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arcanumdarkelf Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Period of Product Use: Less than a month 12 of 12 people found this review helpful. Paintball Experience: More than 5 years Similar Products Used: TM-7: Very similar other than a size and a few improvements to the TM-15. Marker Setup: TM-15 HPA tank. Pinocchio hopper Recommended Upgrades: A barrel if you want more accuracy Strengths: Expanding Stock Ridiculously quite Magazine holds batteries and tools Weaknesses: A little heavy Had trouble with the flip up site Grip is virtical Review: The TM-15 is very similar to the TM-7 as it is made by the same company. It is basically a rifle where as the TM-7 is an SMG design. It has lots of rails for adding on tactical accessories. The TM-15 has an improved trigger compared with the TM-7. The trigger now actually has some give to it where as the TM-7s felt uncomfortable. The fire mode selector also has a nice solid click now compared with the weak selector on the TM-7. I played a 5 hour scenario game on the weekend with the TM-15. The next 2 days my arm had a large amount of pain from hauling the gun around. A simple solution to this would be to attach a sling to the gun as I have done with my SP8. The TM-15 is insanely quite. This is due to the design of the front grip which has internal baffles to reduce the markers sound signature. It is in fact so quite that I had several people on my team bring up the fact that it was quite while playing. I had trouble with the flip up sites. I tried to play with them a bit but in the end just took them off and sighted down the top of the barrel. I tried 2 barrels on the TM-15 the first was the stock and the second was a special ops C series 18 inch carbon fiber. The 18 inch barrel gave me better accuracy but in the end I decided to use the 14 inch stock barrel at the scenario as I have found that long barrels generally break paint when firing in full auto. The TM-15 has an expanding stock. The TM-15 has a magazine that holds the battery, room for a spare battery and also space for tools so you don’t have to haul around your Allen keys in your pocket. The grip of the TM-15 is vertical which gives it an odd look. This didnt bug me at all in the game though so its purely a cosmetic thing. Full auto on the TM-15 is nice. The speed of the firing modes are able to be changed all the way up to 20 BPS. It has the down side of being a safety-auto though. Meaning you have to hit the trigger 3 times to jump it to auto. Paint breakage did happen consistently at only one out of all the games I played During the last year. I tried several different paint types but all broke. The problem was the temperature. It was well below -15C that day. Not a good gun for winter play. (I have found the Smart Parts SP-8 works well in cold weather.) I just had trouble using the Iron sights. My brother on the other hand seems to like them. I suppose it comes down to personal preference on that. All around it is a very nice gun worth the price. Conclusion: All around it is a very nice gun worth the price. A bigger TM-7 whats not to like? Rating: 9 out of 10 Last edited on Monday, December 21st, 2009 at 2:50 pm PST

SodAlmighty Friday, August 14th, 2009 | 9:34 am PST Good review, makes me want one even more than i did already! What was the full auto like? Smooth? Any breaks at all? What went wrong with the sights? Please let me know. Thanks alot. SOD

arcanumdarkelf Monday, December 21st, 2009 | 2:48 pm PST Sorry for the late response. During the off season up here in the great white north I usually don't do a whole lot of paint ball related web surfing. I figure you have already decided on a gun by now but ill answer the questions to be courteous. Full auto on the TM-15 is nice. The speed of the firing modes are able to be changed all the way up to 20 BPS. It has the down side of being a safety-auto though. Meaning you have to hit the trigger 3 times to jump it to auto. Paint breakage did happen consistently at only one out of all the games I played During the last year. I tried several different paint types but all broke. The problem was the temperature. It was well below -15C that day. Not a good gun for winter play. (I have found the Smart Parts SP-8 works well in cold weather.) I just had trouble using the Iron sights. My brother on the other hand seems to like them. I suppose it comes down to personal preference on that.