Help Fellow Maggers, I Want A Tippmann

[Xceolite]

A5 all the way

Had a lot of fun with my first A5. Would recomend changing the power tube to a metal one, if using CO2 and the get a metal ratchet for the cyclone. Both parts are plastic.
The teeth wore off my ratchet causeing the cyclone not to turn and the power tube cracked on me.

[Dend78]

go with the A5, dont get a stock one though a stock A5 is an open wallet trap, you hit the Tech-T site and 300 dollars later you got a super pimped out A5 that another kid is selling minus a part or two for half of what you just paid. PBnation is a good hunting spot for one of those

[Watcher]

Well, whatever you get there is a huge forum base for all Tippmann products.

Aside from Tippmann.com forums you have Model98.org (which I am an avid member of), A-5OG, X-7OG, 98OG, and probably a few more but those are the major ones.

You won't be left in the dark on ANYTHING Tippmann with such a huge following, and at any of those sites parts are plenty from sellers.

[drewkroeker]

This is just my opinion but I would stick with mags over tippmans. My boss and a coworker of mine bought x7s with e-grips. I don't know if they just got a couple of bad ones or what but they very quickly started having problems. I let them borrow my mags. After one game with them both of them were saying, "Drew, these guns are awesome!" My boss told me that I was coming with him the next time he bought a paintball gun.

That's my .02

[Watcher]

I've always hated the X-7s... personally. I had to install an e-grip on one once with a double trigger and it would not work for the life of me.

The 98s and A-5s you can't go wrong with.

But yeah, I've yet to see a company that matches the reliability and quality of AGD's stuff, maybe except for CCI, PTP, and older WGPs...

[Konigballer]

"go with the A5, dont get a stock one though a stock A5 is an open wallet trap, you hit the Tech-T site and 300 dollars later you got a super pimped out A5 that another kid is selling minus a part or two for half of what you just paid. PBnation is a good hunting spot for one of those"


To TRUE... I know from personel experience. At the end of the day you blow alot of money on a low-mid end, open bolt blow-back gun that will never get past those design limitations.
I have fun with mine anyways.