The Paintball BB Question

[ranger-j]

Many attempts have been tried at making a 6mm paint bb that performs well and still can make a mark on a human target. Finally someone has figured out the right balance of strength to survive the chamber of an A.E.G., but still can break on impact. The Hellfire 6mm paint bb is certainly interesting, but the question remains. What does the airsoft crowed think about a paintball bb? Is anyone really going to use it?

I personally think it is a really pointless invention. Yeah there are those that don’t call their hits, but would this change that? No because if everyone was using paint bb’s then after a few hits some will still deny that, that mark, is from your gun, or that it was from that game. So how useful will this product be? What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciOD5rV7 ... r_embedded

[axisofoil]

If anyone uses a paintball bb and hits me... there are gonna be problems.

I don't enjoy scrubbing paint off of gear... one of the reasons I airsoft much much more than I paintball.

I'd still like to see them do a few more tests for me to believe it. I want to see them put into an actual high-fps gun (like... at least 550-600fps), and then I want to see the barrel swabbed after going through 500-600 rounds of midcaps and hicaps. There's no way they're going to have a high break:bounce rate and no in-gun breaks. If it can't be done reliably for more than about 100 rounds (in guns like the rap4 realistic models that work similar to airsoft guns... and even in regular paintball markers) in .68cal or .43cal paint yet... no way it's going to be any more reliable in a 6mm round.

[xXIceMan316Xx]

I have played paintball for many years and airsoft for over 10.  I have run into more cheaters in paintball than airsoft.  I remember my first paintball game thinking "wait why did that guy just wipe that paint mark off?" That alone is my take on the usefulness of paint airsoft bb's.  I seriously doubt they work as well as advertised in the video.