Vision Impulse vs Custom RT Pro ???

[Downfall]

I would go with the impulse, they are fast, there are a ton of aftermarket parts, and they are really easy to work on.

[Dayspring]

There's the quote of the day.

An RT Pro doesn't NEED any more aftermarket parts. It will work great out of the box.

Unfortunately, you can't say that about most impulses.

Originally posted by Downfall
I would go with the impulse, they are fast, there are a ton of aftermarket parts, and they are really easy to work on.

[FragTek]

I would say get the RT ULE Custom... Hands down. My Impy experiences have been VERY poor, and AGD products have NEVER let me down.

The first Impy I owned was a Toxic Vision (see the 1st official meeting of gun whores thread, or whatever it is for a pic), the Vision rarely worked, the board crapped out on me, it would get mysterious leaks overnight, and consistency sucked.... This was my first Impy experience, but I didn't think that they were all this bad, so I bought another.

The second Impy I bought was a Nasty Vision, completely decked with a cricket board, all ND internals, and a blade trigger. This gun was a tad better, it never completely died on me, the vision worked (still chopped a few balls), the consistency was decent, and it was fairly fast. I never got a feel for the gun, it always felt cheap and poorly manufactured, though it worked. Needless to say I got rid of it, and swore to never buy another Impy, or promote the sale of one.

Owning my own shop back in Mead, WA teching guns was one of the many daily tasks that I got tied up in. Take a guess at the number one gun in the shop to get fixed was? Thats right... the Impulse. Followed closely by cockers (mainly just needing to be re-timed), and then the ever-so-magical '03 Shocker, the next biggest pile to come rolling off of SP's production line.

The RT ULE Custom is a great tournament alternative to an electro marker. They are light, fast, consistent, accurate, and don't cause goo-fest 2003 thanks to LX. The only drawback that I see to any mag, is the horrible gas efficiency which is something you have to figure out if you want to comprimise. All-in-all, I would say get the RT ULE Custom HANDS DOWN over the Impulse.

Hope this helps a bit.

[Dayspring]

I wouldn't call efficiency on a mag horrible.

6 pods and a hopper on a 72/4500 isn't bad at all. You make it sound like a Matrix...

[FragTek]

ok ok ok... true dayspring, true... but you can't exactly say that they ARE efficient, lol.

[Thordic]

Mag effeciency is admittedly pretty bad You'd need to fill after every game to be safe unless you shoot tiny amounts of paint.

That being said...



It's missing a foregrip right now, but I'd still pick it over an Impulse any day of the week.

ULE Body, Omega Rail, Intelliframe, XValve, ULT, Dynaflow, can't-beat-it-no-matter-how-hard-you-try goodness.

[Dayspring]

Are they top of the heap when it comes to efficiency? No. Are they bottom of the barrel? No.

HOWEVER, if you look at the trend, everyone is going towards efficiency now. Before this, nobody really complained about it.

We actually saw several trends in paintball in the past 2 years alone.

Speed (everyone's fast now- debounce boards, buffering, etc.)
Anti-Chop (everybody's got eyes now)
Weight (everybody's doing "ULE" stuff)
Efficiency

[Thordic]

I still havn't fully tweaked my Level 10 and ULT in this gun, I admit, but the effeciency was real bad when I used it. I think that there may have been a leak in the ULT, though, so after I tweak that I'll have to give my second opinion.

[Phil]

I shot a RT Pro for a year and a half and a Vert Reg non-vision Impulse for about a year and if I had to purchase one or the other now I would buy the Impulse. I don't usually answer these kind of threads partly because there are three a day here but mostly because the right gun for you is more about personal preference than anything else. My non-vision impulse did not chop. If your hopper feed rate exceeds your rate of fire you will not chop. I followed the maintanence directions and never had a problem with my imp. I could say all of the same things about my RT. The reasons I prefer the imp are Rate of fire and smoothness of action. The impulse has virtually no kick while the RT has a sharp jarring/vibration when fired. The impulse will make it easier to achieve a higher rate of fire due to its very light trigger pull vs. the RT's heavy mech pull.

[~WarpedRT#2~]

Now, I'll agree that if the RT gets wet, it will still work, but who really wants to play in the rain anyway? And arent you carfull enough to NOT GET IT WET?

You are looking to spend around $400-$500, right? Save up another $100, and get an Angel LCD, yo ucould even save up another $200, and get an IR3. Beat both guns and just buy the Angel. I dont know why people always forget that if they only save up a little more, they could have a much better gun.

[FragTek]

Sometimes you get caught in a situation where you don't have that extra time to save that little bit of cash for the next step up. I know I have been there before.

And Phil, trying to tell us that a non-vision Impy doesn't chop is like saying cows don't fart. Let's get real now, we know your impy was blenderfest.

[Thordic]

With the ULT, I doubt the Impy has much of a speed advantage to 90% of users out there. A ULT RT-Pro is just about as fast as most electros in the right hands.

[FragTek]

I have to 2nd Thordic on that remark.

[RRfireblade]

Originally posted by Thordic
With the ULT, I doubt the Impy has much of a speed advantage to 90% of users out there. A ULT RT-Pro is just about as fast as most electros in the right hands.

I personally don't think so.Most people are not going to walk a mech mag(if at all),ULT or not,faster than an electro.A bladed Imp is about as easy to shoot fast as there is,IMO.


Jay.

Edit-
And I have a Rat Imp,a number of mech Mags, and an Xmag.

[joshweinerhead]

get the mag ... my impulse has been to SP 3 times in the last 4 months .. and each time it gets back it works great for a week or so and craps out again ... mags dominate any SP product .. they are realiable and the level 10 works 100x better then the vision eye ... try going to a tourny where you have to use multi color paint .. and your eye only reads solid color... also as for consistancy .. thats not allowed to be in the same sentence with impulses.. and smart parts barely backs their products .. have u ever gotten a blown solenoid with a month old gun? and then were told that it was your fault for setting the pressure above 250 psi?? they made me buy a new noid and blamed it on me ... out of the box impys suck .. mags outta the box work wonders ...
get a mag
bottom line

weinerhead