How many paintballs come in a case of paint?

[NJPaint]

I was loading up pods and noticed that the case of Blaze that I was loading was umm, short a few balls...

The first bag I opened, I filled 4 pods full, but the last pod was only half full. Thats ~450 paintballs. I thought that it was a fluke so I tried another bag... I filled 4 tubes to the top, but my 5th tube was only 75% full. So ~475 in that bag. I thought wtf, something is wrong, let me check another case... So I opened a second case of blaze and did the same with another bag. It was about in the middle of the other two bags.

So lets theorize that each bag was about 33 paintballs short. That means that every case is 133 paintballs short of what they advertise. Makes me wonder that this month I probobly am missing almost half a case of paint. Has anyone else tried doing this? Or ever wondered if the paintball companies are actually giving you 2000 paintballs? I was really baffled.
[/end conspiracy theory]

okay, maybe I just have a bad set of cases, or maybe just a bad set of Blaze... I checked to make sure my tubes were 100rnd tubes and I rechecked the paint... I still haven't hand counted the paint, but I think I might, just to make sure that the rough *pod* method is somewhat accurate. If someone who has Blaze on hand could do an independant check, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I mean, its not like a few balls here and there is that big a deal, but this is almost 10% of the paint missing, thats pretty bad...

[TheTramp]

Well, to answer your question...2000 but I think you already knew that .

If you want to see if you are really getting short-changed you should count the paint ball by ball. If it's really 10% off that's something to complain about. I would think +/- 10 balls (not %) per bag would be normal as the machine filling the bags isn't exactly counting but 10% missing in each bag shows (IMHO) a filling machine that's been intentionaly set low.

[cphilip]

Yea 2000, but heck I remember cases were 2500 per case for Nelson Splat back when it was pretty decent paint!

[langrage]

Did you make sure your pods only held 100 balls? May be your tubes hold 105 balls or 110? Granted the cases may have been off some but your tubes could be the problem as well

[NJPaint]

lol, I KNOW cases are marked 2000 rnds, having gone through dozens of them, I would hope that they were around there... But anyways, I filled up the tubes with the first bag (had them in a bucket) and hand counted the contents, 102, 101, 103, 99, 55 I'd say not bad... Came out to 460 exactly. I'm not out to sue anyone... I just was surprised (probobly first time I'm loading paint in my room instead of just shoving it into pods right next to the field...

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

I was thinking about this the other day when i bought a different brand of paint. I fill usually fill 3 tubes up with one bag and have a handful of paint left over with one bag of most draxxus(midnight, blaze). I bought a case of primer a few weeks back goign to a different field and noticed thati had more left over after the first bag. By the second bag, i had 7 pods by the end of the second bag. That ne3ver happened with any midnight case i have ever gotten. I'd be willing to bet they've been shorting the paint for quite a while to save a little bit of money.

[langrage]

You could always email these people to find out. but for some strange reason the guy likes rubbing things on his face

http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/howmuchinside.html

[-=Squid=-]

Thats odd, the stuff at my field, I believe, has more than 500 per bag, not marked that way though, because I can fill 3 pods and my halo to the brim and have a handful left over from one bag of marked 500...hmm

[shartley]

[NJPaint]

Originally posted by shartley

hehe, I know, I checked how many fit in a pod, see 4th post

[shartley]

Originally posted by NJPaint


hehe, I know, I checked how many fit in a pod, see 4th post

Yes, that was one bag.

[hitech]

If you really want to easily count paintballs from a case get 10 of the old school tubes (they hold 10 paintballs each). Tape the 10 of them together in the shape of a "pod". Use that to count the paint (holds exactly 100 paintballs). It really doesn't take that long.

[shartley]

Originally posted by hitech
If you really want to easily count paintballs from a case get 10 of the old school tubes (they hold 10 paintballs each). Tape the 10 of them together in the shape of a "pod". Use that to count the paint (holds exactly 100 paintballs). It really doesn't take that long.

[hitech]

I thought about that, but then they would want to go in the backyard and shoot them all! They are not old enough to play, but love to shoot. Not to mention I'd be finding paintballs rolling around the house for a week.

[deathstalker]

Re: How many paintballs come in a case of paint?

Originally posted by NJPaint
I mean, its not like a few balls here and there is that big a deal, but this is almost 10% of the paint missing, thats pretty bad...

Actually, it's closer to 5% than 10% (6.65% to be exact). Not quite as bad as you make it sound, IMO.

To begin, I will state quite clearly that I know absolutely nothing about how balls are "counted" when bagged. My guess is it's done by wieght and if I'm correct, there could be a number of variables causing paint shortages. Their scales might need to be calibrated, the fill might not be consistent in each ball, etc.

Each company might also have it's own QA standards and the issue you describe is still within normal parameters. I've never had a reason to doubt the paint I use, including Blaze, but I expect and get about 3.5 pods (140's) out of a bag of 500.

However, reminds me of the "factoids" tossed around every once in a while stating how much money an airline saved by removing one olive from each salad. There's even a commercial on TV now with the same concept.