September 2020 Issue September 2020 | Page 51

Or can you? I think that I have the solution and it’s as simple as gravity. Literally. If you stack paintballs up in a perfectly straight tube and let them fall, the absolute fastest that they can fall is 11 balls a second. Period. Science. So, if you restricted paintball players to using agitated paintball loaders that in no way force feed the paint, the absolute best speed possible would be 7 to 9 balls a second. That’s it. It wouldn’t matter what kind of marker you had or how many modifications it had; gravity would not let you shoot faster than 7-9 balls a second. Best of all, it would be an easy check for ref’s… the paddles of the agitated loader would have to be relatively straight and couldn’t extend over the hole where the paintballs drop. It’s that simple. Gravity solves the problem. It’s an easy and inexpensive part for players to purchase. It’s an easy rule for referees to enforce and paintball manufacturers get a relatively new product to produce and sell. Everybody wins and we can go back to whining about wiping the way the game was intended to be played… but that’s just my opinion… www.paintball.media 051