High end / low end / mid end

[Freedy500]

Just sayin'. If they're as bad as people on forums claim they are, then they should be no threat. Ya feelin me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eae-dpnSc-0

BTAutoMag: not everyone needs to get their jollies off in a tournament format. Good ol' fashioned recball is bigger than tournament ball.

yeah I understand. I sorta get that a lot. You have just gotta put sometime into them and play a few games to get used to them and they turn out great. Most people on forums dont exactly go well with Q's since they take some timw and work instead of just dumping in paint.

[OPBN]

I think its fair to say the QLoaders have a definite learning curve to dial them in, but once they are they can be effective. However, much like using remotes, stocks, sites etc. it's all about preference in the end.

[Lohman446]

I beg to differ. I have never had a problem that wasn't user error.

I think he might be describing me. At the time I was one of those people who had to have "the first" of everything. I had a q-loader and harness made for it when they were practically first announced. It was going to be the next big thing and I was going to have one before anyone else. I had made and had fabricated brackets to make it fit my mag at the time. I had devised a feeding system for reloading involving a warp to make it easier. I was ready.

Then I got on the field with the thing. Yes it was probably all user fault but I was not having a good day and the q-loader was not helping. It was a cold and muddy April day where only a few of us had been invited to the hyperball field prior to the field actually opening for the season.

There are still pieces of that spring some and q-pod somewhere in the woods because when you pull the q-pod off your marker and slam it against a hyperball tube enough times it does in fact break in spectacular fashion and that spring propels pieces a LONG ways.

I shipped the remainder to Doc in Alaska so I would never have to see it again

Yes it was probably my fault and I probably could have learned to use it. That being said it was still a spectacular failure

[Freedy500]

I think its fair to say the QLoaders have a definite learning curve to dial them in, but once they are they can be effective. However, much like using remotes, stocks, sites etc. it's all about preference in the end.

My point exactly

I think he might be describing me. At the time I was one of those people who had to have "the first" of everything. I had a q-loader and harness made for it when they were practically first announced. It was going to be the next big thing and I was going to have one before anyone else. I had made and had fabricated brackets to make it fit my mag at the time. I had devised a feeding system for reloading involving a warp to make it easier. I was ready.

Then I got on the field with the thing. Yes it was probably all user fault but I was not having a good day and the q-loader was not helping. It was a cold and muddy April day where only a few of us had been invited to the hyperball field prior to the field actually opening for the season.

There are still pieces of that spring some and q-pod somewhere in the woods because when you pull the q-pod off your marker and slam it against a hyperball tube enough times it does in fact break in spectacular fashion and that spring propels pieces a LONG ways.

I shipped the remainder to Doc in Alaska so I would never have to see it again

Yes it was probably my fault and I probably could have learned to use it. That being said it was still a spectacular failure

Yea I guess I would consider that user error a bit but not completely. The biggest factor was that you were mainly a first timer with it and you decided to test it for the first time at a field. They are designed to be strong but I am almost sure of where your Q-pod must have specifically been hit and if not then a ton of improvements have been made on Qpods. You probably hit it at the very base of the pod where there is the slot that holds all of the other pieces of the pod still when unloading and pre-loading. That about sums up the "Achilles heel" of the Q.

But I would say the two main errors of the company would have been that. 1) it just came out and was probably filled with flaws that have been improved since. 1) The materials used were probably not the best but if they were much better than they would either cost a lot more ($20 a pod is enough for me) or be much heavier or both. But they have a lifetime warranty and I never have to ship my troubled pods back. Sometimes they give me double of the parts needed when I do need some.

So yes that is definitely a failure but either could or has been fixed.