How To Pick The Right Paintball Ammo

Hi, guys. My name is Tommy Pemberton. I'm here with you kind people in South London.

Were out in the woods today, and I want to talk to you about paintball. Obviously talking about paintball equipment, talking about key equipment. You mentioned the goggles, but one of the next things that you need to consider is definitely your paintball ammo, and it's your paintballs themselves, so I want to talk to you guys about how to choose the right ammo.

With paintballs themselves, there are a few different really complicated manufacturing processes that goes into it. I'm not going to talk to you guys about that, I'm going to talk to you about the practicality of actually picking paintballs and what to look out for when you have paintballs. Right here, we have a pod of a hundred paintballs.

This is what you will get when you go to a paintball site. You'll pay your money and get given your hundred paintballs, and at a rental site, that's pretty much all you've got to choose. You don't usually get to choose between colors or which types of paint you want, but if you are going to go pick your own paintballs, then it's worth having a little bit of knowledge before you actually go and spend your hard-earned money on some ammo.

What I'm going to do is show you guys some paintballs here. Here, we have just some standard yellow grade paintballs, and these are actually pretty round. The first thing I want you to look out for when you're looking at a paintball is just to let you get it in your hands like that and just have a look around it to see how round it is.

It sounds really simple, but obviously, the rounder that paintball is, the straighter it's going to fly. If you have a big dimple in it, or if the seam where the paint was actually made, there's a big seam going around it, if that seam is sticking out or dimpled in or anything like that, then the paintball is going to swing when you shoot it. Just from actually shooting the paintball and the air coming past it is going to pull that paintball in one direction, so that's the first thing you need to look out for, is how round the paintball is.

Obviously, the next thing is just to test how hard it is. If you squeeze the paintball, if it's soft at all, then that's really really not good, and usually it's been effected by water and moisture, something like that that's actually made it go soft because they are all biodegradable, they all soak up moisture. The first thing when you're at a paintball site, you'll see paintballs on the floor all over the place.

The biggest thing I can advise you guys is not to pick up paintballs, because all it will do is you'll put it into your loader, go through into your gun and it will jam up in your gun. So, don't pick up paintballs off the ground, but, you know, make sure you've got your fresh paintballs that should be nice and hard and obviously if it's hard, all that means is it should, when you shoot at someone, and it will hit them, and it will be fragile enough to break on them, so that's what you want. Obviously, if you shoot a guy, and it bounces off him, then he's still going to be alive anyway.

Make sure the paintball is pretty tough and that should give you a nice basis for it. In regards to different types of paintballs, I think we've got some different stuff right here. This is obviously a blue paintball.

Nothing much different in them, but this is a different grade of paintball as well. So, this is a like a mid-range worth of paintball, a mid-grade, so there's more money spent on them in manufacturing of it, it's taken longer and it has a slightly more fragile shell. So, this paintball here's going to be a bit tougher and better for the high pressure guns that shoot a bit harder and are quite harsh on the paint, and this sort of paintball is going to be better for shooting a lower pressure or electronic gun or something like that.

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