PMI Premiums Bad Batch run through?

[Gunga]

I used some purple/white (with white fill & advantage shell) PMI Premium a couple weekends ago. On Sat, they worked okay, though they blew up more than the Big Ball that I usually shoot. The next day, it was blowing up left and right. Though it was 5-10* colder on Sunday, so I assumed it was the cold temps (~40*) that made the shell brittle.

I was using a superbolt on both days. Unfortunately, I left my foamie bolt at home, so I couldn't switch bolts on Sunday when I was having all the problems.

[Load SM5]

Originally posted by Restola
all-stars are the advantage shell too if im not mistaken

Yep, they sure seemed to be. I can't explain it but they worked like a champ and the Advantage sucked.

[Russ]

I used to use PMI premiums (hot pink) exclusively, that is 'till a few months ago when The hot pink started breaking like mad. Marbs and SlamBall have worked well for me. I tried some Polar Ice this past weekend, and it sucked!

Diablo Blaze has been working good for me, and if I want to go cheap, I get 32degrees Competition. It's really not all that bad for $40 a case.

[MoserMan]

PMI is the worst paint I ever shot

I have a mag and a boomstick and I had to squegee the whole time playing
2 things to describe PMI Premiums:
Aggravating, waste of money

[X-Plosive]

PMI is the best paint I have ever shot. I live in Miami though. All-star works well too but they swell for some reason.

[Dave]

yes, PMI Premium was the paint I used for the bounce test-very very brittle and at times inconsistent. My sweet honey-of-a-superbolt loves shredding them...at times, like now, I can say that it was pretty funny although at the time it just didn't seem so.

-dave

[Riot[Z-Grip]]

I have shot virtually nothing but PMI Premiums since August and have had no problems. I think maybe 2 chops and 0 barrel breaks out of 3-4 cases of the stuff. Last colors I had was Blue/Black with Blue fill. It worked great for me. Just adding info to the pool of knowledge....

-Pat

[joeyjoe367]

I also played with a case of PMI Premiums in august. More recently (November) I played with some Hot-Pink and Blue/Orange --> orange and had lots of problems.

The weekend afterwards, I used Diablo Blaze with good results.

I'm thinking that somewhere around August or September, they either changed the formula for the Advantage shell (For PMI prems), or did something else to screw up the shells on 'em.

X-Plosive, How recently did you play with those Prems? Where did you get 'em from?

Also, I got my Premiums from www.paintballgear.com

Where did the rest of you get your paint?

[X-Plosive]

I got mie form my local field and they always have the freshest paint. From the signs of it, the bad batch should all clear up soon.

[CFD323]

How good does Diablo Blaze work ?

I'm thinking about shooting that instead of the crappy Advantage stuff. Isn't Blaze medium bore ? How does it hold up in the gun ? (I'm sick of breakers in my gun !)

I used to shoot Marbs exclusively without any problems, but a couple weeks ago I went to my local PB shop to get some of the RP Advantage stuff and the guy gave me a bag of what looked like pink Marbs although he charged me the RP Advantage price for the stuff. I thought I just got a good deal on some Marbs but when I used them, they broke like crazy. Could these have been Marb 2nd's or maybe the Super Swirls everybody has been talking about ? They sure sucked !

I see the 32 degrees competition stuff is only $40/cs. I know somebody on here already said he uses them, but does anyone else use them ? Are they any good ? What size are they ? How about the 32 Degrees Team COlors ?

[RaV3n_Pa1ntba||]

hrrm i like premium golds, and warped sportz blaze...work great with my bigshot aluminum I SHOOT DARTS!