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A paintball gun (also identified as paintball marker) is utilized to mark opposing players with paint. It makes use of air (carbon dioxide) to force the paintball out of the barrel at the speed of about 300 feet per second. This will lead to paintballs to break upon hitting somebody but will only lead to mild bruising to a person. This could blind a person, though, as a result generating it a necessity to put on a face mask or eye protection such as goggles.

There are four types of paintball guns and they are classified according to their firing modes. These are pump action guns, semi-automatic guns, totally automatic guns and ramping-mode guns.

In the early days of paintball, all guns had been pump action. Every shot would demand the person wanting to shoot to manually pull back the bolt to let a paintball fall in front of it and then manually push forward the bolt to bring the paintball in the position to fire. This was excruciatingly slow when compared to other firing modes utilised nowadays, but is loved by many individuals as it teaches the significance of a persons skill with his gun.

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 since he will not have to manually pump the gun.

Fully automatic guns are those that will continue to fire paintballs as extended as the trigger is held down. The Tippman SMG was the initial to feature a totally-automatic gun.

Ramping-mode guns are guns that can fire up to 15 shots per second. This variety of gun prevents abuse from semi-automatic guns or totally-automatic guns that can shoot much more and can result in injury to other folks.

These types of guns are utilised in distinct kinds of scenarios, normally to prove who the best player in a tournament is. Pump action guns promote using stealth and are preferred by experienced players simply because of the challenge they present. Semi-automatic guns are utilized by players hoping to increase their shooting accuracy and considering that they do not have to pump each shot, they are capable to concentrate a lot more on their targets. Totally automatic guns are utilised by infantry and middle guys in attacking one more teams base. Ramping-mode guns are for controlled environments exactly where there is a specific rule to prevent injury and other problems.