Tippmann 98

Snake6 wrote: Baewolf wrote: Snake6 wrote: Interesting. To me, it sounds like a classic case of operator error. Ions are decent guns if they are taken care of, but they require some work to keep them in shape. Like spyders I guess is the best anology. Yeah but they were brand new, so I figured even if they don't generally take care of them it wouldn't matter if they were new, I don't know maby they came from a bad batch or something, who knows, hopefully they will work better for them this weekend, it was a shame to see them out most of the day. There were lots of bad ones out of the factory when the Ion first came out. What happened was that SP could not keep up with the demand that they had to pull people who knew nothing about the paintball markers out of their offices and onto the factory floor to help assemble the markers. This caused quite a few to come out of the factory with major assembly problems. However this problem was ironed out when the office workers were taken off the assembly line.

They bought them from a small town supplier, maby they were from the bad batches and he had it in stock for a while. When i heard they had gottem them I was a little worried they are firing at either 17bps or more if I remeber correctly, but they just don't have the range and accuracy in the woods, one of them opened up on me I kept my head down and when he shifted position I came up with the Tippmann and placed one on the hand, one on the shoulder and one in the face.
Funny thing is their father plays all the time and he has a 98c, he swears by it and his new 16" teardrop barrel, but the sons think they are crap.
Differnet strokes for different folks, I guess
 

Edited by Baewolf - 09 March 2006 at 6:16pm