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WARPIG Tech Talk - Air
You don't want a rifle

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Posted by Dale DuPont on August 30, 2002 at 02:34:25:

In Reply to: what gun/rifle to bay posted by w_a on August 29, 2002 at 12:53:27:

You are playing and shooting at 25 yards or less 75% of the time. Under 40 yards the rest of the time.

Paintball guns are NOT very accurate. The paint isn't round.

Since you are in close quarter play, you want a pistol. Your standard paintball gun. The CO2 tank can double as a rifle stock with a butt plate on the end.

A long barrel Plus a tank/rifle stock is next to impossible to crawl with. Something is always sticking out for people to shoot at.

But I AM a die hard SNIPER! Given the chance in a scenerio game or in a wooded field. But I have to be ready to go head to head in a 25 yard firefight as well.

I have an Autococker. It has a well deserved reputation for being a closed bolt design (rather than a blow back)

TWO advantages.
1. Much quieter operating and recocking. They look in my direction but they are scanning. When I use my noisy Spyder, they look right at me.

2. Nothing is moving while the ball is going down the barrel. A blow back has the bolt moving backwards while the ball is still in the barrel. Thus velocities vary from shot to shot and so the accuracy is less than the autococker would be.

Blow backs are generally high pressure guns operating in the 900 psi range. The autococker was the ORIGINAL low pressure gun at 500 psi. Now sub 250 psi operating pressures are common with modified autocockers. (about $60 for a LP valve and spring set.)

Those are EXCEEDINGLY QUIET plus they can use premium super thin shelled paint that cost a small fortune ($80-120 a case) that is very round and will break consistently on a torso at 40 YARDS and break on something hard like a face mask or tank at 50-60 yards.


That is WAY beyond what most players expect on a field. Hence the advantage. If you are a stationary target at 40-50 yards, I can hit you and get a break. That makes NO ONE SAFE! on most fields.

I also have a homemade Auto Rangefinder PLUS invisible paint, PLUS a zilenced custom barrel.

Usually by noon the opposing team advances very slowly up the field. Our side gets to advance farther and take up the better positions against the slowly moving opponent. They simply repect what I can do with my sniper set up. Basically, "You go first and let him shoot at you this time."

Once they are defensive, we have the advantage the rest of the day.

And all my technology is free for the asking.
Just take the time to send me an e mail to:

ddupont@charter.net


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