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What Paintballs Are

By: Samuel Morhaim

Paintballs are small capsules, usually made of gelatin, and filled with dye. They are designed to explode on impact, marking the target with paint inside them- hence the name paintballs. Since the dye isw non-toxic, you don't have to worry about accidentally swallowing it, although I really wouldn't advise it.

Many different companies supply paintballs, ranging from expensive tournament balls to much cheaper bals of lower quality of recreation. If you have a look at www.sakworldpaintball.com you will see some of the ones available. They come in pretty well every color and quantity.

Paintballs come pre filled with a water based paint. Most paintball fields need you to purchase their "field paint", because this is how they earn there money. A lot of fields are now allowing BYOP (bring your own paintballs) for a fee.

Yoru choice of paintball depends almost entirely on how you intend to use it, as they vary in consistency of fill. The site http://www.sakworldpaintball.com/paintballs.html has some paintballs you can look at to learn more.

For practical purposes, you are more likely to go for a cheaper product, and quality might not be a top priority. Of course, a tournament ball will need to be the best, and you have to have balls that won't burst in your paintball gun. On the other hand, you need bals that will easily smash into your opponents.

Besides the quality of the ball, you must also think about its size. The ball needs to fit easily into your gun, which means it must be the right calibur for your barrel. All paintballs are .68X, but the final number varies. Most balls these days are .689, however if your local field paint is the wrong size, you might want to consider getting a different barrel for your gun. You can find a variety of barrels available at http://www.sakworldpaintball.com/paintball-barrels.html .

Of course, you must know the exact measure of your gun barrel before you can buy paintballs. If your ball is the wrong size, it might break in the barrel, and be completely useless to you.

Guns come in a number of varieties, like paintballs themselves, for example consider the Ion paintball gun. It has all the features you would expect from a paintball gun, but is most useful for its versatility You need to consider your skill, budget, and of course the competition you will be facing when you decide what gun to buy. Take a look at http://www.sakworldpaintball.com/paintball-guns-markers.html to see some options you have available.

The Ion paintball gun (http://www.sakworldpaintball.com/smpaionpagun.html) has a 17/sec firing rate and a 10 balls/sec firing rate on auto. This in combination with its low price is a good reason for you to give serious thought to this tournament paintball gun. Apart from that it is a great lightweight instrument (2.2 pounds), as good as many tournament paintball guns out in the market today. Try it, who knows, it might just be the one thing you need to become a winner!

If you want a top end paintball gun, then have a look at Planet Eclipse (http://www.sakworldpaintball.com/planeteclipse.html). Planet Eclipse makes guns which shoot over 30 balls/sec, and are some of the best available.

But if you don't know what exactly you want, have a look at SAK WORLD PAINTBALL (http://www.sakworldpaintball.com). They are one of the best online stores, and keep up to date with the newest guns.

Article Source: http://www.simplepetcare.com/pet-articles

Samuel Morhaim is a professional paintballer, and webmaster of the Planet Eclipse paintball website. Click here to see his paintball store.

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