Tippmann A5 - Air/CO2

Hi all

I'm a woodsball and scenario player in the UK, up until last year I've been a student and so always used the site guns as I couldn't afford one of my own and to keep up the habit. 

Now however I have a job, some friends who play and our local siste is also the local site for a lot of more serious players than my student one - the sites battered 98's are being outranged and outclassed, that and I seem to spend more time unjamming them or cleaning breaks than actually shooting. 

So I've been looking to invest in my own gun - my current favorite is the A5 as I am used to tippmanns and most of the sites I know of in the UK use them so its going to be familar turf all round - that and i much prefer the general style of the tippmans over most other guns that look like odd scifi pistols to me. 

My question is about CO2/High Pressure Air/Low pressure Kits:
This issue and specifically the A5's compatability with them confuses me, I know it runs of CO2 happily out of the box - the blurb from the A5 says its fully Compressed air compatable but the place i am ordering it for says i need a low pressure kit for the A5 so my question is thus:

Beyond an extension hose - do I need any other parts/accessories to fire my A5 on air? and by extension if i do need to add new parts how reversable is it if i am going to a site that only has CO2. 

I am completely new to all the issues involved with owning your own gun so some advice in simple terms would be very much appreciated. 

You dont need to get a low pressure kit.  That dude is just tryin to get more money out of u.

 

Yup.
Welcome to the forum, and (sort of) welcome to paintball.

Happy hunting

RavenGuard wrote: The field is lying to you to get you to buy the low pressure kit. The A-5 will work fine on a screw in co2 tank. What you have to understand about compressed air, is you can have high pressure output, and low pressure output.  To run a tippmann with a low pressure output tank, you ofcourse need to get the low pressure kit.  To run the A-5 on a high pressure tank (800-850 psi output) you simply screw it in like a co2 tank. If I were you, I'd let them know they lied and I would no longer be a customer there unless you had no choice. In my experiance, I know more about my A-5 and my girlfriend's custom pro than the guys from the proshop down my street.  He even took out the buffer o-ring when I wasn't there and handed it to my girlfriend, saying "you don't need to have this in there". Anyways, high output tank will screw in, no modifications :)

Yeah they were pulling a fast one on you. My friend has an A-5 and all he runs his on is CO2

^^^ there isnt any kick to begin with. How can there be less kick?

I go threw Co2 way too fast, i had to fill up 3 times in 4 games. will the Air
system improve this.

Again, watch the APE video. I don't care that it's at 25 bps; it still shows that there is kick.

And an HPA system will only improve air efficiency over a 20 oz. if you get a tank bigger than a 68/4500.

I can use one 20oz CO2 tank for a whole day of woodsball and never run out.

Edited by nightfox9 - 10 April 2006 at 4:11pm