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  • Tyger
    video /k radio star
    • Oct 2002
    • 1210
    #1

    "Mythbusting" in paintball. What's your "favorite" one?

    Ok, so I got this video show over on 'da Dawg, ya see. And, I was thinking about doing this anyway, so I'll bring it up to yall for discssion.

    I want to open this season with a 4 week "Series" on paintball myths. I'm already planning on showing once and for all that all paintball guns shoot the same distance at 300 FPS. (Or 280, or whatever) Except the flatline, but I have a special plan for that.

    So I wanted to open the idea up, user interaction and all that. What "Paintball Myths" would you like to see busted or confirmed? All I ask is that it's something that someone like me can really do. I mean no horrifically expensive, and not 100% scientifically studied. I don't know what a "Dino" really does, ok?

    Ok, open match here. What bits of "common knowledge" would you like to see shattered into a billion pieces or proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's "Really real"? I'm open to ideas!

    -Tyger


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    • 252
      What? Shocker?
      • Jun 2003
      • 115
      #2
      Closed Bolt Vs. Open Bolt!

      X Valve'd.

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        • SuiciDal Sn Y p ER
          Registered User
          • Apr 2003
          • 3814
          #3
          you can use me as the test dummy :)
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            • than205
              Dancer of the kookie jig!
              • Dec 2001
              • 947
              #4
              "Longer Barrels are more accurate."
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                • Mag_SEAL-6
                  #5
                  Can't really think of anything but will be back here if i do. The only "dino" I know is when you get your car tested for torque and hp.

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                    • bertmcmahan
                      Not pop, it's all Coke
                      • Jan 2002
                      • 1960
                      #6
                      Possibly something about the correct way to size a breech on freaks/aradus thingy/kaner/whatever. Or something about how consistent the bores are; i.e., do a test with a Kaner .XXX barrel and with a Freak .XXX barrel on the same gun. That might qualify as a little pricey though. Good luck, I'll post some more as they come.
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                        • SuiciDal Sn Y p ER
                          Registered User
                          • Apr 2003
                          • 3814
                          #7
                          Which bore size works best?

                          Are pumps more accurate than semis?
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                            • Mag_SEAL-6
                              #8
                              btw, to than205: longer barrels are slightly more accurate than shorter ones but the difference is so slight, it's hardly noticeable. Plus, this usually only applies to short ranges, where tighter shot groupings are more apparent.

                              At longer ranges, the ball has achieved a more steep negative slope and the wind has had more effect on it, rendering the barrel length almost unnecessary.

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                                • gtrsi
                                  Automag?
                                  • Dec 2001
                                  • 5786
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by 252
                                  Closed Bolt Vs. Open Bolt!

                                  yea I love that one.
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                                    • soccer4minimags
                                      JAGW
                                      • Sep 2003
                                      • 509
                                      #10
                                      Like mentioned earlier do some barrel bore size tests. But more like this compare a barrel system to a good quality one or two piece barrel that doesn't come with a dozen bore sizes. Basically you'd be trying to prove how much of an advantage the kit would actually give you over just a "decent" match.

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                                        • than205
                                          Dancer of the kookie jig!
                                          • Dec 2001
                                          • 947
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Mag_SEAL-6
                                          btw, to than205: longer barrels are slightly more accurate than shorter ones but the difference is so slight, it's hardly noticeable. Plus, this usually only applies to short ranges, where tighter shot groupings are more apparent.

                                          At longer ranges, the ball has achieved a more steep negative slope and the wind has had more effect on it, rendering the barrel length almost unnecessary.
                                          lol, ok.
                                          Thanotos

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                                            • Tyger
                                              video /k radio star
                                              • Oct 2002
                                              • 1210
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by SuiciDal Sn Y p ER
                                              Which bore size works best?

                                              Are pumps more accurate than semis?
                                              Done those, kinda. Did a whole show talkign about barrel/paint, and did a show where I showed that any gun can hit a target at 75 or so feet if you've got some skill.

                                              And "open vs. closed" bolt? As in accuracy?

                                              -Tyger


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                                              "No social change has ever come about without freaks. Einstein was a freak. Ben Franklin was a freak. Martin Luther King was a freak. ...be proud to be included in those ranks."
                                              -2, The Ranting Gryphon

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                                                • sslecyk03
                                                  Medic in Training
                                                  • Dec 2003
                                                  • 396
                                                  #13
                                                  Compare and contrast the effects on accuracy of different control bore sizes like one inchers (hammerhead and the new stiffi) and longer ones like the rest of the barrel kits
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                                                    • AGD
                                                      The man from AGD

                                                      • Oct 2000
                                                      • 5916
                                                      #14
                                                      Oh I don't know, maybe:

                                                      Low pressure is better
                                                      one barrel is more accurate
                                                      closed bolt vs the world
                                                      hammer valve electro pneumatics are new technology
                                                      AGD is bankrupt
                                                      round paintballs shoot straighter
                                                      RT's are banned from tournaments
                                                      X gun will shoot 30 BPS
                                                      manufacturers really test their guns....

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                                                        • datapimp69
                                                          Pimp Master Delux
                                                          • Jun 2001
                                                          • 1219
                                                          #15
                                                          how about the myth that there is suck a thing as a gun that shoots from an open bolt.

                                                          most kiddies have heard the "open vs closed bolt" phrase said, and i think most think that some guns shoot from an open bolt.

                                                          as we all know the bolt must be closed for it to shoot.

                                                          open or close after the first shot they all shoot the same.


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