| The mechanism which holds your paintballs
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| | may also break them if the ball casement
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| prior to firing is known as the hopper.
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| | is weak, resulting in a jamming situation
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| Hoppers can be critical in whether or not
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| | that might effect your whole gun, not to
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| your team or you as an individual are
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| | mention your usefulness in the rest of
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| successful in your paintball missions.
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| | the match.
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| There are several types of hoppers, each
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| | Stick Feed hoppers are located parallel
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| with different mechanisms used to drop
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| | to the barrel and the balls are held in a
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| the ball and each with different
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| | line. In order to load the balls, players
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| capacities.
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| | need to rock the ball forward and then
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| Gravity feed hoppers operate exactly as
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| | bring the sights to bear for the shot. A
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| the name suggests, and are the original
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| | more useful model of stick feed is the
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| paintball hopper. The paintballs are
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| | vertical one, but these models can be
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| stored in a compartment that consists
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| | outlawed at certain tournaments.
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| only of a plastic holding container and a
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| | Force-feed hoppers are the most popular
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| lid. The hopper is connected to the body
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| | loaders among paintball hobbyists. Most
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| of the gun by a feed tube, which is only
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| | of these pros have guns whose potential
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| wide enough to allow one ball at a time
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| | would be wasted if they were to use
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| to drop down in front of the bolt. The
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| | gravity as the primary loading mechanism
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| sides of the hopper are all sloped so
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| | (not to mention they themselves would be
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| that balls naturally slide down to the
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| | wasted by their opponents!). Force
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| area where the feeder tube is. Although
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| | feeders have feed systems that will force
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| the simple design and the cheap materials
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| | balls into the gun, and grab the ball and
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| used for gravity feed hoppers make them
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| | load it instead of just mixing the balls
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| the most inexpensive form of hopper out
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| | up. Electronic models are especially
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| there, they do have several
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| | useful as they can keep track of the
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| disadvantages. The first is that balls
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| | number of rounds left in the hopper.
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| tend to get stuck in groups that jam up
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| | Agitating hoppers utilize a propeller to
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| at the top of the tube. Although this
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| | keep the balls from jamming up at the top
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| problem can be taken care of by shaking
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| | of the feed tube. These hoppers still
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| the gun about, thus breaking up the group
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| | operate using gravity to bring the ball
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| and allowing the ball to fall down the
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| | down, but the risk of having a jam is
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| tube, it creates problems of its own.
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| | lessened. These were the first type of
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| First of all, the shooter loses some
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| | hoppers to be equipped with high-tech
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| valuable seconds trying to get a ball
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| | devices which would keep the shooter from
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| down. As all players know, this time is
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| | firing without a ball in the chamber.
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| all that is needed for an opposing player
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| | This cuts down on battery usage as well
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| to take you down or for you to miss an
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| | as gas in older models.
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| important shot. Shaking the balls around
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