Who Makes The Best Paintball Gun
Terry 'Sweet Shot' Dunn


Defined Tag: Best Paintball Gun.

Try to find the best paintball gun you can for your budget when you decide to join in the fun of paintball.  A lot of paintball manufacturers prefer the term "marker" instead of "gun" (yes political correctness gone mad).  The paintball guns who used to be made for the purpose of marking items that were far away such as trees with highly visible colored dye. In fact, in New Zealand they have just started using paintball guns to distribute weedkiller to various vegetation that are in hard to reach places.

Paintball guns use compressed here to fire the dye marker (known as the paintball) long distances, allowing utility companies, and the like to mark such trees efficiently for removal. Sometimes wandering cattle were marked for later retrieval!  (who knew work could be so much fun!)   The term marker has a much less violent connotation (yes, that political correctness crap again), but paintball gun is the more widely used term for the paintball shooter. Modern paintball markers are often designed to mimic actual firearms.

The best guns for paintball generally are made by the top manufacturers. Tippmann makes paintball guns such as the A-5, 98 Custom, 68, and 98 Pro. Smart Parts Paintball Markers and Guns include the Ion, Nerve, Shocker, Impulse, and Ion Pro. JT USA manufactures a variety of top-quality paintball guns. Check out Spyder's paintball guns such as the Spyder Electra and the Spyder Sniper Paintball Gun. Autococker also produces a wide range of paintball markers. Custom guns and sniper rifles are available from this list of best paintball marker manufacturers.

Optional equipment often determines what makes the best paintball markers. Automatic fire paintball guns must carry an external magazine of paintball ammunition. This magazine, called a hopper, sits on top of the gun, and feeds the paintballs to the gun by gravity, or sometimes by a force-feed mechanism. You get the best advantage by having a paintball gun that has a large hopper with force-feed action.  In fact, these by far the most popular type of paintball gun that are used now.  The more paintballs you can fit in your hopper without having to reload the better.

Compressed air as the catalyst for the paintball gun.  Little canisters of pressurized air, carbon dioxide, or nitrogen propel the paintballs like gunpowder propels bullets. Once again, bigger is better! Oversized air cylinders are available that attach to the player's belt and connect to the paintball gun with a flexible hose, which gives you an obvious advantage over someone who doesn't. Combined with a large hopper, the oversized air supply is another step in creating the best paintball marker to help you annihilate your competition.

Now with modern technologies leaping ahead, paintball gun makers have been concentrating on improving the barrel and flight path of the paintball to make them even more accurate.  New paintball gun barrel designs allow paintballs to travel farther and straighter than before. These innovations are often found in the best paintball sniper guns.

The list of enhancements and gadgets to improve a paintball gun is a long to say the least. Players demand more range, accuracy, and firepower, and paintball makers are obliging if you have the money. If you are an extreme paintball player, however, the best paintball gun is the one in your hands right now!