okay...lemme explain...i have an experiment in my criminalistics class on improvised weaponry and I figured, hey, stupid...(that's me) this sounds like a great(dangerous and stupid,with potential for serious bodily harm) idea. Gee, wonder what would happen if I do it?(most likely,PAIN.)how much damag would this cause to a human body? car? building, such as a wood shed(mine)....can this be done? will it destroy my(roommates, cause I sure as hell wont do it to mine!) gun? anyone know how quickly the ball bearings would come out? damage they'd inflict/ etc?any help would be enormously appreciated!
Use marbles. im positive they wont mess up the gun, just make sure they're the right size. And I'm sure that it will hurt like crap. I did it and it busted ahole in my freakin' fence.
if you got them the same size as the barrel i imagine they could come out between 100 and 200 mph, probably very similar to an air rifle
Exactly! Pressure cookers, ball bearings, nails, shards of metal and guns can kill people. That literally makes them the exact same thing. So if you aren't going to ban ball bearings, then don't even talk about closing gun show loopholes. I love the logic!
If you used a bearing the same size as the average paintball, it may not go very far. A burst of air is what propels a paintball a paintball is definitely lighter than a ball bearing. There may not be enough air pressure to propel the metal bearing. If you use a bulk of smaller bearings, like a buckshot effect, those would barely come out at all. There'd be too much air blown around the smaller bearings, resulting in little air to actually propel the bearings. The reason it wouldn't come out as fast or far as a bb or airsoft gun is because a paintball gun isn't DESIGNED to shoot bb's. In any case, it isn't a safe experiment. If you were to try it, better make sure you take every possible safety precaution. And use your own gun, either buying a used junker or something cheap. As for the damage to the gun, there'll be some scratching/denting of the breech, bolt inside the barrel. Won't exactly break the gun completely but it won't shoot paint the same afterwards.
