| My how the times change, in my day we were lucky | | | | affordability, we will keep you posted. |
| enough to get our hands on some paintballs, let alone | | | | CO2- Here is the long and the short of using CO2 as |
| have something to shoot them out of or have a | | | | a propellant for your paintball gun. If you are looking just |
| propellant of some sort to shoot them with. As a kid I | | | | to play a little paintball here and there and just want |
| was more than happy to be able to shoot paintballs | | | | something that is easy and cheap to get then CO2 is |
| out of my wrist rocket, sure it was painstakingly slow | | | | the propellant for you. Any paintball shop should be |
| to load rounds and about half of the balls shot broke | | | | able to fill your CO2 as well as a number of other |
| but it was fun nonetheless. Well now a days there are | | | | places and its inexpensive to have them do it. Now if |
| three main propellants out there that allow you to | | | | you are looking to get into paintball fairly seriously and |
| shoot much much faster and with much fewer ball | | | | you are going to be playing a lot and shooting a lot of |
| breaks. The two most used paintball propellants that | | | | round as quickly as possible we would recommend not |
| are used in the sport today are CO2, Propane and | | | | going with CO2 and here is why. CO2 is considered |
| Compressed Air Also Reffered to as Nitro or High | | | | by most to be less effective than compressed air and |
| Pressure Air. My goal is to help you understand what | | | | is much harder on your equipment. |
| the difference is between CO2, Propane and Nitro and | | | | High Pressure Air (HPA) or nitrogen is stored in the |
| then also tell you about some pros and cons of each. | | | | tank as a gas which saves the headache of the |
| Nitro vs. CO2 vs. Propane For the past 20 years CO2 | | | | evaporating issue. Air is stored in the tank at a very |
| has been the propellant of choice when it comes to | | | | high pressure, typically 3000-5000 psi, and output is |
| getting balls out of barrels. The main reasons that CO2 | | | | controlled with an attached regulator, this regulates the |
| has been more popular are these, CO2 is readily | | | | pressure from 450 psi to around 800 psi depending on |
| available and cheap. There you have it, cheap and | | | | the type of tank. This results in a much more |
| easy pretty much wraps up CO2 in a nut shell. | | | | consistent velocity than with CO2. |
| Compressed air or nitro on the other hand has these | | | | Keep in mind propane is still in its beginning stages but |
| things going for it, potentially higher psi, no need to | | | | as of now the reports are that it shoots just as |
| evaporate, and a much more consistent velocity. With | | | | consistently as compressed air, you can shoot about |
| those things said, lets delve a little further into the pros | | | | 60 times more balls per tank that compressed air and |
| and cons of CO2 and Compressed Air. As far as | | | | CO2 and you dont have to worry about Hydro or |
| propane goes it is still in it's early ages but is looking like | | | | Quality Tests. |
| it is going to be the perfect mix of accuracy and | | | | |