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June 26th, 2004  
soldierzhonor
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Originally Posted by Chqusmc
i know we in the marines practice with the M-16 and get some other stuff to make it work with the paint balls a have a question about it tought.
it has a 9 mm calliber is that harder than the regular paint ball guns?
the paintball ammo your talking about is known as simunition. You can load it just like a regular round and they are in casings like a real round, these usually shoot at a lower velocity (about 200fps) but still let you know when you get hit and leave the proof (i.e. welt.) These arent on the civilian market as far as I know but there are actual military style helmets used for this. These helmets used for simunition arent rated by ASTM for regular paintball projectiles which are .68 caliber.
 
 
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