Ed Buford - Just Another Geek

Tippmann A5 Upgrades

I picked up a new Tank for my paintball gun today. It's a PMI carbon fiber tank. The carbon fiber is really lightweight and yet it holds 4500 PSI. Also this tank  holds 68 cubic inches of compressed air, so I should get roughly 900 shots off a tank of air. Compressed air is much more stable than C02 so the overall accuracy should improve greatly.

I also picked up a J&J Performance Ceramic coated 16" barrel not to long ago.

Here's some pix of the new tank and the new barrel on my gun. Can't wait to get out and shoot it  :)

 

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No, the other eye

So I took my boys out to learn how to shoot the new paintball gun and much to my surprise both of my boys are cross dominant. For those of you not in the know cross dominance is where your dominant eye is opposite of your dominant hand; so if you're dominant hand is your right, your dominant eye would be your left. An easy way to tell which eye is your dominant eye is to hold up an ink pen in your hand with your arm fully extended, then close one eye and then the other, when you close your dominant eye you'll see the pen appear to shift.

There's nothing wrong with being cross dominant, but it can mess you up in some things, like aiming a gun or shooting pool, two things I plan to pass on to my boys. Alex was able to do pretty good after I got him keeping both eyes open even though is still shooting right handed, but Zach didn't start hitting anything until I got him to switch over to shooting left handed. Hear are a couple of photos from our outing.

 

Alex with both eyes open:

 

 

Zach before switching hands:

Sweet Christmas Present

As a kid I learned to shoot a rifle from my Dad at a very early age. We would go out into the back yard and shoot… of course there were no houses or kids around to endanger. For me those days are gone. This makes me sad for boys, as I was about my boy’s age when I began to learn to shoot. So this year I asked my wife for a different kind of present… a paintball gun.

I did some research on paintball guns and found that the Tippmann A5 has a good reputation for not breaking balls at high speed shooting. For me this is a good thing, because I don’t want to spend my free time doing extra work. Also the A5 is one of the most customizable markers (paintball talk for paintball gun) on the market. Yee Haw.