Mag Fed

[emisnug]

So, what are people's opinions on Mag-Fed play? I would personally like to give it a go, but the one thing that really puts me off is the size of the magazines. I've been looking at the Dye DAM, and even that can only feed 10 balls/FS rounds per side of its magazine.

With real assault rifles, as far as I've read/watched (please do correct me if I'm wrong), it's about 30 rounds per magazine. I know that their rounds are much smaller (9mm compared to 17.72mm), but are there no magazines/markers where there is a "realistic" (again, don't have a clue what realistic is, but I'm pretty sure it's more than 10 rounds) amount of rounds?

 

[CAMDENELECTRIC]

If you could find a way to stagger the paintballs into a magasine then that would take up less room as in real magasines. If you had 30 balls in a line it would be 20.4" long! staggered you could almost halve that...

 

[emisnug]

Well, with the help of some curry, I've been thinking about this a bit more. Beta Mags might be the answer.



As you can see, it's a very rough idea at the moment.

Which member of KU Nemesis are you?

 

[M600]

you gotta think pricing as well, the most expensive part of a magazine is the spring.
i think the best thing to do is make the magazine driven by the marker, like a cyclone hopper

 

[Dr Fingers]

With real assault rifles, as far as I've read/watched (please do correct me if I'm wrong), it's about 30 rounds per magazine. I know that their rounds are much smaller (9mm compared to 17.72mm), but are there no magazines/markers where there is a "realistic" (again, don't have a clue what realistic is, but I'm pretty sure it's more than 10 rounds) amount of rounds?

Take a look at the RAP4 T68 range. The mag feed ones are used by police and military units for practice and look pretty realistic. They'll take a lot longer to load than conventional marker.

 

[obladeo]

If your looking for a pump mag check out the

Kingman Hammer 7 Pump Marker

http://www.store.justpaintball.co.uk/kingman-hammer-7-pump.html

For that price i'm adding one to the collection for a giggle

 

[Game]

after playing the darkside at the weekend if mag feeding is your thing thats for you

 

[Fizzgig78]

I've just built myself a MK5 from the range of parts available at RAP4 in preparation for the release of their DMAGS which hold 20 rounds a piece.
I'm hoping to get some mag fed games in or even get some of the people I play regularly with to follow suit for a bit of limited paint play, my opinion is its got to add a different dimension to the game.

 

[H]

From what I've heard, Dye are planning to release a much larger mag size for the DAM at some point. I'm not sure if this is gonna be like a Beta C Mag or a box mag

 

[Canon Fodder]

The AT-85 manages to hold 24 paintballs in a smallish mag or nearly 100 with a forward loader but we don't seem to hear about them much over here, they do a mag that you can attach a normal hopper to as well. Odd since they are a really elegent solution to mag fed using a chain system controlled by the bolt to drag loose paintballs up to the breach. They've been around for years as well.

http://www.getrealpaintball.com/

Should tell you all you'd want to know about them.