has anyone seen/used this?

hey i was also wondering, what do you think would happen if i put a lot more than just 1 donut? lol ive got a 16" barrel i bet i could fit 6-8, or on my 20" i could get like 8-10... so ould it make it better to cover the barrel in this stuff? if 1 makes it better shouldnt 10 make it godly?

It stops your barrel from vibrating as much.  Doesn't look like a bad idea at all.

Sounds like a bunch of rubbish to me. Just hold the gun tighter.

the theory is (as i understand it) that the recoil or vibration felt in a gun from the bolt or exiting shell (real firearms) can and does mess with the sites and cause larger grouping in shots with repeated firing, and vibration dampers have been used on real firearms for quite some time to help keep the gun steady.

With paintball though. theres a lot more factors at play. First of all grouping shots tightly is next to impossible given the fact that the projectile is a sphere of paint (lol) so the loss of accuracy caused by gun vibration is not a real worry and for the same reason, sites cant be relied upon  in paintball with the precision that marksmen use with real guns so that factor becomes a... non factor

the only real use i can see this having is it could possibly absorb some of the vibration felt in ur hands..

in all, it's a product that is trying to use real world technology on guns that wont really benefit from the results it has. I'm sure it deadens some vibration.. but will it make your groupings tighter.. i highly doubt it..

 

ya but like i said, what if i coverd the whole gun in it? lol just get some rubber and cover my gun.... then cover myself...lol

ahhh

my other theory was that since you are adding weight to the front of the barrel, it would be lesslikely to come up from recoil.

lol ty....lol made me laugh... what if someone made a rubber barrel, or rubber gun??? omg lol setting the bounce on a gun would be trying to keep it from bouncing of the ground or sometin... meh ill try to get the sniper donut and see what happens, itll be a while tho..

The Guy wrote: ahhh my other theory was that since you are adding weight to the front of the barrel, it would be lesslikely to come up from recoil.

I'd have to agree that it seems to just be a simple counterweight. It's put on the end of a barrel where it has the most leverage on the gun when you consider the axis it pivots around when fired so it's at least positioned properly as a counterweight. That would be the only way I could imagine it doing anything at all but even that would probably have a very minute effect on your groupings if you know how to hold your gun steady. Most high-end guns have hardly any recoil anyway so it would really only be useful on the low-end blow-backs like tippmanns. That is, if it works at all. I really don't think it would do crap for you.

guys ur still overlooking the fact that a paintball doesn't fly straight enough to be an effectively accurate projectile.. sniper donut or not.

reduced vibration in a paintball gun is a waste of money.

the only time this vibration damper would be useful would be if u were staked out under cover "sniping" people from long distances away with repedative shooting. yu could never use this in speedball, walking the trigger and running like a mad man or jumping out from behind a bunker all will all have much more noticable effects when it comes to ur groupings then some gun vibration. and in the case of "sniping" or long distance marksmanship with a paintball gun.... come on, you're shooting a .68 calibre ball of paint with compressed air at under 300fps.. gun vibration is the least of ur concerns.

Mack wrote: mod98commando wrote: The Guy wrote: ahhh my other theory was that since you are adding weight to the front of the barrel, it would be lesslikely to come up from recoil. I'd have to agree that it seems to just be a simple counterweight. It's put on the end of a barrel where it has the most leverage on the gun when you consider the axis it pivots around when fired so it's at least positioned properly as a counterweight. That would be the only way I could imagine it doing anything at all but even that would probably have a very minute effect on your groupings if you know how to hold your gun steady. Most high-end guns have hardly any recoil anyway so it would really only be useful on the low-end blow-backs like tippmanns. That is, if it works at all. I really don't think it would do crap for you. You're working off an incorrect assumption:  It doesn't necessarily go on the end of the barrel.  The accompanying text in the link clearly states, "This easy-to-install unit simply slips over most standard barrels and will work anywhere on the barrel."* That's why I think they are claiming more than counter-weight benefits.** *Bold added for emphasis. **Whether their claims are accurate or not is yet to be seen.

If it goes anywhere on the barrel then what I said is still true, although putting it on the end is the smartest place to put it if it is indeed a counterweight. I don't see it being capable of doing anything other than adding weight so I'm assuming that is the only purpose it serves. They can say that it will work anywhere on the barrel but they don't say it will work well at any position. You also have to consider that a 0.004" tighter grouping might be their definition of working. Either way, I agree with Zippo that this thing is most likely useless on a paintball gun.

EDIT: Forgot, the other function was to absorb vibration. Um, maybe it's just me, but my gun does not vibrate. It recoils when I shoot but that's all. The only 9v on there is to power the APE board, not to make it a vibrator.


Edited by mod98commando - 11 August 2007 at 9:29am