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I just need a little information about paintball guns.

PMI is a brand/company. Stands for Pursuit Marketing Inc. They were absorbed into what is now considered Empire, which is owned by KEE Action Sports (some huge sports conglomerate).

GTI is a particular model of Piranha, a marker made by PMI. I don’t know what GTI stands for, though. If i had to guess, it could just be adapted from the racing term, "Grand Touring – Injection." How that would translate into the Piranha GTI, i have no clue, aside from sounding cool.

for a beginner not looking to spend to much on the sport
We play woodsball and even though I am a rookie did really well borrowing my friends semi-auto spyder
We play woodsball and even though I am a rookie did really well borrowing my friends semi-auto spyder

IHMO, the best affordable, overall paintball marker for a beginner is a factory re-manufactured Spyder VS2 for $70. New is $99-$150. It is a beginner to intermediate level, electronic paintball marker that you can use it for both woodsball and speedball.

Action Village: http://www.actionvillage.com/010-214-0104

Whatever you decide, do yourself a favor and do not buy a Brass Eagle, JT USA, Stryker, or Viewloader brand paintball marker.

I’m wanting to do one of these sports one day but not sure which one, so which one is better?

Airsoft and paintball are two sports that should be able to coexist, but don’t. The sports both serve different markets. Paintball seems to entertain the people that tend to play "extreme sports". It is characterized by fast paced, hard hitting, action. Airsoft serves the more tactical crowd, who prefer teamwork and strategy over speed of action. Airsoft is also very commonly used as an effective tool for training in Military/Police forces. Also, I see a lot of people try to use the excuse, "people lie in airsoft since there’s no mark from the paint." I am an airsofter, but occasionally play paintball. And I have to say, I have come across more liars in paintball than in airsoft. Just because you get paint on you, doesn’t mean it won’t come off. I’ve seen many paintballers carry around wet towels to wipe of the paint to stay in game. Since there is no paint in airsoft, this sport requires more honesty and trust in your fellow players. So, in my personal opinion, I think you should pick up airsoft as a sport. It’s more realistic as a sport, the guns shoot harder and faster, the guns are more realistic, and its a ton cheaper. But, if you like running in circles, spraying at every thing that moves, by all means, pick up a paintball marker.

~Airsoft Ghillie
Four Year Airsoft Sniper

Im looking for a Piranha USP pistol. everywhere i go, it is either sold out or no longer available.

ps: I am looking for a new one, so i dont want to buy from ebay or craiglist.

Piranha is no longer it’s own stand-alone company. It’s owned by Kee Action Sports, as is Spyder – a long time competitor of Piranha’s. The USP pistols are no longer being manufactured. Please reference the following website for more information on Kee’s current paintball marker offerings:

http://keeactionsports.com/

what the difference between them all price wise and quality wise and how do i fill them up

CO2 is the cheaper of the gas propellants, cost wise and equipment wise. It is also the easiest to find, being available at many more places than High Pressure Air (HPA).
HPA is more expensive due to higher quality hardware to store and process. 3500 PSI is a lot of pressure.
The drawback with CO2 is inconsistent temperature performance. CO2 can freeze up the marker during sustained heavy use. This can weaken internal components to the point of failure.
HPA is not affected by temperature changes and therefore more consistent. The fire rates of current markers exceed the capabilities of CO2 to expand from liquid to gas and remain stable. As the marker shoots, liquid CO2 is released into the receiver and expands into a gas, propelling your paintball out of the barrel. If this action is repeated often enough, the receiver becomes cold enough to prevent the liquid from becoming gas. This is why balls begin fall short and eventually do not exit the barrel at all. Even expansion chamber equipped markers are susceptible the gas freeze up.
HPA does not have this drawback, therefore the "quality" appears to be better due to every ball consistently going into the same general area.
CO2 refills are fairly inexpensive, running a few dollars per 16-20 oz bottle. Air will cost two or three times that, but that forty dollar box of paint you buy will go where you want it to, most of the time.
Paintball stores and fields should have some means of refilling both systems, sporting goods stores also might have CO2 stations, fewer will have air available. You could buy your own bulk gas and refill your own gear, but the cost might be a few hundred dollars just for the hardware.

Im new to paintball so i dont know what Ramp is. Can someone please describe ramp psp and ramp millennium???

These answers are all wrong.

Psp ramp is when you pull the trigger at 5 bps for after the first 3 trigger pulls it will kick into a mode called "ramping". Ramping is like full auto, except you must continue pulling the trigger at 5bps for it to continue ramping. People are wrong about the rate of fire though. The maximum is not 15, nor was it ever 15, the maximum was 15.4 balls per second since the start of the PSP circuit. However, it was dropped to 13.3 bps for the 2008 season. I have heard rumors that it is now at 10.5 bps, however i have not confirmed this. Personally, i can shoot faster than 10 bps, around 11 or 12 on semi, so i think if they lowered it below 13.3 that is ridiculous. PSP mode stands for Profesional Sports Promotions, and is the mode used in PSP tournaments.

Millenium is the European paintball pro tournament circuit.

"11.01 Players may use a single .68 caliber paintball marker, which consists of a single barrel
and a single trigger system. Double-action triggers are prohibited. Markers will be
limited to 15 balls per second, defined as no two consecutive shot maybe timed shorter
than 65ms apart. Trigger activation may be stored for up to 100ms after trigger pull
but must be cancelled on the next trigger activation (this is to allow guns to shoot at
15bps in semi-automatic mode). Ramping of shots will be allowed only once 7.5bps
has been achieved and then the marker may ramp to 15bps only if the 7.5bps is
continually maintained. Once the trigger is released only a single additional shot may
be discharged thereafter."

This is a direct quote from the Millenium 2009 rules handbook. What this simply means is that the board is capped at 15, even in semi automatic. So as fast as you can pull the trigger, if you hit 16 or 17, you marker will still only shoot 15, kinda like a speed limiter in your car. But also, your marker is allowed to ramp like in psp, however the limit of the ramp is 15 bps even. Also, 7.5 bps must be achieved in order for the ramping to kick in, as opposed to 3 trigger pulls consecutively at 5 bps.

Also, the other major pro circuit, the NPPL, requires semi automatic only, I believe the XPSL is also the same way.

A ball being loaded slower won’t affect accuracy. Not to mention that there is no such thing as a sniper in the sport of paintball.

Each marker is shooting under 300 fps and will all go the same distance, and since they are round projectiles, rifled barrels will not work AT ALL.

However, Tiberious Arms invented a paintball with these little fins called ‘First Strike’ rounds. They only work on the Tiberious T9 but they are way more accurate than regular paint. They also work in the Empire Traccer pump marker, but you have to manually load each round which is kind of cool if you like the whole sniper milsim idea.

I am in year 10 and i need help with my science assignment. I am looking for an experiment that relates to the magnus effect and soccer (football). This is in relation to physics

The Magnus effect is the phenomenon whereby a spinning object flying in a fluid creates a whirlpool of fluid around itself, and experiences a force perpendicular to the line of motion. The overall behavior is similar to that around an airfoil (see lift force) with a circulation which is generated by the mechanical rotation, rather than by airfoil action In many ball sports, the Magnus effect is responsible for the curved motion of a spinning ball.

The Magnus effect is commonly used to explain the often mysterious and commonly observed movements of spinning balls in sport, especially association football, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, golf, baseball, cricket and in various paintball marker brands.

I want to start paintballing and start playing it alot and maybe get on a team. PLEASE tell me everything i need to know. From what gun to get, to what kind of paintballs to use, to what stuff I should wear, and stuff like that. THX!

Good anwser rich. Okay this will be a long one but i’ll just hit the high points for you. Congrats on your decision, paintball is an amazing sport. Paintball is the 3rd largest extreme sports in the world and the most played sport every weekend around the globe ever. Alittle history lesson next. Paintball originated well over 25-30 years ago by cowhands that used pellet rifles with small claiber paintballs to mark cattle with but quickly turned into a game with each other. There for a decade or so paintball had a rough start but eventually gained ground when people began making companies to produce products and markers. Paintballs where WAY more expensive than they are today but considering if your pump pistol only shot an average of 1bps per second and games where mainly woods you didn’t need much anyways. Through shakey beginnings companies answered the players needs by trying to build a reliable semi auto marker to bust the pump blues people had fallen into. The first real success came from tippmann and pmi with the introduction of tippmanns smg68 and 68 special along with pmi’s infamous Pmi 3 (vm68) despite being gas hogs they did their job of reliability in 1990. The vm68 paved the way for the new stacked blow back design markers (i.e spyders) and tippmann setting themselves inline for further sucess. While both companies continued to push their way further in technology more and more companies hit the market to try their hand in the trade.
Agd hit the scene with one intention in mind, to cut the air hog issue down thus breaking the mold with their blow foward design (automag) which opperated at a much less 400-500psi than previous markers on the market. Agd was also the first to offer a rate of fire statistic (7bps). Due to the markers low pressure cycle an air source above 850psi was needed so these markers were more or less pushed into a highpressure league but the incarring public still supported it’s amazing success and their markers are still being produced today! Wgp hit the scene with being well known for their earlier projects (nelson and sheridan pumps) had taken the sheridan based pump (the sniper) and turned it into a trigger actuated pneumatically automated semi auto marker know as the autococker.Thanks to this automation system, the gun used a very low gas pressure fed to a pneumatic ram to cock the gun following each shot. Since the cocking action and the firing are not happening simultaneously (which is the case with a blow-back / spyder), the gas is not required to do double duty, thus overall gas pressure is not an issue.
This marker went on to become the first marker to ever be made entirely out of aftermarket parts and it’s upgradability and closed bolt function made this an instant popularity winner which is still in production today. After these steps foward most of the semiauto markers became "higher end gear" field forcing pumps to an entry level status until the introduction of kingman industries which produced a reliable blow back marker for under 200 dollars and still hold the title for entry level markers today. The pumps on the other hand got the shaft for awhile by being seen as "the poor persons marker" and yielded a big disadvantage to the user if they were to be playing with semi auto owners. Recently pump leagues have began to spring up and regain the pumps popularity with the help of chipley machine and many others.
Since the mid-late 90’s paintball really took off. Not only for gear but in playing style. People began to come out of the woods to play the new exciting speedball games and left a few in the middle for recball. Thus spreading the game to new horizons. The gear began to take a turn for the sky as tons of new companies hit the market with improving the sport in their sights. Electro pnuematic markers ruled the speedball fields and apg magazines but were rarely in the price range of the average person. Air systems began to get more reliable and complex while dropping slighty in price while paintball goggles began to encorporate the face shield more into their normal makes pleasing many users. Around the turn of the century markers began to slide toward an electric mode of operation starting with electric frame upgrades for mags,cockers,spyders,ect. and eventually a few years later leading markers to come stock with such. The big joke we always had back around 1998-2000 was that one day electronic markers would be affordable which open mouth insert foot occured because now the low level markers that hover around 100 dollars or less come strapped with electronics. Break throughs in the paint area was nothing short of amazing also due to a much better .68 shell and fill at a lower price. Around 2000-2003 higherend markers of the 90’s began to fade away (cocker,mag,ect.) as the market gave birth the the new shocker design and dyes dm series spool valve markers along with many, many others. Here we are today with 25+bps compared to the old 7bps from our friend the mag and electronic upgrades are affordable and well worth the dollar. A full gear setup for a beginner can now be purchased for under 100 bucks and walmarts deal with brasseagle (daisy) helps bring it just a tad closer to the public by helping new players get their feet wet and upgrade from those beginnings.
Tournements in speedball styles became very popular and attracted many multimillion dollar sponsers which helped speedball glamorize the sport across the globe. Woods became a milsim (military simulation) based style now which further pushed tippmanns amazing track record and following.
It seems in your answer you’re wanting to play more of a recball/speedball style of paintball judging from your willingness to join a team. Don’t put your buggy in front of your horse friend, every successful team started out small and worked their way up to a win. Nobody, not even Lang or The troll can do such a feat as starting on the speedball field.
I suggest you invest in a model 98, spyder or piranha and familularize yourself with all the styles of play to get your feet wet before focusing on practice. Crawl before you walk, start in the woods as where most all of us did and enjoy yourself and get used to your gear and gain some building blocks of knowledge then move on to recball which would to get a faster pace feel for things and then after awhile move on to the speedball field. Start solo and practice with some friends to get the feel of the objectives and bunkers in the game. Upgrade your gear about this time to an electro pnuematic and learn to use it as a part of your body, like a 3rd arm if you will. Always challenge slighty better players as to gain some sort of a staircase to climb with experience and practice. After you’ve gotten a good tase of things and feel confident enough join a team and prepare for tourney play. There’s hundreds of drills a seasoned player would be glad to show you to help out when that time arrives. During this evolution into different styles I still enjoy playing woods just as much as I enjoy getting nasty at huntington beach for a tourney. Doing this step up program gives your a MUCH wider view of the sport as a whole and it’s gear which in the long run will fuel yourself to numerous wins and fun times. Paintballs? I suggest going with a good brand such as draxxus or rps. Stuff to wear? I wear a pair of paintball pants and a longsleeve shirt, cleats and gloves. Most wear that setup or just a simple pair of pants and a tee. To ensure the most out of your marker be sure to stick by the three b’s of paintball which is Bolt,Barrel & Ball. An aftermarket bolt will not only increase the markers efficiency but you’ll gain some accuracy. The barrel which anything over 14" becomes a friction problem on the exiting paintball causing a drastic loss in air efficiency and accuracy so a good 12-14" barrel such as an evil driver,j&j ceramic,armson stealth,smart parts tear drop,ect will do the trick. Paintballs have a shelf life and unless used quickly or stored correctly will begin to break down the shell and form dimples and softness which will not fly straight and might repture before exiting the barrel.
Markers all should be operated at under 300fps and goggles to be worn at all times when around a armed marker without a barrel blocking device secured. By insurance standards paintball is the safest sport out there and that includes tennis,golf,frisbee,ect.
Congrats,enjoy and for anything further or if I left something important out (i’m sleepy) then email me at hotshot_pb@hotmail.com

tdcassick1 is right. Paintballs/markers were originally designed to paint cattle and trees at a distance. The color of the paint would determine what action would be taken for the marked object.

Guys being guys they started shooting eachother. This grew in popularity and eventually evolved into the original "survival" games. Progress took this to "woodsball" and woods tournaments then into field tournaments. It’s continued to progress since.

The original paintballs were much harder than the ones today and really hurt when they hit you. They were filled with an oil based paint that rarely came out of clothing, or off skin, without turpentine or some other paint thinner. When I first started the pump pistols were the main markers, though semi auto markers were making it on the scene. It cost $50 to play at the indoor range and this got you the marker rental, the goggles (no full masks, just goggles), 2 ten round tubes of paint (plus the one in the marker), and 2 12g CO2 cartridges. If you wanted more they ran approximately $5 for a ten round tube of paint and $3 for a 12g cartridge.