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breamfisher
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Wife bought me a new gun. Range report
breamfisher
Posts: 14,111 Senior Member
Continuing the tradition she started last year with this beaut:
My wife bought me an eeeeeeeeeeearly Christmas/6 month marriage anniversary gift (we were married on June 25, so 6 months is.... Christmas.) We bought it after going to multiple stores and looking at their products, talking with folks who we were going to go shooting with, and reading online reviews. We bought an easily user-serviced model, and one that I can upgrade through the years with new stocks, barrels, grips, triggers, magazines, sights, basically the works.
Behold!
It's a Tippmann 98 Custom Platinum series. Came with a Power Pack: the required face shield, 200-rd. magazine (they call it a hopper, but it's a magazine), 9 oz. CO2 tank (pictured with a 20 oz. unit), pull-through squeegee, and safety cover. The bag is 500 paintballs, caliber .68. I didn't open the bag because they'd pick up dust and such and then be ruined. The single-point sling is a military M16 sling that's formed into a loop and attached with a single Talon quick-detach sling swivel. The red dot is off my AR-15.
Range report: The trigger is advertised at 3.5 lbs. I think it's more of 4 lbs. Take-up is about 1/8", with some sponginess due to compressing the trigger return spring. Slightly gritty. No detectable overtravel. Reset is positive. Accuracy is kinda dicey, as you'd expect with a smooth bore and non-uniform projectiles. Rifled barrels are available, but I'll need to look into how effective they really are. The red dot is just for a general idea of where the rounds will go. Recoil is minimal, despite the heavy bolt and open bolt operation. Performance is decent until pressure drops off, then it becomes erratic.
Played paintball last Saturday. Got hit in each hand, twice in the head (glad I had protective gear and a hat on, once in the back, once in the side, once in the shoulder, the back of the leg, and in a very tender spot. :silly: Given the inaccuracy of the projectiles, the nads shot was unintentional.
All in all, it's quite a lot of fun.
My wife bought me an eeeeeeeeeeearly Christmas/6 month marriage anniversary gift (we were married on June 25, so 6 months is.... Christmas.) We bought it after going to multiple stores and looking at their products, talking with folks who we were going to go shooting with, and reading online reviews. We bought an easily user-serviced model, and one that I can upgrade through the years with new stocks, barrels, grips, triggers, magazines, sights, basically the works.
Behold!
It's a Tippmann 98 Custom Platinum series. Came with a Power Pack: the required face shield, 200-rd. magazine (they call it a hopper, but it's a magazine), 9 oz. CO2 tank (pictured with a 20 oz. unit), pull-through squeegee, and safety cover. The bag is 500 paintballs, caliber .68. I didn't open the bag because they'd pick up dust and such and then be ruined. The single-point sling is a military M16 sling that's formed into a loop and attached with a single Talon quick-detach sling swivel. The red dot is off my AR-15.
Range report: The trigger is advertised at 3.5 lbs. I think it's more of 4 lbs. Take-up is about 1/8", with some sponginess due to compressing the trigger return spring. Slightly gritty. No detectable overtravel. Reset is positive. Accuracy is kinda dicey, as you'd expect with a smooth bore and non-uniform projectiles. Rifled barrels are available, but I'll need to look into how effective they really are. The red dot is just for a general idea of where the rounds will go. Recoil is minimal, despite the heavy bolt and open bolt operation. Performance is decent until pressure drops off, then it becomes erratic.
Played paintball last Saturday. Got hit in each hand, twice in the head (glad I had protective gear and a hat on, once in the back, once in the side, once in the shoulder, the back of the leg, and in a very tender spot. :silly: Given the inaccuracy of the projectiles, the nads shot was unintentional.
All in all, it's quite a lot of fun.
Meh.
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Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
It's a gravity fed magazine.
The nut shot was not the worst thing that happened on the field that day.
The guy who got shot twice in the nuts, with about a half an hour's separation between shots, was the worst thing.
If it's not a hopper or a magazine, then it must be a clip!!:jester:
I had basically what Wambli described, A5 with the response trigger, remote air, some kinda special barrel (don't remember).
You get that response trigger rolling, it's a game changer. People scatter.
It's really fun, good exercise. :beer:
Or using a standard M4-styled stock.
Already gotten the first 2,000 ball case. Went through about... 700 on Saturday. No breaks. They're competition-level balls.
Still debating on the trigger and the hopper. I do want to get a flatline barrel. From what I can tell they're about $70-$80. I can already cover the field we play at pretty well, but it would be nice to have a bit straighter flight path.
I'm not too worried about my friends stopping this, as the field owners have 4? paintball guns that they and their kids use. And I was the oldest one playing. There was an older dude who would have played, but he's getting ready to compete in weightlifting, so he doesn't want to **** up his ankle, which is already kinda bad.
Ebay is your friend, for that stuff.
OMG! Another paint baller in our midst... What was that I said in another post about "Blow me over with a can of Krylon?"
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Wear a cup as cpi suggested (he does have pretty good advice occasionally:tooth:) so if you get shot in the balls with a paint ball it won't hurt so much..ouch.
So how many FPS will a paintball gun shoot a paintball and what is the effective range? I really have no idy.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
As for the cup: got hit in the groin/nads juncture. Not sure a cup would have helped. I'm going to get a ballistic groin protector.
You mean cpi is going protect you by holding a tennis racket in front of your lower abdomen your next paintball game..........:tooth:
300 FPS, man I'll bet that would smart on a naked buttocks :yikes:
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!