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: : i'm thinking of getting a .40 caliber paintball gun, but i want to make sure it's allowed on paintball fields. i don't see why it wouldn't, since it seems like the size of the paintballs would leave a large enough hit to meet the required hit size. i called the two biggest paintball fields here(southern CA) and no one has heard of it, so they don't know whether or not to allow it, hehehe... : : So does anyone have experience with .40 caliber markers, or know of their legality on the field? : : Also, i suppose it would need quite a different velocity to have the range equivalent to a regular .68 caliber. can anyone shed some light on how the velocity would change? : The main paintball insurance companies insure ONLY for .68 caliber paintballs fired at under 300 fps. : This is because if they have to pay out for an injury, they are going to want to sue someone who's product failed. The goggle manufacturers say that their goggles are meant to protect against .68 cal paintballs, and for no other purpose - this would leave the insurance companies holding the bag if there was an injury with a different size paintball involved (or the field owner holding the bag if they violated their insurance policy). : Way back when in the 1980s, .62 cal had brief popularity with the SMG-60 paintguns from Tippmann, and a smaller number of players had .50 cal Crossman 3357 revolvers. In my experience the smaller calibers had less effective range and accuracy, owing, I suspect to the less mass of the ball relative to the effects air has on it in flight. : See you on the field, : -Bill Mills