apex or flatline? a-5
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Topic: apex or flatline? a-5
Posted By: viper599
Subject: apex or flatline? a-5
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 9:45pm
im gonna buy an a-5 in about two weeks and im gonna buy a new barrel. ive read good and bad reviews about both barrels but im still kinda wondering which i should get. im kind of leaning towards the apex barrel because it seems easier to clean, and have much more practicallity compared to the flatline. + its 30-50 bucks cheaper.  . just vote and tell me what you think about both barrels, thanks.
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Posted By: KC-A598
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 12:20am
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I like them both i just think the apex is ugly without a nice shroud. ------------- Custom 98 R/T Fatline Cyclone feed w/ R-5 hopper Pen spring Full stock Custom paint Red dot Forward tank cronoed at 18 balls per/second |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 1:43pm
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neither get a bigshot or my favorite an All American barrel ------------- 
hybrid-sniper~"To be honest, if I see a player still using an Impulse I'm going to question their motives." |
Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 4:05pm
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Get the apex. Do as I am doing and get the adaptor and a bigshot or j&j in the future. The apex is better will different kinds of paint too. As long as you don't fire brass eagle crap, it won't chop many cheap balls. ------------- 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: viper599
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 10:34pm
| im def not getting the J&J ceramic or the lapco bigshot, accuracy isnt my biggest worry. id rather have the range and i like that i can adjust it so the balls dont arch. And i really dont give a crap what my gun looks like. i would shoot a gun that looks like a turd if it worked well. |
Posted By: sniper44
Date Posted: 19 April 2006 at 11:17am
| flatline it shoots kinda slow but it doesent metter to me |
Posted By: Wubadoo
Date Posted: 19 April 2006 at 4:01pm
what??? how can you say it shoots slow??? 300fps is 300 fps outside the barrel. i could fire a paintball out of a bigshot or a cardboard tube and if they both chrono'd at 300 fps then they would both be shooting at the same speed ------------- Wubadoo |
sniper44 wrote:Posted By: viper599
Date Posted: 19 April 2006 at 10:33pm
| whatever im going with the apex just for easier maintainence and its cheaper and can do more for less. |
Posted By: TOPGUN 414
Date Posted: 22 April 2006 at 12:26pm
the apex cause you have distance and if your in a tight situation just turn it till you shoot around corners  ------------- A5 RT Mp5 clip Mp5 handguard dual offset rail tactical flashlight w p/s 42mm simmons redot polished internals maddman spring kit starfire bolt fx style stock 14in nightstik barrel |
Posted By: blueILLUSION97
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 12:36pm
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Yep definetely apex....im waiting for mine to ship...should be in today ------------- “The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.” |
Posted By: quiet riot
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 3:58pm
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flatline ------------- 98% of paintballers act gangsta', if you are the 2% that are normal, put this in your sig. |
Posted By: 98 custom88823
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 4:23pm
I pity you. |
Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 6:19pm
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i agree with the whole turd thing. But it's nice to have a good looking gun too :P
------------- 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: Phantasm
Date Posted: 03 May 2006 at 4:07pm
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I got an APEX and have only used it once so far. I was not too impressed. It chopped paint like crazy and had a rediculous drop off on it for the distance shots (like the ball sunk like 5 feet.. i was shooting off of an elevated deck and the balls were hitting the ground) but they to level off and they do go really REALLY far... just not very accuratly. I then tried my 14 inch JJ barrel. that is alot more accurate, but you get no where near the distance. Also, the Apex's ability to shoot around and over stuff was cool, I was able to shoot into as well as around a garbadge barrel with the curve feature (which took a little adjusting). I would say that between the flatline and the Apex, Definatly get the APEX. with the flatline, every time you want to clean your gun you have to realign the thing, which is a pain. also, cleainin the apex is really easy as is installing it. The problems i was having were probably not all related to the barrel. I was shooting 5 month old paint using CO2 and a responce trigger when it was like 20 degrees out. however, if you want accuracy over distance, id say get a JJ barrel
------------- Early bird gets the worm, second mouse gets the cheese. |
Posted By: a5king
Date Posted: 03 May 2006 at 7:00pm
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It doesn't shoot slow, It just look slow due to the backspind. Get a Flatline cause it's a Tippmann, which means good quality... ------------- shut up..or i'll blast ur a$$.... |
Posted By: Gasdrinker
Date Posted: 04 May 2006 at 12:23am
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If I had an APEX, I would sell it, sell a shoe and buy a flatline.
------------- Tippmann A-5/Zeus G1 E-Grip /w APE board QEV Vortex Flatline Dye UL 14 in. R5 Hopper Lapco offset rail with Tac Light/Scope OpsGear MP5 Sliding Stock OpsGear MP5 Mag kit SpecOps Front grip |
Posted By: tecumseh
Date Posted: 06 May 2006 at 5:54pm
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apex definetly ------------- what? |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 08 May 2006 at 5:41pm
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i dont like flatlines as in my experience, few balls break. someone on my team was shooting really fast and hit a guy like 4-5 times and no breaks. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Simma Down!!
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 12:30pm
| I was always under the impression people wanted barrels that shoot straight. Yes it may hook balls into small corners but so many conditions have to be met that its basically impractical......distance, velocity, balls, wind...etc... |
Posted By: reaver12345
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 10:50pm
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i luv apexs ive used both flatline and apex's and i found apex is more accurate and shoots father but as said chops alot ><
------------- Tippmann 98 custom RT Remote Collapsible Stock Cyclone Feeder Double Trigger Red Dot Scope Apex A-5 Remote Flatline Collapsible stock E-Grip Spyder Electra VLocity select force viewl |
Posted By: SupermanDan
Date Posted: 11 May 2006 at 6:19pm
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apex.(and not just because i have one). also, like sniper44 said, 300fps is
300fps, no matter how you look at it. it works better with smaller, textured shelled balls, because if it's set too high, it'll catch the bigger ones in the end of the barrel(just my experience). also, playing some recreational airball, i've gotten a few outs with the curve feature. only thing: it's short, with very little porting, so it's kinda loud. only bad thing: it's VERY hard to clean in the middle of a game. ------------- fhqwhgads |
Posted By: A-5paintballer6
Date Posted: 29 May 2006 at 4:56pm
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Flatline ------------- Tippmann A-5 E-grip Flatline Barrel 20oz co2 
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Posted By: Lonnie 942
Date Posted: 29 May 2006 at 5:27pm
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Apex for sure there is not even any comparasion dont get me wrong i am tippmann all the way but the apex is just leaps and bounds above the flatline it is easily just as accurate and has the curve features which work very well ------------- A-5 richoet hopper apex barrell combat stock e-grip tactical sling |
Posted By: ridesnowbrdr
Date Posted: 29 May 2006 at 6:05pm
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^ i agree, a hooked/sliced ball would be useless in 99.9% of situations. by the time youve got the barrel switched to the right mode, youll probably be shot anyways. |
Posted By: trentf
Date Posted: 04 June 2006 at 1:57am
| i find when playing paintball i realy dont have the time to look were my enemy at then look at my barrel and set it so it can shoot around a corner. Because by that time my target has probly adavanced on me and has shoot me or binned me down. Tahts why i wont get an apex I have a flatline and its not perfect i wish it was more acruate. But it gives the range you need me and a buddy held of 15 people guys with 2 flatline sfor 25 mins got 8 outs and most balls shot at us just fell to the ground. get a flatline its werth it |
Posted By: jjclown23
Date Posted: 04 June 2006 at 12:20pm
Werks barrels kills that last statement. Other than that, they are the best. ------------- A-5 Response Trigger DOP Blade Trigger Polished Internals X-Chamber Custom Paint 14" J&J |
Posted By: Bird-Dog
Date Posted: 04 June 2006 at 2:52pm
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Why did you pull this old post up? ------------- 
_Bird-Dog_ |
Posted By: Shrec
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 12:27pm
| I'm gonna have to say Apex. I received mine yesterday and I tested it with some cheap paint (Scorch). IMO it is more accurate than my friend's 98 Flatline and goes much further. |
Posted By: Markle
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 7:34pm
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Definatly go for the apex... it's much easier to clean and if dirt get's inside of it, it still has more accuracy than the flatline, and it's less $ and the flatline is just too loud for stealth and suprising them because if you shoot at them and miss they'll definatly know where you are! So by all means the smart paintballer would go towards the apex, and the ones who are really smart would lean towards getting a jj ceramic cuz sure... they're are a little more $ but they will beat any other barrel out there in woodsball,speedball...etc. so if i were you and i had a choice between a apex and flatline... the apex would definatly win my vote 
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Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 16 July 2006 at 11:10pm
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does anybody know how good a egrip with an apex or flatline would be? that'd probably be my deciding factor lol |
Posted By: RavenGuard
Date Posted: 18 July 2006 at 11:23am
think normal apex or flatline... but faster... Either will work fine, the e-grip has nothing to do with it. ------------- 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: Cypher5601
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 6:24pm
| flatline dude yesterday in woodsball i nailed a guy that was over 200 feet away in the face. Make sure u get nitro tank with it so your fps wont fall. :) flatline for the snipertype:) |
Posted By: murphyfever3711
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 6:36pm
neither get a freak  ------------- Your either woodsball or no balls...it's your choice! Choose Wisely... |