Does a paintball fired from a paintball gun travel faster than a BB fired from an Airsoft gun?

(1) On January 12, 2011 at 5:40 pm Rizoney [30] said:

"It depends. Paintball guns can be very powerful if you have all the right equipment, and also if you turn the FPS up (feet per second). The average FPS where some people play is around 300-400 FPS.

BB's can also go fast, but again, you need the right equipment. You can buy high power Airsoft guns. (Some Airsoft guns fire hard enough to hurt, but one 'particular' CO2 gun can fire up to 1056FPS!)

**EDIT TIME** paintball markers can shoot at a fairly high fps once set but they are intended to shoot at 280-300 fps... when you shoot above that they tend to either chop(break in breach) or break (break in barrel).

A way to make a paintball shoot farther with the FPS cranked up, you need to freeze the paintballs, but be careful around others, they hurt and won't break as easily.

EDIT: you can not freeze paintballs when you freeze paintballs they either shrink up or become more brittle.. this is a common myth.. but is not true. in reality paintball guns dont fire over 300 fps... any higher you will end up busting "orings" or breaking it.

EDIT:You can freeze paintballs, as they contain water inside the paint, but if you do, your "marker" goes from a maker to a real weapon and it/you will be confinscated, ticket, or arrested for it. the same will happen if you are shooting over 300 fps (official paintball rules), as it can break ribs if you're shooting crappy paint. 300 fps is about 210 mph which most airsoft guns excede.

EDIT:Some paintballs come with an oil in them so they are hard or near impossible to freeze.

the vast majority of paint can not be frozen as it is oil based, some of the low grade stuff can be frozen as it will be water based, but doing so will really mess it up, the myth of frozen paint stems from pro players who chill their paint, chilling, not freezing, will cause the shell to be more brittle and therefore break on another player more easily

and even if you did freeze them your marker is not a firearm, and it will not break ribs, you have the same object traveling at the same speed as before, if you have had a paintball bounce off you you know what a frozen paintball feels like, safety gear is only rated up to 300 fps for paintball, beyond that you start getting dangerous frozen paint or not. lots of airsoft guns that run on co2 can easily go above that mark but it is rare to find a spring action one that will" most of this is speculation and off topic speculation at that.

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