How many paintballs come in a case of paint?

[-=Squid=-]

Originally posted by hitech
If you really want to easily count paintballs from a case get 10 of the old school tubes (they hold 10 paintballs each). Tape the 10 of them together in the shape of a "pod". Use that to count the paint (holds exactly 100 paintballs). It really doesn't take that long.

Thats how my field counts out bags of 100 to sell. And Shartley, that was freakin hilarious. I almost died laughing!

[CrazyLad]

I shoot blaze all the time.. I would check but i only have one more bad left in my case and its already been opened...So ive already shot a few out of it.

[funkmunky56]

I've got 3.5 cases of blaze here, all from the same lot/batch... and I work for an industrial weights and measures company... meaning I have the equipment to do REALLY accurate piececounting quickly... I will do this for you, on all 14 bags of paint, and let you know what I find...

[Lopy-slopy]

some of you are saying 133 paintballs short isn't much. But i think is's alot. Think of feilds that sell paint mostly by the hundreds(ones with lots of noobs). They loose out on like 5-15 buck a case(My feild sells paint $15 a hundred, but it canadian and if you buy a membership it's only $5, but the membership is $200). That adds up. I think they should just put as many balls in the case as they put on the front. Bet you the machines fill them by wight, not the amount of balls, and I guess each ball isn't the same weight so it's never perfect. But 133 is quite a bit IMO.

[Riotz]

Well, since it's paint from National Paintball Supply, I would assume that they are jipping you.

[FalconGuy016]

Originally posted by funkmunky56
I've got 3.5 cases of blaze here, all from the same lot/batch... and I work for an industrial weights and measures company... meaning I have the equipment to do REALLY accurate piececounting quickly... I will do this for you, on all 14 bags of paint, and let you know what I find...

Cool! I cant wait

[funkmunky56]

I have completed my study... here is the results, with pictures:

Here is my 3.5 cases of paint, plus a partial bag (emptied into my hat) to be used for sampling purposes, and an empty bag, to be used as a zeroed-off tare (package) weight, so I don't have to open each bag of paintballs :-)

forget that... that pic didn't come out, for some reason... so, here's a pic of the piececounting scale I used, with a certified test weight on it, showing that it's in calibration!

[funkmunky56]

I used a 50-piece sample, as shown in the next picture, to account for any variance in paintball manufacture...

[funkmunky56]

then I cleared off the scale, placed an empty Blaze bag on there, and zeroed it off (sending the scale into a negative weight reading while empty, which will account for the weight of the bag in each count) If this doesn't make sense to you, please let me know. It's pretty standard procedure in sampling and piececounting, though.

[funkmunky56]

then I weighed each bag, like so...

[funkmunky56]

and kept track of the results on each box, like so...

[funkmunky56]

and here are the results:

case 1: 504 506 510 507 = 2027 balls
case 2: 503 506 504 503 = 2016 balls
case 3: 493 493 506 502 = 1994 balls
case 4: 503 492 xxx xxx = 995 balls

in my hat: 375 (partial bag that was emptied for sample/tare)

well, that's the numbers. Discuss. I'm going home.

[nerobro]

It would appear nobody is getting ripped off. The difference in the number of pods being filled can easily be explinaed by looking at the size of the paint.

[TheJester]

another thing w/ filling pods/hoppers to count, is the way they're stacked. if you don't have them perfectly stacked each time, you'll get a different count each time.

[Automaggin2]

Originally posted by cphilip
Yea 2000, but heck I remember cases were 2500 per case for Nelson Splat back when it was pretty decent paint!

Back in the day proball used to be 2500! I miss those days, that was the best paint around, though it did bounce alot. we called it Probounce