Skirmish introduce a new paintball hopper to their Norfolk Paintball venue
The End of Paintball Gun Shaking.
The problem
I have been marshalling paintball games for over 12 years now and one of the main problems with rental paintball has been how do we get the paintballs into the gun fast enough. As the guns have got better and better the hoppers could no longer keep the supply of paintballs going and the guns could shoot faster than the hoppers could feed. The paintballing world got round this problem by introducing motor driven hoppers that force the paintballs into the gun faster. Not only are these hoppers expensive but they also require fresh batteries every day. Because of these facts it was impossible for them to be introduced for the rental player.
Paintballs not feeding into the gun fast enough doesn’t sound like a massive problem, and it isn’t, however the real problem is that often a ball with only make it half way into the gun. The player then pulls the trigger and as the ball is not fully into the gun the bolt chops it in half covering the barrel in paint. Any paint or muck in the barrel will cause the gun to be inaccurate as the paintball will be spinning as they leave the barrel.
The solution
The cleaver people at Dye have come up with a revolutionary new paintball hopper that gives the performance of a motor driven hopper but has no motor or batteries. The design means it will deliver a constant stream of paintballs as fast as the gun can shoot them. I have personally shot about 5 full hoppers completely empty at around an 8 ball per second rate and have only even had to nudge the hopper once during each load. Compare that to the old hoppers where you would need to shake them every 5 or 6 shots and you can see it is a major leap forwards.
If you follow the golden rules of always keep your gun upright when firing and keep an eye on the plastic elbow to ensure you have a stack of paintballs ready, there is no reason why you couldn’t enjoy a days paintballing without having a single ball break in the barrel.