wierd chopping...-IMAGINE owners

[forumsk83r]

my friend has an imagine and everything's stock, he hasnt upgraded it...but its wierd cuz yesterday we went ballin and it seemed like everytime he would shoot, it chopped right away....4 times, it chopped the first ball he shot....he has to clean his gun about 12 times. anyone kno why this happened...and how to fix it, thanks oh and by the way, he was using rps big balls

EDIT:: i thought i was in the kingman forum, sorry

[HurleyHero67]

Well I've never used them, but I've only heard bad things about Big Balls. If he doesn't have an agitated loader, and he has a decently fast finger, that could be the problem right there. You were shooting semi-auto I hope? The balls could have been old as well. Was he shooting real hot? Any of these factors could lead to choppage.

[forumsk83r]

nope, he shoots slow, he cant even walk the trigger and i know that shooting hot's not the problem and he was shooting semi auto

[AR55 MtM]

what kind of hopper does he have

[thepeashooter]

does he completely strip the gun down and clean off the internals and lube it or does he just stick a squeegee down the barrel?

[forumsk83r]

PMI hopper, he just put the squeeque through the barrel, feedneck and the part between the bolt and barrel

[FirstAgentSmith]

i had the same problem, but i got a Halo TSA and better paintballs($28 for 2000, that should have alerted me right there) and it solved the problem.

[weeji]

Tell him to oil the gun with paintball gun oil. Take out the internals, run a squegee through it, check for paint shells, make sure it is 100% clean. Then put the internals, after lubing them, back in, and buy better paint; they may not have been fresh and therefore were out of shape, had weak shells, or were just...well, bad. So the problem is either bad paint, dirty/unlubed internals, or both.

[forumsk83r]

alright thanks, hes 11 so yeah i need to teach him how to strip and clean it