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)
