tippmann pistol

notom66866 wrote: Why in the world would they not put the c02 in the magazine? If you look at the picture of it there's no obvious bulge where a c02 cartridge would go. This could be one huge pistol.

For a few reasons

1.)Prevents having to reload the mag with balls on the field

2.)Would make for a simpler mag design making production costs cheaper which could potential keep the cost of extra mags down

3.)You would be able to reload air independently of ammo

4.)Keeping the seal tight on the co2 cartridge could increase the number of shoots/ cartridge.

For people worried about weight and size you have to think about if you want a durable pistol that will last and take a beating you are going to have to sacrifice convenience.   As long as it fits in a holster I’ll be happy

Hey DeTrevni!

Good to read a familiar face

That would be nice Skeletor, My solution was to use the camlock from the dropout of the old Nelson Challenger as part of a co2 plug:

This is a 1/4 turn camlock, VERY fast.  Though I left that off my new Miltec when I replaced my old Armotech G2.  For sheer dependability, the screw is tops, especially because it's Bottle threads!  Any ASA plug or remote adapter will work on a Miltec(not a Warsensor).  That video is super slow demonstration speed, I can change a co2 in the time it takes me to spin behind a standup can and come out the other side. .

Rob

 You should have known that was inevitable once Tippmann started making a pistol, DeTrevni!

My use of pistols is unlike anybody else I've ever come into contact with, so I'm used to my 'ratings' of the various models being vastly different.

It's my opinion that since a $100 miltec or warsensor loads exactly in game like a $500 stroker or $700 Squall, there is NO difference between the two guns except money. I say that as someone who has owned both a stroker and a warsensor.  I am a fanatic for function not form.  I wouldn't deny that you need to be at least half an airsmith to keep a JABB running, but I would say that if you're someone who shoots a bag of paint in six 15 minute games, you need to be that with a stroker too...

It works for me like this:

People don't get rolled while reloading a regular marker because it's always a fraction of a second from fireability.

  If you can reload so fast that no one can move on you, then it doesn't matter if you reload every ten minutes or ten seconds-they can't move on you.    At that point extra ammo in your gun is only extra weight.

  So by staggering the load of paint and co2 and reducing the time spent reloading each thing as much as possible, I am able to do with my pistol ANYTHING I could do with a regular marker, including going 4 SmartCorps eliminations to 2 hits in an SPPL game while shooting a certain Mr. Gardner in the head from over 100' away. We still lost 149-40. Man, are they good!

  I play at HS every weekend I can, averaging 30 or so days a year, but all in open class or the big games, any mode of fire-any rate of fire.  If you're going to run out on the field at HS with a pistol, you better mean it, because you will be an instant and high priority target, I've become a bit of a trophy, even playing one of the bunnies to get swarmed 10 to 1 on easter!

As well as being chosen to be the pilot for our 'BlackHawk Down' at the Day of the Rangers 12 hr scenario.  Despite the teams being 125 'Rangers' to 415 'Somalis', I changed history and successfully got my crew and myself back to safety.  A good pistol is a help not a handicap!

  I agree with Mayvik that, unmodified, the TAG8 is the best of the stock pistols, but I see that as a sad indictment of all the companies who've pretended to make usable pistols.  Even my TAG8 is modified and BETTER for it.

I used 3357s from when they came out in 87 to 2002, modified of course, as I tend to stop at the grinder on the way in from the mailbox, I had aluminum cylinders milled for me and a steel pawl(that turns the cylinder) and a steel barrel that I flexhoned with a .50 cal flexhone.  I had a bunch over the years to keep 2 running. When I played at commercial fields(FPO) I'd use my sheridan P68SC.  This often rides at my right hip(left hip is always my crossdraw G2) when I'm not wearing my tag as a sidearm, I have a Cooper-T undershot bolt in it and it really whizzes em! 

An airsmith on MCB is currently recreating the aluminum cylinders and steel pawl.  If you love the 3357s let me tell you, this will turn what you've got into a whole new gun!!! 

This is all why I'm excited about the layout of the new Tippmann gun.  For working in a tight bunker with the gun against your chest, this is the most logical layout.

Rob

My offer of swapping you mags still stands!

I feel the same rush still after all these years, DeTrevni.  Nothing like starting a game with 10 balls in your gun!

I also have to add that I haven't been shot in the hopper in 23 years of playing paintball

Never using one will do that...

Rob

Rob, I'll drop ya a line on MCB!