Chris Schneck

The Myth : A frozen paintball is a hard paintball.

What I think : Because of the ingredients that go into making paintballs, I don’t think they will freeze and become hard as rock. I think they will shrink, become dimpled & deformed and will overall be very useless. 

Make sure to read : Paintballs - A tasty treat

I’m going to prove how freezing paintballs will effect them by sacrificing a bag of paint and putting it in the freezer over the weekend. The paint is new, non winter formula and in an airtight sealed bag.

The paint was put into the freezer on Friday, February the 1st @ 1pm.

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I retrieved the bag of ‘frozen paintballs’ from the freezer on Monday, February the 4th @ 10am.

Ready for a surprise? The paintballs were NOT rock hard, they were in fact a little squishy-er and extremely brittle. So brittle in fact I’d say they would be near impossible to use, even in the most gentle of paintball markers. The shell was not hard, and the fill was still very much a fluid. I would not be afraid of playing against someone who said they had frozen their paintballs, in fact, id encourage them to use them as I don’t see how their marker will function for very long with all the broken paint in their breach.

I will admit, there might have been a time when paintballs could have been freezable, but the general recipe for modern paintballs doesn’t seem to contain enough water to make them dangerous or near lethal. So the next time some one starts going off about how they froze some balls and it was rad, you can call them out and get everyone to laugh at them for being a big fat liar.

No.

But they look cool don’t they! Ive secretly always wanted one of those Smart Parts 20″ tacticals for my A5, but i just cant justify it. Instead I own an Apex barrel, which in fact does increase my range quite a bit, but not so much the accuracy. The best way to be as accurate as possible and to achieve optimal range is to buy a barrel kit with multiple bore sizes and learn to arc your shots for distance.

Do longer barrels use more propellant?

Technically, Yes.

The wording of that statement should be revised to be more accurate however. It isn’t the barrel itself that consumes the propellant, it’s the force required to get the velocity of the paintball up to leave the barrel at a healthy 270+ feet per second that consumes more air or c02. As the ball travels through the barrel, its introduced to friction from the interior walls of the barrel. This friction will slow the paintball, however slightly, requiring you to use more force to achieve the same effect as a shorter barrel.