PCS US 5...anyone have one?
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Topic: PCS US 5...anyone have one?
Posted By: CarbineKid
Subject: PCS US 5...anyone have one?
Date Posted: 07 April 2006 at 7:27pm
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My tax return came in and along with buying some other toys, I might want to get another paintball gun just for the heck of it. I was wondering if anyone one had any FIRST HAND expierence with the PCS US 5. I seem to like everything about it, but I dont have any real user accounts to go by. The search option provided little to no info. Now before you say "buy a tippmann" I already have quite a few(SL68 M98 a few carbines etc), and Im looking for a more traditional gun, not the pimp guns that seem to be flooding the market.
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 08 April 2006 at 12:32am
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I have one and i love it. it is same price as a-5 for the electronic version. only real downside i see is that it only tales spider threaded barrels.if you have any questions just ask
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Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 08 April 2006 at 4:56pm
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I heard it was a cheap ripoff of the a-5. It apparently works fine etc. but it's no tippmann for sure. It probably performs more like a spyder.
------------- Tippmann A-5 Polished Internals E-Grip Ape Board JCS Blade Trigger QEV 8" Bigshot + Apex Ricochet R-5 / Tac Cap Palmers Stabilizer 68/4500 Crossfire |
Posted By: CarbineKid
Date Posted: 08 April 2006 at 9:54pm
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Carl how is the Electronic version? I was orginally looking at the mechanical version...but the E is only a few dollars more.
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 09 April 2006 at 10:32am
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electronic is amazing only downside is that fully auto is a little slow. electronic us-5 is same price as a-5. and raven it is not a cheap knowkoff (knockoff yes cheap no) only difference between that and a5 is cyclone and barel threading. ive heard some people with a5s tell me that they wish they had of bought my gun instead. |
Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 09 April 2006 at 3:53pm
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I dunno about that, we'll see how it handles getting dropped from the roof of a house, and then we'll know if it's a cheap knockoff aswell :P definitely isn't doing as well at pbreview.com... ------------- Tippmann A-5 Polished Internals E-Grip Ape Board JCS Blade Trigger QEV 8" Bigshot + Apex Ricochet R-5 / Tac Cap Palmers Stabilizer 68/4500 Crossfire |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 09 April 2006 at 6:24pm
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it is a strong as tippmann as i loked at frame of each before buying. and the reason it isint doing well at pbreview.com is that one stupid reviewer. anyone who gives a product a 1 shouldn't be allowed a computer. no product is worth a 1 unless it falls apart right out of the box. they are the same gun inside and out except cyclone and threading. believe me i looked at a parts and intrenal diagram for each. |
Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 9:21am
Doesn't tippmann have a patent on their valve? As well as the entire design? :p There must be some differences ------------- Tippmann A-5 Polished Internals E-Grip Ape Board JCS Blade Trigger QEV 8" Bigshot + Apex Ricochet R-5 / Tac Cap Palmers Stabilizer 68/4500 Crossfire |
carl_the_sniper wrote:Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 13 April 2006 at 10:35pm
| actually i heard they only patented the cyclone feed and one other thing that i cant remember. just what i heard. |
Posted By: warhead
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 12:35am
ya but im sure it dosent deserve a 10 either, 10 means the gun is perfect and up there with the best of the best low end mech markers |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 14 April 2006 at 1:38am
| of course not a 10 but neither does the a5 deserve a 10. |
Posted By: SupermanDan
Date Posted: 15 April 2006 at 2:32am
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i was playing with a kid who had the mechanical one. he had a Zombie barrel
on it, and it actually held it's own on the field(but then again, it was noob night). anyways, not nearly as loud as my MR1(but alas, it broke again. that's why i'm getting a tippmann) and much, MUCH lighter. but i'd get the real thing, because a knock off is a knock off, and no matter how good PMI made the US-5, it'll never be able to compete with an A5. |
Posted By: FreedomPBPlayer
Date Posted: 15 April 2006 at 7:27am
| Id rather choose the a-4 over the pcs us 5. to me the pcs us 5 looks straight up wack. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 15 April 2006 at 7:35pm
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ooh yeah i wish i had a a-4 too. what do you mean? it looks same ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 16 April 2006 at 1:33pm
I don't think they look the same... They are similar though. I prefer the a-5, but I'm sure its a good beginner gun. ------------- Tippmann A-5 Polished Internals E-Grip Ape Board JCS Blade Trigger QEV 8" Bigshot + Apex Ricochet R-5 / Tac Cap Palmers Stabilizer 68/4500 Crossfire |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 16 April 2006 at 11:33pm
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they look exactly same except for cyclone if you want ill upload pic to show you. and if this is a beginner gun than so is the a5. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |