The drop test
Have you ever wondered what quality the paint balls are that you buy? If your answer is yes, you can try the bounce test. In order to do this test, hold a paint ball 6 ft off the concrete and drop it. Continue to drop it at 6 ft until it breaks. Write down the number of times you dropped it before it broke. Do the same thing until you have tested a total of 10 balls. After you have tested all 10 balls, throw out the high and low numbers and average the remaining 8. Using the averaged number you can determine what quality of paint balls they are.
0-1 Bounces is considered very fragile. They will probably break in your barrel and pods unless they are packed tight. If you have 1-2 bounce paint, you need to change it or just junk them.
2-3 Bounces is considered fragile. It will break on the enemy but also in your marker.
4-6 Bounces is considered fresh, all around good paint . It will rarely break in the marker and will usually break on other people as long as you aren't shooting at a 45 degree angle.
7+ bounces is considered very durable paint. It will very seldom break in your barrel, but if you have to arc it, the paint probably won't break on your target. That's just paintball though, if you have to arc it, then you're probably out of range and should wait until the enemy is closer. Paintball is a close quarters battle which won't be changing soon.
Many people believe that "fragile tournament paint" is high quality because it says tournament. Tournament means that it has a fragile shell with a difficult paint to wipe and that isn't overly thin.
0-1 Bounces is considered very fragile. They will probably break in your barrel and pods unless they are packed tight. If you have 1-2 bounce paint, you need to change it or just junk them.
2-3 Bounces is considered fragile. It will break on the enemy but also in your marker.
4-6 Bounces is considered fresh, all around good paint . It will rarely break in the marker and will usually break on other people as long as you aren't shooting at a 45 degree angle.
7+ bounces is considered very durable paint. It will very seldom break in your barrel, but if you have to arc it, the paint probably won't break on your target. That's just paintball though, if you have to arc it, then you're probably out of range and should wait until the enemy is closer. Paintball is a close quarters battle which won't be changing soon.
Many people believe that "fragile tournament paint" is high quality because it says tournament. Tournament means that it has a fragile shell with a difficult paint to wipe and that isn't overly thin.
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