You need to practice in order to make sure that you take as little time as possible when you are reloading. This will help you make sure that using a paintball pistol will not hamper you too much. However, there are also a lot of advantages to using paintball pistols: 1) Maneuverability the best thing about a paintball pistol is the fact that a person can use it with just one hand. Different Types of Paintball Fields There's so much more to paintball than just shooting. In fact, the steps leading up to shooting the opponent can sometimes be more vital. There are factors at work other than a player's gun. One of the most important factors to consider is the type of paintball field you are playing in. The basic parts of paintball gun The body Being the largest part, it is the body which is area where valve, bolt, and its trigger frame are integrated. These parts are detachable allowing you to incorporate new equipments, although it is more recommended that only experts should be handling this job. A good decision to make would be to get a paintball mask which has anti-fog lenses. These masks are called thermal paintball masks and can usually be bought at specialty paintball stores at a price that's a bit higher than what you would pay for ordinary paintball masks. You should also definitely get a paintball mask which has lenses that are scratch resistant. The Woodsball is the manner of playing a paintball tournament basically in any forest or wooded place which stands as a room that is huge enough to accommodate even dozens of players. In this kind of paintball tournament, the paintball players stalk their competitors and the game is longer than the usual. This means that if your equipment requires different sizes of batteries then you should get different sizes. 4) Antibiotic cream and bandages playing paintball won't get you wounded but all of the jumping and running could get you scratched and bruised. Bringing antibiotic cream and some adhesive bandages as part of your paintball supply pack should help you make sure that even the smallest cut will not get infected.