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Home | Recreation & Sports | Tennis The popularity of paintball has sky-rocketed over the past few years. If we have to be completely accurate, paintball is the fastest growing sport in the country. According to insurance reports, paintball is amongst the safest sports, and that's because of all the latest advancements in the production technology of paintball equipment. The two most important elements of a player's equipment are the goggles (protecting your eyes and ears) and the paintball gun. Here is how a paintball marker works. The entire principle of operation is founded on the power of expanding gas used to propel paintballs through the barrel at the speed of 91m/s. This speed is imposed by manufacturers for safety limits. The paintballs are produced in such manner that they break when colliding with something, releasing red paint and causing slight pain, like a sting. The construction of a marker consists of body, hopper, tank and a barrel. To allow a player to carry around the marker freely when funning, they body is fabricated from light materials such as aluminum or carbon fiber. The small tank holding the paintballs is called hopper. The following types of hoppers are available - gravity feed, stick feed, agitating, and force feed. Gravity feed is the most basic type of hopper, having a limitation of only 8 balls per second. Stick feeds are able to hold up to 20 paintballs. The agitating hoppers are the best type, because they don't jam and use propellers to agitate the paintballs. Force-feed force the paintballs into the marker using a spring, belt-fed system or a propeller. The tank is the container which holds the paintballs to be fired. The barrel directs the shot. Barrels come in different styles and lengths. Generally, markers are classified as 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. The high-end models have a display showing the number of balls left in the hopper, shooting rate and game time. Paintball markers are divided in the following way - stock glass, pump action, semi automatic, electropneumatic, fully automatic. The semi automatics require the player to pull the trigger for each and every shot. Fully automatic models keep on firing until you release the trigger. The stock glass paintball markers are pump action pistols holding between 10-15 paintballs at a time, but you have to tilt them to feed the next ball in the barrel. When it comes to the certain brands and models, RAP4 is probably the best paintball marker ever made. It's a replica of the M4 rifle used by US SWAT teams and military. Another famous model is the Tippmann M98, which is probably the most dependable and rugged marker of them all, due to it's simple construction. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
This according to Diablo Paintball is the "evolution of a proven success". Author - Steve Timmeson.
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