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I apologize if this has already been mentioned, but according to HydroTec the shells are made from a corn based bio plastic that gets broken down by soil bacteria. Has anybody tried testing this to see how well it actually works?

In the case of normal paintballs, the gelatin shells will begin to break down after just a couple weeks outdoors or as little as a few days depending on rain. I suspect that these new bio plastic shells may take a much longer time to break down, particularly on an undamaged paintball. This could obviously be a big problem for places like airball fields that have a very large amount of unbroken balls over a very small area. Or any area in a paintball field where paintballs are accumulating on the ground at a faster rate than they can decompose.

If anybody reading this has some HydroTec balls, they should test this out and post their results. I was thinking take one broken ball and one unbroken ball, place them in a garden around your house or anywhere you know of that contains active soil bacteria and then observe how long it takes for a shells to break down.

To get real good slow motion, you have to use a camera that can shoot at high frame rates. I shot these two videos with a Casio EX-FH25 shooting at mostly 120 frames per second and some shots are at 240 or higher. The camera goes for around 250 bucks and as far as I know it's probably the cheapest camera out there that can shoot at really high frame rates.