Paintball Pistols - 43 Or 68 Caliber?

In recent years paintball pistols have become morecartridge - which is exactly what power paintball
widely available. It was around early 2000 that paintballpistols. However, the drawback to using a smaller
pistols started to make a comeback. They died later incaliber pistol is they tend to not shoot as far or as
the 90's because of the hyped-up semi-autos thataccurately. This is due to basic physics, as the mass
were highly sought after. Paintball players wantedof the projectile is lighter, allowing to react to the
faster markers that could take them out of the olderresistance of the air and wind on a different level then
12 gram playing style. Now that paintballers havethe weightier .68 caliber round.
gotten a good fill on the newer technology, pistols haveTo determine which caliber of pistol is best for you,
stepped back into the lime-light.you should pick which features are more important. If
More and more paintballers are looking for a trustyyou go with a .43 caliber paintball pistol, then you will
backup pistol to carry into the woods.have to buy and use separate paintballs than your
Nowadays, paintball has evolved into a multi-caliberprimary marker uses. While you would assume that
sport. By multi-caliber, I mean there are different sizes.43 caliber paintballs would be cheaper, they aren't
of projectiles being shot. Two rounds that arealways. They nearly cost the same as .68 caliber
commonly found to be used by paintball pistols are .43paintballs. However, some players just like having a
and .68 caliber rounds. Most paintball pistols use thesepistol that shoots smaller rounds because they feel it
rounds.simulates the real deal for effectively. In the end, it all
The general rule is the smaller the caliber, the moreboils down to preference.
shots you can expect to get per 12 gram co2