picture the bullet of an m16 but in paintball form i came up with this idea in a dream and when i woke up i thoght what a good idea for scenario paintball making wars and protect the president i think the only fault is you would need a very powerful gun like a tippmann

                p.s i wish i coulod have some kind of picture

Wow. I may be new to the game but bullet shapped paintballs? Ya, cool idea but... Deffinately not happening, at least no time soon.

Ariakon_Eagle wrote: All markers are as powerful as the next. And because of they way paintballs are, this will not work. Niether would rifling as many of you newer players think. Paintballs are like jell-o. They wont ever be as accurate as a real gun. Making them bullet shape will accually make it less accurate.

How do you know?? you have never tried it. I agree about the rifling, but hey ya never know until you try.

TippmannPro13 wrote: Ariakon_Eagle wrote: All markers are as powerful as the next. And because of they way paintballs are, this will not work. Niether would rifling as many of you newer players think. Paintballs are like jell-o. They wont ever be as accurate as a real gun. Making them bullet shape will accually make it less accurate. How do you know?? you have never tried it. I agree about the rifling, but hey ya never know until you try.

Sorry, He's right.

The problem is simple physics.  The shell of a paintball cannot resist the forces needed to grip a rifled barrel to generate enough spin to make it accurate, no matter what its shape is.  The only way to do this is t increase the thickness of the shell.  Thicker shell means that more force is needed for it to break.  More force means much higher liability costs for paintball fields and much tougher safety equipment.  If you don't want to have to wear a welders mask and pay $500 to play paintball, just give it up now.  As for a rifle bullet shaped paint ball, you get into huge manufacturing costs and feed system problems.  However if you can make it work for a resonable price you'll make a ton of money. 

It's already been done.

 Police and military training units use "paint" rounds for scenarios. The difference is, these projectiles(ussually in 9mm) are fired from real firearms and run at about 900fps. The "perp" in these scenarios normally wears light kevlar and heavy clothes to absorb the impact.

Short of a drastic change in composition and propulsion, paint bullets aren't gonna happen.

they tried it.

the rounds looked like this 

"But the problem is...That's going to increase gravity's pull (more weight) and you're going to have to lower your FPS.
I get what your idea is. However, Your rear end is going to have to be more solid than conventional pb shells otherwise you've just got an egg (oblong) shaped round. Nothing to add stability. Therefore the butt has to be denser and stiffer to hold the boattail shape. You'll have the same problem as using a shotcup or sabot-- that little piece of backing is just as lethal if not more. With it on a pb, the nose burst but the butt is going to keep going--penetration power.
Lower your FPS, increase the price of rounds-- potential rubber bullet."-The Armorer(this guy knows his stuff)

^^^ I think you proved your point very well.

waste of time why do u wanna change everything about paintball stop teh complaining and just play holy cow the thought of the origin of paintball is enough to make me play

Paintball ballistics and Gun ballistics are 2 totally different things. But instead of my wasting 4 hours of my time explaining why, Il just give my friends artical on it. http://forum.ariakon.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=900&PN=1 - http://forum.ariakon.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=900&PN=1  .......READ IT BEFORE YOU TRY AND PROVE ME WRONG......1 word...PWNED