WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN THE COST OF PAINTBALLS?
Many factors are involved in the overall cost of a paintball. One of the biggest is the shell, less expensive paintballs may be seconds or what is known as regrind shell and will have dimples, heavy seams or be out of round. They also may have less colorful pigments in the shell and have lower performing fill material such as ( VO ) vegetable oil and corn starch. Remember you are asking this little ball to go from zero to nearly two hundred miles per hour without breaking and then fly straight to your target, then break and leave a mark. That’s a lot to ask! The better made more expensive balls will have brighter fill use ( PEG ) Polyethylene Glycol and shell colors as well as rounder more consistent shell with less seam. Most paintball fields do not charge more for paint, they just sell a higher quality paintball. Paintballs sold by most discount stores are designed to be low cost and also will sit on the shelf for so long that they get out of round or dimpled and break in the gun or
