No full auto?

the reason is basically safety.  Many safety reasons, actually. 

Say you have you're barrel plug in your marker in a safe zone.  Your marker is turned on, and you lay it on something non-flat and the trigger is accidentally pulled.  Your gun fires 10-20 shots before you can get to it.  That barrel plug is going to shoot out after the first 1-2 shots and then you won't have anything stopping the other balls. 

Also, sometimes the straps on the back of paintball masks get worn out.  Sometimes, if someone shoots someone 8 times in the mask at a medium-short distance, the mask could fly off and then they will take the rest of the balls to the face.  This is also why you see chin-straps on a lot of modern masks. 

There are even more reasons, but really, you'll learn you don't need a super-high rof to be good.  You can't hit a person when they're behind a bunker, and it only takes 1 hit to get them out.

Thanks for the help guys, I will just get a semi auto marker then.

It doesn't matter if it can be switched, all the fields around where I live don't allow a full auto capable marker, Oh well, I guess full auto is a waste of paint anyways. 

Edited by metalhead0791 - 28 June 2007 at 1:25pm

Barrel plugs are being banned more often now and are being replaced by barrel condoms more and more now. Many fields recognize that most barrel plugs shoot out of the barrel with the first ball and barrel condoms won't . Tippmann has even started including barrel condoms instead of plugs now.

If they don't allow a marker capable of full auto, I wonder how much business they get because most people's markers have a full auto option.

Okay, but still practically every electronic, either electropnuematic or sear tripping gun, has a full auto capability. Going by what you are saying only mechanical guns are allowed.

If you see an ion, bushmaster, angel, impulse, ego, mini, minion, spyder w/ electronic grip frame, shocker, nerve, etc... then they allow guns that can shoot full auto, but do not allow them to use that capability.

If they truely do not allow markers capable of firing full auto, I would suggest getting yourself a nice autococker... or if you still want to sling a tremendous amount of paint... a Freestyle (04: gen 1 or 2/or a 2005), as the earlier modeled ICD freestyles shoot insanely fast, but their boards are semi auto only.

Edited by Commander_Cool - 28 June 2007 at 4:28pm

Post link to site?

Where do you think they say something that you can't bring markers with a full-auto feature?

Thanks, it would really ruin my plans for a marker if electronic triggers weren't allowed, as i plan to purchase the triumph ext.

That's pretty standard language for rules.  I would call ahead, but generally it just means that you can't have ramping/auto available on the field.  So Spyders with "cheater-buttons" would not be allowed, but E-Tippmanns would be.