Hansel, now we'll be 1337 snipers legitment!

aaaaand introducing the new, probably outrageously expensive, problem when dealing with the almost sure to come sniper fan boys 

Paintball's First Sniper Round

Utilizing a combination of aerodynamic shape and fin stabilization technology, First Strike Projectiles maintain their velocity longer. The result is 50% greater range and unrivaled accuracy. Finally players have an alternative to accuracy by volume or backspin gimmicks that simply change trajectory. Become one of the first true paintball snipers with first strike. First Strike conversion kits are available for all Tiberius Arms markers.

Test conducted by firing 5 paintballs and 5 First Strike Projectiles from the same marker at the same velocity (300fps) from a bench mount at a 45 degree angle

Max Range of a standard paintball - 337 feet
Max Range of First Strike Projectile: 510 feet

Test conducted by firing 15 standard paintballs and 15 first strike projectiles from the same marker, on a bench mount, at the same velocity (290fps) on an indoor range at 100 feet.

Tical3.0 wrote: If I ever get shot with one of those paintballs I quit,

QFT.

Oooh, beaten to the punch. I was about to post these...

i don't know, and there's no telling. But if they're only being sold by the clip, as the packaging implies, I'm sure its obsurd for only 8 rounds.

I'll believe it when I see it.

so if i load them into my hopper, how are they not going to get jammed? are those only going to work in the tiberius pistol?

Edited by GI JOES SON - 08 February 2009 at 9:51am

a_sock wrote: rumoured something like 70cents a round, and only available in 10 round tubes. I like how people said they would quit if they were shot by one of these, but on pbn I was flamed because I was worried that a projectile that held its velocity longer would hurt more when getting hit, I said that it it lost its velocity at a lower rate than a normal paintball, you could get hit from  a fair ways out and it still have enough force to feel like its point blank

That's because most people on PBN don't understand basic physics.

Mack wrote: *Perhaps even at lower velocities than other rounds if the weight variation from normal paintballs is sufficient to change the impact energy.

This is what I'm thinking: The addition of those doofy looking little bottle cap wings has GOT to add substantial weight to the paintball. Since each individual paintball weighs very little, adding even a smidgen of plastic to the back end would have to almost double the overall weight. It might not be that drastic,  but there will be added weight. I would imagine that the added weight would contribute to velocity loss over distance.

Perhaps this can be compensated by adding more force behind the paintball to atone for the extra weight, but the question that would lead to is:

 Can the force needed to compensate for the added weight  and eliminate the loss of overall velocity over distance accomplish that without breaking legal initial velocity rules?

Frankly, I'll never use them, because 1. I'd have to shell out my first born to afford a tib. marker. and 2. I'd have to shell out my second born to afford the damn rounds.


No thank you.


Oh, Edit:

I wonder how long it will take for these to be banned at fields because some natural force acted on the ball, making it spin and twist, subjecting someone's bare skin to the little slicey plastic fins on the back.










Edited by Reb Cpl - 08 February 2009 at 1:35pm

^^ So you're telling me that since inertia is directly proportionate to mass, the higher something's mass, the better it flies: Simply: The heavier, the faster.

I can understand if we're talking about the difference between a paper air plane and a 747, but you need to take into account the force behind the object in flight. The heavier it is, the more force it's going to take to get it moving in the first place.

CAN that force be significant enough to get the object moving to the point where its inertia is relevant without breaking the 'speed limit'?

I'm a little confused by what you're saying tolgak, broken down simply, you're saying that of two objects moving at the same speed, the heavier of the two will keep its velocity and distance better than the lighter one?



  

you guys turned a thread about scuba sniping BOOM Head shot into a nerd fest.... well done gents