Paintball Guns
Paintball Guns and Markers
The difference between different types of paintball gun comes mainly from 4 factors, the accuracy, the rate of fire (RoF), the weight and the build quality. Other factors may also influence your decision when buying a marker e.g. how it looks and how upgradable the marker is.
Paintball gun Accuracy
How round a paintball is will determain how straight it will fly and therefore how accurate it will be. The accuracy of the paintballs will however also be influenced by the quality of the paintball gun that is shooting it, the quality of the barrel on the gun and also the rate of fire that the gun is running at as this in turn can effect the airflow. The very best tournament guns have a smooth airflow, fast regulator for consistant pressure, and a high quality precission egnineered barrel.
Paintball marker Rate of Fire (RoF)
The rate of fire of a paintball gun is simply the number of balls per second (BPS) that the marker can fire and is determained by the quality of the engineering in the marker, the type of trigger mechanism (as a general rule an electronic trigger is faster) and by the type of loader on the gun (the loader must be fast enough to keep up with the marker).
Weight of Paintball guns
The weight of a paintball marker is mainly determained by the types of material used to make the gun and this can vary a lot. Many top end tournament markers are made from expensive metal alloys including aluminium and titanium which are very strong and allow for precision engineering to make them very small and therefore very light. As a generally rule the lighter the gun the more expensive the materials used and the more expensive and higher the performance of the marker.
Build Quality of Paintball Markers
The build quality of a paintball gun is again generally related to the quality of the materials used to make it. The higher the grade of materails the more ability the manufacturer has to make high quality parts that will withstand diving and intense tournament paintball play.
