Posted by: Dale "Head_Hunters" DuPont on March 31, 2003 at 10:20:13

You get a little drag that decreases muzzle velocity so you have to up the velocity screw a tad or up the pressure maybe 25 psi. It would affect the max lowest operating pressure you could operate at and still produce your field's chrono maximum muzzle velocity. Now these two stage bore barrels have minimal or no drag because the ported section is oversize. The ball barely touches the sides. I'm partial to the Smart Parts All American just because they are QUIETER in addition to being a accurate, two stage bore barrel. But you don't want to be running at you max low pressure anyway. One the 'edge', you start to have reliablity and velocity inconsistencies. You trouble free and consistent velocity is 50-100 psi above that max low. My boy decided to go lp and we just set the reg at 300 psi as a target pressure and it just worked and has continued to work flawlessly for over a year now. He sees NO need to try to go lower. He'll kick your but too! It takes about two games and he gets a LOT of respect from the other team. If they are smart they will just gang up on him and take him out. If they go one on one with him, he will personally take out a third of their team. Then he decided he wanted a serious 'upgrade' and decided to run a Patriot Missle System for the Army. His paintball playing has been curtailed for a few months but he's probably getting to actually shoot one. He was griping after two years of service that nobody ever got to shoot one. Just computer simulations. Interestingly, the local rumor mill reports the British plane shot down wasn't a Patriot Crew error. The plane was ID by several units as an anti radiation missile that homes in on radar. Unlikely that every crew could set up their equipment to mis ID a target. That is a real high priority target since Patriots are Radar Guided Munitions and the primary target of a anti radiation missle. The Unit designated to cover that piece of airspace took the shot. Since it is all software based nobody actually pulls a trigger to fire it. People are too slow to respond. Still, someone made an fatal error. Software Bug that in the real world of war didn't work properly? Possibly the British plane was emitting a jamming signal or had fired radar guided munitions and didn't turn it off before returning to our air space. Pure speculation on my part. It will be interesting to follow the investigation. The boy says he can't talk about it but they have ways to keep that kind of thing from happening. Lots of ways to ID friendlies after a commerical plane was shot down during Desert Storm.

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