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Diablo Heat Paintballs Reviews
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Number of Reviews: |
112 |
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Average Rating: |
7.3 / 10 |
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Manufacturer Website: |
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Suggested Retail Price: |
$40 |
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Unsacrificed rec-quality.
Fill: regular easy - clean.
Shell: standard breaks on impact not on gun. |
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| The Diablo Heat Paintballs are newer, so they should be commonly available. Check out the Places to Buy links below for places to purchase them. |
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The accuracy of this review is disputed. Please see discussion on the comments page.
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Period of
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| 3 months | 26 of 29 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
6 months |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Nightmares, Formula 13's, blitz, big ball rps paintballs |
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| Marker Setup: |
32 Degrees Icon-Z
16 in. Night Stick Barrel, 20 oz co2 + 12 oz., super fly spyder bolt, empire reloader electric hopper |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
long |
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| Strengths: |
cheap, rec quality good |
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| Weaknesses: |
curve a little, shell might be hard to determine I'll explain |
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| Review: |
These are the good stuff. At a price of under 40$, my dealer sells em for 37$ these are the BEST you can get for that price. They don't break in the chamber, and are great for practice but good enough for rec. and maybe a little higher, but considering these tournament paintballs is not wise as choosing a higher brand. Something I noticed is the fill is always the same color as the shell. Well this can make it hard to determine splatter or hit sometimes for ref cuz I had to paint check a kid and search the paint for shells. He was clean but I'm just saying that Nightmares or blaze might have been easier. The other thing is that some of these have dimples, and the shell is not premium grade, thus cheap. They won't be dead on like hellfire or inferno, or as good as blaze or nightmares, but they don't curve atleast. I would suggest these for anyone looking for "good" practice paint and anyone who wants decent rec. paint. I'm using yellow heats right now and I like them very much. |
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| Conclusion: |
Good For Rec. and Practice -1on dimples which cause slightly off shooting, it's barely anything but in paintball an inch could change the game, so not as accurate as others. and also -1 on the set option of same shell color and fill color. but any paint that gets an 8/10 for under 40 bucks is a good buy. |
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Period of
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| Less than a month | 16 of 17 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Nelson Hot Spot=some lots of Hot Spot were as good as Heat.
Draxxus Rec-Sport=Rec-Sport is too fragile for my Tippmann
PMI All Star=better but it costs twice the price of Heat
Marbalizer=good but, again, twice the price of thios paint.
GAP=Equal to GAP, lots cheaper |
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| Marker Setup: |
Tippmann 98 Custom, Using both Flatline and Stone Cold Barrels and now the Hammerhead. CO2, custom spring kit, Stainless screw kit (removed the soft Lapco screw kit), BSA Red Dot sight, Shocktech Delrin bolt |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
Any that handles small to very small paint. |
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| Strengths: |
Very inexpensive. |
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| Weaknesses: |
Seem to leave residue in Flatline barrel, not paint, frequent cleaning required. |
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| Review: |
A friend at Santa Clara told us that this paint was available as the special "white box" 10,000 round from for $150. I called and got my order in two days (no extra charge when you call it in).
First tried it in my Flatline. Accurace was great for a couple of hundred rounds. Then I had to agressively clean the barrel...Windex, squeegee and mop. With the barrel freshly cleaned this paint shot 4-5 inch groups at 60 to 80 feet out. I broke no paint but the accuracy would begin to degrade and I'd have to clean it again.
Couple of weeks ago I got a Hammerhead Pro rifled barrel. After getting the correct fin installed this paint shot a six shot group at 100 feet that I could cover with my hand. This paint sized at .683" which is very small. I got more "kills" over the next hour and a half than I have gotten since I started paintball. Shot over 1200 with not a single break. |
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| Conclusion: |
For the price it cannot be beaten. Shot as well in my Flatline as both All Star and Marbs. At <888paintball's> price there is nothing better. Works well in my son's Stone Cold II and I cannot imagine anything better in my Hammerhead. |
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| 10 out of 10 | Last edited on Sunday, May 8th, 2005 at 5:22 pm PST |
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rocker |
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 |
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Period of
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| Only tested | 10 of 13 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Diablo Blaze
Evil
Big Ball
anything cheap |
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| Marker Setup: |
BKO |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
Median to small Bore
my JJ ceramic worked well |
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| Strengths: |
CHEAP!!!
small bore
bright colors |
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| Weaknesses: |
Dimples |
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| Review: |
my team won a case of these at a tournment for being good sports (we got spanked). I shot 500 of them. nice paint, very cheap. i did not notice any dimples when i shot them but two weeks later my teammate shot his and they were very dimpled. i checked out prices on the internet and was very inpressed. good paint for cheap. |
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| Conclusion: |
decent paint for cheap. get them! |
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Period of
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| 1 year | 8 of 9 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
1 year |
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These are the only decent paintballs I've used.
The others were from Wal-Mart. |
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| Marker Setup: |
I use a Tippmann Pro Carbine with a 14'' J&J Ceramic Barrel and modicfied trigger spring. |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
Anything. I use a 14' J&J Ceramic barrel. It'll handle most any standard size paintballs. |
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| Strengths: |
-Cheap
-Fairly reliable
-Economical
-Sufficiently accurate |
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| Weaknesses: |
-A little bit of dimpling
-Thin paint fill |
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| Review: |
I really like these paintballs. They're only $40 for a 2,000 round box and store well. One time I kept them for 3 months without moving them and they dimpled a bit. But hey, that can be expected with any paintballs.
I've noticed that the paintballs are on the medium-to-small scale in size and have a thin paint fill. They've got a decent splatter, but are kind of easy to wipe.
As far as accuracy goes, they are good enough. With my marker setup (shown above), I've gotten 60-yard headshots , so I'm not complaining.
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| Conclusion: |
I know there are better paintballs out there. But theses are about as good as they get for the price concerned weekend warrior. If you want decent accuracy, reliablily, and a nice cheap price, get Diable Heat. |
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| 8 out of 10 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 19th, 2004 at 7:13 pm PST |
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Period of
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| 3 months | 7 of 7 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
6 months |
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Similar
Products Used: |
formula 13's dusk |
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| Marker Setup: |
spyder xtra
esp frame
cp flame drop
empire reloader |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
my stock one performed really well with them |
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| Strengths: |
price price price
bright fills
no breaks |
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| Weaknesses: |
well the fills arent that thick, |
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| Review: |
ive bought about 5 cases of this paint, ive mostly been buying pink but the orange is pretty bright, could have a more brittle shell but you get what you pay for, its a very good product and i will continue to play with them, its a very good rec/practice paint but out of the question for tournies unless you cant afford to pay 80 a case, front men can take em to a tourney and do pretty well with them, but back men, no way |
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| Conclusion: |
go out and get a case of this paint and give it a try if you havent already...make sure to pick up the pink, if you cant find that go with the orange, stay away from the yellow |
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Period of
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| Only tested | 4 of 6 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
1 year |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Brass eagle (ehhh..horrible)
Zap (no complaints)
Derry store paintballs (OK)
Blue streak and wild streak (NOPE)
competitive edge (not bad at all)
Diablo Heat (kinda alright) |
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| Marker Setup: |
Spyder shutter (little leak down the barrel, think its the valve or the Low pressure chamber)
Tippmann 98 custom
GTA expansion chamber
Flatline barrel
Stock barrel
Double trigger
Trigger mod. allowing me to shoot 13+ BPS. mechanical, not electro
20 oz. tank
COMING SOON- inline stabilizer (Palmer), maybe another barrel for tippy, suggestions? And the e-bolt |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
Maybe the flatline, just don't shoot fast
Stock tippy barrel is fine except for the fast that it umm...sucks
any medium bore size |
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| Strengths: |
Very OK fill
nice color
No dimples
Cheap
Break on contact |
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| Weaknesses: |
Break easy with the flatline. |
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| Review: |
Well, I just got back from paintballing and had a good time. It was 30 degrees outside and frankly, I didn't care because of the adrenaline. It was a good time until I kicked my hopper when I fell and they all broke. After that, it was all down hill...I bought these for a mere 40$ a case and didn't regret it at all. I was just so stoked to play. SOMEONE SUGGEST A GOOD BARREL TO ME IN COMMENTS. |
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| Conclusion: |
Buy these if you wanna good paintball. Don't hit your hopper. Have fun
"Shoot to thrill" |
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kek |
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006 |
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Period of
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| Less than a month | 3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
1 year |
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Similar
Products Used: |
RPS Rampage |
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| Marker Setup: |
Tippmann 98 Custom
21" PE Barrel
850 psi HP |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
Long barrels |
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| Strengths: |
Cheap
Bright fill
Good req quality
Accuracy |
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| Weaknesses: |
Some dimples
5% look like eggs
Don't always break on target |
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| Review: |
Pro's:
- Cheap (nearly as cheap as those white-boxed training-balls)
- Round (95%)
- Accuracy (much better than Rampage or training)
- REALLY bright (orange) fill
- Not too many breaks
Con's:
- Some of them have dimples (not too bad)
- 50% of the balls that hit the target simply bounce off
- 5% eggs; first 500 without a single break, the next 500 had lots of egg-shaped balls, so I had an average of 1 break out of every 10 shots |
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| Conclusion: |
If they don't break, they are really good paintballs, especially for this price. Looks like you need a bit off luck not to have the eggs, which is really annoying.
Tip: insert them in your hopper slowly, so can take the real eggs out; that means no breaks at all
Conclusion; if you sort them out a bit, they are really good, that's why they still deserve a 8 |
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| Rating: |
| 8 out of 10 | Last edited on Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 at 2:33 pm PST |
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Period of
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| Less than a month | 3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
4 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
I shoot xball bronze alot. Xball is much better. |
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| Marker Setup: |
06 ego
star frame
star trigger
virtue board
cure bolt
cp asa
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Barrels: |
Any barrel. |
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Flys straight. |
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| Weaknesses: |
Very thick shell.
ALOT of bounces. |
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| Review: |
Got these for really cheap. $35 cheap. I was low on cash so i grabed them. They loked like nice balls at first. I took one out and threw it at the ground pretty hard, and it bounced right back up. Wow. That day i played with them and they were bouncing like crazy. I acidentally shot the ref in the goggles and it bounces off he said....Not good. And when i got to the bottom of the bag, there was just a piece of flat hard plastic. Yes plastic. It was a deformed paintball. It was about the size of a dime but thicker. Easily could have jamed my loader and screwed me. Not buying these again. |
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| Conclusion: |
Bounces alot.
Thick shell.
Fill is not to good.
Ummm, plastic paintballs.... |
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| 2 out of 10 | Last edited on Sunday, May 13th, 2007 at 11:45 am PST |
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Period of
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| Only tested | 3 of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
1 year |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Marbalizer, many types of paint. |
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| Marker Setup: |
Proto Matrix Rail, Smart Parts All American Barrel, NDZ Slik Trigger, Pure Energy 68/4500 |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
Not the PMR stock, the All-American was better |
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| Strengths: |
Cheap |
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| Weaknesses: |
Pretty Curvy
Very Brittle
Breaks with little coverage |
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| Review: |
I bought this paint to break in my gun, so I wasn't expecting very much out of it. I found that this paint was definitly not the right match for the stock PMR barrel, but that isn't the paints fault, so I switched to the SP All-American which was a much better match for this paint.
The main issue that kept occuring was breaking paint. My batch of paint was very brittle. I would break atleast one ball per hopper full. The paint also had a bad habit of curving at the end of flight. I wouldn't be able to play from the back with this paint. I wasn't sure if I was having a problem with my gun or the paint (PMR's are NOT known to chop paint very often), so I delt with it until I finished the case off. The next day I went to my local field and bought some higher quality paint (about $54 compared to the $40 I paid for HEAT) and shot about 1000 rounds during play and didn't have a single break or chop and the paint was shooting much much straighter. I personally won't ever use HEAT paint again. The extra $14 made shooting my gun much more enjoyable and hassle free (no paint in the barrel).
I almost forgot to mention that the paint broke almost invisible. It was supposed to be pink, but I could shoot 200 rounds at the base of a tree and hardly be able to tell that I shot at all! I think I may have had a really bad batch of paint. I bought it from a local paintball field with good reputation, but who knows. I see that others had good experiences with HEAT, but that just was not the case with me. |
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I would not recommend using this paint for any reason other than chrono or backyard boredom, but you will still have to deal with broken paint. It is cheap and I understand that you get what you pay for, but for my setup this paint is almost completely unusable. |
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| 5 out of 10 | Last edited on Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 6:49 am PST |
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Period of
Product Use: |
| Less than a month | 3 of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
4 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
draxxus-close
pmi premium-much better
zap-not as good |
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| Marker Setup: |
boss knight raider with 16" teardrop, shochtech super fly bolt, aci 4 stage, richochet ak, electronic trigger frame
New pirahna evo |
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Recommended
Barrels: |
small to medium bore |
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| Strengths: |
Shape
Fill
Shell |
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| Weaknesses: |
Color
Bore size |
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| Review: |
I bought a case of these a month or so ago and was very dissapointed when i first sawthem. I bought the aqua fill and red shell but recieved a brown shell aqua fill ( store fault?) besides the fact that they looked like milk duds they were very small. When i used them they worked ok but the range was a little low because of bad paint/barrel match. They have a nice shell though and i saw no dimples when they first arrived. I used the leftovers i had today and they still had no dimples that i saw. The shell is nice and thick but once i broke one there was no chance of shooting it out. |
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These paintballs are ok for the price and great if you have a small bore barrel. unless you want little brown balls i do not recommend the red/aqua color. |
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