The World of Paintball Guns

Paintball is a fun filled adrenaline pumping game which many enjoy, young and old. What makes it quite the sport is the fact that it is so easy to play, and tests a paintball player’s abilities in not being tagged out of a paintball game. Tagging stands to be the most basic concept of paintball games, as the premise of the game is to eliminate players by tagging them with paintballs.

Rule variations come in, even as tailor cut rules, ensuring the most maximum of fun which could be yielded from a paintball game. The same rules could also be set in maximizing safety during the course of a paintball game. Among the most popular of paintball game rules would be “capturing the opposing team’s or opponent’s flag”, or “marking the opposing team’s or opponent’s general”.

As a sport, paintball games are highly equipment dependent, as paintball guns, or markers, are required for one to participate in a paintball game. Paintball safety gear, such as paintball masks, are also required paintball equipment for paintball games. As with all other sports, high-end paintball guns, or other paintball equipment don’t necessarily yield to better paintball players, but bad quality paintball guns and/or equipment would greatly affect one’s paintball game in a negative way.

Paintball guns are basically compressed air powered guns which commonly utilize carbon dioxide or high-pressure air in their successful operations. Paintball guns are also referred to as paintball markers, as they are the very items which propel paintballs, which stand as the ammo for paintball guns. Paintball guns are known to have a muzzle velocity of up to 300 ft/s, or 91 m/s. This muzzle velocity value allows for the breaking of paintballs on impact, but not any tissue damage on those hit with aimed paintball guns.

All paintball guns have this muzzle velocity value, but not all come with the same features as other specialized paintball guns do. Some paintball guns utilize electropneumatic technology, where an electronic microswitch, which makes for paintball guns to react faster, with firing rates of up to 30 paintballs per second.

Some paintball guns, or paintball markers, are even designed to appear like real guns. The Tippmann A-5 would be one such gun, or the Smart Parts SP8. These paintball guns are often called mil-sim paintball guns, which is basically short for military simulation. These class of paintball guns stand to be more expensive, and tend to be more reliable and more rugged compared to other high end paintball guns.