revolutionary idea...

[Donnyluv]

And I too remember the Sniperballs! Never bought any though. Has anyone actually shot any of them? Just curious.

[drx975]

Whats the Sniperball again? Were they really that accurate, and how much were they?

[drx975]

If you spin a glass of water fast enough it will spin the water inside due to the friction between the walls of the glass and the water. The same is true for a paintball. The fill inside will spin to a certain extent, due to the friction with the wall of the paintball. Although it won't spin as fast as the paintball, it WILL spin some. Which obviously is enough to produce the desired effect with a z-body or flatline barrel.

Very good point. Looks like what we need is a really dense or thick fill. I mean really thick. Its possible it could work, but remember the shape of a paintball is a sphere, and rifling was designed to the shape of a bullet, not sphere. Still might work though.

[Grim]

My two cents. When you talk about rifled and backspin you are actually talking about two different systems. Rifled works on bullets because it causes a spin, a corkscrew style, to the bullet which keeps the bullet smaller and does not let it flatten out due to air resistance, thus a tighter pattern . Rifleing for paintballs will not work because corkscrewing a sherical object at low velocity does not perform the same function as it was intended to do with bullets, which are not sphrical. Backspin is different on a sherical paintball, it does cause a change. For one it is spinning in the direction of movement and two it ,in micro standards, causes a low pressure under it by spinning upwards, direction of spin puts greater pressure on top which just like a wing causes lift. That is why you sometime see balls fly of crazy like. The upwards spin is effected by imperfections, dimmples or seems, and causes the low pressure to increase suddenly or if the imperfection is not centered it will go off in a different direction. Hope this helps out.
So in all reality putting a divider in it will not make the rifling work any better, at least not enough to warrent a change. Also it is true that if you spin it fast enough the inside fill will spin but the out side surface area form is what is important. With a bullet the out side surface area changes form so the spin is good. With paintball the surface area does not change form, at least not at the velocities we shoot them at.

[Sledgehammer]

Back in the times when they shot spherical cannonballs, cannons had rifling too. And they worked...

[Grim]

Are you saying that the rifling made a cannon ball more accurat? Such as it does with bullets! They also made cannon balls round so if they missed their target it may roll into it and still do damage because the accuracy was not good.

[drx975]

Yeah Grim my friend was saying the other day that bullets work with rifling only becuase of their "conical" shape. I wouldnt be surprised if rifling never works with paintballs. We just have to think of something else then. Damnit.....