Paintball Gatling (Gotta See)

[StupidDude]

Hey all, I was stumbling through threads and fell upon this on Max out your tippy or something (http://www.pbreview.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191396) , check it out for yourself. Anyways, i was exploring through the website the thread had given a link for Equalizer Paintball (http://www.firestormcrank.com) . Theres alot of wacky stuff here, check out there product the Firestorm Crank...and watch the video. Well after that, I found a "Double Trouble" tab with the most stupidest thing ever..even more then my name. Check it out "Double Trouble" (http://www.firestormcrank.com/html/double_trouble.html)

[Tippy98Custom]

yeh thats very stupid. No one should buy this, who shoots with a crank anyway?? This crank would be especially bad for accuracy. Your shots would be all over the place.

[Justin The Pyro]

This doesn't look right to me. Never seen it in stores. Looks funny. Makes you have no room to move your finger. Not a good idea. Just get a response its the only way to go.

[Coenen]

:drop: :biglaugh: And I thought the crank was dumb.

[chinesebugrepel]

Next thing you know they're gonna have a kit that connects to crank a5's to your waist for "ultimate mobile firepower." :eyes:

I wish they wouldn't use tippmanns for all their demonstrations, it's gonna give us a bad name.

[StupidDude]

Patent your idea..RIGHT NOW, before these clowns bank on it, just when u thought people couldent come up with more useless inventions.....well, u saw the site. who the heck needs to fire 700 balls per minute or however many it shoots. this truly IS the all time upgrade if you are the "SPRAY and pray" player

[chinesebugrepel]

Lots of people need to fire faster than 700 per minute, but they also need to be able to hit whatever they're shooting at, which looks very difficult with these crank things.

[tipPmaAn-kiLlA]

i think it would be so stupid cause who would crank it when your in the middle of the feild with like 10 peeps how hard would that be!!

[3Fingered Jack]

Chill out. It's only 40 bucks and it would just be fun with fvck around with. My Tippmann sits around and does nothing anyways.

[spor]

I've see nthat before, i think it'd be kinda kool for scenario paly but moronical for speedball. But yes i do like the diesgn, looks like it is taken straight from one of the tanks on the east coast. like it..........in a weird way:crazy: :laugh: :eyes:

[Danman69]

Originally posted by StupidDude
Patent your idea..RIGHT NOW, before these clowns bank on it, just when u thought people couldent come up with more useless inventions.....well, u saw the site. who the heck needs to fire 700 balls per minute or however many it shoots. this truly IS the all time upgrade if you are the "SPRAY and pray" player

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[Coenen]

News Flash!!

700rpm is just a little over 11bps, lots of people fire much faster than that. The problem is with the crank you have to take you hand completely off of the marker leading to stability problems as the gun cycles. These stability problems will translate into acuracy problems. Not to mention you can't snap shoot OR shoot offhand, both of which, even if you don't do them often, will come in handy sooner or later.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, unless this thing is mounted in a protected, fixed postion(pillbox, castle etc.) or on a vehicle it is as useless as tits on a bull.

[chinesebugrepel]

Originally posted by Coenen
News Flash!!

700rpm is just a little over 11bps, lots of people fire much faster than that. The problem is with the crank you have to take you hand completely off of the marker leading to stability problems as the gun cycles. These stability problems will translate into acuracy problems. Not to mention you can't snap shoot OR shoot offhand, both of which, even if you don't do them often, will come in handy sooner or later.


Lots of back players shoot with their back hand completely off the gun except the trigger. I think stability problems come when you try to force a crank in circles while only holding the gun with one hand. It will obviously move up and down with each turn, making it where maybe 2 of every 4 shots will hit the target. Now, lets say you have a stock trigger and shoot merely 6bps, you still have just as many balls flying accurately, and you're not wasting twice as much paint as you need. So, for those of you thinking about actually buying one of these crank deals, I hope you decide to save your money and not fall into this newb trap.

[AgentOrange]

Originally posted by Coenen
News Flash!!

700rpm is just a little over 11bps, lots of people fire much faster than that. The problem is with the crank you have to take you hand completely off of the marker leading to stability problems as the gun cycles. These stability problems will translate into acuracy problems. Not to mention you can't snap shoot OR shoot offhand, both of which, even if you don't do them often, will come in handy sooner or later.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, unless this thing is mounted in a protected, fixed postion(pillbox, castle etc.) or on a vehicle it is as useless as tits on a bull.

Actually when walking my gun I just hold onto the front grip and have my two fingers walking and than have the back of the gun\tank propped up against me and I have no problems controlling my accuracy. Although this crank idea is stupid and much differn't from that.

[Coenen]

The cranking movement influences the marker differently from normal trigger pulling. Normally I fan my trigger(I'm so not stylish) to get going fast and I hold the marker with one hand at the bottom of the X-chamber and the tank between my forearm and shoulder, it's actually pretty comfortable that way. However, when you are pulling you only have back and forth motions to think about, when cranking, b/c your hand is moving in a circle, I would think that that would cause a world of different effects on the marker's stability. Especially if you were cycling quickly, you'd have to control recoil(however minute) and how much you were pulling the marker when your hand reached the top and bottom of the cranking circle. These new influences on the marker's stability would, IMO, be enough to throw off accuracy at least until one got used to it.