Tippmann XM7 "Phenom"

[OPBN]

http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/d...-phenom-3.html

I saw that on the Tippmann forum. It's just a milled down stock Phenom. I am saying it would be interesting for someone to cast completely new clamshells.

[paint magnet]

Unfortunately the milled-down version got rid of the only useful rail on the entire gun (the bottom one)! The advantage to having a mil-spec rail there is that it allows you to buy a cheap, generic foregrip made for an AR-15 or other rail-bedecked rifle, instead of a paintball and marker-specific foregrip that costs 3x as much.

It seems like the market has also veered away from having the latest software, boards, and updates.

[ProblemKinder]

It seems like the market has also veered away from having the latest software, boards, and updates.

it's a tippmann.

[esperto96]

I've got one and it shoots very nice. It is bulky but efficient. It's my one and only 100% milsim gun. For lighter and tighter, I'll shoot any one of my four automags (okay one of them is my wife's but she lets me use it sometimes). I see Tippmann selling a winner with this one, even if it is just a gussied up emag.

[bound for glory]

the way the goof was going on about not needing a battery when did this jackass join the wonderful world of paintball? f**kin hick...

[paint magnet]

Yeah, a lot of people probably think Tippmann markers were the first with anti-chop bolts too.

Seems like the whole mil-sim thing has really taken off. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy playing scenarios every now and then...but the US Army branding, selling, and encouraging paintball playing because it relates to military training? That seems like something you'd hear about in communist China, not the US.

Apparently WDP even makes "tactical stocks" for the Angel now! Gone are the days of the sleek, sexy, well-engineered marker in favor of the dust-ano'd mass-produced gun with rails and fake mags. Despite this, more companies seem to be producing padded gear...chest protectors, padded jerseys, and the like. Is that allowed in tournament play now? Can I strap a pillow to my chest ?

Are Tippmann-toting JROTC kids with camo and MOLLE gear the next generation of "AGG?"

At the field yesterday, I saw one guy with a '99 cocker. He and I were the only ones who had ever heard of his gun before (it broke, in true 'cocker fashion )

Also saw players picked for teams because they were wearing camo, not because of skill or equipment. Sorta weird. The guy with the Tac 8 pistol, 18" barrel, BB gun scope, ghillie suit, and 35 round hopper gets designated "sniper dude" and is picked first every time. The entire day, I never saw him actually shoot another player. In fact, whever I was near him, all he ever did was tell me to do something he didn't want to do out of fear of getting hit. I didn't bother trying to explain that his gun couldn't actually shoot any farther than anyone else's

Ok, rant over

[BlackOps]

Yeah, a lot of people probably think Tippmann markers were the first with anti-chop bolts too.

Seems like the whole mil-sim thing has really taken off. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy playing scenarios every now and then...but the US Army branding, selling, and encouraging paintball playing because it relates to military training? That seems like something you'd hear about in communist China, not the US.

Apparently WDP even makes "tactical stocks" for the Angel now! Gone are the days of the sleek, sexy, well-engineered marker in favor of the dust-ano'd mass-produced gun with rails and fake mags. Despite this, more companies seem to be producing padded gear...chest protectors, padded jerseys, and the like. Is that allowed in tournament play now? Can I strap a pillow to my chest ?

Are Tippmann-toting JROTC kids with camo and MOLLE gear the next generation of "AGG?"

At the field yesterday, I saw one guy with a '99 cocker. He and I were the only ones who had ever heard of his gun before (it broke, in true 'cocker fashion )

Also saw players picked for teams because they were wearing camo, not because of skill or equipment. Sorta weird. The guy with the Tac 8 pistol, 18" barrel, BB gun scope, ghillie suit, and 35 round hopper gets designated "sniper dude" and is picked first every time. The entire day, I never saw him actually shoot another player. In fact, whever I was near him, all he ever did was tell me to do something he didn't want to do out of fear of getting hit. I didn't bother trying to explain that his gun couldn't actually shoot any farther than anyone else's

Ok, rant over

Paintball was born as woodsball. It was all about capture the flag and red paintballs were all the rage. Somewhere along the way, people started frowning on that, and the industry made a huge push to get away from the military aspect of it and tried to make it over and mainstream it. That's when we started calling paintball guns "paintball markers", started seeing "arena" aka speedball style play, bright colorful jersies and the like as they tried to gussy up war games for mass consumption and try to legitimize it as a sport.

In recent years the Milsim style of woodsball has really started taking off and now there are two thriving and very different sub-cultures of paintball. Its rather interesting really.

[Me�iCX]

New 98s (called Platinum series) also have rails.