paintball hunting gun

[josephlys]

Just curious, first question - do most paintballguns have a adjustable hammer so I could tune the power to max, is that how it works to get max power? And by doing so does this spoil the gun?
Ok normal/average paintballguns shoot a 53grain paintball at approx 300fps. So my question is how much speed will be loss using a heavier projectile, say 100-120 grains. Am I going to lose a lot of velocity. Shooting from the same gun with the same tunings of course.

[Forum Admin]

Most are field adjustable so they can be tuned to field rules. If you build your darts right, you will have next to no blowby, that will increase power. I would try to find a way to prevent the bolt from blowing back, this will increase power by a lot, so you shouldnt lose much if any velocity using a heavier projectile. This should be able to be done with little work, I've got an old marker, I'll see if I have enough parts to illustrate.

[paintballarmsdealer]

You can ajust alot of paintball guns these days, alot has to do with the volocity spring (which can be switch out for more presure), they alows so much psi presure before sealing. Now as far as Ammo about 100 grain,  did you see this thred 

http://www.airgununiverse.net/community/index.php/topic,335.0.html

Let me know how many you need

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260638581341

Michael

[josephlys]

Forum Admin, its Geo right. Is it true that a closed bolt gun will prevent the bolt from blowing back, Im a little confused with the bolt stuff.
Michael, true that a heavier projectile will travel more accurately at higher psi, but will tuning the paintballmarker to its max power be bad for the guns machanism. Love powering up, but I dont want to ruin a good gun. A 8gram nail dart fired out a paintballgun at high power, sure will be a fun thing to shoot.

[paintballarmsdealer]

Kinda depends on the guns machanisms cheaper guns have plastic parts and or bolt pins while others are metal and aluminum, Well uping your presure will ware a little harder on the O rings and springs after a wile, but these ware regardless your still going to get thousands of shots, My rubber coated marbles are about 6 grams twise that of a paintball even at nomal power of 300 psi they have stopping power.  I just made some paintball darts my self they are in home made ammo 7.35 grams check em out.

http://www.airgununiverse.net/community/index.php/topic,391.msg2701.html#new

[josephlys]

Id just notice that most different paintballgun models have different mechanism tech, and different systems inside. So how much variance is there between two different models. Are all models really so different.

[paintballarmsdealer]

There are so many models and makers it would be an expensive question to answer correctly, but most work with the same concept and most makers make 1 o2 too of the same model and just tweek it abit to be diffrent but you will fine the same mechanism but tighter springs, same mechanism yet some are plastic or metal ect ect. you can download manuals of paintball guns which have the gun broken down with all parts to get a idea.