Spin off

[hamilton]

I have recently purchased a Bushmaster 2000 which came with a 14" dye boomstick, it's setup on co2 and the preasure is at roughly 250psi
when i was playing my paintballs were spinning off after 20 meters or so
i don't know what the problem is
any ideas?

cheers
Hammy

 

[Tom Allen]

possibly a wet barrel, eg, an earlier paint break.

what is the speed over a chrony.

 

[hamilton]

i don't know but there was some paint inside the barrel
do you think that setting the velocity lower would stop this?

 

[joe bob]

it might help, mabe you got a bad barrel or sumthin

 

[hamilton]

i thought a boomy was sposed to be a good barrel

 

[WingNut]

A boomstick is a great barrel........

Tips here:-

1. Only use good quality paint.

2. Check your velocity with a cronograph. Set it to around 285.

3. Keep your barrel clean AT ALL TIMES.

If you have a break in the barrel, just firing another ball will not be sufficient to clean it. Use a sqeegie...

Setting the velocity lower will not help with 'spin off' or whatever you called it. Just KEEP IT CLEAN.

 

[Kaish]

Paint too small for the barrel? Put one of the paintballs into the barrel and look through it at a light source, a perfect match is when the paint has 3 points of contact with the barrel (pretty hard to get unless you have lots of diff paint and barrels to choose from). If you can use the barrel as a blowpipe and there's a little resistance when trying to blow the paint out it should be fine.

 

[hamilton]

ok thanks for the advice
the site where i go is i bit stingy when it comes to bringing your own paint and the stuff they have aint too high quality either, but i will make sure the barrel is clean

cheers
Hammy

 

[hamilton]

just out of interest, is there any way of improving the accuracy except the barrel?

 

[TOOLE]

It sounds like tha paint was throwing it off. If you have paint in the barrel, accuracy goes dowb the toilet

Accuracy is mostly dependant on barrel/paint size match and what qualty paint you are using, top tourney paint is gonna shoot a LOT straighter than site paint!