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Re-Usable Paint Grenade Roland Chick

I am just a big kid when it comes to new toys and gadgets, and paintball is full of them. This sport is always evolving with new and better products. The latest innovation is a new paint grenade. The inventor, Charles Taylor, a Monterey CA resident, produced a cool ‘reusable grenade’. I met him at my field, TAG in Hollister, CA to test out his new creation. He looked like a typical player, full of energy wanting to add something new to the sport. He made an off-handed comment, ‘Paintball looks like a lot of fun.’ I was shocked at his comment and asked if he had ever played and he said ‘No’. That just amazed me; here is a guy, who has never even played the game and he is creating a way for us to make it better! I asked Charles, ‘Where did you get the idea?’ His response was classic, ‘I got my idea from Divine Inspiration’. I would have to agree with him on that! He told me that there was about half a dozen grenades out in the market, all with the same design flaws; Price (approx $5 a throw) and ineffectiveness. He explained that grenades didn’t seem that effective because the recipient had to ‘sensitive’ to not only the hits of paintball but, also by the ‘spray of a water weenie’. The thrower often missed because of the momentum of the grenade moved ‘away’ from the target. Charles said that his design would mimic the same ‘felt-hit’ from a paintball gun (<300fps), which the opponent would react instinctively when he was eliminated. I was shown the grenade, called the “Annihilator”. The main body was made of 6061 aircraft grade aluminum and the ‘fin’ was from a nerf missile. The tip was the plunger that activated the 12 gram CO2 blast to shoot 6 paintballs at a 45 degree angle out of their ‘barrels’!!! Yes, this Annihilator actually shoots the paintballs!!! I was taken aback by what I saw next. Charles ‘called the shot’, threw it underhand, and it landed with surprising accuracy to eliminate the target, the Annihilator shot in all directions (with absolutely no ‘over-throw’). He kept talking to me as he picked up the grenade and took 6 more paintballs from his pocket and loaded them into the grenade and threw it again!!! I asked him if he needed to replace the CO2, he just looked at me funny. “Roland, I designed this to save players money, it would get pretty expensive if I had to replace the CO2 every throw!” He continued, “the Annihilator gets about 10-12 throws before you need to change the 12 gram. Its function is to use it to eliminate the opponents, advance, and collect the Annihilator to refill on the run and to use it again more opponents.” That is innovative! What really clinched it for me was when he did the math for me: A regular grenade costs about $5 per throw; The Annihilator can be thrown for about a quarter per throw!!! (~.75 per 12 gram CO2, paintballs are @ .03 each x 6 = .18 + about 7.5 cents in CO2). I was amazed at this simplicity. I mentioned that two 12 grams and 20 throws later, even if the Annihilator was $100, it would pay for itself in one afternoon of play!! The design is really compact and you don’t need a special grenade harness to carry it; you could fit it in a 140 rnd tube!!! He says he is improving the design and number of ‘barrel’ to assure success with each throw.



I took out the chronograph to test the velocity and it measured below 300 fps.