Cocker Hypes/Myths...

[Grasshopper]

Originally posted by Lopy-slopy
Cockers are great if you like tinkering with your gun, cuz you have to. They can really rock but it seems like you have to be an ace airsmith to get the thing working. What with the like 80 moveing parts and timeing. I like a gun you gan just pickup and play.

Nah, you just need to figure out how the thing works. Taking apart and fixing something on a Tippmann 98C is alot harder than an autococker (most of the time). God, I just have these awful memories of that pulling the whole tippmann apart, the little orange anti-double ball feed jumping out onto the group, all the little pins flinging around, arrrgg... Anyhow, it is just preference. I personally love the feel of my 'Mags trigger, and that's why I use one.

[Quickling]

I bought a minimag when I first started playing, but I really wanted a cocker. I was never happy with the mag because I had been scared away from cockers. A year later I bought my 99 darkcocker brand new. SO cool. I was very happy

To me the trigger on a cocker is the best trigger I have ever used. I still shoot a slider. I love it.

Hinge triggers (be they cocker or any other gun) just dont feel right to me. And electros feel whimpy to me.. I like a trigger that pushes back on my finger.. I constantly find myself hitting that electro trigger before it has returned..

and then there is that wonderful visualy appleaing back block

DO I think my cocker is the badest marker in the world? No. I love a lot of guns, its just the cocker feels the best to me. TO me the sport isnt about max bps. Its about fun. Fun in the game and fun with your equipment.

[Quickling]

and one more thing, cockers are only unreliable cause people buy them and never take one moment to learn them. Once you learn how they work they are so friggin simple. Timing a mechanical cocker is 2 screws (hammer lug and 3way coupling on timing rod).

Setting your gun up to pinch is also one screw on the lpr.

very very simple to me.

I think personaly that angels are far more complex.