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Paintball Top Gun is your resource for Paintball Information!SplatballsThe Splatball was the marking pellet advertised and sold by National Survival Games. They were packaged in 10 round "cigar" tubes used as magazines for the Splatmaster and as loading devices for the Rapide rotating magazines. The tubes were in various styled boxes, depending on the date of sale. The paint inside the Splatballs was water based but the fill was very thick and stained my hands for a day. NSG's rounds were created shortly after R.P. Sherer released their own water soluble paintballs in 1984. The Splatballs were sized in today's .68 caliber and were the recommended choice of ammunition for NSG products. One box design heralds the first New Hampshire game as "The Splat seen 'round the World!" Perhaps the wallets of early players heard this shot: 120 paintballs could sell around $13.00 USD. Today, 13 dollars can buy you around 400 paintballs of a comparable quality. Fill color is thick and solid, unlike some of the watery or dilluted fills of today's lower end paint. Additionally, some Splatballs came in red shell / red fill, which is now mostly discontinued by paint companies due to safety concerns. The webmaster at http://www.splatmaster.net has been lucky to acquire a few boxes of NSG brand Splatballs and has taking pictures of them. Below is a photo of one of the later box designs for the Splatballs, much flashier and marketable when compared to the plain green boxes I have acquired. The balls are red shell with red fill. The date of the particular paintballs below are probably around 1991 or 1992, as the first acknowledged game of paintball occurred in 1981 and the box heralds the new technology of "10 years later". I do not know when the line was discontinued. As for the balls the condition ranges from horribly deformed to reasonable shape. The balls that are in good condition did not seem to dimple or dent more than a normal paintball would, and after I gently wiped the old fill and oily "sweat" from the shells, some of the balls were in firable condition.
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