Are your paintballs always breaking inside your barrel? This could be caused by the quality of the
paintballs your loading into your gun. Paintballs that have brittle shells, watery fillings, and
misshapenness have a tendency break in the barrel more often. Most paintball fields require you to
use their paintballs to prevent low quality paintballs from an outside source, entering their field.
When purchasing new paintballs keep these qualities in mind:
Fragile shells
Weaker top-quality shells break much easier preventing paintballs from not breaking on your opponents.
This is very crucial in tournament where every shot counts. They break on your opponent not in your
barrel.
Thickness of the fillings
Thicker the better! With thick paintball fillings it obviously stops other players from wiping the hits
off before a judge notices. The worse feeling is knowing that you hit an opponent and having that player
wipe the hit off and return fire and eliminating you from the game.
Roundness
Keep your balls round! Paintballs supplied by fields have a tendency to be more rounder and superior
quality compared to bucket paintballs by Wal-Mart and similar retailers. With bucket paintballs, you’ll
have more oval, partially round and misshape balls.
Don’t freeze or milt your paintballs! If your paintballs are stored in an area with too much heat or humidity, it can cause the skin to soften and slightly expand; however, an area that is to cold could cause the paintballs to be more brittle, resulting in increase amount of balls breaking inside your barrel. This is why paintball brands have a rating on the temperature ranges stored. To prevent any damage, you should store the paintballs at recommended temperature by the company.
Next time you have the crave to buy bucket paintballs to save $10, remember the feeling of getting eliminated from the game just because your cheap paintball either broke in your barrel, didn’t bust on your opponent, or was wiped off easily. Now think about it, is that feeling worth saving a measly $10? The most proficient ways to locate the finest paintballs for your style of play are word of mouth, trial and error, and avoiding cheap paintballs. All paintballs are not created equal!
