why am i chopping?

[PaintballPhreak]

why am i chopping? i have a mem4 opto ir3 with a stock barrel, halo B and an AA tank. my LPR is at 90, dwell has been tried at 14-18, MROF 20, CROF 16, (ive only got it upto 12BPS). I chop about once or twice a hopper using fresh diablo blaze even when using COPS. can anyone help me fix this?

[Puma]

Ball detent?

[Jonny]

Check to see if your ball detent is in far enough. The halo really forces balls in and causes double feeds. So buy a few detents, and feel for the hardest spring out of them, and put it in there.

[srubz]

your MROF is set to high when you set the rate of fire that fast the gun will try and cycle as if you were shooting that fast and your not 20 bps is far above what even the pro's shoot and that might be the problom. also do check the ball detent. This was some advice I picked up from Impact paintball!!

I also am having a chop problem but I think mine is the detent?

[5150]

I lost my dente and chooped all day and didn;'t know that I lost my dente. So check your dente.

[PaintballPhreak]

im not double feeding my ball detente is fine... any other suggestions?

[djmjohan]

Odyssey's website suggests lightly lubing the belt to reduce drive force (allows for a little belt slippage). So the balls are loaded a little more gently and not smashed into the breech.

Even with an intact ball detent some people still experience ball breakage. Over on a timmy forum they were talking about the same thing.

The problem seems to be that the breech is about 0.700 to accomodate all sizes of paint. A small paintball might only be 0.684.

This allows a TINY portion of the next paintball to enter the breech zone. Normally not a problem, but the HALO's force feeding action holds the next ball firmly in place.

When the bolt comes forward, it strikes the exposed lower radius of the next paintball, which either breaks or weakens the surface so that when its turn to be loaded comes, its breaks.


I would seriously try an Eggo II. I have my IR3 turned up to 17, and never experience chops, and I never outshoot my hopper.
All the good stuff, without any force-feeding induced chops.