Cheap Paintball Guns For U

OK - so let’s now get down to the nitty gritty of a how a paintball gun works. But first an overview.

Under thrust from expanding gas a paintball is pushed through a paintball gun barrel. A speed limit of 91 meters per second has been set as the safety limit to which manufacturers should adhere to ensure that the sport of paintball remains safe. The paintballs themselves are designed to break up on impact, releasing paint and causing minimal pain … not unlike a sharp sting at worst.

The main components of a paintball gun comprise a body, barrel, hopper and tank.

Great care is taken to ensure that the paintball gun can be easily carried around the field and so light-weight materials such as carbon fiber and aluminium are extensively employed in the body production process.

A hopper is the small tank used to contain the paintballs to be fired. These can be fed into the body either by way of gravity (gravity feed hoppers) propelled agitation of the paintballs (agitating hoppers), stick feed which employs rocking of the marker to load paintballs into the barrel and force feed which utilizes a spring, belt-fed system or a propeller. Gravity feed is the most basic type of hopper whereby you are limited to only 8 balls per second. Stick feeds are limited to 20 paintball capacity. Arguably agitating hoppers come out tops for reliability because of their disinclination to jam.

Longer barrels will fire quieter than shorter models, but a paintball gun owner should remember that irrespective of barrel length, the paintball can only travel a set distance in order to break. A longer barrel may look intimidating and offer better accuracy, but it may not be especially effective since it requires a larger back thrust of air to propel the ball faster to make up the distance within the barrel itself.

The tank is a chamber which contains the gas - usually Co2 although in more expensive models sometimes compressed air.

Generally, paintball guns fall into two categories - mechanical or electronic. The electronic ones are embedded with a microchip which regulates the release of paintballs into the barrel. They also require some type of compressed gas.

Paintball guns can be classified into the following groups:

Stock class: Significant characteristics are that these must be pump-action; they cannot hold more than 20 paintballs at a time; they must be powered by 12-gram CO2 powerlets and the magazine tube must be parallel to the barrel so they can be tilted to feed the next ball in the barrel.
Pump action: require manual recocking after every shot.
Semi automatic: require the player to pull the trigger for each and every shot.
Electropneumatic: utilize a pneumatic solenoid to actuate the hammer and/or bolt’s movement.
Fully automatic: will continue firing until such time as you decide to release your finger from the trigger.

Common first paintball gun purchases are the Tippmann 98 custom, BT 4, Tippmann A-5, PCS US-5, Smart Parts Ion, or Kingman Spyder models.

In your search for a cheap paintball gun you will not be wanting to compromise unduly on quality and for that reason may perhaps choose a pump-action model rather than one of the popular semi automatic models. Low-end models are not only cheap (often a major consideration when you are just starting out), but they require the player to re-aim with every shot and thus also enhance shooting skills.

New to Paintball - and not quite sure which way to get started? Perhaps you have a limited budget and you’ve checked out the more popular brands of cheap paintball guns via this blog but would like a bit of reassurance from those ‘into the sport’ as to the good guns and not so good guns before you take the plunge.

Then hike over to one of the many Paintball forums, sign up and throw yourself at the mercy of the hundreds of fanatic Angel, Spyder and Tippmann fanatic paintballers (and others), all eager to convince you that their model gun is the one you should have and the best value for money if you are seeking out a cheap paintball gun.

Check out the Xtreme Paintball Forum, the Paintball Central Forums and the Paintball.com forum …. these will get you started but there are dozens more. If you are looking to buy and are unsure if your paintball gun is as good or as cheap as it should be, or which of the cheaper Spyder, Tippmann and Angel guns best stacks up for the money, then you’ve just gotta go visit one of these paintball forums .

I’m Dale Calder and I live in Auckland, the City of Sails, New Zealand. I am married with two adult sons and we are all paintball fanatics. Fortunately we live in a country blessed with some of the most beautiful natural surrounds in the world … a veritable paintballer’s paradise.

I hope that this resource blog assists you in some way to zero in on the gun best suited to your needs from the many cheap paintball guns out there.

Go out and blast ‘em … and you take care now!

Dale