Great Way to improve accuracy

[Spencer16896]

I found this one out when I was playing with some friends yesterday. My Cocker was shooting my paint crooked (I was using the new Nelson Hot spot). When I first got the balls they were perfectly straight so I wondered what was up. One guy (who is a total vet of the sport and has played with Bob Long and Dave Youngblood) told me to do something with my paint before loading it. He gave me a large tupperware container and I put about 100 balls in there. I shook the balls around, up and down, etc. than loaded them. After that, no more problems. I was shooting arrows

So how can this work. Well I had bought the paint two weeks prior to this and had shot some right when I got it. For 2 weeks them sat in my room, motionless. See, paintballs are not entirely filled. There is a little bit of room left in there as if the paint was full it would not be able to break as the pressure would be equally exerted by both sides. When a ball sits in the same place for a while, it starts to set. And do to the corn starch and jello like mix in paint it can start to get stuck. When you shake up the paint it allows it to be evenly spread on all sides of the inside of the ball.

Think about it this way. Take a balloon and fill it with air. Now tape a penny to the side of the balloon and throw it. When you do this it goes out of controll rather than straight. The same thing can be said with the paint.

Try it sometime. It could mean the difference between a 1st place finish, and a 2nd. Well, maybe not but it does help :crazy:

[weefek]

i do that with the paint i keep at my house every couple of days.

[VeNoM]

makes sense . . . sounds like it might possibly dent the paint though, though i guess it couldnt be worse than how it was sitting there for weeks . . .


fleeg, your avatar is AWESOME!! you make it?

[Spencer16896]

Well it wont dent the ball if you are doing it right. You are not supposed to thrash the paint around, but just move it in circles and such. :freak: The next time you go out, this is one thing to try. Give enough room for plenty of paint to shift. When you are done there should be no dark spots on any paint.

[Lorquas]

About how long should you swish them around?

[NcicHit]

Sounds like a good idea. I use PMI and RPS and it shoots the same from start to finish. I like their new shell.

[JUMBOshrimp]

I smell something stupid coming up so just to answer the question (No the paint won't break -- Your not shaking that hard)

JÜMBOshrimp

[dawgs712]

played with bob long and dave youngblood- i doubt it...lol

[Spencer16896]

When he was in Pentleton, or Pennleton, or however you spell it.

He told me because we were talking about those old barrels with the crown thing on top.

What am I worried about, I don't have to prove crap to you.