| Paintballs | | | | come out of the gun but fragile enough to break on a |
| Quality | | | | target at a long distance. As a general rule the higher |
| Quality is determined by three main factors, most | | | | the grade of paintball the more fragile the paintball and |
| importantly how round the ball is then how fragile the | | | | the higher the quality of marker you need to be able to |
| shell is and what type of fill the paintballs have and the | | | | shoot the paintballs as higher specification paintball |
| colour or vibrancy of the fill and the thickness of the fill. | | | | guns hit the paintball more gently. |
| Roundness | | | | Fill |
| How round a paintball is will determine how straight it | | | | Paintball fills can vary in a number of ways and this |
| will fly and therefore how accurate it will be. The | | | | makes them better suited to different uses. A thick |
| accuracy of the paintballs will however also be | | | | bright fill is usually hard to wipe and is often used for |
| influenced by the quality of the paintball gun that is | | | | tournament play where a duller thinner fill is more likely |
| shooting it, the quality of the barrel on the gun and also | | | | to be used in woodland where staining of trees with a |
| the rate of fire that the gun is running at as this in turn | | | | bright fill is not desirable and you are reliant on the rain |
| can affect the airflow. A rounder ball will generally be | | | | to remove the excess paint. All our paintballs have |
| more expensive. | | | | biodegradable fill that will break down naturally over a |
| Shell | | | | short amount of time in the environment. |
| The shell of your paintballs are very important to the | | | | Please note that paintballs are fragile and occasionally |
| performance of the balls in terms of them not breaking | | | | damage can occur in transit. We advise that you |
| in your paintball gun but breaking on your target - this is | | | | check all packages on receipt and notify the delivery |
| a fine balance between the ball being hard enough to | | | | driver of any damage. |