Accuracy In a Mag?

[mac2k4]

also think about what air system ya have, plus w/ the rT valve its not the most consistent vavle, it does have no shoot down, but it isn't very consistent.
and about all the AM b players being great, well not really, there are a whole lot, but just because ya play am b doesn't mean much, cause all it takes is for a lil' stupidty to register as a am.b player(if your not very experienced) and $$

[Thordic]

As manike is so fond of saying, some guns ARE more accurate than others.

But thats only true in low-end vs. high-end markers, where consistency starts to be very noticeably different.

My spyder shoots +/- 10 to +/- 15. There is no way its going to be as accurate as my mag, which shoots +/- 6 or better. The first shot on the spyder may go 280, and travel 150 feet, and the second shot will be 265, and only travel 140 feet (distances are made up, I never measured how far balls travel). But in any case, thats NOT accurate. In my mag, the first ball will go 150 feet at 280, and the second will go 147 feet at 275.

What this means is when you are shooting that guy 50 feet away, one ball will be in one place, and the next will be a few inches under that, and then your next shot may be a few inches above the first one. Add in some possible curving due to bad paint/dirty barrel/etc, and you have accuracy problems.

But, in high-end guns, IE, mags, cockers, impulse, etc, the consistency is pretty even. The guy with the best accuracy, though, is the one with the best paint-barrel match who has his rig set up for the best consistency. If you have perfect paint to barrel match, and you are shooting +/- 1, you will be a happy camper.

Which means if your gun is truly inaccurate, you have a few things to blame. One, bad paint to barrel match. That's your fault, not the guns. Make more of an effort to buy better-matching paint. Two, an rig prone to inconsistency. This can be a crappy tank, dirt in the valve, partial blockage in your hoses, triple regulating, etc.

I'd be curious to know what your velocity fluctuation is over around 10 shots at 2 BPS and 10 shots at 10 bps. That would go a long way as to showing whats to blame for bad accuracy.