Technically True Paintball Facts!

[DocsMachine]

-The majority of paintballs are never touched by human hands.

-It's impossible to lick a barrel bore clean.

-2 liter soda bottles make very poor loaders.

-It is, believe it or not, possible to play an entire game without using any batteries.

-Alternatively, you can, using off-the-shelf equipment, play a game requiring ten batteries, not counting cell phones, GoPros, etc.
(PVI Shocker [3AA] HALO loader [4AA] Warp Feed [2 9V] and a goggle fan [1 AAA].)

-If you fill your tank with compressed Helium instead of air, you lose close to 20% of your velocity.

-The "Gamma Core" is not actually radioactive.

-Contrary to popular media, raccoons are not particularly good at paintball.

-First Strikes don't always hit the first time.

-I don't find an Intimidator all that frightening.

What else ya got?

Doc.

[zinger565]

- Automags, are, in fact, not mag fed (at least not stock).

[nak81783]

-The majority of paintballs are never touched by human hands.

-It's impossible to lick a barrel bore clean.

-2 liter soda bottles make very poor loaders.

-It is, believe it or not, possible to play an entire game without using any batteries.

-Alternatively, you can, using off-the-shelf equipment, play a game requiring ten batteries, not counting cell phones, GoPros, etc.
(PVI Shocker [3AA] HALO loader [4AA] Warp Feed [2 9V] and a goggle fan [1 AAA].)

-If you fill your tank with compressed Helium instead of air, you lose close to 20% of your velocity.

-The "Gamma Core" is not actually radioactive.

-Contrary to popular media, raccoons are not particularly good at paintball.

-First Strikes don't always hit the first time.

-I don't find an Intimidator all that frightening.

What else ya got?

Doc.

#2: You've never met my ex-girlfriend. That seemed too easy; it seems you were fishing.

#8: Need more info. Hometown paintball field had a raccoon for a logo, but I must be naive about something.

[dano_____]

• A shocker does not shock you.
• An asa can attach a regulator or an air tank or neither or both.
• An angel is not sent from heaven and quite commonly causes the use of the lord's name in vain when teching.
• A MiniMag is bigger than an AutoMag.
• Paintballs are not filled with paint.
• Most people on McB have more guns that have seen more time in the backyard than the field.

[imped4now]

Your last bullet point hits hard.

[Tarsun2]

dang, talk about twisting the knife... lol

[DocsMachine]

-Autocockers have automated cocking, while Automags have automatic cocking.

-Most ball detents don't actually use balls.

-Very few bolts are threaded.

-The older 'Cockers used a pull-pin that you had to push to use.

-A set of "one hole" grips actually needs two screws to install.

-Duckbills don't come from ducks, and beavertails have nothing to do with beavers.

Doc.

[nak81783]

• A MiniMag is bigger than an AutoMag.

But I've been buying them for over two decades, each time thinking they'll be smaller.

[jokers]

-The majority of paintballs are never touched by human hands.

-It's impossible to lick a barrel bore clean.

-2 liter soda bottles make very poor loaders.

-It is, believe it or not, possible to play an entire game without using any batteries.

-Alternatively, you can, using off-the-shelf equipment, play a game requiring ten batteries, not counting cell phones, GoPros, etc.
(PVI Shocker [3AA] HALO loader [4AA] Warp Feed [2 9V] and a goggle fan [1 AAA].)

-If you fill your tank with compressed Helium instead of air, you lose close to 20% of your velocity.

-The "Gamma Core" is not actually radioactive.

-Contrary to popular media, raccoons are not particularly good at paintball.

-First Strikes don't always hit the first time.

-I don't find an Intimidator all that frightening.

What else ya got?

Doc.

#5 some of the older Halo Bs had 6 double A batteries so 12

more to come

[MrBarraclough]

Empire Scions also used 6 AAs. They'll run on 4, but poorly.

[DocsMachine]

-First Strikes can actually be used twice.

-A "full" CO2 tank is not actually entirely full.

-Stripping and reanodizing a part makes it lighter.

-The Alien paintball gun was made here on Earth.

-The airball bunker called a "Dorito" is not, in fact, edible.

Doc.

[MrBarraclough]

One of my favorite counterintuitive facts about CO2: a "full" tank and a nearly empty one will output the same pressure as long as they are the same temperature.

[jokers]

-No one is buried under the tombstone
-There are no bunks in most Bunkers
-A sniper barrel will not be more accurate than most barrels and is normally to long for standard play.

[DocsMachine]

-No one is buried under the tombstone

-That you know of.

Doc.

[Spider!]

Longer barrels actually shoot further (from you), however many inches you add.

[jokers]

-From June 7 1981 till today there have been more deaths attributed to chess than paintball. 35-2
-No paintball robot has ever broken a persons finger, where a chess robot broke a kids finger

[DocsMachine]

-Woodsball is usually played in a forest.

-Most stock class markers are actually heavily modified.

-The RAT valve does not involve rodents in any way.

-There is nothing supernatural about the Magic Box.

-We had full auto before we had semi-auto.

Doc.

[Spec]

Not paintball related but an MCB post did alert me to zefrank1.

-I can no longer think, hear, or see the term, "True Facts" without the word but#%ole floating through my consciousness.

[Cdn_Cuda]

Those are great. We should make a version for paintball.

[The Great Equalizer]

True Facts about the Polar Bear (Doc). I would watch that.

[DocsMachine]

Doc Nickel does not have a doctorate or medical degree.

-You promised not to tell!

Doc.