Quality Paintballs can Improve Your Accuracy.

Getting a good quality paintball is probably the easiest thing that you can do to increase your accuracy. Now sometimes good quality comes with a higher price…but not necessarily. Good quality doesn’t always mean a particular brand either. Good quality means round and consistent. Good quality means probably buying from your local paintball shop and not from Walmart or other big chain stores. Not necessarily because of the brands they may carry either. One of the biggest factors is “freshness”. At your local paintball store, paintballs are constantly moving off the shelves and being replaced. This is good. When paintballs sit around for a while and get old, they begin to lose their round shape. This happens a lot at the big chain stores like Walmart. Sometimes the paintballs are sitting in the warehouses forever. This causes a problem. Recently my local paintball shop was closed and so I thought I’d gamble and pick up some paintballs at Walmart. That was a huge mistake. I got a box with 1000 balls. When I took out the bag all the balls on the bottom were completely flat and the ones in the corners were pretty much square. It was crazy. I don’t know how old those balls were, but they must have been sitting around for a long time. Even the ones on the top were not that great. I tried to pick out some of the more round ones, but they were flying all over the place and I had tons break in my barrel. When paintballs get smashed so they are not round then they are bigger in one direction than the other, so then sometimes they don’t fit well through the barrel and they break. Anyway, it was just a terrible experience. So moral of the story, buy your paintballs from your local paintball shop; even if you buy the cheaper brands. The box of paintballs that I bought at Walmart was about $25.00 for 1000 balls. The local paintball shop’s lower end paintballs are $10.00 for a bag of 500, which is cheaper than the ones I got at Walmart and they are way better.