Ego, DM5, Angel Speed 06 - What's Best!?
- Thread starter WGP4Life
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I've seen angels (in fact, I own one) that will bounce off your finger if you stick it down the breach and fire. If you're breaking balls with a setup like that, it's got noting to do with the gun, and if you've got something gentler on paint, get a patent quick fast and in a hurry, cause you're gonna be a rich man. Whenever you hear people ragging on WDP, take it with a grain of salt, it's the "in" thing to do, and based mostly on ignorance, inexperience, or fanboy-ism (a lot of "common facts" about angels haven't actually existed since the original Angel LED released 10 years ago). The Ego is "the" gun to have at the moment, so you're going to hear a lot about how great they are. If you've ever shot a timmy, you've basically shot an Ego. Never been my personal taste, but at least you know it's a tried and true platform. The ironic thing is that the angel is designed around the same basic principles as the timmy/ego, only with a different parts layout and lower operating pressures. Hard to imagine why it would be tougher on paint, or more prone to chopping balls, but evidently it is. The Matrix's are an entirely different design platform. These are to the modern paintball scene what 'cockers were to the old paintball scene: it's common knowledge that they shoot flatter, straighter and farther than other markers, but with no explanation as to why. Regardless of what anybody wants to tell you, you'll be spending more on grease owning one of these than just about any other gun. Not really a big deal, just simple maintenence. Also a very common marker, so parts, upgrades and service are relatively easy to find no matter where you are. Bottomline: any gun you've got there is going to shoot way faster than you can pull the trigger, and certainly keep up with the 15 bps cap. Read up on them all, go to a field/shop and try shooting or at least handling them all, double check your budget, since you've got a pretty diverse range of prices there, and decide which one's gonna do it for you. All you'll get when ask other people "which gun should I get" is a list of reasons why the gun they own, or the gun their sponsors manufacture, is better than all the rest. Unfortunately, there is no Cnet.com for paintball where you can get standardised, professional editorial reviews, so that burden basically rests on you. Either that or spin the wheel and pick which group of marker-owners and sponsored-teams to trust.
EGO,s all the way on my 4th now
i have a dark and love it also a 05 xsv and love it
but before that had standerd 05 and 06 and thay were just as good
custermer service from planet is second to none
thay always have time to talk to you about problom with your gun and can sometimes tell you how to fix over the phone
also will be at millennum,s unlike wdp
i have a dark and love it also a 05 xsv and love it
but before that had standerd 05 and 06 and thay were just as good
custermer service from planet is second to none
thay always have time to talk to you about problom with your gun and can sometimes tell you how to fix over the phone
also will be at millennum,s unlike wdp
Think WDP retracted it's Platinum sponsorship to the Millenium, opting for Gold sponsorship instead, in protest of something or another, so they are no longer allowed to have on-site techs at events.Wrath13 said: