Paintball Gun

Paintball marker, known also as paintball gun, along with the mask, are the most important parts of the equipment required for practicing this sport. Paintball manufacturers prefer to use the word markers, instead of guns, so that the sport as a whole wouldn't be considered dangerous or violent. And indeed, paintball is one of the safest sports around. The paintball marker works by using the power of expanding gas to push out paintballs through the barrel at the speed of 91 m/s. This speed is the safety limit and all paintball gun manufactures make sure that their makers do not surpass it.

Paintball is one of the fastest growing sports in America, so it shouldn't come as surprise to you the fact that there are numerous marker manufacturers and online you will easily find all types of prices ranging from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand. Your choice should depend on the type of game you want to play, and you should always check out all the available options, make a good research before buying anything.

Generally, there are five different types of paintball guns - stock glass; pump action; semi automatic; electropneumatic; fully automatic. In this article, we will focus our attention on the semi and full automatics. The semi automatic paintball markers are the most widely used model at the moment. Semi Automatic paintball markers require only a trigger pull to fire a paintball. The next paintball drops down from the hopper and is automatically read to be fired by the next trigger pull.

The fully automatic paintball markers will just keep firing paintballs for as long as the trigger is held down. Tippmann SMG 60 was the first fully-automatic paintball marker. It's interesting to know that they are illegal in some countries like New Zealand. According to the rules of insurance companies and competition organizers, only semi-automatic paintball markers can be used. Electronic guns use the technology to increase your trigger speed. They have a microchip which regulates the shots per trigger pull. But, the software on these microchips can be changed so that an electronic marker can be turned into a fully automated one.

RAP4 is the first real action paintball marker that is identical to the legendary M4 rifle used by SWAT Teams and the U.S. Military. RAP4 is an automatic paintball marker, it only uses 1.5 joule to launch a 0.029 oz. projectile a distance of 33 meters. It can be adjusted for semi or fully automatic fire. Shell casing ejected after each shot. Has a low CO2 consumption. Simple to operate & easy to maintain. More info available at http://www.rap4.com.