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| Paintball Equipment |  The first paintball marker's original design was used
to mark trees from a distance by forestry service
workers. After paintball players started using it to
play games, the design began to change.
every player requires, at a minimum, a paintball gun,
paintballs, a mask for protection, and a paintball
loader. To protect against accidental firing of the
marker a "barrel sock" is also placed over the barrel.
Other equipment, depending on the variation of
paintball played, may include gloves, elbow and knee
pads, paintball ghillie suits,extra paintballs, a squeegee for cleaning out
the barrel, a throat protector, and a chest protector.
Hoppers are what a paintball gun uses to load
paintballs into the chamber for firing. There are two
different types of hopper. Gravity-fed hoppers use
gravity to move a paintball out of the hopper and into
the gun. These sometimes get clogged up and cause the
gun to fire, even though there is no paintball in the
barrel. Agitated feeders, on the other hand, feed
paintballs into the gun by utilizing some sort of
mechanism to move the paintballs into the barrel in an
orderly fashion, and thusly avoid jamming.
The mask, sometimes called goggles, are worn to
protect the face from the impact of paintballs. Not
only does the mask protect the eyes. It also protects
the ears, mouth, and nostrils from getting paint in
them. Some goggles feature double layers lenses that,
because of a layer of air between to layers of poly
carbonate plastic, are more resistant to fog. Since
the lenses of the paintball goggles are a soft
plastic, a scratch resistant solution is often
applied. Heavily scratched lenses should be replaced
as soon as possible, as they may be more susceptible
to breaking with the impact of a paintball, than one
that is not scratched. |
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