paintball sniper

patdh1028 wrote: alright dont write this off, im sure its possible... what you need is a closed bolt mechanism,...

The closed bolt argument has already been made, its been proven by several companies and people on this very forum not to make any difference in accuracy or range on paintball markers. I also once believed the dream, but now I have come to see the truth.

x-mo-x wrote: i was in the can.force and i trained with Simunitions

Hey, which unit were you with? Were you reg force or reserves?

The Simunitions fatality was a Canadian soldier at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa. as stated, he didn't wear a neckguard, and a simunitions round caused falat damage to his neck. Not sure if it was a severed carotid artery or a crushed trachea.

I've used Simunitions in urban combat training. They're fun, and you can use the real weapons, but the masks are frickin' horrible. They should definitely sub-contract their safety gear out to V-Force or Dye. They fog up like you wouldn't beleive, have awful ventilation, and the eyes bulge out so far you simply cannot use the sights on your weapon. I prefer MILES gear, hands down.

Nicodemeus makes some good points about the physics of this, but listen to theoneillusion. Try it out somehow, and figure it out for yourself if it's a go or not. Best of luck to you. Anyone with the inclination to try something new gets my support, unless it's abysmally stupid or dangerous.

Presuming you get it to come out at the same velocity, the extra mass of the sabot wouldn't pull it down faster. Remember Newton's apple and feather in a vacuum experiment?

What would happen is that the uniformity and symmetry would be lost in both the surface area and cross-sectional density. If the sabot stayed attached to the ball, and the ball wasn't destroyed in the acceleration, the projectile would tumble end over end, and since it's nonsymmetrical the wind resistance would play hell on its accuracy. 

Make a conical shaped paintball that is symmetric in shape and density. Sounds expensive.

Making the paintball take up more space will only slow it down by increasing the drag coefficient. You cannot boost the velocity unless you find a better material that is less dense then paint and will disperse more rapidly so that it is safe to shoot at higher velocity.