Definition of closed/open bolt?

[FalconGuy016]

What is the definition of a closed bolt and an open bolt?

[-=Squid=-]

Closed bolt- The bolt is in the closed position. as in, if you look into the chamber of a closed bolt gun, you cant. You will see the bolt.

Open bolt- the exact opposite

Pretty simple...

[magman007]

open bolt, like your mag, the balls fall freely into the breach, after the marker is fired, the bolt is held back.

Closed bolt, the marker, like a cocker, shocker, and excal, the bolt is held olny open after the bolt is shot, then it closes, as it closes, it allows the next ball to fall into the breach. when you look down in to it, you see the top of the bolt, unless you pull the bolt back.


thats a little simpler to understand, dont ya think?

[-=Squid=-]

Originally posted by magman007
open bolt, like your mag, the balls fall freely into the breach, after the marker is fired, the bolt is held back.

Closed bolt, the marker, like a cocker, shocker, and excal, the bolt is held olny open after the bolt is shot, then it closes, as it closes, it allows the next ball to fall into the breach. when you look down in to it, you see the top of the bolt, unless you pull the bolt back.


thats a little simpler to understand, dont ya think?

Ya, sorry mine was prolly hard to understand, but I was shocked that somebody couldnt know the difference, I mean cmon, open, closed.

[magman007]

to tell you the truth, i didnt really understand it when i was a younger player my self, the good people (read: Bill and dawn mills) at warpig set me straight, we all know falconguy16 is a newer player, and was once a post whore, so hhe may not have been the most knowledgeable on most subjects so....

[FooTemps]

Closed bolt: The breech is closed off from the feed tube because the bolt is forward.

Open bolt: The breech is open to the feed tube because the bolt is back.

[FalconGuy016]

Originally posted by magman007
to tell you the truth, i didnt really understand it when i was a younger player my self, the good people (read: Bill and dawn mills) at warpig set me straight, we all know falconguy16 is a newer player, and was once a post whore, so hhe may not have been the most knowledgeable on most subjects so....

Yeah... I may have worded it wrong, I had no idea what open and closed is in the first place. Plus this thread was for someone else who wanted to know but I learned something new too

btw, being a post whore made me go from knowing absolutly nothing to knowing a ton of info about general things in a VERY short period of time. This topic just wasnt one of those that came up in AO

[spazzed]

Originally posted by magman007
and was once a post whore, so hhe may not have been the most knowledgeable on most subjects so....

I'd say he still is...lol

[Evil Bob]

Closed or Open bolt refers to the position of the bolt in relation to the chamber when the marker is "cocked" and waiting for the operator to pull the trigger to fire it.

"Closed Bolt" means the bolt is forward and the chamber is literally closed off, "Open Bolt" means the chamber is wide open and the bolt is locked back.

It is a timeless debate that one is more accurate then the other. But paintballs being what they are, water ballons that deform under air pressure, neither system proves to have any advantage over the other in relation to accuracy.

The one thing that will affect accuracy other then the operator's skill (or lack thereof) is the paint to barrel match.

-Evil Bob

[AlabamaMan]

Falconguy isn't a PW he's only been here 3 months longer than me and only has 1700 more posts.

[FooTemps]

Originally posted by AlabamaMan
Falconguy isn't a PW he's only been here 3 months longer than me and only has 1700 more posts.

I hit 1000 in one month... I had at least 20 posts per day for the first month i was on ao