Patron God of Pirates
06-13-2002, 11:37 AM
Played yesterday in mild rainfall, my Warp refused to push paint. I could get off strings if the balls were loaded recently, but if they sat in the feed tube for more the a min. or so they stopped feeding. After getting tagged twice as a direct result of my inability to return fire, I went and grabbed my ever reliable Tippmann M98.
I recently purchased a Spyder threaded Ramrod barrel with a lapco adapter for it. Yes I know, this barrel does not do what it is supposed to, in fact it sucks. It sucks in every way imaginable. With the velocity cranked all the way up I can't get over 270. Consistency goes right in the tank: + or - whatever, and I mean whatever. If you are shooting at anything over 20ft away you are basically spraying a 10 ft. wide area. The barrel, which is supposed to make it easy to fire through barrel breaks, causes barrel breaks...... tons of them, like one in every 5 balls. Keep in mind that it does all of these things even when it's not raining. The rain just compounds the issue.
The combination of 98 / Ramrod does have one redeeming quality: It creates the loudest paintball marker on the planet. You may not find that redeeming, especially for woods ball, but I love it. It is louder than dry firing without a barrel. I don't understand why, but when you shoot balls through it, it sounds twice as loud.
Playing with the "Sonic Super Cannon" I discovered something: Super loud is just as good as super quiet. It is confusingly loud. No one had any idea where I was shooting from..... ever.
I took some shots at the other team from way to far away to break paint, while hiding in some small fur trees. The other team hit the deck and started looking in every direction for me. They could not tell where the shots came from because they sound like they are coming from everywhere.
I cannot tell you how fun this was. I took some shots while I was the last man alive on my team. The other team thought they knew where the shots came from and ran right past me. So I shot them all in the back.
I just thought I'd share that with you.
I recently purchased a Spyder threaded Ramrod barrel with a lapco adapter for it. Yes I know, this barrel does not do what it is supposed to, in fact it sucks. It sucks in every way imaginable. With the velocity cranked all the way up I can't get over 270. Consistency goes right in the tank: + or - whatever, and I mean whatever. If you are shooting at anything over 20ft away you are basically spraying a 10 ft. wide area. The barrel, which is supposed to make it easy to fire through barrel breaks, causes barrel breaks...... tons of them, like one in every 5 balls. Keep in mind that it does all of these things even when it's not raining. The rain just compounds the issue.
The combination of 98 / Ramrod does have one redeeming quality: It creates the loudest paintball marker on the planet. You may not find that redeeming, especially for woods ball, but I love it. It is louder than dry firing without a barrel. I don't understand why, but when you shoot balls through it, it sounds twice as loud.
Playing with the "Sonic Super Cannon" I discovered something: Super loud is just as good as super quiet. It is confusingly loud. No one had any idea where I was shooting from..... ever.
I took some shots at the other team from way to far away to break paint, while hiding in some small fur trees. The other team hit the deck and started looking in every direction for me. They could not tell where the shots came from because they sound like they are coming from everywhere.
I cannot tell you how fun this was. I took some shots while I was the last man alive on my team. The other team thought they knew where the shots came from and ran right past me. So I shot them all in the back.
I just thought I'd share that with you.