Hello everyone!
Hope you are all well.
I am a novice to all of this so please excuse an ignorance.
I am looking to start a paintball business, an outdoor one, however I am wanting to find out which paintball guns would be the best ones to purchase from the UK.
I did begin looking into the Valken and JT splatmaster, however it seems those are mainly for kids.
I do want some guns that are beginner friendly however they do need to be professional as well and ideally a spring powder gun would be best.
I am also trying to budget to £100 or less per gun.
I would sincerely appreciate any advice and recommendations. Thank you!!
Spring power is a no go. That only allows for the Splatmaster 0.50” spring action type, and you would only be able to run the child’s party groups which are typically on a fixed price for parents to budget a party
Check out the series of videos by Martello of Paintball magazine / On Target Games …. Beginning here:
That series was intended to be a rough guide to creating a paintball business but turned into progress on keeping going under covid.
An important thing to do is to diversify - the venue is the business and the option of multiple activities is the way to keep it going
Just within paintball there are:
Low impact spring 0.50”
Rental grown up paintball - traditionally on 0.68”, but you can also do this is 0.50” which aligns your paintball stocks with the kids low impact and makes better use of your storage space
Walkons / own gunners - these expect to use their own guns in 0.68” and that you run on 3000psi compressed air (and will ask you for 4500psi - but that’s not necessary and more expensive to run)
A number of rental only sites still run on CO2, which means you have to buy in CO2 as opposed to have a commercial compressor and bank of holding cylinders
You should contact Trevor Kent of HPAC as he is the oracle of air
And also the UKPSF that represent the industry and players and are a major source of support
UK Paintball Sports Federation Welcome to the UK Paintball Sports Federation, the UK’s governing body for Paintball. Paintball Site Memberships You will need to click the button below to sign up for your annual 1 year UKPSF site membership at £200 per year if you have just 1 venue, if you have...
ukpsf.com
For other diversity look into airsoft (they can play the same areas as paintball as long as you keep splatter residue on bunkers etc and plastic BBs on the floor to a minimum, then other things like laser tag, zorbing, zombie / haloween experiences etc
Search for ‘stay weekend activities’ and you have a wealth of ideas, add the ones that you could practically run
