Paintball guns: not just fun and games

[Junkie]

Less Lethal

[Brain]

The hell with non lethal. usually if you kill one the rest will comply!

[CANNIBAL]

Screw that new gun put those balls in an old Tippmann SMG bulldog, that will control the crowd. It would suck if one of those tear gas balls broke in the breech.

[tomr538]

Teats said a typical paintball is regulated at approximately 300-500 pounds per square inch, while the ISNLS is regulated at approximately 900 PSI.


a low pressure elecro will opperate around there..... but what about a Tippmann... ya know the guns that PepperBall sells to shoot their "less lethal" rounds. all they do to those is put a heavy drive spring in them to shoot upwards of 300-350fps

[ace007]

I'd like to see the welp a 900 PSI paintball leaves.
You think Nix could get us a pic?


Would it be lethal if it went to an eye?

[Scorch]

Oh and dont forget the ones that have the steel ball berings iside the shell.

[docrock]

Originally Posted by ace007

I'd like to see the welp a 900 PSI paintball leaves.
You think Nix could get us a pic?


Would it be lethal if it went to an eye?

If I recall correctly mags run at 850 psi so there is your welt. Small high pressure burst vs longer lower pressure burst = the same velocity.

So PSI has zero impact on the velocity of the marker in the terms you were thinking Ace.

[tomr538]

i thought mags did that. but i don't know much about them so i didn't say anything.

the marker is cool looking, yes, but a brand new idea now. you can still use a standard paintball gun to fire the rounds they are shooting out of that other gun.

[socoj2]

you cant determine output force with out volume.

900 psi @ 5 Cui
450 psi @ 10Cui
100 psi @ 100 Cui

which one has the greatest force assuming they have the applicable barrel length to allow the gas to expand fully?

You really notice the difference with larger items.

For example The JCS launcher opperates about 400 psi to get something like 180fps?

my Cannon runs at 55 psi to get 250 FPS..

[MrWizard]

Originally Posted by socoj2

you cant determine output force with out volume.

900 psi @ 5 Cui
450 psi @ 10Cui
100 psi @ 100 Cui

which one has the greatest force assuming they have the applicable barrel length to allow the gas to expand fully?

You really notice the difference with larger items.

For example The JCS launcher opperates about 400 psi to get something like 180fps?

my Cannon runs at 55 psi to get 250 FPS..

QFT: physics of paintballs