OK, so you guys know the truth about barrels guns, trajectories range and all that sometimes confusing stuff.
All the time, I hear people claim their gun shoots further or more accurate than any other and the truth of the matter is vastly different from what they are claiming.
All barrels are made on centre lathes, they are honed and polished on centre lathes, the point being that all barrels are designed and manufactured to be accurate.
It is impossible for a barrel that has been manufactured on a centre lathe to be anything but accurate as long as certain manufacturing procedures were followed.
Every single barrel I have ever seen has met this criterion.
The main determinants in accuracy are the paint used and the person firing it, no argument.
The paint in some circumstances, if it has been sitting around for a long time, could well have ‘settled’ with the denser elements of the fill aggregating toward the bottom of the ball.
A paintball tends to be more accurate in its trajectory if the fill inside is homogenous, i.e. it is well mixed up. So always shake the paint up if you think this has happened.
So I am saying, if the paint is OK, then the accuracy is now in the hands of the person aiming the gun.
So, the subject of accuracy has now been explained, well not entirely, as I will explain in a minute.
As for range, there are certain things that have to be acknowledged, first, if the velocity is the same, the paint, windage, trajectory and spin, then no matter what gun or barrel you fire that paintball from, the range is going to be exactly the same.
Any other assertion puts paintball outside of the realm of modern day physics, I know some of you will want to contend this but I’m afraid, in cold, hard terms, you are wrong, wrong and wrong again.
So much bull**** is talked about these two areas that I begin to wonder whether anybody has listened to their science teachers at school.
Spin can affect the ball’s range but this is at a cost of momentum and as we should know, that loss in momentum translates into the ball being less likely to break at those greater ranges because of the reduction in kinetic energy on impact.
Once again simple physics.
But how does all this confusion come about?
In my opinion, there is nothing more powerful than witnessing or experiencing something yourself.
A good friend of mine called Kain, who happens to be an extremely bright guy as well, swears blind that Cockers have a greater range.
He is well versed in mathematics, basic engineering and science principles.
We discussed the topic at length and in the end we both agreed to the very things I have already said in this post.
But at the end of the conversation, he added, ‘But Pete, I still ‘think’ it has a greater range’. And herein lies the answer to all this, Kain, whilst on one hand acknowledging the truth also acknowledges that he ‘feels’ it to be wrong.
As I said before, experience is a powerful and ‘hard to ignore’ teacher.
Kain, as well as myself and virtually every other paintballer ‘thinks’ that his or her gun, his or her barrel, performs better.
And this is what gives the paintballer confidence and as we all know, confidence can affect performance.
So, one guy picks up his gun, and because he is confident is more accurate than were he to use his friends set up which is different.
So what he perceives as a more accurate gun is merely confidence in his equipment translating itself into a better performance from the player, i.e. him being more accurate.
Once again, this subtle mind trick will have its devilish way when concerning range, for some reason this distortion of reality also occurs.
So in a sense these bull****ters are correct but not for the reasons they suggest.
So far from having to embrace the idea that paintball has somehow broken free of the reins of science, we are merely being made aware of just another human frailty, that of the power of the mind over reality.
I mean, every time I look in the mirror, I see a lean, mean, loving machine…what greater proof do you need than that ?
I hope this has been of some help !!!
Robbo
All the time, I hear people claim their gun shoots further or more accurate than any other and the truth of the matter is vastly different from what they are claiming.
All barrels are made on centre lathes, they are honed and polished on centre lathes, the point being that all barrels are designed and manufactured to be accurate.
It is impossible for a barrel that has been manufactured on a centre lathe to be anything but accurate as long as certain manufacturing procedures were followed.
Every single barrel I have ever seen has met this criterion.
The main determinants in accuracy are the paint used and the person firing it, no argument.
The paint in some circumstances, if it has been sitting around for a long time, could well have ‘settled’ with the denser elements of the fill aggregating toward the bottom of the ball.
A paintball tends to be more accurate in its trajectory if the fill inside is homogenous, i.e. it is well mixed up. So always shake the paint up if you think this has happened.
So I am saying, if the paint is OK, then the accuracy is now in the hands of the person aiming the gun.
So, the subject of accuracy has now been explained, well not entirely, as I will explain in a minute.
As for range, there are certain things that have to be acknowledged, first, if the velocity is the same, the paint, windage, trajectory and spin, then no matter what gun or barrel you fire that paintball from, the range is going to be exactly the same.
Any other assertion puts paintball outside of the realm of modern day physics, I know some of you will want to contend this but I’m afraid, in cold, hard terms, you are wrong, wrong and wrong again.
So much bull**** is talked about these two areas that I begin to wonder whether anybody has listened to their science teachers at school.
Spin can affect the ball’s range but this is at a cost of momentum and as we should know, that loss in momentum translates into the ball being less likely to break at those greater ranges because of the reduction in kinetic energy on impact.
Once again simple physics.
But how does all this confusion come about?
In my opinion, there is nothing more powerful than witnessing or experiencing something yourself.
A good friend of mine called Kain, who happens to be an extremely bright guy as well, swears blind that Cockers have a greater range.
He is well versed in mathematics, basic engineering and science principles.
We discussed the topic at length and in the end we both agreed to the very things I have already said in this post.
But at the end of the conversation, he added, ‘But Pete, I still ‘think’ it has a greater range’. And herein lies the answer to all this, Kain, whilst on one hand acknowledging the truth also acknowledges that he ‘feels’ it to be wrong.
As I said before, experience is a powerful and ‘hard to ignore’ teacher.
Kain, as well as myself and virtually every other paintballer ‘thinks’ that his or her gun, his or her barrel, performs better.
And this is what gives the paintballer confidence and as we all know, confidence can affect performance.
So, one guy picks up his gun, and because he is confident is more accurate than were he to use his friends set up which is different.
So what he perceives as a more accurate gun is merely confidence in his equipment translating itself into a better performance from the player, i.e. him being more accurate.
Once again, this subtle mind trick will have its devilish way when concerning range, for some reason this distortion of reality also occurs.
So in a sense these bull****ters are correct but not for the reasons they suggest.
So far from having to embrace the idea that paintball has somehow broken free of the reins of science, we are merely being made aware of just another human frailty, that of the power of the mind over reality.
I mean, every time I look in the mirror, I see a lean, mean, loving machine…what greater proof do you need than that ?
I hope this has been of some help !!!
Robbo
