Biggest paintball gimmick of all time

[hulk]

Well I did an experiment with o-rings and petroleum firearm oil. The oil was almost 100% petroleum and I left an o-ring sit in it. Nothing happened! Now I also work in a machine shop and you have to ware oil resistant steel toe boots/shoes because the cutting lubricant will eat the sols right out in a week. Now cutting lubricant is made allot different then firearm lubricant they are 2 different fluids that do 2 different things. Im not sure what they put in cutting lubricant that is different from the firearm lube. what ever gets put in cutting lube to make it kill rubber could certainly be in other brands of gun lube. Best bet just take an o-ring slap it in the oil u wana use and wait maybe a week to see what it does.

[hulk]

AKA lube and AGD lube are both just synthetic pneumatic tool oil. i bought a pint of it 3 years ago at the hardware store for 7.50, and havn't bothered with anything else since.

[Watcher]

I wonder about the low pressure guns. You can breath deep into the tank, sure... but lower pressure needs a higher volume of air, so are you really gaining any shots?

And pressure on the ball? If my tippmann and 'mags don't explode paintballs when the air releases then nothing will.

Only thing I think you gain is sound signature. LP guns tend to be much quieter.
That and I guess there is less wear and tear on the seals.



I'd put almost anything SP high on the list, especially the Magic Box.

Consider the ION. Sure it is a cheap gun and good for the beginner, but add a better feedneck and barrel, upgrade the broken trigger, change the ASA, swap the reg out, change the bolt, and get better software with some nice modes you can use and you've spent as much as a decent Proto would have cost and came with good things stock...


IMO, SP is a gimmik company. I don't see how they are "good" guns or a "good" manufacturer, but people still buy them...
Why? Because Dynasty shoots them? I'll never know.



Another is marketing porting patterns. Porting is function without form, not form with function.

Rifled barrels are pretty up there on the gimmik factor.

I'll have to give it to Tippmann on the Flatline and APEX, they do what they are marketed for...


Open bolt vs Closed bolt is an age old gimmik that I still see in use. I like to debunk it in public and at stores whenever I hear someone say it or use the term "closed bolt accuracy".


Anything marked "Agg" is totally a gimmik IMO.


A lot of the new loaders are total gimmiks. If the ROF limit is 15 why do I want to feed 50?


But as mentioned before, most of the paintball market is gimmiks...

[michbich]

talking markers.

[REDRT]

rifled barrels

[secretweaponevan]

Semi-auto.

Just kidding. The Ramrod barrel.

[SnatchForFree]

Magic box!

[ElPanda]

dlx fraudrey

[Coralis]

most sights for paintball guns

[MANN]

dlx fraudrey

she is/was real. she just wasnt a she.

[Lohman446]

Fair, competent, impartial reffing and fair play....

[Bagheera]

I'd have to say, anything that comes out of a Gardner's mouth, bar none. Moronic head-wagging from a Gardner is a close runner-up.

[cyrus-the-virus]

top 3 in my book

the all american barrel "out distancing any other barrel by at least 20 yds" (quote directly from the mouth of the gardner bros)

the crossfire ramrod barrel

and the old chestnut from Bud Orr... closed bolt shoots further

I still want one of those.... anyone who has a ramrod barrel they want to sell PM me... I want it.

[deathbypaint1213]

Backspin bolts

[russc]

she is/was real. she just wasnt a she.

Wait, Audrey wasn't actually a girl? I thought she was actually a she, just not the she she claimed to be?