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Psycho Ballistics Superbolt Reviews
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Number of Reviews: |
33 |
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Average Rating: |
8.7 / 10 |
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Manufacturer Website: |
Click here |
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Suggested Retail Price: |
$149 |
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| Another great Psycho Ballistics pro-marker! Available in Beadblasted Silver, Black and Blue. |
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| Product Availability | |
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| The Psycho Ballistics Superbolt is older, so while it may be available used and in a few cases new, it is not commonly available anymore. |
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Period of
Product Use: |
| Less than a month | 22 of 23 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Stock WGP cockers, Custom Freeflow cocker |
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| Marker Setup: |
Stock Psychoballistics Superbolt, 68/3000 crossfire, 12v xboard revvy |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
Barrel, 3-way, bolt mod |
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| Strengths: |
Price
Weight
Milling and Anno |
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| Weaknesses: |
Leaky 3-way.
Bolt |
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| Review: |
I see a lot of people talking down on this gun without ever having tried it. I could have very well been one of them. When a marker comes out that is identical to a high end marker, only made by a less respectable company , that can be expected. I was definately surprised when I got the gun. The milling is probably some of the sexiest you can get. The anno was flawless as well.
Out of the box it shot like crap. I think that is why this gun has gotten some bad reviews. People who know jack about cockers get one and if it doesn't shoot perfectly right out of the box they assume its crap. After I sat and tinkered with it for a few hours it shoots great. I have the trigger pull down to about 2mm. I have it pinching paint instead of chopping. And, it is getting average or above efficiency. It shoots just as well as my freeflow or my WGP did. Very underrated gun.
The twist lock bolt is nice, but I think that is the key weakness on this gun. It is a nice stock bolt. But I prefer a nylatron or delrin bolt to prevent unneccessary wear to the inside of the gun. Due to the twist lock bolt aftermarket bolts for this gun are impossible to find. So you are either stuck with the stock bolt, or you have to get the back block drilled. (If anyone knows of an aftermarket bolt for this gun please let me know)
Everyone knows that this gun looks almost exactly like the Dye reflex. Everyone assumes that the pneus are crap though. It is my understanding that this gun and pneus are still made at Dyes plant using the exact same machinery used to make the ultralights. Only the milling was changed, and only a little. The LPR and RAM are as good as any. The 3-way can be a hard to keep from leaking. I'm sure I could just change the o-rings out and have it working fine, but I'm sure it wouldn't be long before it was leaking again. I am changing it to a Palmer's Quickswitch.
One other complaint is that the stock barrel had a few rough places inside. It looked as if it hadn't been polished at all. It shot surprisingly well though. |
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| Conclusion: |
I would highly reccomend this product. Don't listen to all the BS hype spread by people who have never even tried the gun. Unfortunately, BS hype like that is what fuels the paintball business. I am reccomending this marker to anyone who wants a nice cheap cocker. If you know nothing of cockers skip it. If you can time it and fine tune it, you will absolutely love this gun. I would love to give this gun a 10. In every catagory it has earned a perfect score in my opinion. But, due to being stuck with the stock aluminum bolt, it's getting a 9. |
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Jish |
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004 |
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Period of
Product Use: |
| Less than a month | 8 of 9 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
3 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
WGP Autocockers
Dragunfly Mech |
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| Marker Setup: |
Psycho Superbolt
-Macroline Setup
-32* Universal Drop Foward
-Psycho Universal Reg.
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
Reg, Drop foward, Macoline, or steelbraid hose if u prefer. |
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| Strengths: |
Accuracy
Power
Good looking |
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| Weaknesses: |
Leaky |
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| Review: |
When i first got this bad boy i immediatly put the whole drop, macroline and reg setup on it so i coulkd time it. it was actually very well timed out of the box.. i was impressed.
i gasses it up and saw that it needed some work because, like ive read, there was a leaky front block. so i took it all apart... put teflon all over, tightned it greatly.. now there is a not leak.. its rele quite effortless..
i advise u to take it apart to get a feel for how it works so u no the problems wen they come up.. and wen u kno summin is wrong.. u can just fix it fast and get back in the game.. bueno
you need to tinker with it like usual, and iom sure most of you dont likt to hear it, but if u just do a bit of research on how to time it, and fix gas leaks than u really will have one he\ of a gun.
my favorite part about this gun is... u can get it for 200-300 bux,, and its practically the same thing as the dye ultrlite... except it doesnt have that weird lazer pointer on it... but n e way. at one point this marker from dye was 1300 buckaroos... so i tell ppl its a dye ultralite and it was 1300 bux n they get a stiffy like no other.
also this gun is a head turner at feilds. |
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| Conclusion: |
IM giving it a 10 of 10 evenm thought it leaks because not all cockers work perfect when youy first get them. if u like to work on ur marker and perfect it like i do to your own liking, than this one is greay. all you rele need to is seal and tighten everything and time it ans you have a great.
get it now... like... order on within the next 5 minutes...if u dont...then ill igve u 10 minutes.. PEACE |
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Period of
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| Less than a month | 5 of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
More than 5 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
WPG black magic autococker |
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| Marker Setup: |
Superbolt cocker
dye sticky grip
psycho-ballistic roller sear
psycho-ballistic reg
nitro |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
Roller Sear
Fast fast loader
Nitro setup
body anodize |
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| Strengths: |
EXTREMELY LIGHT
EXTREMELY ACCURATE
easy to dismantle |
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| Weaknesses: |
factory paint job comes off easily if not careful |
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| Review: |
Okay, besides losing a couple of pounds in body weight, Psychoballistics (P.B) has done an incredible milling job on the gun as well. The gun is also the most accurate gun out of the box I have ever seen. At 60 yards, I was hitting a target consistently that had the diameter of about 4 inches... which is incredible. My friend ( a former U.S. Marine) was hitting guide wire to a telephone pole at about 100 yards... I kid you not.
The only beef I had with the gun is that the trigger pull was a little bit heavy, but it was easily fixed with a roller sear and some tweaking... now it's as smooth as butter and very light.
I would also like to point out that the body's paint job ( as with about any stock paintjob) can come off easily if you are really rough with the gun, I would reccomend getting it anodized to give it not only a great paint job with its cool body, but to protect it as well.
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| Conclusion: |
Great gun, I tip my hat to P.B. for this awesome design of a cocker.
P.S. The gun comes with a killer case to protect your gun and your barrell, which is seriously awesome as well. |
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Period of
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| 3 months | 5 of 10 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
More than 5 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Autococker, STO, Black Magic |
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| Marker Setup: |
Superbolt w/ palmer front end, micro rock
Freak Barrel
Centerflag 45/88
Halo B
wgp ergo reg |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
ANY other aftermarket pneumatics
I chose a Palmer quick pro set w/micro rock
JB weld or similar to hold feed neck securly in place |
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| Strengths: |
Light, sexy, fast and accurate when working properly. |
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| Weaknesses: |
Poor craftsmanship, lack of support from P.B. Non-compatability of aftermarket parts |
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| Review: |
Small, light and sexy. Quality anno job. A Dye ultra-lite knock off. Milling is very nice, even though you can see how the milling on the body and block do not match.
I purchased this as a project gun, and boy did I get my wish. When this thing arrived, as soon as I put a reg and bottomline on and gassed it up, it blew all of the lp hoses. After trial and error, I realized that the stock LPR did NOTHING. I took it apart and comapred it to my brothers Dye (which is identical), only to see that nothing obvously wrong with it. I also noticed that the 3-way was binding. This turned out to be due to a rough surface inside. I have no idea what this was from. I ended up calling Palmer's Pursuit shop and ordered a whole new front block kit. About 5 minutes after I was up and running, the main valve seal let go. I purchases a Bob Long power valve, only to find out that it didnt fit into the body. My solution was to use a spare VM68 valve seal that I had laying around in conjunction with the stock valve body. That, and a lighter valve spring and the valve issues were settled.
So yesterday I finally got the chance to play with this monstrocity, and it shot great. All of the B.S. i went through with it seemed to have paid off. Several experinced cocker users tried it out and were all equally impressed with it.
Unfortunately, my good fortune did not last.
When I took it home to clean it, the spring loaded ball that is in the rear of the bolt which is part of the twist lock, came flying out. After crawling around on my floor looking for the srping and ball, I found that the hole where the little ball sits was now too big. The darn thing just rolled right out. Since I can't just slap an aftermarket bolt in this thing, I got creative, and reduced the size of the hole with a ball-end allen key and hammer. The only thing that worries me about that little repair is weather or not it will hold up.
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Is it worth it? I don't know. I was planning on e-blading this sucker, but now I am concerned that it will just fall apart on me. As far as how it shoots - I was loving it. It is comprable to most of the other high end cocker clones. I wam wondering if maybe i just got a lemon and that the Psychobalistics people were all just hung over on a Monday morning when they made this one. |
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| Rating: |
| 5 out of 10 | Last edited on Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 5:23 pm PST |
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Period of
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| 3 months | 4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
3 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Outkast and Vertical |
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| Marker Setup: |
Psycho Ballistics SuperBolt(Black)
Bob Long Torpedo Regulator(Black)
Check It Sports Drop Forward On/Off(Black)
Speed Ball Barrel
Triggar Job
Loc-Tite Vert Feed(Black)
ShockTech Bomb 3 Way(Black)
ShockTech Hoses(Black)
ShockTech Ram
ShockTech Mini Cocker Actuator Rod and Base
Dye Throttle 70/4500
Halo TSA Back Man |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
Everything I have and an E-Blade and Eye.
Cant get the barrel i have because they're were only 1 of 10. But something like a Freak or Boomstick |
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| Strengths: |
Accuracy is Almost to Perfection.
Air Efficiency is Really Good.
Really Light.
Low Profile. |
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| Weaknesses: |
Not a real cocker but damn close man, and maybe better. |
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| Review: |
When i first got this gun, I was like this gun is gonna suck. But dude i was wrong. This is the best autococker ive shot. Although it doesnt have an eblade it will soon. But is is really the baddest cocker ive shot in a while. After putting the upgradeson it it was better by alot. |
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| Conclusion: |
I definately reccommend this gun to anybody thats wants a good gun. I use it and i have my own team and i have no problem hitting people on the otherside of the field. |
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Period of
Product Use: |
| Less than a month | 4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
WGP Right Feed Autococker
WGP Black Magic Autococker |
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| Marker Setup: |
Psycho Balistics Superbolt Autococker
with Halo B
Black Magic HPR
PMI Mini Drop and Phat On/Off
68/4500psi crossfire tank |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
New trigger, 3-way and Ram |
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| Strengths: |
Accurate, Fast, Light as a feather |
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| Weaknesses: |
triggers sear is to tall |
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| Review: |
The marker is great for the price. There are a few things that are wrong with it but given the price i cannot camplain. First off the sear is to tall and so far i have not found a way to adjust it so the sear chatches on the back of the hammer making it impossible to adjust the hammer lug. No matter what you do to it you can't change where it chatches.without sanding down the sear or doing somehting extream like that. But on the good side the marker is light very light!!! The entire cocker is a clone of the DYE Ultralight. But the parts aren't as good.
Overall the marker is nice and accurate out of the box. you can get a decent amount of speed out of it and its very consistant on my set up the velocity jumps 5fps at most in either direction. |
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I would recommend this to any player that would like to try out a cocker. Its better than a stock WGP and cost about the same depending on where ya get it from. Just keep in mind the gun does not come timed so be prepared to put some work into it when you first get it. |
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Period of
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| 3 months | 4 of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
3 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Orracle, 04 cocker, reflex, custom cockers, dm4, species, speed, impy's |
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| Marker Setup: |
Stock superbolt, wdp minireg, evo2, 70/45 crossfire lp |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
Good, small reg |
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| Strengths: |
Perfect accuracy, very low price, very upgradeable, air efficiant, light, compact, fun to shoot |
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| Weaknesses: |
Takes some getting used to, needs a good setup job |
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| Review: |
This gun has the potential to be an amzing gun. the more you know about cockers, the better you can make this work. i know them inside and out, and i can shoot this at 6bps ball on ball from long distance. if you can set it up perfectly, you won't short stroke it and it will never let you down. i loved it |
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| Conclusion: |
So nice for the price buy it. |
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wjj |
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Sunday, April 11th, 2004 |
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Period of
Product Use: |
| Less than a month | 3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
More than 5 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
Tippman pro-lite, spyder SE, spyder AMG, impulse, angel, defiant, rt pro mag,dye autococker. |
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| Marker Setup: |
psycho ballistics superbolt autococker, psycho ballistics in-line reg,sto ram,and a crossfire 68 cu 4500 psi tank. |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
new ram, different barrell. |
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| Strengths: |
Very fast (with some trigger work), light, alot like the dye cocker. |
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| Weaknesses: |
Could not find any thing other then having to replace the ram. |
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| Review: |
This gun is awesome. I have used alot of markers in my day, I would give them all back for this marker it just rocks. This gun is worth way more then what it is going for on the market. The marker is very reliable and consistant, it is also light weight, comes in great colors, is very fast, and there are lots of up grades available to customize it to your needs and liking. It is easy to work on. It is easy to clean after tournaments or play. It shows great similarities to the dye ultra light.
COCKERS ROCK !!!!!!! |
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| Conclusion: |
I would highly recommend this marker to be used for either high end play or low. Because this gun rocks. |
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Period of
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| 6 months | 2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
2 years |
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Similar
Products Used: |
A lot of other cockers: Black Magics both new and old, freeflow cockers, trilogies, sto's, oracles, you name a name a cocker I have shot it. |
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| Marker Setup: |
Black Pyscho Ballistics Superbolt
Black E2
Black Dye UL
Black Air America Mesiah
Black NDZ on/off rail
Black Belsales ram w/ QEV's
Black Palmer Rock
Black CCM Feedneck
Custom Bolt
Smoke Halo
PE 68/45 |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
A spring kit- lightens the trigger pull and gains some efficiency and consistency
All the pnuematics- the stock pnuematics will work fine, but I wanted better ones.
Clamping Feedneck
barrel, stock one shoots pretty well though
Obvioulsy you need a reg and an asa. |
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| Strengths: |
PRICE!!!!!!!! I got mine for $115 shipped. |
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| Weaknesses: |
No reg and asa. |
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| Review: |
This is a great project gun, or even a good gun to just set up and go shoot as is. I bought it as a project gun, but I built it in phases. First I bought the gun,Mesiah reg, asa, a shocktech spring kit, and the CCM clamping feedneck. I set it up and shot it with all stock pnuematics and barrel. It shot very well for a pretty much stock gun. Then I changed the pnuematics and installed the E2 and it flies.
When I first got it setting it up was fairly easy. The timing fell right to place and it shot very well with the stock parts. The LPR did crap out on me though after shooting the gun 6 times. It would have been a simple repair, but I decided to just replace it. It is a great gun to build up over time and it takes an Eblade very well. Mine will shoot an easy 20 bps.
I have no complaints and this gun has never let me down. |
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All and All it is recball gun or a project gun. I would recomend it to anyone who is decent with cockers. It is a cheap alternative to more expensive cockers that performs as well or better.
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| 10 out of 10 | Last edited on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 12:08 pm PST |
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Period of
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| 3 months | 2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Paintball
Experience: |
6 months |
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Similar
Products Used: |
CCM Series 5
WGP Autococker
Spyder Amg
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| Marker Setup: |
Psycho Ballistics Superbolt
16" SMart Parts Freak BArrel
Eblade Trigger frame
3A paintball 88cu 4500psi hpa tank
Halo TSa LCD |
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Recommended
Upgrades: |
FAster Loader
NEw BArrel
New trigger frame
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| Strengths: |
Fast as hell
Light As hell
Just an all around great gun
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NO weaknesses for me kind of a beginner but used some tight as guns already. |
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Good gun HAd a CCM Series 5 and that I loved but this one took me away from the loss of it faster stronger lighter the weight is just amazing how light and durable it is
TAke care of it though mines already jacked me up quite a few times from neglegence. |
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This gun is a must for someone who wants a cocker
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