Bolt-action idea...

My dad told me he went paintballing with his servise pistol all he did was take out the barrel put a diff one in and you fire paintball shells with a percussion cap, maybe they have one for a rifle too?

Were is he wrote: My dad told me he went paintballing with his servise pistol all he did was take out the barrel put a diff one in and you fire paintball shells with a percussion cap, maybe they have one for a rifle too?

Were, that's a military/law enforcement training tool called 'Simunitions'. It's HIGHLY illegal at paintball fields, and any weapon firing them is a legal firearm. I've fired them out of my service rifle. They work the same way a real bullet does, except that the projectile is a thin plastic shell with dye in the tip. It comes in many different calibres, and can be fired from most service weapons with only a few modifications. Belt linked rounds are even available to fire from machineguns.

I guarantee that you will never find a paintball field where you can use these. Theya re REAL weapons cartridges, fired from REAL weapons, and can be lethal without proper protective equipment. A soldier was killed training with these things when one blew clean through his neck because he didn't wear the neck protector.

The closest you'll get to this legally is the RAP series of paintball markers, the RAP-4, RAP-5, and RAP-17. They simulate the M4, MP5, and Glock 17 respectively. NEat pieces of gear, and very realistic. They market themselves to military and LEO training as well, but are legal in many paintball fields. They use a custom calibre of ammunition though, .43, so it can't be a field that makes you buy your paint there. http://www.realactionpaintball.com/ They fire from magazines, and the air sources are hidden inside the amrker, so they appear stunningly realistic- no hopper, no (visible) tank, no remote line. They even have the paintballs enclosed in small cylindrical plastic or brass shells, which eject when fired for ultimate realism. It's definitely a niche marker, but would be a hell of a cool toy.

Oh, hell, you know- I just thought of a way that a bolt action paintball gun could be doable. It would really only take some modification of a pump gun. Say a Phantom, or even a Brass Eagle Talon. It would have to be a custom body of course, but the actual mechanism would be easy to build onto the existing parts with a Dremel, a bit of hardware, and enough spare time... The only real difficult bit would be the body.

www.howstuffworks.com

Go there and search for paintball. There is an animation of a pump gun (the innards). Ok, now a bolt action uses a twisting action would would be hard to work out if the bolt has to twist, go back and get the hammer, twist back, fire. The hammer would stay in the same position as when fired. Unless you make a groove so that the hammer twists after firing, which you would lose efficiency.

Its really just not worth it, your best bet is to get a pump and make it look bolt action.

this is an old idea sorry