The paintball field can be pretty competitive, and improving your accuracy will give you an edge over your opponent. To begin with, you need to position your body such that your upper torso can shoot without moving your lower body. Additionally, you need to keep your head steady and use both eyes to focus on the center of the barrel. Take a look at how you can improve your shooting accuracy in the paintball field.
Replace CO2 With HPA
Switching from carbon dioxide to high-pressure air will enhance your overall shooting accuracy. By replacing the CO2, you will gain constant output pressure. In part, this could be explained by the fact that your tank will have compressed air when using HPA. On the other hand, carbon dioxide will shift from liquid to gas when you fire your marker.
Given that HPA is basically compressed air, it is much less likely to be volatile. Also, HPA is considered cleaner than carbon dioxide. For these reasons, you can rely on HPA to get a better shooting accuracy while maintaining consistency.
Clean Your Marker
Most players are unable to get an accurate shot because of their dirty markers. You should regularly clean and inspect your paintball gun. That means you need to clean beyond your barrel and attend to the whole maker. Ensure that you clean the detents, raceway, as well as bolt and hammer.
Though you may end up with dirt in your marker from time to time, ensure you clean the entire marker before the dirt begins to stick. In particular, make sure you clean your marker after playing in a dirty field.
Avoid a Dirty Squeegee
When cleaning your barrel, it would be best to use a clean squeegee. If you use a dirty squeegee, you could spread dirt and paint all over your barrel. Your barrel could be filled with dirt, weeds, and grass from the dirty squeegee.
Spreading debris inside your barrel will negatively affect your shooting accuracy. That’s why you should purchase a rubber squeegee or even more barrel swabs. These purchases will come in handy when cleaning your marker, barrel, and paintballs.
Get High-Quality Paintballs
Minor imperfections on your paintball will affect the velocity of your paintball in the air. In fact, any flat spots or dimples could get sway the trajectory of your paintballs. By extension, these imperfections give you an inaccurate shot when playing paintball.
Besides checking for imperfections, inspect your paint. A single faulty paintball in your marker will spoil your game. Take proactive measures and do not expect the paintball manufacturer to have identified all drawbacks in the paintballs.
Use the Correct Barrel Bore Size
You can check your barrel bore size using various ways, including the paint-to-bore match method. With this technique, you match your barrel bore size to your paintball bore size. Other ways to confirm whether you have the correct barrel bore size would be to check for overbore or under bore.
An under bore refers to when the paintball barrel is below your paintball bore size. With an overbore, your paintball bore size would be larger than the barrel bore size. Most players tend to rely on the paint-to-bore match method to gauge the accuracy of their shot.
