Patent ID: 8302587

Claim:
A method of anticipatory operation of a magazine loader motor in a paint ball gun having a bolt and a breech, to avoid undesirable paint ball chopping and breakage, comprising the steps of: detecting a gun bolt position; monitoring a position of a paintball relative to a ready-to-fire position within said gun breech and communicating said position to a magazine loader power consumption control circuit; and altering a power consumption of said magazine loader motor responsive to said gun bolt position and said paint ball position relative to said ready-to-fire position, to increase said magazine loader motor power consumption tending said paint ball position towards said ready-to-fire position prior to said gun bolt opening access of said paint ball to said breech, and to reduce said magazine loader motor power consumption tending said paint ball position towards said ready-to-fire position in advance of said paint ball position reaching said ready-to-fire position within said breech by reversing a polarity of power applied to said loader motor.