When you're playing paintball, you want to use as few paintballs as possible on the field and the way to accomplish that is to be as accurate as possible.

You can be just as with one marker (paintball gun) as another if you use the same way of sighting and determining how much to lead your shot. Most paintball guns shoot at roughly the same velocity so you will only need to adjust if your marker has a little more drag than other markers you may have used.

If you're playing on a field or just a game of woodsball, you will need to take into consideration things like wind direction and speed, temperature as it can directly affect your paintballs, and positions of your opponents. Unless you constantly play in a temperature controlled environment when you play paintball, these factors will always have to be taken into consideration.

There are ways to be a better shot with your marker. Make sure your paintballs are the right size before you play, even a small size difference can greatly affect the accuracy of your shots. A fast way to test in the field is to simply put a paintball in your barrel and attempt to blow the paintball out of the opposite end. It should come out with a little resistance. However, if it requires a lot of effort to expel or it simply rolls out, you have paintballs that do not fit your barrel and it's time to switch out. If you don't already carry different size barrels in your field kit, this is a great item to have extra sizes in.

Those are just some basic factors that will affect your shots, learn to test your paintballs and always check the wind direction and speed and you'll rack up more hits on your opponents during your next game.