Originally posted by Skeetmaster
Thats some great maths there matey...I had too much wine at dinner, so Im not about to try and argue it...all I can say, is tha you made one or two assumptions there...I have to make teh assumption, that the makers of the video, were telling the truth about A) The Cyclic rate and B) Not breaking any paint in the barrel. That said...I could be wrong about teh catching up bit, and possibley it is more likely that some paint is fracturing apon exiting the barrel.
Apparently, a barrel is required to be 6 inches long, or there abouts, to fully acelerate a paintball..so, would the ball not be slowing down by the time it leaves the barrel?
Do we know the rate of deceleration, in a given environment, of a paintball?
Are we working on the presumption, that the poorly fitting ball, is being struck by a well fitting ball..or the other way around?
Anyway...fact of the matter is... the gun was spitting out old crappy paint, at (apparently) 36 BPS, and not chopping it..regardless of if the paint was breaking in the barrel...also, the gun was being tested, not played with...so perhaps it was shooting at 300fps? Not that this would make any differnence to John C's calculations.
I find Cockers to be very consistent, and efficient...it really does make a difference if the gun has been set up correctly.