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Here are my plans for a homemade .50 cal semi auto paintball gun. It will be powered by a large air compressor (100+ psi) or a large air tank. (like 6" PVC with caps, made to hold pressure etc).

Will probably be piloted using a hi-flow, modified blow gun.

looks like a pretty good design.
but will this system be powerful enough to launch a paintball at an effective velocity?

I'd avoid the suppressor. Legal deathtrap. No matter WHAT you have heard, you HAVE to have it registered or you will be in deep honkey.

SEAKING9006 wrote:I'd avoid the suppressor. Legal deathtrap. No matter WHAT you have heard, you HAVE to have it registered or you will be in deep honkey.

I know suppressors/silencers are grey zones as far as everything goes, but they aren't very effective anyway. As I don't want to get a CO2 setup it'll be limited by what air source I'm using, so the silencer probably won't be very effective.

Thanks for the input guys will probably give the silencer a miss.

EDIT: progress pics.



Valve casing and piston.



Valve closed.



Valve opened.



Inside, valve open.

EDIT #2: Looks like progress is halted for today. We have a friendly family of european wasps moving in to make a home in the shed. And they're agro..

Err, I'm not quite sure how it works...
But I didn't really want to devote the mental effort after midterms...

Try Using either a bug bomb as a grenade, or Putting on every coat you have and wrap your head in mosquito netting and use some raid.

Of course, I've also heard a combination of flying gasoline plus an open flame to be an effective insecticide....