Close proximity shooting

[Commissar_Loki]

I saw another post a bit back and put some thought toward the idea. The person said that, if firing fast enough would theoretically the second or so shot hit the first, it was concluded no by the looks of it, however I just thought or something. Think of how ducks fly, the front one breaks the wind up, thus making flying faster and easier for the trailing ones, now theoretically, if you had two shots one next to the other in the air, then the front would slow down taking the brunt of the air resistance. So if you could fire fast enough, it would seem like the front one would always go slightly slower than the following. Am I wrong in this assumption? Just a thought I had while on late.


-Kris

[QUINCYMASSGUY]

logic

You know there is some seriously good logic behind that, I guess what needs to be taken into account is how much of an effect air resistance has on that first paintball being fired at 200mph (300fps if I recall translates to that) which I believe would be considerable after 30-40 feet if not as much initially and if it would be significant enough to slow the paintball down so the next hits it. I think it may not be enough to have a significant effect unless you were shooting into the wind and after the first shot, the rest would all be riding the wave of the one ahead of it so only the first would have a higher possibility of impact. However, the likelihood of the first being affected is definitely there.

[athomas]

As mentioned in the other threads, the "drafting" effect doesn't come into play because of the distance between shots. For the trailing ball to be shielded from the wind resistance by the leading ball and the leading ball sheilded from the vacuum of the trailing ball, the trialing ball would have to be almost touching leading ball. Once there is separation past an inch (approx. - don't know the real value), then there is no benefit to the trailing ball or leading ball.

The effect is very simialr to that seen with nascar. The trailing car must be right up behind the leading car. Once there is separation, then both cars are subject to the same forces and the trailing car can't use the lead car to build up the momentum needed to get past or even catch up.

[painTech]

well to achieve thebps neededto get somethinglike this you would haveto shoot 200 bps. i think. ormybrain is just kinda fsked up.(more than usual.)

[sharpshooter1286]

the surface area of that first ball is not great enough to break up the wind resistance for the second ball, it would run over the first ball, and run over the second ball in the exact same way. if ur gun is extremely consistent, then they will remain in a line where the distance between them is also constant

[J_Hoyt]

The distance will continue to increase. The TIME between them will be constant.

[trains are bad]

I think you people are grossly overestimating how close paintballs are to each other. Realize for the paintballs to be a foot apart, At 280fps, you'd have to be firing **280BPS** Not 28, 280.

Firing 10bps, at 280fps, paintballs are approximately 28 feet apart. Which means if you're close there aren't even 2 in the air at the same time.

[magmon12]

Over a long period of time in flight and a good amount of resistance they MAY hit,but for the most part they will never fly that far or long.

[Willystyle21]

Yeah lets have TK take some of them elves that magically put the balls into X mags, and throw them into a brand new batch of Paint with steering wheels and gas pedals but no brakes.

Go faster not slower.

[FordPrefect]

When my LX is tuned so it is shooting too slow for a certain spring, sometimes it will shoot a ball really slow, and the next shot will hit it in midair. Messy, really. You get a mist of paint.