advise???
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Topic: advise???
Posted By: paintballguy20
Subject: advise???
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 9:46pm
| Hey guys, i started gertting into paintball like in the fall and i already have three guns. Im saving up to get a Tippmann and was wondering if you guys thought i should just get a regualar Tippmann 98 Custom with a sniper barrel and loader and sh**, or should i just buy the Custom Sniper already assembled. If i could jsut get sum advise or ideas id be very thankful. thanks alot.....-PaintballGuy20 |
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Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 9:47pm
| go for the a-5 if u got the money good upgrades for it |
Posted By: Insomnia_CJ
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 9:48pm
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What style of PB do you play? What guns do you already have? ------------- 
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Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 9:51pm
he obviously plays woodsball hes getting a sniper kit
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Posted By: paintballguy20
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:03pm
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ya man, im a good sniper. sumtimes i get a lil trigger happy but i cant afford A-5 right now, plus you can get everything i want on a 98 custom. The guns i have right now are from when i started in the fall. I have a cheap Orion gun from Wal Mart I have a pirahna EXT E Force. And my newest is a Prodidgy. I bought those guns for mostly messin around with. Im finally getting good enough for the snipa guns |
Works ok tho.Posted By: NMLvaio
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:09pm
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welcome to the forums, first I have to say, your not a real sniper. I hate buying gun at wal mart and acadamy sports -------------  
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Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:11pm
| get the 98 sniper kit (i dont believe in snipers tho but thats my honest opinion) lets not flame now but yeah if your talking about the 98 stealth kit ull have the money for the a-5 post a link of the kit you want. |
Posted By: paintballguy20
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:12pm
| ? i bought those guns to **edited** with, im actually doing the real thing now. |
Posted By: paintballguy20
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:14pm
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hey dan, can you do the same stuff to the a-5 that you can do with the 98? i was gona get a kit along with the sniper 14" barrel. |
Dan db09 wrote:Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:14pm
| i know it edited your cursing but no foul language or you'll get strikes |
Posted By: paintballguy20
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:18pm
| sorry bout that dan, but can you do the same stuff to the a-5 as the 98 ???? |
Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:19pm
| pretty much.... but the a-5 is better... with the cyclone and everything it has a better flatline |
Posted By: paintballguy20
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:24pm
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what kinda customs did you put on urs. u have response trigger,????
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Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:27pm
no but getting it soon i have the a-5 w/ flatline lapco foregrip dead
on x-core dead on double trigger psychoballistics grip block adapter
and bullet drop with ufa. |
Posted By: LoCo_HunTer
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:33pm
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i personaly like the 98c sniper package better .. i
have that gun .. and i had a choice of a 98c wit flatline and stock and remote or the A-5 wit the flatline ... the 98c sniper is cheaper and is just as good only difference is the cyclone loader which uses ur CO2 faster ... so u could just get a halo hopper and a R/T if ur worried about shooting faster ------------- God Bless America |
Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:34pm
| snipers dont shoot fast. so you might as well get the a-5 with flatline then a car stock |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:44pm
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BOTH are great markers The 98c will be a little easier on the wallet, both to buy, and to upgrade. I highly suggest buying either marker STOCK. Play with it like that for a while, and learn the feel of it. then decide what you'd like to change about the existing performance, and THEN choose your upgrades. Buying a package is alright, but you migt find stuff on there that you don't want or need. I bought an A-5 with an E-grip that I never use. I spent the money on it, and it turned out to be not quite what I wanted. Save yourself a little cash, buy stock. Play stock, then upgrade little by little, when you can afford to, and only what you think you'd like to have. ------------- ? |
Posted By: paintballguy20
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 10:46pm
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yeah im looking towards the A-5,14" or/and 12" barrel, Stock, Double Trigger,Might get HaloB loader.diff handle, sum other things. not sure yet.. dan , what kind of barrel you have for ur a-5? |
Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 11:02pm
| i have the flatline |
Posted By: aaron4881304
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 11:07pm
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U say u bought an orion...is that anything like a triton??...my friend
bought a triton from wal-mart, it was pretty basic, but i was surprised
at how well it kept up
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Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 11:08pm
| yes they are the same but warn your friend in the long run the gun will go down hill they're not really the greatest things thats why they're sold at wal mart |
Posted By: whiteknight457
Date Posted: 30 July 2004 at 11:27pm
get a stock 98 and play wit that 4 a while, then see what upgrades u want. sell ur other guns
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Posted By: paintballguy20
Date Posted: 31 July 2004 at 6:17am
| i thought a-5 was better for upgrades. ????/ yeah im selling my orion and pirahna |
Posted By: whiteknight457
Date Posted: 31 July 2004 at 12:19pm
| i think the a5 has more milsim upgrades, but the 98 is the most upgradable gun on the market. |
Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 31 July 2004 at 2:03pm
| the a-5 has just as many and maybe even more |