Posted by: FoxWalk on January 30, 2003 at 23:40:08

You might find this site helpful they will custom make a gun to your idea, but it will cost you http://www.rustyspaintballgear.com/ also this site might help you http://www.pukindogspaintball.com/ click on tech articles and then the coolest gun in the world : This is going to seem really weird to a lot of you in here, I suspect... but here goes; : The rage in paintball seems to be in maxium capcity, rate of fire etc. which is all well and good... but as A Civil War Reenactor and a long-time gun-crank it occured to me that it might be fun to sort of combine our hobby/passions by reenacting a Civil War Battle - or at least a skirmish tactical or two - with paintball muskets that would replicate the rate of fire and handling qualities of the muzzle-loading muskets of the time while putting a little more "sport" into the contest. : Of course safety gear would significantly compromise our historical authenticity, but this would be more for the participants, rather than a spectator oriented event as most of our Battle Reenactments are. We would still wear our period Union and Confederate uniforms, just adding whatever is needed to be safe. : I envision an educational application as well - we already go to schools to demonstrate our weapons, equipment, and tactics as well as to "drill" students according to 1861 tactics. : Giving and taking a "volley" between battle-lines about 50 yards apart might give students a whole new appreciation for what Soldiers in the CW faced. Not very PC, for sure, but we have some home-school groups who are not overly concerned about that, and it could be a whole lot more fun for the kids than a normal History Class! : If this works out, other Reenactors might want to get in on it; how about bolt-action paintball Mausers and Springfields for WW-I; Arisakas and M-1 Garands for WW-II reenactment? : "The Invasion of Normandy - coming soon to a beach near you!" : I have several designs on the table for a .69 cal. hand-pumped pneumatic single-shot smoothbore muzzle-loading musket. The more promising of these uses a bicycle pump under the barrel so that pumping up the resivoir simulates ramming a charge with a ram-rod. I figure about 70psi ought to do it. : The air-tank is located beneath the barrel, and could be countoured to simulate the fore-stock or concealed under a false forestock. It could also be placed in the butt stock. The air release / firing valve will be hammer-actuated, similar to the original percussion-cap system. : It seems that I'm essentially building a miniturized pneumatic potato-gun here, so that it looks (sort of) like a real weapon used during a crucial event in American History. : A trained Infantryman in the CW could get off about 3 fairly well-aimed shots a minute with his Springfield or Enfield muzzleloading rifle-musket using paper cartidges; this PB system, I think, would approximate that, simualating the tactical limitations a Soldier would have had to deal with in that period. : We would probably have a few of the troops firing blank charges with their real muskets per usual for the noise and sulfurous smoke, which we all love so dearly you know. : And we wouldn't have all these silly discussions in the field about "Ya missed me!" / "Did not!". : So... have any of you heard of such a simple pump-up pneumatic single-shot marker system? : If so, it could save me a lot of work as I might be able to use the action as the basis for this replica. : And what do you, as paintball players (I confess, I've never tried it... yet) think about the idea? : Any suggestions? : Thanks, Guys! : "Uncle Jaque" : Armorer, Co. "A", 3rd Reg't. Maine Volunteer Infantry : http://www.powerlink.net/mcgill/

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