Odd shaped balls from the 90's

[RST]

Necropost but I want to add some new pics to this topic. Maybe someone likes them.
This very early Macho Fire Prototype is part of the collection of the "Deutsches Paintball Museum".
They do have approx. 800 Double-Trouble cal.63 "Balls" as well.

 

[Michael roger keightley]

American footballs fly so well due to the spin that the player applies on the ball when he throws it so surely the barrel would have to be rifled to fire these effectively anyway ?

 

[Innovation24]

You would have to have a proper thread the whole way down the inside of the barrel to give it the spin. They do the same with .50 cal rifles to make the bullet fly straight

 

[Canon Fodder]

You would have to have a proper thread the whole way down the inside of the barrel to give it the spin. They do the same with .50 cal rifles to make the bullet fly straight

The spin is applied to stabalise the round in flight, it makes them less likely to go of course due to wind, imperfections in casting etc.

They do the same with most guns, pistols, rifles, air guns etc most are rifled (the thread down the barrel). It's generally accepted that it doesn't work well with paintballs for a couple of reasons. The first is that the fluid fill of paintballs is hard to spin, the second is that paintballs would have trouble engaging with the rifling enough to put sufficient spin on them to be effective. the exception is first strike rounds but they aren't balls and the fins engage the bore.

The theory behind these is that of flying like an american football, they won't be spun but the shape is less likely to tumble in that axis.

 

[Innovation24]

Nice theory behind it but did it work? I'm guessing not as they use circular balls now.
Could you not make a hopper that spins the balls already? Just spit balling here

The spin is applied to stabalise the round in flight, it makes them less likely to go of course due to wind, imperfections in casting etc.

They do the same with most guns, pistols, rifles, air guns etc most are rifled (the thread down the barrel). It's generally accepted that it doesn't work well with paintballs for a couple of reasons. The first is that the fluid fill of paintballs is hard to spin, the second is that paintballs would have trouble engaging with the rifling enough to put sufficient spin on them to be effective. the exception is first strike rounds but they aren't balls and the fins engage the bore.

The theory behind these is that of flying like an american football, they won't be spun but the shape is less likely to tumble in that axis.

 

[Innovation24]

Also if golf balls have many imperfections and they use that to their advantage why don't they do that with paintballs? Again just spit balling

 

[Canon Fodder]

Rap4 powder balls have the dints like golf balls, difficult to mold into a paintball though. The macho fire wasn't enough of a commercial success for there to be empirical data on if they worked or not.

 

[Tony Harrison]

My dear chap, we all have odd shaped balls.

 

[Canon Fodder]

My dear chap, we all have odd shaped balls.

You should see a doctor about that.