Direct Hit Paint

[orryn]

In your opinion is this good paint to use with a mid pressure blow back (gun details below)?

[Paint Bulley]

depends on your barrel size.

free shipping till july 4th, but I can't get into there store. Is anyone else having problems?

Amarigo says it will work for any barrel.

[orryn]

thx. I got into the store no problem, however, it was a little slow. I have the medium sized SPAA, do you think that would be too big of a barrel?

[draggin]

These balls will work with any barrel, sorta. By that I mean they are so badly out of round that they will fit any barrel depending on how the ball is turned when it goes in.
I bought a 1000 of these to try them out. Many of them were actually egg shaped. I tried a few random handfulls by just placing them in my barrel (14" tru-flight tippmann). I had many of them that barely went into the barrel at first, but by turning them 90 degrees they actually fell almost all the way through.
I've shot 300 to 400 of them so far, they curve all over the place (even corkscrew). I gave some to friends and they had the same luck (different guns and barrels).
You may as well by Brass Eagles, they smell and shoot the same.

P.S. They do leave a real nice mark. That makes it easy to see how far they curved before hitting something (definitely not what you aimed at, I had my gun sand bagged for some of the test shots).

[orryn]

that bad huh? Everybody els says they rule.

[draggin]

Could be I just got a real bad lot, doesn't speak well their quality control tho. And I've heard of other people having the same problem.

I definitely wouldn't buy a full case, get 500 or so to try them out (free shipping right now, good time to see for yourself).

[starkle]

When this paint first came out, it was really good, although somewhat small. That's why the distributor says it will work in any barrel, because it is very small, therefore less prone to barrel breaks. I had some of this paint early on, and it was very good. Lately, however, there has been many complaints on the newsgroups in re: extremely out of round and inconsistant size. Those who initially praised this paint now give very bad reviews of newer shipments. Also, the co-owner of PaintballGeek/Direct Hit has made quite a nuisance of himself on the newsgroups, going so far as to insult his customers for even questioning the quality of recent cases of this paint. I, for one, will avoid business with this guy on principle for his treatment of customers, as well as the recent reviews of this paint by players.

[orryn]

thx for the info. :)