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phyrro
03-16-2003, 01:19 PM
Today, I had team practice, and I took my new A-5 because theres a tourney next weekend and I want to use it then...
We were doing popouts and snapshots, and the accuracy of the gun was WAY off. In fact, the balls were going about 20 yrds. and then curving hard to the left or right. I WAS shooting Brass Eagle, but then I switched to Draxxus (after 7 ball breaks, once again proving than you cant even use brass eagle products to practice with....), and I was still having trouble. I cleaned out the barrel thouroughly, and towards the end of practice the balls began to fly well, and I was lonballing at a target 200 feet away and hitting consistently. I was using the stock barrel because my All-American hasn't come in yet, so that may have had someting to do with it...
If anybody has noticed accuracy problems with their A-5, let me know, If not, maybe you can just crack on me for using Brass Eagle paintballs(I wanted to get rid of them...)
Thanks, Adam (Phyrro)

Paintball Wolf
03-16-2003, 03:55 PM
The BE paint is the biggest reason. The stock barrel is a little bit of the problem. Once you get the All American, it will work great, or at least my A-5 All American does.

MikeTippyMan
03-16-2003, 04:14 PM
"I was lonballing at a target 200 feet away and hitting consistently"

"I was using the stock barrel"

What the hell was the target, a barn?

Whatever the case, your problems are because of paint to barrel match and possibly the use of Co2.

2-Cool-4-Life
03-16-2003, 05:03 PM
also, you probably might have wanted to clean the breech, some paint could still have been in there...

phyrro
03-16-2003, 05:25 PM
thanks for the help, im used to an autococker, so this whole tippmann thing is new to me, although Im pretty sold on it already, even though it may seem like a downgrade.

BTW, the target was one of those big white golfballs at the end of a driving range. Our county course got rid of theirs, and we took it. Granted its big and white, but 200 feet is 200 feet right?