Just broke my Cherry today!

Hi there guys and gals. Today I went out and played Paintball for the first time and what an experience. I love it and I'm hooked. I bought a 98 Custom and Chest Protector. That's it. Out of the 4 games I managed to get hit once and took one player out. Won 2 out of 4 so I think it's a good start.

My question to everyone is after how many times or matches will I have to clean my 98? Also, if someone can point me in the right direction as in which addons can help me or improve the accuracy, speed and add a little distance to my 98?

I'm so happy with it. I don't think it has that "ACT".

What's funny is that our team consisted of 6 new players. We've never did this before so now we're in it for the long haul.

Thanks for reading my post and any help is greatly appreciated.

There are stickies in all of the forums that will help you with most of your questions. Check through them and see what you can find. If you still have questions, ask away.

There is no such thing as cleaning your barrel too often.  As far as cleaning the internals I usually disassemble and clean mine in the spring before I play and in the fall before I put them away.  Any other disassembly/cleaning is based on if it is needed because of broken paint or other contaminants inside the marker.

welcome to the sport.  As said above cleaning the barrel can never be done enough.  As far as a new barrel I highly reccomend the J&J or the Lapco BigShot.  Both are excellent barrels for a very good price.  As far as cleaning the internals of the gun there are different practices.  Many do a full clean with full disassembly only everynow and then.  I personally prefer to strip my gun after every use and clean it thuroughly.  Its all prefference.

Sounds like exactly what I was going to tell you.

Edited by Robby_of_PBH - 31 March 2009 at 10:58am

id go e-trigger.

Since the Cyclone will be fed from the CO2 (I assume), will there be some major modifications that I would have to do?

I'm some what trying to avoid that since I'm not all that great with DIY. I'll open the Marker if I have to to maintain it, but modifying for the time being seems a bit scary to me.

Question on the 98C. I don't have a Crono just yet but I want to set my 98C up to the optimal setting without over doing it. How many turns from 0 do I have to do or to keep it on a safe setting? 

There is "no right number of turns" for setting velocity; the only way to properly adjust velocity is through the use of a chronograph.

Edit:  I suggest that you read through the "stickied" topics at the top of the various forums.  These threads contain the answer to this and many other common questions.


Edited by Mack - 06 April 2009 at 4:45pm

Thank you all for the help. I know I have to run around here and get most of the answers from the stickies and the search function. But thank you all for taking the time.