Posted by: Mike "Szii" Oxford on June 24, 2003 at 02:33:28

: A guy I know said he just got a Bonebreak Bush Master and that it shoots 36 bps with NO breaks, nothing just a steady stream of un-broken paintballs.... Sounds crazy to me....... I remember some of the old spring-clip-fed full-autos getting crazy numbers. Used balls in a sabot casing, spring loaded clip. I don't remember numbers, though, and it had very limited capacity (something like 20 rounds.) With a drum and belt-fed sabot line I bet you could do it. Nothing like that on the market that I've ever heard of. Assume that sabot acts as the breach seal.. To get 36 balls a second, assuming .68 balls and 0.20 sabot thickness you'd have to push.. 0.20 - initial 0.68 - ball 0.20 - backend of sabot ------------------------- 1.08 inches per shot. 1.08 * 36 rounds = 38.88 inch-rounds Can you push ~39 inches through an open-breach in a second with a spring? Sure can, but remember that reload is a pain and your clip is over 3 feet long. :) If you drop the sabot thinkness to 0.1 you'd shorten the clip to 31.68". Problem there is that it's almost guaranteed you'd run into stress problems on your casing and they might not seal well as they feed through the open breach. Now, if you spring loaded a belt system in a drum....that's be a fun proof-of-concept Tommy-Gun. hehe. Rock on. -Mike

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