A $500 Spyder?!?!

[gamarada717]

Yeah, just about every single person here has used a spyder/clone or a tippy. Great guns for the prices. I hate how people trash talons. It's $20! They don't expect for people to play professional tourney ball with cheap beginner markers. I remember when I first got my spyder shutter from a friend. I thought it was the greatest marker in the world. I thought I had something x mag quality...(of course thats before I learned about companies other than kingman and brass eagle). In truth, a spyder and an automag are not that much different. They shoot paint. They might do it different ways, but they accomplish what they're made for.

ps- i still like my RT Pro more though....heh

[Recon by Fire]

Actually, I would like to see a tournament like that. One in which all the players had to use the exact same marker, especially a low end one. That would put all the players on an even playing field and amkes it purely a contest of skill, no comparison of markers at all. Besdies, it may be damn hilarious to watch/play too!

[Grasshopper]

Originally posted by Angry Man
And we all have our own opinions, but if a timmy isn't worth 1 grand...nothing is. Other than featherlight vikings and maybe an angel speed, there's not much on the market that's any better.

...Except a Brass Eagle Tiger Shark!

[Angry Man]

Very true! Nothing can compete with the tigersharkiness of a tigershark.

[Prairie]

Re: A $500 Spyder?!?!

Originally posted by Animal Mother
A 500 dollar spyder ?!?!?!

A 1200 dollar mag?

[White_Noise]

i think that it is a ridicuous price for a spyder, but the real price is probably around $300, i think it is kinda odd that kingman comes out with a new marker about every week.

[Stotic]

The tigershark was my first marker. Ah the memories of backyard ball.

[Animal Mother]

I still say a Bushmaster is a better deal.

$300 for a trick Spyder or $249 for a Bushy b2k. I'd go with the Bushmaster. It's not a sear tripping blowback. $200 for a package deal with a Spyder is the way to go, you get a great gun that can keep up with everyone else. But past that.. I'd go for something other than a blow back.

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

You have to admit that stock spyders pretty much suck. However, that could be said about many guns(mags one of them). With the right tuning up(not even that much money to do so), i think spyders can be damned good guns. Gonna find out soon enough.

[RoadDawg]

Spyders are great. I used to own a Shutter w/ a Booyaah and man did it rip. Stock spyders aren't really that bad. The reg is useless but that is easy to replace. Only problem I had with it was the off set bottom line holes and getting it to work with N2. It took me some fooling around to finally get the thing to work on n2. The bottom line issue was resolved by the booyaah which had both in line and off set bottomline holes. I've even toyed around with the idea of getting a AMG/EM1 and messing around with it. ICD was the marker manufacturer that got me into the sport with the good ol Alley Cat. That was a tough marker. I only cleaned it once in the 3 years I owned it. If it wasn't for lack of upgrades I would of held onto it longer.

[i like tictacs]

Originally posted by Frontline Newbie
bob long makes 1000 doller spyders. Of corse they're a lot better, but not worth the money.

i want to put a thumbs up emoticon here...

----

anyway, timmys are obviously better then spyders...

but still nowhere near the 1200 msrp of a few of them

[Recon by Fire]

Speaking of Tigersharks...at teh field yesterday there was a group of 4 guys playing. One of them was sporting his Tigershark :)

Nothing wrong with that, more important that you play then what you own IMHO. But these guys wouldn't play with anyone else and would play on one of the wood fields. But what was hilarious, was their "ring leader" spouting off in the staging area about those "ridiculous players with their big hoppers and extra paint pods when they will never fire more than a hopper of paint in a game anyway". The comment was a bit more crude than that but that was the content. As he said that, I stood no more than 10 feet away with my 5 pack harness on with my X-mag in hand. I asked the players in the immediate area if they wanted to get a game going, no response from "them".

[Reo5th]

Originally posted by Stotic
The tigershark was my first marker.

Thats funny...The tigershark was AngryMan's 3rd marker...

[Xyxyll]

Originally posted by Animal Mother
$300 for a trick Spyder or $249 for a Bushy b2k. I'd go with the Bushmaster. It's not a sear tripping blowback. $200 for a package deal with a Spyder is the way to go, you get a great gun that can keep up with everyone else. But past that.. I'd go for something other than a blow back.

You say it as if sear trippers are bad... There's nothing wrong with a sear tripper. It works doesn't it? The blowback design works right? A paintball is projected at anywhere between 0-300+ fps, right? So what's your complaint. Cockers are sear trippers. Mags are sear trippers.

Also, I said this on another forum last night... I think I'll post it here too.

Let me set the hype straight. The Raven neXion is NOT a Spyder.

Actually, it is much different than its predicesors (sp?). It is not even labeled a Spyder, because Kingman didn't want it to be associated with multiple versions of the same Spyder. The neXion has $5000 milling

Kingman does seem to put out new guns all the time. But realize also that their guns just get more advanced every time they bring out a new Spyder. Now, they understand how people relate Kingman to the Spyder, and Kingman to the "new guns every week" trend. Then they come up with this revolutionary marker. It can't be called a Spyder, otherwise the paintball community would look at it like "just another Spyder." They wanted the neXion to be its own. Also, that's $5000+ milling on those bodies. Consider that aswell compared to the $80 cheaper Electras. Note also that the price will continue to go down!

[madmatt151]

A friend of mine got this Nexion as his first marker. IT feels very nice, not like a Spyder at all. It is solid and the trigger is very nice, not sloppy like all the electro Spyders. In one game he got out immediately and my air tanks was empty (stupid me), so I grabbed his Nexion. Let me tell you, even I was shocked at how fast I ripped off on this thing. I don't own an electro gun so I am not fast on an eelctro trigger and I was ripping on this trigger. I agree it is not realy a Spyder clone. Whatever they did to make it different it worked. Oh and he got the whole package of gun, Revvy and a 48/3000 tank for under $350. Not a bad deal. It is pretty lightweight as well.