Is It a Hopper or a Loader?

Most people figure that the way to load a paintball into a gun is to plop some sort of a container onto the top of a gun and let gravity pull the balls into the chamber. While it's true that many paintball players use a simple gravity-fed hopper to load their paintballs, most paintballers know that gravity can be down right slow at times.

Paintball hoppers (or loaders as many call them) have advanced to the point they can load over twenty balls a second into a paintball gun. The secret? Batteries and motors do the job quite nicely. If you're ready to take a step up in the speed of loading your paintball gun or simply are curious as to what options are out there, now is a great time to learn about paintball hoppers.
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