keep a5 or get ion
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Topic: keep a5 or get ion
Posted By: frontplayer1
Subject: keep a5 or get ion
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 3:09pm
| i currentlly own an a5 and im starting a rook 3 man should i put an e grip on an a5 or get an ion and does the a5 e grip sweete spot better than just manuel a5? |
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Posted By: frontplayer1
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 4:02pm
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i need feedback
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Posted By: Millslane
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 5:27pm
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i never understood why people think they have to shoot faster. if you
keep 1 ball per second on someones bunker where they are at, they are
not gonna look up. ------------- www.pbteamwow.com |
Posted By: JEDerrick
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 5:40pm
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Listen, you already own a great durable marker, in which you know the ins and outs right? So from someone who play speedball in tournies and junk all the time, keep it, and install the e-grip. Why buy a new Ion just cause they are new and people right now are talking about them. That is just how things work. If it's new, it gets all the attention, then after about six months you never hear about it again. If you were to buy an Ion, you would have to start learning about a new type of marker. I'm not sure about this, but I think those marker have to ru of HPA. So you would then have to upgrade your tank. With an e-grip you could install, and be ready in less than two mins. They are very easy to install, and you can very easily pull the trugger on an e-grip faster than the stock trigger pull. You may not be able to use all the functions during a tourney, but the trigger pull is close to a mouse click on a PC. This is just my view though. I see no need to go all out, when you can see who your marker will function during a game, witha few upgrades. If afterwards you want to start looking at other guns, then fine. Yet know for sure, you want what you get. ------------- Gun Set-Up: Black Karnivor, Evil Pipe Driver, E2 Grip, Black Halo B w/Rip Drive, Pure Energy 68/4500 HPA, |
Posted By: Jibs98
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 7:15pm
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go play a tournament w/that gun millslane
i say keep ur a5 and get the ion, forget about the egrip its not true elecpneumatic so its not gonna be all that fast |
Posted By: JEDerrick
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 7:37pm
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True. Though I am thinking like this. Hell get a little more BPS out of the e-grip in semi than he would with the stock trigger. That is one hell of a pull. ------------- Gun Set-Up: Black Karnivor, Evil Pipe Driver, E2 Grip, Black Halo B w/Rip Drive, Pure Energy 68/4500 HPA, |
Jibs98 wrote:Posted By: Millslane
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 8:42pm
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i never said my gun was made for speedball. BPS does not equate to kills. period.
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Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 9:50pm
Speedball is a misunderstand game. It does matter how fast you shoot. One of the steps to getting kills in speedball is not keep a man behind his bunker. Step two is to make sure he can't move from bunker to bunker, I.E. filling the lanes with paint. Try running though a lane with 1 BPS. Its easy. Now, try it with 15 BPS in that lane. VERY HARD. |
Posted By: frontplayer1
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 10:17pm
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i luv my tippmann i would keep it but i cant sweet spot i mean my local touneys are 15 bps rule any qways but if you cant shoot that fast with that hard trigger pull y have it so the ? is can you sweet spot a e grip i mean i know it not gonna be a feather light pull?
a5 response off most of the time....tourny legal 14'' teardrop double trigg |
Posted By: frontplayer1
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 10:23pm
| remember i playin guys with matrixis and shockers and junk so gun matters when your playin guys with trigger pulls so light its not even like there by the way please dont use prfanity on my post! |
Posted By: Millslane
Date Posted: 22 June 2005 at 10:27pm
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the basics of keeping someone's head down does not require slinging
pain and hitting air. and it does not take 50 round fired in 4 seconds
to hit someone. i am not suggesting that speedball or anything should
be on shot on kill. thats expecting way too much. but if you can't hit
someone without shooting that many pballs, then you either need to work
smarter as a team in flushing out the opponent, or start being a
slightly better shot. Woodsball and speedball have this same concept. a man behind a bunker needs to be taken out. how? out smart, not sling paint. sling it you want, but you don't have to. thats only the direction that side of paintball has taken. you become good as what you do, either style of play because we have to adapt to either woods or speed. ------------- www.pbteamwow.com |
Posted By: JEDerrick
Date Posted: 23 June 2005 at 8:14pm
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I am glad to see that some here understand how speedball is played. I have been in many a tourney where A-5s, spyders, and other markers that are thought of as junk have taken out high end markers. Hell, I shoot a 05 Karnivor, and I have been put out by a few. If you have a well oiled team, good players, and good understanding of team play, then you will put out players that can shoot 15+ bps. ------------- Gun Set-Up: Black Karnivor, Evil Pipe Driver, E2 Grip, Black Halo B w/Rip Drive, Pure Energy 68/4500 HPA, |
Posted By: jg dog
Date Posted: 23 June 2005 at 9:33pm
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i agree, its not about how fast u sling paint but other factors contribute more to winning (though being able to shoot 15+ bps can get u out of some tight spots) ------------- jg out |