Tips for me on eletric guns

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on a much more serious note, i would NOT buy any "upgrades" for a long time, or until you have identified a specific problem you know to exist that routine maintaince will not fix. Lots of kiddies get suckered into hundreds of dollars of upgrades just to get the same performance they had out of the box. I know i was once upgrade crazy myself!!!

...which is why i always buy upgraded markers used

some upgrades are useful. clamping feedneck, new regs (some stock regs are really crap...) and a good ASA, although that isnt really an "upgrade". a board could be a good upgrade, it depends on the marker.

This will be like the 100,893,453rd time it has been said. The Ion is not mostly plastic, it has a plastic outer shell...

he said theyre ugly since theyre plastic which makes them cheap. they are hideous, no arguing with that. and the plastic makes them cheap because they can do a poor job as far as cosmetics are concerned, which makes the marker much faster to build. i just played a night with a dm4 with an ion reg, it worked fine but the lathe job was really rough... and i didnt really like how you adjust it, but thats another matter.

whether youre buying new or used, look into the promaster, its a great marker for the price. otherwise you can look into other used electros, like a 2k2 timmy, a matrix or dm4. maybe even a viking.