question for you cocker guys

[giant1515]

In your experience do your cockers do that much better with brittle paint than mags you've owned? I'm wondering because I want a second marker just for kicks and to try out other companies' markers. cockers are definitely on the list, genx3 maybe, or just a stock 2k2 depending on what's better on the brittle stuff. I really don't want to spend any more than the cost of a genx though.

thanks

[Nitroduck]

For the most part, yes. My cocker has been better on paint than my Mag (both with and without a foamie bolt)..Thats one of the reasons I sold my mag and got a defiant. I use cheap crap paint (seconds) and if I got a bad batch, the mag was pretty much useless...But that might just be my experiances.

[Zumina]

I'm not too sure if one is better than the other. I was playing with some 3 month old paint earlier today, and I noticed that the cocker actually broke more paint than my Micro. Keep in mind, both guns have a 12" J&J 2 peice on them, and the mag bolt is foamiless. However, in retrospect, I've broken aproximately 32 balls in my cocker in the 2 years I've owned it, and the Micro has broken around 100 or so.

[Predater]

cockers are easier on paint from my experiance. Mags tend to be hard on paint but over the years i lerned the does and do nots with a mag and i wouldnt trade my mag or rt for anything.

[FeelTheRT]

more surface area is being contacted with the ball on a Cocker, and the bolt cycle rate is much slower so it's more gentler on paint. Here's a little simulation of what i meen...

take your thumb and jab it in your opposite palm real quickly. jab it and move it back really fast. that is simmulating a Mag...

Now take your fist and hit your opposite palm much slower. That is like a Cocker. The bolt on the Cocker has much more contact with the ball so it's not just a sudden burst of air on one part of the ball like the Mag.

But if set up correctly, Mags can be real gentle with paint as well. Both are great guns, it's just which touches your taste buds.

[DC Nelson]

Yeah, id have to say that i can use thinner shelled paint in the cocker...

However, we (me and my brother) use marbs. He has never broken one in his mag, and the only ones ive broken in my cocker were from short stroking.
Unless you have very thin shell paint, i dont think it really has that much of a difference.

The warpig cocker forum is down, but you can check the cog (www.cockerownersgroup.com) for different types of cockers (see what is worth the money, and what one you are paying the extra money for "flash").

:) "Is this thing working?" - EMT trying to get a defib to work = Whoa Bad!
DC

[giant1515]

thanks for the input

I generally don't trust the shop around here to answer this kind of question truthfully, they just push cockers like mad. I probably won't get anything for a while yet, but I am seeing more and more brittle paint around so I'm just scoping out possibilities if I run into problems with it.

again, thanks
Giant