Who needs reballs?

[barrel break]

So, Friday night, I went and played some paintball, and came home with ~400 balls of Xball bronze, and a full air tank (68/45 filled to 3000). So, today I was pretty bored and decided to do some snapshooting/accuracy drills. One dilemma, Only 400 balls. So what do I do? I innovate!

My setup:





Using a hanger on a line setup used for drying wetsuits, I hung my jersey (still dirty from last night) and some towels beneath it to catch the balls. Eventually I put one towel up on the line as a second target.

Result? Uber-cool. I started with a 1/3 full egg2 ( ~60 balls), and proceeded to do some shooting. After 11 times of shooting all the balls and then collecting the unbroken ones, I had this many balls:


Pretty damn good, considering most of those that didn't make it were because of my missing my jersey and hitting the fence:


Or hitting the tree.

So, now I have a new problem, I'm going to run out of air instead of paint. :P And with no N2 fills here, thats a bigger problem. Oh well, better than before!

[master_alexander]

nice...

so how are you going to innovate for N2?

i say try blowing up your tank like a baloon...

nice

:edit: i just saw this, you have an ion! lol

[barrel break]

Hehe, yeah, I do.
If I really wanted to, I could use A/S co2 on it, SP claims it's OK. But I'd rather not use co2 on it.

[slade]

hmmm... i tried that in my basement with a towel, but half the shots went straight through the towel

[barrel break]

hmmm... i tried that in my basement with a towel, but half the shots went straight through the towel

Cheap towel?

[ojhspyro89]

I shoot in a bucket, most paintballs do not survive.

[lord1234]

well if you are hanging wetsuits...that might mean you have a scuba tank...which means go get a fill station...

[slade]

Cheap towel?

not really... the balls that didnt go through knocked the towel way back so i had to wait a while before i could shoot again. and im pretty sure i was shooting 280...

[1337caesar]

I did the same thing, our local field offered $10 cdn for 500 ($7.5 us)/ 500

the paint broke way too much so I froze it and did the same thing. Instant reballs

[barrel break]

well if you are hanging wetsuits...that might mean you have a scuba tank...which means go get a fill station...

Er, no.
Why would we automatically have one if we have wetsuits? They are for windsurfing and such.

[sisco87]

exaclty...who needs reballs

i've done the same sorta thing. got a thick blanket, hung it on two tall chairs, then had it slanted/half folded near the bottom so they would just hit and roll down into a box, and reuse them again and again
worked pretty well and really only got balls breaks when one ball would hit right hwere another one was.