A more accurate paintball

Heres my idea to make paintballs more accurate, make them football shaped and add a third ribbon in the middle to seperate the fill into halves. This would allow for rifling. In a standard paintball rifling doesn't work because the fill won't spin but with it spilt into 2 equal halves it would. The reason for the football shape is to ensure that paintball would spin properly. Think of a paintball as a glass of ice water. If you try to spin it the ice doesn't move (like a pb's fill) but with something splitting the glass down the center the ice will spin with the cup. Obviously this new paintball wouldn't work in a standard marker but a breech loaded or magazine feed marker could easily be made. Here is an example of what I mean, red is one half of the fill, blue is the other.

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I could care less about high capacity, I'm a big fan of accuracy over volume. I know it would be expensive to make a new type of paintball but if it did offer a huge improvement in accuracy I think it would sell like crazy.

I really doubt that it would sell like crazy.  The speedballers won't necessarily need greater accuracy because of such proximity in their games.  The concern about the amount of paint sprayed is greater than the accuracy so it won't sell like hotcakes.  For woodsballers, it might be a more viable market, but think of it this way: if a paint co. decides to make only football-shaped pballs, then they're limiting their market to only woodsball players; if they keep with their round pballs, they are open to both markets, and thus gain more profits.  You may very well get a cult following with the greater accuracy, but not enough to provide a big enough profit to pball co. now, so this is mostly impractical unless you become an independent manufacturer.  You might find a decent-enough market in the government and convince them that using paintball markers and football-shaped pballs in cartridges would give a bit more of a realistic flare to training (you actually see the spot you hit instead of hearing it, and you actually feel the hit.)

P.S. The idea is good though.

Enos Shenk wrote: Ive also never understood why people say paintballs dont spin right. The mere existance of the flatline barrel proves that they do. So does work done by AGD with high-speed cameras.

Different issue.  The Flatline proves that the SHELL spins.  The shell spin interacts with the air, changing the trajectory of the paintball.

But the gyroscopic stability gained by travel-axis rotation (like a bullet) cannot be achieved to a meaningful degree by spinning the shell alone - not enough mass relative to the whole paintball.  If the entire paintball could be made to spin like a bullet, there would, in theory, be much to gain in terms of accuracy.

 

why make them like footballs to ustable down the barrel and most that stuff u mention could be done with the barrel not the pb

just make cylinder pb's and use u magezine idea and get a riffled barrel as for makin the pb spin as a "whole" just put a plastic membrane all the way down the cylinder of the pb and that would make the paint spin with the shell 

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it was a good idea tho and it was pretty smart of u to think it up

i was just talking to my dad about doing that 2 my barrel and seeing how it would turn out(stock barrel...not my ultralite)...it worked quite well except that i didn't sand the inside of the barrel after rifling it...so some balls broke...but it does werk with regular pballs...just some wont spin the rite way...so some will act like the barrel isn't rifled and curve a bit and the others will go straight...it also add a lil' distance 2 my shot aswell

Theres only 1 type of marker that could shoot that kind of paintball round....the classic SL-68II.

triggerhappy1 wrote: it would be cool to have ones that are bullet shaped, football shaped is just not practical or possible. i think it would be easy to make a two peiced shell like a pill. one pointy half, one blunt half. but would that rip apart in the barrel? if this worked maybe you could have bolt-action paintball guns, and maybe making snipers in paintball actualy possible. but i doubt it wold work, im just brainstorming.

You need to pay attention, the idea of a bullet shaped paintball round has already has been answered by Brihard.

Clark Kent wrote: Enos Shenk wrote: Ive also never understood why people say paintballs dont spin right. The mere existance of the flatline barrel proves that they do. So does work done by AGD with high-speed cameras. Different issue.  The Flatline proves that the SHELL spins.  The shell spin interacts with the air, changing the trajectory of the paintball. But the gyroscopic stability gained by travel-axis rotation (like a bullet) cannot be achieved to a meaningful degree by spinning the shell alone - not enough mass relative to the whole paintball.  If the entire paintball could be made to spin like a bullet, there would, in theory, be much to gain in terms of accuracy.

It seems to me that if only the shell spins, the rotation would stop almost immediately, slowed by the non-moving fill.

Ive just never bought the paint doesnt spin argument, it bloody well does because you can take a round out of a bag and spin it on the table.