Paintball Rumor Mill

[zulubravo44]

If you store the paint so that it isn't compressed and is at proper cool temperatures, it will actually improve over time. The shell will tighten up and the tension will cause a more spherical round shape. It will become more brittle as well, but not unshootable type of brittle. Some of the best paint I ever shot was over 4 years old.

does this make a niche market for fine, aged paint? XO, VS and VSOP vintages?

[Tunaman]

I miss Proball!

[zondo]

does this make a niche market for fine, aged paint? XO, VS and VSOP vintages?

[going_home]

I miss Proball!

I used to get plastic containers of that at Sports authority.
That stuff was da bomb.

[Pneumagger]

You mean ProBounce?

[Nobody]

I miss proball. Nothing stood its way; trees, targets, they all felt the sting.

[BigEvil]

I love Proball. I still have a 10 rnd tube of it somewhere that has to be 20 years old and I think it will still shoot.

[Justus]

Used redemption that was 6 months old at justices field. It shot as good then as when it was bought. My paint gets rotated and shook up weekly though.

If you store the paint so that it isn't compressed and is at proper cool temperatures, it will actually improve over time. The shell will tighten up and the tension will cause a more spherical round shape. It will become more brittle as well, but not unshootable type of brittle. Some of the best paint I ever shot was over 4 years old.

I agree with this. The best paint I ever shot was in November 2013, being the Valken Redemption that I bought at OK D-Day in 2012. I stored it in its own box and vacuum sealed packaging inside a closet in my house. Maybe flipped the box every couple months.

Valken also sent me large amounts of various grades of paint to test for my field. I expected about 15 to 20 paintballs of each grade like I had gotten from Nelson, but instead they sent me about 1000 rounds each of several grades. So I doled it out before a small private game and talked with everyone before and after to get opinions. We settled with Valken Fate as the "low-grade" paint and Valken Redemption as the "high-grade" that we keep available. The Fate actually shot better for the Tippmann and blow-back users, but the guys who were running Mags (myself included) preferred the extra brittleness of the Redemption. Notably, the Redemption Gold, or Pro, or whatever it's called, wasn't any better than the standard Redemption in our opinion.

[BLachance75]

I had half of a box of Redemption that I left in the back seat of my car for over 6 months. Shot amazing, just as good as when I bought it new. I also tend to keep whatever is left over in my paintball caddy from a day in the caddy with the silica gel packets. I haven't had any issues with that paint either. The only problem comes when I get a silica packet into my loader, but that is my stupidity.

[b-cuzz]

GI + Kee = KeeGIGI?

The best stuff I ever used was RPS Gator Black. Camp Pendleton didn't sell anything but Diablo at the time, at the time when it wouldn't leave the barrel in less than 10 pieces, so we went to get better stuff. This was the one time I truly appreciated BYOP.

[JKR]

I disagree about the comment on Valken paint as well. I have found it to age quite well. If you store it well it lasts as long as anything out there. Unless you have a system of paint storage like I do, keeping the Valken paint in the bag is your best bet. Rotate it and it will do well. My paint storage method is a bit...well, OCD and I can only store about 700-800 rounds at the moment with this technique.

I have a plastic ammo box that holds five medium sized plastic food containers. Inside these food containers, I keep about 15 or 16 ten round tubes. Inside each ten round tube, I keep nine paintballs stored to avoid compression. When I store the food containers with tubes inside the plastic ammo box, I place them such that the paint is kept in a horizontal position within the tubes to avoid compression from the weight of the paint. I also have a rechargeable silica dessicant pack I keep in the ammo box.

[going_home]

I just leave it in the paintball caddy or sealed in the bag.

Shake the caddy and flip the box once a week.

[Nobody]

Umm, i shoot my paint. There are no worth while byop fields. Shoot it and no need to worry about it. I do always have some left over, so its fi.e for testing guns. I don't see why there is a need. Its not like you win by having the oldest paint out there.

[going_home]

I return full cases to sports authority.

Paintball caddy leftovers usually get used in the back yard with hand held chrono before going to play.

All the good fields around allow BYOP ....

[blackdeath1k]

Umm, i shoot my paint. There are no worth while byop fields. Shoot it and no need to worry about it. I do always have some left over, so its fi.e for testing guns. I don't see why there is a need. Its not like you win by having the oldest paint out there.

Generally whatever leftover I have was either bought for an upcoming byop game. Or just 5-600 rounds left from a day of play. Right now I prob have 300 rounds left from justices spring game.