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Summary: You need more rounds for speedball, more accuracy for woodsball. Learn about the different styles of paintball guns in this free paintball gun buying guide from a paintball expert.
About the Expert
Robert F. Stewart Robert F. Stewart is a 15-year veteran of paintball who brings his military training and experience to the sport. In designing and building Hill 13, Robert go... read more
Hi, Robert Stewart here, with hill13. Next we're going to talk about gun choice, in terms of the type of player you think you are, or you're about to be. If you're interested in speedball versus woodsball, you probably are going to want an Egun, or you're going to at least want the highest capacity weapon you can get, in terms of how much paint you can deliver to target. Eguns have a battery operated trigger in them that allow you to have select fire, three round bursts, six round bursts, ten round bursts, whatever. Those guns are really, really appropriate in speedball because you really do want to put a lot of paint down. A lot of times in woodsball you may want something like a weapon we looked at earlier, which is the Flatline Barrel. Now, this is an older weapon, in terms of the Tippmann line, it's a 98 custom, but with this barrel, it is a really appropriate paintball gun for the woodsball field. If you can't spend that kind of money on it, you can also go with something a little less expensive. This is a VL from Viewloader; drop feed, it's a fifty five dollar gun nowadays, so it's pretty affordable. But if you're whether you're talking about Eguns, the new propane guns that are out or even the old pumps; which still you'll find them, even old Sheridan is still fully functional; try to choose a weapon that fits the type of player you want to be.