How to Play Paintball - All about paintball propellants

On behalf of Expert Village I'm Dan Foss and I am here to tell you about paint ball. Well there are a couple of different propellants that we use. The one that everybody is familiar with is liquid C02. As C02 gets warmer it forms into a gas and that is what fires the marker and the markers work on 700 to 800 PSI. This one is a never needs retesting tank. We have to test 3 AL tanks every five years. If we don't retest them, we can't fill them. So if you bring an anniversary tank to me in its anniversary month, we can fill it for four years and eleven months that it is on here. On its anniversary month we can't fill it. This one is a 14 ounce tank. We try to get it up to at least 13 ounces. We don't want to overfill it because we have got to get a little bit of expansion in here. This burst disc should blow first before the tank does. We have got to be careful and make sure this brass stays on the bottle. Liquid C02 is a cold propellant. We are shooting a round ball. That is why back in the Revolution they shot elbow to elbow because the balls would shoot and go different ways. Well with liquid C02 it does have a tendency to spin and go different directions. A better propellant that I like to use is high pressure air or nitrogen. This is a carbon fiber bottle and again a lot of these bottles go every five years. This one is off my scuba tank and I use my fill station for that. It has a quick disconnect that I can use I can plug right on to that and it has a gage. It has 4,500 PSI and I use my control line which screws on to it and then it plugs on to my marker and that's how I shoot when I'm out. I get more shots out of this than I do with my liquid C02 and my shots are more accurate. I get more play time. It costs a little more but it is worth it in the long run.