better paintballs

rvieira wrote: ctchofday wrote: dimpled... like a golf balls... which uses those dimples to "catch" air we want the paintballs to go through the air... not catch it   Chuckle. Not much of a golf player?

They use the dimples so that you can control where it goes, which isnt always straight, right? you use the dimples to "catch" the air so it pulls itself in the somewhat desired direction... also to help the ball travel farther in some cases...

we only want our paintballs to go one direction... straight.. which is why we dont need dimples , and at the velocities we shoot, anything past 180-220ft doesnt usually break anyway due to friction of the air and spherical shape

Ben Dover II wrote: the dimples were put on golf balls to make them more aerodynamic

no? anything not smooth will always be less aerodynamic than anything smooth

i seriously doubt taking a hammer to your car and dimpling it will improve your aerodynamics


Edited by ctchofday - 05 November 2007 at 2:17am

I bet the starter of this thread couldnt find his ass with two hands and a spotlight

Golfballs only go straight when you hit them just right. Ask anyone who as a wicked slice, like me; when the ball slices, it leaves going straight, but it has a side spin on it.

With the exception of the flatline barrel and Apex, we can't control the direction that a paintball will spin. And those barrel put just enough spin on a paintball that the trajectory is perfect. If there were dimples to catch the air better, a Flatline would curve VERY dramatically upward after it left the barrel.

Well that patent was made 2 years ago and it still has never caught on so... that probably says something.


Besides, even if this design did work, these paintballs would be AMAZINGLY expensive anyway.


Edited by TheWarHam - 05 December 2007 at 7:19pm