golf balls tend to roll in straight lines pretty easy, I don't think there would be many feeding problems.

[PyRo]

Hmm, it either shot normally, or horribly. But whatever it did I know they didn't say it helped.

[M-a-s-sDriver]

Also remember that a golfball spins at around 10,000 RPM, and at that speed you can get dramatic differences in flight characteristics from a smooth ball. As you know, the Flatline barrels can flatten the trajectory of a smooth paintball noticably. Think of what you could accomplish with a dimpled paintball.
As for the benifits, the technology as we see it today is far more advanced than 10 years ago. I remember at a Nppl event in '94 seeing my first HP tank for paintball, and lots of people were Poo-pooing it as impractable for various reasons. Sounds silly now, huh? One of these days we will laugh at how we shot smooth paintballs, just like we laugh at oil-based balls. ...Well, that really wasnt a laughing matter, but you get the point.
Brent Jackson, PFB.

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