Choices of Tourny Level Gun?

[PaintballPimp01]

Some friends of mine and myself are forming a 3-Man team, maybe 2 squads.

Chris is looking to get a new gun and has narrowed it down to this list as his choices.

Chris is looking to spend $275 to $500 tops on the marker alone, what do you think Chris should get?

Keep in mind the majority of our tournament playing gang shoots Autocockers while making your poll decision...

[AK47]

then go with the cocker

[PaintballPimp01]

Sorry, I forgot to mention he is NOT the most mechanically inclined individual in the world. I can strip, re-build and re-time my Cocker and it shoots great (received some "lessons" from an Airsmith certified former teammate of mine). Now Chris lives like 2 minutes away from me and I love to work on Cockers, and would more than love to teach him, but I firmly believe no one should own a marker they cannot fix/service themselves after owning it for a month. Ken is still shooting a Cocker and he's had it for over a year, almost as long as I've been shooting one, but he still doesn't know what he's doing:laugh: Doh!

[Shadow221]

I'd say the Micro mag. It's very simple, works great, looks good, with an LX it can't chop, you can run over it with a car and it'd still work, mainteaince is extremely simple and it takes cocker barrels. Just slap an LX and intelliframe on and it's an amazing tourney level marker. With a ReTro valve it'd be even better!:)

[LordChaos]

I'll admit it. I'm the one who voted for the Sovereign. Here's why :

It will perform just as well as an equivilent cocker without nearly as many potential mechanical problems. It is, however, more difficult to find upgrade parts, but they do exist (I've even seen a electro-numatic sovereign... done by Punisher's Customs).