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Paintball guns are one of the hot ticket items of the 21t century. With the sport of Paintball becoming ever more popular, the demand for these awesome and fun machines has skyrocketed! One a sport to only enjoyed by a privileged few, has now become a widely accepted sport in both the fun and competitive realms. Paintball guns are the central and quintessential item of this fast paced sport. Coming in two modes automatic and manual, Paintball guns offer realistic combat engagement at a rate of 300 FPS. When you’re hit, you’ll know it! As the name suggests, PaintBall utilizes small paintballs as “bullets.” When one impacts any surface, aside from liquid that is, it explodes, releasing paint from the ball in a splatter like shape. Of course, this process of getting shot does hurt! Don’t get me wrong, but of course it is reciprocal, you get to shoot back as well. Paintball guns also come in various colours, yellow, red, green, camo.. (note) It is probably not wise to have a bright yellow paintball gun when you go in the open, that could result in having your close splattered with a lot of paint as opposed to having a camouflaged coloured gun.
Interims of the actual structure and parts and such of a paintball gun, there are 4 major and one ultra major part of the gun. The Hopper, located above the gun, is the ammo store, you will load your paintball gun and each time you cock the gun, or pull the trigger again if manual or automatic respectively, a round, paintball, will automatically enter the chamber. When the trigger is pulled a round comes out the barrel, the long pencil looking like thing with a hole in the end. (caution!) Do NOT ever put your eye at the end of the barrel, or any other body feature in proximity of it. The Body is the main frame of your gun. It is sturdy and has the actual firing mechanism etc inside it… KEYWORDS.. In finale, without fuel your gun is powerless. The Air Tank, located at the rear most part of the gun and offset towards the bottom. The air tank’s compressed air will be used to push out your rounds at over 300 Feet per second on some models! Cool huh!? Paintball guns prices vary from under $100 to over $1000. A decent gun should be around $ 250, and then come the accessories, lasers, grenade launchers, protective gear. Whoa! Did he just say grenade launchers, yes I did, they are now introducing grenade launching attachments that can launch a ton of paintballs! So with a gun in hand, make sure also that you have a face mask or goggles, and maybe even a cup. Don’t try to armour yourself with too much close other wise you’ll think you were in a tank within minutes of a match starting. Make sure you’ve purchased the right type of ammo and test shoot a few rounds, (at static objects not animals or people) before you go into battle! So that’s your crash course into paint balling cadet, now hut two and good luck out there!