The mechanism which holds your paintballs prior to firing is known as the hopper. Hoppers can be critical in whether or not your team or you as an individual are successful in your paintball missions. There are several types of hoppers, each with different mechanisms used to drop the ball and each with different capacities.
Gravity feed hoppers operate exactly as the name suggests, and are the original paintball hopper. The paintballs are stored in a compartment that consists only of a plastic holding container and a lid. The hopper is connected to the body of the gun by a feed tube, which is only wide enough to allow one ball at a time to drop down in front of the bolt. The sides of the hopper are all sloped so that balls naturally slide down to the area where the feeder tube is. Although the simple design and the cheap materials used for gravity feed hoppers make them the most inexpensive form of hopper out there, they do have several disadvantages. The first is that balls tend to get stuck in groups that jam up at the top of the tube. Although this problem can be taken care of by shaking the gun about, thus breaking up the group and allowing the ball to fall down the...
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