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Originally Posted by Roy Burger:
Wow if you really want to freeze paint or shoot over 285 fps please for all of us true paintballers quite the sport. It is dangerous and in my opinion right up there with wiping a hit. Any field that i play on, even the outlaw fields would kick you out so fast. Steven get a apex or apex2. you can "curve" any ball and even with decent accurasy after you get used to it.

I have an apex, but the apex can not give the unpredictable flight of those paintballs.  I have an apex tip modified to fit a barrel back to give greater precision with longer range.

I don't "freeze" paint to play or wipe, I simply for an experiment to put the whole "freezing paintballs" to the test.  It failed as expected.

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Still was nice to actually see this in action. I kind of figured it would do exactly what you said it would. I wonder though, alot of barrels back in the day were really large bore, like .695. What size was the barrel you were trying to push these through? I wonder if a .695 barrel would actually fit these frozen paintballs? Obviously this would still be a failure in the sense of something feasibly common to undertake, but I'm curious to see the kind of damage that could be done not only to the marker, but to something shot with a frozen ball. Not that everyone has 50,000 markers lying around to destroy or barrels they aren't fond of, but I am curious.

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Originally Posted by Matthew Formby:
Still was nice to actually see this in action. I kind of figured it would do exactly what you said it would. I wonder though, alot of barrels back in the day were really large bore, like .695. What size was the barrel you were trying to push these through? I wonder if a .695 barrel would actually fit these frozen paintballs? Obviously this would still be a failure in the sense of something feasibly common to undertake, but I'm curious to see the kind of damage that could be done not only to the marker, but to something shot with a frozen ball. Not that everyone has 50,000 markers lying around to destroy or barrels they aren't fond of, but I am curious.

I have an old 98C and a stock barrel for it that is large bore that I cold test it with later on when I have some more time.  I have a nice large bore Lapco barrel but that is more of a collectors item than a barrel I will ever actually use.

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Ya, I probably wouldn't toss the Lapco in the fire. Let us all know how that all works out.