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The A-5 is an excellent gun, particularly if you play woodsball.  But as for performance upgrades, that really depends on what type of performance you are looking for.

A new barrel is a good early upgrade - all your usual barrels apply, as well as the Flatline and Apex barrels for special uses.  A firepower upgrade is always nifty, and there are basically two:  RT or E-Grip. 

After that, it is really about the same upgrades as for other guns, in terms of drops/ASAs, tanks, regulators, etc.

It all depends on what type of "performance" you are looking for.

And then there are other upgrades - hoppers, sights, foregrips, and sundry cosmetic attachments.

Not sure what you mean by "scoop".

That is good that it makes a good gun for woods. That is my favorite game. I’m looking for accuracy, distance, speed, and power. I don’t care too much for the cosmetics. And I meant to say scope or sight not scoop. Anyways I was reading the post thing and it said that a red dot site is better then a scope, so what is a really good red dot sight? 

A5 is a great woodsball gun with tons of upgrades. I would reccomend playing with the gun stock for a few games to get a feel for what you think you need to upgrade.

You're going to have to choose between accuracy and distance. Your straight barrels will give you accuracy, but the same distance throughout. Two barrels give you extra distance: the Flatline and the Apex. The latter being the more accurate imo. You're goign to lose accuracy the farther away your taget is due to more space for your balls to stray off course.

Speed. You have two options: the RT and the Egrip. The RT fires on the pull and release and can be "super" upgraded to throw ropes of paint. The Egrip gives you many options as to your firing mode and is tourney legal unlike the RT. Again, this is your choice as to which you like.

sinisterNorth wrote:   Speed. You have two options: the RT and the Egrip. The RT fires on the pull and release and can be "super" upgraded to throw ropes of paint. The Egrip gives you many options as to your firing mode and is tourney legal unlike the RT. Again, this is your choice as to which you like.

Just to clarify the RT does not fire one the pull and release of the trigger, this is a mode on the Egrip where the board can be set to fire on the pull and release of the trigger called 'Response Mode'. The RT (response trigger) is essentially a piston the resets the trigger once it has been pulled. This means that if 'the sweet spot' can be achieved the finger can pull the trigger and the piston will return the tirgger and then without the finger movin the trigger is then pulled again. This is a really crap description of it but it was more to clear the fact that installin a RT does not give u a shot per pull and release of the trigger, this is a mode on the Egrip. I suggest u search exactly what an RT does as my description aint gr8 but it does allow high ROF especially with the super RT mod.

Just play with the gun stock to see what needs improvement, then upgrade.

I just love how sinister keeps on relaying the same false information about the R/T over and over. Maybe someone should PM him the real info.

Is the flatline a good barrel?

^ Yes....And no..... I'd suggest that you learn some more and  try one out before you purchase one.

The flatline is good at getting more distance (better than any straight barrel) , but you lose accuracy , the trade off isnt worth it IMO .

FYI :

E-grip Response mode :

allows you to fire twice with each pull of the trigger , once when you depress the trigger , and again when you release the trigger .

RT or Response Trigger :

Fires one round when the trigger is depressed , and a small piston pushes out the trigger again , with some tuning and a delicate touch on the trigger , a high rate of fire can be achieved by your trigger finger "Bouncing" on the trigger , counteracting the momentary pressure that cylinder puts on the trigger . Also called "Sweetspotting"

If you want a red dot sight like you asked earlier, I'd go with Tasco - although they tend to be more cosmetic than a help.

By the way I'd suggest the Apex if you want distance.

I want somthing like this, but with an E-Grip and red sight.

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phil_stl wrote: I'm pretty sure you want one that can fit a weaver rail. I'm pretty sure these should work fine. %20http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=7226020085&rd=1&rd=1 - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=7226020085&rd=1&rd=1 - 30mm http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=012&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=220022297302&rd=1&rd=1 - 42mm

Will they fit on the A-5?

TippmannsRkool9 wrote: Get an A-5 with a R/T and E-grip as well as a sight rail and flatline barrel, that setup should give you good performances.

What is a R/T? Thats not a Response trigger is it?

RT is a ResponseTrigger

Langside wrote: RT is a ResponseTrigger

Thats what I thought, but I've seen it wretten two diffrent ways so I wasn't sure. RT or R/T = the same thing. The past few weeks is the first time I hear about RTs, E-Grips, and all of those other things. When I bought my spyder tl 7 years ago the only upgrades I new were double triggers. I don't think that they had all those upgrades back then and I was only 14 then, and I just wanted the gun. Now that I want a new gun. I want to make sure of all the upgradable options I have. Thank you people for all your patents with me. I know that I driving some of you people crazy.

TippmannsRkool9 wrote: Get an A-5 with R/T and E-grip as well as a sight rail and flatline barrel, that set up should give you good performances.

It's possible to have a RT and a e-grip on the same gun? I thought that you can only have one or the other.

They had other upgrades back then for spyders. (barrels, electronic sear trigger frame....SPRINT frames?, regulators, expansion chambers, etc).

Sights are stupid, you wear a mask and shoot 100 feet away, what could possibly be aiming at so carefully?

Scopes are stupider... the magnify things from far away, so they are easier to shoot, you are playing within 100 feet of other players, in addition you were a mask, you can't put your eye u to a scope then...pretty darn silly.

Flatline and Apex Barrels: They increase range, but decrease accuracy, in addition the they are also less likely to break at the increased range, due to the fact that they are traveling at a slower speed.

If youy must get one, the Apex is better. The flatline is apparently a pain to install and then you are stuck with it unless you wanna go through a big process to remove it (I am not sure, I won't use 1). The Apex can just be removed like a normal barrel.

You are probably better off just getting a regular aftermarket barrel like a Lapco bigshot, or if you really want to go crazy get an Evil Pipe Kit.

Commander_Cool wrote: Flatline and Apex Barrels: They increase range, but decrease accuracy, in addition the they are also less likely to break at the increased range, due to the fact that they are traveling at a slower speed.

I know someone that used a flatline barrel and he told me that it is accurate evan at long destinces. 

paintballinbill wrote: you can't use an e-grip and response trigger together. its either one or the other... and about the flatline issue: i've used several types of paint, from PMI Marballizers and Premium $60-$70+ per case, down to this crappy "heavy metal" paint that my brother-in-law got me for christmas a year ago. the biggest key is the paintball's size. it needs to take small-bore paint, and can't handle even medium-bore, they'll just break in the barrel. if you can put a ball in the barrel, and it rolls out without too much trouble (maybe blow down the barrel a little bit), then you're golden. otherwise, the paint is probably too big.

Thats what I thought. I rather have an E-Grip. I Thought that the best balls for the flatline were medium.