Can you tell me what happened? (paintball airburst)

[Chestercopperpot]

Okay here we go. This happedned about 3 hours ago. Me and my crew are on the roof of my friend's house friring off balls into the woods. Basically testing out my mag. My friend is ripping off a stream and suddenly there is a slightly louder pop, and paint droplets land on everyone. Damn, I figure a barrel break, and a bad one too because absolutely everyone has these tiny droplets of paint on them (real small drops like mist almost. I was even considering a double feed style one-two pop. Anyway as I degas and look into the chamber, I notice everything is clean. I figure the ball must have burst towards the end of the barrel so I look down the barrel. Its spotless! (really honestly perfect) I mean I have more paint on me than inside the barrel. The outside of the barrel is coated with the same paint mist that the rest of us are covered in, but inside the barrel is spotless. So I'm stumped as to what made the ball break. Clearly all evidence points to the ball bursting with some force outside of the gun, but there was nothing for the ball to hit! The nearest obstruction was ~30 ft away. Can paintballs explode in mid air? Maybe the barel was holding the paintball together or something? I don't know but I've been playing for a while and this is the first time I've ever experienced anything like this. Any ideas what happened? By the way I was shooting an rt witth a 10 inch ultralite in .688 and was using junk midnight paint that had been sitting around for almost a month in a pod. I was using an empire reloader, and all other balls loaded and fired correctly, both before and after the paintball airburst (there was no decrease in accuracy common to barrel breaks after the burst). Take your best guess.

[personman]

Well, sence the RT has a little bit of shoot up, maybe one ball hit another in flight? If so, thats REALLY REALLY cool!!!!!!

[laxkid]

see what range your velocity is at try it a couple of times rts jump alot becuase of the reactive valve

[Chestercopperpot]

I thought it might be one ball hitting another mid air, but this seemed to be a really violent burst, and if two paintballs impacted mid air the collision would only be the difference in speed. I.e. If paintball one :270fps and paintball two: 290 fps, than the collision would only be 20fps, pretty slow. So this doesn't really seem feasable. Also additional info my velocity was set at 283 by the crono and my imput pressure is whatever a hp (red) crossfire puts out (~800)

[WatchDragon]

I remember when i has my level 10 not ajusted right, it stoped on a ball, shot it and i swear it popped mid air, although it happened half way to what i was shooting at.

[trevorjk]

maybe you shot a mosquito

[Doc Nickel]

As suspected, you hit one ball with another.

Manike mentioned doing that when he got an L-10 kit in, though I don't recall what he said caused it.

Basically, you got one "blooper" shot that probably left the barrel at under 100 fps (though that's a guess- let's just say it was very slow.)

Ripping off a string, you then immediately fired another full-power shot right behind it, which "caught up" with the previous ball in midair, and blew 'em both up.

It's not common, but it does happen.

Doc.

[xXHavokXx]

I've seen an 03 Shocker do the same thing, he was getting +- 2-120 over the chrono and shot 2 of his own balls out of the air in two occasions.

[Wat]

There was footage of a racegun cocker doing such a thing and it the paint just explodes. A blooper could be caused by your paint. You're shooting a string and then you get one odd sized ball, perhaps significantly smaller than the bore and just plops out at low velocity.

[Rope a Dope]

Originally posted by trevorjk
maybe you shot a mosquito

Mosquito: "PAINTCHECK!!!"

[ExtremeODD]

ive never hit my own ball 2x in the air, but me and a friend were shooting at each other, and there was about 5 splats half way to eachother (this was in open feild) it was crazy

[Ginjiroku]

I really want to see what happened does anyone have footage of this happening?

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

Originally posted by Rope a Dope


Mosquito: "PAINTCHECK!!!"

....i don't think the paint would break on a mosquito

[afrankart]

Originally posted by SuiciDal Sn Y p ER

....i don't think the paint would break on a mosquito

Really? It must have burst on a dust particle floating in midair.

[Xyxyll]

Nah, I think that someone was just tired of you guys shooting paintballs at night and he/she pulled out his/her paintball gun and fired a shot at you all. It probably hit the roof and splatter went everywhere.