Sights?

[gc82000]

cheapest mod you can get!


common sense

Plus it will help you for the rest of your life.

[jenarelJAM]

Plus it will help you for the rest of your life.

qft

[urbansix]

Totally a personal preference, I'm sure.
I use my sights all the time and love them. I have red dot reflex sights, but was thinking about going to a ghost ring setup. Obviously they do not tell you where the ball is going to hit, since paintballs aren't that accurate. But they DO tell you exactly where the gun is pointing, which helps make the first shot count. I have found them invaluable in pump play, not having the luxury of ranging shots or walking the shots in like one may tend to do with semi. For semi play I have found them to decrease the amount of paint used overall, and increased elimination ratio.

Without the sights I would have to pay attention to where the first few shots are hitting, and adjust accordingly. With the red dot you know you have it lined up right, and more often than not, the first few shots get the ellimination.

I play mostly scenario and rec woodsball. I am also and old fart with failing eyesight , and don't play frequently enough to be able to devine the direction the paint will go by mere feel.

[Glickman]

*ducks for incomming flames*

well, since a pump usually has more time to build up pressure, i would say it might have a slightly flatter & more consistant trajectory, or atleast the ones ive shot compared to my semi's so i can see why they are more desirable in stock games

[alooney11]

only for looks.

[Outlaw5]

Sights helpful????

Chipper, I think you need to look at the sight question for what a sight in paintball would be beneficial for. In paintball we know that our markers aren't the most accurate things over distance, so cross hairs and Military dot sights don't exactly help in our accuracy.

What a sight can do in paintball is give the user an ability to "scout" with a greater degree through a sights magnification. This magnification will allow a user who is "scouting" or looking at obvious hiding places, to discern with greater detail and allow them to pick out opponents or objects that might not "Look" right.

Now at closer ranges, after alot of practice, you could use the sight to focus in on smaller areas to squeeze a paintball through but to me it was always miniscule.

Now when looking for the perfect "Sight", you want a sight with moderate magnification, ie. not so high that the field of view is very small. A small field of view reduces your ability to quickly identify an area and a potential target because of the concentration it takes to focus and the time used to get the sight in the right "Spot" to look.

A red dot sight with a x3 or x5 magnification should be good for your needs. Remember, in woodsball seeing an opponent first can give you an excellent advantage for ambushes or understanding where your opponents are pushing. Defeat the push and win the game.

Now in a speedball game I believe any advantage would be negated and probably a disadvantage because of the extra equipment on the marker, making the process of getting tight very difficult.

Hope this gives you an idea of what I think a sight would be good for, I used to use a sight on my old Mini-mag. Good luck and its just my 2 cents.

[kurama]

I played a scenario game with an ancient PTP site on a PGP. It was quite helpful actually, but I would have definately preferred a 2x or 3x zoom scope on it instead so that I could use it to see targets from further away and spot people. For speedball, its just extra weight and profile though.

[VFX_Fenix]

Short Answer -

If you intend to use a sight, be ready to learn how to shoot all over again since using a sight will require adjustments to your sight picture and stance which means crummy accuracy for a little while. They do work for paintball, just not "out of the box".

Read on if you want -

It's all about sight picture and posture. Some people can't use sights in paintball if they're on other people's guns because not everyone's sight picture is a little different. I know that I only use a sight in specific situations and usually only in treeball. The sights I use are OEG (Occluded Eye Gunsights) and are very low profile (the old ADCO Swifty's if anyone remembers those). Most of the time I forget it's on there when I'm playing normally. The other thing to consider as to why people have trouble using a sight in paintball has to do with posture, specifically if you're used to shooting with a perticular relationship of your head/arms/hands/gun and you alter that so you can use another device, you might as well be shooting an entirely different gun. Try shooting your gun in a way you've never shot it before (like shooting right handed but with your head in a different spot than usual).

Anyway, paintballs in all practicallity aren't going to be as consistant as your cheapest, crummiest, Wal-Mart special sight. However with a good set-up your paint will fall in a tight enough pattern most of the time to make a sight effective enough to at least get a feeling of where to point. Also consider that if you use a sight like an OEG or Reflex/Red-Dot and use it often enough it'll become second nature to use it and some will wonder how they ever got along without them.

Most of use are what are called "instinctive shooters" meaning that we have a feeling that this is the right place to shoot to put a ball where we want it. For the longest time I refused to put a pin sight on my recurve bow and after much pressure finally put one on, it took weeks before I could shoot and hit anything again. However, now that I know how to use it I simply can't shoot without it. So there's a trade-off there, and I'm sure there's one with paintball too, but anyway.

[Jakedubbleya]

Learn to use the barrel guys....

Anyway yeah, sights are good for one thing only, scouting on mega huge fields, but maby you should just bring binoculars...?

[shartley]

Learn to use the barrel guys....

Anyway yeah, sights are good for one thing only, scouting on mega huge fields, but maby you should just bring binoculars...?

[TheTramp]

Exactly. I got a scope to use during scenario games and it lets you use the magnification without putting your marker down or dealing with extra straps etc.

[tyrion2323]

I'm going to put a 5x scope on my Intimidator.

[VFX_Fenix]

I'm going to put a 5x scope on my Intimidator.