Paintball_kid13,
Mags don't like CO2, but they can be made to work on it. In cold weather, less than 50 degrees, you need a combination of tricks to work. I've tried everything because I live in Washington State and nobody within 100 miles filled Nitro or HPA. I finally got tired of the fight and set up my own Nitro fill station, but it is expensive.
If you have no choice but to use CO2, then here is what I have learned and found to work best. In temperatures less than 40 degrees, you will get freezeup if you shoot longer strings than 3-4 shots without a few second pause, regardless of what you do. If you use a remote, an expansion chamber, and a sideline stabilizer you can play well, but you have to stick to the 3-4 shot burst rule.
In 40-50 degree weather, you can shoot 4-5 shot strings usually. Above 50 and using all three you generally will be ok, but can get freezeup if you shoot long strings.
My last CO2 setup was a remote with 6 stage expansion chamber to a gas through grip to sideline stabilizer. I could play in below 32 degrees weather but had to be careful, not always fun when people are shooting at you! My son still uses this setup on his mag, and does well with it, and he is 13 like you and moves faster than me so when he gets freezeup he runs until his gun unfreezes.
The Stabilizer is the best external regulator you can buy as far as I have been able to tell.
The truth is that you should save your money and buy an HPA/Nitro tank if you can get it filled where you play. If you can't, then use all the tricks and realize that you can't take full advantage of your mag yet, the tricks help, but can't undo the laws of physics. The way your mag is acting is pretty typical of mags, so I don't think you have a unique problem.
Each of the tricks, expansion chamber, remote, and Stabilizer helps some, but none alone is the whole answer, and even together they don't completely fix the problem.
You can get a steel 68/3000 for 115 new, not much more than you would pay for a new Stabilizer and remote. If you get a used Stabilizer you save a little, but don't completely solve the cold problem.
Army, one of the moderators, is a big fan of CO2, so you could email him and see if he has any more suggestions.
Let me know if I can help more.
Good Luck,
Bill
Mags don't like CO2, but they can be made to work on it. In cold weather, less than 50 degrees, you need a combination of tricks to work. I've tried everything because I live in Washington State and nobody within 100 miles filled Nitro or HPA. I finally got tired of the fight and set up my own Nitro fill station, but it is expensive.
If you have no choice but to use CO2, then here is what I have learned and found to work best. In temperatures less than 40 degrees, you will get freezeup if you shoot longer strings than 3-4 shots without a few second pause, regardless of what you do. If you use a remote, an expansion chamber, and a sideline stabilizer you can play well, but you have to stick to the 3-4 shot burst rule.
In 40-50 degree weather, you can shoot 4-5 shot strings usually. Above 50 and using all three you generally will be ok, but can get freezeup if you shoot long strings.
My last CO2 setup was a remote with 6 stage expansion chamber to a gas through grip to sideline stabilizer. I could play in below 32 degrees weather but had to be careful, not always fun when people are shooting at you! My son still uses this setup on his mag, and does well with it, and he is 13 like you and moves faster than me so when he gets freezeup he runs until his gun unfreezes.
The Stabilizer is the best external regulator you can buy as far as I have been able to tell.
The truth is that you should save your money and buy an HPA/Nitro tank if you can get it filled where you play. If you can't, then use all the tricks and realize that you can't take full advantage of your mag yet, the tricks help, but can't undo the laws of physics. The way your mag is acting is pretty typical of mags, so I don't think you have a unique problem.
Each of the tricks, expansion chamber, remote, and Stabilizer helps some, but none alone is the whole answer, and even together they don't completely fix the problem.
You can get a steel 68/3000 for 115 new, not much more than you would pay for a new Stabilizer and remote. If you get a used Stabilizer you save a little, but don't completely solve the cold problem.
Army, one of the moderators, is a big fan of CO2, so you could email him and see if he has any more suggestions.
Let me know if I can help more.
Good Luck,
Bill
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