Saturday, July 26, 2008

Choosing The Best Paintball Gun

A best paintball gun (also known as paintball marker) is used to mark opposing players with paint. There are four types of best paintball guns and they are classified according to their firing modes. These are pump action guns, semi-automatic guns, fully automatic guns and ramping-mode guns.

In the early days of paintball, all guns were pump action. Semi-automatic guns were designed so that when the trigger is pushed down, a shot will be fired and the bolt moves back automatically to load the new paintball in position for the next trigger pull. This allows the player to increase firing frequency and accuracy because he will not have to manually pump the gun.

The Tippman SMG was the first to feature a fully-automatic gun.Ramping-mode guns are guns that can fire up to 15 shots per second. This type of gun prevents abuse from semi-automatic guns or fully-automatic guns that can shoot more and can cause injury to other people. Pump action guns promote using stealth and are desired by experienced players because of the challenge they present. Fully automatic guns are used by infantry and middle men in attacking another team's base.