How to Make a Paintball Gun Silencer

Series Summary

Paintball is a sport in which players use air or gas-powered guns which fire balls of paint to tag and eliminate other players from contention. There are numerous paintball games, like "Capture the Flag," "King of the Hill" and "Elimination." The most common forms of play include Woodsball and Speedball. There is a wide range of paintball gear and equipment available, but the helmet and goggles are most essential in safety and preventing serious injury. The popularity of paintball continues to grow in both pro leagues and amateur circles, and it is estimated that over 10 million people in the United States play the game annually. In this free video series on paintball, a paintball range host discusses a few tips and tricks of the game. Find out how to make a homemade paintball gun silencer, first making sure it is allowed at a given paintball range. Learn how to get paintball paint off of a vehicle, and get tips on paintball gun troubleshooting. Understand the basics of paintball fields, and get advice on proper safety before heading out to the paintball range.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Scott McKay, and we're going to talk about building paint ball silencers today. Before you get started with this project, you may want to check with local authorities and with your local paint ball store to make sure that it is something they will allow you to put on your marker if you come to play there. I run pretty much a private field, so I can run whatever I really want to on it in my area. Not a whole lot of materials needed to build a simple one, some 3/4 inch PVC pipe, as long as you really want to build it, 1/4 inch hole drills through it, try to keep them even, because it can put kind of a funky spin on the paint ball, two couplers. You'll have to do a little bit of work with drilling tools, it's very easy to have if you're going to do this type of project, you're going to need some PVC primer and some PVC cement, duct tape, a sediment filter is what the kit has been recommended. Very simple once you get this drilled how you want, you need a 12 gage shotgun board brush to de-burn a little bit, use the drill to come around the edges on everything where paint a paint ball might travel through so it doesn't get caught and broke. You'll have to pretty much- the coupler would have to be made to the barrel that way you get a good tight fit, there's some you can make that can go back further and use set screws to hold on with. The assembly is very easily, you put it through the sediment filter, put the way your caps on, and it slides right on. That's the unfinished project, the finished project once you wrap it with tape or put more PVC on the outside and caps, would look something like that. Very simple to build, very neat project, something to surprise your friends whenever you go out to the next game."