Need some help for a friend.....
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Topic: Need some help for a friend.....
Posted By: Smitty
Subject: Need some help for a friend.....
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 6:50am
| ok so my uncle is going to buy my cousin a paintball gun!!! i told him about it and he's getting a few people that want to play from where he works. it's great. well he wants to keep it cheap. could someone show me some good spyders that arent super expensive. also i would like to know if those spyders are better than a pirhana. he looked into either a spyder or pirhana. one other question..... are all spyders electronic and not mechanical? thanks for the help guys. i really need it. |
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Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 9:18am
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Spyder: Extra, Shutter, Victor, Rodeo,etc. these are all mechanical and are under 140 or so. Most of the electric ones are above 140. I'm not very familiar with the Piranhas. ------------- NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 10:16am
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He should just spend a little more and get a Tippmann. It doesn't pay to buy cheap spyders. He needs a gun that's going to work when he needs it to work. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 2:57pm
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^^I agree, but if he insists on keeping it cheap, I would see what guns the local field carries and purchase one of them. That way, if you have problems, you can take it to the field and have it fixed. Most rentals in my areas are Pirhanas. A nice gun my friend uses is the Syndicate Paradox PGF. It's a nice marker for around $90-100 USD. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: stick_boy_2002
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 3:30pm
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pirannah evo is about the best cheap electro (and not to mention the only one under $600 that comes stock with an eye) if hes into electros.the spyder rodeo has a really heavy trigger pull. ------------- 
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Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 7:58pm
| bump. i know but i know some spyders are good. everyone here just says get a tippmann because its a tippmann forum. like if i was at a spyder forum they'd say tippmann sucks get a spyder. tell me out of experience. i want to know what i asked. what's a good spyder and are pirhanas any good. i have a friend that likes his pirhana. please help me out. |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 8:00pm
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a victor is a good gun, i've shot one. it started to frost kinda and it went surprisling fast. ------------- 
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Posted By: cockerkilla99
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 9:18pm
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98c man! ------------- 
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Posted By: evil_fingers
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 9:37pm
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smitty, if yer uncle is lookin fer somethin cheap fer yer cousin....look in ebay. ------------- Do not steal....the government hates competition! 
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Posted By: rave5910
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 10:24pm
The T.E.S. dragun (189) and Dragun The One(379) come stock with eyes To answer your question smitty, you might be able to find a nice 98c on ebay for really cheap. Or you can go around to different sights and check to see if the have closeouts and stuff. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 27 September 2004 at 11:33pm
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Spyders are pains in the butt to upgrade. You can only buy Spyderupgrades for them. because the hoses are metrically threaded.
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Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 28 September 2004 at 6:49am
| he more than likely wont upgrade much...if at all. i dont know if i wanna go the ebay route. keep giving info. pros and cons and stuff of these guns. ill look for some cheap guns and see what you all say. thanks. |
Posted By: Aundae
Date Posted: 29 September 2004 at 7:00pm
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Sinisternorth wrote:^^I agree, but if he insists on keeping it cheap, I would see what guns the local field carries and purchase one of them. That way, if you have problems, you can take it to the field and have it fixed. Most rentals in my areas are Pirhanas. A nice gun my friend uses is the Syndicate Paradox PGF. It's a nice marker for around $90-100 USD. I'm the friend and I would go with a Rodeo if he wants a spyder ($120.00). I have the Paradox PGF and it shoots really good (not so great for woodsball) but for speedball its perfect. Its made by Syndicate INC. ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 29 September 2004 at 7:06pm
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Posted By: Menohl
Date Posted: 29 September 2004 at 8:36pm
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don't buy a phirana, my field had 30 98 Customs to rent, but they took in a new partner who had 30 Phirana EXT 2k3's his thought was rent teh tippys to the woodsballers, and the phirana's to the speedballers... yea, well needless to say that most of the phirana's had jacked up regs among many other problems and they break all the time, the field owners told their new partner to get rid of them because customers were getting pissed that their rental phirana's were always breaking... ------------- 
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Posted By: Giblet
Date Posted: 30 September 2004 at 5:15am
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I have a phirana R6 and two 98's. Thr R6 is a very easy gun to learn. I had it taken apart and put back together like the second week i had it and could reasemble it in prabably about 45 seconds to a minute. They are fairly solid but they do get a little touchy sometimes. Like if you take off the "volumizer" nob in the front you need to make sure before you put it back on you cock the gun to make sure it will have a good seal. Small stuff like that. Not very fast, not very acurate, but it works. btw, I got the phirana and decided I needed to get a better gun like 2 months later and thats when i got my model 98 and then soon after i was like, hey playing one on one all the time would suck so now i have 3 guns just to invite people over to play. Im just saying if this is something that he might get into then pay the extra 20 bucks and get him something that will last. |
Posted By: Shadowminion
Date Posted: 30 September 2004 at 6:06am
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Smitty ,if he wants to keep it cheep , try wal-mart , dont expect the operators at the proshop to be too sympathetic with you tho, when ya bring in a broken gun for repairs , they will help , surely, but more than likely charge you for it . walmart may even have an exchange policy tho ,if the gun breaks in the first 30 days , idk . ------------- SL68-II , micro honed and polished .688" bore . Tuff Enuf . Widowmaker , under construction |
Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 30 September 2004 at 6:12am
| well ill look into the spiders and pirhanas. by the way i dont have a local field. they're building one i think. ill have to check. i do have a kind of pro shop, but the guy is never there and he has no hours to be open. it's pretty bad. this is why i play woodsball. well ill look into those and if i find one that i think looks good ill ask you guys. thanks for the help. |
Posted By: Menohl
Date Posted: 30 September 2004 at 8:03am
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still think you should go tippmann, but to each his own... -------------
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