Tippman A5

MVP

After some paintball games this weekend and getting a chance to use the Tippman A5 with the flatline barrel I am sold on this set up for my next marker. I have only played a couple times and can see the big advantage is an accurate marker.
It seems to me to be the best/most accurate for the price but I really am not that up on the different markers and would like opinions.

Rack Ops

I have an A-5...I don't get to play as much as I like though. The group that I play with has pretty much all switched to A-5s. For a cheaper marker though, the spiders are hard to beat

Molon Labe

silver6

Yes there are quite a few A-5s in our group HVoF. But most switched it seems to me cause they still want to play Army instead of the sport of paintball and like the militant look of the A-5. But hey I would like to have an A-5 if someone gave one to me. Its just that I can only play with one marker at a time and I choose my tricked mongoose that throws 20bps or one of my electro spyders over the A-5 but I do like that gumball feed. Oh and I wouldnt call spyders cheaper. Some kingmans maybe cheaper but they make some highend markers too that many would consider to be superior to Tippmans.

Oh and MVP. The Flatline barrel gets its extra distance from creating backspin on the ball. There is much talk about the advantage of the flatline. Here is some disadvantages you might not have heard.

Reason 1: The backspin creats curve. If you dont hold your marker straight your ball wont go straight either. Although some players can use this as an advantage and curve balls slightly to eliminate players behind trees or bunkers.

Reason 2: At the extent of the flatlines range(nearly 250 feet according to Tippman)most balls tend to bounce from low velocity if they get that far.

Reason 3: Ive been playing paintball for almost ten years and not many times have I been that far away from a target with a clean shot. And if I was I waited till I or they got closer. Just me I guess. I like it close and intimate. I like to see the horror in their eyes when I lightem up.

Reason 4: No evidence of accuracy increase with flatline barrel. The open bolt blowback design of the A-5 itself tends not to be the most accurate marker on the market but not bad.

Reason 5: Flatlines not suited for close quarters combat. They are big, bulky and long and make it hard to snap shoot from behind cover and regain cover again repeatedly and wield in multiple directions as quickly as an opponent with a smaller marker. Have more players with flatlines get eliminated like that than any other way Ive seen.

So the moral is if you do have a flatline be make sure you can get a clean shot on me as I move rapidly in and out of cover (or just flankin you cause I know how hard it is to hit a moving player) before I close the gap on you and bunker you! P.S learn to sweetspot real good that will come in handy with the extra distance of the flatline. Not tryin to bust you bubble. Sorry if I came off that way. Im just giving you a hard time although what I wrote is either fact as I know it true to be or info gathered from my years of play. I just like a smaller, lighter, shorter marker and I like tippmans with flatlines too just not as much. But I do like peoples different taste in markers it spices up the game alittle and causes a little rivalry on the field.[:D]

If god meant for us to talk more than we listened he'd have given us one ear and two mouths- Vince Lombardi

MVP

silver6--
Didn't burst my bubble at all [:D]That was the kind of information I wanted.
Like I said, I have only played a couple times and am still learning so information from experience is valuable to me.
we were playing in a brushy area and you could see people through the brush and with out accuracy I kept hitting the brush limbs before I could hit another player.
Then when I switched to the A5 I was able to thread my shots right through the brush with pinpoint accuracy.
We were playing in 30 degree wheather and my co2 was acting crazy so that was affecting my markers accuracy. I shot mine since the weather warmed up a bit and it shoots a lot better.

there was another player here with an Angel and talk about a sweet marker. Way out of my price range though[:(!][}:)][8D]

Rack Ops

Silver6...When I said that the Spyders are cheaper, I meant in strictly monetary terms. MVP, an A5 was the first marker I purchaced...and as I got more into the sport I still wasn't satisfied. Between the gun, a new barrel, remote, ect. I've got at least $500 in mine. The problem is that I don't get to play much anymore, so it's sitting in my closet dry-rotting. I love my A5 but if I had it all to do over again I think I would have picked up a spyder electra (saving myself around $350) and worried more about just enjoying myself than pouring money into a toy that I haven'tdgotten to use in months. On the other hand, I happen to have bad little paintball gun ready to go when I get some more time.

Molon Labe

MVP

HighVolumeOfFire---
Does the spyder electra shoot as straight as the A5?
Thats what I liked the best about the A5... The long range accuracy.

Rack Ops

MVP

An A5 right out of the box, as far as I can tell, isn't any more or less accurate than any other other paintball gun. I was not impressed with the barrel, so I put a Dye Boomstick on mine. My only knock against the A5 is the price. As far as the flatline barrel goes, the ones I've seen haven't impressed me...I'll take my barrel any day. BTW you can probably find more more info than I can give about the A5 at www.tippman.com

Molon Labe

Rack Ops

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silver6

Touche HighVolumeofFire. Touche.

Oh and what is this "bad little paintball gun" you speak of? Or should I say painthose?[:D]

If god meant for us to talk more than we listened he'd have given us one ear and two mouths- Vince Lombardi

silver6

Oh MVP may I add that most all markers are going to need a barrel out of the box. I guess its some kind of conspiracy with paintball companies so you have to spend more money. But some are including aftermarket barrels with their markers of late.

If god meant for us to talk more than we listened he'd have given us one ear and two mouths- Vince Lombardi

splatzone

get a Automag they are about the only ones that will actully make a hole through brush.

people are amazed when they are hiding in a think area and i shot the first couple balls will break the limbs and next ones will follow the same path and evently get in there

Jess Carroll
Splat Zone Paintball
7610 West Nob Hill #99
Yakima Wa. 98908
Http://SplatZone.net
509-574-5742
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My Setup

Devil Mag
Empire Reloader B
68/4500 Flatline
14in Stiffi Switch Kit

MVP

splatzone--
I know very little about painball markers other then the ones I mentioned and would be interested in learning more about the Automag.
Who makes it and how much are they?

splatzone

AIr Gun Design Makes them

they avg anywere from 200-1k

http://www.airgun.com/

New you can get a ULE Custom for 500

Used i got a friend that builds them 250 for a nice setup

http://www.splatzone.net/mag/rtmag1.jpg

somethign like that..

has the RT valve with LVL 10 so it won't chop paint
that trigger is the intil frame really nice.. retails for 109

if you have any questions on mags just drop me a e-mail sales@splatzone.net these are the only guns i shoot..

this is the new gun i just bought

http://devilsden.tv/devilmag.htm

mags got great distance and accuracy..

Jess Carroll
Splat Zone Paintball
7610 West Nob Hill #99
Yakima Wa. 98908
Http://SplatZone.net
509-574-5742
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My Setup

Devil Mag
Empire Reloader B
68/4500 Flatline
14in Stiffi Switch Kit

silver6

Splatzone you have got to be kiddin me or tryin to pull wool over a newbies eyes. Physics prevent what you say from happening. It doesnt matter what kind of marker your using to how well you can shoot out of brush. Thats based on the individuals ability to aim, the thickness of the brush, the thickness of the balls shell and maybe how high you have your markers velocity setting turned up. When a ball leaves a barrel it should be traveling under 300fps based on a international limit on a paintball markers velocity. And that should have no basis on whether you marker will get balls out of brush. 300fps is 300fps. Unless you are shooting hot then that is another story, but most balls bust when the hit brush anyway.

If god meant for us to talk more than we listened he'd have given us one ear and two mouths- Vince Lombardi