E Mag reliability ???

[jenarelJAM]

i bought a new emag, and it has worked great on the field, not one problem. i have had problems off the field when i was tweaking it and setting it up to my liking. i also did a few stupid things(trying to hammer out the trigger pin the wrong way) and had toget a longer screw to hold the thing together because i stripped some of the threads. alyways, i feel that it has performed miraculously for what it has already been through, and i've only played two days of paintball so far(3rd day tomorrow). if any of the self-induced problems happened on either of my previous markers, they would have been scrap, and i would have had serious lack of fun trying to deal with the quick fixes they would require. basicly, if you dont do stupid stuff with it, it should last you a long time with almost no hassles.

i know it is kinda unorthodox quoting myself, but thats just me...

i played today(3rd case, 3rd day with my emag) and i had my first on-field problem. the gun worked fine all day until the 5th game(woodsball, longer and less games) where it started shooting incomplete cycles every once in awhile. over the course of the game, the incomplete cycles became gradually more and more frequent. when we started the scond game, my marker completely refused to fire, i fired the marker in e-mode several times to try to get it to fire, and eventually it did, shooting out two balls and blowing them up in my barrel. several seconds later, i tried to fire again, and the same problem occurred. i decided not to play that game, believing that if my gun was acting up, it would continue to, so i should try to fix the problem(believed it to be bolt stick, just take off the xvalve and clear the bolt right?) i took it apart, no problems, oil on everything, bolt slides freely etc. put it back in, it still doesnt shoot, randomly mess with it, finally get it to shoot. i go out for the 7th and last game, and i'm under alot of fire, and once again, my gun refuses to fire. i mean it doesnt even bounce the bolt forward, the bolt doesnt move at all. i surrender myself, go back to base, go home. i start shooting some of the paint in my backyard(that i hadn't used since i had sat out the last two games) and its having the same problems. finally, it gets to a point where the bolt will not shoot. messed with it a TON, the thing refused to shoot. guess what, my velocity was too low, go figure... simple problem, lack of owner experience. guess i wont be making that mistake again...