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The 2nd Ion there for £90 is a great deal. I recommend you look into that one.
The 2nd Ion there for £90 is a great deal. I recommend you look into that one.
I'm new but want to get better :)
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stuff you would want if you intend to play tourneys:
ion
halo b or VLocity jnr hoppers
JT flex 7/8s, Vforce profilers, 20/20 echos, Dye I3s
any of that stuff would probably be fine second hand....
not sure bout air but im gonna get a dye throttle preset at some point...
stuff you would want if you want to play woodsball:
tippmann A5(comes with a cyclone feed system so you dont need an electronic hopper)
JT/ flex 7/8s, vforce profilers, 20/20 echos, Dye I3s, JT flex 8 headshield?
again dunno bout an air system........
but one word of warning......
Stay away from justpaintball if you value your money! i have had very bad experiances with these people, and so have a lot of other people ive met who use them....
rant over.
if you want decent paintball shops try:
http://www.slothball.com
http://www.planeteclipse.com
ion
halo b or VLocity jnr hoppers
JT flex 7/8s, Vforce profilers, 20/20 echos, Dye I3s
any of that stuff would probably be fine second hand....
not sure bout air but im gonna get a dye throttle preset at some point...
stuff you would want if you want to play woodsball:
tippmann A5(comes with a cyclone feed system so you dont need an electronic hopper)
JT/ flex 7/8s, vforce profilers, 20/20 echos, Dye I3s, JT flex 8 headshield?
again dunno bout an air system........
but one word of warning......
Stay away from justpaintball if you value your money! i have had very bad experiances with these people, and so have a lot of other people ive met who use them....
rant over.
if you want decent paintball shops try:
http://www.slothball.com
http://www.planeteclipse.com
Basicly Co2 isnt as good for the gun as Air, you can run it on Co2 (make sure you have anti-syphon) but you will want to get air asap.
I play mainly woodsball and run an ion on air, with an egg. Have tried to use a Tippman, and although a cracking peice of kit, would prefer to use my ion.
Aint nothing wrong with running round the woods with an Ion. Is their?
I would strongly suggest you don't put Co2 through your Ion. The high fire rates will freeze the internals.
Aint nothing wrong with running round the woods with an Ion. Is their?
I would strongly suggest you don't put Co2 through your Ion. The high fire rates will freeze the internals.
Greetings..I'm Skeet, resident busy body and general know it all
First up...how old are you? You say you have a car.
I assume you have some sort of regular income, if you run a car.
Seeing as you have looked far enough into paintball, to find this site, I would imagine you get the same Buzz from playing, that the rest of us do.
Therefore, I would speculate, that unless you are some weed, who will have a sudden change of heart, the first time you get lit up (shot to buggery), you will endeavour to play paintball as long and as often as you can.
In that situation...the general consensus of opinion is, if you want a cheap marker to start playing, then no marker exists below an Ion.
The Ion, sadly made by Smart Parts...is truly an excellent marker for an excellent price.
Out of the box, you get what you pay for, a no frills bit of kit, with some parts that are truly pants to look at and might well break...but...can be changed for better ones as your pocket allows and should the need arise.
The internals, are metal and will last very well.
It will shoot up to 17BPS if you can move your fingers fast enough, but you will easily be able to shoot 12-15 after some practice, in Semi Auto.
It also has a 15 BPS "ramp" mode, whereby if you can maintain around 5BPS on the trigger, it will pump 15 balls out of the other end.
So it allows you to compete at any level...even though you may want better.
They are also very easy to maintain yourself.
http://www.planeteclipse.com/site/prodView.asp?prodID=2162
That is an ION.
It will run on air or CO2, if using CO2 in Semi you should be OK if you don't shoot too fast, but...AIR is the way to go and as soon as possible.
It is at home in the woods or on a supair field.
You will also need a Hopper (loader).a good start is an Egg.
http://www.planeteclipse.com/site/prodView.asp?prodID=2927
That is an Egg.
It will feed your Ion, faster than you need it to.
Supair absolutely RULES...although the woods can be fun.
http://video.google.co.uk/url?vidurl=http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6276033213985076522&q=nexus+legion&docid=6276033213985076522&ev=v&esrc=sr1&usg=AL29H215hXlx2aGK1meIvj0azHMAy5iCyg
That is Nexus (UK groovy Team) against Russian Legion (Russian SUPER team) Nexus cane their asses on this occasion.
That is SUPAIR...and it completely rocks most peoples socks off.
http://video.google.co.uk/url?vidurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZZJsZVmbo&docid=-6262720208740968006&ev=v&esrc=sr1&usg=AL29H23uSUPB3rAy-yjh4T3gLiZ4JsZ7Aw
This is part of a controversial Final game, between many time champions Dynasty (American) and Joy Division, who I think are Swedish and are also extremely good.
It shows you how in your face and exciting Sup Air can be...watch to the end.
So...lastly...buy secondhand.
Your ION, your Egg, your 3000psi cheap airsystem, some goggles (GET NEW LENS), back pack, pots the whole works, can be bought from the classifieds on this forum, for a fraction of its new price.
Paintball being what it is, people want the latest kit and as such, what they bought 10 Min's ago, is worth sod all when they come to sell it...make use of that.
This is the best paintball forum in the UK and some would say, on the whole Net, which is why you can find people like me here, as we only work with the best
Any questions? No? Then my son...go out into the digital world and seek ye out an Aladdin's cave of balling goodies...spend wisely, ask many questions and don't be a twat, we don't like it (no that you have)
First up...how old are you? You say you have a car.
I assume you have some sort of regular income, if you run a car.
Seeing as you have looked far enough into paintball, to find this site, I would imagine you get the same Buzz from playing, that the rest of us do.
Therefore, I would speculate, that unless you are some weed, who will have a sudden change of heart, the first time you get lit up (shot to buggery), you will endeavour to play paintball as long and as often as you can.
In that situation...the general consensus of opinion is, if you want a cheap marker to start playing, then no marker exists below an Ion.
The Ion, sadly made by Smart Parts...is truly an excellent marker for an excellent price.
Out of the box, you get what you pay for, a no frills bit of kit, with some parts that are truly pants to look at and might well break...but...can be changed for better ones as your pocket allows and should the need arise.
The internals, are metal and will last very well.
It will shoot up to 17BPS if you can move your fingers fast enough, but you will easily be able to shoot 12-15 after some practice, in Semi Auto.
It also has a 15 BPS "ramp" mode, whereby if you can maintain around 5BPS on the trigger, it will pump 15 balls out of the other end.
So it allows you to compete at any level...even though you may want better.
They are also very easy to maintain yourself.
http://www.planeteclipse.com/site/prodView.asp?prodID=2162
That is an ION.
It will run on air or CO2, if using CO2 in Semi you should be OK if you don't shoot too fast, but...AIR is the way to go and as soon as possible.
It is at home in the woods or on a supair field.
You will also need a Hopper (loader).a good start is an Egg.
http://www.planeteclipse.com/site/prodView.asp?prodID=2927
That is an Egg.
It will feed your Ion, faster than you need it to.
Supair absolutely RULES...although the woods can be fun.
http://video.google.co.uk/url?vidurl=http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6276033213985076522&q=nexus+legion&docid=6276033213985076522&ev=v&esrc=sr1&usg=AL29H215hXlx2aGK1meIvj0azHMAy5iCyg
That is Nexus (UK groovy Team) against Russian Legion (Russian SUPER team) Nexus cane their asses on this occasion.
That is SUPAIR...and it completely rocks most peoples socks off.
http://video.google.co.uk/url?vidurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZZJsZVmbo&docid=-6262720208740968006&ev=v&esrc=sr1&usg=AL29H23uSUPB3rAy-yjh4T3gLiZ4JsZ7Aw
This is part of a controversial Final game, between many time champions Dynasty (American) and Joy Division, who I think are Swedish and are also extremely good.
It shows you how in your face and exciting Sup Air can be...watch to the end.
So...lastly...buy secondhand.
Your ION, your Egg, your 3000psi cheap airsystem, some goggles (GET NEW LENS), back pack, pots the whole works, can be bought from the classifieds on this forum, for a fraction of its new price.
Paintball being what it is, people want the latest kit and as such, what they bought 10 Min's ago, is worth sod all when they come to sell it...make use of that.
This is the best paintball forum in the UK and some would say, on the whole Net, which is why you can find people like me here, as we only work with the best
Any questions? No? Then my son...go out into the digital world and seek ye out an Aladdin's cave of balling goodies...spend wisely, ask many questions and don't be a twat, we don't like it (no that you have)
What..my post?
Cool, glad you think so...tell a mod and give me my first sticky!! LOL
Skeet,
I had to learn the hard way when I started, and I had loads of young lads on here saying I should go out and by a Halo, and an Ego, and 1.1L 4500psi fibre wrap and buy this and buy that. The total shopping bill for THAT wish list would have been about a grand!
What I was looking for at the time, and couldn't find, was a newbie shopping list of what to get if you want to be able to start out in pball on a budget which in fairness most of us are on.
Instead I had to take some advice from here and their, and look at used prices, and making up my own mind managed to get a used stock Ion, an egg, 0.8L 3000psi air, used I3 mask, used pack, some pots and other little bits, all for about £200. Ok, it wasnt perhaps the flashest looking hardest performing bit of kit, but I went to walk-ons, and held my own, once I started learning some basic pball skills.
I've now up'd my Ion quite a bit, got a better battlepack, bought some tourney style wear, up'd my egg, etc etc etc, but the whole point was that I didn't want to spend a fortune on kit at the outset then find that it perhaps wasn't for me after all.
A post like the one you did should be stickied, as for anyone who wants to start and see how they get on, whether it be for woodsball or tourney it takes away a lot of the bullpoo and conflicting info that can be presented.
Well done Skeet.
Just my tuppence worth.
Cus.
I had to learn the hard way when I started, and I had loads of young lads on here saying I should go out and by a Halo, and an Ego, and 1.1L 4500psi fibre wrap and buy this and buy that. The total shopping bill for THAT wish list would have been about a grand!
What I was looking for at the time, and couldn't find, was a newbie shopping list of what to get if you want to be able to start out in pball on a budget which in fairness most of us are on.
Instead I had to take some advice from here and their, and look at used prices, and making up my own mind managed to get a used stock Ion, an egg, 0.8L 3000psi air, used I3 mask, used pack, some pots and other little bits, all for about £200. Ok, it wasnt perhaps the flashest looking hardest performing bit of kit, but I went to walk-ons, and held my own, once I started learning some basic pball skills.
I've now up'd my Ion quite a bit, got a better battlepack, bought some tourney style wear, up'd my egg, etc etc etc, but the whole point was that I didn't want to spend a fortune on kit at the outset then find that it perhaps wasn't for me after all.
A post like the one you did should be stickied, as for anyone who wants to start and see how they get on, whether it be for woodsball or tourney it takes away a lot of the bullpoo and conflicting info that can be presented.
Well done Skeet.
Just my tuppence worth.
Cus.
yeah that seems a great starter setup, either that or a smart parts ion or get a bargain tipmann 98 package from
www.justpaintball.co.uk
or get a gun by itself from
www.planeteclipse.com
or
www.slothball.com
ideally i think you should get
smart parts ion http://www.planeteclipse.co.uk/site/prodView.asp?prodID=2162
viewloader revolution 12v http://www.planeteclipse.co.uk/site/prodView.asp?prodID=3089
and a 3000psi 48 cu air system http://www.planeteclipse.co.uk/site/prodView.asp?prodID=1672
you can't really go wrong with that setup!
Welcome to paintball and welcome to p8ntballer!
not much point in getting a revy, lowest hopper to buy for the ion should be an egg.
and if you get second hand on these forums it will be much cheaper to.