Wow, This is just Silly. (Severe paintballs)

[joeyjoe367]

Well, I was checking out some info for a local tournie that's going to be in my area, and I stumbled upon the Severe Paintball Website.

I decided to give it a look-see, and I was astounded at the amount of BS that I was fed.

check it out for yourselves:

http://mortonwebdesign.com/SevereNW.com/SevereNWFRset.htm

hit the "paint" link on the side navigation bar.

Basically, they're saying that their balls do this:



The ball acclerates, then produces a vacuume in the front of the ball enduced by the deformation of the ball, and inertia. Once the Ball hits it's target, the paint inside will slam forward and break the shell.

"We make our paint a little different. We use more fill in our balls so when you throw it at the ground it will not break."

-Severe

lol Riiiiiight :P

[RetroEclipseMan]

"We make our paint a little different. We use more fill in our balls so when you throw it at the ground it will not break."

That cracks me up. That stuff is pretty hard. I remember when you were using that stuff a while back joe, and it was bouncing off everyone you hit.

[Cliffio]

ive shot some of the lowest severe paint, and it shot really good! i was actually surprised, it was severe field paint

but it shot good


Cliff

[Severe]

"We make our paint a little different. We use more fill in our balls so when you throw it at the ground it will not break." - Severe

I swear I never said that!

[xadamx]

hahah! yea well even tho the site is full of crap the paint is at least decent.

[joeyjoe367]

Originally posted by Severe


I swear I never said that!

LOL!!!

But yeah, I have nothing against their paint, other than the fact that the standard stuff bounces like rubber. It's just this TOTAL load of crap they're saying about their paintballs, trying to "tech" them up.

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

Only paint i have ever been shot with that has bounced off my tank............twice.

[FESTUS33]

Then you never got shot by the old
Zap that had talc mixed in to prevent
wiping in tourney's. That stuff was
like getting hit with marbles.
It bounced off everything, tanks, goggles
hopper's. The only reason player's
went out was it hurt to much too stay in.

[ogre55]

As for Severe Paint, all I have to say is YUK. A friend and I went to the last Castle Conquest at EMR, where we were stuck with this stuff. It was awful, and this was not just us, but 80 percent of the 300 plus other participants. It's small bore, with quite a few deformed balls in every bag. And every 10th - 15th ball would explode in the barrel.

As for just hard paint, nothing beat the first batch of Hotshot paint. This is going back 10 years or more now, however, me and my friends called 'em brushcutters as these balls would go through any thing other that real hard cover. You could play handball with this stuff. Not fun.

I think their shell was twice as thick as your average paintball. I can only imagine what these balls would do to one of the modern Sup' Air barricades.

Ogre

[Dayspring]

Hey Ogre. Don't forget the Chronic we played with at LI AO day. That stuff took three hard throws against a table before it even thought about breaking.

[-=Squid=-]

Whats BS about it? I dont think they are REALLY saying it gets all oblong when you shoot it. Just cause there is a stupid little picture doesnt really mean anything. Jeez, if you are trying to sell something you dont just say "its good" or "its just like anyother paint." That wont sell, and then when they give reason behind why its good people say "BS"

[ogre55]

Originally posted by Dayspring
Hey Ogre. Don't forget the Chronic we played with at LI AO day. That stuff took three hard throws against a table before it even thought about breaking.

That Chronic was pretty tough but it still doesn't stack against that load of Hotshot. That was the only paint I was ever affraid to get hit with.

Oh and congrats on making Black Cell's roster Dayspring.

Ogre

[FishHook]

I've shot alot of the "economical" stuff at the field i play at and it shot great, i have yet to try the other 89 or so types of paint they make

on another note, i recentlly shot some worr paint that had the thinnest shell i've ever experienced. It seemed like it broke from just 1 drop from 6ft or so. My RT didn't have much problems with it (1 or 2 breaks), but my classic had a rough time with it. I found out later that my ANS bolt lost its fomie.

[MindlessMicroMag]

what ever you do stay away from the silver balls with the lightning bolt on them. Our local field had them and you could shoot them straight at the ground 3 ft infront of you and they would not break.

[SlartyBartFast]

Originally posted by -=Squid=-
Whats BS about it? I dont think they are REALLY saying it gets all oblong when you shoot it.

Sorry Squid, but how about actually checking out the site? That's exactly what they're claiming.

Not only do paintballs not go oblong when shot (or if they did nobody has shown it), ALL paintballs are completely filled with paint. NOT just Severe paint as their web site claims is their big advantage. The manufacturing process makes it impossible for air to be in the shell.

It's not clear if the 'void' created according to their marketing tripe is inside the shell or not. Either way, the movement of fill has nothing to do with the breaking of a paintball. It's the brittleness of the shell that determines the breakage.