No more brittle paint!!!
I had read this article a long time ago but never gave it much thought. Mainly because water and paint DON'T mix, well I guess SOME water is actually a good thing!
At the time it was summer so I didn't care too much about brittle paint, I never broke paint in either my Angel Speed or ULE E-Mag. I said the best paint was the most brittle paint because I use to get a lot of bounces with my Blaze at long ranges.
Well then winter hit... cold paint and even colder air and every other ball in my gun would break... it drove me nuts! Mainly because all the kids around me would say "Oooh you're HELLA HECKA chopping!!!" I wasn't CHOPPING! Damnit.. but with the cold weather I was breaking paint like it were .68 caliber eggs...
So come Sunday I was playing and there was a guy at my field that plays semi pro ball, he told me in the winter he "treats" his paint with water as well. We played a few games and I was out of paint so he gave me a few pods of his treated paint. It shot great but I did get a few bounces, luckily with my E-Mag I had 20 more shots behind it, a few of those broke if the first one didn't
So today I decided to try it on a bag of Midnight paint, which breaks in both my markers on cold days..
The bag sat in my room all day, I took one ball and dropped it on the cement outside my house.. CRACK. not one bounce, it just cracked in half..
So I dipped my hand in water, flicked my hand once and stuck it in the bag, I moved all the paint around until my hand was dry... I tumbled the paint around in the bag and then wet my hand again, flicked it once and moved my hand around in the bag until my hand was dry. I tumbled the paint in a zip lock bag that I filled with some air for a few minutes and then let all the air out and zipped it up.
few hours later I took a ball out and dropped it on my cement, bounced.. so I lobbed it way in the air.. bounce! then I chucked it at the ground and it broke.
Before midnight would always roll out of my barrel.. now after treating it, it is actually a perfect match to my .689 Ultralight! I'll see how it shoots Sunday
At the time it was summer so I didn't care too much about brittle paint, I never broke paint in either my Angel Speed or ULE E-Mag. I said the best paint was the most brittle paint because I use to get a lot of bounces with my Blaze at long ranges.
Well then winter hit... cold paint and even colder air and every other ball in my gun would break... it drove me nuts! Mainly because all the kids around me would say "Oooh you're HELLA HECKA chopping!!!" I wasn't CHOPPING! Damnit.. but with the cold weather I was breaking paint like it were .68 caliber eggs...
So come Sunday I was playing and there was a guy at my field that plays semi pro ball, he told me in the winter he "treats" his paint with water as well. We played a few games and I was out of paint so he gave me a few pods of his treated paint. It shot great but I did get a few bounces, luckily with my E-Mag I had 20 more shots behind it, a few of those broke if the first one didn't
So today I decided to try it on a bag of Midnight paint, which breaks in both my markers on cold days..
The bag sat in my room all day, I took one ball and dropped it on the cement outside my house.. CRACK. not one bounce, it just cracked in half..
So I dipped my hand in water, flicked my hand once and stuck it in the bag, I moved all the paint around until my hand was dry... I tumbled the paint around in the bag and then wet my hand again, flicked it once and moved my hand around in the bag until my hand was dry. I tumbled the paint in a zip lock bag that I filled with some air for a few minutes and then let all the air out and zipped it up.
few hours later I took a ball out and dropped it on my cement, bounced.. so I lobbed it way in the air.. bounce! then I chucked it at the ground and it broke.
Before midnight would always roll out of my barrel.. now after treating it, it is actually a perfect match to my .689 Ultralight! I'll see how it shoots Sunday
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