Reballs - Reusable Paintballs

[Trigga Nometry]

I got real lucky and got close with the local WDP Angel Master Tech that I live close to here in MA. He has ended up trusting me and letting me provide WDP some real user feedback on new WDP and Evolve Paintball products before they hit the market and some that are just in their development stages.

For example I was lucky enough to be the first non-WDP employee to have a WDP G7 Fly for a weekend and try it out and report my findings directly to the inventor of the Angel, John Rice in England. I am having tons of fun.

Needless to say, I end up "having" to shoot a lot of paint that, well, I don't mind paying for but the wife does .

So I "invested" in some of the latest versions of reusable paintballs called Reballs, www.reball.se so that for all my home testing, I would not have to purchase paid nor ask the MT to buy the paint for me.



The Reballs are basically rubber paintballs. Well not really paintballs because there is no actual paint inside. They are the same "softness", weight, and texture of a regular paintball with the except that they do not break on impact, duh!, and they can be reused over, and over and over, etc...

I have found them useful to say break in a regulator or a paintball gun in general. Also to test internals at sustained high rates of fire (for wear in tear or failure).

So if you do any type of testing and can afford them, go for it.

I haven't had a problem with them. They seem to be lasting and show no signs of wear on them at all.

A couple draw-backs to them are:

1. THEY ARE EXPENSIVE! They cost around $120-$150 for 500 of them. But after you shoot them enough, they pay for themselves.

2. They can be tough to "catch". I do my testing in my basement and they hit the cement wall, look the Christ out! They bounce like there is no tomorrow. So you have to rig up a catch to dampen there impact and shoot into it.

If you are interested in seeing them in action, check out that link above and watch the WDP sponsored team Joy Division use them for practice. There are actually a couple indoor fields that use them instead of paint to lower the cost of the sport. The problem is that you end up playing using the honor system because they do not mark.

[jmstallard]

Sounds like a great idea! If someone's not grown up enough to call themselves out when they should, they shouldn't be allowed to play at all, so I see no problem using these at indoor fields.

How bad do they hurt? We all know that broken paintballs hurt less than bouncers, so are these that bad?

[Trigga Nometry]

From what I have heard, they hurt about the same to less than the standard paintball. I have not been hit by one so I would not know and I am not about to ask my wife to do me the honor of firing a few off at me in the basement ..

They are fun though.

[Medina]

Rubber balls?? Sounds like extreme airsoft to me! hehe

Have you tried Grippers of Vballs? They're velco "paintballs" that look small bore (perhaps .685 or .687) and come with a velcro bullseye target. The Grippers cost $20 and comes with a target and about 50 balls. I think that would be better for you as you won't have to hunt down each ball.

[jmstallard]

The Vballs have a velcro exterior, but they have a hard core. I would *NOT* want to be shot with one. OUCH!!!

[jmstallard]

Oh, you meant he should use them for testing, not indoor paintball. My mistake.

[Mavro]

I usually use these VBalls with my Delta .68. They save a ton of money on paint, especially when you just want to shoot around in the basement without worrying about cleaning up after yourself. The problem is that if you miss, they bounce all over the place and pick up dirt. You have to make sure they're nice and clean before you load them back into a marker. Since the bore is smaller and they sometimes stick to each other, I also have times when I get two load into barrel.

Overall, these things are great. I thought about buying Reballs and will probably get them since VBalls don't give accurate results with the Flatline.

[Trigga Nometry]

The best thing about the Reballs is that they do not need oil on them for them to work. I guess the VBalls need oil for them to work. Not so with the Reballs.

[MerrSonn]

mavro said:

Overall, these things are great. I thought about buying Reballs and will probably get them since VBalls don't give accurate results with the Flatline.

Be warned, I've heard that using Reballs in the Flatline can cause the beadblasted finish on the inside to wear down prematurely.

[Mavro]

merrsonn said:

mavro said:

Overall, these things are great. I thought about buying Reballs and will probably get them since VBalls don't give accurate results with the Flatline.

Be warned, I've heard that using Reballs in the Flatline can cause the beadblasted finish on the inside to wear down prematurely.

I heard the same thing. I usually only use them with the Delta and on the very rare occasion that I use them with my A5, it's with the stock barrel.

Thanks for the heads-up.

[Torch]

They also sell a target box that can keep all the reballs together. I think it's called a snap box, and it is not like a little box either. You can see the video of a guy shooting in the snap box, and it is quite huge, too big for my basement anyway. Pop this url in windows media player to see it.
www.reball.se/movies/reball.wmv


Torch

[quote author=trigganometry board=ammodepo
thread=1129770408 post=1129770408]

A couple draw-backs to them are:

1. THEY ARE EXPENSIVE! They cost around $120-$150 for 500 of them. But after you shoot them enough, they pay for themselves.

2. They can be tough to "catch". I do my testing in my basement and they hit the cement wall, look the Christ out! They bounce like there is no tomorrow. So you have to rig up a catch to dampen there impact and shoot into it.

If you are interested in seeing them in action, check out that link above and watch the WDP sponsored team Joy Division use them for practice. There are actually a couple indoor fields that use them instead of paint to lower the cost of the sport. The problem is that you end up playing using the honor system because they do not mark.[/quote]

[marine786]

I heard that reballs scratch your barrel, is there any truth to this?

[Trigga Nometry]

marine786 said:

I heard that reballs scratch your barrel, is there any truth to this?

They haven't damaged my barrel in anyway at all. I'm nuts about keeping my stuff clean and as flawless as possible so I checked for this right away. Not a single scratch and I have shot TONS of Reballs through my set-up.

[ferkjace]

If you don't clean them, that would probably do it.

[Trigga Nometry]

faceofjerkitude said:

If you don't clean them, that would probably do it.

Depends how to take care of them. If you just let them roll all over the place and get really dirty then, yeah, I'm sure they would mess something up.

For testing purposes, there is nothing like a 40'-50' long basement, 500 Reballs, and a full scuba tank. GOOD TIMES whenever you want.