Please recommend a cheap back up gun

i used to use my pgp as a backup.  wound up liking it more than my A-5...

CarbineKid wrote: I found my old Brass Eagle stingray, and Eagle 68 today. I actually forgot I still had it, it must have been in the atic for 8 years or so(and here I was thinking I sold it). I guess it will due for now, but maybe I will but a nw gun on my list. The wife never knows what to get me

A Stingray was my first semi-auto. If you visit the STING website you can find quite a few mods to improve it's operation. I did a slightly modified* version of the standard trigger job and got the trigger pull down to the same as a 98. It made a very good backup until I started spending all of my spare money on Tippmanns.

*Differences: I put the trigger set screw in through the back of the grip, dremeled down the part of the trigger that catches the safety and put a screw through the body to act as a stop on the trigger moving forward.

MeanMan wrote: Since when do 98s need backups?

I can't speak for other people, but I sometimes have a tendency to fix/tinker with stuff until it doesn't work.

ACTUAL CONVERSATION:

Friend: "Mack quit screwing with your gun, it's time to get on the field."

Me: "It's okay, I'm done messing with it now."

Friend: "Really, as much as you tinker with that thing how can you tell?"

Me: "When I pull the trigger nothing happens."

Note: Only slight exaggeration; I do like to try different mods and see what happens. Since most of my mods are somewhat experimental (and not always well thought out) sometimes things don't go quite right. On the plus side though, all the tinkering gave me a lot of practical experience on working on mechanical markers. It's got to the point that a lot of folks who know me at the field come to me with their problems.

Edited Note: My primary rule now for messing with my markers is to always have one working marker that I don't tinker with while I'm messing with the other ones.


Edited by Mack - 15 October 2006 at 9:06pm

Id say go with a Brass Eagle Marauder, or Eraticator. I had one for five years and was very happy with it. Just get a 12 inch barrell for it. Its a good reliable gun and its easy to strip down and clean.