flatline

I'm planing on buying an flatline this winter.  Does any one want to talk me out of it? any one want to talk me into it???

triggerhappy1 wrote: i would recomend getting it for the warm season, but you will break alot in the cold, because the balls are more brittle.

You got it backwards. vice versa. But are you getting it for the 98 or the a5? Not much difference, nvm. My flatline shoots great but you have to keep your velocity down and use good paint(Marbs,traxxus,diablo) or else you will break balls in the barrel and your shots will be all over the place. I have had problems in the past of the balls bouncing off people at like 250 ft away but I just shoot them again and it only happened twice.

triggerhappy1 wrote: i would recomend getting it for the warm season, but you will break alot in the cold, because the balls are more brittle.

i know when it gets warm and when it gets cold.  the idea is to get it at the end of winter and the begining of sping (i hope to find a deal). and why would i be getting a 98 flateline for my a-5? and i play with a guy who has one on his a-5 and he uses zap paint ... he's never broke a ball

DrunkDriver wrote: i would not get it if it was my money. maybe if it comes down in price

It already did come down in price. It went from $150 to $120. At least where I am; IDK about other places.

Detz wrote: well i am going to get it.  i've read in some threads about people saying they've shot people with their flatlines and had them catch it or bounce off.  well the way i see it is if the ball leaves the barrel at 275 fps and the backspin of the barrel will resist gravity for about 150-175 ft of flatline trajectory then it will go 200 ft but how fast will it be going then? u can take a ball and thow it and it will break so it probably only needs to be moving at 15-30 fps to break summary: i cant really see the balls bouncing off or ppl being able to catch them before gravity pulls them to the ground

This always comes up... paintballs are slowing down the moment they leave any barrel.  So yes, the flatline is more likely to bounce or "be caught" when shooting at the maximum range.  And we all know it's relatively easy to dodge any paintballs coming at us from a distance... now add the extra distance that the flatline shoots and it's even easier.  But I say, so what?  If someone is dodging or catching paintballs, then they're probably not shooting at you or your teamates.  That's really the point of shooting the flatline at maximum range anyway.  And you may actually get a kill.

I once saw some show...  I think it was Ripley's Believe It or Not.  Some Ninja dude was trying to beat the world record for catching paintballs.  At a fairly close range, he just used his hands and stomach to absorb the impact and I think he caught about 10 paintballs.  The point is that it's possible with any gun/barrel.

Shadowminion wrote: I dont care either way , but dont be expecting a greatly extended effective range with the flatline . tha ball wont break upon impact one foot farther than it would've ,if shot out of a regular aftermarket barrel . The flatline will shoot flatter , farther in overgrowth type brush , because of the aerodynamics of the spin it puts on the ball ,so a lot depends on what type of game you play most often . Hate to see people buy into Hype , buy the product , not the image..

^wow u must be the dumbest person alive.

Go to ups and customizing and read the sticky

Shadowminion wrote: 3 gravity acts on all things , a pound of lead ,falls as fast as a pound of anything else , Doh !! Only in a vacuum, Einstein... Splain to me Harvard Boy , how a flatline can make a ball break farther out ?!? Nobody said that

Your other points are true, but irrelevant.

There is no "hype" about the flatline.  It works as advertised: "adds 100 ft of flat trajectory - GUARANTEED".