paintball pistols

Some look nice. However unless you can get a cool "pistols only" game going then there is really little point to them. In speedball the extra weight and slow ROF would make it useless. In woodsball the lack of range and small capacity is little more then a liabilty.

But in a pistols only game where eveyone has the same limits then it would be an interesting game. I want to give something like that a try one day. I'm thinking about the Ariakon ACP, mainly because I like the look.

^ what languange are you speaking?

I've looked into the Tiberius, but for that price of they couldn't even give it a ten round mag then I'd never pay that. Id rather have a gun that is slightly less accurate and gets more shots for less then half the cost (with three mags instead of 1). Nevermind that the clips for that thing are $40 each.

i got a delta .68 and its serving me well. i get 10 shots per clip not much but can save you in the middle of a reload.

in fact i used it last saturday after i hit the ground hard.  most of leftover paint in my hopper busted open making it nearly useless.  my pistol was there to save the day.

but a tip,  unless your pistol has a hopper and atleast a 9oz tank  i wouldnt use it as primary weapon. because when its empty you wont get it loaded fast for a second try.

lt redneck wrote: i got a delta .68 and its serving me well. i get 10 shots per clip not much but can save you in the middle of a reload.

I keep hearing people say that pistols are convenient for when you are reloading your "main" gun.

Can't you people reload on the fly?  If there are people around, I reload with balls in the hopper and my finger on the trigger.  It would take a whole lot longer to whip out my pistol than just shoot them with my regular gun.

I'm sorry - but pistols are fun and cute toys and all, but they have just about zero practical use in paintball.

1) Most pistols don't have a barrel or just have a small one, this means they are likely to fly in all directions at medium to long ranges (sometimes less). Though it theoretically has the same range, it effectively won't.  Try firing your main gun with no barrel and tell me how effective range is affected.

2) He is talking about speedball not stock class fool.

Linus wrote: Nagash1959 wrote: Some look nice. However unless you can get a cool "pistols only" game going then there is really little point to them. In speedball the extra weight and slow ROF would make it useless. In woodsball the lack of range and small capacity is little more then a liabilty. I'll just go ahead and say you've never played pump before... 1) ALL GUNS HAVE THE SAME RANGE AT SAME VELOCITY (Ignore the Flatline) 2) No, lack of ROF does not make it useless. I play stock class against pros (Roy Richards, Rusty Glaze of Infamous, some people from the old Texas Storm)

1. No, I have never played with a pump before. Heck I've never even seen one in real life.

2. Let me re-phrase, lack of effective range. As pointed out most pistols start to suffer from a bad drop-off in accuracy after a certian point, less then you'd have with a full sized gun with a good bore-to-paint match.

Money spent on pistol = better spent on HPA = no more $$ for CO2 due to all day air = no more running your tank dry = always having air = having a pistol due to air concerns is needless.

money spent on hpa over a pistol = increased consistency

space used to hold pistol = more space to hold paintballs

Using your primary marker with a compressed air system is better than using CO2, and then having a pistol as an addition. As stated by others a pistol is a "neat toy", and can be fun to use, but probably not the most practical piece of equipment to use as a regular setup. Furthmore as far as "neat toys" go, paintball pistols are pretty low on the list of paintball equipment.