Smaller Paintballs? Smaller Cost?

[SpitFire1299]

I was thinking.. what if they made paintballs slightly smaller? Like .50 or something. I know all paintballs are based around .68, im not saying this will happen, just curious.

[rkjunior303]

certain hits are hard enough to tell already, making them smaller would just ask for cheating even more.. besides, they already make .50cal paintballs

[SpitFire1299]

certain hits are hard enough to tell already, making them smaller would just ask for cheating even more.. besides, they already make .50cal paintballs

So.. would it be cheaper to make them?

[camilion705]

More expensive... All of the paint companies would probably have to change all of their machinery from .68 to .50. Those machines are very, very expensive.

[Phantom_Mag]

Not only that but one can expect alot more bounces. It would effect the paintballs accelleration rate, and well change everything about your paintball markers. It would be a much more painfull game since fps would have to increase making it more dangerous as well. It wont happen.

[geekwarrior]

not to mention all new guns/barrels

[JESTER22]

.50 are best used for traget shooting with airsoft guns. as they need to hit something hard to break. if you shoot something softer like the body it will bounce. the bigger the ball more chance of breaking on impact.

they used to do a .62 ball which was mostly used on skirmish sites(was in the UK not sure about US sites) and they had a tendancy to bounce also.

[Beemer]

Whats Best?

I was thinking.. what if they made paintballs slightly smaller? Like .50 or something. I know all paintballs are based around .68, im not saying this will happen, just curious.

[Lee]

i remember the days of the .62 cal smg paint. those things stung!

they bounced a lot too.

[Ace12GA]

The rap markers use a .40 or .43cal paint I believe.

[athomas]

It takes a certain amount of energy to break the shell of a paintball. If you reduce the size and weight, then you must increase the velocity to achieve the same impact force. The same impact force hitting a smaller area, hurts a lot more, plus it exerts a higher force per area on the impact site. If we keep the same velocity to maintain a safe operating environment, then we won't have the required force to consistenly break the paintballs and we will experience more bounces.

I don't think its the cost of the ingredients as much as the cost of the process that determines the price of our paintballs. If the price of ingedients were a major factor, we would have seen major increases in paintball prices as the price of petrolium and other ingedients increased.