How many paintballs come in a case of paint?

[RRfireblade]

My experience....
I play Midnite and Blaze almost exclusively.I have a number of used drink containers I use to store 'em in.(around 2 liters) I have one that I marked various amounts on to keep track of how much I shot.They're pretty accurate after many years of filling/emptying.USUALLY,I get more than 2000 per case.Anywhere from 10 to 40 extra.If not it's right at 2000.

Jay.

[Catch22]

paintballs individually can range from less than $00.17 a ball for seconds paint to more than $00.40 a ball for field paint. and if it's field paint than 15 of those $00.40 balls adds up to be 6 bucks. At 1 or 2 cases a weekend that can add up REALLY fast.

[deathstalker]

Originally posted by Catch22
paintballs individually can range from less than $00.17 a ball for seconds paint to more than $00.40 a ball for field paint. and if it's field paint than 15 of those $00.40 balls adds up to be 6 bucks. At 1 or 2 cases a weekend that can add up REALLY fast.

Where the heck do you play??? $0.40 per ball is an $800.00 case!!! I only want to know so I don't ever go there.

[ratmonkey]

no kidding. i used to exclusively shoot proball platinums, the only thing my pro-lite wouldn't break. 2500 a case, usually overfilled, those were the days.

[B00bzor]

a while back i used to get more paint in my cases
some pmi gold ones

[paintball8869]

Originally posted by deathstalker

Where the heck do you play??? $0.40 per ball is an $800.00 case!!! I only want to know so I don't ever go there.

I think someone might have screwed up on a decimal point. I think he means $.04 per ball, which would make an $80 case. It sounds right to me at least. Who knows, maybe he is paying $800 a case, man would i love to be selling him that paint

[funkmunky56]

soo, has my experiment cleared anything up? or sparked more controversy? I mean, except for the "floating decimal point" issue... I think it's fair to say that, like karma, paint will even itself out in the end. Well, 'cept I'm not into that weirdo new age voodoo hippie crap, so who knows. --Dave

[wyn1370]

Originally posted by funkmunky56
or sparked more controversy?

so does your work pay you overtime for these experiments?

[nippinout]

funk, how do we know your calibration was good?

I recommend flying to France and using the 0*C platinum cylinders for calibration.

Certainly is interesting that the ball count was off for the cases of paint. High speed filling devices have very good measurement of the filling material.

Maybe try measuring cereal boxes?

I know the paint can gain and lose weight due to moisture.

Can you maybe count the boxes of paint by hand to see for sure if moisture is a factor at all? In large quanitis a small amount of change in water per ball can amount to a few grams worth of paintballs.

You can get some PVC cut down to 10round size and load them in a bundle to count fast.

Good work!

[funkmunky56]

How about NO. But I'll set you up with a nice, dry, clean room for doing the hand counting, if ya wanna show up and do it...

of course I get paid overtime! anything for weights and measures...


and, I know that the scale is in calibration because that weight I used is traceable through the National Institute of Standards and Technology TO the Master Weights in Switzerland, which is what the French OIML weights are traceable to as well... SMARTASS.


besides which, technically, it wouldn't matter if the scale is in calibration, as long as it's linear in its error... because the sampling and piececounting were done on the same scale. So take THAT!

Last but definitely NOT least, having used a 50-piece representative sample, as opposed to a 5 or 10-piece, reduces the chance for variance error, because a larger sample tends to include more of the highs and lows in the manufacturing process, which then cancel each other out.

Gotta work now. Later kids. --Dave

[SIGSays]

1: 2005
2: 1993
3: 1985
4: 2001
5: 1994
6: 2020
7: 1979
8: 2014
9: 1983
10:2004

hope my sister can count.. i paid her to count them for me
haha

[Catch22]

I should be able to do math.

I was right!! at $800.00 a case you really can't afford to get jipped!! My bad on the math.