"Speed-ball" or tournament markers are only the "best" in Speed-ball tournaments.
In the woods they can hold their own alongside other highend markers, but if you play correctly you shouldn't need to shoot at 13bps.
To the (elitist) Mil-sim crowd, this style of marker is frowned upon.
However there is a solid place in Scenario paintball for high rate of fire guns.
Rate of Fire is one of the most noticeable advantages in paintball, since it gives you the ability to "hold" someone down very consistently and a high rate of fire can control the movements of the other team. This is true in both speedball and in woodsball.
However, Speed-ball guns are the worst markers for beginners. It does not teach them paint conservation or aim as mechanical guns would. More importantly, high-end electrical guns are much more complex and tend to be somewhat fragile if proper maintenance is not followed, most new players need the toughness and durability of a mechanical marker until they better understand not only how the guns work, but common problems that they will have to fix.
yes, paintball guns do have recoil, but no where near a real gun.
Yes. A paintball gun is not considered a firearm therefore a felon can purchase a paintball gun in Texas.
Regular .68 caliber paintballs, all standard guns do. Also there is no "m16 paintball gun" , only guns that look like it.
No, no paintball guns work on hydrogen.
There is no "ak-47" paintball gun. there are many companies that make guns that are styled after the Kalashnikov series rifles. On the same note, Spyder makes several models of paintball guns, which vary from beginner "wallmart guns" to decent enough middle classed markers.
There is no liscencing for paintball guns in the US.
To purchase paintball guns and gear you must be 18.
Paintball guns are not rated by any independent parties. There are millions of opinions, but try guns out yourself.
No one has a patent on the "paintball gun" several companies have patents on their valves and other parts, but no one company can paten "paintball guns"
Yes, reballs were made to be shot out of paintball guns.
There are no "a" or "b" buttons for paintball guns.
Paintball guns are not kids toys.