Interesting idea, but certainly not "stupid" and the idea definately doesn't belong on top of the "Stupid Ideas List"(which is stupid in every way) with the nukes and what not. 

I've oftened wanted to have a paintball shotgun to blow into someones chest upclose in a rec-game.  Shotguns would be great and add a different form of play in paintball.

evil turkey... I'm all for your idea!

There is a video of one floating around. I have it on my computer.

It sucks.

stick your tounge in an electrical socket...

A lot of you don't know much about shotguns. Monk, Nutterlax and Millslane. I think it's a worthwhile idea but needs lots of development.

I have not seen the paintball shotgun you speak of, however the shotgun should be just as effective at further ranges as your marker
(past surrender distance). Since all of your shotgunning experience is probably from video games, I will clear a little up for you. A slug through a shotgun is actually not half bad with accuracy. Shotguns are made for hitting moving targets. The "spread" makes up for your inaccuracy, so you actually have a better chance to hit with the shotgun. The spread is actually not that wide, and also not a flat spread out sheet, but more of a 3-D cloud of projectiles that holds pretty tight but can be adjusted through choke. It not only has to do with choke - A 12Ga with 00 Buck shot will spread about 4-8 inches at 10 yards, and AA turkey shot will spread by almost a couple feet at that distance.

Some friends of mine tried experimentally shooting one of themselves with a grape shot round of paintballs in the potato cannon. So a buddy of mine covered himself in padding and PB masks and took it to center mass from the cannon. Dumb idea. Instead of spreading out over the 50 feet, the balls grouped tightly and knocked him back onto the ground, he had a HUGE bruise on his right chest/shoulder. I would be afraid this thing would take your head off, but who knows what the velocity was. CO2 would be much better.

the evil turkey wrote: ok,i finished drawing up the designs, and the shells will also be able to hold nerf rockets, so it is no longer a shotgun only. imagine a full-auto nerf rocket barrage :P if i ever get the funds to build one ill kick all of your asses.

Theres no way in hell you can have a barrage of nerf rockets. By teh time you fire the first and stick the next down the launcher the first will have already landed.

millslane,

I have a half cooked idea for you to shoot holes through. Forget useing a .68" bore for your paintball shotgun, and make a bore about the size of a soup can. A clump of balls drops in through a pump action, in front of a massive phnematic chamber that blows decent pressure, for a longer amount of time (still <1 sec).

After my friend got tagged by paintballs from the potato cannon, it layed dormant for a while. But out of curiosity I loaded it up with some old cheap balls and fired it at a sheet of plywood against the fence. I used a paper towel as wadding and put about 20 balls down the 2" bore of the cannon's 3' long barrel. There was a spread on the board of about 1'. I shot from about 40' along my backyard. I don't know the velocity.

So step it down by using phnematics instead of combustion, shorten the barrel, open up the bore size for more spread at closer distance. Make it safe, reliable and easy reloading. It would be one hell of a pump, you would have no where to run out in the open when a cloud of paint came at you. Sounds Napoleanic.

I've got a paintball shotgun...it fires about 250 fps, and is somewhat longer range than any other paintball gun I've seen, due to the added inertia from a sabot on the tail of the round.  It is also quite acurate despite only a 7 inch barrel.

I don't use it during games, but it's fun to plink with.

It fires 2 balls, creating an extra large splat pattern.

A heavily modified pump action with underbarrel feed could be made to look exactly like a real 12 gauge...does that gun actually look real Brihard?...and, for milsim purposes, could a modified pump action be switched to bolt action, via linkage arms or something?

xfire'd wrote:  It probably could, if you knew how to with the tools you have. You (Klaus) could probably rig up something on your double-ball shotgun to make it able to shoot shells

I already have shells built, rapid reload shells

There is such thing as a paintball shotgun that uses .50 cal balls but that is about it.  Its a pump and shoots one at a time.

This is my first post, just thought id let you all know what I have:

Tippman 98 Custom, Black

14" Evil Driver Barrel

RT Response Trigger

Tippmann Expansion Chamber, Black

Extreme Rage Products Flame Drop Forward, Black with silver flames

Zap 200 count automatic hopper

Psyco Ballastics Rocket Cock

Double Trigger Upgrade

I was thinkin about purchasing the power feed for the 98...does anyone know if it is worth it?

I have never believe the paintball shotgun deserved to be on the "non-official list of redicule producing ideas". After all, it has already been made and marketed.

There are several of the Mil-Sim companies that sell paintball gernade launchers that have shotgun loads. "Back in the day" there was even a fairly popular one called an M-79 (which really looked like the old Vietnam era M-79). It used pre-loaded rubber inserts that coul dbe packed with a single grenade or multiple 0.68, 0.62, or 0.50 cal paint as a shotgun blast. It had 4 power levels: single 12 gram CO2, double 12 gram CO2, single 12 gram nitrogen (I think), and double 12 gram nitrogen (again I think). Each shot expended the entire (or both) 12 gram cartridge to launch the load.

I do not know how effective it was since I never used one, nor saw one in action myself locally. I could not afford the $300 after buying my $300 SMG-60 in high school, but I always thought it would have been cool to get it and mount is under the SMG as a shotgun back-up for the 15-rounds the SMG carried.

Rap 4 has one for sure, Tippmann Ordanance used to (but their website is no longer available), Armotech has a a marker model with a grenade launcher option and I'm sure I've seen others.

If you want a shot gun go out to Dunhams or whatever sport store they have were you live and buy this pump gun called the lerado same effect and not even 1/3 of the price you can get them here for 20 bucks. You have to be 20 inches for effective range and by that time the guy has either shot you or he's going to give up because you are to close to him.

Millslane wrote: go search for this and you'll get your answer

wow, there has been lotsa old ideas I thought were stowed in the Krpyt for life and recently they have been emerging...lets hope the paint knife and bayonet stay died (For the Record THEY DON'T WORK)