NEW Smart Parts Midlevel Low Price Marker

[crewbe]

just saw this on Badlands site. Smart Parts just released a new Mid/High end marker at a low price $300.00us. operates like a shocker but with a new noid, breekbeam eyes, and a new board with diff modes of fire. bodys are aluminum are covered in hard plastic covering.


check it out

http://www.badlandspaintball.com/aboutus/ion_firstlook.html

[nirvana1234]

[yakitori]

I thought they already had midlevel lowend guns........shockers and imps. :P

[Vanced]

Doesn't look too awful bad... But I'll wait and see how they durable they are and actually shoot & feel before passing any judgement... Standard paintball product curve... more gun for less money... BUT ...

The bigger question... who is going to be first person to have a kid ask about his mag...

"Hey is that an ION?"

[Banshee23]

The plastic makes them look pretty cheesy. And why does this marker suddenly have break-beam eyes but their flagship $1000+ marker still has reflective? I really just don't get SP at all...

[Jack & Coke]

http://junglist.org/2005/paintball/ion/

[Korrosion]

And its made of "the same rugged aluminium as the shocker and impulse". Yeah, the impulse is made from velveta strength al. I've seen so many imp feed necks strip out...

[Jack & Coke]

from:http://www.pbnation.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=336

www.smartparts.com.

[Jackel411]

Wow.. just when I though the industry couldnt make a gun uglier than the proto... wow...

If you ask me the sudden price drop , and break beam eyes and low cost screams two things...

1) OH CRAP!!!! ADAM!!! Were loseing market share im the low and high end market!! The impulse isnt selling and nobody wants to buy our high end stuff.... ( insert Dr. Evil voice ) Calm down Billy.. I have this plan to take over the world we will sue every one and create choas!!! Adam... weve done that already..... (dr E again ) Crap then.. uhhh billy rally the R and D department make us a new crappy gun and make it plastic!! ( all ) MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

And

2) They need to make a plastic gun so they can *** ream you on repairing it..

[quik]

It looks completely plastic in those pictures.

"interesting" though

[Chronobreak]

i love how p-ball news spreads soo fast.

soon as something is out the whole online community knows and its on every forum. :rofl:

i thought it resembled a mag at first as well as a shocker.

looks are ok..other than bodies im not sure how customizeable itl be (foregrips etc)
but for $300 ..n not too shabby

now if i was starting would i want this or that new gun that runs on abtteries?

this could be the newb gun for 05.

--edit
-- The trademark accuracy and range you expect from Smart Parts.

[WARPED1]

I thought they already had midlevel lowend guns........shockers and imps. :P

Don't be an idiot just because you don't like SP. Thier legal issues may suck, but the guns are top notch.

[space_weazel_45]

I think it looks ok, I think the idea if being able to change colors on the fly is an interesting one, and depending on how it feels, I may pick a used one up if it feels anything like the shocker. I miss the old trusty shoe box but the 03 Ii fiddled with was neet, although not a "shocker"

[alooney11]

looks pretty neat, i think it will sell very well.

[Lohman446]

HOLY

Is that a spool valve, break beam eye, electronic marker with rebound for $300