Sniper Paintball
February 1st, 2009
Sniper Paintball
Sniper Paintball
This article describes how to help build the ultimate Tippmann sniper rifle for use in Paintball. Others believe that although all markers have the same range, the combination of a good setup and a good marksman can hit from long range.
Steps
- Purchase a decent barrel. The two things that most influence your accuracy are the paintball and barrel combination. A Flatline Barrel System by Tippmann is proven to increase range. If you don’t get a flatline, a barrel 14-16 inches, possibly a J and J ceramic, a Smart Parts barrel, or an Apex barrel attachment which can effectively increase the range of your marker by 100 feet.Barrel kits are often the most versatile and accurate barrels available as you can match the size of your barrel to the size of the paintballs you are shooting. Make sure your barrel has the right threading.
- Get a good paintball match to your barrel, If the paintballs you are shooting do not match your barrel, they will either not shoot straight or they will burst in the barrel. You can tell if the paintball matches the barrel by removing your barrel and dropping a paintball in it. If it just rolls out, the paintball is too small; if it gets stuck when you blow into the barrel, it is too big. The best way to get a good bore to paintball match is to get a barrel kit that includes different barrel pieces to match variously size paintballs. Paintballs range in price from $25-$75 for 2000 rounds.
- Learn the importance of consistency – If your marker doesn’t shoot an equal amount of air or CO2 each time, a good barrel hardly helps, you will not be able to shoot accurately. Regulators are either high or low pressure. With most woodsball marker, this will be high pressure. In combination with a good bore to paint size match, regulators can make your marker shoot paint much more accurately.
- Reduce friction within the marker, . If you polish the contact points between the front bolt, rear bolt, and the receivers, you can drastically decrease friction within the marker, making the Tippmann shoot much more consistently.
- Understand the value of a sight versus a scope. A sight is a good idea to get consistently more accurate shots, NOT A SCOPE. Scopes are considered largely impractical in paintball because paintballs don’t fly straight, it takes time to focus somebody into a scope, and scopes won’t help you by getting a magnified picture of somebody, as you can’t hit them anyway. At their maximum range, paintballs go some 200ft, and the aim range is more like 75-100ft. A sight could be a red dot sight or simple iron sights.
- Getting a remote kit will allow you to significantly lighten your marker This allows you to crawl more quickly and bring your marker to bear faster
- Understand that camouflage is very important Since the ideal range for a sniper is something like 50-60ft, where you are sure to hit them with one shot, you need to be able to conceal yourself, and that means your marker needs to be camouflaged
- Be sure to have a stock for stability. It may, or may not, improve your performance as a sniper- it will make your marker more stable though, especially while standing up.
- Almost every paintball marker has a very similar effective range (even 200ft isn’t that far, and you probably won’t hit them from that range,) a paintball sniper must get close to be assured a one shot kill, and this means that you are well within the enemies range. You must be well concealed, and you must be able to hit what you shoot at. Your marker should reflect that.
- You can also lower your a5′s trigger pull by getting a mechanical pencil spring and swapping it with part #2 in the manual. If the spring is two short it may cause the marker to fire randomly.
- Have fun tinkering with the marker. A5′s can be easily transformed into a variety of markers, such as M4′s, AK47′s and MP5′s.
- A bipod also helps if your a camper(stays in the same spot)
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