Viper Info?

[1stdeadeye]

I got a Viper 1 off a buddy today. It looks like a bad attempt to look like an M-16. It has the barrel shroud and collapsable stock. Anyone know anything about them?

I didn't buy it, he gave it to me rather then throw it out. I was his brothers who no longer plays.

Thanks!

[barberjohn]

when i was a newb, i thought they were the coolest looking guns. is yours one of the ones that the tank screws into the forgrip, those are cool:D .

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by barberjohn
when i was a newb, i thought they were the coolest looking guns. is yours one of the ones that the tank screws into the forgrip, those are cool:D .

Yes, the tank screws into the Magazine looking foregrip.

[kauai_paintball]

Dose it work? do you want it? Ill take it. Ill pay for shipping too.

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by kauai_paintball
Dose it work? do you want it? Ill take it. Ill pay for shipping too.

Thanks, but I am a gun whore, so I am keeping it to add to my collection!:D

The cool thing is that it uses a twist lock barrel like my R/T Classic.

[doc_Zox]

Viper M1s are a very simple, very effective, very stable CO2 design

they are still available:
http://www.usapaintball.com/

powerlyte is making barrels:
http://stores.yahoo.com/usapaintball/vipm1ac.html

Bill Mills has a good M1 page:
http://warpig.com/paintball/technical/paintguns/viper.faq.shtml

1.1 General Description and history
The Viper-M1 is a semi automatic paintgun. Its predecessors are the Lazer and the Lazer-II. In many ways the Viper-M1 can be thought of as a Lazer-III. The manufacturers of the original Lazer redesigned their paintgun into the Lazer-II, incorporating many of the features of the Viper-M1, including the integrated expansion chamber. Unfortunately, there were some problems with the Lazer-II, and the manufacturer ran into financial troubles, eventually turning over the rights and inventory to Micro-Tool, the company that had been manufacturing for them.

*US Amateur Sports, looking to get into the paintball market as well as other amateur sports markets, bought the rights and Lazer-II inventory, and set their production business unit, USA Performance Products, to the task of refining the Lazer-II and producing this new paintgun. Thus the Viper-M1 was born. The Viper-M1 differs greatly from the Lazer-II in that it uses a bore drop barrel. Having the balls drop directly into the barrel eliminated a seam and dramatically reduced ball breakage. The gas path and valving of the Viper-M1 has also been re-designed for increased efficiency, and consistency.

They are also marketed as the
Vector M1:
http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/paintguns/vectorm1/index.shtml
*

[adam shannon]

when i still had my private field we had a small reserve game with occasional players who all had tippmanns and spiders. it was snowing and after all 5 spyders on the field either broke or froze up this guy busted one of those out. it shot straighter than any of the spyders with its stock barrel, didnt freeze up, and pretty much worked really darn good for a blowback co2 marker in freezing weather.

[Evil1]

Aren't the Viper M1's made by auto ordinance, the company that made the tommy gun.

[kenndogg]

Originally posted by AGDFlash
Aren't the Viper M1's made by auto ordinance, the company that made the tommy gun.

no, USA Performance Products, Inc. makes them. Auto Ordinance only bought the rights to make them recently.