The two main style of holding pantballs for the marker to fire are the hoppers and the loaders.

The hoppers are the more conventional menas of supplying paint to the marker. The simplest and ordinary of the hoppers is a simple black shell on the back for the filling of the hopper. It also has a feedneck, having a size just enough to let one paintball at a time to pass through. Some hoppers have battery powered “agitation” to keep the mouth of the hoppers feedneck from being too overloaded with balls. As a result, the feedneck is always supplied or filled with paintballs. Gravity plays a major role in making the paintball fall into the chamber.

Loaders are almost the same as hoppers. The only difference is that loaders use electronic or mechanical means of forcing paintballs into the feedneck, down the chamber. Because of this movementand more advanced style of loaders, ammunition is supplied more steadilty and more rapidly. This style is usually used in tournamentsettings where players also use electropneumatic markers.

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