Paintball Cartridges

I am probably the only one who whould want this since everyone seems to be fine with hoppers and Q-loaders.

The cartridges whould be just like a cartridge for a firearm in the sense that you have the round (in this case a paintball) inside a casing ( in this case a simple plastic tube), but in the case of my paintball cartridge the back end is open, so that the air (which is supplied by normal means, that is to say a Co2 tank) can pass throgh the casing and launch the round.
The only purpose of the casing is to make it possible to feed the rounds through a normal size, spring loaded, external magazine, just like a normal rifle. Thus eliminating the need for a top fed hopper or a big bulky Q-loader, or any other external electric device.

Edited by MT. Vigilante - 28 August 2006 at 4:41pm

yep someones already beat you to it they shoot a .42 ball feed but 20 round mags

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yeah but have you seen the price?

i dont know how they can charge that but still stay in business

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yep

MT. Vigilante wrote: That marker doesn't use my Idea at all! Its mags are battery operated and are belt fed, and just use standard paintballs in the mags, all you have to do to understand my idea is read my title, Paintball Cartridges. As in: a round, held inside a casing, fed by means of a spring loaded external magazine.

Oh, you mean something like this, except in .68 caliber.

yep mack is right.

you have reinvented rap4

There has been only one Marker that actually used Paintball Cartridges and Im not talkin about the Rap4's and Rap5's....anyone remember the Tippmann SMG60?

Edited by evil_fingers - 30 August 2006 at 11:53am

Of course the SMG60 uses Strips because, its more Economical and easier to manufacture than using single Paintball Cartridges, Ive seen the Rap4 Paintball Cartridges at the Rap4.com Store here in Northern California and they can get lost each time one is ejected from the gun and the crumby part is that, in order to reuse those spent cartridges, you would need to picked them up individually.

Also, placing a Paintball Cartridge into a Magazine is Time Consuming.

There are a few problems with that though....

1. Money. Paintballs are already expensive enough.

2. The world of Paintball is already set tword using .68 paintballs and it would not be worth it changing to whatever calibler paintball cartriges with magazines.

I know what you are saying and I aggree with you, but I doubt it will happen.

The RAP4 still uses constant air. So end the end, your wasting all that time putting painballs in shells, then loading them. Plus the added cost for the shells.