Paintball guide for beginners.

Step 5: The Basics: part 5 squigees

If you've ever played paintball, you'll know that breaks in your barrel are horrible for your accuracy. If a paintball breaks in your barrel, there will be paint all over it that will really, really, really, mess you up. This is why you should buy a squigee. squigees clean out your barrel in the middle of a fight, or out of a fight.

all you have to do is unscrew your barrel, and put the end of your squigee into it. Then, grab the end from the other side, and pull. Then just screw your barrel back onto your gun.

squigees are pretty cheap, and there are different types. The kind that i just covered is the one that will come with your 98 custom, a pull through.

Comments

[bmr321]

i like your ps2 lol

[davison112]

fastest way for me is to press the little button/switch by where the hopper feeds into the gun, make sure bolt is back, and run it through there

takes me 5 seconds flat

[nosut]

Just a small thing. while yes you are correct in using a squigee while in the middle of the field and being shot at this is not a very good idea as it takes time and work to take your barrel off run it through and then put your barrel back on. I have seen many people get shot simply because to motion of all this caused their arm to be place outside of cover. If you are talking more realistically then if your on the field normally you would want to use a tiger tail as it is much faster and just as effective.

[teaaddict314]

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[nosut]

Again that is fine for you but: A. Your instructable is called "Paintball guide for beginners." Note the beginners part. This is not an instructable about you. So you might find it a little bit better to note the different methods since this is for someone who does not know them. B. That is fine that you expect people to use common sense but not everyone does but your paint does not follow your common sense and will break no matter what type of cover you are in. Since you made no note of it some people might not realize that just an elbow is enough of a target for people to shoot at. C. You need to keep in mind that I was in no way at all trying to insult your instructable and you need not get so defensive about it. I was simply trying to help and inform those that for beginners in paintball there are other methods that are more battle friendly. Because while it takes you an experienced player only 10 seconds to use a squigee it takes a rookie about 3 seconds to use a tiger tail. D. Finally I do apologize I could have phrased my first comment better then I had and I really did mean no offense to your instructable as overall it is very good.

[mmm_chewy]

there are also a lot of guns that have ACT systems to prevent breaks during a fight

[teaaddict314]

My gun has act, but act only stops ball chops when loading from the hopper into the gun. Balls can also break in the barrel or when there fired, often because they are too imperfect, too large for the barrel, or just a defective ball.