Post by wild on Mar 14, 2011 0:35:07 GMT -5
fine tuning your first strike rounds.
some of you may remember back in the day a long, long, long time ago shooting those little round paintballs.
if you were like me you looked for brands that best fit your barrel, that were as true to being perfectly round as you could find or afford . then you kept them in the right temperature and humidity being consistent to remove each bag from the box and rotate the paint to help keep the paint from settling to one side, thus insuring accurate strait shooting paint.
well some of the same goes for first strike rounds.
my experience has been in shooting bulk purchased paint, tube purchased paint, and bulk paint placed in tubes for shooting at a later date and time.
i have gone as far as to take bulk paint and put it in tubes in one half of a case, and to put paint purchased in tubes in the other half of the case. i then pulled the caps and placed one cotton ball in each tube to take up extra space. why you may ask? well i happen to have a industrial paint shaker at work and i wanted to see if shaking the paint would break it up enough to improve the accuracy of the paint. i tried this because i was told once that if i took each first strike out and shook it hard in my hand it would break up the paint and help accuracy. well the shaking paint in my hand didn't improve accuracy to my satisfaction and thus started experimentation to improve the first strike round for the sole purpose of putting paint on paint.
it is my experience that bulk is the cheapest way to buy FS rounds. it is also my experience that due to the shape of the paint and how it sits in that bulk box makes a difference in how that paint will fly. now this is something that also depends on how long it took to get from the point of production to you. TIME makes the difference.
now you have tube purchased paint sitting till it arrives at your door, this paint has been sitting nose down with the paint settling evenly to the nose. you tell me which paint is more likely to shoot better.
now i cant tell you if all the paint is sitting in large creates like cheerios waiting to get boxed and some go bulk and some go tubes later. but i can say how the paint is stored when it is packaged makes a difference.
i had a problem with bulk paint. lets look at a couple of tests before i tell you how to fix it.
OK so i first took bulk paint not in tubes and compared it to paint i had placed in tubes and shaken in the paint shaker. i found that while shaking the paint in my hand availed none the paint shaker did help a little in that it was not settled off center but it still wasn't what i was looking for or was familiar with in past history with the FS rounds.
so i took that bulk paint placed in tubes, that i industrially shook and let them sit for a weak or two. next i compared them with bulk paint i placed in tubes and stored for three to four weeks. they were very much comparable to each other. in short i came to the conclusion that shaking the paint in a industrial shaker got me the same results in half the time. just a warning on industrial paint shakers. you need to know how to adjust the pressure on it so not to crush your paint in the tubes.
while there was a lot more testing and experimenting than described i chose to keep it short with the above. also my memory of how i got the results is not as good as my memory to remember the results by themselves.
SO HERE IS TANGO DOWNS SECRET TO ACCURATE PAINT.
if you buy bulk paint you need to plan ahead, you need to purchase it while you still have paint so you can give it three to four weeks to settle in TUBES, i repeat place bulk paint in tubes on a flat surface nose down. here at TangoDown we saved our old FS tubes and the boxes they came in along with those nice little dividers so we could reload them to sit on our shelves for three to four weeks.
storing your paint in tubes is the best way to improve your paint. so go ahead and buy in bulk, i will.
just remember this when you go to a scenario game and its game paint only, while your looking at the price of tubed paint and bulk paint. think how much better your day is going to be when your paint flies strait. pay more and get the tubes and hope the vendor was smart enough to know which side of the box is supposed to be up.
that makes me think of another test i want to do,store paint nose up and nose down for three to four weeks to see the results. more on that later.
This is WILD, one half of TangoDown signing off.
some of you may remember back in the day a long, long, long time ago shooting those little round paintballs.
if you were like me you looked for brands that best fit your barrel, that were as true to being perfectly round as you could find or afford . then you kept them in the right temperature and humidity being consistent to remove each bag from the box and rotate the paint to help keep the paint from settling to one side, thus insuring accurate strait shooting paint.
well some of the same goes for first strike rounds.
my experience has been in shooting bulk purchased paint, tube purchased paint, and bulk paint placed in tubes for shooting at a later date and time.
i have gone as far as to take bulk paint and put it in tubes in one half of a case, and to put paint purchased in tubes in the other half of the case. i then pulled the caps and placed one cotton ball in each tube to take up extra space. why you may ask? well i happen to have a industrial paint shaker at work and i wanted to see if shaking the paint would break it up enough to improve the accuracy of the paint. i tried this because i was told once that if i took each first strike out and shook it hard in my hand it would break up the paint and help accuracy. well the shaking paint in my hand didn't improve accuracy to my satisfaction and thus started experimentation to improve the first strike round for the sole purpose of putting paint on paint.
it is my experience that bulk is the cheapest way to buy FS rounds. it is also my experience that due to the shape of the paint and how it sits in that bulk box makes a difference in how that paint will fly. now this is something that also depends on how long it took to get from the point of production to you. TIME makes the difference.
now you have tube purchased paint sitting till it arrives at your door, this paint has been sitting nose down with the paint settling evenly to the nose. you tell me which paint is more likely to shoot better.
now i cant tell you if all the paint is sitting in large creates like cheerios waiting to get boxed and some go bulk and some go tubes later. but i can say how the paint is stored when it is packaged makes a difference.
i had a problem with bulk paint. lets look at a couple of tests before i tell you how to fix it.
OK so i first took bulk paint not in tubes and compared it to paint i had placed in tubes and shaken in the paint shaker. i found that while shaking the paint in my hand availed none the paint shaker did help a little in that it was not settled off center but it still wasn't what i was looking for or was familiar with in past history with the FS rounds.
so i took that bulk paint placed in tubes, that i industrially shook and let them sit for a weak or two. next i compared them with bulk paint i placed in tubes and stored for three to four weeks. they were very much comparable to each other. in short i came to the conclusion that shaking the paint in a industrial shaker got me the same results in half the time. just a warning on industrial paint shakers. you need to know how to adjust the pressure on it so not to crush your paint in the tubes.
while there was a lot more testing and experimenting than described i chose to keep it short with the above. also my memory of how i got the results is not as good as my memory to remember the results by themselves.
SO HERE IS TANGO DOWNS SECRET TO ACCURATE PAINT.
if you buy bulk paint you need to plan ahead, you need to purchase it while you still have paint so you can give it three to four weeks to settle in TUBES, i repeat place bulk paint in tubes on a flat surface nose down. here at TangoDown we saved our old FS tubes and the boxes they came in along with those nice little dividers so we could reload them to sit on our shelves for three to four weeks.
storing your paint in tubes is the best way to improve your paint. so go ahead and buy in bulk, i will.
just remember this when you go to a scenario game and its game paint only, while your looking at the price of tubed paint and bulk paint. think how much better your day is going to be when your paint flies strait. pay more and get the tubes and hope the vendor was smart enough to know which side of the box is supposed to be up.
that makes me think of another test i want to do,store paint nose up and nose down for three to four weeks to see the results. more on that later.
This is WILD, one half of TangoDown signing off.
