New winner in the shots per second wars?

[DocsMachine]

Deers has it.

If we assume a 12" barrel, and a fast enough cycle speed so that the first ball hasn't quite left the barrel before the second ball starts to move, it's still largely irrelevant because the first ball is still subject to accelleration just like the first one.

If they're 11" apart, by the time the second ball has moved an inch, the first ball has exited the barrel. Yes, there are undoubtedly going to be a number of interesting aerodynamic effects with two shots that close together, complicated even further by the idea of any porting in the barrel, or whether it's a 2-piece stepped-bore, etc.

The first ball will immediately start being slowed by air friction once it leaves the barrel, but so will the second ball.

Doc.

[Trbo323]

Well, I still think it's quite possible to be shooting your own paint out of the air because at 50+BPS your consistency, for whatever the reason be it paint interacting with air in the barrel or different amounts of air being able to flow through the valve because of back pressure would be all over the place.

I doubt we will ever really know though, I wouldn't be surprised if there's aspects we are are not even considering.

Would be fun to find out

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[DocsMachine]

Consistency is a whole 'nother issue.

I have, in fact, "shot my own paint out of the air"- back in the CO2 days, and an AutoResponse frame on a non-X Automag, "blooper" shots were common if you tried to row the trigger too fast. Every once in a while, there'd be this "puff" of paint a few feet from the muzzle, as one ball hit the previous blooped ball.

As stated, if anyone actually tried this, I have no doubt a bunch of interesting effects would crop up- like this guy's BB gun, seeing the "gaps" in the ROF.

But, at the moment, it's all theoretical, and even the fastest markers have such a significant space between subsequent shots, that we're unlikely to see it actually happen.

Doc.

[TF_Aloha]

I swear, ref, it's still on semi. It's not bouncing, I just have fast fingers.