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If your reasoning is taken into affect, which it should'nt be, and everything is exactly the same from a paintball gun except the mass of the paintball, the paintball with less mass will go FARTHER, why do you ask? Newtons Second Law of Motion, where Force=Mass x Acceleration. So, Acceleration= Force/Mass. Since everything is the same, the paintballs will stay in the air the exact same time, but since the one paintball has more mass, its acceleration is less, which means the paintball with less mass will travel FASTER, therefore getting it FARTHER.
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you are correct, but you are forgetting about something, the ligher one will have more accelleration, BUT, because it has less mass, it will also have less force, meaning it will decellerate quicker, the larger one may not accellerate as fast, BUT, in a paintball gun, that would not matter, because we would adjust the gun to shoot it at a certain fps, so they will both start out at the same fps, the larger mass will take more air to move though, and then, ,the lighter ball has less inertia(force) so the air resistance slows it, but the heavier ball has more intertia(force) and it takes longer for the air resistance to slow it down...
imo, the gun does matter, even at the same velocity, same paint match, the way the air is applied to the ball could dent it, spin it, etc... ie: turbulence in the air shooting the ball, or too much psi, not enough volume.. BUT, with most good guns, that doesnt matter, the most important part is paint match...
