Sniping

[-=[SFE]=-Sniper]

I need to know what kind of gun is good for sniping? I can't afford an angel and some people say the the +Spyder Compact 2000+ is fairly good for sniping. . . others say all of them all and they are but I am about to purchase something and need some help choosing. Also if anyone wants to start a "Paintball Sniping" website or something contact me because I am willing to help.

Skeenanm@AOL.com or SFESniper for all you AIM users.

 

[Kieran - Thunder]

I think u may want to prepare to be flamed!

 

[crom-dubh]

Get a Tippman Custom 98 with a flatline barrel. As to the other markers it depends on your barrel to a small degree. Also running on air will improve accuracy as it is more consistant than CO2 ie no spikes or drop offs in velocity. One of the most important aspects of accuracy is making sure that the paint you use is of top quality and is the right size for the barrel you use.

 

[rockon_1]

sniping in paintball is misleading its not really possible because at the same velocity all the markers will get the same distance .the exception to this is backspin markers . (flatline and z body mag ) but with these you take your chances because with a bad paint match you'll be able to throw a ball that far but not to hit anything . I suggest just get a basic marker . 98 custom , spyder or piranha and go from there . they'll be far more accurate then the field reantals .

 

[The Kid]

Not the flatline...

You can get a Model 98...but don't get the flatline barrel. It shoots FAR, but not accurate. My friend has one and doesn't use it any more. He uses a Smart Parts Progressive barrel. That shoots real nice. :-D Accurate and it has few brakes.

 

[cjohns]

Ooo Oooo

Are we going snipe hunting? I really want to catch those snipes this time!!!!

Sniping is a load of horse ****!!!!!

 

[KillerOnion]

Geez...once again the backspin people and all their drivel which is of little benefit to the people hoping somewhere on some continent that paintball sniping might somewhere exist. NO, THE FLATLINE IS NOT A MEANS OF EXTENDING EFFECTIVE RANGE. Perceived distance traveled, perhaps, but not accurate or breakable range. GET OVER IT. Room does exist for improvement in effective range by enhancing accuracy through use of a quality barrel and quality paint. A slight but noticeable range edge can be achieved by low pressures around the 200 psi range.

Yeah, we've all heard the "300 fps is 300 fps no matter what" arguement against that time after time after time...but does it stand up on the field? No it doesn't. 290 fps at the chrono out of a 10" barreled Mag DOES NOT EQUAL 290 fps out of a 10" barreled Angel, which DOES NOT EQUAL 290 fps out of a 10" barreled Shocker, nor are they anything alike when 14" or 16" barrels (all of them the kept to the same brand and model, of course) are put on them. They are different. They drop at different points downrange, though the overly simplified notion which assumes all other things are equal says this is impossible. Even when lengths are optimized for the combination of firing pressure and dwell, the differences decrease but are still there. Can anyone tell me why? Can anyone give me anything other than what looks great in a textbook but doesn't explain for squat on the field why paint of the same kind fired from one gun on one end of the field rolls to a dead stop at its target's feet while the returning fire slams into the net behind its target with enough force to break, and they both chrono off the field nearly identically (with no chrono cheating involved)?

 

[Micah]

Couple of things ... I'm bored

One ... snipes were real birds that became extinct, they were a bird that the brits in the american colonies liked to hunt because of how difficult the were to hit. Snipers got their name by beign able to hit the elusive bird. American sharp shooters could hit a mans torso @ 300 paces with a musket ball. Very impressive.

2 ... The flat line with good paint like Marbs shots pretty damn accurate. But the M98 is not exactly a stable shooting platform and at such long ranges it's hard to put shot after shot on the same spot as the tip of the barrel moves slightly causing a big movement at a long range ... it's like looking at a protractor 5' at teh little point is nothing but if you took 2 rulers 5' apart the end of the rules would be MUCH farther apart ...

3 ... Sniping is valid in paintball to a point. Especially in Big/sceanario games ... but even in rec ball, if you're playing 20 min games you do have the time to crawl up on people and fire some well placed shots from an unknown location. It's a matter of properly using camouflage and conceling yourself in your suroundings. Now, I believe that you cant really do this with a LOUD blowback marker. I know this will sound weird as hell but I snipe with my LP cocker and I play in the town with my Phantom SC. My 'cocker is very quiet, so much so that when other people are shooting you can't hear my 'gun firing. So I can fire a 3 round burst and go still and be un seen. 3 shots are much more likely to find their target than one ...

Ok, I'm done ... for now ...

-Micah

 

[rockon_1]

Well onion you do make a few good points . but things .
1. backspin barrels do get longer range in a way . they have flatter trajectory meaning that the ball travels more in a straight line meaning if someone is stading a long ways away the distance the ball has to travel to get to them is less hence the perceived longer range .
2. All other points in yur topic can be covered by paintball gremlins . paintball gremlins are small parasites that live in paintball guns and cause them to malfunction from time to time .

*those ******* snipe's i knew they wernt extinct there trying to take over the world .

 

[KillerOnion]

Geez...how bad can it get? You don't know much about hunting and attempt to challenge my knowledge. The futility. Oh man, the futility.

Snipe are not at all extinct, but just not as numerous today because of their brush habitat being cleared by farming or real estate development. They're a short, chubby little brown speckled bird that flies in an odd pattern which drives most well-trained wingshooters up the wall. Those factors combined with the fact that few people know how to find them, their wariness and aggrevating tendency to simply run under the low weeds and thickets rather than fly, and that you have to walk right up on them to get them to fly up for a shot all make actual snipe hunting seem almost impossible. I've shot at them a few times while on my way to and from duck hunting, and let's just say I haven't hit them too often. They're tasty if you can hit them, which comes after shooting at them a few times, which comes after figuring out what they are when you see them, which comes after you stop laughing at the absurd looking little bird flying away from you like a drunk guy at 3am riding a unicycle 50 mph downhill trying to flee a cop.

You people should get out in the woods more.

Anyway, on to the point of the backspin junk. You're using MARBALLIZER when you're shooting a Flatline? Does the paint ever break on a person's body, or anything other than the gun and tank or lens (in the odd chance that should ever happen to hit them, which is ridiculously small) at the range it supposedly gives to your advantage? Didn't think so. It goes soooooooooo sloooooooooooowly. By the time it gets to the person it can be dodged easier than a punch thrown by a 400 lb 60 year old woman, and similarly if it connects, it lacks much significant force. Marballizer would hardly be the paint to use at that distance...but because a M98 is a gun that runs well above the pressure an informed person would want for shooting delicate enough paint for the task (that they wouldn't even think about deliberately putting inside a rough barrel for that matter), it simply isn't practical.