Shocker vs 98c

A shocker would kill any tippmann any day. This is not even worth a poll. All you people who think that a 98 is better are not very knowledgable on paintballing. The shocker is way lighter and way faster. It would not even be a challenge. It would be like target practice.

P.S.- If you want a marker that will serve you well and give you something different to play with, go for the A-5. From my friends who've used it, its worth every penny you put into it.

I wasn't talking about raw stats. Anyone knows that electro-guns will do the trick every time if all you want is the numbers. But, if you want to play, and your not closing your eyes and letting lose everywhere, it might just be better for him to stick with what he has. At the end of the day, you still have to PLAY the game... That has nothing to do, in my opinion, with bps or operating pressure or the hopper you've got on top of the feed.

For instance, the best game of paintball I ever played was with a 3-4 (maybe 5) year-old tippmann 98c I rented from the field that we were playing in. I got more outs with that thing than I did with my own gun before. And I realized that I was doing better and playing better because the gun had crappy range. Anything beyond 30-40 ft. was anybody's guess with the gun. It forced me to play up front and stay close to the action and it made for some pretty intensing playing action.

I come from the philosophy that 13 bps will do as much go for a good player as will the 25 bps of another gun. Once you're past 10 bps, who cares? It's a lot of paint!!! What I'm saying here is that technology really doesn't do as much as the industry wants you to believe. I guess that can be said for a lot of things we buy in life, but paintball's no exception. If you're waiting for 25 bps to kick in and expect to sit behind a tree or charge with full spray, you might find you're hitting the out box faster than you had hoped.

Does that mean spending 100s or 1000s of dollars?? You can do plenty of things on a much lighter budget. Tippman Effect seems to do all right with "low-end" guns. I agree, if you know how to use what you have, then you'll do better on the field. But, that can be applied to any gun. If you know how to use it, you can take on anyone with any gun. I really don't see the difference that you do.

I say give me proof that an expert player who has good knowledge of the "classes" of paintball guns to try and use different markers in more or less the same situations to see what happens. If someone can show me that people playing their best with both kinds of guns actually produces different results, I'll change my mind.